Every fact-checked Joe Rogan claim

“one of the things he talked about in 1989 was this thing called element 115 that back then was really only theoretical. They didn't even know element 113 or 11…”

Rogan claims Bob Lazar's 1989 mention of a theoretical 'element 115' was vindicated when a particle collider detected the element in 2013.

“The Pentagon comes out in 2020 and tells us that this is real, that they really have crafts that they've recovered that are not of this world. That was their s…”

Rogan claims the Pentagon officially stated in 2020 that it has recovered crafts that are 'not of this world.'

“Mitt Romney's dad couldn't run for president because he was born in Mexico. Do you know that?”

Rogan claims George Romney (Mitt Romney's father) was unable to run for president because he was born in Mexico.

“Why didn't he show up? He won't comment. Oh, wow. He won't. He's been reached out to comment on it.”

Rogan claims Bernie Sanders skipped a Senate vote on a Patriot Act surveillance provision (allowing warrantless review of internet search/browsing history), and that his absence let the measure pass when his vote would have blocked it.

“Statistically, you know, I think that this some research on like plenty of fish or some Asian dudes and black women are the least likely to get match on dating…”

Yang claims research on dating apps shows Asian men and Black women are the least likely demographic groups to get matches.

“The military is banned from using tear gas on the battlefield, but police can use it on crowds at home.”

Rogan claims tear gas is banned for military use in warfare under international law (citing the Geneva Convention) yet remains legal for domestic police use on protesters.

“I read they did like a survey of a couple thousand people and somewhere in the range of like 4% of people admitted to gargling and or washing stuff with bleach.”

Rogan states a survey of a couple thousand people found roughly 4% of respondents admitted to gargling with or applying bleach to fight COVID-19.

“the people had like an 8% or were eightfold, eight times less likely to have a severe form of COVID-19. And if they had, and they were 20 times less likely to…”

Patrick cites a Philippines study finding people with higher vitamin D levels were 8x less likely to have severe COVID-19 and 20x less likely to have critical COVID-19.

“two grams is better than one gram for for like um reducing the duration of the common cold uh two grams is better than one and uh children are more have a more…”

Patrick claims that taking two grams of vitamin C reduces common cold duration by about 20% in adults, more in children.

“70% of the U.S. population has insufficient vitamin D levels, which is considered less than blood levels, less than 30 milligrams, nanograms per milliliter.”

Patrick claims 70% of the U.S. population has insufficient vitamin D levels (below 30 ng/mL).

“Obese people are like three times more likely to be vitamin D deficient in the United States.”

Patrick claims obese individuals are three times more likely to be vitamin D deficient than non-obese individuals in the U.S.

“That's been shown four to seven times a week, 40% lower all-cause mortality. Cardiovascular-related mortality is 50% lower.”

Patrick claims sauna use 4-7 times per week is associated with 40% lower all-cause mortality and 50% lower cardiovascular mortality.

“if you believe the numbers saying that they're between four and ten times the number of Americans, forget about Americans, four to ten times the SARS-2 virus t…”

Hotez claims COVID-19 is four to ten times more lethal than the seasonal flu, projecting 50,000 to 500,000 US deaths.

“the Centers for Disease Control came out with this very chilling document a few weeks ago showing that about a third of the very sick people in the hospital ar…”

Hotez claims a CDC report found about a third of severely ill hospitalized COVID-19 patients were under age 40-44.

“Now we realize from studies coming out of China that was published in the journal called Pediatrics put out by the American Academy of Pediatrics, that about 1…”

Hotez claims a study found about 10% of infants infected with COVID-19 become very sick.

“It's about five to ten times more lethal than regular flu, seasonal flu.”

Hotez states COVID-19 is five to ten times more lethal than seasonal influenza.

“look at a guy like, I think Pete Buttigieg, he spent nine million dollars on social media ads in order to get like a four percent bump in the polls”

Gabbard claims Pete Buttigieg spent nine million dollars on social media ads to gain roughly a four-percentage-point bump in the polls.

