Science on the Joe Rogan Experience

“there's different isotopes of every element. And element 115, just like any other element, there can be a stable version of it and a hundred or 50 different un…”

Lazar claims element 115 (moscovium) can exist in a stable isotope form alongside many unstable isotopes.

“So Element 115 was not even really discussed back when you were doing this. It wasn't even discovered or proven physically until it was a large Hadron Collide…”

Rogan asserts element 115 was first proven to exist via a Large Hadron Collider experiment in the 2000s.

“It took Mother Nature 3.6 million years to put this thing called sleep necessity in place, and we've come along and within the space of a hundred years, we've …”

Walker claims that sleep as a biological necessity took 3.6 million years of evolution to develop, and that modern society has cut sleep time by almost 20% within the last hundred years.

“And at that point, the median, that's the middle of the distribution, was 99 million sperm per milliliter.”

Swan states her 2017 meta-analysis found median sperm concentration in Western countries fell from 99 million/mL in 1973 to 47 million/mL in 2011.

“2007, out comes this hypothesis with mainstream backing by mainstream scientists saying that it looks like there was a series, not just one impact, but multipl…”

Hancock claims the Younger Dryas Impact Hypothesis (multiple comet fragments striking Earth ~12,800 years ago) has mainstream scientific backing.

“Well, they had a depiction of the solar system, not just a depiction, but all of the planets in the proper order.”

Rogan claims a 6,000-year-old Sumerian clay tablet accurately depicts the full solar system, heliocentric and in correct planetary order, including planets not visible to the naked eye.

“The first was that a sizeable 711 genes were distorted in their activity caused by one week of six hours of sleep.”

Walker claims a study found that one week of 6 hours of sleep per night distorted the activity of 711 genes compared to getting 8 hours.

“One of those toxic sticky proteins that builds up as we're awake, it's called beta amyloid. Beta amyloid is one of the leading causes underlying the mechanism …”

Walker claims that a toxic protein (beta-amyloid, garbled in the transcript) builds up in the brain during wakefulness and is cleared during deep sleep, and that its accumulation from insufficient sleep is one of the leading causes underlying Alzheimer's disease.

“Add that up, it's about 70 thousand extra calories a year. It's about 10 to 15 pounds of obese mass each year.”

Walker claims that chronic sleep deprivation's extra daily calorie intake adds up to about 70,000 extra calories and 10 to 15 pounds of fat gain per year.

“You're much more likely, for example, to be struck by lightning in your lifetime, the odds of which I think are about 1 in 12,500, than you are to have this in…”

Walker claims that fewer than 1% of people carry a special gene allowing survival on about 5 hours of sleep, and says a person is more likely to be struck by lightning (odds he cites as roughly 1 in 12,500) than to have this rare gene.

“If you wanna go to the AIDS rabbit hole, look up a guy named Peter Duesberg.”

Gibson endorses Peter Duesberg, a scientist who denies HIV causes AIDS, as a credible source to investigate.

“there's this really interesting place called the Raqefet Cave. And it was a burial site with about 30 individuals. This is between 11,700 BC and 9,700 BC. A te…”

Muraresku claims a Stanford-led excavation at Raqefet Cave in Israel found 13,000-year-old evidence of beer brewing in a burial site.

“I question carbon dating. Yeah.”

Gibson states he questions the validity of carbon dating as a scientific method, in response to being asked about 11,000-year-old carbon-dated structures like Gobekli Tepe.

“There's a comet up there called Comet Encke, which is part of the Taurid meteor stream. It's a large fragment of the original giant comet. Comet Encke has a di…”

Hancock claims there is a comet named 'Comet Enki,' 5-6 kilometers in diameter, that is a surviving fragment of the original giant comet behind the Taurid meteor stream.

“Now, the deformed wing virus is being vectored by the varroa mite. It came in 1984 and it injects viruses into bees and so it's like a dirty syringe and these …”

Stamets claims the varroa mite arrived in 1984 and vectors deformed wing virus into honeybee colonies like a dirty syringe.

