Every fact-checked Joe Rogan claim
972 published receipts, newest first. Each links to the full quote, timestamp, evidence, and who benefits.
- Andrew YangJRE #1245
“the savings from automating truck driving are estimated to be 168 billion dollars per year. And not just labor savings, but also equipment utilization because…”
Yang claims truck accidents currently kill about 4,000 people a year and that automation would save $168 billion annually.
- Andrew YangJRE #1245
“Where there are two and a half million call center workers still in the United States. Generally high school graduates that make about $14 an hour.”
Yang claims there are 2.5 million call center workers in the US and predicts AI will become indistinguishable from a human very soon.
- Jordan PetersonJRE #877
“our government has now announced that the judiciary in Canada will be selected. If you're going to be a candidate to be a judge, you have to produce a dossier…”
Peterson claims the Canadian government now requires judicial candidates to submit a dossier specifying their racial, ethnic, and religious identities, and that committee members must undergo mandatory anti-bias training before serving.
- Jordan PetersonJRE #877
“they is used to repair awkward sentences basically, but it's never been used despite the claims of the of the gender bender activists. It's never been used for…”
Peterson claims that singular "they" has never actually been used in English despite activists' claims that it has.
- Lance ArmstrongJRE #737
“we had a good run and 85 million bracelets yeah but look i mean i don't want anybody to be mistaken my interests were selfish”
Armstrong states that roughly 85 million Livestrong yellow bracelets were sold/distributed.
- Lance ArmstrongJRE #737
“I mean, you look at Trek Bicycles, for example. I mean, before the first tour, I think we did $125 million in sales. We do a billion now.”
Armstrong claims Trek Bicycle Corporation's annual sales went from about $125 million before his first Tour de France win to about a billion dollars by 2015, implying his sponsorship drove that growth.
- Mel GibsonJRE #2254
“So it tells you the story is pretty old. And they thought initially it was probably back in the 1300, but this confirmed that it was at least 2,600 years old,…”
Gibson claims a carved mural discovered at the El Mirador archaeological site confirmed the Popol Vuh myth is at least 2,600 years old, far older than previously thought (circa 1300s).
- Elon MuskJRE #2223
“Now it's like 95% or something Democrat. So the legacy media, the mainstream media is not balanced at all. They're just a mouthpiece for the Democratic Party.”
Musk claims journalists' political donations have shifted from roughly two-thirds Democrat to about 95% Democrat, and concludes legacy media is simply a mouthpiece for Democrats.
- Terrence HowardJRE #2152
“So I reached out to Neil degrasse Tyson. Neil degrasse Tyson. I saw him at an event upfront, you know, at Fox, and he was like, hey, man, yeah, I'd love for yo…”
Howard claims Neil deGrasse Tyson initially invited him onto his show/radio/TV program after meeting at a Fox event, before later attacking his physics treatise and cutting off contact.
- Terrence HowardJRE #2152
“There's over a 130 something thousand years worth of water damage under the Sphinx itself.”
Howard claims there is evidence of roughly 130,000 years of water damage/erosion beneath the Sphinx.
- Robert F. Kennedy Jr.JRE #1999
“Most of the booksellers wouldn't sell it. Like the independent booksellers, Barnes & Noble, took it out of most of their stores. They wouldn't sell it in most…”
Kennedy claims Barnes & Noble and most independent booksellers pulled or refused to sell his book 'The Real Anthony Fauci' despite it selling a million copies in three months.
- Jordan PetersonJRE #1769
“then I looked at the YouTube stats, and 70% of people who listened to YouTube were males”
Peterson claims that 70% of YouTube's audience is male, citing this as an explanation for his own audience skew.
- Jordan PetersonJRE #1769
“more people die every year from solar energy than die from nuclear. Who dies from solar? Guess how you die from solar? Sunburn? No, you fall off the roofs when…”
Peterson claims more people die annually from solar energy installation accidents than from nuclear power.
- Jordan PetersonJRE #1769
“Africa has the fastest growing economies in the world, particularly sub-Saharan Africa.”
Peterson claims Africa, particularly sub-Saharan Africa, has the fastest growing economies in the world.
- Jordan PetersonJRE #1769
“That was the big climate meeting in the UK just a few months ago. You know, the one where all the COVID rules were suspended so the important people”
Peterson claims that COVID rules were suspended at the COP26 climate summit in the UK so that attendees could meet.
- Kanye WestJRE #1554
“It is my five billion dollar net worth and 300 million dollars of cash that I see a year.”
Kanye West claims his net worth was five billion dollars and he sees 300 million dollars of cash per year.
- Kanye WestJRE #1554
“And it's just when you ask me, how do I delegate my time, it's important for me to delegate my time. If I made 210 million dollars last year.”
Kanye West claims he personally made $210 million in the prior year.
- Edward SnowdenJRE #1368
“Dell ended up getting beat out by Amazon. People, you know, some people aren't familiar with this. Many of them are. But Amazon runs a secret cloud system for…”
Snowden, who earlier says he worked for Dell as the senior technical official on Dell's CIA sales account, claims Dell lost a government cloud-computing contract to Amazon, which he says now runs a secret cloud system for U.S. intelligence agencies.
