Every fact-checked Joe Rogan claim

“It was a case where we saw one person was getting $1.9 billion sent to their NGO, which basically got formed about a year ago and had no prior, really no prior…”

Musk claims DOGE found a one-year-old NGO with no prior activity receiving $1.9 billion in government funds.

“Yes. We found just with a basic search of the Social Security database that there were 20 million dead people marked as alive.”

Musk claims a basic search of the Social Security database found 20 million dead people marked as alive.

“Only 30 percent of our communication is is verbal.”

Kanye West claims only 30 percent of human communication is verbal.

“The hurricanes still have hit, the earthquake still hit, and people are still suffering from that. And no one has really gone to fix it. And when that 11 billi…”

Kanye West claims $11 billion in aid intended for Haiti does not reach the people.

“So, like only there's only a billion people on the Internet. You never think about that, the seven or eight billion people on on Earth, but then there's only a…”

Kanye West claims only about one billion of the world's seven-to-eight billion people are on the internet.

“I was 53 million dollars in debt, you know, four years ago. And now it's proven that I'm the new Michael Jordan of products. I went to Adidas and we were 15 bi…”

Kanye West claims he was $53 million in debt four years earlier, and describes turning around Adidas's finances and stock/market cap performance since his partnership.

“Fifteen patients, small clinical studies, statistically significant. Ten out of 15 people, after one or two heroic doses of psilocybin, 12 months later had not…”

Stamets claims a Johns Hopkins study found 10 of 15 smokers quit after one or two high doses of psilocybin and stayed smoke-free 12 months later.

“And then you find out, actually, it's like $250 million for transgender animal studies.”

Rogan claims that USAID spending, once you look past the name, turns out to be about $250 million for transgender animal studies. The dollar figure traces to a real advocacy estimate, but fact-checkers found that spending is not USAID funding.

“you add 100 to 200 milligrams of niacin. Now, if someone tries to get high by taking 10 times as much, they'll have like two grams of niacin. This is flushing…”

Stamets claims stacking niacin with microdosed psilocybin mushrooms acts as a built-in 'antabuse' deterrent against taking higher, intoxicating doses.

“There's studies in men where like they give men 75 grams of refined sugar and their testosterone drops by 25%. I mean, it's changing a lot of things, you know,…”

Rhonda Patrick claims a study found giving men 75 grams of refined sugar caused a 25% drop in testosterone.

“there's been studies showing that people that do strength training like they have a 23% lower all cause mortality and like a 30% lower cancer related mortality…”

Rhonda Patrick claims strength training is associated with a 23% lower all-cause mortality and 30% lower cancer-related mortality, independent of other health factors.

“once we hit 25 and we continue on, our aerobic capacity decreases by 10 percent per decade. So like one percent per year, right?”

Rhonda Patrick claims VO2max/aerobic capacity declines by 10% per decade after age 25.

“Yeah. At current birth rates, in three generations, Korea will be about 4% of its current size.”

Musk claims that at current birth rates, South Korea's population will shrink to about 4% of its current size within three generations.

“the New York Times said, we won't run the story. Because the president just said, if you run this story a month before the election, that's a very tight margin…”

Snowden claims President Bush personally warned the New York Times that running the NSA warrantless-wiretapping story before the 2004 election would put 'blood on your hands,' and that this threat is why the paper held the story until December 2005.

“So as you indicated, you have a company like Amazon owned by Jeff Bezos, who happens to be the wealthiest guy in America worth about $150 billion. Amazon paid…”

Sanders claims Jeff Bezos is worth about $150 billion and that Amazon paid zero federal income tax.

“We bought insulin in Windsor, Ontario for one tenth the price, 10% of the price, same exact product being charged in America.”

Sanders claims insulin bought in Windsor, Ontario cost one-tenth (10%) of the U.S. price for the identical product.

“How is it possible that we pay ten times more for insulin in this country and for other drugs than the one in Canada or countries around the world?”

Sanders claims Americans pay ten times more than Canadians and other countries for insulin and other drugs generally.

“Do you know how much the drug companies alone spent to defeat that effort? They spent $131 million on one ballot item in one state. All right. Last year, the t…”

Sanders claims drug companies spent $131 million to defeat a California drug-pricing ballot measure and that the top 10 drug companies made $69 billion in profit the prior year.