“Well, most people don't understand that the sugar industry's hijacking of science in the 1950s, the way they paid off those scientists to literally false adver…”

Speaker claims the sugar industry paid scientists in the 1950s to falsely blame saturated fat/cholesterol for heart disease instead of sugar.

“Apparently, they did a study where they show the difference between someone taking psilocybin to try to quit smoking cigarettes and some really large number of…”

A speaker cites a study claiming about 80% of people quit smoking cigarettes after taking psilocybin.

“you can amputate half of the liver, and it can regenerate within 36 hours”

Weil claims that after removing half the liver, it fully regenerates within 36 hours.

“And so you'd see all this coverage of young kids who had transitioned to the opposite sex. And their parents were elated. The kids were doing so well, apparent…”

Soh claims research shows most gender-dysphoric children will outgrow their feelings rather than remain trans, implying transition coverage is misleading.

“And so if we look at something like I was saying earlier about if it's a little boy who says he's a girl, he's likely going to grow up to be a gay man. You can…”

Soh claims every scientific study ever done supports the conclusion that boys who identify as girls will likely grow up to be gay men rather than trans.

“cited the studies that showed why people choose different professions, why people gravitate towards different activities and different professions based on gen…”

Soh claims the fired Google engineer James Damore's memo cited legitimate studies on gender differences in occupational preferences and was mischaracterized by media as anti-woman.

“there's a John Hopkins study. There's several studies that they're doing right now that they're trying to show that there's a direct correlation between use of…”

Gabbard claims Johns Hopkins and other clinical studies show psilocybin is curing addictions to cigarettes, heroin, and other substances.

“he claimed in 1976, it was five to ten times more potent than psilocybin”

Muraresku claims Albert Hofmann self-experimented with ergonovine (an ergot alkaloid) and found it five to ten times more potent than psilocybin.

“There was one meta-analysis, I believe it was of 27 studies that did show for people who have transitioned that they do experience a lessening of feelings of g…”

Soh cites a meta-analysis of 27 studies showing that people who medically transition experience reduced gender dysphoria and improved life satisfaction.

“So there are two genders. And so gender, for 99% of us, our biological sex is our gender. Biological sex is determined by gametes, which are either eggs or spe…”

Soh claims sex/gender is strictly binary for 99% of people because biological sex is defined by gamete type, with no intermediate gametes.

“one of the things he talked about in 1989 was this thing called element 115 that back then was really only theoretical. They didn't even know element 113 or 11…”

Rogan claims Bob Lazar's 1989 mention of a theoretical 'element 115' was vindicated when a particle collider detected the element in 2013.

“we are giving people quizzes and then we are giving people recommendations and then we are measuring to see whether we can change anyone's mind. And we're gett…”

Epstein claims his lab experiments show biased search rankings can shift people's opinions/votes by 70-90% with zero detection by subjects.

“we found enough bias on Google, but not Bing or Yahoo, to have shifted 78 million votes. That's spread across hundreds of elections, though, okay, with no one …”

Epstein claims his 2018 midterm monitoring found Google search bias sufficient to have shifted 78 million votes across hundreds of elections.

“we knew from the experiments we had run that that was enough bias to have shifted over a period of time among undecided voters somewhere between 2.6 and 10.4 m…”

Epstein claims his research found Google search bias shifted 2.6 to 10.4 million votes toward Hillary Clinton in the 2016 election without voters' awareness.

“as soon as she reported the science, and actually she didn't do the science, she did a meta-analysis of like 50 studies and said, overall here's what it says. …”

Dr. Phil claims a researcher who published a meta-analysis of about 50 studies on transgender athletes and sports performance was labeled transphobic and forced out of her position for reporting the science.

“60 major scientists published in all the big mainstream journals proposing that the Earth went through an absolutely catastrophic episode between 12,800 and 11…”

Hancock claims 60 mainstream scientists have published papers confirming a catastrophic Earth event 12,800-11,600 years ago that vindicates his lost-civilization theory.

“It ain't a hoax. I think the last 10 years have been the warmest on record.”

The last 10 years have been the warmest on record.

“produced a 300-page dossier revealing a steady stream of suspect images between 1997 and 2023 at 132 of his published research papers.”

