The Michael Shermer Show

Michael Shermer

Booking Overview

This is a long-form intellectual interview show focused on science, philosophy, history, skepticism, and major questions of contemporary life, typically featuring academics, authors, and other established scholars. Credible pitches include university professors, researchers, public intellectuals, and nonfiction authors with significant books or research to discuss; booking is likely high difficulty because guests generally have substantial scholarly credentials and recognized publications.

Metrics

Episodes: 636

Frequency: Weekly

Rating: 4.4/5.0

Estimated listeners: 10k-100k

Gender skew: Unknown

Location: USA

YouTube: 134.0k subscribers

Contact Information

Publicly listed emails

sciencesalon@skeptic.com

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Host

Michael Shermer - Science writer, historian of science, and founder of the Skeptics Society and Skeptic magazine. He is known for examining scientific evidence, pseudoscience, religion, and human belief through a sk...

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

high

Typical Credentials:

University professors, researchers, historians, philosophers, legal scholars, and established nonfiction authors with recognized expertise in the subject under discussion.

Required Achievements:

Published nonfiction books, University professorships or senior academic appointments, Significant original research, Fellowships or other scholarly distinctions, Writing in prominent publications

Recent Guest Discussions

Steve Stewart-Williams - Sex Differences, Evolution, Mating And Parenting Patterns, Socialization, And Societal Health.

Lawrence Douglas - The Demjanjuk And Eichmann Cases, Nuremberg, Holocaust Denial, Eyewitness Memory, Atrocity Prosecutions, And International Justice.

Recent Topics

Skepticism, Science, Philosophy, History, Psychology

Episodes

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The Michael Shermer Show

Is There a Second Arrow of Time? A New Law of Evolution, Information, and Complexity

August 18, 2026

Why does the universe produce ever more elaborate forms, from atoms and minerals to cells, organisms, brains, technology, and civilization? The familiar laws of physics can explain much of what happens in nature, but Robert Hazen and Michael Wong argue that something important has been missing: a law describing how evolving systems generate and select new forms over time. Michael Shermer speaks with Hazen and Wong about their proposed law of increasing functional information, the central idea...

Why Good People Disagree About Right and Wrong

August 11, 2026

Why do reasonable people disagree so strongly about right and wrong? And why are we so quick to assume that people on the other side of a moral or political issue are irrational, selfish, ignorant, or simply bad? Michael Shermer speaks with Cornell psychologist Audun Dahl, author of Between Fixed and Fickle: Why Our Moral Views Keep Changing, about how human morality develops and why many familiar explanations fall short. They discuss whether babies are born with a moral sense, what children ...

Are We Building a God? AI, Superintelligence, and the Coming Singularity

August 05, 2026

Robert Wright joins Michael Shermer to discuss his new book, The God Test: Artificial Intelligence and Our Coming Cosmic Reckoning, and why he thinks the AI revolution may be moving much faster than most people realize. Wright argues that deep learning is not just a new way of programming computers. In an important sense, it resembles evolution: neural networks discover solutions for themselves, sometimes recreating cognitive functions that natural selection built into human brains. That help...

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