New York Times Best-Selling author and frequent Joe Rogan guest @skepticmagazine founder Michael Shermer chats with Josh Molina about climate change, RFK Jr., doomers, culture wars, vaccines and much more in this hour-long podcast. Shermer, whose Skeptic magazine regularly offers science-based stories that debunk conspiracy theories. Shermer's latest book is Conspiracy: Why the Rational Believe the Irrational.

In this podacast, Shermer talks about politics, free-will and logic all through the lense of our current political backdrop with RFK Jr. making the rounds on podcasts and what that says about the state of the media. He also discusses the doomer attitude about climate change and why he disagrees with end of the world predictions.

"When I plug in my Tesla, the electricity doesn't come out of the electricity fairy in the wall. It's gotta come from somewhere and most of that is coal-burning power stations," Shermer said.

About Robert Kennedy Jr., Shermer says the Democratic presidential candidate has strong views on foreign policy, but he's skeptical of some of his other views.

"This guy is pretty sharp, why is he so wrong on other things, these vaccines, I don't know," Shermer said.

Joshua Molina is a journalist and college instructor who interviews a wide variety of people on the issues of environment, education, housing, politics, culture and business. Molina is a former reporter at the San Jose Mercury News and teaches at Cal State University, Northridge and Santa Barbara City College.

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