Lies, Damned Lies, and Suzanne Humphries
Dr. Suzanne Humphries (right), an alternative medicine advocate known for her views on childhood vaccines and other persistent diseases, recently appeared on the Joe Rogan Experience. With the podcast's wide reach, conversations like these can shape public understanding, making it even more important to examine the claims being made.
Deplatform Disease
Make no mistake, the recent appearance of Dr. Suzanne Humphries on The Joe Rogan Experience podcast—which reaches an astronomical 11 million listeners per episode—represents a public health emergency that demands an urgent, forceful and unified response. While we might typically ignore fringe medical opinions, the sheer scale of this platform and the numerous falsehoods propagated by this guest throughout the whole duration of this lengthy segment transforms Humphries's dangerous views, rooted in blatant falsehoods and mischaracterization of data, into a potential public health disaster. This all while the country faces one of the worst measles outbreaks in recent history.
This appearance follows Rogan's troubling pattern of platforming pseudoscience to his massive audience. From hosting notorious HIV/AIDS denialist Peter Duesberg, whose theories led to catastrophic policies in South Africa resulting in an estimated 330,000 preventable deaths , to promoting ivermectin for COVID-19 treatment against FDA warnings, to interviewing Bret Weinstein who falsely claimed ivermectin alone could drive COVID-19 to "extinction" NPR , to repeatedly platforming conspiracy theorist Alex Jones —Rogan has consistently amplified dangerous misinformation under the guise of "just asking questions" while reaching millions of listeners per episode.
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