Every fact-checked Joe Rogan claim

1013 published receipts, newest first. Each links to the full quote, timestamp, evidence, and who benefits.

  1. Robert MaloneJRE #1757

    “Pfizer is one of the most criminal pharmaceutical organizations in the world based on their past legal history and fines.”

    Malone claims Pfizer is one of the most criminal pharmaceutical organizations in the world based on its legal history and fines, including bribing physicians.

  2. Robert MaloneJRE #1757

    “If it causes toxicity, it is, right? It is a toxin by definition. It is – toxin is as a toxin does”

    Malone asserts flatly that the spike protein is 'a toxin by definition' because it causes toxicity in people.

  3. Robert MaloneJRE #1757

    “there's good modeling studies that probably half a million excess deaths have happened in the United States through the intentional blockade of early treatment…”

    Malone claims modeling studies show roughly half a million excess U.S. deaths resulted from the government's intentional blockade of early COVID treatments (hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin).

  4. Robert MaloneJRE #1757

    “in the 20s and 30s. Very intelligent, highly educated population and they went barking mad. And they went barking mad. And how did that happen? The answer is m…”

    Malone attributes German society's turn toward Nazism in the 1920s-30s to "mass formation psychosis," a concept he credits to psychologist Matthias Desmet, and draws a direct parallel to COVID-era public compliance.

  5. Robert MaloneJRE #1757

    “In the case of Omicron, the R0, the base reproduction coefficient, is in the range of 7 to 10. Okay? That is a wicked high. That is measles territory.”

    Malone claims Omicron's basic reproduction number (R0) is in the range of 7 to 10, comparable to measles.

  6. Robert MaloneJRE #1757

    “What they did with that was a very small study with intrinsic bias all over the place, much, much smaller than the Israeli study that you're citing, much less…”

    Malone dismisses a CDC study on natural immunity (contradicting the Israeli natural-immunity study) as much smaller, biased, and less rigorous.

  7. Robert MaloneJRE #1757

    “Now there's, as I said, over time, there will be deaths associated. Remember we talked about the difference between causal and association? Yeah. Okay. And als…”

    Malone claims 95% of people who died from COVID had an average of four comorbidities.

  8. Robert MaloneJRE #1757

    “there is signs in some data, and we were talking about this just before the broadcast, from Denmark, among other places, of negative efficacy against Omicron a…”

    Malone claims Danish data show 'negative efficacy' against Omicron that worsens with each additional vaccine dose (one, two, then three shots).

  9. Robert MaloneJRE #1757

    “We are having a huge surge of drug abuse in adolescents. We're having demonstrable drops in IQ and fundamental developmental milestones in the very young, like…”

    Malone claims there have been demonstrable drops of about 20 IQ points in young children's developmental milestones due to pandemic lockdown/mask policies.

  10. Robert MaloneJRE #1757

    “we know from South Africa for sure that Omicron, and the WHO made the statement there are no known deaths associated with Omicron in the world. Now, there may…”

    Malone claims the WHO stated there were no known deaths worldwide associated with the Omicron variant at the time.

  11. Robert MaloneJRE #1757

    “it is bizarre that Merck would come out with these explicit statements about the safety of ivermectin. Both ivermectin and hydroxy are on the WHO list of essen…”

    Malone claims it's inexplicable that Merck warned against ivermectin's safety/efficacy for COVID given both drugs are on the WHO Essential Medicines List.

  12. Robert MaloneJRE #1757

    “But Thomson Reuters is tied to Pfizer. They have common corporate ownership and they are the fact checker of Twitter now”

    Malone claims Thomson Reuters shares common corporate ownership with Pfizer and, through that link, controls fact-checking on Twitter.

  13. Robert MaloneJRE #1757

    “the Maddie DeGerry case, this young woman who was listed as having a stomach ache that participated in the Pfizer trials, when in fact what she had was a seizu…”

    Malone claims Pfizer's adolescent trial mislabeled a severe adverse reaction (seizures, paralysis, feeding-tube dependency) in a 13-year-old participant (Maddie de Garay) as mere 'gastric distress.'

