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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   Theodore Schwartz

   Gray Matters: Exploring the Frontiers of Neurosurgery · Sep 2024

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   Adam Szetela

   Who Gets to Edit Culture? Sensitivity Readers & Censorship in Book Publishing · Feb 2026

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   Andy Norman

   180. Andy Norman — Mental Immunity: Infectious Ideas, Mind Parasites, and the Search for a Better Way to Think · May 2021

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   Antonio Damasio

   Why Consciousness Needs a Body · 2 episodes

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   Ashley Rindsberg

   From Newspapers to Influencers: Who Controls Reality Now? (Ashley Rindsberg) · 2 episodes

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   Cathy Young

   Cathy Young: Why Free Societies Need Free Speech · 2 episodes

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   Christian List

   66. Dr. Christian List — Why Free Will is Real: A response to Sam Harris, Jerry Coyne, and Other Determinists · May 2019

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   David Bernstein

   315. David Bernstein — Classified: The Untold Story of Racial Classification in America · Jan 2023

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   Eli Steele
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    Frans de Waal

    274. Frans De Waal on Sex and Gender Across the Primate Spectrum · 2 episodes

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    Hugo Mercier

    101. Hugo Mercier — Not Born Yesterday: The Science of Who We Trust and What We Believe · Jan 2020

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    Inga Thompson

    What Happened to Women's Rights? · May 2023

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    Jacob Mchangama

    The New War on Free Speech: Why Power Turns Everyone Into a Censor · 3 episodes

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    Jeff Maurer

    241. Jeff Maurer — I Might Be Wrong · Jan 2022

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    Jonathan Eig

    The Truth About Martin Luther King Jr. · Jul 2023

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    Michael Tomasello

    64. Michael Tomasello — Becoming Human · Apr 2019

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    Michael Wong
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    Michelle Dowd

    Born into a Cult (Michelle Dowd) · Jun 2024

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    Niayesh Afshordi

    The Big Bang Wasn't the Beginning? Exploring Cosmic Origins · May 2025

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    Phil Halper
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    Priya Natarajan

    8. Dr. Priyamvada Natarajan — Mapping the Heavens: The Radical Scientific Ideas That Reveal The Cosmos · Nov 2016

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    Sean B. Carroll

    4. Dr. Sean B. Carroll — The Serengeti Rules: The Quest to Discover How Life Works and Why It Matters · Mar 2016

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    Shelby Steele

    Racism and White Guilt: Has America Changed More Than We Admit? | Shelby Steele & Eli Steele · 2 episodes

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    Simon Conway Morris

    257. Simon Conway Morris on Design in Evolution & the Possibility of Purpose in the Cosmos · Mar 2022

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    Stephen Meyer

    185. Stephen Meyer — Return of the God Hypothesis: Three Scientific Discoveries that Reveal the Mind Behind the Universe (and why Shermer remains skeptical) · May 2021

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    Steven Koonin

    228. Steven Koonin on what climate science tells us, what it doesn't, and why it matters, based on his book Unsettled · Nov 2021

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    Stuart Firestein

    Is the Future Unknowable? Uncertainty, Free Will, and the Limits of Science · Sep 2026

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    Tara Smith

    Words, Actions, and Liberty: Tara Smith Decodes the First Amendment · Oct 2024

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    Thomas Hertog

    337. On the Origin of Time — Thomas Hertog on Stephen Hawking's Final Theory · Apr 2023

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    Amy Alkon

    The Science Behind Menopause · 2 episodes

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    Bobby Azarian

    287. Bobby Azarian — Life, the Universe, and Cosmic Complexity · Jul 2022

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    Christopher Ryan

    102. Christopher Ryan — Civilized to Death: The Price of Progress · Feb 2020

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    Howard Bloom

    119. Howard Bloom — Einstein, Michael Jackson, and Me: A Search for the Soul in the Power Pits of Rock and Roll · Jun 2020

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    Jonathan Gottschall

    242. Jonathan Gottschall — The Story Paradox: How Our Love of Storytelling Builds Societies and Tears Them Down · Jan 2022

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    Neil Degrasse Tyson

    Neil deGrasse Tyson on UFOs, Government Files, and the Physics of Alien Claims · 5 episodes

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    Nina Teicholz

    32. Nina Teicholz — The Big Fat Surprise About Diet and Nutrition · Aug 2018

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    Adam Levin

    264. Adam Levin on Identity Theft and How to Protect Yourself from Scammers, Phishers, and Fraudsters of All Types · Apr 2022

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    Agustín Fuentes

    144. Agustín Fuentes — Why We Believe: Evolution and the Human Way of Being · Nov 2020

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    Christopher Beha

    Can a Skeptic Believe in God? · Feb 2026

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    David Sloan Wilson

    154. David Sloan Wilson — Atlas Hugged: The Autobiography of John Galt III · 2 episodes

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