Statistics on the Joe Rogan Experience

“But they took atrazine and they put it in a tank with 40 frogs for three years. They put it below the exposure levels that EPA considers acceptable to humans. …”

Kennedy claims a study exposed 40 male frogs to atrazine at doses below the level the EPA considers acceptable for human exposure, that 4 of them turned into fertile females, and that 30 of the remaining frogs were chemically castrated.

“we got enough science on this now to show that non-Hodgkin's lymphoma is being caused by glyphosate”

Kennedy claims that in the Monsanto litigation he brought, the scientific evidence was sufficient to establish that glyphosate causes non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.

“one of the things I noticed when there was a test that came out or a study that came out recently that showed that an enormous percentage of Americans, it was …”

Rogan claims a recent study found roughly 90 percent of Americans tested had detectable glyphosate in their blood.

“the President has made a billion-dollar commitment, not only the regenerate farming, but also to developing new ways of of dramatically reducing the amount of …”

Kennedy claims President Trump made a billion-dollar commitment to regenerative farming and to developing new technologies that dramatically reduce agricultural chemical use.

“She was paying $1,500 per acre for pesticides, for mainly glyphosate and for a manual labor. And now with this machine, it's $300. She's saving over $1,000 an …”

Kennedy claims a specific South Texas onion farmer's per-acre weed-control costs dropped from $1,500 to $300 by switching from glyphosate/manual labor to a laser-weeding machine.

“Right now, according to the industry reports, 99% of our glyphosate comes from China. The Pentagon and others said this is an extreme national security vulnera…”

Kennedy claims 99% of the glyphosate used in the US comes from China, framed by the Pentagon as an extreme national security vulnerability.

“the company that's making this has paid $11 billion in my lawsuit. They're just about to sign another $7. 6 billion settlement. There's 65,000 cases out there,…”

Kennedy claims Bayer/Monsanto has paid $11 billion, is about to sign an additional $7.6 billion Roundup settlement, faces 65,000 pending cases, and has said it will exit the glyphosate business without legal relief.

“by the way people should know that after 20 hours of being awake. You are as impaired cognitive Lee as you would be if you are legally drunk.”

Walker claims that after 20 hours of being awake, a person is as cognitively impaired as if they were legally drunk.

“if your dieting but you're not getting sufficient sleep 70% of all the weight that you lose will come from a lean body mass muscle and not fat your body become…”

Walker claims that when dieting without sufficient sleep, 70% of the weight lost comes from lean body mass (muscle) rather than fat.

“It seems kills more people on the roads than either alcohol or drugs combined. Why are why are drowsy driving accidents?”

Walker claims drowsy driving kills more people on the roads than alcohol or drugs combined.

“the Rand Corporation did an independent survey 2 years ago on the demonstrable cost of a lack of sleep to Global economies. What they found was that a lack of …”

Walker claims a RAND Corporation study found that insufficient sleep costs most nations about 2% of their GDP.

“so that's clear is an unfortunate Truth The Surety of sleep the show to your life. Well short sleep predict all-cause mortality, which is really ironic because…”

Walker claims that the shorter your sleep, the shorter your life, framing short sleep as a predictor of all-cause mortality.

“The $22 million was for OSAP that was pushed through through Congress, three congressmen, right, an astronaut. It was pushed through. And that's what that $22 …”

Corbell claims the U.S. government spends more money every year on Viagra than the $22 million spent on the Pentagon's UFO study program.

“They said, you know, first they said mass surveillance had stopped 54 terrorist attacks in the United States. Then they dropped it to seven. And then they drop…”

Snowden claims the government's public justification for mass NSA surveillance shrank from stopping 54 terrorist attacks to 7, then to just 1.

“We have spent trillions of dollars, trillions of dollars, killing faraway people who, literally going by the statistics, are more likely to be non-combatants t…”

Snowden claims that, by the statistics, people killed in U.S. drone/war operations are more likely to be civilians than combatants.

“117 percent of the people that are uh registered to vote in california”

The speaker relays a claim (attributed to Kayleigh McEnany) that 117% of registered voters in California could receive mail-in ballots, implying widespread voter fraud.

“Okay, it says World Health Organization estimates that. Sorry, it's 600,000, so I must have been citing figures over a decade. There is a part on here that say…”

Peterson claims WHO data shows over 90% of the world's children breathe toxic air and cites conflicting death tolls (600,000 vs up to 7 million per year) from air pollution.

“the problem in America and I talk about it in a section in the book, is not income inequality but income equality. If you look at the bottom 20% and compare th…”

Dr. Phil claims that only 5% of the bottom income quintile in America works full-time compared to 95% of the middle income quintile, and that welfare benefits erase most of the income gap between them.

“the calculations that were done suggested when they extrapolated up that there may well be up to 1 million serious adverse effects from the COVID vaccines in t…”

Malhotra claims a BMC Infectious Diseases survey-based extrapolation found up to 1 million serious COVID vaccine adverse effects and 278,000 deaths in the US in 2021.

“how many trillions of dollars have we spent in this war 17 billion dollars in damage just in that one day 3 000 american lives more lives since pearl harbor”

The speaker states that the September 11 attacks caused $17 billion in damage in a single day.

“It's less than 1%, much less than half of 1% for most healthy people.”

Rogan states the COVID-19 fatality rate for healthy people is very low, less than half of 1 percent.

“We know that somewhere between 50 to 70% of all ICU alarms are either unnecessary or ignorable.”

Walker claims that 50 to 70% of all ICU alarms are either unnecessary or can be ignored, disrupting patient sleep in the one setting where they most need rest to heal.

“If you're getting six hours of sleep or less, your time to exhaustion drops by up to 30%. So you could spend all of your time training for a 10-round fight, pe…”

Walker claims that sleeping 6 hours or less causes an athlete's time to physical exhaustion to drop by up to 30%, using a 10-round fight as an example.

“There is a 168 percent increased risk that they will get into a car accident.”

Walker claims that medical residents who finish a 30-hour shift face a 168% increased risk of a car accident driving home due to being underslept.

