I can't say I've heard much from Joe Rogan, after seeing a couple of his podcasts and quickly realising what absolute garbage it was. In one, he proudly declared that the idea that the settlers killed the native americans with small pox blankets was a myth and couldn't be true, because people back then didn't know about germs. His guest, an alleged expert (who seemed more like a random white supremacist with a fetish for the wild west), agreed with him and they just moved on with this "fact" now established. I presume using the same logic, cavemen didn't bash each others skulls in with rocks, as they didn't understand the anatomy of the brain well enough to understand why this would work. IT's not as if people have been using biological warfare since the medieval ages or anything.
That seemed to be how the show worked. Get an "expert", have them say something is a fact, Rogan responds "waaaaaoow, that's so interesting", then make no attempt to verify what's been said, then move on to theories based on these facts. Sometimes the guest seems to be an actual expert, sometimes a crank. All this does is add credibility to the crank because they are in the same position as the actual expert was.
From what I gather, he's gone full crank, as many of these right wing americans have lately, as there is good money in doing so. But anyone who genuinely believes in international conspiracies involving every country and every doctor in the world being in on it, is an idiot. Sadly, there is a lot of idiots.
That seemed to be how the show worked. Get an "expert", have them say something is a fact, Rogan responds "waaaaaoow, that's so interesting", then make no attempt to verify what's been said, then move on to theories based on these facts. Sometimes the guest seems to be an actual expert, sometimes a crank. All this does is add credibility to the crank because they are in the same position as the actual expert was.
From what I gather, he's gone full crank, as many of these right wing americans have lately, as there is good money in doing so. But anyone who genuinely believes in international conspiracies involving every country and every doctor in the world being in on it, is an idiot. Sadly, there is a lot of idiots.
