Finally…The Truth with Michael Shermer

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🗓️ 24 July 2026

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Is there such a thing as objective truth? Are we living in a post-truth world? Neil deGrasse Tyson and co-hosts Chuck Nice and Gary O’Reilly sit down to build a toolkit for finding the truth in an era of motivated reasoning, misinformation, and alternative facts with science historian and professional skeptic, Michael Shermer.

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0:00.0	So Gary, are you objectively true?
0:02.1	Maybe.
0:03.1	But then again, there's your truth, my truths, and Chuck's truths.
0:07.1	And I know for a fact that mine's a lie.
0:10.6	Coming up, StarTalk Special Edition.
0:13.0	All about truth is it still there.
0:16.2	Coming up.
0:18.5	Welcome to StarTalk.
0:21.0	Your place in the universe where science and pop culture collide.
0:26.6	StarTalk begins right now.
0:31.3	This is StarTalk Special Edition, which means we got Gary O'Reilly right here next to me.
0:37.4	Hi, Neil.
0:37.9	Gary.
0:38.6	Yes.
0:39.6	I love having you.
0:41.2	I love being here.
0:42.2	Yeah.
0:42.7	Chuck, how you doing, man?
0:43.6	Oh, doing great.
0:44.7	So, you cooked up an episode, you and your producers, cooked up an episode today that, oh my gosh, this is an eternal subject.
0:53.5	And take us in.
0:54.8	The truth.
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