Michael Shermer

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4,120 appearances 2 recordings 2 series first heard Feb 2026 last heard 9 Jul

Michael Shermer’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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American Alchemy with Jesse Michels · I Debated UFOs With America’s Top Skeptic (It Got Ugly…) · 9 Jul 2026 podcast

Brahe was wrong.

Most ideas in science are wrong.

So the people that discovered this or that about bacteria and virus, you know, like cancer.

But I'm not presenting an idea.

I'm presenting a tapestry of evidence that wants further investigation and a theory to explain it.

Okay, Jesse, I agree with you.

I've always supported the SETI program.

I've supported the Galileo Project.

I'm on the Galileo team.

And since the first week, every Monday, the first Monday, the first Friday of every month, we meet on Zoom.

I never miss a meeting.

I'm there.

I want to find out.

Now, I don't have enough pull, Avi, because of his Harvard connections.

I think, okay, maybe this guy can actually make it happen.

In other words, the Stephen Greers of the world are like, we're going to get to the bottom and it never happened.

Even Clinton, Obama.

Yeah.

It never happens.

Greer's theory is that they're all love and light and good, and it's almost like a play on the great filter theory that they have to be perfectly altruistic to go interstellar or something.

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