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

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.

Flourishing in the Age of Algorithms

What Really Prevents Cognitive Decline

How Christianity Made America—and How America Remade Christianity

What Turns Sand Into Cells? How Nonliving Matter Becomes Alive

Shermer Says 8: Easter Without the Miracle

Debra Soh on Why Men and Women Are Drifting Apart, Dating Apps, and Gen Z

The Psychology of Gaslighting, Bullying, Cults, and Coercion

Did Jesus Really Change Western Morality? Bart Ehrman

Lionel Shriver on Immigration, Religion, and the Decline of the West

The Biggest Blind Spot of the Climate Movement: Nuclear Energy

DOGE, Government Fraud, and AI Audits

Heretics: The Scientists Who Were Mocked But Later Proven Right

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