Placebo on the Joe Rogan Experience
2 fact-checked claims across 2 episodes · Mar 2025 · updated Jul 16, 2026
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- Dr. Andrew Weil (1)
- Suzanne Humphries (1)
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“No native of Lourdes has ever been cured. And the chances that a person is going to be healed there”
Weil claims no native resident of Lourdes has ever been healed there, and that the odds of being healed are directly proportional to the length of the journey to reach it.
“So if you're testing a measles vaccine, you know, you could test it against a diphtheria vaccine or a flu shot vaccine is tested against a hepatitis A vaccine.…”
Humphries claims vaccine trials do not use saline placebos but test against other vaccines, and that saline-placebo studies show vaccines make recipients more susceptible to the disease.