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Episode 208
In this special episode of the podcast Michael Shermer honors the 20th anniversary of 9/11 with a commentary on the truth about that event and how it…
4 years, 7 months ago
207. John Petrocelli — The Life-Changing Science of Detecting Bullshit
Episode 207
Bullshit is the foundation of contaminated thinking and bad decisions that leads to health consequences, financial losses, legal consequences, broken…
4 years, 7 months ago
206. Nichola Raihani — The Social Instinct: How Cooperation Shaped the World
Episode 206
Cooperation is the means by which life arose in the first place. It's how we progressed through scale and complexity, from free-floating strands of g…
4 years, 8 months ago
205. Richard Dawkins on evangelizing for evolution, science, skepticism, philosophy, reason, and rationality, based on his book Books Do Furnish a Life: Reading and Writing Science
Episode 205
In episode 205, Michael Shermer speaks with Richard Dawkins, the author of The Selfish Gene, voted The Royal Society's Most Inspiring Science Book of…
4 years, 8 months ago
204. Carole Hooven on T: The Story of Testosterone, the Hormone that Dominates and Divides Us
Episode 204
In episode 204, Michael Shermer speaks with codirector of undergraduate studies in the Department of Human Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University…
4 years, 8 months ago
203. Lee McIntyre — How to Talk to a Science Denier: Conversations with Flat Earthers, Climate Deniers, and Others Who Defy Reason
Episode 203
"Climate change is a hoax — and so is coronavirus." "Vaccines are bad for you." These days, many of our fellow citizens reject scientific expertise a…
4 years, 8 months ago
202. Julia Galef — The Scout Mindset: Why Some People See Things Clearly and Others Don't
Episode 202
When it comes to what we believe, humans see what they want to see. We have what Julia Galef calls a "soldier" mindset: a drive to defend the ideas w…
4 years, 8 months ago
201. Michael Shermer on Evolution, I.D. Theory, Consciousness, Morality, Gullibility, and Nothing (AMA # 7)
Episode 201
In this AMA Dr. Michael Shermer answers your questions about evolution and creationism, intelligent design theory, the hard problem of consciousness,…
4 years, 8 months ago
200. Philip Zimbardo on the Nature & Nurture of Good & Evil
Episode 200
August 15 marks the 50th anniversary of day one of the Stanford Prison Experiment — one of the most controversial studies in the history of social ps…
4 years, 8 months ago
199. David Potter — Disruption: Why Things Change
Episode 199
This conversation takes a deep dive into disruptions. How do things change? The question is critical to the historical study of any era but it is als…
4 years, 8 months ago