Podcast Episodes
Back to Search213. Mike Rothschild — The Storm Is Upon Us: How QAnon Became a Movement, Cult, and Conspiracy Theory of Everything
Episode 213
Michael Shermer speaks with Mike Rothschild, a journalist specializing in conspiracy theories, about QAnon and its followers.
On October 5th, 2017, P…
4 years, 11 months ago
212. Gale Sinatra & Barbara Hofer — Science Denial: Why It Happens and What to Do About It
Episode 212
Michael Shermer speaks with Gale Sinatra and Barbara Hofer about the key psychological explanations for science denial and doubt that can help provid…
4 years, 11 months ago
211. Ashley Rindsberg — The Gray Lady Winked: How the New York Times's Misreporting, Distortions and Fabrications Radically Alter History
Episode 211
Michael Shermer speaks with Ashley Rindsberg about his book The Gray Lady Winked in which he pulls back the curtain on the the world's most powerful …
4 years, 11 months ago
208. Leidy Klotz on doing more with less, based on his book Subtract: The Untapped Science of Less
Episode 210
We pile on "to-dos" but don't consider "stop-doings." We create incentives for good behavior, but don't get rid of obstacles to it. We collect new-an…
4 years, 11 months ago
209. Heather Heying & Bret Weinstein on Evolution and the Challenges of Modern Life, Based on Their New Book a Hunter-Gatherer's Guide to the 21st Century
Episode 209
We are living through the most prosperous age in all of human history, yet people are more listless, divided and miserable than ever. Wealth and comf…
4 years, 11 months ago
208. The Truth About 9/11 and Terrorism
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, 11 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…
5 years 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…
5 years 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…
5 years 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…
5 years ago