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The Michael Shermer Show
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About The Michael Shermer Show
The Michael Shermer Show is a podcast with 641 episodes in the PodLexicon database, each accompanied by a full searchable transcript and AI-generated summary. PodLexicon indexes every episode of The Michael Shermer Show and turns each one into a searchable AI summary — find the episode that covers a topic, track how that topic evolved over time, or compare what different guests said about it.
Topics Covered on The Michael Shermer Show
Entropy and the Second Law Increasing Functional Information Selection Across Domains Chemical-to-Biological Transition Responses to Intelligent Design Funneling and Adjacent Possible Astrobiology and Cancer Implications Declaration as Science and Enlightenment
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Recent Episodes
Jared Diamond: How Much Can One Person Change History? — September 15, 2026Why America Failed to Stop 9/11 | Gerald Posner & Michael Shermer — September 11, 2026Why Be Honest When Cheating Pays? — September 09, 2026Is the Future Unknowable? Uncertainty, Free Will, and the Limits of Science — September 01, 2026Why We Want to Believe in Aliens and Why We Still Haven't Found Them — August 25, 2026Is There a Second Arrow of Time? A New Law of Evolution, Information, and Complexity — August 18, 2026Why Good People Disagree About Right and Wrong — August 11, 2026Are We Building a God? AI, Superintelligence, and the Coming Singularity — August 05, 2026Can You Trust Wikipedia? Co-Founder Larry Sanger on Wikipedia's Bias and Why He Was Banned — July 30, 2026How to Think Clearly About a World in Crisis: Iran, China, Russia, and the West's Economic Pessimism — July 18, 2026The Truth About Sex Differences (Steve Stewart-Williams) — July 11, 2026America at 250: What Did the Founders Get Right? — July 06, 2026When History Goes on Trial: Demjanjuk, Eichmann, and Justice After Atrocity — June 27, 2026Why I Joined the Government UAP Science Advisory Council — June 23, 2026Massimo Pigliucci on Doubt, Moral Courage, and Living Without Illusions — June 20, 2026Cathy Young: Why Free Societies Need Free Speech — June 16, 2026The Zodiac Killer Wasn't Real — June 13, 2026How Algorithms Use Your Data to Control You — June 09, 2026Batya Ungar-Sargon: Why the Left Sees Jews Differently Now — June 06, 2026From Equality to Equity: How Social Justice Becomes Ideology — June 03, 2026Can Science Fix Criminal Justice? — May 29, 2026Gad Saad: When Empathy Becomes Dangerous — May 26, 2026Why We Cling to Certainty, Conspiracies, and Bad Predictions — May 19, 2026Neil deGrasse Tyson on UFOs, Government Files, and the Physics of Alien Claims — May 16, 2026From Newspapers to Influencers: Who Controls Reality Now? (Ashley Rindsberg) — May 14, 2026The New War on Free Speech: Why Power Turns Everyone Into a Censor — May 11, 2026The UFO Files Were Declassified Today — May 08, 2026Why Everything Falls Apart—And How to Keep It Going (Stewart Brand) — May 05, 2026The Scientist Who Tried to Prove Reincarnation — May 02, 2026Why Do We Exist? Hakeem Oluseyi — April 28, 2026Shermer Says 9: The "Dead Scientists," Explained — April 24, 2026Not Monsters. Not Madmen. Just Men. — April 21, 2026Flourishing in the Age of Algorithms — April 18, 2026What Really Prevents Cognitive Decline — April 14, 2026How Christianity Made America—and How America Remade Christianity — April 11, 2026What Turns Sand Into Cells? How Nonliving Matter Becomes Alive — April 08, 2026Shermer Says 8: Easter Without the Miracle — April 05, 2026Debra Soh on Why Men and Women Are Drifting Apart, Dating Apps, and Gen Z — April 03, 2026The Psychology of Gaslighting, Bullying, Cults, and Coercion — March 31, 2026Did Jesus Really Change Western Morality? Bart Ehrman — March 28, 2026Lionel Shriver on Immigration, Religion, and the Decline of the West — March 24, 2026The Biggest Blind Spot of the Climate Movement: Nuclear Energy — March 17, 2026DOGE, Government Fraud, and AI Audits — March 14, 2026Heretics: The Scientists Who Were Mocked But Later Proven Right — March 12, 2026Shermer Says 7: Responding to Fan Mail … "Who Was Jesus?" — March 08, 2026Why the Same Childhood Doesn't Affect Everyone the Same Way — March 06, 2026Who Gets to Edit Culture? Sensitivity Readers & Censorship in Book Publishing — February 26, 2026Filming Corey Feldman & "Corey's Angels": The Weird World Behind the Curtain — February 21, 2026Can a Skeptic Believe in God? — February 15, 2026Shermer Says 6: Jeffrey Epstein and Me — February 07, 2026
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