The Michael Shermer Show

Michael Shermer

sciencesalon@skeptic.com

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Booking Overview

A long-form, high-credibility show where Dr. Michael Shermer explores major scientific, philosophical, historical, and policy questions with prominent scholars. For PR pros, it’s a strong platform to place authors and subject-matter experts who can speak credibly to evidence-based thinking and public understanding of complex issues.

Metrics

Episodes: 631

Frequency: Irregular

Rating: 4.4/5.0

Estimated listeners: 10k-100k

Gender skew: Male

Location: USA

YouTube: 129.0k subscribers

Contact Information

sciencesalon@skeptic.com

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Host

Michael Shermer - Dr. Michael Shermer hosts long-form conversations with leading scientists, philosophers, historians, scholars, writers, and thinkers about the most important issues of our time.

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

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Typical Credentials:  
Established academics and public intellectuals—e.g., university professors and notable authors—in areas spanning science, philosophy, history, law, ethics, and related scholarly fields.
Required Achievements:  
Published books with academic and mainstream publishers, University professorships, Major research fellowships (e.g., Guggenheim), Writing in leading publications

Recent Guest Discussions

Lawrence Douglas - Demjanjuk, Eichmann, Nuremberg, Holocaust Denial, Proving Atrocities Decades Later, Reliability Of Eyewitness Memory

Recent Topics

Science, Philosophy, History, Law, Ethics

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on
The Michael Shermer Show
:

The Truth About Sex Differences (Steve Stewart-Williams)

July 11, 2026

How do men and women differ? Where do the differences come from? And how do they shape modern life? Drawing on a century of research and a billion years of evolution, Steve Stewart-Williams explains why many sex differences appear despite socialization, not because of it; why in our mating and parenting patterns, humans are more like the average bird than the average mammal; and why sex differences are sometimes a sign of societal health rather than injustice. Steve Stewart-Williams is a prof...

America at 250: What Did the Founders Get Right?

July 06, 2026

Michael Shermer makes the case that the U.S. Founding Fathers were not only steeped in Enlightenment values on which the Declaration of Independence was based, but they were also scientists searching to discover moral truths and values on which to base a rational society, which they succeeded in doing in this document along with the Constitution.

When History Goes on Trial: Demjanjuk, Eichmann, and Justice After Atrocity

June 27, 2026

John Demjanjuk lived for decades as a retired autoworker in suburban Cleveland. Then investigators accused him of being "Ivan the Terrible," one of the most notorious guards at Treblinka. What followed was one of the strangest and most troubling Nazi war-crimes cases of the postwar era: extradition, eyewitness testimony, a death sentence, a reversal, and a final prosecution many years later. In this episode, Michael Shermer talks with Lawrence Douglas, professor at Amherst College and author ...

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