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Joe Rogan Experience #1671 - Bret Weinstein & Dr. Pierre Kory

Dr. Pierre Kory is an ICU and lung specialist who is an expert on the use of the drug ivermectin to treat COVID-19. Bret Weinstein is an evolutionary biologist, visiting fellow at Princeton, host of the DarkHorse podcast, and co-author (with his wife, Heather Heying) of the forthcoming "A Hunter-Gatherer's Guide to the 21st Century."

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Jun 26, 20242h 54mWatch on YouTube ↗

At a glance

WHAT IT’S REALLY ABOUT

Scientists allege ivermectin suppression, censorship worsening global COVID outcomes

  1. Joe Rogan hosts evolutionary biologist Bret Weinstein and ICU physician Dr. Pierre Kory to argue that ivermectin is a safe, effective, and massively underused treatment and prophylactic for COVID-19.
  2. They claim dozens of studies and real‑world data show strong benefits—especially with early use and prevention—yet major health agencies and platforms like YouTube suppress discussion in favor of patented, high‑profit drugs and vaccines.
  3. The conversation links this to regulatory and media “capture,” emergency use authorizations, and a broader pattern of pandemic missteps, including the early lab‑leak dismissal and delayed acceptance of airborne transmission and steroids.
  4. They warn that censorship of qualified dissent prevents scientific self‑correction, may have cost countless lives globally, and argue that open debate and rapid application of repurposed drugs could still drive COVID toward extinction.

IDEAS WORTH REMEMBERING

5 ideas

Ivermectin has a large, mostly positive evidence base for COVID treatment and prevention.

Kory and Weinstein cite over 60 controlled trials (including ~24 RCTs) and multiple meta‑analyses showing significant reductions in infection, hospitalization, and death, particularly when used early or prophylactically.

Early outpatient treatment can dramatically reduce severe COVID and ICU burden.

They argue that using ivermectin alongside combination protocols (steroids, vitamin C, anticoagulants, etc.) when symptoms begin often prevents hospitalization, whereas late ICU intervention is far less effective.

Real‑world programs in countries like Mexico, India, and Argentina are presented as strong supportive evidence.

Examples include Mexico’s IMSS test‑and‑treat program and certain Indian states, where rapid declines in hospitalizations and deaths followed mass ivermectin distribution, which they say aligns with trial data.

Major health bodies’ positions on COVID drugs and policies appear inconsistent and politically influenced.

They highlight contradictions such as WHO vs CDC on airborne transmission and remdesivir, and suggest WHO’s and Merck’s downplaying of ivermectin reflect economic and political pressures rather than neutral science.

Censorship of medical debate is portrayed as actively harmful to public health.

YouTube strikes against Weinstein’s interviews (including Kory and mRNA pioneer Robert Malone) and takedowns of Kory’s Senate testimony are framed as blocking exactly the kind of open, corrective scientific dialogue that identified steroids and airborne spread.

WORDS WORTH SAVING

5 quotes

This is a treatable disease. We do have an outpatient treatment for it.

— Dr. Pierre Kory

By insisting on large randomized controlled trials as the only evidence, you’re signing up for new, expensive patented drugs over cheap repurposed ones.

— Bret Weinstein

The suppression of ivermectin… the incalculable loss of life and prolongation and worsening of this, not only in the US, across the world—incalculable doesn’t even come close.

— Dr. Pierre Kory

Any time somebody decides they are going to upgrade conversation by forbidding certain things from being mentioned, you’ve created a tool that will inevitably be captured.

— Bret Weinstein

There’s never been a time where censorship has led to a societal good.

— Joe Rogan

Dr. Pierre Kory’s background, FLCCC Alliance, and early COVID treatment protocolsBret Weinstein’s scientific analysis of COVID, evolution, and public communicationEvidence base for ivermectin as treatment and prophylaxis for COVID-19Discrepancies in guidance from WHO, CDC, NIH, and other health agenciesPlatform censorship, YouTube strikes, and the Trusted News InitiativePharma incentives, emergency use authorizations, and regulatory captureSpike protein toxicity, vaccines, long COVID, and post‑vaccine syndromes

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