Joe Rogan walks onto the stage during the UFC 230 weigh-in inside Hulu Theater at Madison Square Garden on November 2, 2018 in New York, New York. LOS ANGELES - Nearly 300 medical experts are urging Spotify to take action against the streaming platform’s most popular podcast, "The Joe Rogan Experience," for "broadcasting misinformation, particularly regarding the COVID-19 pandemic." In an open letter to Spotify signed by 270 professors, scientists, doctors and health care workers, writers criticized a controversial episode featuring Dr.
Robert Malone, who went on Rogan’s show to promote an unfounded theory taking root online suggesting that millions of people have been "hypnotized" into believing mainstream ideas about the ongoing pandemic.
The episode was published on Dec. 31, and featured Malone discussing a term widely shared online known as "mass formation psychosis.""The episode has been criticized for promoting baseless conspiracy theories and the JRE has a concerning history of broadcasting misinformation, particularly regarding the COVID-19 pandemic," the letter wrote. "By allowing the propagation of false and societally harmful assertions, Spotify is enabling its hosted media to damage public trust in scientific research and sow doubt in the credibility of data-driven guidance offered by medical professionals."In the episode they are referring to, Malone cast doubt on COVID-19 vaccine safety and claimed the mass psychosis has resulted in a "third of the population basically being hypnotized" into believing what Dr.
Anthony Fauci, the nation’s top infectious disease expert, and mainstream news outlets say.Malone went on to say that the phenomenon explained Nazi Germany.According to healthcare professionals, the.