The Michael Shermer Show

The Michael Shermer Show is a series of long-form conversations between Dr. Michael Shermer and lead

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In his new book, The Case Against Reality: Why Evolution Hid the Truth From Our Eyes, the U.C. Irvin

In this engaging conversation on the nature of science, Dr. McIntyre and Dr. Shermer get deep into t

When will the world end? How likely is it that intelligent extraterrestrial life exists? Are we liv

On this July 16th, the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11, Michael Shermer speaks with veteran space repo

From a physician and post-traumatic stress disorder specialist comes a nuanced cartography of PTSD,

In this important new book, The Founding Myth: Why Christian Nationalism is Un-American, constitutio

In this dialogue, visionary astronautical engineer Robert Zubrin lays out the plans for how humans c

In this live podcast event hosted by the Santa Barbara Science Salon in conjunction with the Skeptic

In this wide-ranging conversation Science Salon host Dr. Michael Shermer speaks with cosmologist and

An eminent psychologist offers a major new theory of human cognition: movement, not language, is the

Dr. Michael Ruse is the Lucyle T. Werkmeister Professor of Philosophy, and Director of the Program i

In recent years atheism has become ever more visible, acceptable, and influential. Atheist apologist

Philosophers have argued about the nature and the very existence of free will for centuries. Today,

For this special edition of the Science Salon Podcast Dr. Shermer took a camera crew to Jared Diamon

In this fascinating conversation with the evolutionary anthropologist Michael Tomasello, the Max Pla

Through the lens of evolutionary science, Dr. Garcia offers a novel perspective on why we hold our p

In this AMA special Dr. Shermer conducts a postmortem on his debate with the evangelical Christian t

In this riveting conversation, Dr. Shermer speaks with Dr. Mark Moffett, biologist (Ph.D. Harvard, u

We Homo sapiens can be the nicest of species and also the nastiest. What occurred during human evolu

In this exceptionally important conversation Dr. Shermer discusses at length the background to and r