Research Integrity on the Joe Rogan Experience
2 fact-checked claims across 1 episode · Feb 2026 · updated Sep 3, 2026
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- Robert Malone (2)
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“And they had done an analysis that showed that Ivermectin was quite effective. And then something happened, and there was some influence exerted, and suddenly …”
Malone claims a Cochrane meta-analysis found ivermectin "quite effective" against COVID and was later suppressed ("quenched"/"squashed") after unspecified outside influence, rather than revised due to evolving evidence.
“they were running these clinical trials, including the clinical trial that essentially by tweaking the dosing, etc, made it so that they came up with a result …”
Malone claims researchers deliberately manipulated dosing in an ivermectin clinical trial to engineer a false-negative result showing the drug doesn't work.