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The Michael Shermer Show

The Michael Shermer Show

Michael Shermer

643 episodesEN

Show overview

The Michael Shermer Show has been publishing since 2015, and across the 11 years since has built a catalogue of 643 episodes, alongside 8 trailers or bonus episodes. That works out to roughly 940 hours of audio in total. Releases follow a weekly cadence.

Episodes typically run over ninety minutes — most land between 1h 15m and 1h 42m — and the run-time is fairly consistent across the catalogue. It is catalogued as a EN-language Science show.

The show is actively publishing — the most recent episode landed 1 weeks ago, with 62 episodes already out so far this year. The busiest year was 2024, with 100 episodes published. Published by Michael Shermer.

Episodes
643
Running
2015–2026 · 11y
Median length
1h 30m
Cadence
Weekly

From the publisher

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.

Latest Episodes

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Would You Want to Know If You Were Wrong?

Sep 28, 20261h 38m

Does Consciousness Break the Laws of Physics?

Sep 22, 202646 min

Jared Diamond: How Much Can One Person Change History?

Sep 15, 20261h 29m

Why America Failed to Stop 9/11 | Gerald Posner & Michael Shermer

Sep 11, 202642 min

Why Be Honest When Cheating Pays?

Sep 9, 20261h 45m

Is the Future Unknowable? Uncertainty, Free Will, and the Limits of Science

Sep 1, 20261h 23m

Why We Want to Believe in Aliens and Why We Still Haven't Found Them

Aug 25, 20261h 13m

Is There a Second Arrow of Time? A New Law of Evolution, Information, and Complexity

Aug 18, 20261h 18m

Why Good People Disagree About Right and Wrong

Aug 11, 20261h 57m

Are We Building a God? AI, Superintelligence, and the Coming Singularity

Aug 5, 20261h 22m

Can You Trust Wikipedia? Co-Founder Larry Sanger on Wikipedia's Bias and Why He Was Banned

Jul 30, 20262h 3m

How to Think Clearly About a World in Crisis: Iran, China, Russia, and the West's Economic Pessimism

Jul 18, 20261h 4m

The Truth About Sex Differences (Steve Stewart-Williams)

Jul 11, 202655 min

America at 250: What Did the Founders Get Right?

Jul 6, 202617 min

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

Jun 27, 20261h 32m

Why I Joined the Government UAP Science Advisory Council

Jun 23, 202629 min

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

Jun 20, 20261h 33m

Cathy Young: Why Free Societies Need Free Speech

Jun 16, 20261h 30m

The Zodiac Killer Wasn't Real

Jun 13, 20261h 39m

How Algorithms Use Your Data to Control You

Jun 9, 20261h 34m
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