The Michael Shermer Show

484 - Born into a Cult (Michelle Dowd)

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.

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484 - Born into a Cult (Michelle Dowd)

Tue, 18 Jun 2024
483 - UFOs: What We Know (And Don’t Know)

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482 - Religion as Make-Believe: A Theory of Belief, Imagination, and Group Identity

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481 - Vulnerable Minds: The Harm of Childhood Trauma and the Hope of Resilience

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480 - How to Achieve Peace in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

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479 - How Likely Is War Over Taiwan?

Sat, 01 Jun 2024
478 - Neuroscientist Explains Selective Memory (Charan Ranganath)

Tue, 28 May 2024
477 - Metaracism: How Systemic Racism Devastates Black Lives

Sat, 25 May 2024
476 - How to Think About Social Justice

Tue, 21 May 2024
475 - Sean Carroll Explains Quantum Field Theory

Sat, 18 May 2024
474 - Co-Founder of The Free Press reports on the Culture Wars (Nellie Bowles)

Tue, 14 May 2024
473 - The Latest Research on Consciousness (Christof Koch)

Sat, 11 May 2024
472 - Everything is Predictable: How Bayesian Statistics Explain Our World

Tue, 07 May 2024
471 - The New Science of Planet Hunting in the Cosmos

Sat, 04 May 2024
470 - The Science of Happines

Tue, 30 Apr 2024
469 - How Rhetoric Shapes Your Opinions

Sat, 27 Apr 2024
468 - Accomplishment and Happiness (Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker)

Tue, 23 Apr 2024
467 - Should We Prepare for Nuclear War? (Annie Jacobsen)

Sat, 20 Apr 2024
466 - An AI... Utopia? (Nick Bostrom, Oxford)

Tue, 16 Apr 2024
465 - Life on Mars? (Robert Zubrin)

Sat, 13 Apr 2024
464 - Robots and the People Who Love Them

Tue, 09 Apr 2024
463 - The Formation, Diversification, and Extinction of World Religions

Sat, 06 Apr 2024
462 - The Wisdom and Wonder of Being Uncertain

Tue, 02 Apr 2024
461 - The End of Race Politics (Coleman Hughes)

Sat, 30 Mar 2024
460 - How to Repair America’s Broken Democracy

Tue, 26 Mar 2024
459 - Bad Therapy: Why the Kids Aren't Growing Up (Abigail Shrier)

Sat, 23 Mar 2024
458 - An Unfinished History of the Holocaust

Tue, 19 Mar 2024
457 - The Weirdness of the World

Sat, 16 Mar 2024
456 - The Story of Female Empowerment & Getting Canceled: Elite Commando and Kickboxing World Champion Leah Goldstein

Tue, 12 Mar 2024
455 - Who Wrote the Qur’an, Why, and What Does it Really Say?

Sat, 09 Mar 2024
454 - Purpose in the Eyes of a Psychiatrist

Tue, 05 Mar 2024
453 - Does Humanity Function as a Single Superorganism?

Sat, 02 Mar 2024
452 - The Power of Noticing What Was Always There

Tue, 27 Feb 2024
451 - China's Grip on Rare-Earth Elements and the Future of Global Energy Security

Sat, 24 Feb 2024
450 - mRNA Vaccines, Mask Mandates, and the COVID-19 Response (Paul Offit)

Tue, 20 Feb 2024
449 - Foster Care, Family, and Social Class

Sat, 17 Feb 2024
448 - How U.S. Public Health Has Strayed From Its Liberal Roots

Tue, 13 Feb 2024
447 - Against the New Politics of Identity

Sat, 10 Feb 2024
446 - What Determines Who Succeeds in the NBA?

Tue, 06 Feb 2024
445 - Transforming Mental Health: Little Treatments, Big Effects

Sat, 03 Feb 2024
444 - Overcoming Self-Censorship in the Age of Outrage

Tue, 30 Jan 2024
443 - One Couple’s Vacation Caused 100,000 People to Die

Sat, 27 Jan 2024
442 - Head of TED Talks Shares a New Vision of Generosity

Tue, 23 Jan 2024
441 - Are Parallel Universes and Extra Dimensions Real?

Wed, 17 Jan 2024
440 - Michael Shellenberger Explains Government Censorship of Social Media

Tue, 09 Jan 2024
439 - Multiculturalism and Lessons From the Rwandan Genocide

Wed, 03 Jan 2024
438 - The Meaning of Life (A Message for the Holidays)

Sun, 24 Dec 2023
437 - A Trial by Media Ended Caylan Ford’s Career in 4 Hours

Tue, 19 Dec 2023
436 - How Not to Age

Sat, 16 Dec 2023
435 - How to Cultivate Your Imagination as an Adult

Tue, 12 Dec 2023

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