Spike Protein on the Joe Rogan Experience
4 fact-checked claims across 3 episodes · Dec 2021 to Jun 2025 · updated Jul 18, 2026
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- Suzanne Humphries (2)
- Mary Talley Bowden (1)
- Robert Malone (1)
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“What happens so the spike of COVID, which is the evil part of COVID, has all these horrible lab engineered proteins encoded into them and two of them are snake…”
Humphries claims the COVID spike protein contains two lab-engineered snake toxin proteins that bind nicotinic receptors, and that nicotine can block those receptors.
“And haven't they shown that the spike protein continues to be produced in the body up to 700 days later? Yes. I mean, that is one study.”
Bowden affirms a claim that a study showed spike protein continues to be produced in the body up to 700 days after vaccination.
“Medical papers were retracted. I mean, there's this one guy named Pradhan, P-R-A-D-H-A-N, who he showed that there is a GP120 protein on the spike. And he said…”
Humphries claims a scientist named Pradhan showed the COVID spike has a GP120 protein with uncanny similarity to HIV GP120 that could not have arisen naturally.
“If it causes toxicity, it is, right? It is a toxin by definition. It is – toxin is as a toxin does”
Malone asserts flatly that the spike protein is 'a toxin by definition' because it causes toxicity in people.