“This doctor was saying ivermectin is 99 percent effective in treating Covid, but you don’t hear about it because you can’t fund vaccines when it’s an effective treatment,” Rogan said during on the episode with Dr Malone. Rogan himself has also promoted taking ivermectin to treat Covid-19 symptoms, despite there being little evidence to support it. On the podcast he claimed people were being “hypnotised” into accepting the vaccines and wearing masks, calling it a form of “mass formation psychosis”.ĭr Malone also shared the false anti-vax claim that hospitals are financially incentivised to falsely diagnose Covid-19 deaths, and supported the use of antiparasitic drug ivermectin as a Covid treatment. He has been banned from Twitter for doing so. Rogan said that in future he would “try to balance things out” and thanked Spotify.Dr Malone is however renowned for sharing Covid-19 misinformation.

I’ve never tried to do anything with this podcast other than just talk to people and have interesting conversations.” Again, I’m not trying to promote misinformation. “I do think that’s important and do my best to make sure that I’ve researched these topics - the controversial ones in particular - and have all the pertinent facts at hand before I discuss them.

“I don’t know what else I can do differently other than maybe try harder to get people with differing opinions on right afterwards,” Rogan said. “No hard feelings towards Neil Young and definitely no hard feelings towards Joni Mitchell - I love her too, I love her music,” said Rogan, although he then mentioned how much he likes the 1979 song “Chuck E.’s in Love,” which sounds somewhat like Mitchell but was actually written and recorded by Rickie Lee Jones (he later corrected himself in the comments).

Rogan described himself as a “huge Neil Young fan,” saying that he worked as a security guard on one of his concerts. Neil Young removed his music from Spotify following the controversy and Joni Mitchell has also signalled her intention to do so. Spotify has said that they would apply labels on podcasts about COVID-19. 31 episode in which his guest was discredited scientist Robert Malone, who promoted an upcoming antivaccine rally. 10 open letter to Spotify, called on the streaming audio platform to “implement a misinformation policy” specifically citing “The Joe Rogan Experience” and its “concerning history of broadcasting misinformation, particularly regarding the COVID-19 pandemic.” The letter highlighted Rogan’s Dec. The controversy began when more than 260 doctors, nurses, scientists, health professionals and academics, in a Jan.

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