Every fact-checked Joe Rogan claim

“result of heavy rainfall, exposure to heavy rainfall for thousands of years. And you have to go back to the Younger Dryas to get that kind of heavy rainfall in…”

Geologist Robert Schoch attributed the weathering of the Sphinx to thousands of years of heavy rainfall, implying it is more than 12,000 years old.

“the united states has cut its carbon emissions 15% in the last 20 years it's gone down not up down why fracking fracking yeah fracking really”

Peterson claims the US has cut its carbon emissions by 15% over the last 20 years primarily due to fracking.

“I generally think it's a good thing because I think 58% of our rural markets today have no psychiatrist available and something like 50% or roughly have no men…”

Dr. Phil claims 58% of U.S. rural markets have no psychiatrist available and roughly 50% have no mental health professional of any kind available.

“So the budget of the Division of Neuroscience alone was $2.6 billion in the last fiscal year, and this guy was a key leader for the effort.”

The budget of the NIA Division of Neuroscience was 2.6 billion dollars in the last fiscal year and Masliah was a key leader of it.

“Anthony Fauci writes about it. Morens and Fauci wrote a paper basically admitting everything. I think it was in 2023 or 2024 about these shots. And he said the…”

Humphries claims a 2023 or 2024 paper by Morens and Fauci admitted that COVID shots are the same as flu shots and would not have been licensed under prior standards.

“The $22 million was for AAWSAP that was pushed through through Congress, three congressmen, right, an astronaut. It was pushed through. And that's what that $2…”

Corbell claims the U.S. government spends more money every year on Viagra than the $22 million spent on the Pentagon's UFO study program.

“Now, Tenforde came in in JAMA, and this was published in the fall of this year, and they had an 85% protection overall against hospitalization.”

McCullough cites a JAMA paper reporting 85% vaccine protection against hospitalization while suggesting the true protective effect is inflated by testing bias.

“At a place called Jaco Sa in the Amazon, you can find a square perfectly enclosing a circle. Now, that is an exercise called squaring the circle that our acade…”

Hancock claims an Amazonian earthwork site demonstrates the geometric 'squaring the circle' concept predating the Greeks, who are credited by academics as first performing it.

“The only way that I can understand how all of this messaging, censorship, deplatforming, track is Tony Fauci canceling the esteemed virologist Peter Duesberg b…”

Malone claims Anthony Fauci was responsible for 'canceling' virologist Peter Duesberg over Duesberg's HIV/AIDS origin claims, framing it as an early precedent for COVID-era censorship.

“I question carbon dating. Yeah.”

Gibson states he questions the validity of carbon dating as a scientific method, in response to being asked about 11,000-year-old carbon-dated structures like Gobekli Tepe.

“You know, and Marty Makary talks about this, like I certainly didn't learn that medical error and medication is the third leading cause of death in the United…”

Casey Means claims medical error and medication is the third leading cause of death in the United States.

“The BNP came down in every single case. The ejection fraction, which measures kind of like the efficiency, how much blood your heart's pumping on each stroke,…”

Riordan claims that in clinical trials, a heart-failure biomarker (BNP) decreased and ejection fraction increased in every single patient treated with stem cells.

“We've got 77% of young Americans can't serve in the military because of obesity or drug abuse.”

Casey Means claims 77 percent of young Americans cannot serve in the military because of obesity or drug abuse.

“I've seen estimates anywhere from 5.5 million to 10 million years of life lost by the fact that they won't have the achievement that they might have had otherw…”

Dr. Phil claims school closures during COVID will cost students 5.5 to 10 million years of life expectancy, and that around 30% of fifth and eighth graders and 19% of high school graduates cannot read at a basic level.

“You know what state has the largest population per capita of black bears in the country? Wyoming, Manhattan? New Jersey. No way. Yep, New Jersey. New Jersey. N…”

Rogan claims New Jersey has the largest per-capita black bear population of any US state.

“So a lot of mavericks will, you know, spend their money on their ideas and they'll invest in what they see the future is. And I ended up netting ten million.”

Kanye West says that after spending on his own ideas, he ended up netting ten million dollars in a year, a figure he immediately contrasts elsewhere in the same interview with a five-billion-dollar net worth.