“Over the last 30 years, the top 1% has seen a $21 trillion increase in their wealth. The bottom half of America has seen a $900 billion decline in their wealth.”

Sanders claims that over the last 30 years the top 1% gained $21 trillion in wealth while the bottom half of Americans lost $900 billion.

“And it's also one of the women who wrote that said that it's been proven over and over again that deplatforming is an effective way to silence people.”

Tim Pool claims a researcher behind a report on platform manipulation asserted deplatforming has been 'proven over and over again' to be an effective silencing tactic.

“according to data, I think this is from Pew, most new journalism jobs are in blue districts. So you've got people who only hear the same thing.”

Tim Pool claims Pew Research data shows most new journalism jobs are located in Democratic-leaning ('blue') districts, explaining media bias.

“this was i think i think it was in the atlantic where they surveyed something like 10 different international security experts who said based on what the platf…”

Tim Pool claims an Atlantic-published survey of about 10 international security experts found a high probability of civil war, with one expert citing a 90% chance.

“Now, deleting social media from your applications, from your phones, does that give you a 10% boost to happiness? What do you think the percentage is? I think…”

Musk agrees that deleting social media apps gives roughly a 10% boost to happiness.

“if it was 100% electric, that's only about 100 million per year. So it would take, if you could snap your fingers and instantly turn all cars and trucks electr…”

Musk states that even with all new car production instantly switched to electric, it would take about 25 years to replace the global transport fleet.

“Well, the argument for the simulation I think is quite strong because if you assume any improvement at all over time, any improvement, 1%, 0.1%, just extend th…”

Musk argues that any rate of technological improvement over time makes it highly likely we are living in a computer simulation.

“6 million Ukrainians starved to death. They had posters. The Soviets produced posters in the 1930s that said, essentially, don't forget it's wrong to eat your…”

Peterson states 6 million Ukrainians starved to death in the Holodomor and that Soviet posters explicitly warned against eating your children.

“we've raised their grade point average of their kids 25 percent, dropped their dropout rate the same, and it's had a walloping effect on men and on non-Western…”

Peterson claims his Self Authoring writing program raised GPA by 25%, cut dropout rates by the same amount, and moved non-Western minority students from 70% below average to outperforming Dutch native women at Rotterdam School of Management.

“there's no evidence that there's any relationship between intelligence and morality.”

Peterson asserts there is no evidence linking intelligence to morality.

“there's no evidence, by the way, that that works at all. In fact, the evidence that there is suggests quite the contrary.”

Peterson claims mandatory unconscious bias training has no evidence of effectiveness and that existing evidence suggests it backfires.

“Right, so they won $100 million. Yeah, that's a lot of money.”

Rogan states that the U.S. government/whistleblower plaintiffs won a $100 million judgment against Armstrong in the federal fraud lawsuit over U.S. Postal Service sponsorship.

“So then they started testing the viscosity or the thickness of people's bloods, otherwise known as hematocrit, right? And so they would use that as a screen. A…”

Armstrong describes cycling's hematocrit test as a 50% health-based cutoff that riders could legally push right up to, framing it as a benign screening measure rather than a doping deterrent.

“Did anybody that was on the tour ever drop dead from EPO? Well there's, there, there was, you know, look, there, there, I don't know, I mean there are a lot of…”

Armstrong claims there was a documented wave of Dutch cyclists who died in their sleep in the 1980s from EPO use, then immediately hedges that it was never actually proven.

“we automated away 4 million manufacturing jobs that were based in Michigan, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Wisconsin, Missouri, Iowa, all the swing states he needed to win”

Yang claims automation (not trade or other factors) eliminated 4 million manufacturing jobs in swing states and that this explains Trump's 2016 win.

“Like 94 million or so Americans have left the workforce over the last number of years. Now, a lot of that's natural demographics, a lot of that's people in sch…”

Yang cites a figure of 94 million Americans having left the workforce, attributing a subset (5 million) to unskilled men pushed out by automation.

“most Americans are living paycheck to paycheck. 57% of Americans can't afford an unexpected $500 bill.”

