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Joe Rogan and Bret Weinstein Promote AIDS Denialism to an Audience of Millions (www.vice.com)

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Weinstein repeated discredited theories to Rogan about HIV not being the cause of AIDS, alarming and infuriating public health experts.

Bret Weinstein, the evolutionary biology professor turned podcaster and ivermectin guy, repeated a series of discredited pseudo-theories about AIDS in a recent appearance on Joe Rogan’s podcast. Weinstein, a frequent guest, told Rogan that he found the theory that party drugs like poppers cause AIDS to be “surprisingly compelling.” (It is not.) Weinstein also told Rogan he came to these ideas by reading a recent book by anti-vaccine activist and presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy, creating a sort of unholy turducken of misinformation passed onto an audience of millions.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago

Joe Rogan is a one-man human centipede.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

If anyone is interested, I've tried so damn hard to block all Joe Rogan content on YouTube. It's impossible. You block one thing and another comes out.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago

You're stuck in an algorithm somehow. I don't see any joe Rogan on YouTube.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I actually think Rogan is a really great interviewer, and he's sometimes able to get surprisingly candid moments out of his guests. The problem is he's also dumb as shit, so he'll wind up platforming people that have batshit crazy ideas and he has no ability to evaluate or push back on what they're saying. He'll have guys like Stephen Molyneux come on and go on a racist tirade about ethnic IQ or whatever, and instead of doing research beforehand so he can challenge his bullshit he'll just go, "wow, that's crazy man."

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (2 children)

He is dumb cause he likes stuff I dont.... Lol

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago

Found the racist.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago

You mean Racial IQ theories? Yeah, I don't like those and I think they're dumb.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Bret Weinstein: a perfect example of how you can be educated and still be a complete fucking moron.

Educated, possibly intelligent, and a soulless grifter taking advantage of complete fucking morons.

Either way he's a goddamn turd in a turd suit.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I used to like Rogan in the Man Show/Fear Factor days, and I still respect what he's done for comedians in Austin.

Other than that? He's a fucking meathead who sold whatever integrity he may have had to Satan Musk for a joint.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago

Did anyone else’s brain see the “m” and fill in the last word with “morons”?

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