“People getting 9 hours versus 5 hours, there was almost a 60% increase in probability of injury risk during a season.”

Walker claims that athletes sleeping 5 hours a night versus 9 hours have almost a 60% increased injury risk over a season, describing it as a perfect linear relationship.

“Junior residents working a 30 hour shift are 460 percent more likely to make diagnostic errors in the intensive care unit relative to when they're working 16 h…”

Walker claims that medical residents working traditional shifts (roughly 13 hours, garbled in transcript) are 460% more likely to make diagnostic errors in the ICU compared to residents working shorter shifts.

“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.

“Now in the spring when we lose an hour of sleep, we see a subsequent 24 percent increase in heart attacks. In the fall, in the autumn, when we gain an hour of …”

Walker claims a global daylight-saving-time study across 70 countries found a 24% increase in heart attacks when clocks spring forward and a 21% decrease when they fall back.

“One in five medical residents will make a serious medical error due to insufficient sleep. One in 20 medical residents will kill a patient because of a fatigue…”

Walker claims 1 in 5 medical residents will make a serious medical error and 1 in 20 will kill a patient due to fatigue-related error.

“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.

“If you have elective surgery, you should ask your surgeon how much sleep they've had in that past 24 hours. If they've had six hours of sleep or less, you have…”

Walker claims a surgeon who slept 6 hours has a 170% increased risk of causing a major surgical error like organ damage or hemorrhage, compared to a well-rested version of the same surgeon.

“buildings taller than 12 stories don't have a 13th floor. Okay. And so this triskaidekaphobia is again in a free country. If you, if you want to be afraid of t…”

Tyson states that about 80% of buildings taller than 12 stories omit a labeled 13th floor.

“SpaceX launches 90% of all satellite mass to orbit. So if you take all of Earth's rocket launches, my company has a 90% market share of Earth, China does about…”

Musk claims SpaceX launches 90% of all satellite mass to orbit globally, with China at about 5% and everyone else (Boeing, Lockheed, Northrop) making up the remaining 5%.

“the united states has cut its carbon emissions 15% in the last 20 years it's gone down not up down why fracking fracking yeah fracking really”

Peterson claims the US has cut its carbon emissions by 15% over the last 20 years primarily due to fracking.

“I generally think it's a good thing because I think 58% of our rural markets today have no psychiatrist available and something like 50% or roughly have no men…”

Dr. Phil claims 58% of U.S. rural markets have no psychiatrist available and roughly 50% have no mental health professional of any kind available.

“The $22 million was for AAWSAP that was pushed through through Congress, three congressmen, right, an astronaut. It was pushed through. And that's what that $2…”

Corbell claims the U.S. government spends more money every year on Viagra than the $22 million spent on the Pentagon's UFO study program.

“Now, Tenforde came in in JAMA, and this was published in the fall of this year, and they had an 85% protection overall against hospitalization.”

McCullough cites a JAMA paper reporting 85% vaccine protection against hospitalization while suggesting the true protective effect is inflated by testing bias.

“We've got 77% of young Americans can't serve in the military because of obesity or drug abuse.”

Casey Means claims 77 percent of young Americans cannot serve in the military because of obesity or drug abuse.

“I've seen estimates anywhere from 5.5 million to 10 million years of life lost by the fact that they won't have the achievement that they might have had otherw…”

Dr. Phil claims school closures during COVID will cost students 5.5 to 10 million years of life expectancy, and that around 30% of fifth and eighth graders and 19% of high school graduates cannot read at a basic level.

“There's the last figure I saw was there were 210000 deaths due to covid in America and everywhere you go, you see someone with a mask on. One thousand black ch…”

Kanye West claims about 210,000 Americans had died of COVID-19 by that point while roughly 1,000 Black children are aborted daily, implying more Black children have died from abortion than Americans from COVID since February.

“The people who commit suicide in the United States are middle-aged white men. And that's a fact.”

Berenson asserts that the people who commit suicide in the United States are middle-aged white men, minimizing the young-girls figure as a comparatively small number.

“It tells us, like a SmithKline-Beacham study that was done, 50% of all heart attacks happen in people with normal or low levels of cholesterol.”

Mark Gordon claims a SmithKline-Beecham study found half of all heart attacks occur in people with normal or low cholesterol.

“So the average person's like at 40, 45, just to give you some context of that number. Anyone past about 60, if you continue to go up, it's not going to really …”

Galpin states the average person's VO2 max is around 40-45 ml/kg/min, and that pushing an MMA fighter's VO2 max past about 60 yields no further fight performance benefit.

“Every single person got substantially better, like 20% to 30% better under one of the conditions. But they also got worse under one of the conditions as well.”

Galpin describes an internal study finding that blood-flow/breathing-restriction training (using devices like the O2 Trainer) improved every subject's performance by 20-30% under one restriction setting.

“In the particular study that I'm thinking of, they had, you know, 73% of the patients that received PRP had relief of their pain compared to about 50% of patie…”

The guest cites a head-to-head study claiming 73% pain relief with PRP injections versus about 50% with corticosteroid injections for tennis elbow.

“We know that about 15 to 22% of those fail the meniscal repairs. You know, it's a disappointing number.”

The guest states that meniscal repair surgeries fail in about 15 to 22% of cases.

“there was one study where mortality decreased 40% from all causes through daily use of the sauna. Yeah, all-cause mortality was less. Yeah, 40%.”

Rogan claims a study found daily sauna use decreases all-cause mortality by 40%.

“they injected that into the knee. And then I think, I want to say it was four or eight months later, I think it was eight months, they re-imaged the knee and t…”

The guest describes a study where injecting bone marrow aspirate (BMAC) stem cells into the knee produced a 15% increase in meniscal tissue volume on re-imaging.

“he published a paper that showed a very high rate of failure from these procedures. And so as a result of that, it's fallen out of favor. So, but it was done v…”

The guest claims thermal capsulorrhaphy (heat-shrinking shoulder capsule tissue) had a roughly 40% failure rate in a published study, causing the procedure to fall out of favor.

