Genetics on the Joe Rogan Experience
3 fact-checked claims across 2 episodes, Jan 2018 to Apr 2018. Each is a receipt: the exact quote, its timestamp, what published evidence says, and who benefits.
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- Matthew Walker (2)
- Ben Greenfield (1)
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“The first was that a sizable 711 jeans with distorted in their activity caused by one week of 6 hours of sleep.”
Walker claims a study found that one week of 6 hours of sleep per night distorted the activity of 711 genes compared to getting 8 hours.
“This is why you being so much more likely for example to be struck by lightning in your lifetime the odds of which I think about 1in 12,500 than you ought to h…”
Walker claims that fewer than 1% of people carry a special gene allowing survival on about 5 hours of sleep, and says a person is more likely to be struck by lightning (odds he cites as roughly 1 in 12,500) than to have this rare gene.
“I read a study this morning of gene editing mosquitoes now, like they're using CRISPR technology to make the mosquitoes less likely to bite you.”
Greenfield states he read a study that morning about using CRISPR gene-editing technology on mosquitoes to make them less likely to bite humans.