Pharmaceuticals on the Joe Rogan Experience

4 fact-checked claims across 3 episodes · Nov 2024 to Jun 2025 · updated Jul 16, 2026

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  1. we would expect our nutrition is changing, the quality of foods that we eat, and the fact that we have since 1986 statin drugs, which are $36 billion a year, w…

    Mark Gordon claims statin drugs have existed since 1986 and generate $36 billion a year in sales.

  2. Well, yes, about 33%. They looked at it over 10 years. 33% had significant safety warnings on the drugs. And it took about four years for those to become recog…

    Bowden claims a study found about 33 percent of drugs had significant safety warnings recognized on average about four years after approval, over a 10-year period.

  3. In the emails that were admitted during the hearings when they lost or during the court proceedings They wound up paying a fraction of what they made they made…

    Rogan claims the maker of Vioxx made about 12 billion dollars and paid only a fraction of that in settlement.

  4. they knew there was going to be cardiovascular events people were going to get strokes... They made like $12 billion, they got fined seven, and 50 to 60 thousa…

    Rogan claims internal emails showed Merck knew Vioxx caused strokes, that the company made $12 billion and was fined $7 billion, and that 50,000-60,000 people died as a result.