Robert Malone
guest·36 claims·2 episodes·updated Sep 3, 2026
36 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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Joe Rogan Experience #2454: Robert Malone, fact-checked
13 claims by Robert Malone·aired Feb 13, 2026
Joe Rogan Experience #1757: Robert Malone, fact-checked
23 claims by Robert Malone·aired Dec 1, 2021
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- JRE #2454▶ 38:17
“Coca-cola is really tight with the CDC. Coca-cola has funded buildings at the CDC. Coca-cola funds the CDC Foundation, foundation for the CDC, as does Bill and…”
Malone claims Coca-Cola's funding ties to the CDC Foundation explain why Coca-Cola allegedly pressured an advertising group to push Spotify to suppress the Rogan-Malone COVID conversation.
- JRE #2454▶ 2:17:49
“These guys have gone through and they've identified seven genes that represent high risk factors for myocarditis after vaccination.”
Malone claims a research group has identified seven specific genes representing high-risk factors for developing myocarditis after vaccination.
- JRE #2454▶ 14:00
“and that would allow you to clear these symptoms of long COVID. That turns out now we have data in just fairly recently that, in fact, the opposite is true.”
Malone claims recent data show vaccination does not clear long COVID symptoms as was promoted, but that the opposite is true.
- JRE #2454▶ 2:22:46
“We have these individuals, I mentioned Yuval Harari, believing that man is God now. We no longer need God.”
Malone claims Yuval Noah Harari believes and has said that humanity no longer needs God because humans have become gods.
- JRE #2454▶ 2:10:46
“Having them exempt from any legal ramifications, the adverse side effects of vaccines, what they did during the Reagan administration, it's really it gave them…”
The speaker claims the Reagan administration exempted vaccine manufacturers from legal liability for adverse effects, giving them free rein to expand the vaccine schedule.
- JRE #2454▶ 1:34:49
“African swine fever virus kills pigs like crazy. And already China has locked down and will not accept Spanish pork. And it is It was a lab leak. And there was…”
Malone claims a Spanish research lab collaborating with the USDA on African swine fever research caused a lab leak that killed wild hogs and triggered China's ban on Spanish pork.
- JRE #2454▶ 20:17
“And I managed to, working with DOD, got over $100 million, set up a contract. It got managed by SAIC, and we were going to go after that using a very cutting-e…”
Malone claims he secured a DOD contract worth over $100 million, managed by defense contractor SAIC, to run a clinical trial combining famotidine, celecoxib and ivermectin, and that the FDA blocked ivermectin's inclusion by demanding cell-culture antiviral data first.
- JRE #2454▶ 1:01:46
“The only two threads that I can pull on at all is that Ivermectin is a miracle drug. I mean, Nobel Prize, right? We don't understand completely how it works.”
Malone invokes ivermectin's Nobel Prize pedigree to frame it as a poorly-understood 'miracle drug' being suppressed for COVID because it's off-patent, rather than because trials found it ineffective.
- JRE #2454▶ 1:06:00
“And they had done an analysis that showed that Ivermectin was quite effective. And then something happened, and there was some influence exerted, and suddenly …”
Malone claims a Cochrane meta-analysis found ivermectin "quite effective" against COVID and was later suppressed ("quenched"/"squashed") after unspecified outside influence, rather than revised due to evolving evidence.
- JRE #2454▶ 2:05:24
“This is what all this brouhaha was about the open mic event with Putin, about we can use transplantation to let us live another hundred years. Remember that li…”
Malone references a viral hot-mic moment in which Putin allegedly discussed using organ transplantation to extend human life by another hundred years.
- JRE #2454▶ 2:12:08
“So if there's no other program in the entire United States government that is outside of Congressional oversight. The ACIP can decide that this vaccine needs t…”
Malone claims the CDC's ACIP/Vaccines for Children program is the only U.S. government program with purchasing authority that operates entirely outside congressional oversight.
- JRE #2454▶ 1:08:03
“they were running these clinical trials, including the clinical trial that essentially by tweaking the dosing, etc, made it so that they came up with a result …”
Malone claims researchers deliberately manipulated dosing in an ivermectin clinical trial to engineer a false-negative result showing the drug doesn't work.
- JRE #2454▶ 32:14
“And the government believes in the UK that once they have won an election, it's perfectly acceptable to deploy this modern psychology and information control t…”
Malone claims the UK government holds an explicit position that winning an election entitles it to deploy psychological and information-control technology against its own citizens.
- JRE #1757▶ 48:22
“The only way that I can understand how all of this messaging, censorship, deplatforming, track is Tony Fauci canceling the esteemed virologist Peter Duesberg b…”
Malone claims Anthony Fauci was responsible for 'canceling' virologist Peter Duesberg over Duesberg's HIV/AIDS origin claims, framing it as an early precedent for COVID-era censorship.
- JRE #1757▶ 1:23:03
“Incidence rate is 1 in 2,700. Now, there's all kinds of hand-waving that, oh, myocarditis is mild, and they recover from it, okay? Those statements aren't, let…”
Malone claims the historic death rate following myocarditis is about 27%, implying post-vaccination myocarditis in boys carries similarly high mortality risk.
- JRE #1757▶ 1:29:10
“It goes to the ovary at a very high rate, like 11% of the lipids. Now, this wasn't supposed to happen. It was supposed to stay in the arm where it got jabbed, …”
Malone claims that Pfizer's biodistribution data show about 11% of the vaccine's lipid nanoparticles accumulate in the ovaries, which he presents as unexpected and concerning.
- JRE #1757▶ 1:01:22
“the hospitals receive a bonus from the government. I think it's like $3,000 if someone is hospitalized and able to be declared COVID positive. They also receiv…”
Malone claims hospitals receive roughly $3,000 for a COVID-positive hospitalization and about $30,000 total incentive if a COVID patient is placed on a ventilator.
