Four claims from Joe Rogan's Spotify podcast fact-checked BBCRealityCheck
Joe Rogan has been criticised for helping spread misinformation on his podcast.
None of the Covid vaccines change your genetic material or DNA - essentially the recipe book containing the instructions of how to build your body.If DNA is the blueprint, RNA is the messenger, carrying instructions to your cells. This claim was made on an episode last year featuring Bret Weinstein, an American author and professor of biology, who said: "Ivermectin alone is capable of driving this pathogen to extinction."Many were very low quality, and in some cases the data had been clearly manipulated.
Mr Malone was banned from Twitter in December last year for violating its Covid misinformation policies. He appeared on Mr Rogan's podcast shortly afterwards.
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