A 300-page dossier revealed suspect images in 132 of Masliah's published research papers spanning 1997 to 2023.

“70 percent of them can't be reproduced. And when you looked at the actual scientists who did the original work, goes back and tries to reproduce it, 70 percent…”

Dr. Gordon claims 70 percent of published scientific studies cannot be reproduced, even by the original scientists.

“The B-83, the largest deployed U.S. nuclear warhead, is equivalent to 80 Hiroshima-sized bombs. 80.”

A reference read on-air states the B83, the largest deployed U.S. nuclear warhead, is equivalent to 80 Hiroshima-sized bombs.

“And hes worked on this for over ten years, assessing the injuries to us servicemen from being in close proximity to these objects or having contact with these …”

Carlson claims a Stanford professor (Garry Nolan) concluded that unexplained energy from UAP encounters scrambles or kills US servicemembers' brains.

“So I reached out to Neil degrasse Tyson. Neil degrasse Tyson. I saw him at an event upfront, you know, at Fox, and he was like, hey, man, yeah, I'd love for yo…”

Howard claims Neil deGrasse Tyson initially invited him onto his show/radio/TV program after meeting at a Fox event, before later attacking his physics treatise and cutting off contact.

“There's over a 130 something thousand years worth of water damage under the Sphinx itself.”

Howard claims there is evidence of roughly 130,000 years of water damage/erosion beneath the Sphinx.

“the most reliable difference that psychologists have ever found between men and women, the biggest difference, is interest. So women are reliably more interest…”

Peterson claims that the largest and most reliable psychological sex difference ever documented is a 'people vs. things' interest difference, at about one standard deviation.

“70% of people, if you sum their scores across all 13 domains, scored zero”

Peterson claims his Creative Achievement Questionnaire research found that 70% of people score zero across all 13 measured creative domains, meaning most people are not creative at all.

“not only is that true, it's so true that you can model the distribution of money in a population using equations derived from physics.”

Peterson claims that wealth concentration in a population can be modeled with equations derived from physics, presenting this as strong confirmation of Marx's observation.

“the guy's a professor at at Columbia he said that there's two drugs that will kill you when you get off of them he goes it's alcohol and benzodiazepine”

Rogan claims that Dr. Carl Hart, a Columbia professor, says alcohol and benzodiazepines are the only two drugs whose withdrawal can be fatal.

“5% of them would drink themselves into a coma on first exposure.”

Peterson claims that in a Montreal researcher's study of wild-caught vervet (green) monkeys given access to alcohol, 5% of the monkeys drank themselves into a coma on their very first exposure.

“2004, Dermstadt, Germany, I think is where they first fabricated four atoms. It lasted 220 milliseconds. The atoms, it's nothing, right?”

Lazar claims element 115 (moscovium) was first artificially fabricated in 2004 in Darmstadt, Germany, producing four atoms that lasted 220 milliseconds.

“there's two clinical studies out of Japan with mild cognitive decline and dementia showing very positive results taking two to four grams of lion's mane per da…”

Stamets claims two Japanese clinical studies show lion's mane mushroom (2-4 grams/day of mycelium) produces strong positive results against mild cognitive decline and dementia.

“we've entered into 6X, the sixth greatest extinction event known in the history of life on this planet. We've had two other extinction events from asteroid imp…”

Stamets claims we are currently in the sixth mass extinction event and that the prior two mass extinctions were caused by asteroid impacts 250 million and 65 million years ago.

“But it was like they they looked at it and they did some core samples on it, and it was put out there by people advocating evolution, and they discovered that …”

Gibson claims the Zinjanthropus fossil was a hoax fabricated by evolution advocates, combining a human skull with an ape jaw.

“It's phenomenal for just overall recovery of for everything. And it's it's also been shown to lengthen telomeres. They did a study out of Israel. Yeah. They ga…”

Gibson claims a study out of Israel showed hyperbaric oxygen therapy lengthens telomeres and decreases biological age using a 90-day protocol.

