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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   Ken Sheldon

   346. Kennon Sheldon — What the New Psychology of the Self Teaches Us About Free Will, Determinism, and Self-Determinism · May 2023

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   Kip Thorne

   17. Dr. Kip Thorne — Gravitational Waves, Black Holes, Time Travel, and Hollywood · Feb 2018

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   Kurt Gray

   What Are We Really Fighting Over? Understanding Outrage Through Moral Psychology · Jan 2025

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   Leah Goldstein

   The Story of Female Empowerment & Getting Canceled: Elite Commando and Kickboxing World Champion Leah Goldstein · Mar 2024

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   Leidy Klotz

   210. Leidy Klotz on doing more with less, based on his book Subtract: The Untapped Science of Less · Sep 2021

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   Lionel Shriver

   Lionel Shriver on Immigration, Religion, and the Decline of the West · Mar 2026

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   Marian Tupy

   295. Marian Tupy & Gale Pooley — Superabundance: The Story of Population Growth, Innovation, and Human Flourishing on an Infinitely Bountiful Planet · Aug 2022

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   Michael Greger

   How Not to Age · Dec 2023

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   Michael McCullough

   133. Michael E. McCullough — The Kindness of Strangers: How a Selfish Ape Invented a New Moral Code · Sep 2020

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    Neil Shubin

    109. Neil Shubin — Some Assembly Required: Decoding Four Billion Years of Life, from Ancient Fossils to DNA · Mar 2020

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    Nellie Bowles

    Co-Founder of The Free Press reports on the Culture Wars (Nellie Bowles) · May 2024

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    Nicholas Wade

    The Fate of Nations: Why Ignoring Human Nature Dooms Politics · Sep 2025

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    Paul Offit

    mRNA Vaccines, Mask Mandates, and the COVID-19 Response (Paul Offit) · Feb 2024

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    Peter Boghossian

    83. Peter Boghossian — How to Have Impossible Conversations: A Very Practical Guide · Sep 2019

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    Robert Cialdini

    187. Robert Cialdini — Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion · Jun 2021

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    Robert Zubrin

    Life on Mars? (Robert Zubrin) · 2 episodes

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    Seth Stephens-Davidowitz

    What Determines Who Succeeds in the NBA? · 2 episodes

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    Stewart Brand

    Why Everything Falls Apart—And How to Keep It Going (Stewart Brand) · May 2026

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    Tali Sharot

    35. Dr. Tali Sharot — The Influential Mind: What the Brain Reveals About our Power to Change Others · Aug 2018

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    Todd Kashdan

    310. Todd Kashdan — The Art of Insubordination: How to Dissent and Defy Effectively · Dec 2022

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    Yoram Hazony

    284. Yoram Hazony on Traditional Conservatism vs. Enlightenment Liberalism · Jun 2022

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    Yuval Levin

    Division and Polarization in American Politics: Balancing Majority Rule and Minority Rights · Jul 2024

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    Adam Kirsch

    Why We Want to Believe in Aliens and Why We Still Haven't Found Them · 2 episodes

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    Angus Fletcher

    Logic, Creativity, and the Limits of AI: How Humans Think in Ways Machines Never Will · 2 episodes

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    Bari Weiss

    183. Bari Weiss & Bion Bartning — The Foundation Against Intolerance & Racism · May 2021

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    Benjamin Friedman

    162. Benjamin Friedman — Religion and the Rise of Capitalism · Mar 2021

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    Christine Webb

    The Myth of Human Exceptionalism: Why Humans Aren't as Special as We Think · Oct 2025

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    Colin Fisher

    Tribes, Teams, and Cults: How Groups Shape What We Believe · Nov 2025

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    Diane Coyle

    The Trouble with Economic Data: Flawed Metrics, Flawed Decisions · Apr 2025

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    Don Boudreaux
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    Gaurav Suri
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    James Salzman
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    Jason Riley

    235. Thomas Sowell: The Life and Work of the Legendary Social Theorist (Jason Riley) · Dec 2021

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    Jeff Sebo

    Who Counts? Ethics in the Treatment of Animals and AI · Mar 2025

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    Jennifer Doleac

    Can Science Fix Criminal Justice? · May 2026

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    Kwame Anthony Appiah

    40. Dr. Kwame Anthony Appiah — Who Am I? Who Are You? The Lies That Bind: Rethinking Identity · Oct 2018

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    Michael Heller

    166. Mine! How the Hidden Rules of Ownership Control Our Lives (Michael Heller & James Salzman) · Mar 2021

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    Rebecca Newberger Goldstein

    Why Survival Isn't Enough: The Deep Human Need to Matter · Jan 2026

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    Robert Frank

    103. Robert Frank — Under the Influence: Putting Peer Pressure to Work · Feb 2020

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    Steven Hassan

    319. Steven Hassan — Combatting Cult Mind Control, Freedom of Mind, and The Cult of Trump · Jan 2023

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