Polio on the Joe Rogan Experience
7 fact-checked claims across 3 episodes · Sep 2024 to Feb 2026 · updated Sep 3, 2026
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- Suzanne Humphries (5)
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“And in a child, the gut is sitting right in front of the spinal cord. And so it is affecting the motor neurons, not the sensory neurons which are on the back b…”
Weinstein claims (citing the book 'The Moth and the Iron Lung') that polio paralysis is caused by metal toxicity making a normally mild gut virus leak into neurological tissue near the spinal cord, rather than by the poliovirus itself.
“It's 95 to 99 % of polio is asymptomatic. And then you find out through Suzanne Humphreys' work that they were spraying DDT ubiquitously all over the country a…”
Rogan claims that historical DDT spraying, not poliovirus, caused paralytic-polio-like symptoms, citing that 95-99% of polio infections are asymptomatic.
“So along comes polio research, and the polio vaccine, even to this day, is made on African green monkey kidney cells. Now, the African green monkey kidneys ear…”
Humphries claims the polio vaccine is still made on African green monkey kidney cells and that Dr. Bernice Eddy discovered the cancer-causing SV40 virus in the vaccine substrate.
“I read this crazy statistic, and I still can't believe it's real, that 95 to 99 percent of all polio is asymptomatic. So polio virus is what we call a commensa…”
Humphries states that 95 to 99 percent of polio infections are asymptomatic and that poliovirus is a commensal organism.
“So how this affects me is that I'm a kidney specialist, and I looked at the curve of kidney cancers that have gone up since the inception of polio vaccines and…”
Humphries claims kidney cancer rates rose after the introduction of polio vaccines and SV40, and that SV40 enhances two oncogenes and inhibits two tumor suppressors.
“And what they found was 98 to 99% of every person they tested, and it was hundreds of people, had evidence of immunity to all three strains of polio. And they …”
Humphries claims a study of a South American tribe found 98 to 99 percent had immunity to all three polio strains despite no paralysis or polio deaths.
“1916, Upper East Side, Manhattan, there was a Rockefeller lab that their specific stated goal was to try to create the most pathological, neuropathological str…”
Humphries claims a 1916 Rockefeller lab tried to create the most neuropathological polio strain, accidentally released it, and caused the worst polio epidemic on record with 25 percent mortality.