Gain Of Function on the Joe Rogan Experience
2 fact-checked claims across 2 episodes · Jun 2023 to Jun 2025 · updated Jul 11, 2026
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“Well, the pandemic, the problem with that is it's engineered. Like, people actually made that virus and Obama tried to stop that gain of function shit back in …”
The COVID-19 virus was engineered by people, and the Obama administration moved to halt gain-of-function research in 2014.
“that showed that yes they were doing what would we consider to be gain-of-function research there. Yes, the NIH funded this.”
Rogan claims it has been clearly shown that NIH funded gain-of-function research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.