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.
637 episodes 5 books mentioned
Most mentioned books
- 1 CommunionWhitley Strieber · 1× across 1 episode
- 2 ContactCarl Sagan · 1× across 1 episode
- 3 CosmosCarl Sagan · 1× across 1 episode
- 4 Religion as Make-BelieveNeil Van Leeuwen · 1× across 1 episode
- 5 We Want to Believe: How Aliens Went Mainstream and Why It MattersAdam Kirsch · 1× across 1 episode
Why We Want to Believe in Aliens and Why We Still Haven't Found Them
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We Want to Believe: How Aliens Went Mainstream and Why It Matters
Adam Kirsch
we want to believe here it is how aliens went mainstream and why it matters ▶ tap to play from here
Cosmos
Carl Sagan
then really i've been following it since sagan's probably nineteen eighty cosmos where you had that episode on extraterrestrial intelligences ▶ tap to play from here
Contact
Carl Sagan
you have a nice uh discussion here about sagan's support of the seti program and contact his novel made into a film and so on ▶ tap to play from here
Communion
Whitley Strieber
for many people over the last forty years that book that you reference is uh whitley striver's communion ▶ tap to play from here
Religion as Make-Believe
Neil Van Leeuwen
i had neil uh van luen on the show he wrote a book called make bel uh make religion is make believe it's not a great title ▶ tap to play from here
Is There a Second Arrow of Time? A New Law of Evolution, Information, and Complexity
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Why Good People Disagree About Right and Wrong
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Are We Building a God? AI, Superintelligence, and the Coming Singularity
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Can You Trust Wikipedia? Co-Founder Larry Sanger on Wikipedia's Bias and Why He Was Banned
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How to Think Clearly About a World in Crisis: Iran, China, Russia, and the West's Economic Pessimism
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The Truth About Sex Differences (Steve Stewart-Williams)
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America at 250: What Did the Founders Get Right?
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When History Goes on Trial: Demjanjuk, Eichmann, and Justice After Atrocity
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Why I Joined the Government UAP Science Advisory Council
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Massimo Pigliucci on Doubt, Moral Courage, and Living Without Illusions
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Cathy Young: Why Free Societies Need Free Speech
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The Zodiac Killer Wasn't Real
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How Algorithms Use Your Data to Control You
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Batya Ungar-Sargon: Why the Left Sees Jews Differently Now
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From Equality to Equity: How Social Justice Becomes Ideology
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Can Science Fix Criminal Justice?
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Gad Saad: When Empathy Becomes Dangerous
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Why We Cling to Certainty, Conspiracies, and Bad Predictions
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Neil deGrasse Tyson on UFOs, Government Files, and the Physics of Alien Claims
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