Every fact-checked Joe Rogan claim

“that company man that company got fined 635 million which sounds like a lot until you realize they made like 16 billion”

Yang claims Purdue Pharma was fined $635 million for opioid marketing violations after making about $16 billion, implying the fine was a trivial fraction of profits.

“Being a retail worker is the most common job in the United States right now. The average retail worker is a 39-year-old woman with a high school education maki…”

Yang claims retail worker is the most common job in the US and profiles the average retail worker as a 39-year-old woman earning $11-12/hour.

“something like 88 percent of truckers have an early marker for chronic disease like oh you know like substance abuse diabetes obesity high blood pressure”

Yang claims about 88% of truckers show an early marker for chronic disease such as substance abuse, diabetes, obesity, or high blood pressure.

“only six percent of american high school students are in technical or vocational training in germany that's 59”

Yang claims only 6% of American high school students are in technical/vocational training compared to 59% in Germany.

“amazon's getting 20 billion dollars of commerce every year and is now tipping your malls and Main Street stores into oblivion”

Yang claims Amazon generates $20 billion a year in commerce that is driving mall and Main Street closures.

“we're spending about $1.5 trillion right now on 126 welfare programs”

Yang claims the US currently spends $1.5 trillion a year across 126 different welfare programs.

“The underemployment rate for recent college graduates today is 44%.”

Yang claims the underemployment rate for recent college graduates is 44%.

“if something devastating happens to you in any other form you can file for bankruptcy but you never escape your student loans no matter what happens to you”

Yang claims that unlike other debts, student loans can never be discharged in bankruptcy no matter what happens to the borrower.

“if you look at the voter district data on a district by district basis, there's a straight line up between the adoption of industrial robots in that voting dis…”

Yang claims a direct, straight-line correlation exists between industrial robot adoption by voting district and the shift toward Trump, dismissing racism, Russia, Facebook, or the FBI as explanations.

“there are three and a half million truck drivers in this country right now. It's the most common job in 29 states. And the average trucker is a 49-year-old guy”

Yang claims trucking is the most common job in 29 US states.

“The auto industry fought seatbelts, I think, for more than a decade. Successfully fought any regulations on seatbelts, even though the numbers were extremely o…”

Musk claims the auto industry successfully fought seatbelt safety regulations for more than a decade despite clear evidence of their life-saving benefit.

“what they claimed to the New York Times was that it was a false flag. New York Times said they reviewed internal documents that showed they admitted it was a f…”

Tim Pool claims the New York Times reviewed internal documents proving a named individual's company ran a false flag operation using fake Russian bot accounts during the Roy Moore Senate campaign.

“Someone was paying them to put more asses in the seats in these private prisons. A million dollar payment to put them in the youth centers.”

Rogan describes the 'Kids for Cash' Pennsylvania judicial bribery scandal as involving a million-dollar payment to judges for sentencing juveniles to private detention centers.

“if you're a non-college-educated person in the United States, the odds of you ever getting married are less than 50% now for the first time ever”

Yang claims that for non-college-educated Americans, the lifetime odds of ever marrying have fallen below 50% for the first time.

“They shifted school start times from I think it was at 7:25 to 8:30 in the morning and they look at SAT scores and in the year before they made the time change…”

Walker claims that Edina, Minnesota shifted its high school start time from 7:25 to 8:30 a.m., and that in the year before the change the top 10% of students averaged an SAT score of 1288.

“Back in 1942 Gallup did a poll and what they found was that the average American adult was sleeping 7.9 hours of sleep a night. Now that number, the most recen…”

Walker claims a 1942 Gallup poll found Americans averaged 7.9 hours of sleep per night, versus a current average of 6 hours 31 minutes on weeknights.

“Insufficient sleep is linked to cancer of the bowel cancer of the prostate cancer of the breast on the association has become so powerful that recently the Wor…”

Walker claims insufficient sleep is linked to bowel, prostate, and breast cancer, and that the WHO has classified nighttime shift work as a probable carcinogen because of this.