  14. Robert MaloneJRE #1757

    “there was a specific visit of Biden to Modi and a decision was made in the Indian government not to disclose the contents of those packages that were being dep…”

    Malone implies a Biden-Modi meeting led to India concealing the contents of a COVID treatment package deployed in Uttar Pradesh, which allegedly included ivermectin.

  15. Peter McCulloughJRE #1747

    “So if we have 9,000 Americans truly have died after the vaccine and the underreporting number is about five, we're at 45,000 American lives lost.”

    McCullough calculates that applying a roughly 4-5x underreporting multiplier (which he says was derived from CMS Medicare/Medicaid death and vaccination records cited in an FDA whistleblower lawsuit) to the 9,000 US VAERS vaccine-death reports yields approximately 45,000 actual American deaths caused by COVID-19 vaccines.

  16. Peter McCulloughJRE #1747

    “In medical economics in 2020, it was already disclosed in a table that we had already purchased 100 million doses of these. And we had on order 500 million dos…”

    McCullough claims the US government had purchased 100 million monoclonal antibody doses and had 500 million more on order, implying an oversupply relative to demand.

  17. Peter McCulloughJRE #1747

    “What does the VA data show you? 96% of people who take the vaccines never get COVID.”

    McCullough states VA data shows that 96% of vaccinated individuals never contract COVID-19, framing this as evidence the vaccines are given to people who were never at risk rather than treating disease.

  18. Peter McCulloughJRE #1747

    “I testified in the U.S. Senate, November 19th, 2020. I told Americans under oath that 50% of the lives at that time could have been saved.”

    McCullough claims he testified under oath to the US Senate that 50% of COVID deaths up to that point could have been prevented with early treatment, later raising the figure to 85% in Texas Senate testimony.

  19. Peter McCulloughJRE #1747

    “the natural infection, the antibody titer is much softer than with the vaccines because with the vaccines, you get antibodies against one protein, the spike pr…”

    McCullough claims natural COVID-19 infection produces antibodies against 27 different viral proteins, making natural immunity broader than vaccine-induced immunity.

  20. Peter McCulloughJRE #1747

    “and what Aaron Rodgers got, and what President Trump got, is basically how I drew it up for America and the world.”

    McCullough claims credit that the COVID treatment regimens given to Aaron Rodgers and President Trump were based on the multidrug protocol he personally designed.

  21. Peter McCulloughJRE #1747

    “A good example was Colin Powell. Colin Powell just died recently. He was in his 80s. He was fully vaccinated, and he died of multiple myeloma, but he was also…”

    McCullough cites Colin Powell's COVID-19 death as an example of death misattributed to COVID-19 when it was really caused by his underlying multiple myeloma.

  22. Peter McCulloughJRE #1747

    “we just walked in, we have asymptomatic testing, that if we get a positive, the chances that that positive is false positive is 97%. 97%. And that is if you're…”

    McCullough claims that a positive COVID-19 test in an asymptomatic person has a 97% chance of being a false positive.

  23. Peter McCulloughJRE #1747

    “39% of transmission occurred from fully vaccinated to fully vaccinated individuals. I mean, it's a pretty large number.”

    McCullough cites a Lancet contact-tracing study finding 39% of transmission occurred between fully vaccinated individuals as evidence vaccines don't stop spread.

  24. Peter McCulloughJRE #1747

    “they ascertained that 86% of the time, there was no other cause outside the vaccine. No other cause. 86%.”

    McCullough cites a McLachlan analysis claiming that in 86% of reviewed VAERS deaths, reviewers found no cause of death other than the vaccine.

  25. Peter McCulloughJRE #1747

    “fast forward where we are today. We're at 18,000 deaths. And this is just the VAERS, which is underreported.”

