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Joe Rogan and Bret Weinstein Promote AIDS Denialism to an Audience of Millions (www.vice.com)

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Weinstein repeated discredited theories to Rogan about HIV not being the cause of AIDS, alarming and infuriating public health experts.

Bret Weinstein, the evolutionary biology professor turned podcaster and ivermectin guy, repeated a series of discredited pseudo-theories about AIDS in a recent appearance on Joe Rogan’s podcast. Weinstein, a frequent guest, told Rogan that he found the theory that party drugs like poppers cause AIDS to be “surprisingly compelling.” (It is not.) Weinstein also told Rogan he came to these ideas by reading a recent book by anti-vaccine activist and presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy, creating a sort of unholy turducken of misinformation passed onto an audience of millions.

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[-] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 5 points 8 months ago

Did anyone else’s brain see the “m” and fill in the last word with “morons”?

[-] werefreeatlast@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago

If anyone is interested, I've tried so damn hard to block all Joe Rogan content on YouTube. It's impossible. You block one thing and another comes out.

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[-] Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Getting harder and harder to trust experts in their field, when lead poisoning is a thing. Then they use their prior achievements to say the stupidest things

[-] buzz86us@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

Are we in the dark timeline?

[-] LinkOpensChest_wav 1 points 8 months ago

Rogan interjected that the theory that HIV causes AIDS — which is not a theory, but a fact

Ackshually isn't that still a theory in science? A theory is something that's supported by the evidence, right?

Anyway, this is clearly a bad and harmful conspiracy theory, and I have no idea why people continue to support jerkoffs like Rogan.

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