“I just told you only 40% of people are responding to these antidepressants that are standard of care”

Patrick claims only 40% of people respond to standard-of-care antidepressants compared to 30% who respond to placebo.

“If you look at red meat consumption in the U.S. since about 1977, so red meat has gone down about 30% to 40%. Really? Yeah. We used to eat way more in the 70s.…”

Baker claims U.S. red meat consumption has fallen 30-40% since 1977 and that population testosterone levels have dropped by roughly the same amount over the same period, implying a causal link.

“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.

“There's some health organization in UK that did a press release and said that the average five-year-old consumes 50 grams of sugar a day”

Patrick claims a UK health organization reported that the average five-year-old consumes 50 grams of sugar per day, then muddles whether this figure is daily or equal to a year's worth matching body weight.

“in 2017, the National Institutes of Mental Health suddenly changed its estimate for the percentage of people with schizophrenia in the US from 1.1% to 0.3%. Th…”

Berenson claims NIMH secretly changed its US schizophrenia prevalence estimate from 1.1% to 0.3% in 2017 without public notice, implying a cover-up.

“2013 oregon washington colorado alaska There are 450 murders in those four states. There are 30,000 ag assaults, period. 2017, Oregon, Washington, Colorado, Al…”

Berenson cites a roughly 40% rise in murders across four early-legalization states between 2013 and 2017 as evidence tied to marijuana legalization.

“the word is that 25% of women between 40 and 50 are on antidepressants and 10% of adults in the country”

Weil claims 25% of American women aged 40-50 and 10% of all adults in the US are on antidepressants.

“they're losing 10% to 15% of their agriculture every single year to wild pigs. Millions of dollars. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So if you have a $10 million ranch, you'r…”

Kennedy claims central Texas farms lose 10-15% of their agricultural output every year to wild pigs, illustrated as $1.5 million lost on a $10 million ranch.

“I think you only have to have like one 16th Native American to catch a check in some places. I'm not sure what it is in Canada, but something like that.”

Rogan claims that in some places only 1/16th Native American ancestry (blood quantum) is required to receive tribal payments/benefits.

“I mean, open relationships are actually pretty common, uh, consensual non-monogamy. There's one study that showed one in five Americans have actually tried it.…”

Soh cites a study claiming one in five Americans have tried consensual non-monogamy.

“Like people that were making a lot of money. And then all of a sudden that money was cut down to 30% of what it used to be. And with no, no clear guidelines.”

Rogan claims some YouTube creators saw their ad revenue cut to 30% of previous levels overnight with no clear guidelines given.

“But the same is true within, let's say, black communities. You've got, okay, 1% of the population in America who own 41% of the wealth.”

West states that the top 1% of the U.S. population owns 41% of the nation's wealth.

“what was the last time we checked it was in the 90 percent right of people that are that are killed by drones are actually innocent it's some insane number”

West claims about 90% of people killed by U.S. drone strikes are innocent civilians.

“Now, of course, part of the question here has to do with, they'll say, well, we wasted this money on the poor. You say, well, wait a minute. Donald Trump just …”

West claims Trump passed a $750 billion military budget.

“any time you talk about white supremacy, you've got the John Browns. And you know Mary Ellen Pleasant, who was a black woman who was worth $347 million in the …”

West states that Mary Ellen Pleasant, a Black abolitionist businesswoman, was worth $347 million in the 1840s.

“It's very much like our Jewish brothers and sisters felt in 1973. They'd already undergone a genocidal attack, one out of three precious Jews killed.”

West states that one out of three Jews were killed in the Holocaust.

“And that's what I often remind people is that right now, today, we spend $4 billion every month in Afghanistan. $4 billion. Every month. Every single month.”

Gabbard asserts the U.S. currently spends $4 billion every month on the war in Afghanistan.

“if you renew that prescription one time, one time, if you are taking those opioids at the seven-day mark, your chance of being addicted at one year is one in 1…”

Dr. Phil claims that renewing an opioid prescription once at the 7-day mark gives a 1-in-12 chance of addiction at one year, and still using at 30 days gives a 1-in-3 chance.

“Opioids are so readily prescribed right now that there are enough opioid prescriptions for every man, woman, and child in America to have their own bottle.”

Dr. Phil claims the volume of U.S. opioid prescriptions is high enough that every American man, woman, and child could have their own bottle.

“Right. And that's the only thing that you're seeing where these states are voting for it because they realize there's massive amounts of tax dollars that they …”

It is claimed that Colorado imposes a 39% tax on recreational marijuana sales.

“I firmly believe there's more sociopaths than we really think. I really do. I think if you look at the general consensus as something like, what is it? One out…”

It is claimed the commonly cited rate of sociopathy is about one in a hundred people, but the true rate is likely much higher (later suggested as 10%).

“There has proven to be a direct correlation to a drastic reduction in opioid related deaths in those states where people have access, again, either to medical …”

Gabbard claims states with legal medical or recreational marijuana access have seen a proven direct correlation to a drastic reduction in opioid-related deaths.

“a sow can have like at the age of one it could start having three or four litters a year i think it's six months oh it's crazy i think they can start breeding …”

Kennedy claims feral sows can start breeding as young as six months old and produce three or four litters per year.

“Like the glaucoma research Institute put out a study, like 60% of glaucoma patients don't take their medication on time, knowing that that will cause them to g…”

Andrew Marr claims a study from a 'glaucoma research institute' found 60% of glaucoma patients don't take their medication on time despite risking blindness.

“I know I shared it with you in the past that if a football player has one major concussion on the field, he's 19 times at greater risk of developing Alzheimer'…”

Mark Gordon claims a single major football concussion raises Alzheimer's risk 19-fold in people aged 30 to 49.

“the suicide rate has gone up since 2005 in the veteran community by about 6%. But here's the mind-blowing statistic. In the civilian population, suicide has ri…”

The speaker claims veteran suicide rates rose only about 6% since 2005 while civilian suicide rates rose almost 50% in the same period, citing a 'Veteran Suicide Prevention Annual Report'.

