Every fact-checked Joe Rogan claim

“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.

“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).

“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.

“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.

“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.

“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.

“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.

“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.

“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.

“Yeah, a lawyer at Perkins Coy Who was paid by the Clinton campaign”

Musk claims the Steele dossier was commissioned and paid for by a Perkins Coie lawyer working for the Clinton campaign.

“I met with Congress. I was at a meeting of all 50 governors and talked about just AI danger. And I talked to everyone I could.”

Musk claims he met with Congress and with a meeting of all 50 US governors to warn about AI danger.

“So from a long-term existential standpoint, that's like the purpose of Neuralink is to create a high bandwidth interface to the brain such that we can be symbi…”

Musk describes Neuralink's purpose as creating a high-bandwidth brain interface enabling humans to be symbiotic with AI, and says in a few months there would be an announcement of something 'at least an order of magnitude better than anything else.'

“even when the ground moves, the tunnel actually is able to shift along with the ground, like an underground snake. And it doesn't crack or break. And it's extr…”

Musk describes the Boring Company tunnel segments as flexible, unbreakable under ground movement, and rated to withstand five atmospheres of pressure while being fully waterproof and gas-proof.

“This is one of the worst places to dig tunnels because the – mostly because of the paperwork. People think it's like what about seismic? It's like actually tun…”

Musk claims that earthquakes are essentially a surface phenomenon, implying underground tunnels are inherently very safe during earthquakes.

“So then we got the permit for the pit, and we dug the pit. And we dug it in, like, I don't know, three days, two, three days.”

Musk claims the Boring Company obtained a permit and dug its first test pit in about two to three days (later clarified in the same conversation as roughly 48 hours).

“I mean, I don't know any serious scientists, actually zero, literally zero, who don't think that we have quite a serious climate risk that we're facing.”

Musk asserts that literally zero serious scientists dispute that humanity faces a serious climate risk.

“And they still killed him. They hung him upside down. In 1600, the catholic church, 1599, hung him upside down in a stake and set him on fire because he refuse…”

Howard claims Giordano Bruno was hung upside down and burned at the stake by the Catholic Church in 1599/1600 for refusing to recant his beliefs.

“We found one hotel. It had 129 rooms, and everyone was a different company that was selling durable medical equipment. And we go in and shut them down, and the…”

Kennedy claims HHS found a 129-room hotel where every room housed a different shell company committing durable medical equipment fraud, run by the Cuban government.

“I mean, dramatically this year, they dropped to 1. 75.”

Kennedy claims the US total fertility rate dropped dramatically this year to 1.75.

“We published in Nature. Only 7% of the articles submitted in nature get published in the nature publication ecosystem. To this day, our article is in the top 1…”

Stamets claims his bee-virus mushroom research was published in Nature, that only 7% of submissions to Nature are published, and that his article ranks in the top 1% of all articles ever published in the Nature ecosystem.

“unless you're talking about the existence of the intelligence community itself, which is basically constructed on the idea that you can get, I think there's 4…”

Snowden claims somewhere between 1.4 million and 4 million people in the United States hold security clearances.

“It's 20 to 1 female to male nurses and 20 to 1 male to female engineers.”

Peterson claims that in Scandinavian countries, which have maximized equal opportunity, the gender ratio is 20-to-1 female-to-male among nurses and 20-to-1 male-to-female among engineers.

“But the New Testament, of course, was constructed by Constantine and a series of bishops. They took things out. They added things.”

Peterson claims the New Testament was constructed by Roman Emperor Constantine and a group of bishops who added and removed material.

“The idea of banning assault weapons has been done in 1994. We banned assault weapons, I believe it was for 10 years. That ban was undone by a Republican majori…”

Sanders claims the 1994 federal assault weapons ban was actively undone/repealed by a Republican majority.

“In 1965, without the technology we have today, they implemented Medicare. 19 million people, elderly people, signed up in the first year.”

Sanders claims 19 million elderly people signed up for Medicare in its first year after it was implemented in 1965.

“And we got one guy who's worth $155 billion. How great? Oh, by the way, we're building more nuclear weapons. And we're spending $750 billion a year on the mili…”

Sanders claims one billionaire is worth $155 billion and that the U.S. spends $750 billion a year on the military.

“a great nation when we have massive levels of income and wealth inequality, when 87 million people can't afford to go to a doctor today.”

Sanders claims 87 million people in America cannot afford to go to a doctor.

“My tax plan is not going to benefit the wealthy. It's going to benefit working people." Well, turns out over 10 years, 83% of the benefit at the end of 10 year…”

Sanders claims that under Trump's tax plan, 83% of the benefit after 10 years goes to the top 1%.

“Over the last 20 years, the drug companies alone have spent $4.5 billion in 20 years on lobbying and campaign contributions.”

Sanders claims pharmaceutical companies spent $4.5 billion on lobbying and campaign contributions over the preceding 20 years.

“Scientists tell us we have less than 12 years to transform our energy system away from fossil fuel or there will be irreparable damage.”

Sanders claims scientists say the world has less than 12 years to transform its energy system away from fossil fuels or face irreparable damage.

“That's the top scope of the SPY-1 radar is 80,000 feet. So the radar system they were using, it was coming from above that.”

Corbell claims the Navy's AN/SPY-1 radar has a maximum detection ceiling of 80,000 feet, and that the reported UFOs were tracked descending from above that altitude.