“But it goes into this idea of what are called voltage-gated calcium channels on your cell membrane, and those actually get affected by Wi-Fi. And apparently yo…”

Greenfield claims, citing a book on EMF, that Wi-Fi affects voltage-gated calcium channels in cell membranes, altering the electrochemical balance across the membrane and implying Wi-Fi exposure is harmful.

“there was a little cool little anecdote from that study too, where they found that mosquitoes actually have like, like they learn. If you swat at the mosquito,…”

Greenfield claims a study found that mosquitoes 'learn' to avoid a particular person after being swatted at.

“there's this cat up at University of Washington named Dr. Gerald Pollack, and he has done this research that shows like in plants or vessels, like blood vessel…”

Greenfield cites Dr. Gerald Pollack's research on 'exclusion zone' (structured) water in vessels and plants as the basis for claiming that 'structuring' drinking water improves cellular hydration.

“Allowed him to pick up figures in the dark with 100% accuracy where non-treated test subjects could only make out to about 30%. That's pretty significant.”

Rogan reads/relays a claim from an article that chlorophyll eye drops (based on a chemical binding retinal opsin proteins) let a test subject identify dark-adapted figures with 100% accuracy versus about 30% for untreated subjects.

“And so they've done these studies on testicular and sperm production. And they found that there's a wavelength. It's like 600 to 800 nanometers wavelength of l…”

Greenfield claims studies show that exposing the testicles to 600-800 nanometer red/near-infrared light for 5 to 20 minutes daily boosts sperm production and (per his follow-up) testosterone via stimulation of Leydig cells.

“the prevailing research and the literature suggests that you can burn about 1.0 grams of fat per minute during exercise. Like that would be about how much fat…”

Greenfield cites a named 'FASTER study' as showing high-fat dieters can burn 1.5 to 1.7 grams of fat per minute during exercise, versus a supposed 1.0 g/min ceiling in the general literature, with no loss in performance.

“Some parts of your brain become 30% more active than when you're awake.”

Walker claims that during REM sleep, some brain regions become 30% more active than during waking states.

“I read a study this morning of gene editing mosquitoes now, like they're using CRISPR technology to make the mosquitoes less likely to bite you.”

Greenfield states he read a study that morning about using CRISPR gene-editing technology on mosquitoes to make them less likely to bite humans.

“Because some dude told me that once, that he got cancer. I think it was testicle cancer on his right side. And the guy was saying, do you keep your phone in yo…”

Rogan relays an anecdote where a man attributed his testicular cancer to keeping his cell phone in his right pants pocket on that same side.

“It's technically not legal for someone to inject you with your own stem cells into your bloodstream, but if you get your stem cells extracted and they're store…”

Greenfield claims that while a clinic legally cannot inject a person's own stored stem cells into their bloodstream, it is legal for the person to inject the cells into themselves after the clinic mails the cells to their home.

“like for spinal cord injury, we did a cohort analysis, and basically if they're within one year of injury, 100% of the patients had restoration of some neurolo…”

Riordan claims his own cohort analysis found 100% of spinal cord injury patients treated within one year of injury regained some neurologic function, versus 82% between one and two years.

“We have 800 references, and we reference every clinical trial that's ever been done with MSCs in human beings, and there are 800 of them.”

Riordan claims his book references all 800 clinical trials ever conducted on mesenchymal stem cells in humans.

“there are two neurosurgeons that are on that. So we wanted to, okay, we're discussing at what time point should we accept them? And these very prominent neuros…”

Riordan states that neurosurgeons designing his Miami spinal cord injury trial hold that patients recover 98-99% of their natural neurologic function by six months post-injury.

“they can kill cancer cells almost as good as the chemo control that they're giving these animals”

Rhonda Patrick claims animal studies show that high-dose probiotics can kill cancer cells almost as effectively as chemotherapy.

“are five times more likely to have antibodies floating around in their blood against fetal brain proteins”

Rhonda Patrick claims mothers of autistic children are five times more likely to have antibodies against fetal brain proteins in their blood than other mothers.

“For people that think that drinking a large glass of orange juice is different than drinking a glass of soda, it's really not.”

