Even he admits he’s “a fucking moron,” but that doesn’t stop Joe Rogan’s daily double-down on actually being an ignorant asshole. In addition to the worthless trash that comes out of his mouth about “woke culture” and the silencing of “straight white men,” his mainstay has been talking shit about the COVID-19 vaccine, and now that content has come back to bite him in the ass.
Wednesday, a group of 270 doctors, scientists, and health professionals wrote an open letter to Spotify about “false and societally harmful assertions” spewing from The Joe Rogan Experience (JRE), demanding that the streaming service “establish a clear and public policy to moderate misinformation on its platform.”
The letter reads that Rogan’s 11 million listeners are repeatedly subjected to “misleading and false claims on his podcast, provoking distrust in science and medicine. He has discouraged vaccination in young people and children, incorrectly claimed that mRNA vaccines are ‘gene therapy,’ promoted off-label use of ivermectin to treat COVID-19 (contrary to FDA warnings), and spread a number of unsubstantiated conspiracy theories.”