“But it never got, no matter what the load was on the reactor, it never got above the ambient temperature, which is impossible. I mean, you're pulling out huge…”

Lazar claims the alien reactor he studied at S4 produced huge amounts of power without ever generating waste heat above ambient temperature, in apparent violation of the laws of thermodynamics.

“So there was, there were radar that was picking this, these things coming down from 80,000 feet dropping to 50 feet in less than a second.”

Corbell claims radar tracked the 2004 Nimitz Tic Tac objects descending from 80,000 feet to 50 feet in less than one second.

“there have been arguments that there is a group of archaeologists who would like it to be just 1,000 years old, and they attribute it to a culture called the F…”

Hancock claims there is live archaeological disagreement over Serpent Mound's age, with one camp dating it to only 1,000 years old (Fort Ancient culture) versus his preferred, older Adena-culture attribution.

“the comet shoemaker shoemaker levy 9 which hit jupiter in 1994 had a total calculated explosive power of 300 gigatons if you took the entire nuclear arsenal of…”

Hancock claims Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9's 1994 impact with Jupiter released 300 gigatons of energy, roughly 47 times the explosive yield of the world's entire nuclear arsenal (stated as 6.4 gigatons).

“clearly identifiable pattern of DNA, which is only found in one other place in the world, and that is in Australasia, in Papua New Guinea, and amongst Australi…”

Hancock claims a distinctive Australasian DNA signal found in Amazonian tribes and in ~11,000-year-old Amazon skeletal remains is found nowhere else in the world except Australasia.

“Antarctica appears repeatedly on these much older maps and it appears in the right place and a bit bigger than it is today but very much as it looked during th…”

Hancock claims old maps repeatedly and accurately depict Antarctica in its correct location and roughly as it appeared, ice-free, during the last Ice Age, before its official 1819 discovery.

“you can take a handful of 8,000-year-old terra preta, and you can add it to barren soil, and that soil will instantly become fertile”

Hancock claims that adding a handful of 8,000-year-old Amazonian terra preta soil to barren soil will instantly make that soil fertile.

“there's already evidence of comet impact in Greenland, which goes back to papers published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences in 2013, that…”

Hancock claims a newly discovered 18-mile-wide crater under Greenland's ice is linked to 2013 PNAS papers reporting comet-impact proxies (nanodiamonds, carbon spherules, platinum) dated to 12,800 years ago.

“The site he excavated in the Yukon was re-excavated in 2017 and every single thing he said was correct even though they had just sneered at him”

Hancock claims a 2017 re-excavation of Jacques Cinq-Mars's Yukon site (Bluefish Caves) confirmed that every claim Cinq-Mars made was correct, fully vindicating him after he was mocked by mainstream archaeology.

“So they found evidence of the impacts as far south as Antarctica now. Previously, they were focused very much on North America. Now, as far south as Antarctica…”

Hancock claims physical evidence of the Younger Dryas comet impact has been found as far away as Antarctica and Syria, proving it was a truly global event.

“It's the notion of a global navigating culture in the Ice Age that archaeologists can't swallow. It's a subject that I've kept on coming up against over a numb…”

Hancock claims there was a global seafaring civilization mapping the world during the last Ice Age, evidenced by old portolan maps like the Piri Reis map.

“Commander Fravor had eyes on it for over five minutes watching this thing, as four other pilots did.”

Corbell claims Commander David Fravor personally observed the Tic Tac object for more than five minutes, along with four other pilots.

“the most parsimonious explanation is that a group of people during the Ice Age crossed the Pacific Ocean and ended up in South America and settled in the Amazo…”

Hancock claims geneticist Eske Willerslev told him the most parsimonious explanation for Australasian DNA in the Amazon is that people crossed the Pacific Ocean directly during the Ice Age and settled there.

“Gab, a study was done, I talked about this last time where they found five percent of the tweet of the i don't say tweets but the posts on gab or hate speech c…”

Tim Pool claims a study found only about 5% of posts on Gab were hate speech compared to 2.4% on Twitter, characterizing this as a marginal difference.

“I'm sorry. Homeland Security in New Jersey has listed them under domestic terrorism. OK, so so here I understand there's a conundrum in that the general concep…”

Tim Pool claims that New Jersey's Department of Homeland Security has officially listed Antifa as a domestic terrorism organization.

“looked at the number of transgender youths that were committing suicide. It's an astronomical, I'm sorry, I can't find it right now in front of me. It's a real…”

Vijaya Gadde claims research (citing the American Academy of Pediatrics) found transgender youth suicide rates roughly 10 times higher than the normal teenage suicide rate.

“Retail and sales, 30% of malls are closing in the next four years. So the danger here is to think of it as artificial intelligence is coming.”

Yang claims 30% of American malls will close within four years (from 2019).

“the roosevelt institute studied this plan of everyone getting a thousand bucks a month and projected it would create two million new jobs and grow the economy…”

Yang cites a Roosevelt Institute study projecting UBI would create 2 million new jobs and grow the economy by 8-10%.

“a value-added tax at even half the European level generates about 800 billion in new revenue. And that gets you all the way there.”

Yang claims a VAT set at half the European average rate would generate about $800 billion a year in new US federal revenue, calling it the final piece needed to fund his $1,000/month universal basic income.