“Also, the weave was a 1st century weave that was typical. And another guy, an archeologist who I knew who actually translated the passion in Aramaic, told me t…”

Gibson claims the Shroud of Turin has a first-century weave pattern and that faint images of a Tiberius-era coin are visible over the eyes of the figure.

“I'm sure. When he was lying to Rand Paul about whether or not they did gain of function research. Like, how is that not perjury? How is he not in trouble?”

Rogan claims Anthony Fauci lied under oath to Senator Rand Paul about NIH funding gain-of-function research, and asserts this should constitute perjury.

“This is a system that uses a stable element called element 115 that was just theoretical until they discovered that it actually exists in a particle collider i…”

Rogan claims element 115 (referenced by Bob Lazar) was purely theoretical until it was discovered to actually exist via a particle collider in the 2000s.

“They've been going in the wrong direction. 96% of physics is unknown matter that they've had to make up to account for it.”

Howard claims 96% of physics consists of made-up 'unknown matter' invented to patch over gaps in the standard model.

“I think most biologists will agree that the biggest mystery in the entire fossil record is the doubling of the human brain size over a period of 2 million year…”

Rogan claims most biologists consider the doubling of human brain size over 2 million years the biggest unsolved mystery in the fossil record.

“And they weren't necessarily doing electronics, but silver is even more conductive if you want it for electronics. Silver is like 17 times the conductivity of …”

Rogan claims silver is 17 times more electrically conductive than gold.

“Do you think a grain of rice has 54,000 genomes in it? We only have 26,000. Who is more evolved?”

Howard claims rice has 54,000 genes (using "genomes" loosely) compared to about 26,000 in humans, implying this challenges assumptions about human evolutionary superiority.

“And, oh, yeah, just before she debated, a study was released that was published by Harvard epidemiologists. I think they were epidemiologists. They did a retro…”

Peterson describes a retrospective survey study of 2,400 people on a carnivore diet for six months, published by Harvard epidemiologists via Oxford University Press, showing radical weight loss and a 90% reduction in self-reported disease symptoms.

“basically one gram is almost equivalent to one milligram per kilogram of body weight. 70 kilos is 152 pounds. And so at one milligram per kilogram with these m…”

Stamets describes a mouse study on fear-conditioning where microdosing psilocybin (0.1 mg/kg) helped mice unlearn a fear response in only 2 trials versus 10 trials for a full dose (1 mg/kg), and equates that dosing to human gram-equivalents of psilocybin mushrooms.

“In Oklahoma, two years ago, 84% of the beehives died. Now think if you're a cattle rancher and you lost 84% of your cattle.”

Stamets claims that two years before this 2019 taping, 84% of beehives in Oklahoma died.

“Extracts of polypore mushroom mycelia reduce viruses in honeybees. And this mushroom, the amadou, reduces the deformed wing virus 800 times to one with one tre…”

Stamets claims his mushroom extract research found amadou fungus reduces deformed wing virus in honeybees 800-fold and reishi mycelium reduces Lake Sinai virus more than 45,000-fold with one treatment.

“I mean, I don't know any serious scientists, actually zero, literally zero, who don't think that we have quite a serious climate risk that we're facing.”

Musk asserts that literally zero serious scientists dispute that humanity faces a serious climate risk.

“And they still killed him. They hung him upside down. In 1600, the catholic church, 1599, hung him upside down in a stake and set him on fire because he refuse…”

Howard claims Giordano Bruno was hung upside down and burned at the stake by the Catholic Church in 1599/1600 for refusing to recant his beliefs.

“We published in Nature. Only 7% of the articles submitted in nature get published in the nature publication ecosystem. To this day, our article is in the top 1…”

Stamets claims his bee-virus mushroom research was published in Nature, that only 7% of submissions to Nature are published, and that his article ranks in the top 1% of all articles ever published in the Nature ecosystem.

“It's 20 to 1 female to male nurses and 20 to 1 male to female engineers.”

Peterson claims that in Scandinavian countries, which have maximized equal opportunity, the gender ratio is 20-to-1 female-to-male among nurses and 20-to-1 male-to-female among engineers.

“Scientists tell us we have less than 12 years to transform our energy system away from fossil fuel or there will be irreparable damage.”

