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Fuck Rogan.

I fucking hate Rogan so much. Maybe it's unfair of me, but I always think less of a person if I hear them say the words "I heard on Joe Rogan..."

If you're paying for spotify premium you're funding this.

he found the theory that party drugs like poppers cause AIDS to be “surprisingly compelling.”

What does he mean with this? Is he claiming that AIDS isn't caused by the HIV virus, or is he claiming that poppers (the chemical amyl nitrate) when consumed by a human causes the spontaneous creation of the HIV virus inside the person?

Neither of those makes sense.

My people didn’t lose a generation for this bullshit.

Also AIDS is preventable, AIDS is treatable, and if you’re sexually active outside of monogamy you’re potentially being exposed to HIV regardless of the kind of sex you have. Straight people having PIV can spread HIV, oral can spread it with any genitals. If you’re sexually active get tested regularly. If it’s caught early you can avoid negative consequences. And if you have reason to believe you’ve been exposed go to an emergency room immediately and tell them. There’s basically a morning after pill for HIV (there’s also an equivalent to birth control called PrEP)

Who the f**k take this 2 clowns serious? And Joe Rogan, that dude ..is a gold mine for this shit and stupid topics.

Unholy turducken of misinformation should be the new name for the GOP.

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

Or

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

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

Joe Rogan realized he could cast a dragnet across the nation for the most ignorant, gullible viewers and, like Alex Jones, sell them bullshit. This bullshit being pushed to the audience is paid for by the highest bidder that Rogan then injects into his dialogue.

Then again, I wonder if he's just a stoner wholeheartedly embracing the Dunning-Kruger Effect, thinking he's got it allllll figured out.

Do you think he's aware of the false equivalence fallacy he props up when he would bring on, say, an anti-vaxxer person and then 1 pro-vaxx person but not recognize that there's probably 999 pro-vaxx infectious disease experts, doctors, scientists for every one anti-vaxxer? What if he interviewed with proportionality?

I guess kids in africa are having poppers in uterus.

Why is an evolutionary biologist qualified to even talk about this, he's not exactly a medical expert.

Damnit Bret, I want you to personally refund the tuiton I spent in college taking your classes.

creating a sort of unholy turducken of misinformation

fucking lol

Joe Rogan is a one-man human centipede.

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.

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."

Bret Weinstein is kind of a moron. I've been saying this for years.

Edit: I listened to Bret, even though I still think he's a moron the article completely misrepresents what he said. The article:

The specific idea that AIDS is spread through poppers—a party drug with a long medical and recreational history—first circulated as HIV began to spread in the 1980s.

My understanding from the snippet is that party drugs trigger AIDS, not spread it. Honestly this is a perfectly reasonable take, loading your body with drugs, poor sleep, poor diet can easily lead to a compromised immune system. I'm guessing the hypothesis is that HIV runs rampant in this state and destroys the immune system leading to AIDS more easily than if you weren't taking drugs. Not pushing your body, specially when you already have HIV, is generally a good idea.