Episode #1717

Alex Berenson

· 2 books mentioned

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Journalist and author Alex Berenson joins Joe Rogan to examine COVID-19 origins, vaccine effectiveness and safety, waning immunity, boosters, treatments, and public-health policies. They also discuss ivermectin, pharmaceutical incentives, institutional distrust, censorship, platform moderation, and polarization, including Berenson’s forthcoming book, Pandemia.

What they talked about

  • Permanent Twitter ban for COVID-19 truth claims
  • Lab leak theory and Fauci's involvement
  • Ivermectin as a COVID-19 treatment
  • Comparison of mRNA vaccines to traditional vaccines
  • Vaccine efficacy waning and booster shot debate
  • VAERS data and vaccine side effects
  • Media and government censorship of dissenting views
  • Comorbidities and COVID-19 death statistics

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