- JRE #1757▶ 25:23
“He's put together a great little video clip in which he clearly documents the conspiracy between Janet Woodcock and Rick Bright to make it so that physicians c…”
Malone asserts that Zev Zelenko documented a conspiracy between FDA's Janet Woodcock and BARDA's Rick Bright to restrict hydroxychloroquine to hospital-only use.
- JRE #1757▶ 2:35:42
“Pfizer is one of the most criminal pharmaceutical organizations in the world based on their past legal history and fines.”
Malone claims Pfizer is one of the most criminal pharmaceutical organizations in the world based on its legal history and fines, including bribing physicians.
- JRE #1757▶ 1:45:16
“If it causes toxicity, it is, right? It is a toxin by definition. It is – toxin is as a toxin does”
Malone asserts flatly that the spike protein is 'a toxin by definition' because it causes toxicity in people.
- JRE #1757▶ 24:13
“there's good modeling studies that probably half a million excess deaths have happened in the United States through the intentional blockade of early treatment…”
Malone claims modeling studies show roughly half a million excess U.S. deaths resulted from the government's intentional blockade of early COVID treatments (hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin).
- JRE #1757▶ 2:39:14
“in the 20s and 30s. Very intelligent, highly educated population and they went barking mad. And they went barking mad. And how did that happen? The answer is m…”
Malone attributes German society's turn toward Nazism in the 1920s-30s to "mass formation psychosis," a concept he credits to psychologist Matthias Desmet, and draws a direct parallel to COVID-era public compliance.
- JRE #1757▶ 2:18:39
“In the case of Omicron, the R0, the base reproduction coefficient, is in the range of 7 to 10. Okay? That is a wicked high. That is measles territory.”
Malone claims Omicron's basic reproduction number (R0) is in the range of 7 to 10, comparable to measles.
- JRE #1757▶ 38:58
“What they did with that was a very small study with intrinsic bias all over the place, much, much smaller than the Israeli study that you're citing, much less …”
Malone dismisses a CDC study on natural immunity (contradicting the Israeli natural-immunity study) as much smaller, biased, and less rigorous.
- JRE #1757▶ 2:15:38
“Now there's, as I said, over time, there will be deaths associated. Remember we talked about the difference between causal and association? Yeah. Okay. And als…”
Malone claims 95% of people who died from COVID had an average of four comorbidities.
- JRE #1757▶ 1:58:27
“there is signs in some data, and we were talking about this just before the broadcast, from Denmark, among other places, of negative efficacy against Omicron a…”
Malone claims Danish data show 'negative efficacy' against Omicron that worsens with each additional vaccine dose (one, two, then three shots).
- JRE #1757▶ 2:53:12
“We are having a huge surge of drug abuse in adolescents. We're having demonstrable drops in IQ and fundamental developmental milestones in the very young, like…”
Malone claims there have been demonstrable drops of about 20 IQ points in young children's developmental milestones due to pandemic lockdown/mask policies.
- JRE #1757▶ 2:14:59
“we know from South Africa for sure that Omicron, and the WHO made the statement there are no known deaths associated with Omicron in the world. Now, there may …”
Malone claims the WHO stated there were no known deaths worldwide associated with the Omicron variant at the time.
- JRE #1757▶ 29:16
“it is bizarre that Merck would come out with these explicit statements about the safety of ivermectin. Both ivermectin and hydroxy are on the WHO list of essen…”
Malone claims it's inexplicable that Merck warned against ivermectin's safety/efficacy for COVID given both drugs are on the WHO Essential Medicines List.
- JRE #1757▶ 1:13:30
“But Thomson Reuters is tied to Pfizer. They have common corporate ownership and they are the fact checker of Twitter now”
Malone claims Thomson Reuters shares common corporate ownership with Pfizer and, through that link, controls fact-checking on Twitter.
- JRE #1757▶ 1:05:34
“the Maddie DeGerry case, this young woman who was listed as having a stomach ache that participated in the Pfizer trials, when in fact what she had was a seizu…”
Malone claims Pfizer's adolescent trial mislabeled a severe adverse reaction (seizures, paralysis, feeding-tube dependency) in a 13-year-old participant (Maddie de Garay) as mere 'gastric distress.'
- JRE #1757▶ 33:52
“there was a specific visit of Biden to Modi and a decision was made in the Indian government not to disclose the contents of those packages that were being dep…”
Malone implies a Biden-Modi meeting led to India concealing the contents of a COVID treatment package deployed in Uttar Pradesh, which allegedly included ivermectin.
- JRE #1757▶ 27:45
“Now, that's false. Hydroxychloroquine was known to be effective against SARS-1.”
Malone asserts that hydroxychloroquine was already known to be effective against the original SARS-CoV (SARS-1) virus.
- JRE #1757▶ 38:12
“that study in Israel, which is like, what, 2.5 million people, I think, they said that it's between six and 13 times more effective than the vaccine. That is s…”
Malone claims an Israeli study of ~2.5 million people found prior COVID infection (natural immunity) is 6-13x (and elsewhere 27x) more effective than vaccination at preventing hospitalized COVID.
- JRE #1757▶ 2:16:30
“So regardless, the mortality of Omicron is remarkably low. I think we can all agree on that. It's essentially like a cold.”
Malone claims Omicron's mortality is remarkably low and that it is essentially equivalent to a common cold.
- JRE #1757▶ 1:26:44
“The number that keeps getting cited is one in a thousand people have adverse events, including myocarditis. If myocarditis that requires hospitalization is one…”
Malone states that myocarditis requiring hospitalization after COVID vaccination occurs in about 1 in 2,700 boys.