“I had read the, the counterinsurgency manual that was written by general Petraeus. And, and I, part of that explains that the average counterinsurgency takes s…”

Willink claims the counterinsurgency field manual co-authored by General Petraeus states the average counterinsurgency takes seven years to resolve.

“The first debate had something like 22 million viewers. The one that we just did, I think, had 6.6 million viewers.”

Gabbard claims the first Democratic primary debate drew about 22 million viewers, while a later debate drew only 6.6 million.

“We have, you know, almost 80 million people who are uninsured and underinsured in this country who can't get the medicine they need and who are literally drivi…”

Gabbard claims nearly 80 million Americans are uninsured or underinsured and unable to get needed medicine.

“The homeless crisis in Hawaii is the worst per capita of any state in the country.”

Gabbard claims Hawaii has the worst per-capita homeless crisis of any U.S. state.

“That's what Project Blue Book was tasked to do specifically. The guy who ran it admitted that, that it was tasked to debunk this and demystify the UFO thing.”

Corbell claims Project Blue Book's director admitted the program was specifically tasked with debunking and demystifying UFO reports.

“media has completely lied to you. They said 150 people showed up. Yeah, it's a total fabrication. I have the footage to prove it. We had an event in, I partici…”

Corbell claims media reports that only 150 people showed up to the 'Storm Area 51' related event in Nevada were a complete fabrication, and that over 3,000 people actually attended.

“75% of all television advertisement is pharmaceutical companies which is insane it is and we are one of two countries on earth that allows that the other one i…”

Rogan claims 75% of all television advertising is pharmaceutical company ads, and that the U.S. and New Zealand are the only two countries permitting direct-to-consumer drug advertising.

“These people are $150,000, $200,000 in the hole, and some of them actually wind up getting their Social Security docked when they're in their 60s because they…”

Rogan claims many student loan borrowers are $150,000-$200,000 in debt and some have their Social Security benefits garnished in their 60s over unpaid student loans.

“the more adversity you had as a childhood, the more risk you are for addiction, for mental health issues, for relational issues, and also for autoimmune diseas…”

Maté claims that greater childhood adversity directly increases risk not only for addiction and mental health issues but also for autoimmune disease and cancer (malignancy).

“So, for example, there was a study out of Harvard University, I think three years ago, women with severe PTSD have double the risk of ovarian cancer.”

Maté claims a Harvard study from around 2019 found that women with severe PTSD have double the risk of developing ovarian cancer.

“Now there was a study out of Massachusetts, I think, which I quote in the book. I think 2,000 women were followed over 10 years. Those who were happily married…”

Maté claims a Massachusetts study followed 2,000 women over 10 years and found those who were happily married but suppressed their emotions were four times as likely to die as those who expressed their feelings.

“70% of American adults are on at least one medication. 70, yeah. 40% are on about two at least.”

Maté claims 70% of American adults take at least one prescription medication and 40% take at least two.

“30% of my clients were indigenous people. They make up 5% of the population. 30% of the people, of the men in jail in Canada, 50% of the women in jail in Canad…”

Maté claims Indigenous people make up 5% of Canada's population but 30% of male and 50% of female prisoners, based on his experience with Vancouver addiction clients.

“That Ukraine bill, the $40 billion that got put in, everybody's like, oh, the corruption over there. And I was like, we can't throw stones from where we are in…”

Kennedy claims the Ukraine aid bill was $40 billion and implies senators making around $200,000 salary become vastly wealthier through corruption.

“You know, the startling statistic, by 2030, 23 times more people will die, veterans and soldiers, will die of suicide then died in the whole entire combat time…”

Kennedy claims that by 2030, veteran and soldier suicides will outnumber combat deaths from the past 20 years of war by a factor of 23.

“Do you know that she's better at stock trading than Warren Buffett or George Soros? She's got a better record than any of those guys.”

Kennedy claims Nancy Pelosi has a better stock trading record than Warren Buffett or George Soros.

“He said it's somewhere in the neighborhood of 65%. And then, you know, there's cops killing bad guys. That's a certain percentage of it. And then a giant chunk…”

Kennedy claims (citing Colion Noir) that roughly 65% of gun violence deaths are suicides, with the rest split among gang violence and police shootings.