    McCullough states VAERS shows 18,000 deaths reported after COVID-19 vaccination and characterizes these as all confirmed, causally-linked events, further claiming they are 'certified by the CDC' and 'really happened.'

  26. Peter McCulloughJRE #1747

    “We had 23% of Americans in the hospital who were vaccinated, but they had COVID-19. Remember in June, remember that talking point that was issued? 99% of peopl…”

    McCullough claims that by June 2021, 23% of hospitalized COVID-19 patients in the US were vaccinated, contradicting an earlier '99% unvaccinated' talking point he calls propaganda.

  27. Peter McCulloughJRE #1747

    “I advise the Sri Lankan government. They reached out to me and said, listen, we're in trouble. We're getting buried with COVID.”

    McCullough claims he personally advised the Sri Lankan government to distribute ivermectin/hydroxychloroquine protocols and that this successfully handled their COVID pandemic.

  28. Peter McCulloughJRE #1747

    “one of the original antigenic vaccines that was tested in Australia exposed that HIV epitope. It turned everybody in the trial HIV positive who took a COVID-19…”

    McCullough claims an early Australian COVID-19 vaccine candidate turned trial participants HIV-positive due to a molecular HIV epitope in its design.

  29. Peter McCulloughJRE #1747

    “Over 35, 135 studies support that now. Paul Alexander. Permanent immunity. Permanent. SARS-CoV-1, which is 90% similar to SARS-CoV-2, it's forever.”

    McCullough claims 135 studies support that natural COVID-19 infection confers permanent, lifetime immunity, comparing it to supposedly permanent SARS-CoV-1 immunity.

  30. Peter McCulloughJRE #1747

    “You know what the transmissibility of Omicron is? Four. So for the first time, we've actually gone down in transmissibility.”

    McCullough claims Omicron has a transmissibility index of 4, lower than Delta's cited index of 10, predicting it would not supplant Delta as the dominant variant.

  31. Kanye WestJRE #1554

    “The powers of our political system are still anchoring on Electoral College, which was based around slavery, about the idea of slaves being three fifths of man.”

    Kanye West claims the Electoral College itself was based on the three-fifths compromise regarding enslaved people.

  32. Kanye WestJRE #1554

    “Plan B and Planned Parenthood were planned by a eugenics that set out and said out loud, I'm doing this to kill the black race and to create population control.”

    Kanye West claims Planned Parenthood was founded by a eugenicist who explicitly said the goal was to kill the Black race and enact population control.

  33. Kanye WestJRE #1554

    “When Jimmy Iovine and Dr. Dre sold Beats by Dre Universal had a chance to buy in to do different things. They sold it for three billion dollars.”

    Kanye West claims Universal had a chance to buy into Beats by Dre when Iovine and Dre sold it for three billion dollars.

  34. Kanye WestJRE #1554

    “Bernie yeah, Bernie would have won, he would have won.”

    Kanye West claims Bernie Sanders would have won the 2020 Democratic nomination or general election had he been allowed to run unimpeded.

  35. Kanye WestJRE #1554

    “It wasn't even created by pro slaves, three fifths of man was created by the anti slaves in the north as a compromise”

    Kanye West claims the three-fifths compromise was created by anti-slavery northerners, not pro-slavery southerners.

  36. Kanye WestJRE #1554

    “so if people got up people that never voted uh got up registered voted for me they'd have to take it take it to the house because i would you know i could poss…”

    Kanye West claims he is "definitely 100 percent winning" the 2024 presidential election.

  37. Kanye WestJRE #1554

    “Now, I think is worth thirty three, thirty five billion dollars, and now they have another Steve Jobs, you know, Howard Hughes, Henry Ford, Disney, Elon kind o…”

    Kanye West claims Universal Music Group is currently worth thirty-three to thirty-five billion dollars.