Sanders claims scientists say the world has less than 12 years to transform its energy system away from fossil fuels or face irreparable damage.

“the comet shoemaker shoemaker levy 9 which hit jupiter in 1994 had a total calculated explosive power of 300 gigatons if you took the entire nuclear arsenal of…”

Hancock claims Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9's 1994 impact with Jupiter released 300 gigatons of energy, roughly 47 times the explosive yield of the world's entire nuclear arsenal (stated as 6.4 gigatons).

“clearly identifiable pattern of DNA, which is only found in one other place in the world, and that is in Australasia, in Papua New Guinea, and amongst Australi…”

Hancock claims a distinctive Australasian DNA signal found in Amazonian tribes and in ~11,000-year-old Amazon skeletal remains is found nowhere else in the world except Australasia.

“Antarctica appears repeatedly on these much older maps and it appears in the right place and a bit bigger than it is today but very much as it looked during th…”

Hancock claims old maps repeatedly and accurately depict Antarctica in its correct location and roughly as it appeared, ice-free, during the last Ice Age, before its official 1819 discovery.

“you can take a handful of 8,000-year-old terra preta, and you can add it to barren soil, and that soil will instantly become fertile”

Hancock claims that adding a handful of 8,000-year-old Amazonian terra preta soil to barren soil will instantly make that soil fertile.

“there's already evidence of comet impact in Greenland, which goes back to papers published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences in 2013, that…”

Hancock claims a newly discovered 18-mile-wide crater under Greenland's ice is linked to 2013 PNAS papers reporting comet-impact proxies (nanodiamonds, carbon spherules, platinum) dated to 12,800 years ago.

“The site he excavated in the Yukon was re-excavated in 2017 and every single thing he said was correct even though they had just sneered at him”

Hancock claims a 2017 re-excavation of Jacques Cinq-Mars's Yukon site (Bluefish Caves) confirmed that every claim Cinq-Mars made was correct, fully vindicating him after he was mocked by mainstream archaeology.

“So they found evidence of the impacts as far south as Antarctica now. Previously, they were focused very much on North America. Now, as far south as Antarctica…”

Hancock claims physical evidence of the Younger Dryas comet impact has been found as far away as Antarctica and Syria, proving it was a truly global event.

“It's the notion of a global navigating culture in the Ice Age that archaeologists can't swallow. It's a subject that I've kept on coming up against over a numb…”

Hancock claims there was a global seafaring civilization mapping the world during the last Ice Age, evidenced by old portolan maps like the Piri Reis map.

“the most parsimonious explanation is that a group of people during the Ice Age crossed the Pacific Ocean and ended up in South America and settled in the Amazo…”

Hancock claims geneticist Eske Willerslev told him the most parsimonious explanation for Australasian DNA in the Amazon is that people crossed the Pacific Ocean directly during the Ice Age and settled there.

“looked at the number of transgender youths that were committing suicide. It's an astronomical, I'm sorry, I can't find it right now in front of me. It's a real…”

Vijaya Gadde claims research (citing the American Academy of Pediatrics) found transgender youth suicide rates roughly 10 times higher than the normal teenage suicide rate.

“They shifted school start times from I think it was at 7:25 to 8:30 in the morning and they look at SAT scores and in the year before they made the time change…”

Walker claims that Edina, Minnesota shifted its high school start time from 7:25 to 8:30 a.m., and that in the year before the change the top 10% of students averaged an SAT score of 1288.

“Insufficient sleep is linked to cancer of the bowel cancer of the prostate cancer of the breast on the association has become so powerful that recently the Wor…”

Walker claims insufficient sleep is linked to bowel, prostate, and breast cancer, and that the WHO has classified nighttime shift work as a probable carcinogen because of this.

“there was a little cool little anecdote from that study too, where they found that mosquitoes actually have like, like they learn. If you swat at the mosquito,…”

Greenfield claims a study found that mosquitoes 'learn' to avoid a particular person after being swatted at.

“Allowed him to pick up figures in the dark with 100% accuracy where non-treated test subjects could only make out to about 30%. That's pretty significant.”