- Bob LazarJRE #1315
“Well, the way this went down was um at that time it was 1982 i um i put uh a jet engine in my my honda and los alamos put it on the front page of the paper sai…”
Lazar claims he worked as a physicist at Los Alamos National Labs and was featured on the front page of a local paper for building a 200-mph jet-powered Honda that he drove to work.
- Graham HancockJRE #1284
“above the king's Chamber in the Great Pyramid are five further chambers. And these chambers are roofed and floored with granite beams that weigh about 70 tons…”
Hancock claims the Great Pyramid's relieving chambers above the King's Chamber contain hundreds of 70-ton granite beams.
- Tim PoolJRE #1258
“there's like 800 instances of trump supporters wearing maga hats getting beaten you know throughout the past couple years we had a guy show up to a school in e…”
Tim Pool claims there have been roughly 800 documented instances of Trump supporters wearing MAGA hats being physically beaten that went unreported by media.
- Elon MuskJRE #1169
“The S, X, and 3 have the lowest probability of injury of any cars ever tested by the US government.”
Musk states that the Tesla Model S, Model X, and Model 3 have the lowest probability of injury of any cars ever tested by the US government.
- Elon MuskJRE #1169
“Manhattan had like 300,000 horses. You figure, like, if a horse lives 15 years, you've got 20,000 horses dropping dead every year if there's 300,000 horses in…”
Musk claims that historical Manhattan had roughly 300,000 horses, implying about 20,000 would die per year given a 15-year average lifespan.
- Matthew WalkerJRE #1109
“That number was 411 billion dollars caused by insufficient sleep solve the sleepless epidemic, you could almost double the budget for Education. You could almo…”
Walker claims insufficient sleep costs the US economy $411 billion a year, an amount he says could nearly double the education budget or halve the healthcare deficit.
- Jordan PetersonJRE #1769
“how many people starve to death now in the world yeah almost none and let's look that almost all almost all those who do do it because of political conflict”
Peterson claims almost nobody starves to death in the world today, and that virtually all who do starve are victims of political conflict rather than poverty or crop failure.
- Peter McCulloughJRE #1747
“this figure one from the Tshope paper, 27% never deviated from normal heart function.”
McCullough applies a 13% permanent-impairment rate from a pre-COVID pediatric myocarditis study to predict that 13% of vaccine-associated myocarditis cases in kids will develop permanent heart damage or failure.
- Edward SnowdenJRE #1368
“The FBI was spying on Martin Luther King and trying to get Martin Luther King to kill himself before the Nobel Prize was going to be awarded. In fact, after ML…”
Snowden claims the FBI spied on Martin Luther King Jr., tried to induce him to kill himself before he received the Nobel Peace Prize, and that two days after his 'I Have a Dream' speech the FBI classified him as the nation's greatest domestic security threat.
- Bernie SandersJRE #1330
“That will cost $2.2 trillion... We do this through a tax on Wall Street speculation, which will bring in $2.4 trillion. We bailed out Wall Street 11 years ago.”
Sanders claims cancelling all student debt and making public college tuition-free would cost $2.2 trillion, fully funded by a Wall Street speculation tax projected to raise $2.4 trillion.
- Jordan PetersonJRE #877
“in the Soviet Union between 1919 and 1959, somewhere between 30 and 50 million people were killed in internal oppression alone. And then in China... it might h…”
Peterson claims 30-50 million people were killed in internal Soviet oppression between 1919-1959, and up to 100 million killed under Mao in China.
- Robert F. Kennedy Jr.JRE #2461
“The studies that support Tylenol safety are very weak and they have huge holes in them. There's overwhelming science that says you shouldn't take it, particula…”
Kennedy claims there is 'overwhelming science' showing acetaminophen (Tylenol) use late in pregnancy is unsafe and linked to neurodevelopmental disease, while claiming studies supporting its safety are weak.
- Elon MuskJRE #2281
“My guess is that probably saves 100 billion a year.”
Musk estimates that requiring mandatory payment categorization codes at Treasury will save roughly $100 billion a year.
- Elon MuskJRE #2223
“Elon's a bad businessman, Twitter is worth you know 400% less than when he bought it. No, it wasn't worth that in the first place. It wasn't worth 44 billion d…”
Musk disputes reports that Twitter/X lost roughly 400% of its value since his acquisition, claiming it was never actually worth the $44 billion purchase price to begin with.
- Joe RoganJRE #2223
“they knew there was going to be cardiovascular events people were going to get strokes... They made like $12 billion, they got fined seven, and 50 to 60 thousa…”
Rogan claims internal emails showed Merck knew Vioxx caused strokes, that the company made $12 billion and was fined $7 billion, and that 50,000-60,000 people died as a result.