“why is the Special Operations community, according to the Special Operations Command, committing suicide at a rate that's the highest in the military and 30% h…”

The speaker claims Special Operations personnel have the highest military suicide rate, 30% higher than the rest of the military, per Special Operations Command data.

“Why when you have 5 billion pigs in Texas, why would you cook a nasty one or just go get a nice sweet one over there? And there's so many of them.”

The speaker states that Texas has 5 billion feral pigs.

“Do you see some of the districts in Illinois during the 2016 election? There was like 104% came in for Obama”

The speaker claims certain Illinois districts recorded 104% turnout for Obama in the 2016 election.

“one study showed that among millennials about 10 percent identify as a third gender so this includes you know non-binary gender neutral you know a gender”

Soh claims a study found about 10% of millennials identify as a third gender, including non-binary or genderqueer identities.

“there was several studies that show that in the people that were in the ICU with COVID, more than 80% of them were insufficient when their vitamin D levels and…”

Rogan, relaying a claim he attributes to Dr. Rhonda Patrick, says studies show more than 80% of COVID ICU patients had insufficient vitamin D levels and only 4% had sufficient levels.

“I read they did like a survey of a couple thousand people and somewhere in the range of like 4% of people admitted to gargling and or washing stuff with bleach.”

Rogan states a survey of a couple thousand people found roughly 4% of respondents admitted to gargling with or applying bleach to fight COVID-19.

“70% of the U.S. population has insufficient vitamin D levels, which is considered less than blood levels, less than 30 milligrams, nanograms per milliliter.”

Patrick claims 70% of the U.S. population has insufficient vitamin D levels (below 30 ng/mL).

“if you believe the numbers saying that they're between four and ten times the number of Americans, forget about Americans, four to ten times the SARS-2 virus t…”

Hotez claims COVID-19 is four to ten times more lethal than the seasonal flu, projecting 50,000 to 500,000 US deaths.

“the Centers for Disease Control came out with this very chilling document a few weeks ago showing that about a third of the very sick people in the hospital ar…”

Hotez claims a CDC report found about a third of severely ill hospitalized COVID-19 patients were under age 40-44.

“Now we realize from studies coming out of China that was published in the journal called Pediatrics put out by the American Academy of Pediatrics, that about 1…”

Hotez claims a study found about 10% of infants infected with COVID-19 become very sick.

“It's about five to ten times more lethal than regular flu, seasonal flu.”

Hotez states COVID-19 is five to ten times more lethal than seasonal influenza.

“look at a guy like, I think Pete Buttigieg, he spent nine million dollars on social media ads in order to get like a four percent bump in the polls”

Gabbard claims Pete Buttigieg spent nine million dollars on social media ads to gain roughly a four-percentage-point bump in the polls.

“The first debate had something like 22 million viewers. The one that we just did, I think, had 6.6 million viewers.”

Gabbard claims the first Democratic primary debate drew about 22 million viewers, while a later debate drew only 6.6 million.

“We have, you know, almost 80 million people who are uninsured and underinsured in this country who can't get the medicine they need and who are literally drivi…”

Gabbard claims nearly 80 million Americans are uninsured or underinsured and unable to get needed medicine.

“The homeless crisis in Hawaii is the worst per capita of any state in the country.”

Gabbard claims Hawaii has the worst per-capita homeless crisis of any U.S. state.

“media has completely lied to you. They said 150 people showed up. Yeah, it's a total fabrication. I have the footage to prove it. We had an event in, I partici…”

Corbell claims media reports that only 150 people showed up to the 'Storm Area 51' related event in Nevada were a complete fabrication, and that over 3,000 people actually attended.

“70% of American adults are on at least one medication. 70, yeah. 40% are on about two at least.”

Maté claims 70% of American adults take at least one prescription medication and 40% take at least two.

“30% of my clients were indigenous people. They make up 5% of the population. 30% of the people, of the men in jail in Canada, 50% of the women in jail in Canad…”

Maté claims Indigenous people make up 5% of Canada's population but 30% of male and 50% of female prisoners, based on his experience with Vancouver addiction clients.

“You know, the startling statistic, by 2030, 23 times more people will die, veterans and soldiers, will die of suicide then died in the whole entire combat time…”

Kennedy claims that by 2030, veteran and soldier suicides will outnumber combat deaths from the past 20 years of war by a factor of 23.

“He said it's somewhere in the neighborhood of 65%. And then, you know, there's cops killing bad guys. That's a certain percentage of it. And then a giant chunk…”

Kennedy claims (citing Colion Noir) that roughly 65% of gun violence deaths are suicides, with the rest split among gang violence and police shootings.

“So 18 to 35 year olds are the most vulnerable population that are just coming back from a deployment for suicide. And they have seen an 80% increase, I think i…”

Kennedy claims suicides among 18-35 year olds recently returned from combat deployment increased by roughly 86%.

“because only 20% of white males voted for Joe Biden, and, well, that means, you know, the rest obviously voted for Trump, and the military is still a predomina…”

Gabbard recounts a claim she attributes to Rep. Steve Cohen (made on CNN) that only 20% of white males nationally voted for Biden, implying the National Guard likely voted heavily for Trump; she notes she has not personally verified it.

“it's safe to assume that 75% of the guard has likely voted for Trump and therefore could not be trusted to uphold their oath to support and defend the Constitu…”

Gabbard says a member of Congress (Steve Cohen) argued 75% of National Guard troops guarding the Capitol had likely voted for Trump and thus could not be trusted.

“we spend $40 billion a year on this kind of thing. Most of the money goes to law enforcement, prison industry, the sort of businesses that have been built up a…”

Hart claims the US spends $40 billion a year on the drug war, most of which goes to law enforcement and the prison industry.

“Because doesn't it affect somewhere in the neighborhood of 1% of the population? Yeah. That's a lot of people. It's a lot of people.”

Rogan states that schizophrenia affects roughly 1% of the population, and Hart agrees.

“that was the initial promise. And 10 days later, we moved 12,000 people out of Afghanistan, 11% of everybody that left the country during the evacuation”

Kennedy claims his NGO (Save Our Allies) moved 12,000 people out of Afghanistan during the 2021 evacuation, representing 11% of everyone evacuated from the country.

