Randall Carlson

guest·4 claims·2 episodes·updated Jul 20, 2026

4 fact-checked claims across 2 episodes 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 #872▶ 29:41

    “right now NASA is spending the equivalent of one attack helicopter a year on investigating the comet and asteroid danger. You know, $50 million a year.”

    The guest states NASA spends about $50 million a year investigating comet and asteroid impact danger.

  2. JRE #872▶ 12:58

    “there's a thing called the Taurid meteor stream, which is 30 million kilometers wide and which envelops the solar system.”

    The guest claims the Taurid meteor stream is 30 million kilometers wide and is the debris of a 100km-diameter comet that caused a cataclysmic impact on the North American ice cap 12,800 years ago.

  3. JRE #872▶ 3:42

    “Came in, it was about 50 feet in diameter, which is about, and it came in at a fairly low angle.”

    The guest describes the 2013 Chelyabinsk meteor as about 50 feet in diameter, exploding roughly 12 miles (20 km) up and injuring 1,500 people.

  4. JRE #961▶ 1:46:56

    “there could have been no possibility of anything like a comet impact 12,800 years ago, and that these 63 or 65 scientists who are proposing that are just compl…”

    Carlson claims 63 or 65 scientists support the Younger Dryas comet impact hypothesis and that a 2011 'Requiem' paper refuting it has itself been thoroughly refuted.