The Michael Shermer Show

The Michael Shermer Show is a series of long-form conversations between Dr. Michael Shermer and leading scientists, philosophers, historians, scholars, writers and thinkers about the most important issues of our time.

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Every guest on The Michael Shermer Show

472 guests, ranked by how many people never want them back.

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   David Potter

   199. David Potter — Disruption: Why Things Change · Aug 2021

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   Duncan Pritchard

   How Much Credit Do You Deserve for Your Life? · Oct 2026

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   Eddie McNamara

   The Zodiac Killer Wasn't Real · Jun 2026

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   Eddie Tabash

   The Law vs. Separation of Church and State · Sep 2023

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   Edward Goldberg

   The Future of Global Order and America's Influence · Oct 2024

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   Edward J. Larson

   Slavery in the U.S. Analyzed by a Pulitzer Prize-Winning Lawyer and Historian (Ed Larson) · 2 episodes

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   Elle Hardy

   323. Elle Hardy — Beyond Belief: How Pentecostal Christianity Is Taking Over the World · Feb 2023

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   Emilie Caspar

   Why We Follow Orders: The Neuroscience of Compliance and Control · Apr 2025

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   Erez Yoeli
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    Eve Herold

    Robots and the People Who Love Them · Apr 2024

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    Fernanda Pirie

    236. Fernanda Pirie on The Rule of Laws: A 4,000-Year Quest to Order the World · Dec 2021

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    Frank Sulloway

    245. Frank Sulloway on How Lives Turn Out: Genes, Environment, Pluck, and Luck · Jan 2022

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    Fritjof Capra

    229. Fritjof Capra on Patterns of Connection: Is there a Tao of physics? Is life a web? Is humanity at a turning point? · Nov 2021

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    Gerald Posner

    Why America Failed to Stop 9/11 | Gerald Posner & Michael Shermer · 2 episodes

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    Greg Eghigian

    UFO Sightings Around the World: A Comprehensive History · Aug 2024

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    Gregory Berns

    22. Dr. Gregory Berns — What It's Like to Be a Dog…and Other Adventures in Animal Neuroscience · Apr 2018

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    Guy P. Harrison

    Rationality, Science Fiction, and Humanity's Future · Dec 2024

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    Hector A. Garcia

    63. Dr. Hector A. Garcia — Sex, Power, and Partisanship: How Evolutionary Science Makes Sense of Our Political Divide · Apr 2019

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    Heinrich Päs

    325. Heinrich Päs — The One: How an Ancient Idea Holds the Future of Physics · Feb 2023

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    Howard Steven Friedman

    116. Howard Steven Friedman — Ultimate Price: The Value We Place on Life · May 2020

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    India Thusi

    309. India Thusi on Sex Work, Critical Race Theory, and Moral Progress · Dec 2022

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    Iris Berent

    308. Iris Berent — The Blind Storyteller: How We Reason About Human Nature · Nov 2022

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    Jacek Kugler

    258. Jacek Kugler — Putin & Power Transition Theory: China, Russia, and Ukraine · Mar 2022

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    Jack El-Hai

    Not Monsters. Not Madmen. Just Men. · Apr 2026

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    James Hunter

    178. James Hunter & Paul Nedelisky on religious vs. secular morality — Science and the Good: The Tragic Quest for the Foundations of Morality · May 2021

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    James Kimmel

    The Science of Revenge: Why Getting Even Feels So Good · Oct 2025

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    James Traub

    91. James Traub — What Was Liberalism? The Past, Present, and Promise of a Noble Idea · Nov 2019

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    Jamy Ian Swiss

    195. Jamy Ian Swiss — The Conjuror's Conundrum · Jul 2021

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    Jason D. Hill

    231. Jason Hill on What White Americans Owe Black People · 2 episodes

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    Jay Belsky

    Why the Same Childhood Doesn't Affect Everyone the Same Way · Mar 2026

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    Jennifer Fraser

    The Psychology of Gaslighting, Bullying, Cults, and Coercion · Mar 2026

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    Jennifer Macalady

    New Research on The Evolution of Intelligent Life · Mar 2025

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    Jesse Bering

    The Scientist Who Tried to Prove Reincarnation · May 2026

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    John Martin Fischer

    95. John Martin Fischer — Death, Immortality and Meaning in Life · Dec 2019

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    John Mueller

    252. John Mueller on Putin's War: Russia, Ukraine, and NATO · 2 episodes

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    John Petrocelli

    207. John Petrocelli — The Life-Changing Science of Detecting Bullshit · Sep 2021

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    Joshua Blu Buhs

    The Cultural History of Charles Fort and His Followers · Aug 2024

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    Joshua Coleman

    Parent-Child Estrangement: How Does Divorce Affect Children? · Jul 2024

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    Joshua Glasgow

    159. Joshua Glasgow — The Solace: Finding Value in Death Through Gratitude for Life · Feb 2021

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    Judith Finlayson

    104. Judith Finlayson — You Are What Your Grandparents Ate: What You Need to Know About Nutrition, Experience, Epigenetics and the Origins of Chronic Disease · Feb 2020

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