“I read this crazy statistic, and I still can't believe it's real, that 95 to 99 percent of all polio is asymptomatic. So polio virus is what we call a commensa…”

Humphries states that 95 to 99 percent of polio infections are asymptomatic and that poliovirus is a commensal organism.

“No, it's not possible.”

Musk states flatly that a giant building-sized atmospheric carbon-capture filter is "not possible."

“What happens so the spike of COVID, which is the evil part of COVID, has all these horrible lab engineered proteins encoded into them and two of them are snake…”

Humphries claims the COVID spike protein contains two lab-engineered snake toxin proteins that bind nicotinic receptors, and that nicotine can block those receptors.

“There's the last figure I saw was there were 210000 deaths due to covid in America and everywhere you go, you see someone with a mask on. One thousand black ch…”

Kanye West claims about 210,000 Americans had died of COVID-19 by that point while roughly 1,000 Black children are aborted daily, implying more Black children have died from abortion than Americans from COVID since February.

“There's a comet up there called Comet Encke, which is part of the Taurid meteor stream. It's a large fragment of the original giant comet. Comet Encke has a di…”

Hancock claims there is a comet named 'Comet Enki,' 5-6 kilometers in diameter, that is a surviving fragment of the original giant comet behind the Taurid meteor stream.

“and subsequent to our decision, I believe the FBI also designated them.”

Jack Dorsey claims that after Twitter's decision to ban the Proud Boys, the FBI also designated them an extremist organization.

“The people who commit suicide in the United States are middle-aged white men. And that's a fact.”

Berenson asserts that the people who commit suicide in the United States are middle-aged white men, minimizing the young-girls figure as a comparatively small number.

“are four to six times more likely to be diagnosed with vaccine-related myocarditis than ending up in the hospital with COVID.”

Rogan cites a study/headline claiming boys 12-15 are 4-6 times more likely to get vaccine-related myocarditis than to be hospitalized with COVID.

“this clinical study that compared people that took the Meriva curcumin in the phosphatidylcholine complex, they took two grams a day and it was comparable, the…”

Patrick claims a clinical study found 2 grams/day of Meriva curcumin-phosphatidylcholine complex gave pain relief comparable to 800 mg of ibuprofen.

“Now, the deformed wing virus is being vectored by the varroa mite. It came in 1984 and it injects viruses into bees and so it's like a dirty syringe and these…”

Stamets claims the varroa mite arrived in 1984 and vectors deformed wing virus into honeybee colonies like a dirty syringe.

“Yeah, 600 miles.”

Musk confirms the next-generation Tesla Roadster is expected to have a 600-mile range.

“You can have, like, the Jewel versus NSA case that's run by the EFF, which is about AT&T setting up secret rooms in their telecommunications facilities where t…”

Snowden claims the EFF's Jewel v. NSA lawsuit documents secret AT&T facility rooms that funnel domestic internet and phone traffic for NSA collection, which AT&T and the NSA deny.

“They paid three Harvard scientists the equivalent of $50,000 in today's dollars to publish a 1967 review of research on sugar, fat, and heart disease.”

Patrick claims the sugar industry paid three Harvard scientists roughly $50,000 in today's money to publish a 1967 NEJM review that downplayed sugar's role in heart disease and blamed saturated fat instead.

“you know, the alcohol-induced damage as well, which also increases the risk for traumatic brain injury by, like, tenfold.”

Patrick claims that alcohol-induced damage (in the context of the ApoE4 gene) increases the risk of traumatic brain injury by tenfold.

“It tells us, like a SmithKline-Beacham study that was done, 50% of all heart attacks happen in people with normal or low levels of cholesterol.”

Mark Gordon claims a SmithKline-Beecham study found half of all heart attacks occur in people with normal or low cholesterol.

“So the average person's like at 40, 45, just to give you some context of that number. Anyone past about 60, if you continue to go up, it's not going to really…”

Galpin states the average person's VO2 max is around 40-45 ml/kg/min, and that pushing an MMA fighter's VO2 max past about 60 yields no further fight performance benefit.

“But there are now actually identification of several cancers that thrive on fats rather than carbohydrates.”

Galpin claims that several cancers have been identified as thriving on fat rather than carbohydrates/sugar.

“So the reason why we didn't think fiber type changed 20 years ago is because we didn't have the technology to actually have the fidelity to measure all the one…”

Galpin claims that muscle fiber type was previously believed to be fixed only because measurement technology lacked the fidelity to detect changes.

