Scientists sign “Open letter to Spotify” re:Joe Rogan misinformation
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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.
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.”
Let the list of names be part of the public record "forever".
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.
I'm not going to spend time on the rest of the falsehoods.
Joe is not always right in every moment with every statement, but he does correct himself when new information is presented to him. He talks a lot about this. He wouldn't have the number one podcast if he wasn't genuine and a good person.
I recommend listening to several whole episodes on topics of interest to you, rather than taking what a sound bite oriented, context avoiding, secondary source is saying.
What makes you say this? Isn't he one of the biggest culture warriors who demonizes trans people, i.e. claiming they are a big problem when they really aren't? He takes sides firmly against trans people participating in society like cis people do. You can't really get more transphobic than that.
Nobody would really care about being around trans people if influencers like Joe Rogan didn't say they were an inherent problem that need to be dealt with. He cites the accomplishments of trans people in sports as if that is a problem in and of itself... trans people succeeding. Like just the thought of a trans person doing well is enough to set Joe Rogan off and stir up his millions of followers into an anti-trans rage.