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'270 doctors’ called out Joe Rogan, but the authors of the letter and the vast majority of its signatories are not medical doctors

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'270 doctors’ called out Joe Rogan, but the authors of the letter and the vast majority of its signatories are not medical doctors

Only a handful are practicing physicians.

Jordan Schachtel
Jan 16, 2022
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'270 doctors’ called out Joe Rogan, but the authors of the letter and the vast majority of its signatories are not medical doctors

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Are you seeing all of those blaring corporate press headlines targeting Joe Rogan this weekend, reporting on a letter from “270 doctors,” which described the famous podcaster as a “menace to public health”? Well, it turns out that the real arbiters of misinformation are the individuals behind the letter itself, and they are being helped along by a corrupt corporate media that is misreporting the credentials of its signatories.

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It was first reported by Rolling Stone, with a story titled, “Doctors Demand Spotify Puts an End to Covid Lies on ‘Joe Rogan Experience’”

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‘Menace to public health’: 270 doctors call out Spotify over Joe Rogan’s podcast
theguardian.com‘Menace to public health’: 270 doctors criticize Spotify over Joe Rogan’s podcastAn open letter expresses concern about Covid misinformation and specifically addresses an episode with virologist Robert Malone
11:48 AM ∙ Jan 14, 2022
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Doctors urge Spotify to stop "enabling" Joe Rogan to "damage public trust in scientific research"
ift.ttDoctors urge Spotify to stop “enabling” Joe Rogan to “damage public trust in scientific research”“Spotify is responsible” for allowing COVID misinformation “to thrive on its platform,” the letter reads
7:01 PM ∙ Jan 16, 2022
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Yes, the media and Big Tech want to create the image of a hundreds-strong coalition of medical doctors who are genuinely concerned about Joe Rogan’s conversations on his massive platform.

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"Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, Joe Rogan has repeatedly spread misleading and false claims on his podcast, provoking distrust in science and medicine," the doctors said in the letter. Rogan has been a regular subject of controversy at Spotify.
washex.am270 doctors ask Spotify to stop Joe Rogan spreading ‘misleading and false claims’ about COVID-19A group of 270 doctors has signed a letter requesting that Spotify adopt a policy on COVID-19 misinformation.
12:46 AM ∙ Jan 16, 2022
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Twitter even got in on the propaganda campaign against Rogan, adding this “medical experts” letter to their curated headlines section.

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Surprise! @Twitter promoting leftist conspiracy to defame, smear, censor and deplatform @joerogan!
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6:45 PM ∙ Jan 16, 2022
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Well, I reviewed this open letter, and it turns out that only around 100 of the 270+ signatories to the letter are people with qualified medical degrees. And a large chunk of that 100 or so medical doctors are MDs employed at universities who are not in fact practitioners of medicine. 

Yet part of the letter reads:

“As physicians, we bear the arduous weight 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 episodes of Rogan’s podcast.”

Paradoxically, the disseminators of this petition are guilty of the very misinformation label that they’ve attached to Rogan. In fact, neither of the two reported co authors of the letter — Jessica Rivera and Ben Rein — possess medical degrees. Rivera holds a master’s degree and Rein is a PhD academic who researches psychiatry.

The letter denouncing Joe Rogan and pressuring Spotify to censor his speech has all kinds of random signatories. By my count, the letter is signed by over 50 PhD academics, around 60 college professors, 29 nurses, 10 students, 4 medical residents, and even a handful of… science podcasters. 

The letter, which uses the word misinformation nine times in five paragraphs, concludes with a call for Spotify to censor Rogan as part of a policy to “moderate misinformation on the platform.”

Notably, there is no information on who or what group is behind the creation and circulation of the open letter. Rivera, the reported lead author of the letter, is associated with the far-left Rockefeller Foundation and The Atlantic, and she is a CNN contributor.

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jayste
Jan 16, 2022Liked by Jordan Schachtel

We have 270 signatures here and over 15 THOUSAND medical professionals and scientists FIGHTING this nonsense and pushing for Nuremberg 2.0 for Crimes Against Humanity. I'll stick with REAL science instead of government propaganda.

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Leonidas
Jan 16, 2022Liked by Jordan Schachtel

Rogan is a hero and a fighter. How about we get the 96,000 signatories (or whatever it is now) of the Great Barrington Declaration to weigh in now? It’s time to get this party started and boot Fauci and his cronies influence out of our lives forever.

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