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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   Kelly Weill

   251. Kelly Weill on Flat Earthers, Conspiracy Culture, and Why People Will Believe Anything · Mar 2022

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   Ken Feder

   Did Lost Civilizations Really Exist? An Archaeologist Explains · Nov 2025

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   Kenneth R. Miller

   23. Dr. Kenneth R. Miller — The Human Instinct: How We Evolved to Have Reason, Consciousness, and Free Will · May 2018

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   Kent Heckenlively

   Government Transparency & UFOs: Inside Military Programs and Classified Briefings · Jan 2026

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   Kevin McCaffree

   286. Kevin McCaffree — How Societies Change and Why · Jul 2022

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   Kieran Fox

   What Einstein Meant by God: Science, Spirituality, and the Search for Meaning · Apr 2025

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   Lance Grande

   The Formation, Diversification, and Extinction of World Religions · Apr 2024

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   Lawrence Douglas

   When History Goes on Trial: Demjanjuk, Eichmann, and Justice After Atrocity · Jun 2026

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   Lee McIntyre

   How to Fight for Truth and Protect Democracy · 3 episodes

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    Lesley Newson

    192. Lesley Newson & Peter Richerson — A New Look at Human Evolution · Jul 2021

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    Madeleine Beekman

    Why Do Humans Speak? · Sep 2025

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    Marcie Hume

    Filming Corey Feldman & "Corey's Angels": The Weird World Behind the Curtain · Feb 2026

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    Mark Moffett

    62. Dr. Mark Moffett — The Human Swarm: How Our Societies Arise, Thrive, and Fall · Apr 2019

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    Mark Skousen

    Was Benjamin Franklin America's First Scientist? · 2 episodes

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    Mark Weinstein

    The Social Reset: Big Tech, Mental Health, and the Future of Connection · Oct 2024

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    Marlene Laruelle

    How to Think Clearly About a World in Crisis: Iran, China, Russia, and the West's Economic Pessimism · Jul 2026

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    Marta Zaraska

    137. Marta Zaraska — Growing Young: How Friendship, Optimism, and Kindness Can Help You Live to 100 · Oct 2020

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    Marty Klein

    322. Marty Klein — Sex Matters · Feb 2023

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    Mary Grabar

    217. Mary Grabar on the 1619 Project, Howard Zinn, Historical Revisionism, and Pseudohistory · Oct 2021

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    Matthew Avery Sutton

    How Christianity Made America—and How America Remade Christianity · Apr 2026

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    Matthew Stewart

    Slavery, Enlightenment, and America's Refounding · Sep 2024

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    Michael Egnor

    Michael Egnor X Christof Koch X Michael Shermer | A Debate on the Mind, Soul, and the Afterlife · Jun 2025

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    Michael Gordin

    191. Michael Gordin on the Fringe of Where Science Meets Pseudoscience · Jul 2021

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    Michael H. Bernstein

    Psychogenic Illness and the Nocebo Effect · Oct 2024

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    Michael Ruse

    68. Dr. Michael Ruse — A Darwinian Meaning to Life · May 2019

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    Michel Gagné

    277. Michel Gagné — How to Think About Conspiracy Theories · Jun 2022

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    Michel-Yves Bolloré

    Cosmology, Creation, and the Evidence for God · Nov 2025

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    Mona Sue Weissmark

    129. Mona Sue Weissmark — The Science of Diversity · Aug 2020

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    Moshe Hoffman

    270. Surprising Power of Game Theory to Explain Irrationality (Moshe Hoffman and Erez Yoeli) · May 2022

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    Neil Van Leeuwen

    Religion as Make-Believe: A Theory of Belief, Imagination, and Group Identity · Jun 2024

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    Nichola Raihani

    206. Nichola Raihani — The Social Instinct: How Cooperation Shaped the World · Sep 2021

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    Noga Arikha

    275. The Disrupted Mind: Noga Arikha on What Happens to Identity When the Brain Is Assaulted by Disease and Injury · May 2022

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    Ogi Ogas

    259. Ogi Ogas — Journey of the Mind: How Thinking Emerged from Chaos · Apr 2022

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    Paul Ehrlich

    Paul Ehrlich on The Population Bomb, Climate Change, and the Ethics of Extinction · Nov 2024

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    Paul Nedelisky
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    Peter Richerson
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    Phil Zuckerman

    82. Phil Zuckerman — What it Means to be Moral: Why Religion is Not Necessary for Living an Ethical Life · Sep 2019

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    Rachel Corbett

    Can You Spot a Killer? The Dangerous Fantasy of Criminal Profiling · Dec 2025

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    Rachel Moran

    327. Rachel Moran on Her Years in Prostitution, How She Got Out of It, and Why She Thinks It Is a Form of Sexual Exploitation · Feb 2023

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    Rachel Toles

    The Psychology of Serial Killers · Jan 2025

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