“The student population was more than 50% trans, queer, and nonbinary. More than 50%.”

Rufo claims that before his takeover, New College of Florida's student body was more than 50% trans, queer, and non-binary.

“what they did is essentially lock up the 1% of the El Salvadoran population that were the violent, committed gang members and drug runners, and they reduced th…”

Rufo claims El Salvador's mass incarceration of 1% of the population cut the murder rate over 90% and that it was previously the world's most dangerous country by murder rate.

“And then they spent $5.5 trillion counting stimulus checks, unemployment, extended unemployment benefits, $4.4 trillion of which went into savings and checking…”

Dr. Phil claims the government spent $5.5 trillion on COVID stimulus and unemployment benefits, and that $4.4 trillion of that ended up in Americans' savings and checking accounts, proving it wasn't needed.

“Well, listen to this since 2010 and 2011 There was a 62% increase for older teens 189% increase in depression for preteens 70% increase in suicide for older te…”

Dr. Phil claims that since 2010-2011 there were sharp percentage increases in depression and suicide among teens and preteens, implicitly attributing this to social media and influencer culture.

“I was reading a statistic yesterday that one in 10 adolescents has considered suicide, which is that, that's terrifying.”

Soh states that one in ten adolescents has considered suicide, citing a statistic she read.

“Yeah. I have the stats here. It's like 30 percent of male millennials and 20 percent of women it's wild yeah that's a lot”

Soh cites a statistic that 30% of male millennials and 20% of women have gone more than a year without sex.

“now do you not are you not aware of the opioid crisis you're not aware of vioxx not aware of the various like to 25 percent of all fda approved drugs that get …”

Rogan claims roughly 25 percent (one in four) of all FDA-approved drugs end up getting pulled from the market.

“no one says anything about the 40% increase in all-cause mortality that mysteriously arose after they made people get shot up with some experimental shit.”

Rogan claims there was a 40% increase in all-cause mortality mysteriously arising after COVID-19 vaccination.

“The VAERS system is like, what does it get? Like one, 2% of the actual adverse events that are reported. Who fucking knows how many people?”

Rogan claims VAERS captures only about 1-2% of actual vaccine adverse events that occur.

“we spend $4.3 trillion a year on health care in this country, and what do we get for it? We've got one of the sickest populations in the world. Our life expect…”

Baker states the U.S. spends $4.3 trillion annually on health care while life expectancy is currently declining.

“IDF said that 80 of all of the victims in within the kibbutzes were tortured before they were murdered. 80% of all of the victims.”

Kennedy claims the IDF reported that 80% of all victims killed in the Gaza-border kibbutzim on October 7 were tortured before being murdered.

“between 2003 and 2016, most of the top 10 drug companies paid fines totaling about $33 billion for illegal marketing of drugs, hiding data on harms, and manipu…”

Malhotra claims most of the top 10 pharmaceutical companies paid roughly $33 billion combined in fines between 2003-2016 for illegal marketing, hiding harm data, and manipulating results.

“One survey in the US suggested that 50% of American adults thought that their risk of being hospitalized with COVID was 50%, one in two, when the real figure a…”

Malhotra claims a US survey found Americans overestimated their COVID hospitalization risk at 50% versus an actual risk of about 1 in 100.

“1976, swine flu vaccine was pulled because it was found to cause a debilitating neurological condition called Guillain-Barre syndrome in about one in 100,000 p…”

Malhotra claims COVID vaccines cause serious harm in at least 1 in 800 people, a far higher rate than historical vaccines pulled from the market (swine flu 1 in 100,000, rotavirus 1 in 10,000).

“if you're low risk of heart disease, you haven't had a heart attack, your benefit of statin is 1%, right? And when you tell people that, most people, Joe, don'…”

Malhotra claims statins provide only a 1% absolute benefit for people at low risk of heart disease who have not had a heart attack.

“she says 130 million Americans can't read at the most basic level and I said define basic level for me and she said basic level is they can't read a prescripti…”

Dr. Phil repeats a claim from a guest that 130 million Americans cannot read at a basic level, defined as being unable to read a prescription label.

“130 million adults are unable to read a simple story to their children. 21% of adults are illiterate in 2022. 45 million are functionally illiterate and read b…”

Dr. Phil claims 130 million U.S. adults cannot read a simple story to their children and 21% of adults are illiterate as of 2022, citing a literacy expert guest.

“More than 15,000 people received medical assistance in dying in Canada in 2023.”

A cited figure states more than 15,000 people received medical assistance in dying in Canada in 2023.

“we're prescribing 221 million prescriptions for statins per year and heart disease is continuing to be the leading cause of death in the United States.”

The guest claims the US prescribes 221 million statin prescriptions per year while heart disease remains the leading cause of death.

“We're dying three times at a higher rate than the Japanese per capita. That's 16% of all COVID deaths are in the U.S. and we're like 4% of the population.”

Calley Means claims the US accounted for 16 percent of all COVID deaths while comprising about 4 percent of the world population, dying at three times the per capita rate of Japan.

“Of course, we've got heart disease, which is almost totally preventable as the leading cause of death in the United States, killing around 800,000 people per y…”

Casey Means states that heart disease is the leading cause of death in the United States, killing around 800,000 people per year, and is almost totally preventable.

“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.

“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.

“Like, you know, kids are eating 67% of children's calories now are ultra processed foods. These means foods that come from a factory made by food scientists. N…”

Calley Means claims 67 percent of children's calories now come from ultra-processed foods.

“The US nuclear arsenal has 5,244 nuclear weapons. Had a total yield of 857.6 megatons or the equivalent of”

A reference read on-air states the U.S. nuclear arsenal has 5,244 nuclear weapons with a total yield of 857.6 megatons, equivalent to 57,173 Hiroshima-sized bombs.

“So I took it from almost 40% down to 21%. Now I'm bringing it from 21 down to 15, but only if you make your product in the United States, which is great. Peopl…”

Trump claims that cutting the corporate tax rate from ~40% (35% statutory plus state) to 21% increased federal revenue in the first year compared to before.

