104. Judith Finlayson — You Are What Your Grandparents Ate: What You Need to Know About Nutrition, Experience, Epigenetics and the Origins of Chronic Disease
In this wide ranging conversation Judith Finlayson reviews the research she writes about in her new book that takes conventional wisdom about the origins of chronic disease and turns it upside down. R...
18 Feb 20201h 25min
103. Robert Frank — Under the Influence: Putting Peer Pressure to Work
Psychologists have long understood that social environments profoundly shape our behavior, sometimes for the better, often for the worse. But social influence is a two-way street — our environments ar...
11 Feb 20201h 49min
102. Christopher Ryan — Civilized to Death: The Price of Progress
Most of us have instinctive evidence the world is ending — balmy December days, face-to-face conversation replaced with heads-to-screens zomboidism, a world at constant war, a political system in disa...
4 Feb 20201h 44min
101. Hugo Mercier — Not Born Yesterday: The Science of Who We Trust and What We Believe
Not Born Yesterday explains how we decide who we can trust and what we should believe — and argues that we're pretty good at making these decisions. Hugo Mercier demonstrates how virtually all attempt...
28 Jan 20201h 59min
100. Episode Special: Ask Me Almost Anything
In this 100th episode of the Science Salon podcast Dr. Shermer gives a brief overview and history of the salon and how it evolved from the Distinguished Science Lecture Series at Caltech, which began ...
21 Jan 20201h 1min
99. Bobby Duffy — Why We’re Wrong About Nearly Everything: A Theory of Human Misunderstanding
What percentage of the population are immigrants? How bad is unemployment? How much sex do people have? These questions are important and interesting, but most of us get the answers wrong. Research sh...
14 Jan 20201h 33min
98. Robert Pennock — An Instinct for Truth: Curiosity and the Moral Character of Science
An exploration of the scientific mindset — such character virtues as curiosity, veracity, attentiveness, and humility to evidence — and its importance for science, democracy, and human flourishing. Ex...
7 Jan 20201h 59min
97. Amber Scorah — Leaving the Witness: Exiting a Religion and Finding a Life
In this revealing conversation Amber Scorah opens the box into the psychology of religious belief to show how, exactly, religions and cults convince members that theirs is the one true religion, to th...
31 Des 20191h 35min
