Reviews of articles from: The Joe Rogan Experience

CLAIM REVIEWS

Scientists have found that modern climate change is caused entirely by human activity, contrary to recent speculation by Joe Rogan

CLAIM
“The question is, ‘how much of an impact do we have on [climate]?’ That has not totally been quantified”; climate change is happening anyway, “The ice age happened without us…It’s probably this constant cycle”.

SOURCE: Joe Rogan, Joe Rogan Experience

Published: 11 Oct 2022

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Insufficient evidence to support Kanye West’s claim that fluoride in toothpaste harms the pineal gland

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“Did you use toothpaste with fluoride today? It blocks your pineal gland. And they put children on it.”

SOURCE: Kanye West, The Joe Rogan Experience

Published: 01 Sep 2022

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Robert Malone made multiple misleading or unsubstantiated claims about COVID-19 and vaccines on The Joe Rogan Experience podcast

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the COVID-19 vaccines are experimental and ineffective; “natural immunity is superior to the vaccine induced immunity”; vaccine-induced spike protein is dangerous, causes serious side effects; “Omicron is a mild variant. It is absolutely able to escape prior vaccination”

SOURCE: Robert Malone, The Joe Rogan Experience

Published: 26 Jan 2022

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Joe Rogan interview with Peter McCullough contains multiple false and unsubstantiated claims about the COVID-19 pandemic and vaccines

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the pandemic was planned; the COVID-19 vaccines are experimental; previously infected people have “permanent immunity”; VAERS shows vaccines killed thousands of people, vaccine-induced spike protein causes damage

SOURCE: Peter McCullough, The Joe Rogan Experience

Published: 23 Déc 2021

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The COVID-19 vaccines provide strong protection against hospitalization and death; number of vaccinated people in hospital does not indicate evidence against this

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“the vaccinated population accounted for 72% of Covid-19 hospitalisations”; “the vaccinated population accounted for 83% of Covid-19 deaths”

SOURCE: Alex Berenson, Jonathan Allen-Walker, The Joe Rogan Experience, The Exposé

Published: 27 Oct 2021

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Clinical trials showed that the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine is safe; its side effects are mostly mild

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80% of people taking the Moderna vaccine had significant side effects; children in Sudan got polio from the polio vaccine

SOURCE: Joe Rogan, The Joe Rogan Experience

Published: 26 Mar 2021

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