“It really didn't even exist until 1993. And then it didn't even really exist even then until like, I feel like Frank Shamrock was the first real professional M…”

Galpin claims MMA effectively did not exist until 1993 (UFC's founding) and that Frank Shamrock was the first real professional MMA fighter.

“there was a guy named, um, Peter Karpovich, who was a scientist and he was extremely, he was the guy who started the idea that lifting weights causes you to lo…”

Galpin claims scientist Peter Karpovich originated the mid-20th-century idea that weightlifting causes loss of flexibility and is bad for health, later disproven in a public demonstration against Bob Hoffman's lifters.

“Every single person got substantially better, like 20% to 30% better under one of the conditions. But they also got worse under one of the conditions as well.”

Galpin describes an internal study finding that blood-flow/breathing-restriction training (using devices like the O2 Trainer) improved every subject's performance by 20-30% under one restriction setting.

“there could have been no possibility of anything like a comet impact 12,800 years ago, and that these 63 or 65 scientists who are proposing that are just compl…”

Carlson claims 63 or 65 scientists support the Younger Dryas comet impact hypothesis and that a 2011 'Requiem' paper refuting it has itself been thoroughly refuted.

“What Schock is saying is that the Sphinx and the trench out of which the Sphinx is cut bears the unmistakable evidence of precipitation-induced weathering, wea…”

Hancock claims geologist Robert Schoch's water-erosion analysis shows the Sphinx enclosure was carved by millennia of heavy rainfall, implying the Sphinx is far older than the mainstream ~2500 BC date.

“In the particular study that I'm thinking of, they had, you know, 73% of the patients that received PRP had relief of their pain compared to about 50% of patie…”

The guest cites a head-to-head study claiming 73% pain relief with PRP injections versus about 50% with corticosteroid injections for tennis elbow.

“We know that about 15 to 22% of those fail the meniscal repairs. You know, it's a disappointing number.”

The guest states that meniscal repair surgeries fail in about 15 to 22% of cases.

“there was one study where mortality decreased 40% from all causes through daily use of the sauna. Yeah, all-cause mortality was less. Yeah, 40%.”

Rogan claims a study found daily sauna use decreases all-cause mortality by 40%.

“So President Obama in 2009 lifted the ban on the federal funding. So federal funding has been going on for it since then.”

The guest states that President Obama in 2009 lifted the ban on federal funding for (embryonic) stem cell research, after which federal funding continued.

“they injected that into the knee. And then I think, I want to say it was four or eight months later, I think it was eight months, they re-imaged the knee and t…”

The guest describes a study where injecting bone marrow aspirate (BMAC) stem cells into the knee produced a 15% increase in meniscal tissue volume on re-imaging.

“he published a paper that showed a very high rate of failure from these procedures. And so as a result of that, it's fallen out of favor. So, but it was done v…”

The guest claims thermal capsulorrhaphy (heat-shrinking shoulder capsule tissue) had a roughly 40% failure rate in a published study, causing the procedure to fall out of favor.

“And every 20,000 years, they found a little blip a little dip in The fossil record where we lost some species and people were wondering why could there have b…”

Tyson states that dips in the fossil record showing periodic mass extinctions recur roughly every 20,000 years, which led scientists to hypothesize a companion star to the sun (later dubbed Nemesis).

“So, I'm not quick to call it Planet 9 because it's 20,000 times farther away from the sun than the Earth is.”

Tyson states that the hypothesized ninth planet is 20,000 times farther from the sun than Earth is.

“one g it would be way too slow to make an interesting scene so i I gave it to him. I said, I'll give you three Gs.”

Tyson claims he personally calculated the rotation rate for the space station in 2001: A Space Odyssey and told Stanley Kubrick to use three times Earth gravity for dramatic effect.

“women that do that, that have already had breast cancer, they reduce their breast cancer risk recurrence by like 40%”

Patrick claims women who eat within an 11-hour window and fast 13 hours reduce breast cancer recurrence risk by about 40%.

“starting on day one of drinking this drink, they excreted 61% of the benzene, like on day one. 61% of benzene was just coming out of their urine, like as you m…”

Patrick claims a broccoli-sprout drink caused people to excrete 61% of benzene (an airborne carcinogen) from their bodies within one day.