Health on the Joe Rogan Experience
8 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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“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.
“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.
“You know, I said not one of these 72 vaccines has ever been tested pre-licensing in a placebo-controlled trial where you're looking at vaccinated versus unvacc…”
Kennedy claims none of the 72 vaccines on the childhood schedule have ever been tested against a true placebo in a trial comparing vaccinated vs. unvaccinated children for health outcomes.
“And it was killing one out of – killing or giving severe brain damage to one in 300 kids. And it was pulled in the United States. It was pulled in Europe. But …”
Kennedy claims a version of the DPT vaccine caused severe brain damage or death in 1 of every 300 children, was banned in the US and Europe, but is still given to 161 million African children annually via Bill Gates-backed programs.
“For example, almost 50% of FDA's budget comes from pharmaceutical companies. They're not working for us. They're working for the pharmaceutical company with CD…”
Kennedy claims nearly 50% of the FDA's budget comes from pharmaceutical companies via user fees, implying regulatory capture.
“we've had 146 million people who've had the respiratory infection. Less than 1% died. Right. But the ones that have gotten the injection and died or got myocar…”
McCullough asserts that COVID-19 vaccines have caused death or myocarditis in a comparably significant share of the roughly 200 million vaccinated Americans.
“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.
“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.