Biology on the Joe Rogan Experience
6 fact-checked claims across 4 episodes · Aug 2020 to Mar 2025 · updated Jul 18, 2026
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- Terrence Howard (3)
- Suzanne Humphries (1)
- Tim Kennedy (1)
- Dr. Debra Soh (1)
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“What happens so the spike of COVID, which is the evil part of COVID, has all these horrible lab engineered proteins encoded into them and two of them are snake…”
Humphries claims the COVID spike protein contains two lab-engineered snake toxin proteins that bind nicotinic receptors, and that nicotine can block those receptors.
“a sow can have like at the age of one it could start having three or four litters a year i think it's six months oh it's crazy i think they can start breeding …”
Kennedy claims feral sows can start breeding as young as six months old and produce three or four litters per year.
“So there are two genders. And so gender, for 99% of us, our biological sex is our gender. Biological sex is determined by gametes, which are either eggs or spe…”
Soh claims sex/gender is strictly binary for 99% of people because biological sex is defined by gamete type, with no intermediate gametes.
“If we are 98.7% identical to simians, right, and there's only 1.3% differentiation, who's more evolved? But you look at the simians, they have 48 chromosomes, …”
Howard claims humans are 98.7% genetically identical to simians and asks how humans lost two chromosomes relative to apes, implying this is an unexplained mystery.
“we produce 1500 sperm per heartbeat. Women are born with 200 to 500,000 eggs in each of their ovaries. They don't get anymore.”
Howard claims men produce 1,500 sperm per heartbeat and women are born with 200,000 to 500,000 eggs per ovary that are never replenished.
“Do you think a grain of rice has 54,000 genomes in it? We only have 26,000. Who is more evolved?”
Howard claims rice has 54,000 genes (using "genomes" loosely) compared to about 26,000 in humans, implying this challenges assumptions about human evolutionary superiority.