“The New York Times published a story in the wake of, you know, this contested 2016 election, where they looked into the history of electoral interference in Ru…”

Snowden claims a New York Times study found Russia/the Soviet Union interfered in foreign elections 36 times over roughly 50 years, versus 81 times by the United States in the same period.

“this foreign intelligence surveillance court that the government says authorized these programs 15 different times was overruled by the first open courts to lo…”

Snowden claims the NSA violated its own surveillance rules 2,776 times in a single year and that federal courts overruled a FISA court that had authorized the programs on 15 separate occasions.

“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.

“we had a good run and 85 million bracelets yeah but look i mean i don't want anybody to be mistaken my interests were selfish”

Armstrong states that roughly 85 million Livestrong yellow bracelets were sold/distributed.

“I mean, you look at Trek Bicycles, for example. I mean, before the first tour, I think we did $125 million in sales. We do a billion now.”

Armstrong claims Trek Bicycle Corporation's annual sales went from about $125 million before his first Tour de France win to about a billion dollars by 2015, implying his sponsorship drove that growth.

“then I looked at the YouTube stats, and 70% of people who listened to YouTube were males”

Peterson claims that 70% of YouTube's audience is male, citing this as an explanation for his own audience skew.

“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.

“Africa has the fastest growing economies in the world, particularly sub-Saharan Africa.”

Peterson claims Africa, particularly sub-Saharan Africa, has the fastest growing economies in the world.

“there's like 800 instances of trump supporters wearing maga hats getting beaten you know throughout the past couple years we had a guy show up to a school in e…”

Tim Pool claims there have been roughly 800 documented instances of Trump supporters wearing MAGA hats being physically beaten that went unreported by media.

“The S, X, and 3 have the lowest probability of injury of any cars ever tested by the US government.”

Musk states that the Tesla Model S, Model X, and Model 3 have the lowest probability of injury of any cars ever tested by the US government.

“Manhattan had like 300,000 horses. You figure, like, if a horse lives 15 years, you've got 20,000 horses dropping dead every year if there's 300,000 horses in …”

Musk claims that historical Manhattan had roughly 300,000 horses, implying about 20,000 would die per year given a 15-year average lifespan.

“That number was 411 billion dollars caused by insufficient sleep solve the sleepless epidemic, you could almost double the budget for Education. You could almo…”

Walker claims insufficient sleep costs the US economy $411 billion a year, an amount he says could nearly double the education budget or halve the healthcare deficit.

“how many people starve to death now in the world yeah almost none and let's look that almost all almost all those who do do it because of political conflict”

Peterson claims almost nobody starves to death in the world today, and that virtually all who do starve are victims of political conflict rather than poverty or crop failure.

“in the Soviet Union between 1919 and 1959, somewhere between 30 and 50 million people were killed in internal oppression alone. And then in China... it might h…”

Peterson claims 30-50 million people were killed in internal Soviet oppression between 1919-1959, and up to 100 million killed under Mao in China.

“And that's CDC's own study says it undercounts injuries by between 10 and 100 percent. And so or 100 times, not 100 percent, 100 times. So I think VAERS has 17…”

Kennedy claims a CDC-linked study (Lazarus) shows VAERS undercounts vaccine injuries by up to 100-fold and that VAERS has 17,000 reported COVID vaccine deaths and over a million injuries.

“The reality is that today as we speak, there are approximately 400 million guns in America today. We have between 5 to 10 million assault weapons.”

Sanders claims there are approximately 400 million guns in America and between 5 to 10 million assault weapons.

“But you know that there's a direct correlation that almost all school shooters are on psychotropic drugs.”

Rogan claims that almost all school shooters are on psychotropic medication.

“10% of men are as feminine in their personality as the average woman is. And vice versa, 10% of women are as masculine in their personality as the average man …”

Peterson claims that exactly 10% of men have personality traits as feminine as the average woman, and vice versa for women.

“if you look at teenagers, for example, who want to switch genders, 95% of them are unbearably confused.”

Peterson claims that 95% of teenagers who currently want to switch genders are simply confused rather than experiencing genuine gender dysphoria.

“In any hierarchical system, when you stress the system, the disproportionate amount of that stress falls on the people who are in the lower rungs because they'…”

Peterson claims that in any hierarchical system a 1% increase in unemployment produces a 5% increase in psychiatric hospitalizations, because stress falls disproportionately on those at the bottom.

“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.

“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.

“You make marine protected areas like national parks that you need about 15% of the total coastal territory”

Peterson claims that protecting about 15% of total coastal territory as marine protected areas would solve the problem of depleted coastal fisheries.

“Seventy-five percent of the users of Twitter are outside of the United States.”

Vijaya Gadde claims 75% of Twitter's users are located outside the United States.

“We've seen people planting bombs in houston try to blow up a statue we saw someone plant a bomb at a police station in eugene oregon two weeks before that a gu…”

Tim Pool cites a Houston statue bombing attempt, incendiary devices left at a Eugene, Oregon police station, and a shooting where a man fired on an officer two weeks earlier, as examples of rising political violence.

“I mean, if you look at the amount of positives it must be you know less than one percent well if i told you well joe we're all good man it's less than one perc…”

Armstrong claims that USADA's drug-testing positive rate is under one percent, implying this proves the agency is ineffective at catching dopers despite spending tens of millions of dollars a year.

“So in the office of the presidency over the years, all those presidents you've had, 92% were politicians and 8% were generals. General Eisenhower, General Wash…”

Trump claims that across U.S. history, 92% of presidents were politicians and 8% were generals, citing Eisenhower and Washington as the generals.

“You know the amazing thing with the machines? So we have the machines, they cost 10 times more. A paper ballot would cost 8%. And they make paper ballots, they…”

Trump claims electronic voting machines cost ten times more than paper ballots, which he says cost only 8% as much.

“$200 billion. And that's a way low number. That's a way low. You know, it's interesting. New York has always been like, you know, sort of like always looking f…”

Trump claims the federal government has spent roughly $200 billion nationally (with New York alone spending $100 billion) on services and benefits for migrants.

