Michael Shermer

Michael Shermer has 50 podcast episodes indexed on PodLexicon, appearing on shows including The Michael Shermer Show, StarTalk Radio and The Ben Shapiro Show. Browse every conversation and read an AI-generated summary of each appearance.

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Why I Joined the Government UAP Science Advisory Council

The Michael Shermer Show · 2026-06-23

Why We Cling to Certainty, Conspiracies, and Bad Predictions

The Michael Shermer Show · 2026-05-19

The UFO Files Were Declassified Today

The Michael Shermer Show · 2026-05-08

Shermer Says 7: Responding to Fan Mail … "Who Was Jesus?"

The Michael Shermer Show · 2026-03-08

Shermer Says 5: What Went Wrong in Minnesota? Protests, Panic, and Personal Responsibility

The Michael Shermer Show · 2026-01-26

Government Transparency & UFOs: Inside Military Programs and Classified Briefings

The Michael Shermer Show · 2026-01-21

Shermer Says 3: Weird Experiences, the Meaning of Dreams, and What Mark Twain Knew About Reality

The Michael Shermer Show · 2025-11-08

Shermer Says: Why Secularists Are Turning to Religion, The Substitution Hypothesis, Sleep Paralysis

The Michael Shermer Show · 2025-10-18

The Assassination of Charlie Kirk: Shermer Reflects on Political Violence

The Michael Shermer Show · 2025-09-17

From the Big Bang to God: The Universe's Biggest Mysteries

The Michael Shermer Show · 2024-11-23

Psychogenic Illness and the Nocebo Effect

The Michael Shermer Show · 2024-10-08

Michael Shermer Reflects on the Trump Assassination Attempt

The Michael Shermer Show · 2024-07-17

Everything is Predictable: How Bayesian Statistics Explain Our World

The Michael Shermer Show · 2024-05-07

Does Humanity Function as a Single Superorganism?

The Michael Shermer Show · 2024-03-02

What Happened to Women's Rights?

The Michael Shermer Show · 2023-05-23

My Final Lecture: What I Learned About Living a Good Life

The Michael Shermer Show · 2023-05-18

Will We Ever Live in a Post-race World?

The Michael Shermer Show · 2023-05-04

332. Wrongfully Convicted, Ultimately Acquitted — Amanda Knox on Criminal Injustice and Why It Happens

The Michael Shermer Show · 2023-03-14

328. Paul Bloom — Psych: The Story of the Human Mind

The Michael Shermer Show · 2023-02-28

288. Lucy Cooke — Bitch: On the Female of the Species

The Michael Shermer Show · 2022-07-19

273. Cathy Young — The Russian Riddle Wrapped in a Ukrainian Mystery Inside an American Enigma

The Michael Shermer Show · 2022-05-21

262. Oliver Stone on Ukraine, Putin, and the Military-Industrial Complex

The Michael Shermer Show · 2022-04-12

260. Batya Ungar-Sargon — Bad News: How Woke Media Is Undermining Democracy

The Michael Shermer Show · 2022-04-05

256. Imagining the Future with Reality Game Designer and Futurist Jane McGonigal

The Michael Shermer Show · 2022-03-22

250. Will Sanctions Work? War in Ukraine.

The Michael Shermer Show · 2022-02-25

248. Elizabeth Weiss on Woke Archaeology and Erasing the Past

The Michael Shermer Show · 2022-02-15

232. Amishi Jha on Learning How to Pay Attention to Your Attention

The Michael Shermer Show · 2021-12-04

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

The Michael Shermer Show · 2021-11-20

219. In-Person Conversation (in Shermer's Home) with Steven Pinker on Rationality: What it is, Why it Seems Scarce, Why it Matters in Shermer's Home

The Michael Shermer Show · 2021-10-19

208. The Truth About 9/11 and Terrorism

The Michael Shermer Show · 2021-09-10

204. Carole Hooven on T: The Story of Testosterone, the Hormone that Dominates and Divides Us

The Michael Shermer Show · 2021-08-28

199. David Potter — Disruption: Why Things Change

The Michael Shermer Show · 2021-08-10

190. Jonathan Rauch — The Constitution of Knowledge: A Defense of Truth

The Michael Shermer Show · 2021-06-26

164. Neil deGrasse Tyson — Cosmic Queries: StarTalk's Guide to Who We Are, How We Got Here, and Where We're Going

The Michael Shermer Show · 2021-03-13

152. Politics & Truth — Michael Shermer Responds to Critics of His Commentary "Trump & Truth"

The Michael Shermer Show · 2021-01-17

146. Donald Prothero — Weird Earth: Debunking Strange Ideas About Our Planet

The Michael Shermer Show · 2020-12-08

145. Greg Lukianoff — How Free is Free Speech?

The Michael Shermer Show · 2020-12-01

143. Nicholas Christakis — Apollo's Arrow: The Profound and Enduring Impact of Coronavirus on the Way We Live

The Michael Shermer Show · 2020-11-17

128. Michael Shellenberger — Apocalypse Never: Why Environmental Alarmism Hurts Us All

The Michael Shermer Show · 2020-08-11

Coronavirus and Conspiracy Theories, with Michael Shermer

StarTalk Radio · 2020-07-06

God vs. Government | Ravi Zacharias, Michael Shermer, and William Lane Craig

The Ben Shapiro Show · 2020-06-14

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

The Michael Shermer Show · 2019-12-17

90. Melvin Konner — Believers: Faith in Human Nature

The Michael Shermer Show · 2019-11-05

87. Douglas Murray — The Madness of Crowds: Gender, Race, and Identity

The Michael Shermer Show · 2019-10-15

67. Dr. Christian Smith — Atheist Overreach: What Atheism Can't Deliver

The Michael Shermer Show · 2019-05-21

54. Dr. Michele Gelfand — Rule Makers, Rule Breakers: How Tight and Loose Cultures Wire Our World

The Michael Shermer Show · 2019-02-20

51. Gregg Hurwitz — Into the Light: Myths, Narratives, Archetypes, and Trump

The Michael Shermer Show · 2019-01-30

Michael Shermer | The Ben Shapiro Show Sunday Special Ep. 6

The Ben Shapiro Show · 2018-06-17

11. Dr. Andrew Shtulman — Scienceblind: Why Our Intuitive Theories About the World Are So Often Wrong

The Michael Shermer Show · 2017-04-23

Cosmic Queries – Science and Morality

StarTalk Radio · 2016-04-15