Yang claims 57% of Americans cannot afford an unexpected $500 expense.

“so the uh so bain says you're looking at uh between 20 and 30 percent of jobs subject to automation by 2030 which is pretty soon it's like 11 years from now mc…”

Yang cites Bain, McKinsey, and a White House report projecting 20-30%, ~25%, and 83% (respectively) of low-wage jobs will be automated by 2030.

“Yeah, there's some really good animal data showing that you can inject these cells and you can take ovarian failure and reverse it. And in her case, she had an…”

Riordan claims stem cell treatment reversed ovarian failure and enabled a previously infertile patient to conceive, citing animal data as support for a human anecdote.

“The biggest hurdle is that a new drug, if you look at the last several years, cost $2.5 billion to get to market.”

Riordan states that bringing a new drug to market costs $2.5 billion.

“And he was 11% ejection fraction. Normal is about 60. And the regular hospital who worked a lot with us with our spinal cord patients and seeing results, seein…”

Riordan recounts an anecdotal case of a patient with 11% ejection fraction being cured by stem cell treatment, implying dramatic heart failure reversal from a single anecdote.

“There's 4 by 8 foot bricks. That's not that's man made. And it is literally the biggest pyramid in the world. It's bigger than the ones in Egypt, and it's in G…”

Gibson claims a pyramid (La Danta at El Mirador, Guatemala) is literally the biggest pyramid in the world, bigger than any in Egypt.

“He got bit by mosquitoes. He had, you know, malaria, which is interesting to note that he used to take hydroxychloroquine and they get a malaria attack. Crazy?…”

Gibson recounts his father using hydroxychloroquine for malaria and implies its price-gouged unavailability for his own COVID treatment reflects suppression of an effective COVID remedy.

“You look it up on your phone, you instantly know, oh, Ivermectin, the guy who created it, won the Nobel Prize.”

Rogan cites the Nobel Prize awarded for ivermectin's discovery as evidence undercutting its dismissal as a fringe or dangerous drug during COVID.

“So it says study published in the journal heritage. The authors conducted dating work on a sample from the shroud coming to the conclusion that it may be a 200…”

Rogan reads aloud a study claiming new dating work suggests the Shroud of Turin could be a 2,000-year-old relic consistent with Jesus' era.

“I don't believe that there is anything that can afflict mankind that hasn't got a natural cure for it. I think that there has to be. It just makes sense to me.”

Gibson claims every disease that afflicts mankind has a natural cure, and separately recounts three friends with stage 4 cancer who recovered after taking ivermectin, fenbendazole, and methylene blue.

“Gobekli Tepe is discovered. It dates to 11,600 years ago. It's more than 5,000 years older than the supposedly oldest megalithic architecture in the world. And…”

Hancock claims Gobekli Tepe's site had no prior evidence of agriculture and that agriculture appeared simultaneously with the site's construction, implying the monument predates and causes farming.

“we get a group of more than 60 major scientists who are seriously proposing that the Earth was hit by multiple fragments of a giant comet 12,800 years ago, and…”

Hancock claims over 60 scientists have proposed the Younger Dryas impact hypothesis, that a comet impact 12,800 years ago caused sea level rise and megafauna extinction.

“San Diego Natural History Museum, and a bunch of other very high-level paleontologists, published in Nature magazine evidence for human presence in North Ameri…”

Hancock claims a 2017 Nature paper on the Cerutti Mastodon site presents accepted evidence of human presence in North America 130,000 years ago.

“we can say that a city like London, which had a population of roughly 50,000 in the 16th century, there were cities of that size all over the Amazon, huge numb…”

Hancock claims pre-Columbian Amazon cities rivaled 16th-century London in size and the Amazon's total population exceeded 20 million people.

“I defeated 100% of the ISIS caliphate. They said it would take five years. I did it in a matter of a few, literally a few weeks.”

Trump claims he personally defeated 100% of the ISIS territorial caliphate in a few weeks after being told it would take five years.

“it was all around the Wuhan lab, by the way, there are pictures with little lines, their body bags all around the Wuhan lab”

Trump claims there are pictures showing rows of body bags surrounding the Wuhan lab at the outset of COVID-19.