Every fact-checked Joe Rogan claim

“There's a lot of tax problems. He's he he definitely did some uncool things, and then there's the Burisma thing. But the crazy thing about his pardon is it sta…”

Rogan claims Biden's pardon of Hunter Biden retroactively covers everything from 2011 (when Hunter joined Burisma's board) through the date of the pardon, and separately states Biden has pardoned over 8,000 people, more than any president ever.

“And everybody cheered and they went crazy. And then about a half an hour later, black smoke came out. That never in history has that happened, that the white s…”

Gibson claims that during the 1958 papal conclave, white smoke (signaling a new pope) was followed by black smoke, an event he says had never happened before in history.

“But it was like they they looked at it and they did some core samples on it, and it was put out there by people advocating evolution, and they discovered that…”

Gibson claims the Zinjanthropus fossil was a hoax fabricated by evolution advocates, combining a human skull with an ape jaw.

“It's phenomenal for just overall recovery of for everything. And it's it's also been shown to lengthen telomeres. They did a study out of Israel. Yeah. They ga…”

Gibson claims a study out of Israel showed hyperbaric oxygen therapy lengthens telomeres and decreases biological age using a 90-day protocol.

“Also, the weave was a 1st century weave that was typical. And another guy, an archeologist who I knew who actually translated the passion in Aramaic, told me t…”

Gibson claims the Shroud of Turin has a first-century weave pattern and that faint images of a Tiberius-era coin are visible over the eyes of the figure.

“And they now know from flying over, they use light lidar, which is this, light emitting radar. So they so when they use this laser radar shit, when they fly ov…”

Gibson claims LIDAR surveys have revealed that most of the Amazon jungle is actually man-made agricultural land, previously home to millions of people in cities now consumed by jungle.

“Jeez. I think we both got remdesivir, which is not good. Not good. Not good. Causes kidney failure.”

Gibson claims remdesivir, the COVID antiviral he was given, causes kidney failure.

“Zip. Zip. Zip. And in 2019, I think Newsom said, you know, I'm gonna take care of the forest and maintain the forest and do all that kind of stuff. He didn't d…”

Gibson claims Governor Newsom promised in 2019 to maintain California's forests to prevent wildfires and then did nothing.

“I'm sure. When he was lying to Rand Paul about whether or not they did gain of function research. Like, how is that not perjury? How is he not in trouble?”

Rogan claims Anthony Fauci lied under oath to Senator Rand Paul about NIH funding gain-of-function research, and asserts this should constitute perjury.

“that animal agriculture is the number one contributor to global warming. Yeah, it's rubbish. It's not true. It's bullshit.”

Musk claims it is false that animal agriculture is the number one contributor to global warming and that eating less meat makes no measurable difference to climate change.

“The entire AR VR world was built off of my first patent that was abandoned because I paid $260,000 for the worldwide patent.”

Howard claims his abandoned first patent (paid $260,000 for worldwide rights) is the foundation the entire AR/VR industry was built on.

“This is a system that uses a stable element called element 115 that was just theoretical until they discovered that it actually exists in a particle collider i…”

Rogan claims element 115 (referenced by Bob Lazar) was purely theoretical until it was discovered to actually exist via a particle collider in the 2000s.

“we produce 1500 sperm per heartbeat. Women are born with 200 to 500,000 eggs in each of their ovaries. They don't get anymore.”

Howard claims men produce 1,500 sperm per heartbeat and women are born with 200,000 to 500,000 eggs per ovary that are never replenished.

“They've been going in the wrong direction. 96% of physics is unknown matter that they've had to make up to account for it.”

Howard claims 96% of physics consists of made-up 'unknown matter' invented to patch over gaps in the standard model.

“I think most biologists will agree that the biggest mystery in the entire fossil record is the doubling of the human brain size over a period of 2 million year…”

Rogan claims most biologists consider the doubling of human brain size over 2 million years the biggest unsolved mystery in the fossil record.

“And they weren't necessarily doing electronics, but silver is even more conductive if you want it for electronics. Silver is like 17 times the conductivity of…”

Rogan claims silver is 17 times more electrically conductive than gold.

“Do you think a grain of rice has 54,000 genomes in it? We only have 26,000. Who is more evolved?”

Howard claims rice has 54,000 genes (using "genomes" loosely) compared to about 26,000 in humans, implying this challenges assumptions about human evolutionary superiority.

