Joe Rogan: The Malone Interview

Science Vs

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Education, Science, Health & Fitness

4.4 • 12.4K Ratings

🗓️ 5 February 2022

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Recently, Joe Rogan aired an interview that scientists are up in arms about — with Dr. Robert Malone. Malone talked smack about the Covid-19 vaccines, talking about scary side effects and implying that the vaccines are a risk to our fertility. Enter Science Vs. We fact check the bejesus out of it and zoom out to talk about the bigger picture: what to watch for if you’re worried about getting sucked in by misinformation online. Find our transcript here: https://bit.ly/3rqgRjy UPDATE 2/11/22: When we first published this episode, we said that in more than 60 papers we'd gone through, we'd found only one reported case of someone dying from myocarditis after a Covid-19 vaccine. Some listeners questioned this, and we re-checked our work and found several more deaths. The episode has been updated — and thanks to the listeners who picked this up. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Wendy Zuckerman and you're listening to Science Vestus from Gimlet.
0:06.2	Today on the show, we are diving into the world of misinformation.
0:10.2	We had been busily working on other episodes for our new season,
0:14.3	but then quickly shifted gears because of Joe Rogan, host of the most listened to
0:20.2	podcasts on Spotify, being accused of being a public health menace for repeatedly
0:25.2	promoting falsehoods about COVID-19 on his show.
0:28.6	Now, if you miss this, perhaps too busy watching the Australian open.
0:39.4	Anyway, if you're out of a loop, here's the hot tea.
0:42.9	Joe Rogan is an incredibly popular podcaster.
0:45.9	It's been reported by a bunch of news outlets that millions of people listen to his show.
0:50.8	And back in December, he aired this interview with a guy called Dr. Robert Malone.
0:56.0	Now, Malone did some early fundamental research with mRNA.
1:00.3	But since then, he's become famous for getting kicked off Twitter.
1:04.2	After some say, he's spread misinformation about the vaccines.
1:08.4	Now, in this interview with Joe Rogan, Malone did make the COVID vaccines look bad.
1:14.6	He talked about scary side effects seem to suggest that boosters could increase your
1:19.4	risk of getting COVID, implied the vaccines are a risk to our fertility.
1:23.9	And that's got to the tip of the iceberg.
1:27.0	Scientists were so up in arms about this interview that hundreds of nerds
1:31.2	sent a letter to Spotify calling on them to do something here.
1:35.5	Why Spotify?
1:37.1	Well, Joe Rogan has an exclusive deal with them.
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