On Saturday, Joe Rogan offered the Covid vaccine enthusiast Peter Hotez $100,000 to the charity of his choice if he would debate 2024 Democratic presidential Robert F. Kennedy Jr. after Hotez posted a Vice article on Twitter accusing Rogan of promoting ‘disinformation’ about the vaccines. Hotez, a professor of molecular virology at Baylor College, declined. The Epoch Times has more.
In response to Hotez’s post, Rogan asked him to debate. “Peter, if you claim what RFKjr is saying is ‘misinformation’, I am offering you $100,000.00 to the charity of your choice if you’re willing to debate him on my show with no time limit,” he wrote.
“Peter. Let’s finally have the respectful, congenial, informative debate that the American people deserve,” Kennedy also wrote in response.
After Rogan’s call for a debate, Hotez issued a now-deleted Twitter post: “Be serious Joe, that’s what you throw for your hunting buddies on a weekend.”
“A $50 million endowment (which You/Spotify/ RFK Jr can easily afford), not for me but so we can continue making low-cost patent-free vaccines for the world’s poor. Preceded by RFK Jr’s public apology,” he wrote.
Hotez, a frequent proponent of COVID-19 vaccines who appeared on Rogan’s podcast several years ago, also wrote that he would be “happy to come on and clear the air, while also extending a counteroffer to Musk, inviting him to visit his vaccine laboratories and “learn more about our work.”
But Rogan, calling his response a “non-answer,” said that he publicly wrote the comment due to Hotez’s decision to share the Vice article.
“I challenged you publicly because you publicly quote tweeted and agreed with that [expletive] Vice article,” Rogan wrote. “If you’re really serious about what you stand for, you now have a massive opportunity for a debate that will reach the largest audience a discussion like this has ever had. If you think someone else is better qualified, suggest that person.”
Hotez also wrote: “I’m happy to come on and have a meaningful discussion. I respect you and your show and I don’t want an adversarial relationship. I think we can make some progress.”
Worth reading in full.
You can listen to Joe Rogan’s interview with RFK Jr. on Spotify here.
Stop Press: The Mail has more on the same story here, pointing out that Elon Musk has waded in taking Rogan’s side.
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Funny how the mRNA shills only want a (one sided) discussion within their own carefully curated safe spaces. Never in a free and open debate. Can’t for the life of me think why that is.
Gosh, yes. What does that remind me of? Climate?
This epic thread by Simon Goddek tells you all you need to know about this vile, lying, hate-spreading Pharma shill. Obvious why he’ll never debate JFK Jr, as he’s involved in GoF research himself and his beloved ”vaccines” demonstrably are the biggest epic fail yet.
https://twitter.com/goddeketal/status/1670437750552625158?s=20
”While casting concerns about Wuhan’s labs as “fringe,” Hotez has not mentioned his own connection to a project involving a laboratory-generated chimeric SARS-related coronavirus that has come under Congress’ microscope.
The project was helmed by Zhengli Shi, a senior scientist and “virus hunter” at the Wuhan Institute of Virology nicknamed the “Bat Lady.”
As part of his NIH grant, Hotez subcontracted funding for research on combined or “chimeric” coronaviruses, a scientific paper shows. Hotez’s grant underwrote two of Shi’s collaborators on the project.
In the 2017 paper co-funded by Hotez, Shi and her colleagues generated a recombinant virus from two SARS-related coronaviruses: “rWIV1-SHC014S.”
https://usrtk.org/covid-19-origins/critic-of-congressional-probe-into-gain-of-function-research-helped-fund-wuhan-gain-of-function-study/
*RFK Jr, not flipping JFK! Pardon my boob.
Yes and also included in that thread, the proof of yet another “conspiracy theory.” It shows Bill Gates is paying scientists to say what he wants them to say. Hotez was saying the opposite about mRNA vaccines at the start of the Pandemic, showing he really does understand his subject, commenting on how they are untested and potentially dangerous. But then in come the subsequently documented payments from The Gates Foundation and all of a sudden he is extolling their virtue.
Disgraceful.
A Midwestern Doctor has written a brilliant piece on Hotez (crossposted by Dr Robert Malone too) – long, but well worth a read. (The offer is now up to $600K):
https://amidwesterndoctor.substack.com/p/peter-hotezs-war-against-science?utm_source=profile&utm_medium=reader2
Yes I read that too. Highly recommended.
Hotez is a nasty little worm of a man. I think he’s literally the same height as Fauci too, as it happens…
I may be misquoting Noel Coward when I say ‘Never trust a short man. Brain too near his arse…’
Even the usually mild-mannered and generously egalitarian Midwestern Doctor has no qualms calling him an attention-seeking sociopath.
As of yesterday, fund is standing at over $1.5 million.
https://twitter.com/TheChiefNerd/status/1670416300911349769
Just to be clear, debates are not useful for establishing facts. They are useful for fighting out political contests.
The winner of a debate isn’t the person with the most accurate facts. It’s the person who has the best rhetorical and debating skills.
I’m just as keen as the next guy to see RFK debate this guy, but let’s not kid ourselves. What we want to see is RFK humiliate the guy. We want someone to pay at least partly for the misery of the coronavirus tyranny. And this man’s scalp will do nicely
This would basically be a blood sport. I don’t need a debate to establish the facts about covid jabs, I already know the facts. We all do.
In general I agree but “we all do” applies to us here and Rogan has a much wider audience. Would we not want to stimulate more people to be sceptical and start questioning things?
Yes, of course, I think you’re right.
RFK showing the man up in front of millions would do wonders to expose the covid jab scam to many still ignorant people.