“AI is going to draw more electricity than anything else in the United States, more than steel production. Ok. Used to.”

Carlson claims AI data centers will become the single largest electricity draw in the United States, surpassing what steel production used to consume.

“Of course, the gender affirming clinics that have popped up all over the country since 2007. You see the map of it. It's fucking bananas.”

Carlson claims gender-affirming clinics for minors proliferated across the US starting in 2007 in a dramatic, mapped expansion.

“The US government spies on its own population more than the north korean government spies on its. That's just a fact.”

Carlson asserts as fact that the US government surveils its own citizens more than North Korea surveils its population.

“Well, they certainly have less instances of autism, which is really fascinating. It's very, very fascinating. The Amish have less autism? Yeah. There's almost…”

Carlson claims the Amish have almost no autism, implying it as evidence against vaccines given their lower vaccination rates.

“Well, they've had massive results. They've increased the homeless population dramatically. If you pay for something, you get more of it.”

Carlson claims California's homelessness spending directly caused a dramatic increase in the homeless population, framing government aid as the driver.

“So basically warrantless. Oh, of course. Warrantless, absolutely. And in, you know, violation of the fourth amendment to the constitution.”

Carlson claims the Turner-Himes surveillance bill discussed would authorize warrantless spying on Americans in violation of the Fourth Amendment.

“We've had the FISA, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance act, since, I think, 1977, so it predates. 911. Did it stop 911? Oh, I don't think it did.”

Carlson states FISA has existed since 1977 and argues that since it predated 9/11 without preventing it, surveillance powers don't deliver the safety benefits claimed.

“I think there are 2 million federal employees and another 10 million federal contractors. So, who are effectively government employees but don't have civil ser…”

Carlson claims there are roughly 2 million federal employees plus 10 million federal contractors, totaling 12 million people effectively working for the US federal government.

“And these people that are running this homelessness initiative or whatever the fuck they call it, they're making hundreds of thousands of dollars a year, some…”

Carlson claims homelessness-initiative operators are personally making up to a quarter million dollars a month.

“This guy is facing life in prison. And it looks to me because no one. Cause Barry Weiss has not defended him. I think this guy is likely to spend the rest of h…”

Carlson claims an elderly Uhuru movement defendant charged in the 2022 DOJ indictment over alleged Russian influence operations is facing life in prison for merely expressing opinions.

“The people who broke into the Watergate office building from which the name is taken. Watergate. I think it was six of them or seven of them. All but one was a…”

Carlson claims that all but one of the Watergate burglars were CIA employees.

“23 years. Could it really be 23 years after 911? 23 years later. What's the justification for classifying any document around 911? There's no justification.”

Carlson claims there is no justification whatsoever for the US government still classifying documents related to the September 11 attacks 23 years later.

“But when they did that study where they said that they had no data, like, how are you? What? You can't say whether or not it's doing anything? Well, how'd you…”

Carlson claims California spent $24 billion on homelessness while a state audit found no data on outcomes.

“And that the people who are most vaccinated have 3.5 times the rate. And I could be wrong about this, but I think this was said 3.5 times the risk of illness t…”

Kennedy claims a Cleveland Clinic study found the most-vaccinated people had 3.5 times the risk of COVID illness compared to the unvaccinated after vaccine efficacy waned.

“So, you know, all of those things. Now, we went from 6 percent of Americans having chronic disease. By 1986, we're starting to have the vaccines and we get 11.…”

Kennedy claims chronic disease prevalence in American children rose from 6% in the 1960s to 11.8% by 1986 and 54% today, implicitly linking the rise to the expanding vaccine schedule.

“that showed that yes they were doing what would we consider to be gain-of-function research there. Yes, the NIH funded this.”

Rogan claims it has been clearly shown that NIH funded gain-of-function research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.

“The Spanish flu, there's, you know, not a definitive, but very, very strong evidence. The Spanish flu was vaccine-induced flu. The deaths were vaccine-induced,…”

Kennedy claims there is strong evidence that the 1918 Spanish flu deaths were actually vaccine-induced rather than caused by the influenza virus itself.

“Mercury is a thousand times more neurotoxic than lead. You would never shoot lead into your baby.”

