The Michael Shermer Show

Science Podcasts

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.

Episodes

When History Goes on Trial: Demjanjuk, Eichmann, and Justice After Atrocity

Why I Joined the White House UAP Science Advisory Council

Massimo Pigliucci on Doubt, Moral Courage, and Living Without Illusions

Cathy Young: Why Free Societies Need Free Speech

The Zodiac Killer Wasn’t Real

How Algorithms Use Your Data to Control You

Batya Ungar-Sargon: Why the Left Sees Jews Differently Now

From Equality to Equity: How Social Justice Becomes Ideology

Can Science Fix Criminal Justice?

Gad Saad: When Empathy Becomes Dangerous

Why We Cling to Certainty, Conspiracies, and Bad Predictions

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

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

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

The UFO Files Were Declassified Today

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

The Scientist Who Tried to Prove Reincarnation

Why Do We Exist? Hakeem Oluseyi

Shermer Says 9: The “Dead Scientists,” Explained

Not Monsters. Not Madmen. Just Men.