- Terrence HowardJRE #2152
“If we are 98.7% identical to simians, right, and there's only 1.3% differentiation, who's more evolved? But you look at the simians, they have 48 chromosomes,…”
Howard claims humans are 98.7% genetically identical to simians and asks how humans lost two chromosomes relative to apes, implying this is an unexplained mystery.
- Terrence HowardJRE #2152
“a group of government officials came down, doctors, and they went through the black community, and they said, there's a sickness in all of you guys, and we're…”
Howard claims the Tuskegee experiment began in the early 1920s and involved government doctors actively injecting Black men with syphilis, running until the late 1970s.
- Terrence HowardJRE #2152
“I think it's an agenda attached to it because they restricted any natural thing like ivermectin... What the ivermectin did, it causes the worms to have paralys…”
Howard claims ivermectin was suppressed as a covid treatment for agenda-driven reasons, describing its anti-parasitic mechanism as evidence it was an effective antiviral defense.
- Terrence HowardJRE #2152
“It's 0.6 inches a year... in all of the planets in every solar system is drifting away from their primary at this same exact rate, like 1.5 cm. So this is a un…”
Howard claims Earth and all planets in all solar systems are drifting away from their stars at a fixed universal rate of about 0.6 inches (1.5 cm) per year, part of his 'Terryology' theory of universal expansion.
- Robert F. Kennedy Jr.JRE #1999
“And that's CDC's own study says it undercounts injuries by between 10 and 100 percent. And so or 100 times, not 100 percent, 100 times. So I think VAERS has 17…”
Kennedy claims a CDC-linked study (Lazarus) shows VAERS undercounts vaccine injuries by up to 100-fold and that VAERS has 17,000 reported COVID vaccine deaths and over a million injuries.
- Edward SnowdenJRE #1368
“was Congress passed an emergency law in 2007 called the Protect America Act, which should have been our first indication this is a very bad thing... and what i…”
Snowden claims the 2007 Protect America Act retroactively immunized telecom companies from lawsuits over illegally handing over customer records to the government.
- Bernie SandersJRE #1330
“The reality is that today as we speak, there are approximately 400 million guns in America today. We have between 5 to 10 million assault weapons.”
Sanders claims there are approximately 400 million guns in America and between 5 to 10 million assault weapons.
- Dr. Neil RiordanJRE #1066
“We just finished a clinical trial, prospective clinical trial. We submitted it for publication... And statistically, significantly, these patients improved dra…”
Riordan claims his company's own unpublished, self-run MS clinical trial (n=20) showed statistically significant dramatic improvement.
- Dr. Rhonda PatrickJRE #1054
“isn't so much that as the IGF-1, which doesn't cause cancer, but it allows cancer cells to grow... You eat meat, it causes cancer. Well, no, that's not necessa…”
Rhonda Patrick claims IGF-1 does not cause cancer but only promotes growth of existing damaged/cancerous cells, disputing a direct 'meat causes cancer' framing.
- Dr. Rhonda PatrickJRE #1054
“if you look at refined sugar, also refined sugar is associated with heart disease risk. In fact, it's like one of the, you know, there was a big, big study, li…”
Rhonda Patrick claims a study of 400,000 people found the highest refined-sugar consumers had four times the risk of heart attack.
- Joe RoganJRE #1769
“But you know that there's a direct correlation that almost all school shooters are on psychotropic drugs.”
Rogan claims that almost all school shooters are on psychotropic medication.
- Jordan PetersonJRE #1769
“10% of men are as feminine in their personality as the average woman is. And vice versa, 10% of women are as masculine in their personality as the average man…”
Peterson claims that exactly 10% of men have personality traits as feminine as the average woman, and vice versa for women.
- Jordan PetersonJRE #1769
“we've lifted more people out of poverty in the last 15 years than in the entire course of human history.”
Peterson claims that in the 15 years preceding 2022, more people were lifted out of poverty than in all of prior human history combined.
- Jordan PetersonJRE #1769
“if you look at teenagers, for example, who want to switch genders, 95% of them are unbearably confused.”
Peterson claims that 95% of teenagers who currently want to switch genders are simply confused rather than experiencing genuine gender dysphoria.
- Jordan PetersonJRE #1769
“I had psoriasis and that's gone. And I had peripheral uveitis, which caused my right eye to be full of floaters because there's inflammation on the bottom prod…”
Peterson claims his all-meat carnivore diet cured his psoriasis and resolved his peripheral uveitis (eye floaters caused by inflammation).
- Jordan PetersonJRE #1769
“the most reliable difference that psychologists have ever found between men and women, the biggest difference, is interest. So women are reliably more interest…”
Peterson claims that the largest and most reliable psychological sex difference ever documented is a 'people vs. things' interest difference, at about one standard deviation.
- Jordan PetersonJRE #1769
“In any hierarchical system, when you stress the system, the disproportionate amount of that stress falls on the people who are in the lower rungs because they'…”
Peterson claims that in any hierarchical system a 1% increase in unemployment produces a 5% increase in psychiatric hospitalizations, because stress falls disproportionately on those at the bottom.