Safety on the Joe Rogan Experience
6 fact-checked claims across 6 episodes · Apr 2018 to Jan 2022 · updated Jul 20, 2026
Each is a receipt: the exact quote, its timestamp, what published evidence says, and who benefits.
Most claims
- Matthew Walker (1)
- Tim Kennedy (1)
- Andrew Yang (1)
- Jordan Peterson (1)
- Paul Stamets (1)
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Logged claims
“There was a 70% reduction in car crashes the following year.”
Walker claims that delaying a high school's start time produced a 70% reduction in teen car crashes the following year, citing the specific case (named earlier in the same passage) of Teton County, Wyoming shifting its school start time from 7:35 to 8:55 a.m.
“you're trying to make yourself the biggest pebble to raise you to the top of this huge friction um so because most people they actually die of traumatic injuri…”
Kennedy claims most avalanche fatalities are caused by traumatic injury during the slide rather than asphyxiation from being buried.
“the savings from automating truck driving are estimated to be 168 billion dollars per year. And not just labor savings, but also equipment utilization because …”
Yang claims truck accidents currently kill about 4,000 people a year and that automation would save $168 billion annually.
“more people die every year from solar energy than die from nuclear. Who dies from solar? Guess how you die from solar? Sunburn? No, you fall off the roofs when…”
Peterson claims more people die annually from solar energy installation accidents than from nuclear power.
“I decided that even though it had a history of potentially of killing this child, I think that's a false positive. I think it was bad science. I couldn't find …”
Stamets describes dismissing a documented child fatality linked to baeocystin as 'bad science' before self-administering the compound in an uncontrolled N-of-1 experiment.
“The number that keeps getting cited is one in a thousand people have adverse events, including myocarditis. If myocarditis that requires hospitalization is one…”
Malone states that myocarditis requiring hospitalization after COVID vaccination occurs in about 1 in 2,700 boys.