Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchGovernment Transparency & UFOs: Inside Military Programs and Classified Briefings
Episode 581
Michael Shermer sits down with attorney and bestselling author Kent Heckenlively for a tense, thoughtful, and surprisingly cordial conversation about…
7 months, 1 week ago
The Hardest UFO Cases to Dismiss: Something Is Flying Around and We Don't Know What It Is
Episode 580
In this episode, Michael Shermer talks with filmmaker James Fox, whose work has helped push UFOs, now often called UAPs, out of the tabloid shadows a…
7 months, 2 weeks ago
Why Survival Isn't Enough: The Deep Human Need to Matter
Episode 579
What if the deepest human drive isn't happiness, survival, or even love, but the need to matter?
Philosopher and MacArthur Fellow Rebecca Newberger G…
7 months, 2 weeks ago
Shermer Says 4: Venezuela, ICE in Minnesota, UFOs & UAPs, and Social Norms Around Single-Sex Spaces
Episode 578
In this unscripted solo episode, Michael Shermer reflects on a dizzying start to the year and what it reveals about truth, power, and public judgment…
7 months, 3 weeks ago
Mental Health: More Diagnoses, Fewer Answers?
Episode 577
What if the way we approach mental health is quietly making things worse?
Psychiatrist and psychotherapist Sami Timimi joins Michael Shermer to exami…
7 months, 3 weeks ago
What Makes You "You" When Everything Is Just Atoms?
Episode 576
What is consciousness, really? Why does it not simply switch on at a single moment? Neuroscientist Niko Kukushkin explains how even single cells can …
7 months, 3 weeks ago
Rethinking the Discovery of DNA
Episode 575
Francis Crick is best known as one of the figures behind the discovery of the double-helix structure of DNA, but the familiar story leaves out as muc…
7 months, 4 weeks ago
How One Black Man Dismantled the KKK, One Conversation at a Time
Episode 574
What do you do when someone believes you shouldn't exist?
Daryl Davis didn't protest. He didn't shout. He sat down, asked questions, and kept showing…
8 months ago
The Collapse of Open Inquiry: Sacred Victims and Forbidden Questions
Episode 573
Open inquiry depends on the ability to ask uncomfortable questions and follow evidence wherever it leads. Eric Kaufmann argues that this norm is now …
8 months ago
The Future of Brain Implants: Restoring Speech, Regaining Mobility, Treating Pain
Episode 572
Brain-computer interfaces are moving out of the lab and into real medical use.
In this episode of The Michael Shermer Show, Michael Shermer talks wit…
8 months, 1 week ago