Every fact-checked Joe Rogan claim

“we spend $40 billion a year on this kind of thing. Most of the money goes to law enforcement, prison industry, the sort of businesses that have been built up a…”

Hart claims the US spends $40 billion a year on the drug war, most of which goes to law enforcement and the prison industry.

“Because doesn't it affect somewhere in the neighborhood of 1% of the population? Yeah. That's a lot of people. It's a lot of people.”

Rogan states that schizophrenia affects roughly 1% of the population, and Hart agrees.

“Fentanyl is an opioid, which is far more potent than heroin. And we worry about that when people take fentanyl and thinking that it's heroin because they may t…”

Hart, describing a specific overdose death case he reviewed, argues the toxicology levels of fentanyl and cocaine found in the deceased were too low to have caused death, implying the official cause of death was likely wrong.

“But to say like there's this general principle where people can't drink that's not true that's just not there's no evidence for that no no evidence at all”

Hart claims there is no evidence supporting the idea that some people are alcoholics who cannot drink without losing control.

“for you to relax like a little sniff of heroin is a relaxing thing. Oh, it's heaven. I mean, I'm chilled. It's great.”

Hart states that occasionally snorting heroin recreationally is gentler on his body than alcohol and helps him relax and be a better, more forgiving person.

“that was the initial promise. And 10 days later, we moved 12,000 people out of Afghanistan, 11% of everybody that left the country during the evacuation”

Kennedy claims his NGO (Save Our Allies) moved 12,000 people out of Afghanistan during the 2021 evacuation, representing 11% of everyone evacuated from the country.

“we knew from the experiments we had run that that was enough bias to have shifted over a period of time among undecided voters somewhere between 2.6 and 10.4 m…”

Epstein claims his research found Google search bias shifted 2.6 to 10.4 million votes toward Hillary Clinton in the 2016 election without voters' awareness.

“our sperm count, our miscarriage rates, our fertility rates, our testosterone levels, they're all going south, if you will, at the rate of about 1% per year”

Swan claims sperm count, miscarriage rates, fertility rates, and testosterone levels are all declining at roughly 1% per year due to endocrine-disrupting chemicals.

“When you're talking about $1.7 trillion for 2022, that's so much money. It comes down to who we are choosing to elect, really.”

Gabbard states the 2022 U.S. defense/military budget was $1.7 trillion.

“They had this very rosy perception of communism, which always leads to military dictatorship. Always. There's no evidence of it ever not leading to that.”

Rufo claims communism always leads to military dictatorship with no historical exception.

“The student population was more than 50% trans, queer, and nonbinary. More than 50%.”

Rufo claims that before his takeover, New College of Florida's student body was more than 50% trans, queer, and non-binary.

“what they did is essentially lock up the 1% of the El Salvadoran population that were the violent, committed gang members and drug runners, and they reduced th…”

Rufo claims El Salvador's mass incarceration of 1% of the population cut the murder rate over 90% and that it was previously the world's most dangerous country by murder rate.

“And the Mar-a-Lago property is not worth $18 million. Isn't it like 18 acres?”

Rufo asserts the court-assigned $18 million valuation of Mar-a-Lago in the Trump civil fraud case is absurdly low.

“as soon as she reported the science, and actually she didn't do the science, she did a meta-analysis of like 50 studies and said, overall here's what it says.…”

Dr. Phil claims a researcher who published a meta-analysis of about 50 studies on transgender athletes and sports performance was labeled transphobic and forced out of her position for reporting the science.

“And then they spent $5.5 trillion counting stimulus checks, unemployment, extended unemployment benefits, $4.4 trillion of which went into savings and checking…”

Dr. Phil claims the government spent $5.5 trillion on COVID stimulus and unemployment benefits, and that $4.4 trillion of that ended up in Americans' savings and checking accounts, proving it wasn't needed.

“Well, listen to this since 2010 and 2011 There was a 62% increase for older teens 189% increase in depression for preteens 70% increase in suicide for older te…”

Dr. Phil claims that since 2010-2011 there were sharp percentage increases in depression and suicide among teens and preteens, implicitly attributing this to social media and influencer culture.

