Malone’s interview has reached many tens of millions of listeners vulnerable to predatory medical misinformation. The average age of JRE listeners is 24 years old and according to data from Washington State, unvaccinated 12-34 year olds are 12 times more likely to be hospitalized with COVID than those who are fully vaccinated.ĭr. These actions are not only objectionable and offensive, but also medically and culturally dangerous. Malone is one of two recent JRE guests who has compared pandemic policies to the Holocaust. Many of these statements have already been discredited. Malone used the JRE platform to further promote numerous baseless claims, including several falsehoods about COVID-19 vaccines and an unfounded theory that societal leaders have “hypnotized” the public. Robert Malone, who was suspended from Twitter for spreading misinformation about COVID-19. He has discouraged vaccination in young people and children, incorrectly claimed that mRNA vaccines are “gene therapy,” promoted off-label use of ivermectin to treat COVID-19 (contrary to FDA warnings), and spread a number of unsubstantiated conspiracy theories. Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, Joe Rogan has repeatedly spread misleading and false claims on his podcast, provoking distrust in science and medicine. Though Spotify has a responsibility to mitigate the spread of misinformation on its platform, the company presently has no misinformation policy. With an estimated 11 million listeners per episode, JRE is the world’s largest podcast and has tremendous influence. We are a coalition of scientists, medical professionals, professors, and science communicators spanning a wide range of fields such as microbiology, immunology, epidemiology, and neuroscience and we are calling on Spotify to take action against the mass-misinformation events which continue to occur on its platform. JRE #1757 is not the only transgression to occur on the Spotify platform, but a relevant example of the platform’s failure to mitigate the damage it is causing. 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.īy 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. 31, 2021, the Joe Rogan Experience (JRE), a Spotify-exclusive podcast, uploaded a highly controversial episode featuring guest Dr. Colleen Trecartin-Frost, a dentist from New Jersey Autumn Schuster, a social worker at the University of California at Irvine Korinne Bricker, a 'COVID-19 laboratory supervisor', as well as a host of teachers, engineers and psychologists.Ī few of the people signing the letter also work on podcasts like Rogan's.Īn Open Letter to Spotify: A call from the global scientific and medical communities to implement a misinformation policy: Christine Garvey, a Western New York-based veterinarian Dr. Some of the other medical professions represented include: Dr. Malone himself has an MD from Northwestern University. Only 87 of the 270 signatories are medical doctors – the rest are from assorted professions including engineers, teachers, psychologists. Hundreds of doctors and scientists signed the letter, published January 10, that called on the streaming giant to adopt a misinformation policy after the comedian hosted the controversial Dr Robert Malone last month. The majority of the 270 signatories to an open letter to Spotify accusing Joe Rogan of pushing 'anti-vax misinformation' on his podcast - with one branding him a 'menace to public health' - are not medical doctors. During a three-hour and six-minute interview on the now-viral episode #1757 of The Joe Rogan Experience, Dr Robert Malone compared the US to Nazi Germanyīy Laurence Dollimore and Stephen M.Spotify has yet to publicly address the letter or the controversial episode of Rogan's hit podcast.Some of the other members of the medical academic field featured include physicians' assistants, a biochemist and nearly 100 Ph.Ds and Ph.D candidates.

Some of the other medical professions represented include a veterinarian, a dentist, a social worker, and several psychologists.Only 87 of the 270 signatories are medical doctors – the rest are from assorted professions including engineers, teachers, psychologists.270 people signed the letter, published January 10, that called on the streaming giant to adopt a misinformation policy.A veterinarian, a dentist and a podcast host? Majority of ‘270 doctors’ who signed letter demanding Spotify take action against Joe Rogan are not medical doctors

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