“So 18 to 35 year olds are the most vulnerable population that are just coming back from a deployment for suicide. And they have seen an 80% increase, I think i…”

Kennedy claims suicides among 18-35 year olds recently returned from combat deployment increased by roughly 86%.

“So 94, 96% of all donations out of Google go to Democrats, which I sympathize with. I'm from a family of Democrats. I lean left.”

Epstein claims 94-96% of all donations from Google go to Democrats.

“we are giving people quizzes and then we are giving people recommendations and then we are measuring to see whether we can change anyone's mind. And we're gett…”

Epstein claims his lab experiments show biased search rankings can shift people's opinions/votes by 70-90% with zero detection by subjects.

“has $150 billion in the bank right now in cash, makes huge donations to political candidates, and then can shift votes, millions of votes nationwide without an…”

Epstein claims Google/Alphabet holds $150 billion in cash and makes huge direct donations to political candidates.

“we found enough bias on Google, but not Bing or Yahoo, to have shifted 78 million votes. That's spread across hundreds of elections, though, okay, with no one…”

Epstein claims his 2018 midterm monitoring found Google search bias sufficient to have shifted 78 million votes across hundreds of elections.

“And they've also been busted before. Like Pfizer, the largest ever healthcare case, $2.3 billion for fraudulent claims, fraudulent advertising.”

Gupta states Pfizer was fined $2.3 billion in what he calls the largest-ever healthcare fraud case, for fraudulent claims/advertising.

“And if people have side effects, they typically occur within the first 42 days, significant side effects.”

Gupta claims significant vaccine side effects typically occur within the first 42 days after vaccination.

“Well, that's because they destroyed a lot of evidence. This is concerning. They deleted how much evidence did they delete in 2019? Some stunning amount.”

Rogan claims Chinese/WIV-linked researchers deliberately destroyed a large amount of evidence (a genetic sequence database) in 2019 tied to COVID origins.

“They have 230 million people in this country and they've essentially knocked COVID down to almost nothing.”

Rogan claims the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, with 230 million people, drove COVID down to nearly zero using mass ivermectin distribution.

“you can't say something's 99 like no clinical trial known to human history has ever shown something 99 effective”

Rhonda Patrick states no clinical trial in human history has ever shown a treatment to be 99% effective, in the context of dismissing an ivermectin claim.

“he did some kind of modeling and found you had to have six times more neutralizing antibodies to protect from actually getting infection than from like, you kn…”

Patrick cites a Miles Davenport-group modeling study (Nature Medicine) claiming six times more neutralizing antibodies are needed to prevent infection than to prevent hospitalization from COVID-19.

“So five-year increase in life expectancy, like that's huge compared to people like, you know, on the low end of the range.”

Patrick claims a Framingham study found people with a high omega-3 index have a life expectancy five years longer than those with a low omega-3 index.

“people with the highest omega-3 index, again, it was in that 7% range. And this was not statistically significant. It was because there was a small sample size…”

A small pilot study (about 100 people) by Dr. Bill Harris found a 75% reduction in COVID-19 mortality among people with the highest omega-3 index, though the result was not statistically significant.

“You know, there was a study published in The Lancet like last year showing there was a sevenfold increase in stroke incidents in people under 50 in the United…”

A Lancet study allegedly found a sevenfold increase in strokes among people under 50 in the US compared to the pre-pandemic year, implied to be linked to COVID-19 infection or spike protein effects.

“they were 17% less likely to die prematurely of all causes, including accidents”

A cohort study of omega-3 index found people in the high range (>7%) were 17% more likely to die prematurely from all causes, including accidents, compared to the low range (<4%) -- as described, this appears to have the direction reversed.

“these were frontline workers who were so thoroughly exposed to COVID that 57% of the people in the 400-person control group who didn't take ivermectin did get…”

Weinstein cites a study in which 57% of a 400-person unmedicated control group of frontline workers contracted COVID, used to argue ivermectin's prophylactic effect is close to 100% effective.