“I don't understand why, okay, you have a wall or you have a. You know, I built 570 miles of wall. Everyone said I built a lot of wall.”

Trump claims he built 570 miles of border wall during his presidency.

“Not one person. They spent $42 billion. They could have gotten Starlinks to everybody.”

Trump claims a federal broadband program spent $42 billion and connected zero people.

“When other countries are allowed to empty their prisons into our country with murderers, we had 13,099 murderers dropped in our country over the last three yea…”

Trump claims 13,099 murderers were released into the United States by other countries emptying their prisons over the prior three years.

“How about this? They built the charger stations right in the Midwest. Midwest. They built eight of them. They cost $9 billion. That's like a gas pump. Right. T…”

Trump claims a $9 billion federal EV charging program only built eight charging stations in the Midwest and three of them don't work.

“We googled it like one year. There was like 39 million prescriptions for Adderall in this country.”

Rogan claims there were about 39 million Adderall prescriptions in the US in a single year.

“we did it at Mohawk College in Canada a year ago, and we dropped their dropout rate in the first semester 50%”

Peterson claims his Self Authoring program cut first-semester dropout rates by 50% at Mohawk College.

“70% of the people that they've arrested have criminal records. What the Democrats are always saying is only 14% of them have been convicted of a violent crime.”

Kennedy claims 70% of people arrested by ICE in 2025 had criminal records, disputing a Democratic figure that only 14% were convicted of violent crimes.

“I think there are 2 million federal employees and another 10 million federal contractors. So, who are effectively government employees but don't have civil ser…”

Carlson claims there are roughly 2 million federal employees plus 10 million federal contractors, totaling 12 million people effectively working for the US federal government.

“And that the people who are most vaccinated have 3.5 times the rate. And I could be wrong about this, but I think this was said 3.5 times the risk of illness t…”

Kennedy claims a Cleveland Clinic study found the most-vaccinated people had 3.5 times the risk of COVID illness compared to the unvaccinated after vaccine efficacy waned.

“So, you know, all of those things. Now, we went from 6 percent of Americans having chronic disease. By 1986, we're starting to have the vaccines and we get 11.…”

Kennedy claims chronic disease prevalence in American children rose from 6% in the 1960s to 11.8% by 1986 and 54% today, implicitly linking the rise to the expanding vaccine schedule.

“What he found in his first run through the data is there was an 1135% greater or elevated risk for an autism diagnosis among the kids who had gotten it in thei…”

Kennedy claims a CDC-commissioned analysis (Verstraeten) of the Vaccine Safety Datalink found an 1135% elevated relative risk of autism diagnosis in infants who received the hepatitis B vaccine within their first 30 days of life.

“And second, if you're concerned about pollution, especially particulate pollution, especially indoors, which kills, I think, 7 million children a year.”

Peterson claims indoor particulate pollution from wood/biomass burning kills 7 million children per year worldwide.

“he was responsible for the death of somewhere between 50 and 70 million people yeah he changed the carbon footprint of the planet earth during his lifetime bec…”

Peterson claims Genghis Khan was responsible for the deaths of 50 to 70 million people and that this measurably changed the planet's carbon footprint.

“one of the things that's happened over the last century is the mean IQ has gone up seven points per generation, which is a lot, like it's really a lot. So 15 p…”

Peterson claims average IQ has risen seven points per generation (every 15 years) over the last century, and that this equals half the gap between a high school and college graduate.

“What does the VA data show you? 96% of people who take the vaccines never get COVID.”

McCullough states VA data shows that 96% of vaccinated individuals never contract COVID-19, framing this as evidence the vaccines are given to people who were never at risk rather than treating disease.

“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.

“unless you're talking about the existence of the intelligence community itself, which is basically constructed on the idea that you can get, I think there's 4 …”

Snowden claims somewhere between 1.4 million and 4 million people in the United States hold security clearances.

“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.

“a great nation when we have massive levels of income and wealth inequality, when 87 million people can't afford to go to a doctor today.”

Sanders claims 87 million people in America cannot afford to go to a doctor.

“Gab, a study was done, I talked about this last time where they found five percent of the tweet of the i don't say tweets but the posts on gab or hate speech c…”

Tim Pool claims a study found only about 5% of posts on Gab were hate speech compared to 2.4% on Twitter, characterizing this as a marginal difference.

“Retail and sales, 30% of malls are closing in the next four years. So the danger here is to think of it as artificial intelligence is coming.”

Yang claims 30% of American malls will close within four years (from 2019).

“the roosevelt institute studied this plan of everyone getting a thousand bucks a month and projected it would create two million new jobs and grow the economy …”

Yang cites a Roosevelt Institute study projecting UBI would create 2 million new jobs and grow the economy by 8-10%.

“a value-added tax at even half the European level generates about 800 billion in new revenue. And that gets you all the way there.”

Yang claims a VAT set at half the European average rate would generate about $800 billion a year in new US federal revenue, calling it the final piece needed to fund his $1,000/month universal basic income.

“that company man that company got fined 635 million which sounds like a lot until you realize they made like 16 billion”

Yang claims Purdue Pharma was fined $635 million for opioid marketing violations after making about $16 billion, implying the fine was a trivial fraction of profits.

“Being a retail worker is the most common job in the United States right now. The average retail worker is a 39-year-old woman with a high school education maki…”

Yang claims retail worker is the most common job in the US and profiles the average retail worker as a 39-year-old woman earning $11-12/hour.

“something like 88 percent of truckers have an early marker for chronic disease like oh you know like substance abuse diabetes obesity high blood pressure”

Yang claims about 88% of truckers show an early marker for chronic disease such as substance abuse, diabetes, obesity, or high blood pressure.

“only six percent of american high school students are in technical or vocational training in germany that's 59”

Yang claims only 6% of American high school students are in technical/vocational training compared to 59% in Germany.

“amazon's getting 20 billion dollars of commerce every year and is now tipping your malls and Main Street stores into oblivion”

Yang claims Amazon generates $20 billion a year in commerce that is driving mall and Main Street closures.