Which is why you can hardly blame the guy for not wanting to do it. He may be a horrible person, but he’s probably not an idiot.
Hotez is a reprehensible individual who has deliberately impeded transparency and accountability for the proliferation of vaccine products.
I’d donate £50 to watch RFK Jr. eviscerate that nasty, corrupt, two-faced little squirt (Hotez). The world needs to see it happen. And the world needs to know why it needs to happen.
Then, Joe, please get Fauci, Daszak, Ferguson, Bourla, Gates, Michie, Tedros – the lot. Get them on your canvas and let’s watch them squirm and buckle.
Don’t bother with Biden, that would now be elder abuse.
The moron Hotez is being eviscerated all over the internet, no matter where I look. No way he’s going to recover from this. He may as well just do the damn debate because the knives are out everywhere ( and backed by *all* the evidence ) so he’s well and truly shafted whichever way you look at it. He’s got nothing more to lose, his reputation is in tatters. Will the Leftie MSM muppets throw him under the bus now? Here’s an excellent 5min summary of the moronic minion from Dr Malone;
https://twitter.com/KanekoaTheGreat/status/1670619857497493505
Hotez is the latest in a very long list of genius Government picked “Experts” who couldn’t possibly debate with “cranks” and “conspiracy theorists” (and especially those with hundreds of scientific papers published in the best journals, even Nobel prizewinners.)
Can’t consider any discussion “because it would give them the oxygen of publicity and perhaps elevate their crank nonsense to the level of The Science and confuse watchers”.
In my book, I’d prefer to watch these hubristic, lying sociopaths in a gladiatorial contest against tigers. My thumb straight down.
But a debate with RFK Jr would be a decent alternative.
RFKjnr has been censored, ostracized and cancelled for 18 years. Hotez is being offered half a mill to debate him on Hotez’s own speciality. Poor Hotez.
I understand that donors have upped the financial offer to 600k to charity, and still this man will not put his money where his mouth is, he could get over a half a million for any charity and his faith and belief in his “science” is such that he passes on it, In other words he is just another publicity, fame seeker, who has traded lives for personal advancement, and has now finally exposed his true character.
Let’s hope this Rogan interview with RFK Jnr is the biggest First Domino ever
This sums up how rotten is the area of international vaccination policy…
No wonder I haven’t been able to get accountability all these years I’ve been writing letters and emails questioning vaccine products and revaccinations – I haven’t had millions of dollars to pay for the privilege of discussing the matter.
Seriously, we’re now hoping that rich people can pay for the perpetrators to be held to account?
Vaccinations are medical interventions…
Medical interventions that are pressed upon billions of people around the world, particularly children who have no say at all in the matter.
Voluntary informed consent before this medical intervention has been completely trashed, and for this travesty I blame the treacherous medical ‘profession’, which has been an oh so-willing accomplice in foisting the ever-increasing number of vaccine products upon the global population.
This is the biggest scandal of all time, coming to a head now with the diabolical plan to inject people over and and over again throughout their lives, with ‘Covid’ vaccines, against a ‘disease’ it was known from the beginning wasn’t a serious threat to most people.
And the likes of Anthony Fauci knows these vaccines against respiratory diseases are rubbish, he and his cronies admitted it an article published earlier this year, see my response to them: The biggest crime in history…the influenza and SARS-CoV-2 vaccine scam, 27 April 2023.
Time for this diabolical mess to be blown out of the water, time for the pHarmaceutical industry and its handmaidens in the scientific and medical establishment to be put on trial for the gross exploitation of the world’s people with these protected from scrutiny products.
Vaccine developer Paul Offit is one of the head honchoes of the vaccine racket, along with Bill Gates who basically runs the WHO and international vaccination policy via the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Gavi Alliance plus CEPI, and Anthony Fauci of course, who’s been running the show in the NIAID/NIH in the US since the mid-80s.
Others in the Praetorian Guard protecting the vaccine industry include Dorit Rubinstein Reiss, Arthur Caplan and David Gorski – inhibiting people questioning lucrative vaccination policy.
The Vaccine Confidence Project is a major culprit in all this, established by anthropologist Heidi Larson in the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, its role is to quash ‘vaccine hesitancy’. It’s in bed with the vaccine industry of course… See my BMJ rapid response referring to the Vaccine Confidence Project and conflicts of interest, published in February 2019: ‘Pharma-led chorus’ dominates the public narrative on vaccination: https://www.bmj.com/content/364/bmj.l312/rr-6
Another organisation funded by ‘philanthropists’ to protect the vaccine industry is the Centre for Countering Digital Hate, headquartered in London. Its primary aim is to shut down ‘anti-vaxxers’: https://counterhate.com/research/the-disinformation-dozen/
This ‘anti-vax’ labelling – IT HAS TO STOP!!! These are medical interventions, an ever-increasing number of which are being foisted upon billions of people around the world.
We must demand scrutiny of vaccination schedules which are steeped in conflicts of interest, we must demand examination of the burgeoning vaccine load being imposed upon children and adults.
As somebody who refused the vax, not based on scientific knowledge, but on a deep distrust of government, health executives, the pharma industry, MSM and billionaires knocking on the door of Doris at No 10, I am deeply grateful to those like yourselves who are able to set out, in scientific terms the wretched scam unleashed on the public.
Thanks Smudger.
It is indeed a wretched scam unleashed on the public…and the UK is right in the thick of this manufactured international crisis…
Lots of relevant emails for you to check out here: https://vaccinationispolitical.net/vax-united-kingdom/
Kennedy was very persuasive, and Hotez knows it. He’s frit ….. end of.