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But why? Joe Rogan doesn’t publish news. The podcast is in the form of a conversation between two people. He does talk about current events, just as everybody else does when they have a conversation.

He doesn’t make any claim that is show is anything more than two people chatting. If anyone is using JRE as a trusted news source, then they are an idiot. You can’t stop people from being idiots, nor should we attempt to childproof the entire world on their behalf.



Everyone I've ever talked to that listens to JRE thinks what they say on it is generally correct.

I guess you can't stop people from being idiots, but there's no harm in trying.


> Everyone I've ever talked to that listens to JRE thinks what they say on it is generally correct.

I have tuned in reasonably regularly. I think what they say on there is generally what the person saying it believes to be correct.


That I agree with, but that wasn't what I meant, and judging from anecdata, not everyone can make that distinction. It's easy to be convinced by presentation rather than content.


> Everyone I've ever talked to that listens to JRE thinks what they say on it is generally correct.

"Generally correct" is a much lower bar than "always correct". It might even be a bar that JRE can pass.

Edit: where they're talking about factual matters I mean, not where they talk about aliens, big foot, and other obviously outlandish ideas where they're clearly just shooting the breeze.




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