Every fact-checked Joe Rogan claim

“It's less than 1%, much less than half of 1% for most healthy people.”

Rogan states the COVID-19 fatality rate for healthy people is very low, less than half of 1 percent.

“Well, they had a depiction of the solar system, not just a depiction, but all of the planets in the proper order.”

Rogan claims a 6,000-year-old Sumerian clay tablet accurately depicts the full solar system, heliocentric and in correct planetary order, including planets not visible to the naked eye.

“Just a year ago, at the bottom of the Sicily Channel, at a depth of more than 120 feet,”

The guest describes a purportedly megalithic man-made structure discovered underwater in the Sicily Channel, submerged for roughly 9,000 years.

“What caused it was exposure to a very long period of heavy, heavy, heavy rainfall.”

The guest claims the Great Sphinx's erosion was caused by prolonged heavy rainfall during the Younger Dryas period roughly 12,000 years ago, implying the Sphinx is far older than the accepted ~2500 BC date.

“It's like 85% of the people who have low, less than 30, have it. And as you move up the scale to the higher level, greater than 60, you see 90% of the people h…”

The speaker claims a study found 85% of people with vitamin D below 30 ng/mL got COVID-19 or its illness, versus 90% of people above 60 ng/mL having no symptoms.

“We know that somewhere between 50 to 70% of all ICU alarms are either unnecessary or ignorable.”

Walker claims that 50 to 70% of all ICU alarms are either unnecessary or can be ignored, disrupting patient sleep in the one setting where they most need rest to heal.

“If you're getting six hours of sleep or less, your time to exhaustion drops by up to 30%. So you could spend all of your time training for a 10-round fight, pe…”

Walker claims that sleeping 6 hours or less causes an athlete's time to physical exhaustion to drop by up to 30%, using a 10-round fight as an example.

“The first was that a sizeable 711 genes were distorted in their activity caused by one week of six hours of sleep.”

Walker claims a study found that one week of 6 hours of sleep per night distorted the activity of 711 genes compared to getting 8 hours.

“There is a 168 percent increased risk that they will get into a car accident.”

Walker claims that medical residents who finish a 30-hour shift face a 168% increased risk of a car accident driving home due to being underslept.

“People getting 9 hours versus 5 hours, there was almost a 60% increase in probability of injury risk during a season.”

Walker claims that athletes sleeping 5 hours a night versus 9 hours have almost a 60% increased injury risk over a season, describing it as a perfect linear relationship.

“Junior residents working a 30 hour shift are 460 percent more likely to make diagnostic errors in the intensive care unit relative to when they're working 16 h…”

Walker claims that junior medical residents working a 30-hour shift are 460% more likely to make diagnostic errors in the ICU than residents working 16-hour shifts.

“One of those toxic sticky proteins that builds up as we're awake, it's called beta amyloid. Beta amyloid is one of the leading causes underlying the mechanism…”

Walker claims that a toxic protein (beta-amyloid, garbled in the transcript) builds up in the brain during wakefulness and is cleared during deep sleep, and that its accumulation from insufficient sleep is one of the leading causes underlying Alzheimer's disease.

“Add that up, it's about 70 thousand extra calories a year. It's about 10 to 15 pounds of obese mass each year.”

Walker claims that chronic sleep deprivation's extra daily calorie intake adds up to about 70,000 extra calories and 10 to 15 pounds of fat gain per year.

“You're much more likely, for example, to be struck by lightning in your lifetime, the odds of which I think are about 1 in 12,500, than you are to have this in…”

Walker claims that fewer than 1% of people carry a special gene allowing survival on about 5 hours of sleep, and says a person is more likely to be struck by lightning (odds he cites as roughly 1 in 12,500) than to have this rare gene.

“Now in the spring when we lose an hour of sleep, we see a subsequent 24 percent increase in heart attacks. In the fall, in the autumn, when we gain an hour of…”

Walker claims a global daylight-saving-time study across 70 countries found a 24% increase in heart attacks when clocks spring forward and a 21% decrease when they fall back.

“One in five medical residents will make a serious medical error due to insufficient sleep. One in 20 medical residents will kill a patient because of a fatigue…”

Walker claims 1 in 5 medical residents will make a serious medical error and 1 in 20 will kill a patient due to fatigue-related error.

“There was a 70% reduction in car crashes the following year.”

Walker claims that delaying a high school's start time produced a 70% reduction in teen car crashes the following year, citing the specific case (named earlier in the same passage) of Teton County, Wyoming shifting its school start time from 7:35 to 8:55 a.m.

