Every fact-checked Joe Rogan claim

“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.

“there's been a human clinical trial done uh with nicotinamide riboside and that just to show that it's safe and that it actually does increase nad levels in in…”

Patrick claims human clinical trials show nicotinamide riboside is safe and raises NAD levels in human blood at doses as low as 100mg/day, building on animal anti-aging findings.

“I just told you only 40% of people are responding to these antidepressants that are standard of care”

Patrick claims only 40% of people respond to standard-of-care antidepressants compared to 30% who respond to placebo.

“So there was like eight different clinical trials that were done. And this is what made the FDA put a warning label on all ibuprofen bottles is because chronic…”

Patrick claims eight clinical trials led the FDA to add a warning label to ibuprofen because chronic use doubles the risk of stroke and heart attack.

“So it makes sense that nature would make a way that showed that people that take preformed ALA, alpha-linolenic acid, have to take 33.5 times more than preform…”

Patrick claims plant-based ALA omega-3 must be consumed at 33.5 times the dose of preformed DHA/EPA to achieve equivalent brain DHA/EPA levels.

“Well, most people don't understand that the sugar industry's hijacking of science in the 1950s, the way they paid off those scientists to literally false adver…”

Speaker claims the sugar industry paid scientists in the 1950s to falsely blame saturated fat/cholesterol for heart disease instead of sugar.

“If you look at red meat consumption in the U.S. since about 1977, so red meat has gone down about 30% to 40%. Really? Yeah. We used to eat way more in the 70s.…”

Baker claims U.S. red meat consumption has fallen 30-40% since 1977 and that population testosterone levels have dropped by roughly the same amount over the same period, implying a causal link.

“This was developed in France in the 80s, and then the FDA approved this in 2004. So 2004 was approved in the U.S.”

Baker states the reverse shoulder replacement device was developed in France in the 1980s and received FDA approval in the U.S. in 2004.

“Hong Kong right now, if you look up, if you Google Hong Kong life expectancy, they live the longest out of anybody in the world, right? They eat about 40% more…”

Baker claims Hong Kong has the world's longest life expectancy and that its residents eat about 40% more red meat than Americans, implying red meat consumption explains their longevity.

“They looked at people with chronic constipation. They were always constipated and the only thing that helped them was taking all fiber out of their diet.”

Baker cites a study claiming that people with chronic constipation were only helped by removing all fiber from their diet.

“there was, you know, the World Health Organization two years ago, last year, two years ago, declared that red meat was a class two carcinogen and processed mea…”

Baker states the WHO/IARC classified red meat as a class 2 carcinogen and processed meat as class 1, then frames this classification as based on weak epidemiology and questionable rat studies.

“There's some health organization in UK that did a press release and said that the average five-year-old consumes 50 grams of sugar a day”

Patrick claims a UK health organization reported that the average five-year-old consumes 50 grams of sugar per day, then muddles whether this figure is daily or equal to a year's worth matching body weight.

“in 2017, the National Institutes of Mental Health suddenly changed its estimate for the percentage of people with schizophrenia in the US from 1.1% to 0.3%. Th…”

Berenson claims NIMH secretly changed its US schizophrenia prevalence estimate from 1.1% to 0.3% in 2017 without public notice, implying a cover-up.

“But 50% of the people who were using cannabis and had psychosis over a three-year period committed violence in that group of people. That's mostly 20-something…”

Berenson claims that in a Swiss study, 50% of cannabis users who developed psychosis committed violence within a three-year period.

“2013 oregon washington colorado alaska There are 450 murders in those four states. There are 30,000 ag assaults, period. 2017, Oregon, Washington, Colorado, Al…”

Berenson cites a roughly 40% rise in murders across four early-legalization states between 2013 and 2017 as evidence tied to marijuana legalization.

“but the THC users only had a 2.4% mortality rate. The non-THC users had 11.5% mortality rate.”

The guest cites a study finding THC-positive traumatic brain injury patients had a 2.4% mortality rate versus 11.5% for non-THC patients, implying THC is protective.

“the word is that 25% of women between 40 and 50 are on antidepressants and 10% of adults in the country”

Weil claims 25% of American women aged 40-50 and 10% of all adults in the US are on antidepressants.

“He calls it tension myositis syndrome, and he explains the mechanism of how it works one friend of mine he was in his late 20s uh played a lot of basketball ha…”

Weil recounts Dr. John Sarno's theory that back pain (tension myositis syndrome) is caused by repressed emotion, and describes a friend whose herniated-disc pain vanished after reading Sarno's book, avoiding surgery.

“No native of Lourdes has ever been cured. And the chances that a person is going to be healed there”

Weil claims no native resident of Lourdes has ever been healed there, and that the odds of being healed are directly proportional to the length of the journey to reach it.

“Apparently, they did a study where they show the difference between someone taking psilocybin to try to quit smoking cigarettes and some really large number of…”

A speaker cites a study claiming about 80% of people quit smoking cigarettes after taking psilocybin.

“you can amputate half of the liver, and it can regenerate within 36 hours”

Weil claims that after removing half the liver, it fully regenerates within 36 hours.

“There was one called ichthyosis, which is like the whole skin gets covered with this calloused, tarred tissue. Yes. And it went away through hypnosis.”

