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
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 comfort are unparalleled, and yet our political landsca...
14 Sep 20211h 31min
208. The Truth About 9/11 and Terrorism
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 changed our lives, 7 myths about terrorism that ne...
10 Sep 202127min
207. John Petrocelli — The Life-Changing Science of Detecting Bullshit
Bullshit is the foundation of contaminated thinking and bad decisions that leads to health consequences, financial losses, legal consequences, broken relationships, and wasted time and resources. No m...
7 Sep 20211h 35min
206. Nichola Raihani — The Social Instinct: How Cooperation Shaped the World
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 genetic material, to nation states. But given what w...
4 Sep 20212h 7min
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
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 All Time, and also the bestsellers The Blind Watch...
1 Sep 20211h 27min
204. Carole Hooven on T: The Story of Testosterone, the Hormone that Dominates and Divides Us
In episode 204, Michael Shermer speaks with codirector of undergraduate studies in the Department of Human Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University, Carole Hooven, PhD about testosterone. While most...
28 Aug 20211h 47min
203. Lee McIntyre — How to Talk to a Science Denier: Conversations with Flat Earthers, Climate Deniers, and Others Who Defy Reason
"Climate change is a hoax — and so is coronavirus." "Vaccines are bad for you." These days, many of our fellow citizens reject scientific expertise and prefer ideology to facts. They are not merely un...
24 Aug 20211h 35min
202. Julia Galef — The Scout Mindset: Why Some People See Things Clearly and Others Don't
When it comes to what we believe, humans see what they want to see. We have what Julia Galef calls a "soldier" mindset: a drive to defend the ideas we most want to believe — and shoot down those we do...
21 Aug 20211h 46min