Rhonda Patrick claims that drinking a large glass of orange juice is essentially no different from drinking a glass of soda.

“there's been studies showing that like 75% of the microbiome population changes and like, when you don't get at all any fiber”

Rhonda Patrick claims studies show that 75% of a person's gut microbiome population changes when fiber intake drops to zero.

“That has been shown to get into the developing fetal brain 10 times better than DHA and non-phospholipid form, free fatty acid form.”

Rhonda Patrick claims phospholipid-form DHA (found in fish roe) reaches the developing fetal brain ten times more effectively than standard free-fatty-acid-form DHA.

“found that like a low folate diet caused damage to DNA the same as being irradiated by an x-ray machine. The exact same.”

Rhonda Patrick claims a study found that a low-folate diet causes DNA damage equivalent to being irradiated by an x-ray machine.

“There's a reason that J.K. Rowling became the richest person in England by, she's richer than the queen.”

Peterson claims J.K. Rowling became the richest person in England and richer than the Queen.

“And Carl Jung took issue with that. He was a student of Nietzsche's, and he pointed out, basically, that, well, wait a minute. Who says you can create your own…”

Peterson states that Carl Jung was a student of Friedrich Nietzsche and that Jung responded to Nietzsche's idea that people could create their own values after the death of God.

“We're talking about as many as 70 plus invented gender pronouns like Z, XE, XIR, HIR, a bunch of weird ones.”

Rogan states there are over 70 invented gender pronouns that people are being compelled to use.

“the Tour de France is 100 years old, right? So doping is cheating.”

Armstrong states that the Tour de France is 100 years old.

“they are the equivalent of what a typical dose we give in Panama is like roughly 120 million cells. And all of them got better. All of them symptomatically imp…”

Riordan claims a study of 172 rheumatoid arthritis patients given umbilical cord MSC infusions showed all patients improved symptomatically and TNF-alpha dropped 50%.

“there was a study at University of Buffalo where they took, they injected cells IV in a hamster model of heart failure. And then they looked in the heart and t…”

Riordan cites a University of Buffalo hamster study to claim MSC secretions alone (not the cells reaching the heart) reverse heart failure.

“a study out of Europe just came out a couple months ago, and it showed about 50% of the patients had their discs become normal on MRI after treatment. So it's…”

Riordan claims a recent European study found about 50% of patients had degenerated spinal discs return to normal on MRI after stem cell treatment.

“at last count, I think they spent, you know, two and three quarter billion dollars. They got $250 million left. And guess what they're studying now? Adult stem…”

Riordan claims California's embryonic stem cell program (CIRM, funded by the ~$3 billion Prop 71) spent nearly all its money and pivoted almost entirely to adult/umbilical cord stem cell research after embryonic approaches failed.

“What we're seeing is triple digit increases in the number of illegals in every swing state. In some cases, 700% increases. These are gigantic numbers.”

Musk claims government data shows triple-digit (in some cases 700%) increases in the number of undocumented immigrants in swing states, implying a deliberate strategy to flip elections permanently to Democrats.

“As the autism rates have gone from 1 in 10,000 in 1970, and people knew what autism was. They knew what it looked like in 1970. They did the biggest epidemiolo…”

Kennedy claims autism prevalence was under 1 in 10,000 in 1970 based on 'the biggest epidemiological study in history' and has since risen to roughly 1 in 31 today.

“Ozempic, the list price was $1,350 in America. You could buy the same drug in any pharmacy in London for $88. And it's made in the same factory in New Jersey.”

Kennedy claims Ozempic's US list price is $1,350 versus $88 for the identical drug at a London pharmacy.

“But your stomach microbiome is plants. It may contribute to the celiac disease and to all these gluten allergies.”

Kennedy suggests glyphosate use as a wheat desiccant (starting around 2003) is a major factor causing celiac disease and gluten allergies in humans.

“So 97% of corn in this country is produced with glyphosate and can't be produced without it.”

Kennedy claims 97% of US corn is produced with glyphosate and cannot be produced without it.

“77% of American kids can't qualify for military service.”

Kennedy claims 77% of American children are ineligible to qualify for U.S. military service.