Academia on the Joe Rogan Experience
5 fact-checked claims across 2 episodes · Nov 2016 to Apr 2023 · updated Jul 21, 2026
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“the student who screamed up a storm about the male professor, who was the husband of the woman who wrote the pro-Halloween costume letter, it turned out she wa…”
Peterson claims that at the Yale Halloween costume controversy, the student who confronted the professor had herself sat on the hiring committee that hired him.
“No, it didn't exist, there's no evidence for it whatsoever, it's complicated but it's the telling of a kind of psychological myth as if it was history”
Peterson claims there is no evidence whatsoever for the prehistoric matriarchal society described by archaeologist Marija Gimbutas, calling it pure myth.
“He was a professor who taught transgender studies at the University of Toronto. And yeah, he said outright that there were no biological differences between me…”
Peterson claims a University of Toronto professor of transgender studies stated on a TV program that scientific consensus holds there are no biological differences between men and women.
“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.
“Jonathan Haidt, he's a psychologist at the New York University Business School.”
Peterson identifies Jonathan Haidt as a psychologist at the NYU Business School.