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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   Ralph Lewis

   30. Dr. Ralph Lewis — Finding Meaning in a Meaningless Universe · Jul 2018

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   Richard Firth-Godbehere

   239. Richard Firth-Godbehere — A Human History of Emotion: How the Way We Feel Built the World We Know · Jan 2022

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   Richard Kreitner

   141. Richard Kreitner — Break it Up: Secession, Division, and the Secret History of America's Imperfect Union · Nov 2020

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   Rob Ashton

   291. Rob Ashton — Silent Influence and the Science of Writing, Reading, and Communicating · Aug 2022

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   Robert Ballard

   188. Legendary Undersea Explorer Robert Ballard — Into the Deep: A Memoir From the Man Who Found Titanic · Jun 2021

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   Robert Hazen

   Is There a Second Arrow of Time? A New Law of Evolution, Information, and Complexity · Aug 2026

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   Robert Pennock

   98. Robert Pennock — An Instinct for Truth: Curiosity and the Moral Character of Science · Jan 2020

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   Robert Powell

   UFOs: What We Know (And Don't Know) · Jun 2024

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   Robin Reames

   How Rhetoric Shapes Your Opinions · Apr 2024

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    Roy Richard Grinker

    161. Roy Richard Grinker — Nobody's Normal: How Culture Created the Stigma of Mental Illness · Mar 2021

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    Saleem Ali

    300. Saleem Ali — Earthly Order: How Natural Laws Define Human Life · Oct 2022

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    Sami Timimi

    Mental Health: More Diagnoses, Fewer Answers? · Jan 2026

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    Seamus Blackey
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    Shaili Jain

    74. Shaili Jain, M.D. — The Unspeakable Mind: Stories of Trauma and Healing from the Frontlines of PTSD Science · Jul 2019

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    Stephen Bloom

    296. Stephen Bloom on Jane Elliott's Famous Experiment on Race and Brutality and What It Reveals About Today's Racial Divide · Sep 2022

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    Telmo Pievani

    Neanderthals and Us: A Complex Story of Coexistence and Hybridization · May 2025

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    Tim Samuels

    92. Tim Samuels — Future Man: How to Evolve and Thrive in the Age of Trump, Mansplaining, and #MeToo · Nov 2019

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    Timothy Callahan
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    Timothy Redmond

    343. Timothy Redmond — Political Tribalism in America: How Hyper-Partisanship Dumbs Down Democracy and How to Fix It · Apr 2023

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    Tom Collina
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    Tricia Rose

    Metaracism: How Systemic Racism Devastates Black Lives · May 2024

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    Umut Özkirimli

    An Outsider's Perspective on American Culture Wars · Jul 2023

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    Walter Scheidel

    122. Walter Scheidel — Escape from Rome: The Failure of the Empire and the Road to Prosperity · 2 episodes

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    Warren Hern

    Stories From the Front Lines of Abortion Care (Dr. Warren Hern) · Nov 2024

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    Will Gervais

    The Science of Disbelief: Understanding Atheism and the Evolution of Religion · Sep 2024

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    William Green

    How the Greatest Investors Win in Life and Markets · Dec 2024

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    William Magnuson

    321. William Magnuson — For Profit: A History of Corporations · Feb 2023

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    William Nordhaus

    186. William Nordhaus on the Economics of Global Warming, Pandemics, and Corporate Malfeasance · Jun 2021

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    William Perry

    127. William Perry and Tom Collina — The Button: The New Nuclear Arms Race and Presidential Power from Truman to Trump · Aug 2020

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    William Poundstone

    76. William Poundstone — The Doomsday Calculation: How an Equation that Predicts the Future is Transforming Everything We Know About Life and the Universe · Jul 2019

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    Zac Sechler

    46. Zac Sechler interviews Michael Shermer about Why People Believe in God · Nov 2018

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    Zion Lights

    The Biggest Blind Spot of the Climate Movement: Nuclear Energy · Mar 2026

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