Rogan reads/relays a claim from an article that chlorophyll eye drops (based on a chemical binding retinal opsin proteins) let a test subject identify dark-adapted figures with 100% accuracy versus about 30% for untreated subjects.

“Some parts of your brain become 30% more active than when you're awake.”

Walker claims that during REM sleep, some brain regions become 30% more active than during waking states.

“I read a study this morning of gene editing mosquitoes now, like they're using CRISPR technology to make the mosquitoes less likely to bite you.”

Greenfield states he read a study that morning about using CRISPR gene-editing technology on mosquitoes to make them less likely to bite humans.

“they can kill cancer cells almost as good as the chemo control that they're giving these animals”

Rhonda Patrick claims animal studies show that high-dose probiotics can kill cancer cells almost as effectively as chemotherapy.

“are five times more likely to have antibodies floating around in their blood against fetal brain proteins”

Rhonda Patrick claims mothers of autistic children are five times more likely to have antibodies against fetal brain proteins in their blood than other mothers.

“there's been studies showing that like 75% of the microbiome population changes and like, when you don't get at all any fiber”

Rhonda Patrick claims studies show that 75% of a person's gut microbiome population changes when fiber intake drops to zero.

“That has been shown to get into the developing fetal brain 10 times better than DHA and non-phospholipid form, free fatty acid form.”

Rhonda Patrick claims phospholipid-form DHA (found in fish roe) reaches the developing fetal brain ten times more effectively than standard free-fatty-acid-form DHA.

“found that like a low folate diet caused damage to DNA the same as being irradiated by an x-ray machine. The exact same.”

Rhonda Patrick claims a study found that a low-folate diet causes DNA damage equivalent to being irradiated by an x-ray machine.

“Only 30 percent of our communication is is verbal.”

Kanye West claims only 30 percent of human communication is verbal.

“Fifteen patients, small clinical studies, statistically significant. Ten out of 15 people, after one or two heroic doses of psilocybin, 12 months later had not…”

Stamets claims a Johns Hopkins study found 10 of 15 smokers quit after one or two high doses of psilocybin and stayed smoke-free 12 months later.

“there's no evidence that there's any relationship between intelligence and morality.”

Peterson asserts there is no evidence linking intelligence to morality.

“there's no evidence, by the way, that that works at all. In fact, the evidence that there is suggests quite the contrary.”

Peterson claims mandatory unconscious bias training has no evidence of effectiveness and that existing evidence suggests it backfires.

“You look it up on your phone, you instantly know, oh, Ivermectin, the guy who created it, won the Nobel Prize.”

Rogan cites the Nobel Prize awarded for ivermectin's discovery as evidence undercutting its dismissal as a fringe or dangerous drug during COVID.

“So it says study published in the journal heritage. The authors conducted dating work on a sample from the shroud coming to the conclusion that it may be a 200…”

Rogan reads aloud a study claiming new dating work suggests the Shroud of Turin could be a 2,000-year-old relic consistent with Jesus' era.

“we get a group of more than 60 major scientists who are seriously proposing that the Earth was hit by multiple fragments of a giant comet 12,800 years ago, and…”

Hancock claims over 60 scientists have proposed the Younger Dryas impact hypothesis, that a comet impact 12,800 years ago caused sea level rise and megafauna extinction.

“that Spike protein went into the DNA and it tells the brca1 gene turn off and that's the gene that says hey there's a mutation here let's scrap that thing and …”

Howard claims the covid vaccine spike protein enters cell nuclei and turns off the BRCA1 tumor-suppressor gene, causing cancer.

“there's no chain in the fossil record of that at all. And that's why you don't actually hear people. You hear them make reference to evolution, because the the…”

Carlson asserts there is no transitional fossil record supporting common-descent evolution and that Darwin's theory remains 'just a theory' and unproven nearly 200 years later.

“You know, I said not one of these 72 vaccines has ever been tested pre-licensing in a placebo-controlled trial where you're looking at vaccinated versus unvacc…”

Kennedy claims none of the 72 vaccines on the childhood schedule have ever been tested against a true placebo in a trial comparing vaccinated vs. unvaccinated children for health outcomes.