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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 10 months ago (2 children)

I mean, he made an idiotic comment that goes against the entirety of what we know about hiv and aids. Biologist or not, he's using an appeal to authority to spread misinformation.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Sure, I agree. But that's not what your comment said. Your comment specifically questioned why a biologist would talk about HIV and not a medical expert.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 10 months ago (2 children)

And I stand by that comment. An evolutionary biologist has no business commenting on something he's not an expert in.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

So yes - my comment perfectly applies. If you believe a biologist has no business commenting on HIV, you don't really understand what a biologist does or studies.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Do you hold multiple PhDs in computer science? No? Log off.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I mean, he made an idiotic comment that goes against the entirety of what we know about hiv and aids

Actually, I don't know it. I haven't studied medicine or aids.

I doubt that most of the other people here have either.

We're just repeating what we hear.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

You can literally google it.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago

That would be the "repeating what we hear" to which I referred