COVID-19 on the Joe Rogan Experience

7 fact-checked claims across 3 episodes, Dec 2021 to May 2024. Each is a receipt: the exact quote, its timestamp, what published evidence says, and who benefits.

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  1. Cancers have increased 300%, all cause mortality. Up 40% in some age groups. Pulmonary embolisms almost up like 500%.

    Howard claims cancer rates rose 300%, all-cause mortality rose 40% in some age groups, and pulmonary embolisms rose nearly 500%, implying this is caused by covid vaccination.

  2. That spike protein went into the DNA and it tells the bRCA one gene turn off. And that's the gene that says, hey, there's a mutation here, let's scrap that thi…

    Howard claims the covid vaccine spike protein enters cell nuclei and turns off the BRCA1 tumor-suppressor gene, causing cancer.

  3. 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.

  4. 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.

  5. 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.

  6. currently we're up to 300 completed studies with hydroxychloroquine, 32 early treatment studies. And it does have an effect size or an efficacy early in treatm…

    McCullough claims 300 completed studies show hydroxychloroquine has about 64% efficacy in early COVID-19 treatment.

  7. There was 55,000 papers in the peer-reviewed literature on COVID-19 and about 4,000 that could have related to certain drugs, but not a single one put the conc…

    McCullough claims that despite tens of thousands of published COVID-19 papers, none had proposed a multidrug outpatient treatment protocol before his August 2020 paper.