Every fact-checked Joe Rogan claim

“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.

“Fentanyl is a synthetic opioid that is up to 50 times stronger than heroin, 100 times stronger than morphine.”

Dr. Phil states fentanyl is up to 50 times stronger than heroin and 100 times stronger than morphine.

“130 million adults are unable to read a simple story to their children. 21% of adults are illiterate in 2022. 45 million are functionally illiterate and read b…”

Dr. Phil claims 130 million U.S. adults cannot read a simple story to their children and 21% of adults are illiterate as of 2022, citing a literacy expert guest.

“a right to kill 52,000 people in Gaza, wound well over 100,000 thousand and right now as we speak Joe, children are starving to death because of Israel's block…”

Israel has killed 52,000 people in Gaza and wounded well over 100,000, and children are starving to death because of Israeli blockades.

“We don't talk about it in the corporate media. 60%, 60% of Americans are living paycheck to paycheck.”

Sixty percent of Americans are living paycheck to paycheck.

“And we could talk about Elon, but he spent $270 million to elect Trump as president.”

Elon Musk spent $270 million to help elect Donald Trump president.

“You got the top 1 percent owning more wealth than the bottom 93%. You got CEOs, large corporations making 350 times what their workers make.”

The top 1 percent of Americans own more wealth than the bottom 93 percent, and large-corporation CEOs earn 350 times what their workers earn.

“which is why I never sued CNN. CNN lied about me over and over and over again. They said I was taking horse dewormer and they altered the color of my face on t…”

Rogan says CNN falsely described his ivermectin use as taking horse dewormer and altered his skin color on air to make him look green.

“It ain't a hoax. I think the last 10 years have been the warmest on record.”

The last 10 years have been the warmest on record.

“Well, the pandemic, the problem with that is it's engineered. Like, people actually made that virus and Obama tried to stop that gain of function shit back in…”

The COVID-19 virus was engineered by people, and the Obama administration moved to halt gain-of-function research in 2014.

“So we put a lot of pressure. We are trying to raise the minimum wage, federal minimum wage to 17 bucks an hour.”

Sanders is pushing legislation to raise the federal minimum wage to $17 an hour.

“Scientists have captured the Earth climate change over the last 485 million years.”

A Washington Post analysis reconstructed Earth's climate over the last 485 million years and shows the present as a relatively cool period.

“You got three Wall Street investment firms. Blackrock, you're familiar with Blackrock, their child. Vanguard and Sage Street. Exactly. Yeah. Check it out on Go…”

Three Wall Street firms, BlackRock, Vanguard, and State Street, are combined the major stockholders of 95 percent of American corporations.

“They had publicly owned oil companies, they made a fortune, and they have like a trillion dollars in their wealth for a small country, you know, so and they ha…”

Norway built an oil-funded sovereign wealth fund worth about a trillion dollars and provides free healthcare, free college, and affordable housing.

“I mean, you know, on the Eisenhower, the very rich paid at their upper levels 90%, you know.”

Under Eisenhower the top marginal income tax rate on the very rich was 90 percent.

“We're number two. We used to be one. They are number one right now. I think they have an enormous percent of global. I think it's very high.”

China is currently the largest carbon polluter and the United States is second, after the US previously being the largest.

“when you have people that are public servants that are making $170,000 a year and yet they're worth hundreds of millions of dollars through some magical way th…”

Members of Congress earning about $170,000 a year end up worth hundreds of millions of dollars.

“the United States is really 37 trillion dollars in debt we can't sustain this”

The United States is $37 trillion in debt.

“wages are actually lower now than they were 52 years ago. Okay? And during that same period, period is a massive transfer of wealth from the bottom 90 percent…”

Inflation-adjusted wages are lower now than 52 years ago, alongside a massive wealth transfer from the bottom 90 percent to the top 1 percent.

“I became mayor of Burlington, Vermont in 1981. There was not a computer in the building.”

Sanders became mayor of Burlington, Vermont in 1981.

“You have one man, Mr. Musk, owning more wealth than the bottom 52 percent of American families. One man, 52 percent of American families.”

Elon Musk owns more wealth than the bottom 52 percent of American families combined.

“our life expectancy in America is lower than it is in other major countries. You know that? Yes. It's four years younger than, four years shorter life spans th…”

US life expectancy is about four years shorter than in other wealthy countries, and working-class Americans live about seven years less than the top 1 percent.

“And we need the new administration to step up and do something because the next, they have 500 mRNA shots in the pipeline. 33 of those are self-amplifying,”

Bowden claims there are 500 mRNA shots in the pipeline, 33 of them self-amplifying.