“we're spending about $1.5 trillion right now on 126 welfare programs”

Yang claims the US currently spends $1.5 trillion a year across 126 different welfare programs.

“The underemployment rate for recent college graduates today is 44%.”

Yang claims the underemployment rate for recent college graduates is 44%.

“if you look at the voter district data on a district by district basis, there's a straight line up between the adoption of industrial robots in that voting dis…”

Yang claims a direct, straight-line correlation exists between industrial robot adoption by voting district and the shift toward Trump, dismissing racism, Russia, Facebook, or the FBI as explanations.

“there are three and a half million truck drivers in this country right now. It's the most common job in 29 states. And the average trucker is a 49-year-old guy”

Yang claims trucking is the most common job in 29 US states.

“if you're a non-college-educated person in the United States, the odds of you ever getting married are less than 50% now for the first time ever”

Yang claims that for non-college-educated Americans, the lifetime odds of ever marrying have fallen below 50% for the first time.

“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.

“Back in 1942 Gallup did a poll and what they found was that the average American adult was sleeping 7.9 hours of sleep a night. Now that number, the most recen…”

Walker claims a 1942 Gallup poll found Americans averaged 7.9 hours of sleep per night, versus a current average of 6 hours 31 minutes on weeknights.

“We have 800 references, and we reference every clinical trial that's ever been done with MSCs in human beings, and there are 800 of them.”

Riordan claims his book references all 800 clinical trials ever conducted on mesenchymal stem cells in humans.

“there are two neurosurgeons that are on that. So we wanted to, okay, we're discussing at what time point should we accept them? And these very prominent neuros…”

Riordan states that neurosurgeons designing his Miami spinal cord injury trial hold that patients recover 98-99% of their natural neurologic function by six months post-injury.

“There's a reason that J.K. Rowling became the richest person in England by, she's richer than the queen.”

Peterson claims J.K. Rowling became the richest person in England and richer than the Queen.

“As the autism rates have gone from 1 in 10,000 in 1970, and people knew what autism was. They knew what it looked like in 1970. They did the biggest epidemiolo…”

Kennedy claims autism prevalence was under 1 in 10,000 in 1970 based on 'the biggest epidemiological study in history' and has since risen to roughly 1 in 31 today.

“So 97% of corn in this country is produced with glyphosate and can't be produced without it.”

Kennedy claims 97% of US corn is produced with glyphosate and cannot be produced without it.

“77% of American kids can't qualify for military service.”

Kennedy claims 77% of American children are ineligible to qualify for U.S. military service.

“So, like only there's only a billion people on the Internet. You never think about that, the seven or eight billion people on on Earth, but then there's only a…”

Kanye West claims only about one billion of the world's seven-to-eight billion people are on the internet.

“according to data, I think this is from Pew, most new journalism jobs are in blue districts. So you've got people who only hear the same thing.”

Tim Pool claims Pew Research data shows most new journalism jobs are located in Democratic-leaning ('blue') districts, explaining media bias.

“this was i think i think it was in the atlantic where they surveyed something like 10 different international security experts who said based on what the platf…”

Tim Pool claims an Atlantic-published survey of about 10 international security experts found a high probability of civil war, with one expert citing a 90% chance.

“6 million Ukrainians starved to death. They had posters. The Soviets produced posters in the 1930s that said, essentially, don't forget it's wrong to eat your …”

Peterson states 6 million Ukrainians starved to death in the Holodomor and that Soviet posters explicitly warned against eating your children.

“we've raised their grade point average of their kids 25 percent, dropped their dropout rate the same, and it's had a walloping effect on men and on non-Western…”

Peterson claims his Self Authoring writing program raised GPA by 25%, cut dropout rates by the same amount, and moved non-Western minority students from 70% below average to outperforming Dutch native women at Rotterdam School of Management.

“Like 94 million or so Americans have left the workforce over the last number of years. Now, a lot of that's natural demographics, a lot of that's people in sch…”

Yang cites a figure of 94 million Americans having left the workforce, attributing a subset (5 million) to unskilled men pushed out by automation.

“most Americans are living paycheck to paycheck. 57% of Americans can't afford an unexpected $500 bill.”

Yang claims 57% of Americans cannot afford an unexpected $500 expense.

“so the uh so bain says you're looking at uh between 20 and 30 percent of jobs subject to automation by 2030 which is pretty soon it's like 11 years from now mc…”

Yang cites Bain, McKinsey, and a White House report projecting 20-30%, ~25%, and 83% (respectively) of low-wage jobs will be automated by 2030.

“The biggest hurdle is that a new drug, if you look at the last several years, cost $2.5 billion to get to market.”

Riordan states that bringing a new drug to market costs $2.5 billion.

“we can say that a city like London, which had a population of roughly 50,000 in the 16th century, there were cities of that size all over the Amazon, huge numb…”

Hancock claims pre-Columbian Amazon cities rivaled 16th-century London in size and the Amazon's total population exceeded 20 million people.

“They stole 95% of our business. It's in Taiwan right now.”

Trump claims Taiwan has taken 95% of America's chip manufacturing business.

“Cancers have increased 300%, all cause mortality. Up 40% in some age groups. Pulmonary embolisms almost up like 500%.”

Howard claims cancer rates rose 300%, all-cause mortality rose 40% in some age groups, and pulmonary embolisms rose nearly 500%, implying this is caused by covid vaccination.

“And it was killing one out of – killing or giving severe brain damage to one in 300 kids. And it was pulled in the United States. It was pulled in Europe. But …”

Kennedy claims a version of the DPT vaccine caused severe brain damage or death in 1 of every 300 children, was banned in the US and Europe, but is still given to 161 million African children annually via Bill Gates-backed programs.

“we've had 146 million people who've had the respiratory infection. Less than 1% died. Right. But the ones that have gotten the injection and died or got myocar…”

McCullough asserts that COVID-19 vaccines have caused death or myocarditis in a comparably significant share of the roughly 200 million vaccinated Americans.