Hi there folks, it's Emmanuel.

Many of you may have seen a lot of the recent news around Joe Rogan and his show The

Joe Rogan Experience, namely that he and Getson in Show have been spreading COVID misinformation,

and also that Spotify, the company I work for and which exclusively distributes Joe Rogan

show, recently removed more than 70 episodes after a bunch of footage surface showing him

using the N word and saying a lot of other frankly racist shit.

There's been a ton written and said about that, and to be honest, I'm not going to sit

here and waste more of my breath on Joe Rogan that I have to, except to share something I

heard recently that I actually found really helpful about one aspect of this whole thing.

Our colleagues over at Science Versus just put out an episode that dove deep on the effects

of COVID misinformation spread by Joe Rogan's show.

It really interrogates the question, just what kind of damage can a show do to a society

in the midst of a pandemic?

And it's excellent.

I hope you give it a listen.

Okay, here's the show.

Hi, I'm Wendy Zuckerman and you're listening to Science Versus from Gimlet.

Today on the show, we are diving into the world of misinformation.

We had been busily working on other episodes for our new season, but then quickly shifted

gears because of Joe Rogan, host of the most listened to podcasts on Spotify, being

accused of being a public health menace for repeatedly promoting falsehoods about COVID-19

on his show.

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