“I was reading a statistic yesterday that one in 10 adolescents has considered suicide, which is that, that's terrifying.”

Soh states that one in ten adolescents has considered suicide, citing a statistic she read.

“Just the things I've said about gender dysphoria, saying that it's associated with autism. Not for everyone, of course, but just saying that for many people. A…”

Soh claims gender dysphoria is associated with autism for many people, and that studies support this as a legitimate link.

“Yeah. I have the stats here. It's like 30 percent of male millennials and 20 percent of women it's wild yeah that's a lot”

Soh cites a statistic that 30% of male millennials and 20% of women have gone more than a year without sex.

“now do you not are you not aware of the opioid crisis you're not aware of vioxx not aware of the various like to 25 percent of all fda approved drugs that get…”

Rogan claims roughly 25 percent (one in four) of all FDA-approved drugs end up getting pulled from the market.

“no one says anything about the 40% increase in all-cause mortality that mysteriously arose after they made people get shot up with some experimental shit.”

Rogan claims there was a 40% increase in all-cause mortality mysteriously arising after COVID-19 vaccination.

“The VAERS system is like, what does it get? Like one, 2% of the actual adverse events that are reported. Who fucking knows how many people?”

Rogan claims VAERS captures only about 1-2% of actual vaccine adverse events that occur.

“So 95% of the people that sit on the U.S. Dietary Guidelines Panel today, for this next one when they're going to come up for the 2025 guidelines, all have fin…”

Baker claims 95% of the panel members writing the 2025 U.S. Dietary Guidelines have financial ties to processed food companies.

“If meat caused cancer, most people would have cancer. 95 plus percent of the population on earth eats meat.”

Baker argues that because most people eat meat and most people don't get cancer, meat cannot cause cancer.

“the FDA for new drug, for new drug approvals, it's like 65% of that budget comes from the pharmaceutical industry itself. So they're like, they're paying to re…”

Baker claims about 65% of the FDA's new-drug-approval budget comes from pharmaceutical industry user fees.

“we spend $4.3 trillion a year on health care in this country, and what do we get for it? We've got one of the sickest populations in the world. Our life expect…”

Baker states the U.S. spends $4.3 trillion annually on health care while life expectancy is currently declining.

“by the time they're eight years old the average eight-year-old has eaten more sugar than somebody would have eaten in their entire life you know and?”

Baker claims the average 8-year-old today has consumed more sugar than a person would have eaten in an entire lifetime around 150 years ago.

“The results in the ultra-processed DGA menu that was created, 91% of the kilocalories were from ultra-processed food or NOVA Category 4.”

Baker cites a study claiming a menu built to meet U.S. Dietary Guidelines can be 91% ultra-processed food by calories and still score as healthy.

“IDF said that 80 of all of the victims in within the kibbutzes were tortured before they were murdered. 80% of all of the victims.”

Kennedy claims the IDF reported that 80% of all victims killed in the Gaza-border kibbutzim on October 7 were tortured before being murdered.

“And now they are the size of a cartel being funded $70 million a year from Iran is being pumped into Hamas.”

Kennedy claims Hamas receives $70 million per year in funding from Iran.

“Because what happens is your endorphins, your dopamine ramps up by 200% naturally in a healthy way. It makes you nicer to people that you run into.”

Kennedy claims cold plunging causes a natural 200% increase in dopamine, comparing the feeling to being on MDMA.

“The king lists from ancient Egypt go back 30 plus thousand years.”

Hancock claims ancient Egyptian king lists document a lineage of rulers extending back more than 30,000 years.

“the Sphinx 12,500 years ago was gazing at dawn on the spring equinox at the constellation of Leo. In other words, this lion monument on the ground was looking…”

Hancock claims astronomical alignment (the Sphinx facing the constellation Leo at dawn on the spring equinox roughly 12,500 years ago) supports his view, along with water-erosion evidence, that the Great Sphinx is far older than its conventional dating of about 4,500 years.

“The Indus Valley civilization today in Pakistan wasn't known about until the 1920s. It was found by accident.”

Hancock cites the 1920s discovery of the Indus Valley civilization as precedent for a currently-unknown lost advanced civilization existing undiscovered today.

