Policy on the Joe Rogan Experience

“passed in 1986. But before 1986, we had 1976, which was the swine flu vaccine fiasco. And that was a situation where there was so much injury that the vaccine …”

Humphries states that the 1976 swine flu vaccine caused so much injury (Guillain-Barre) that manufacturers lost insurance and the government indemnified them, setting a precedent for the 1986 vaccine act.

“I think you only have to have like one 16th Native American to catch a check in some places. I'm not sure what it is in Canada, but something like that.”

Rogan claims that in some places only 1/16th Native American ancestry (blood quantum) is required to receive tribal payments/benefits.

“The military is banned from using tear gas on the battlefield, but police can use it on crowds at home.”

Rogan claims tear gas is banned for military use in warfare under international law (citing the Geneva Convention) yet remains legal for domestic police use on protesters.

“So we put a lot of pressure. We are trying to raise the minimum wage, federal minimum wage to 17 bucks an hour.”

Sanders is pushing legislation to raise the federal minimum wage to $17 an hour.

“They had publicly owned oil companies, they made a fortune, and they have like a trillion dollars in their wealth for a small country, you know, so and they ha…”

Norway built an oil-funded sovereign wealth fund worth about a trillion dollars and provides free healthcare, free college, and affordable housing.

“I mean, you know, on the Eisenhower, the very rich paid at their upper levels 90%, you know.”

Under Eisenhower the top marginal income tax rate on the very rich was 90 percent.

“So that for example, right now in Washington, the national minimum wage is $7.25 an hour.”

The US federal minimum wage is currently $7.25 an hour.

“Why do we have 85 million people who are uninsured or uninsured?”

Eighty-five million people in the US are uninsured or underinsured.

“You make marine protected areas like national parks that you need about 15% of the total coastal territory”

Peterson claims that protecting about 15% of total coastal territory as marine protected areas would solve the problem of depleted coastal fisheries.

“we're spending about $1.5 trillion right now on 126 welfare programs”

Yang claims the US currently spends $1.5 trillion a year across 126 different welfare programs.

“if something devastating happens to you in any other form you can file for bankruptcy but you never escape your student loans no matter what happens to you”

Yang claims that unlike other debts, student loans can never be discharged in bankruptcy no matter what happens to the borrower.

“at last count, I think they spent, you know, two and three quarter billion dollars. They got $250 million left. And guess what they're studying now? Adult stem…”

Riordan claims California's embryonic stem cell program (CIRM, funded by the ~$3 billion Prop 71) spent nearly all its money and pivoted almost entirely to adult/umbilical cord stem cell research after embryonic approaches failed.