Polio on the Joe Rogan Experience

5 fact-checked claims across 1 episode · Mar 2025

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  1. So how this affects me is that I'm a kidney specialist, and I looked at the curve of kidney cancers that have gone up since the inception of polio vaccines and…

    Humphries claims kidney cancer rates rose after the introduction of polio vaccines and SV40, and that SV40 enhances two oncogenes and inhibits two tumor suppressors.

  2. And what they found was 98 to 99% of every person they tested, and it was hundreds of people, had evidence of immunity to all three strains of polio. And they …

    Humphries claims a study of a South American tribe found 98 to 99 percent had immunity to all three polio strains despite no paralysis or polio deaths.

  3. 1916, Upper East Side, Manhattan, there was a Rockefeller lab that their specific stated goal was to try to create the most pathological, neuropathological str…

    Humphries claims a 1916 Rockefeller lab tried to create the most neuropathological polio strain, accidentally released it, and caused the worst polio epidemic on record with 25 percent mortality.

  4. I read this crazy statistic, and I still can't believe it's real, that 95 to 99 percent of all polio is asymptomatic. That's exactly right. So polio virus is w…

    Humphries affirms that 95 to 99 percent of polio infections are asymptomatic and that poliovirus is a commensal organism.

  5. So along comes polio research, and the polio vaccine, even to this day, is made on African green monkey kidney cells. Now, the African green monkey kidneys ear…

    Humphries claims the polio vaccine is still made on African green monkey kidney cells and that Dr. Bernice Eddy discovered the cancer-causing SV40 virus in the vaccine substrate.