Kennedy claims mercury is a thousand times more neurotoxic than lead, arguing this shows the historical use of thimerosal (ethylmercury) in vaccines was reckless.

“oh, Kennedy, it was loaded with mistakes. And six years later, Salon, under pressure from the pharmaceutical industry, takes it down and says, we found mistake…”

Kennedy claims Salon retracted his 2005 "Deadly Immunity" article under pressure from the pharmaceutical industry despite never identifying any factual errors.

“Well, Wi-Fi radiation is – does all kinds of bad things, including causing cancer.”

Kennedy claims Wi-Fi radiation causes cancer, citing cell phone-associated tumors behind the ear as evidence.

“Wi-Fi radiation opens up your blood-brain barrier.”

Kennedy claims Wi-Fi radiation compromises the blood-brain barrier, allowing toxins to enter the brain.

“What he found in his first run through the data is there was an 1135% greater or elevated risk for an autism diagnosis among the kids who had gotten it in thei…”

Kennedy claims a CDC-commissioned analysis (Verstraeten) of the Vaccine Safety Datalink found an 1135% elevated relative risk of autism diagnosis in infants who received the hepatitis B vaccine within their first 30 days of life.

“So they took male frogs, gave them atrazine, 10% of them turned into female and produced fertile eggs. And we're subjecting our children to exposure to that ev…”

Kennedy claims a study found the herbicide atrazine turned 10% of male frogs into fertile females, and implies children face equivalent daily exposure risk.

“But in 1976, when they had this, you know, really bad flu shot that they did the same thing with, they did a global rollout and everybody had to take it. And t…”

Kennedy claims the 1976 swine flu vaccine was pulled from the market after only 25 reported deaths, implying a much lower bar for pulling that vaccine than modern COVID vaccines faced.

“And second, if you're concerned about pollution, especially particulate pollution, especially indoors, which kills, I think, 7 million children a year.”

Peterson claims indoor particulate pollution from wood/biomass burning kills 7 million children per year worldwide.

“It isn't even obvious you need vitamin C. Now I'm going to get killed for that. Apparently, there's some indication that you only require vitamin C if you eat…”

Peterson claims there is some indication that vitamin C is only required by the body if a person eats carbohydrates, implying it is unnecessary on a pure carnivore diet.

“And, oh, yeah, just before she debated, a study was released that was published by Harvard epidemiologists. I think they were epidemiologists. They did a retro…”

Peterson describes a retrospective survey study of 2,400 people on a carnivore diet for six months, published by Harvard epidemiologists via Oxford University Press, showing radical weight loss and a 90% reduction in self-reported disease symptoms.

“he was responsible for the death of somewhere between 50 and 70 million people yeah he changed the carbon footprint of the planet earth during his lifetime bec…”

Peterson claims Genghis Khan was responsible for the deaths of 50 to 70 million people and that this measurably changed the planet's carbon footprint.

“one of the things that's happened over the last century is the mean IQ has gone up seven points per generation, which is a lot, like it's really a lot. So 15 p…”

Peterson claims average IQ has risen seven points per generation (every 15 years) over the last century, and that this equals half the gap between a high school and college graduate.

“Incidence rate is 1 in 2,700. Now, there's all kinds of hand-waving that, oh, myocarditis is mild, and they recover from it, okay? Those statements aren't, let…”

Malone claims the historic death rate following myocarditis is about 27%, implying post-vaccination myocarditis in boys carries similarly high mortality risk.

“It goes to the ovary at a very high rate, like 11% of the lipids. Now, this wasn't supposed to happen. It was supposed to stay in the arm where it got jabbed,…”

Malone claims that Pfizer's biodistribution data show about 11% of the vaccine's lipid nanoparticles accumulate in the ovaries, which he presents as unexpected and concerning.

“the hospitals receive a bonus from the government. I think it's like $3,000 if someone is hospitalized and able to be declared COVID positive. They also receiv…”

Malone claims hospitals receive roughly $3,000 for a COVID-positive hospitalization and about $30,000 total incentive if a COVID patient is placed on a ventilator.

“He's put together a great little video clip in which he clearly documents the conspiracy between Janet Woodcock and Rick Bright to make it so that physicians c…”

Malone asserts that Zev Zelenko documented a conspiracy between FDA's Janet Woodcock and BARDA's Rick Bright to restrict hydroxychloroquine to hospital-only use.