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The Michael Shermer Show

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The Michael Shermer Show (formerly Science Salon) 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. The podcast is hosted by Dr. Michael Shermer: the Founding Publisher of Skeptic magazine, and a Presidential Fellow at Chapman University where he teaches Skepticism 101. For 18 years he was a monthly columnist for Scientific American. He is the author of New York Times bestsellers Why People Believe Weird Things and The Believing Brain, Why Darwin Matters, The Science of Good and Evil, The Moral Arc, Heavens on Earth, and Giving the Devil His Due. His latest book is Conspiracy: Why the rational Believe the Irrational. www.skeptic.com/michael-shermer-show/

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