Alex Berenson

guest·4 claims·1 episode

4 fact-checked claims across 1 episode on the Joe Rogan Experience. Each is a receipt: the exact quote, its timestamp, what published evidence says, and who benefits.

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  1. JRE #1246▶ 48:23

    “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.

  2. JRE #1246▶ 38:35

    “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.

  3. JRE #1246▶ 1:43:37

    “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.

  4. JRE #1246▶ 2:03:41

    “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.