“60 major scientists published in all the big mainstream journals proposing that the Earth went through an absolutely catastrophic episode between 12,800 and 11…”

Hancock claims 60 mainstream scientists have published papers confirming a catastrophic Earth event 12,800-11,600 years ago that vindicates his lost-civilization theory.

“27 million square kilometers of the best real estate on earth that were above water during the Ice Age are underwater now. Yes, there's been some marine archae…”

Hancock claims 27 million square kilometers of formerly-exposed continental shelf are now underwater and largely unexamined by archaeology, leaving open the possibility of a lost advanced civilization there.

“as kids we played in asbestos our whole lives we've cleaned it up thousands of times put it in trash bags... now nobody i haven't heard of anybody with asbesto…”

BJ Penn suggests childhood exposure to asbestos was common and harmless since he hasn't personally heard of anyone getting sick from it.

“He's asking Congress for $24 billion for the war in Ukraine and $0 for Maui.”

Gabbard claims Biden's supplemental funding request to Congress after the Maui fires included $24 billion for Ukraine and zero dollars for Maui.

“And, you know, it's a law, actually, in Hawaii that you cannot put any trees with fruit on it anywhere.”

BJ Penn claims there is a Hawaii law prohibiting planting any fruit trees anywhere on the islands.

“isn't there somewhere in the neighborhood of $20 million that they got from that? Yeah, I mean, I think that's what I've heard has been accounted for.”

Rogan and Gabbard discuss a claim that Hunter and Joe Biden received roughly $20 million connected to Ukraine dealings involving Burisma.

“his department had taken over 200 million pounds at Oxford for doing research into statins from the drug industry. And they also kept the data commercially con…”

Malhotra claims Professor Rory Collins's Oxford research unit received over 200 million pounds from the drug industry for statin research and kept underlying trial data commercially confidential.

“between 2003 and 2016, most of the top 10 drug companies paid fines totaling about $33 billion for illegal marketing of drugs, hiding data on harms, and manipu…”

Malhotra claims most of the top 10 pharmaceutical companies paid roughly $33 billion combined in fines between 2003-2016 for illegal marketing, hiding harm data, and manipulating results.

“One survey in the US suggested that 50% of American adults thought that their risk of being hospitalized with COVID was 50%, one in two, when the real figure a…”

Malhotra claims a US survey found Americans overestimated their COVID hospitalization risk at 50% versus an actual risk of about 1 in 100.

“1976, swine flu vaccine was pulled because it was found to cause a debilitating neurological condition called Guillain-Barre syndrome in about one in 100,000 p…”

Malhotra claims COVID vaccines cause serious harm in at least 1 in 800 people, a far higher rate than historical vaccines pulled from the market (swine flu 1 in 100,000, rotavirus 1 in 10,000).

“if you're low risk of heart disease, you haven't had a heart attack, your benefit of statin is 1%, right? And when you tell people that, most people, Joe, don'…”

Malhotra claims statins provide only a 1% absolute benefit for people at low risk of heart disease who have not had a heart attack.

“The geology speaks to the original Sphinx being more than 12,000 years old.”

Hancock claims geological water-erosion evidence shows the Great Sphinx of Giza is over 12,000 years old, far older than the accepted ~4,500-year Old Kingdom date.

“And they said, oh, 9,000 years ago. Well, do the math. That's in 600 BC. That's 9,000 years before 600 BC. We call that 9,600 BC. That's 11,600 years ago. That…”

Hancock claims Plato's date for the destruction of Atlantis (as told to Solon by Egyptian priests) exactly matches the scientifically-dated end of the Younger Dryas period.

“she says 130 million Americans can't read at the most basic level and I said define basic level for me and she said basic level is they can't read a prescripti…”

Dr. Phil repeats a claim from a guest that 130 million Americans cannot read at a basic level, defined as being unable to read a prescription label.

“That poisoning, fentanyl poisoning, is the number one cause of death for people 18 to 49 in this country.”

Dr. Phil claims fentanyl poisoning is the leading cause of death for Americans aged 18 to 49.

“all these pills you're buying on Snapchat, 100% of them are counterfeit.”

Dr. Phil claims that 100% of pills purchased through Snapchat are counterfeit.