“I'll give you two examples. There's a study where they just took individuals and they just gave them four hours of sleep for one night, and what they saw was a…”

Walker claims that a single night of only 4 hours of sleep causes a 70% reduction in natural killer immune cells, and implies this is a reason insufficient sleep produces cancer.

“If you have elective surgery, you should ask your surgeon how much sleep they've had in that past 24 hours. If they've had six hours of sleep or less, you have…”

Walker claims a surgeon who slept 6 hours has a 170% increased risk of causing a major surgical error like organ damage or hemorrhage, compared to a well-rested version of the same surgeon.

“buildings taller than 12 stories don't have a 13th floor. Okay. And so this triskaidekaphobia is again in a free country. If you, if you want to be afraid of t…”

Tyson states that about 80% of buildings taller than 12 stories omit a labeled 13th floor.

“It's insane. And the fact that it won the Nobel Prize for for efficacy in humans yeah in humans yeah it was wild it was just wild they had to do it”

Kennedy invokes ivermectin's Nobel Prize as if it bolsters ivermectin's case as a COVID-19 treatment, when the prize recognized its efficacy against parasitic worm infections, not any antiviral or COVID-19 effect.

“And one of the things that went over is the oldest shipwreck that we're currently aware of it's about 4,000 years old. About 6,000. The Dokos shipwreck.”

The oldest known shipwreck is the Dokos shipwreck, described as about 6,000 years old.

“So the Younger Dryas impact hypothesis since 2007, it's been a compelling and thoroughly documented case. It's been put together by more than 60 eminent scient…”

Hancock claims the Younger Dryas impact hypothesis, dating a comet-fragment impact to 12,800 years ago, has been assembled since 2007 by more than 60 eminent scientists.

“in a randomized trial by Chowdhury and colleagues from Bangladesh, 303 patients randomized to this virucidal therapy, which is all topical, no prescription dru…”

McCullough claims Bangladesh, with 160 million people, got 'almost down to zero COVID' by adopting an oral-nasal povidone-iodine decontamination protocol he cites from a randomized trial.

“So the second this bill is signed, $1,600 per patient per month, taxpayer money, which is why Novo Nordisk is the ninth most valuable company in the world righ…”

Calley Means claims Novo Nordisk is the ninth most valuable company in the world and expects 90 percent of its profits from the United States on expectation of a bill funding Ozempic at $1,600 per patient per month.

“we got a pope that brought a South American idol into the church to worship. The Pachamama.”

Gibson claims Pope Francis brought a South American idol (Pachamama) into the church to worship, characterizing it as apostasy.

“Exactly the same thing that happened over Tunguska in Siberia on the 30th of June 1908. That was an object that fell out of the sky, almost certainly out of th…”

Hancock states the Tunguska event of 30 June 1908 was an airburst that flattened 2,000 square miles of Siberian forest and came from the Taurid meteor stream.

“They have this radar footage that track this thing going from above 50,000 feet to 50 feet in like one second right? They don't know how the fuck anything can…”

Rogan claims radar footage tracked the Tic Tac UFO descending from above 50,000 feet to 50 feet in about one second.

“None of those cores came from that tunnel or chamber or any of those features that they described.”

Dibble states that none of the radiocarbon-dated soil cores used to claim a ~25,000-year-old Gunung Padang structure actually came from the described tunnels or chambers.

“I told him that it's being pushed on kids and that there's an aggressive effort where Dr. Fatima Cody-Stanford, the top obesity researcher at Harvard, was fund…”

Calley Means claims Harvard obesity researcher Dr. Fatima Cody Stanford was funded significantly by Novo Nordisk.

“So why are there no fenbendazole clinical trials for cancer? The answer seems rather obvious. It's very cheap, it's safe, and it seems to be effective, very ef…”

Rogan reads and endorses a viral claim that fenbendazole (a dog dewormer) has proven, effective anti-cancer mechanisms in humans and is being suppressed from clinical trials because it's too cheap for pharmaceutical companies to profit from.

“Of the 800,000 deaths that we have right now, I can tell you they've received either no or inadequate early treatment. All of them.”

McCullough asserts that essentially all (implying nearly 100%) of roughly 800,000 US COVID deaths at the time resulted from no or inadequate early outpatient treatment.

“they froze people's bank accounts that donated money to the convoy”

Joe Rogan claims that during the Canadian trucker convoy protests the government froze the bank accounts of people who donated money to the convoy.

“If you wanna go to the AIDS rabbit hole, look up a guy named Peter Duesberg.”

Gibson endorses Peter Duesberg, a scientist who denies HIV causes AIDS, as a credible source to investigate.

