[psbp]

I listened to JRE until mid-last year and I'm surprised how many people sanitize his views on Covid/vaccines.

He thinks that any "young" person (20s and below) should be hesitant on taking the vaccine.

He believes that taking the vaccine is more likely to cause adverse health effects than getting Covid for younger people.

He's convinced that alternate treatments like monoclonal antibodies and ivermectin are a better alternative to the vaccine.

He believes that masks are emasculating and make people look "stupid".

Any form of lockdown is government overreach.

Most of these claims are dubious if not outright false, and these aren't just occasional opinions thrown out during his 3+ hour long conversations, he makes it a point to bring these topics up for a large portion of his interviews. That's ignoring the fact that he brings on guests who have fringe opinions about Covid/vaccination but rarely (if ever since early 2020) interviews experts who are pro-vaccine.

[kcplate]

If Joe Rogan and his controversial guests can make make a better argument for their pandemic perspective and influence people better than the CDC, Fauci, heath experts, et al. I’d argue that is more a failure of the CDC, Fauci, health experts, et al. as opposed to any failure of Spotify to censor and pull content from their platform.

If people want to make Joe Rogan inconsequential to the pandemic they should demand much better quality communication and chaos from our health experts, which has been sadly to date—all over the map.

[psbp]

JRE doesn't have open debates between pro/anti vaccine guests. He gives 3+ hours of air time to vaccine conspiracy theorists with very little pushback. It's easy to get swayed by a contrarian opinion if that's the only one you hear.

[kcplate]

Any siloed communication will do that and it’s not just contrarian opinions, it’s any opinion.

So are these people are only forced to listen to JRE? Does Spotify have other podcasts that prevent a contrary opinion to JRE?

[sixstringninja]

Sanjay Gupta was on for 2+ hours. I’m sure you’d agree that’s an opposing view. Even Gupta couldn’t put up a sound argument. So what’s your point?