  38. Kanye WestJRE #1554

    “I would I'm on 12 ballots and in 17 states that you could write me in on.”

    Kanye West claims he was officially on the ballot in 12 states and eligible as a write-in candidate in 17 additional states.

  39. Kanye WestJRE #1554

    “That was half of the value of Universal at the time of six billion due to the Internet, which the music industry was afraid of in 2000. Universal.”

    Kanye West claims Universal Music Group was worth about six billion dollars around the time of the Beats sale.

  40. Paul StametsJRE #1385

    “basically one gram is almost equivalent to one milligram per kilogram of body weight. 70 kilos is 152 pounds. And so at one milligram per kilogram with these m…”

    Stamets describes a mouse study on fear-conditioning where microdosing psilocybin (0.1 mg/kg) helped mice unlearn a fear response in only 2 trials versus 10 trials for a full dose (1 mg/kg), and equates that dosing to human gram-equivalents of psilocybin mushrooms.

  41. Paul StametsJRE #1385

    “In Oklahoma, two years ago, 84% of the beehives died. Now think if you're a cattle rancher and you lost 84% of your cattle.”

    Stamets claims that two years before this 2019 taping, 84% of beehives in Oklahoma died.

  42. Paul StametsJRE #1385

    “Extracts of polypore mushroom mycelia reduce viruses in honeybees. And this mushroom, the amadou, reduces the deformed wing virus 800 times to one with one tre…”

    Stamets claims his mushroom extract research found amadou fungus reduces deformed wing virus in honeybees 800-fold and reishi mycelium reduces Lake Sinai virus more than 45,000-fold with one treatment.

  43. Edward SnowdenJRE #1368

    “AT&T keeps those records going back to 2008 under a program called Hemisphere. If you search for Hemisphere and AT&T, you'll get a story in the Daily Beast abo…”

    Snowden says AT&T's Hemisphere program retains call records "going back to 2008," then says AT&T's phone records go back to 1983 (he immediately self-corrects to 1987 in the next breath, off-quote).

  44. Edward SnowdenJRE #1368

    “They literally brought down the president of Bolivia, his aircraft, and would not let it depart as it tried to cross the airspace of Europe, not even the Unite…”

    Snowden claims multiple European countries forced Bolivian President Evo Morales's plane to land and blocked its departure, at U.S. instigation, until they confirmed Snowden was not aboard.

  45. Joe RoganJRE #2254

    “Yeah. We were just talking about the wildfire situation and how crazy it is that they spent 24 $1,000,000,000 last year on the homeless.”

    Rogan claims California/Los Angeles spent $24 billion on homelessness last year while spending nothing on wildfire prevention.

  46. Elon MuskJRE #1169

    “You know, there's only two car companies in the history of American car companies that haven't gone bankrupt, and that's Ford and Tesla.”

    Musk claims that Ford and Tesla are the only two American car companies in history that have never gone bankrupt.

  47. Robert F. Kennedy Jr.JRE #2461

    “The drug cost $4,000. Now, I think it costs something like $600.”

    Kennedy claims an IVF drug purchased through TrumpRx dropped in price from $4,000 to about $600.

  48. Robert F. Kennedy Jr.JRE #2461

    “We lose just in Medicaid and Medicare $100 billion a year. And it's all just this really shocking, blatant fraud Where it's become industrialized.”

    Kennedy claims the US loses at least $100 billion a year to fraud in Medicaid and Medicare combined.

  49. Elon MuskJRE #2223

    “and I think 84% of people polled believe that you should show ID to vote. So it's against the will of the people.”

    Musk claims 84% of people polled believe voters should be required to show ID, and that California's ID-related voting law goes against this.

  50. Elon MuskJRE #2223

    “They suppressed the views by 50 percent of factual information. Yeah, no, there was massive government interference in Twitter.”

    Musk claims the government pressured Twitter and Facebook to suppress views of factual information (e.g. Tucker Carlson content) by 50 percent.