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It's Monday, January 31st, 2022. From Peach Fish Productions, it's the Gest I'm Mike

Pesca. After Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, and a couple non-Canadian Shan Truces and Shan

Tours, has to be removed from Spotify because of examples of misinformation within Joe Rogan's

podcast, Spotify management over the weekend laid out how it would be labeling and addressing

their concerns. Rogan himself made a video in which he addressed the controversy about

two episodes with his guests who were in fact highly credentialed. One is the most published

in his field, and the other Dr. Robert Malone owns nine patents on the creation of mRNA

vaccine technology, and is at least partially responsible for the creation of the technology

that led to mRNA vaccines. Both these people are very highly credentialed, very intelligent,

and very accomplished people, and they have an opinion that's different from the mainstream

narrative I wanted to hear what their opinion is.

Fair enough, except not a foolproof way to combat misinformation. Highly credentialed

guests will actually have a bigger impact on the audience than speakers with no standing.

The impulse isn't nefarious, but it can be dangerous. But Rogan acknowledged that he

can do better than just having the conversation he said he'd do more research and be prepared

with more pushback. He also said rightly, I think that his show was never meant to be

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