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Joe Rogan Offers Vaccine Scientist $100,000 to Debate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on His Podcast. Scientist Bottles It

by Toby Young
19 June 2023 9:00 AM

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.

Tags: Covid VaccinesJoe RoganPeter HotezRobert F. Kennedy Jr.

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Jack the dog
Jack the dog
11 months ago

Well done for keeping pushing, their lies need to be exposed if we are to save what is left of the country our parents bequeathed us.

It really is that serious.

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JXB
JXB
11 months ago
Reply to  Jack the dog

There lies have been evident since the start of the century.

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transmissionofflame
transmissionofflame
11 months ago

It’s much worse than this because “renewables” are intermittent and there’s close to zero reliable storage so they require non-intermittent backups which need to be built and maintained and at least kept ticking over. Double bubble!

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JXB
JXB
11 months ago
Reply to  transmissionofflame

There are no non-intermittent back-ups. Storage is just that, it does not generate electricity.

Discharge cannot be continuous once the storage has drained, and recharge is dependent on intermittent recharge.

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transmissionofflame
transmissionofflame
11 months ago
Reply to  JXB

By non-intermittent backups I meant gas, nuclear etc.

Regarding storage you’d need enough to cover demand for whatever the maximum period could be that your intermittent sources might be offline – good luck calculating that! Anyway, such storage simply doesn’t exist and cannot be built with existing technology.

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sskinner
sskinner
11 months ago

“It is clear the Department for Energy and Net Zero, under the previous Government,”
It’s the same Department/people with the same agenda. It doesn’t matter what government it is.

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varmint
varmint
11 months ago
Reply to  sskinner

One difference is that the Tories knocked it back to 2035 for most of it. Not much of a difference but it was some. But the Eco Fundamentalists at Labour, led from the front by Miliband want it back inline with the UN Agenda 2030.

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Solentviews
Solentviews
11 months ago
Reply to  sskinner

There will be a tipping point, not too far away, when this whole house of cards comes crashing down. The MSM will suddenly ‘wake up’ (I.e. they can’t deny what’s happening around them) and start asking why the Government has been misleading them.

It will probably need a really cold winter, or some incident that prevents power being imported. This Government is on collision course with reality.

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JXB
JXB
11 months ago
Reply to  sskinner

Correct – and most of them are not in Whitehall.

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Heretic
Heretic
11 months ago

What a wonderful photo of the “Reality Crocodile”! 🙂

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Gerry England
Gerry England
11 months ago

Of course Labour’s plans can’t be delivered by the next election because the resources to do so do not exist. It will be amusing to watch as this reality begins to hit.

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Matt Dalby
Matt Dalby
11 months ago
Reply to  Gerry England

In 2027/8 when it’s become obvious that our electricity won’t be carbon free by 2030 they’ll no doubt blame the Conservatives for saddling us with too much debt and not investing enough in renewable energy. Similarly our sky high energy prices will be blamed on world markets and (possible) periodic black/brown outs on squirrels shagging on the transmission lines or anything else apart from. their madcap schemes.

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Tyrbiter
Tyrbiter
11 months ago
Reply to  Matt Dalby

From now on I shall refer to power cuts as “squirrel shagging incidents”.

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varmint
varmint
11 months ago
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funny

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JXB
JXB
11 months ago
Reply to  Gerry England

Yes, but as the Dark Lord has explained, that’s why we need to entrust him with a second term, from amidst the wreckage of his first.

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varmint
varmint
11 months ago

It is all the rage at the moment for governments to attack “Fake News” and “Misinformation”. —–As it happens, and very bad news for ordinary people is that most “Fake News” and “Misinformation” we get all comes from Government. Everything we hear from them and the consolidated media is either a smidgeon of the truth or a bare faced lie, especially on the issue of energy and climate.
——I have been investigating the climate/energy situation since about 2007 so I don’t need to look at any graphs to know that Miliband and Labour are LIARS. Energy bills are going in one direction only ————UP.
—–But the other aspect to this is that they want the price to go up to discourage use. It isn’t the case that they have just made a mistake and really believe the prices will come down. They know full well that prices will rise astronomically. The National Grid estimates the cost of Net Zero to be 3 trillion and it is the people who pay for all of that via their bills. ———-But then we have to ask ourselves “Why are we forcing ourselves in law to do all of this by 2030”.? What is the big hurry? The rest of the world isn’t doing this so why should we? This pathetic group think answer that we want to be “world leaders” is utterly feeble. They want to do it by 2030, because that is what the UN Agenda 2030 wants. So our politicians are prepared to impoverish us all so they can suck up the arses of the UN.

Last edited 11 months ago by varmint
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Mzungu
Mzungu
11 months ago

Using “Bid prices” is the government’s way of adding confusion to the real data. Can we please have the following real cost:

  1. cost per mgwh of gas produced electricity before the application of the subsidy.
  2. the cost per mgwh of the subsidy charged
  3. the real cost per mgwh of renewables, by sector

That way the real cost of this monstrous con-job will become clear.

Last edited 11 months ago by Hardliner
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JXB
JXB
11 months ago

The strike price had to be increased because wind and solar companies weren’t bidding.

No more of Millibrain’s wind turbines will get built unless higher prices are guaranteed for the future, otherwise wind and solar companies cannot make a return on their investment and pay dividends to shareholders.

Adding increased uncertainty into any system does not reduce it. Adding more intermittency only increases the scale when – supposedly – more electrical supply is reliant on unreliable, unpredictable, inconsistent generation.

Physics + Economics = Bankruptcy.

Evidently the intent is to bankrupt the People.

Last edited 11 months ago by JXB
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ChrisA
ChrisA
11 months ago

Can someone point out where this £66 reference price comes from, I can’t find anything on it?

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