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Scientists sign “Open letter to Spotify” re:Joe Rogan misinformation

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Re: Scientists sign “Open letter to Spotify” re:Joe Rogan misinformation

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I am looking forward to seeing a detailed list created by these doctors and scientists with time stamps from the interviews that counter or refute the statements with references both with the interview of Dr. Malone and the interview with Dr. Peter McCullough. If there are alternate sides to the story then we should all have access to them and hear what the medical community have to say. Even better might be if the m…

This. Rogan has had numerous pro-vax mandate doctors and guests on the show. These scientists are free to ask to come on the JRE and share their views. It seems unreasonable that listeners shouldn’t be allowed to hear any other viewpoints.

This kind of framing of the “information marketplace” is really really naive. It’s a good sound byte because “who could be against the free expression of ideas” but assumes a world without market distortions caused by people with disproportionate reach and impact.

It’s really really stupid for someone with a huge audience to bring on an anti-vax nut job and uncritically interview them because simply being on the show at all lends their message legitimacy — “this person who I trust to curate content says this is a voice worth listening to.”

The message isn’t “you shouldn’t be allowed to listen to their viewpoints” but “what the fuck Joe, you basically endorsed these idiots and people actually listen to you.”

Re: Scientists sign “Open letter to Spotify” re:Joe Rogan misinformation

#12

I am looking forward to seeing a detailed list created by these doctors and scientists with time stamps from the interviews that counter or refute the statements with references both with the interview of Dr. Malone and the interview with Dr. Peter McCullough. If there are alternate sides to the story then we should all have access to them and hear what the medical community have to say. Even better might be if the m…

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Re: Scientists sign “Open letter to Spotify” re:Joe Rogan misinformation

#13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Here "other viewpoints" means advising to take poisonous, non-FDA-aproved, ineffective horse tranquilizer instead of real medicine to fight a deadly disease during a pandemic.

Are you referring to ivermectin?

What, you haven't heard of the ketamine early treatment protocols?

Re: Scientists sign “Open letter to Spotify” re:Joe Rogan misinformation

#15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Are you referring to ivermectin?

What, you haven't heard of the ketamine early treatment protocols?

Hah. I’m might need to get in on that protocol

Re: Scientists sign “Open letter to Spotify” re:Joe Rogan misinformation

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post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This. Rogan has had numerous pro-vax mandate doctors and guests on the show. These scientists are free to ask to come on the JRE and share their views. It seems unreasonable that listeners shouldn’t be allowed to hear any other viewpoints.

This kind of framing of the “information marketplace” is really really naive. It’s a good sound byte because “who could be against the free expression of ideas” but assumes a world without market distortions caused by people with disproportionate reach and impact. It’s really really stupid for someone with a huge audience to bring on an anti-vax nut job and uncritically interview them because simply being on the show…

There's no shortage of media in the information marketplace promoting the pro-vaccine, pro-mask, and pro-lockdown points of view.

Re: Scientists sign “Open letter to Spotify” re:Joe Rogan misinformation

#18
Just a reminder: JRE is entertainment. The root problem isn’t Rogan (or hundreds of talk show hosts like him), it’s the desire to consume entertainment instead of information, and the willingness to trust entertainers instead of experts.

But while that’s a huge problem that can’t be easily solved, it’s easy to go after Rogan. After all, he started out interviewing with tons of curiosity, but since COVID/BLM/2020 election, his show has turned into an echo chamber where he willingly abandoned his curiosity and critical thinking and jumps on the bandwagon of whatever ideology he feels like promoting that week.

He was a Charlie Rose for the common man, now he’s more like a Hannity for the common man.

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