“But ivermectin is metabolized by the liver, not the kidney. So it would be no harm for him to get, yeah, I was having had a kidney transplant for him to get iv…”

Bowden claims ivermectin is metabolized by the liver and not the kidney, so it posed no harm to a kidney transplant patient.

“There was a, I think the Cleveland Clinic study said that people who took the flu shot Oh yeah, more. 24% more likely to get the flu or get other Okay, is that…”

Bowden claims a Cleveland Clinic study found people who took the flu shot were 24 percent more likely to get the flu or get sick.

“Seventeen states have had bills in the last legislative session trying to get ivermectin over the counter. Three have been successful. So, Tennessee, Idaho, an…”

Bowden claims 17 states had bills to make ivermectin over the counter, with three successful (Tennessee, Idaho, Arkansas), four in deliberation, and ten failed.

“And I actually sued the FDA over that horse tweet and we won. It hasn't really changed anything. But so the FDA, when they put that information or misinformati…”

Bowden claims she sued the FDA over its ivermectin horse tweet and won.

“have applied, 30 people. On average, the award is like $4,000 for these people. It's horrible.”

Bowden claims the average compensation award for vaccine-injured applicants under the program is about $4,000.

“And haven't they shown that the spike protein continues to be produced in the body up to 700 days later? Yes. I mean, that is one study.”

Bowden affirms a claim that a study showed spike protein continues to be produced in the body up to 700 days after vaccination.

“They have denied 98% of people that have applied for assistance. On average, I think they've awarded 30 people, 30 of all the vaccine injured that”

Bowden claims the Countermeasures Injury Compensation Program has denied 98 percent of applicants and awarded compensation to only about 30 people.

“More than 15,000 people received medical assistance in dying in Canada in 2023.”

A cited figure states more than 15,000 people received medical assistance in dying in Canada in 2023.

“So for ivermectin, it kind of depends on the rat, I mean, the type of animal and the gender, but it's basically 10 milligrams per kilogram up to 80 milligrams…”

Bowden states ivermectin's animal LD50 ranges from about 10 to 80 milligrams per kilogram while the COVID dose used is 0.4 milligrams per kilogram.

“So once I knew it was safe, then I started using it and then I found it worked. And then all in all, I treated well over 6,000 patients and everybody that got…”

Bowden claims she treated well over 6,000 patients and that everyone who got early treatment stayed out of the hospital.

“Well, yes, about 33%. They looked at it over 10 years. 33% had significant safety warnings on the drugs. And it took about four years for those to become recog…”

Bowden claims a study found about 33 percent of drugs had significant safety warnings recognized on average about four years after approval, over a 10-year period.

“And Dr. Verone had much better success than most other doctors. His overall success rate was 4.4 percent of his patients died, whereas in other hospitals, aver…”

Bowden claims Dr. Joseph Varon's COVID patient death rate was 4.4 percent versus an average around 20 percent in other hospitals.

“It's so common that I think the number was 74% of people in the country are deficient in vitamin D.”

Bowden claims 74 percent of people in the country are deficient in vitamin D.

“At the same time, they launched COVID-19 Community Corps, and this was April 1st, 2021. This was an $11.5 billion slush fund to feed out propaganda and censor…”

Bowden claims the COVID-19 Community Corps launched April 1, 2021 as an $11.5 billion program, the same day Houston Methodist became the first US hospital to mandate COVID shots for employees.

“And that's the athletes, sudden death in athletes. So it used to be 29 per year, now it's 290 per year, growth 10 times.”

Rogan claims sudden death in athletes rose from 29 per year to 290 per year, a tenfold increase.

“And it has been slow-growing, but we are up to 252 politicians who will go on record just to state that these shots should be pulled off the market.”

Bowden claims she founded Americans for Health Freedom and that 252 politicians have gone on record stating COVID shots should be pulled off the market.

“In 2010, I brought a team, scientists from every field, and we recounted the stones based on the new evidence, and we found out that the stones of the pyramid…”

Hawass says a 2010 recount found the Great Pyramid contains more than one million stone blocks, with average limestone blocks weighing half a ton to two and a half tons.

“But for a reason we do not know, he left it unfinished. And he went to a place called the shore. He built the”

Hawass says Sneferu's architect Nefermaat first built a step pyramid at Meidum which was left unfinished, then Sneferu built the Bent Pyramid at Dahshur whose angle had to be changed mid-construction.

“The ancient Egyptians believed that a pharaoh should be a male. A pharaoh cannot be a female. Anyone who changed the religious belief, they hit him. Hatshepsut…”

Hawass claims Hatshepsut's monuments were destroyed because ancient Egyptians believed a pharaoh could not be female.