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The Michael Shermer Show

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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Free Speech Under Fire? From Campus Protests to Deportations

06 May 2025
1h 17m
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Michael Shermer interviews Jacob Mchangama, a free speech expert, about the current state of free speech in America, particularly in light of recent events and the new administration's policies. They discuss specific cases of individuals facing deportation for expressing controversial views, the broader implications fo...

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Is It Possible to Change Your Entire Personality?

03 May 2025
1h 19m
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The Trouble with Economic Data: Flawed Metrics, Flawed Decisions

29 Apr 2025
54m
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Did Shutting Down Schools Help or Hurt? A COVID-19 Postmortem

26 Apr 2025
55m
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What’s Holding You Back? Scott Barry Kaufman on Resilience in the Age of Fragility

22 Apr 2025
1h 42m
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Why We Follow Orders: The Neuroscience of Compliance and Control

19 Apr 2025
1h 31m
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Amanda Knox: Life After the Crime That Wasn’t Hers

15 Apr 2025
1h 14m
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What Einstein Meant by God: Science, Spirituality, and the Search for Meaning

08 Apr 2025
1h 46m
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What Happened to the Intellectual Dark Web?

01 Apr 2025
1h 19m
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Sex and Beauty: The Extraordinary Implications of Darwin’s Strangest Idea (Matt Ridley)

25 Mar 2025
1h 15m
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The Hoax of the Century: Iron Mountain

18 Mar 2025
1h 42m
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Does the West Need a Religious Revival? (Shermer Solo)

11 Mar 2025
37m
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Money, Lies, and God

11 Mar 2025
1h 37m
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Who Counts? Ethics in the Treatment of Animals and AI

08 Mar 2025
1h 27m
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New Research on The Evolution of Intelligent Life

02 Mar 2025
1h 12m
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Sex Work, Ethics, and Evolutionary Psychology: What REALLY Happens on Sugar Daddy Websites?

18 Feb 2025
1h 45m
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Half a Thousand Episodes: Still Chasing Truth

11 Feb 2025
37m
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The Faith Deficit: Does America Need a Spiritual Backbone?

04 Feb 2025
1h 29m
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The Psychology of Serial Killers

28 Jan 2025
1h 59m
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What if Death Isn’t the End? The Science of Forever

21 Jan 2025
1h 30m
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This interview podcast explores the possibility of abolishing death through technological advancements. The discussion begins with the guest's background in neuroscience and then delves into different theories of consciousness, addressing the "hard problem" of how physical processes give rise to subjective experience....

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