Public Health on the Joe Rogan Experience

11 fact-checked claims across 8 episodes · Oct 2020 to Jun 2025 · updated Jul 16, 2026

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  1. Hong Kong right now, if you look up, if you Google Hong Kong life expectancy, they live the longest out of anybody in the world, right? They eat about 40% more…

    Baker claims Hong Kong has the world's longest life expectancy and that its residents eat about 40% more red meat than Americans, implying red meat consumption explains their longevity.

  2. our sperm count, our miscarriage rates, our fertility rates, our testosterone levels, they're all going south, if you will, at the rate of about 1% per year

    Swan claims sperm count, miscarriage rates, fertility rates, and testosterone levels are all declining at roughly 1% per year due to endocrine-disrupting chemicals.

  3. It's so common that I think the number was 74% of people in the country are deficient in vitamin D.

    Bowden claims 74 percent of people in the country are deficient in vitamin D.

  4. What we show in here, what other scientists have shown, is that it's about 3.5% of the contribution from medicine goes into our extended lifespan. 3.5% based o…

    Humphries claims medicine (antibiotics, vaccines, etc.) contributed only about 3.5 percent to extended human lifespan, with the rest from sanitation and living conditions.

  5. One in 36 children has autism now in the United States. That was one in 150 in the year 2000. And in California, where I live, it's one in 22. One in 22 with a…

    Casey Means claims US autism prevalence is now one in 36 children, up from one in 150 in 2000, one in 22 in California, and that 25 percent of men under 40 have erectile dysfunction.

  6. 74 percent of Americans are overweight or obese 50% now of American adults have type 2 diabetes or pre-diabetes. These were diseases where there was 1% of Amer…

    Casey Means states that 74 percent of Americans are overweight or obese and 50 percent of American adults have type 2 diabetes or pre-diabetes, up from 1 percent with type 2 diabetes in 1950.

  7. So the flu shot has never been shown to prevent hospitalization or death.

    Bowden claims the flu shot has never been shown to prevent hospitalization or death.

  8. Life expectancy has gone down, actually. Whoops. Whoops. Despite all the vaccines.

    Bowden claims US life expectancy has gone down.

  9. There's 100,000 plus people every year that are dying from opioid overdoses,

    More than 100,000 people die each year in the United States from opioid overdoses.

  10. I advise the Sri Lankan government. They reached out to me and said, listen, we're in trouble. We're getting buried with COVID.

    McCullough claims he personally advised the Sri Lankan government to distribute ivermectin/hydroxychloroquine protocols and that this successfully handled their COVID pandemic.

  11. Plan B and Planned Parenthood were planned by a eugenics that set out and said out loud, I'm doing this to kill the black race and to create population control.

    Kanye West claims Planned Parenthood was founded by a eugenicist who explicitly said the goal was to kill the Black race and enact population control.