“So along comes polio research, and the polio vaccine, even to this day, is made on African green monkey kidney cells. Now, the African green monkey kidneys ear…”

Humphries claims the polio vaccine is still made on African green monkey kidney cells and that Dr. Bernice Eddy discovered the cancer-causing SV40 virus in the vaccine substrate.

“SpaceX launches 90% of all satellite mass to orbit. So if you take all of Earth's rocket launches, my company has a 90% market share of Earth, China does about…”

Musk claims SpaceX launches 90% of all satellite mass to orbit globally, with China at about 5% and everyone else (Boeing, Lockheed, Northrop) making up the remaining 5%.

“this is Jacques Cinq-Mars, who investigated bluefish caves in the Yukon and found evidence of human beings there more than 20,000 years ago. Now if that eviden…”

Hancock claims Bluefish Caves in the Yukon yielded evidence of humans more than 20,000 years ago, over 7,000 years before Clovis.

“DOJ has been attacking SpaceX, for example, for not hiring asylum seekers, even though it is illegal for SpaceX to hire anyone who is not a permanent resident…”

Musk claims the DOJ sued SpaceX for discriminating against asylum seekers even though ITAR export-control law made it illegal for SpaceX to hire anyone who is not a permanent resident, framing the lawsuit as a damned-if-you-do government catch-22.

“This is the reason why I donated one hundred million dollars to James Turrell's Roden crater project when I went to this is like the eighth wonder of the world.”

Kanye West claims he personally donated one hundred million dollars to James Turrell's Roden Crater art project.

“our interest payments on the national debt now exceed the Defense Department budget, and the defense budget is like a trillion dollars a year.”

Musk claims US interest payments on the national debt now exceed the roughly one-trillion-dollar Defense Department budget.

“Well, if you look at the real studies recently, 95% of the cases of Alzheimer's disease appear to be due to trauma and aging. Genetics, only 5%.”

Dr. Gordon claims recent studies show 95 percent of Alzheimer's cases are due to trauma and aging and only 5 percent are genetic.

“I believe as a Saudi prince owns what 6% of Twitter. So when I, is that true? I'm just want to make sure it's”

Tim Pool claims a Saudi prince owns approximately 6% of Twitter's shares.

“Study after study shows they have two cohorts of people. They've got people that exercise and eat whole foods, and then they have people that do antidepressant…”

Calley Means claims studies show people who exercise and eat whole foods without drugs or therapy have demonstrably better depression outcomes than those on antidepressants and therapy.

“It's a misnomer, actually, that AATIP was the recipient of the $22 million. It was actually Harry Reid who created a program called AAWSAP. AAWSAP was the sole…”

Corbell claims the New York Times was wrong to report that AATIP received the $22 million UFO program funding, asserting the money actually went to a separate Harry Reid program called AAWSAP.

“there's this really interesting place called the Raqefet Cave. And it was a burial site with about 30 individuals. This is between 11,700 BC and 9,700 BC. A te…”

Muraresku claims a Stanford-led excavation at Raqefet Cave in Israel found 13,000-year-old evidence of beer brewing in a burial site.

“Jesse Karmazin agrees his startup Ambrosia is charging about $8,000 a pop, expensive, for blood transfusions from people under 25. He said at Code Conference o…”

A claim (read from an article) that entrepreneur Jesse Karmazin's startup Ambrosia charges about $8,000 for young-blood plasma transfusions marketed for anti-aging effects.

“And I'd say we could definitively prove there was no large-scale metallurgy in the Ice Age. If you look at ice cores in the Arctic, right, we can track metallu…”

Dibble claims Arctic ice cores record lead emissions from Roman and medieval metallurgy but show no metallurgical emissions during the Ice Age, ruling out a large-scale metal-working civilization then.

“They stopped using it for chemotherapy because it was killing them quicker than cancer was.”

Gibson claims AZT was discontinued as a chemotherapy drug because it killed cancer patients faster than the cancer itself.

“you know like a normal person in your testosterone level would be like a low 300 a high 800 vitor was like 1475 and he looked like a fucking silverback and jus…”

Rogan claims normal adult male testosterone levels range roughly 300-800 ng/dL, and that Vitor Belfort tested at approximately 1,475 during his UFC testosterone-replacement-therapy run.

“passed in 1986. But before 1986, we had 1976, which was the swine flu vaccine fiasco. And that was a situation where there was so much injury that the vaccine…”

Humphries states that the 1976 swine flu vaccine caused so much injury (Guillain-Barre) that manufacturers lost insurance and the government indemnified them, setting a precedent for the 1986 vaccine act.