Dr. Aseem Malhotra

guest·5 claims·1 episode

5 fact-checked claims across 1 episode on the Joe Rogan Experience. Each is a receipt: the exact quote, its timestamp, what published evidence says, and who benefits.

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  1. JRE #197936:54

    his department had taken over 200 million pounds at Oxford for doing research into statins from the drug industry. And they also kept the data commercially con…

    Malhotra claims Professor Rory Collins's Oxford research unit received over 200 million pounds from the drug industry for statin research and kept underlying trial data commercially confidential.

  2. JRE #197947:50

    between 2003 and 2016, most of the top 10 drug companies paid fines totaling about $33 billion for illegal marketing of drugs, hiding data on harms, and manipu…

    Malhotra claims most of the top 10 pharmaceutical companies paid roughly $33 billion combined in fines between 2003-2016 for illegal marketing, hiding harm data, and manipulating results.

  3. JRE #19791:35:31

    One survey in the US suggested that 50% of American adults thought that their risk of being hospitalized with COVID was 50%, one in two, when the real figure a…

    Malhotra claims a US survey found Americans overestimated their COVID hospitalization risk at 50% versus an actual risk of about 1 in 100.

  4. JRE #19791:32:44

    1976, swine flu vaccine was pulled because it was found to cause a debilitating neurological condition called Guillain-Barre syndrome in about one in 100,000 p…

    Malhotra claims COVID vaccines cause serious harm in at least 1 in 800 people, a far higher rate than historical vaccines pulled from the market (swine flu 1 in 100,000, rotavirus 1 in 10,000).

  5. JRE #197920:30

    if you're low risk of heart disease, you haven't had a heart attack, your benefit of statin is 1%, right? And when you tell people that, most people, Joe, don'…

    Malhotra claims statins provide only a 1% absolute benefit for people at low risk of heart disease who have not had a heart attack.