nigh 300 doctors , scientists , medical and health care professionals have sign anopen letter to Spotifyasking the audio platform to take action against podcaster Joe Rogan , who they say has a " touch on chronicle " of send misinformation in esteem to the COVID-19 pandemic .
The letter of the alphabet , first report byRolling Stone , focalise on a December 2021 episode ofThe Joe Rogan Experiencefeaturing guest Dr Robert Malone , who was recentlybanned from Twitterfor violating the platform ’s COVID-19 misinformation insurance . During the episode , Malone made reference to abaseless conspiracy theorythat people had been " hypnotized " into believing the prevailing scientific persuasion about COVID .
During the two hours and 45 minute audience , Malonemade claims that"there was an intentional , very comprehensive inhibition of early discourse for promote fear , hurt , isolation , hospitalization , and death . " Malone replicate down , total " [ I]t seemed to be completely organize and designed to produce acceptation for and then raise aggregative vaccination , " going on to say — baselessly — that it ’s " pretty unclouded that this [ pandemic ] was planned . "
The letter order that with Rogan ’s podcast being the world ’s large podcast , Spotify — who contract a reported $ 100 million exclusivity passel with Rogan in 2020 — has a duty to extenuate any misinformation contained within it .
" Mass - misinformation events of this weighing machine have extraordinarily dangerous ramifications , " they spell . " As scientist , we face rebound and immunity as the public grow to distrust our research and expertise . As educators and science communicators , we are tasked with repairing the world ’s discredited understanding of skill and medicinal drug . As medico , we bear the arduous weight unit of a pandemic that has stretched our medical systems to their limits and only stands to be exacerbated by the anti - vaccination sentiment woven into this and other episode of Rogan ’s podcast . "
YouTube has already removed the episode from its platform .
afterwards in the instalment , Malone implied that set about booster window pane of the COVID vaccine to battle mutating variants was unusual , something that may follow as a surprise to citizenry who have been going to get their influenza shot every twelvemonth since it was first introduced in the 1940s . Other claimslabeled deceptive by Health Feedbackinclude theincorrect assertionthat COVID-19 can not be circularise by people without symptom .
The letter accuse Rogan of repeatedly spreading false claims on the podcast , include discouraging inoculation in the young andpromoting the use of Ivermectin , something theFDA has repeatedly warned against .
" Notably , Dr. Malone is one of two late JRE node who has compared pandemic insurance to the Holocaust , " the unresolved missive also points out . " These actions are not only obnoxious and unsavoury , but also medically and culturally dangerous . "
" This is not only a scientific or aesculapian business organisation ; it is a sociological offspring of crushing ratio and Spotify is responsible for allowing this activity to flourish on its political platform , " the letter concludes .
" We , the undersigned doctor , nurse , scientists , and educator thus call on Spotify to at once establish a clear and public policy to moderate misinformation on its chopine . "
