Joe Rogan of the Day
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"I love controversial opinions, and agree with Rogan: the COVID/vaccine messaging has changed over time (but so have the variants). I also agree that ideas that challenge the status quo are good for us. The problem is that he discusses them in a really irresponsible way.
If you don't want to doomscroll down, I'll summarize my main points about how misleading the interview is first, then timestamp the interview in-depth.
1)Rogan and Malone discuss lots of vague theoretical vaccine risks, and spend NO time on ACTUAL risks, like COVID deaths.
2)Malone uses his authority "as a doctor" when it suits him to be seen as an expert, yet has no medical authority: he doesn't see patients. Didn't even complete a residency. Yet Rogan accepts his medical credentials entirely.
3)Rogan (who tends to lean a bit conspiratorial, like Malone) almost never questions Malone on some of his most ridiculous claims; it almost seems like a really weak interview from Rogan. He questions and critiques many other interviewees hard but lets RM's tall tales slide.
4)Robert Malone (RM) mentions a ton of "modeling" and "theoretical" data as the basis for his claims, yet poo-poos pretty much all other data as "manipulated" and "misinterpreted." *His* data is high-quality; everything else is garbage.
5)Joe Rogan (JR) and RM talk a lot about conspiracy theories that are entirely conflicting. Does Big Pharma want to get rich by giving vaccines and monoclonals to keep people out of the hospital? Or do hospitals want people to get COVID for money? Are doctors corrupt or reliable?
6)Rogan wants "experts with differing opinions." Great! Joe, from what I can tell, you've had several medical experts on your podcast, but are any just frontline doctors? An ER doctor or hospitalist or cardiologist who's lived through this for the past 2 years? An ICU nurse, or nursing home or rehab nurse? You've had highly published scientists and physicians and epidemiologists, but how about anyone who's actually worked this damn job caring for these patients with "mild" Omicron? I challenge you to invite some on your show.
7)Finally, as I've said many times, it's much easier to believe that we ACTUALLY have a global pandemic with a FUNCTIONING vaccine with CHANGING science and variants... than it is that we have a GLOBAL conspiracy spanning the globe that everyone in healthcare has agreed to.
-Graham Walker; MD
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