A speaker describes a case where a young man's severe skin condition (ichthyosis) reportedly disappeared through hypnosis.

“So, you know, there's intervention trials in humans that it's, you know, men that were given broccoli sprout extract lowered their biomarker for prostate cance…”

Patrick claims a human intervention trial found broccoli sprout extract lowered a prostate cancer biomarker (PSA doubling time) by 86%.

“So boiling water and putting it in plastic increases the bpa that leaches into the the solution into the the water by like 55 fold so yes definitely heating it…”

Patrick claims that boiling water in plastic increases BPA leaching into the water by roughly 55-fold compared to unheated conditions.

“And actually back when the European sailors were getting scurvy and dying of it, only about 50%, only about half of those sailors got scurvy. The other 50% did…”

Patrick claims that historically, only about half of European sailors exposed to scurvy conditions actually developed scurvy, while the other half had no symptoms.

“So it certainly seems very interesting that he's actually been able to not only like delay Alzheimer's disease, but reverse it.”

Patrick states that Dr. Dale Bredesen's multi-component lifestyle/diet protocol has been able to not just delay but reverse Alzheimer's disease in patients.

“And in animal studies, what's been shown is that if you do, for example, a 72-hour fast, you can clear away about 30% of the immune system and replenish it wit…”

Patrick states that a 72-hour fast has been shown in animal studies to clear away about 30% of the immune system and replenish it with new cells.

“I scooped cholesterol out of blocked arteries. 20% of every blockage in a heart is cholesterol. It's a fact that was discovered in 1910.”

Kahn claims it is an established fact, discovered in 1910, that cholesterol makes up exactly 20% of every arterial blockage he has surgically removed.

“they're losing 10% to 15% of their agriculture every single year to wild pigs. Millions of dollars. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So if you have a $10 million ranch, you'r…”

Kennedy claims central Texas farms lose 10-15% of their agricultural output every year to wild pigs, illustrated as $1.5 million lost on a $10 million ranch.

“He put half of them on a low animal diet with very high plants, let half of them eat like Los Angeles people. Eight years later, 50% on the high plant, low fat…”

Kahn claims Dr. Lester Morrison's 1948 Los Angeles study of 100 heart patients found 50% survival at eight years on a low-animal, high-plant diet versus 0% survival on a standard diet, as evidence the diet reverses heart disease.

“That's still 50,000 to 60,000 people a year that get colon cancer if that data's right. They wouldn't get colon cancer if they just would stop eating hot dogs.”

Kahn claims that, based on WHO processed-meat risk data, 50,000 to 60,000 people a year get colon cancer specifically because they eat hot dogs/processed meat.

“No meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials and or prospective cohort studies, those are observational studies, has found any significant difference for d…”

Kresser states that no meta-analysis of randomized trials or cohort studies has found any significant link between dietary fat interventions and all-cause or heart-disease mortality.

“1997, Clark, 395 randomized clinical trials, what Chris is looking for. In metabolic ward, say, you jack up the saturated fat in your diet, you jack up your ch…”

Kahn asserts a 1997 paper by 'Clark' reviewed 395 randomized controlled metabolic-ward trials showing saturated fat intake raises cholesterol, a citation his co-guest immediately says he cannot verify.

“And so you'd see all this coverage of young kids who had transitioned to the opposite sex. And their parents were elated. The kids were doing so well, apparent…”

Soh claims research shows most gender-dysphoric children will outgrow their feelings rather than remain trans, implying transition coverage is misleading.

“I think you only have to have like one 16th Native American to catch a check in some places. I'm not sure what it is in Canada, but something like that.”

Rogan claims that in some places only 1/16th Native American ancestry (blood quantum) is required to receive tribal payments/benefits.

“I mean, open relationships are actually pretty common, uh, consensual non-monogamy. There's one study that showed one in five Americans have actually tried it.…”

Soh cites a study claiming one in five Americans have tried consensual non-monogamy.

“Like people that were making a lot of money. And then all of a sudden that money was cut down to 30% of what it used to be. And with no, no clear guidelines.”

Rogan claims some YouTube creators saw their ad revenue cut to 30% of previous levels overnight with no clear guidelines given.

“And so if we look at something like I was saying earlier about if it's a little boy who says he's a girl, he's likely going to grow up to be a gay man. You can…”

Soh claims every scientific study ever done supports the conclusion that boys who identify as girls will likely grow up to be gay men rather than trans.

“cited the studies that showed why people choose different professions, why people gravitate towards different activities and different professions based on gen…”

Soh claims the fired Google engineer James Damore's memo cited legitimate studies on gender differences in occupational preferences and was mischaracterized by media as anti-woman.

“there were a bunch of specifically FBI documents that we were spending millions and millions of dollars actively searching for Hitler after the war”

Kennedy claims declassified FBI documents show the U.S. spent millions of dollars actively searching for Hitler after World War II on the theory he survived.

“But the same is true within, let's say, black communities. You've got, okay, 1% of the population in America who own 41% of the wealth.”

West states that the top 1% of the U.S. population owns 41% of the nation's wealth.

“what was the last time we checked it was in the 90 percent right of people that are that are killed by drones are actually innocent it's some insane number”

West claims about 90% of people killed by U.S. drone strikes are innocent civilians.