JRE: the only hope of uniting the country?
Even uneducated villagers in remote parts of India know that it is important to listen to all sides of the debate with an open mind. Sadly, the “highly-educated” Americans, especially Indians living in America, have completely forgotten it, and are lead companies like Google/Twitter that are hellbent on brutally censoring anybody exposing the pharma corruption. Many of these idiots, who know almost NOTHING about the infinite complexities of human biology, except parroting Fauci, think that even someone like Robert Malone, who has a stellar publication+citation record in RNA transfection, is also not allowed to speak about mrna vaccines. Even Malone’s biggest detractors agree that he has made fundamental contributions on which modern m-rna vaccines were built, so much so that they think he is ruining his chances of getting a (shared) Nobel prize by speaking out against the technology. It is very hard for anyone to say something negative about their OWN CO-invention and yet the crazy “educated” tech-world thinks that we should not listen to Malone and instead listen to the likes of the CNN pundit Scott Gottleib, who sits on the board of Pfizer.
The Corporate media (CNN/Fox/nytimes/NPR), which ironically accuses the individualistic media of misinformation, has largely become a propaganda machine, continuously making their half of America hate the other. In my 11 years in the US, I have been on both sides. Until 2017, when I started my research in health, I read/viewed mostly nytimes/NBC/NPR and thought that the red half of America was a racist+religious shithole, so much so that when I finished my PhD and was looking for faculty positions, I did not even apply to universities in Texas. Also, Texas’s anti-abortion stance violated the my-body-my-choice principle my wife and I held dearly, even though we knew would likely never want to do it ourselves: we fell in love with our baby and talked to her and considered her as a person much before she was born, yet we think a woman’s right to determine what happens to her body trumps the concerns about the unborn baby’s life.
Unfortunately, in the last few years, the blue side has been violating the same my-body-my-choice principle in much more dangerous ways. For example, mrna covid vaccines are being mandated even to young boys, who are more at risk from being hospitalized due to vaccine-induced myocarditis (just one of the many adverse effects) than Covid itself. These mandates forced us to move from California, where we had 100s of friends (many close friendships developed during school), to Florida, where we knew nobody when we just moved in. And I realized it is nowhere close to the racist shithole I thought it was when I only read/listened to CNN/NBC/nytimes. (The people here are mostly kind and humble and mostly don’t think they know everything, unlike the ivy-league degree holders in silicon valley.) The red corporate media (e.g. Fox) is not much better though: they unfairly scapegoat immigrants for every single problem of America.
In 2018, I joined twitter to find and engage with people with interesting and plausible ideas (e.g. those not refuted by my own experiments) in the health space and I had no interest in politics at the time. Chasing that objective, I ended up following up a roughly equal mix of blue-leaning and red-leaning accounts during the last few years, which gave me a unique perspective showcasing the biggest problem with America is today: it has become a country of two echo chambers where each side only sees the worst part of the other side, and never gets challenged on their hypocrisies. Even that worst part is disingenuously presented by their respective media or gods like Fauci/Trump to appear much worse than it is. Pre-Covid, at least you could tweet your opinions against the blue narratives, and engage respectfully with the blue echo chamber, but now you get banned immediately if you have even a modest-size following. So the red echo chamber has moved to completely different platforms, like GAB, Parler… So, there is almost no place where Americans of the two echo chambers get to genuinely understand each other’s point of views: not the corporate media, not the social media.
Fortunately, there is still one place where each side of all debates get to present their viewpoint: the Joe Rogan Experience. He even talks for 3+ hours with people holding almost completely opposite views than himself: e.g. Dr. Sanjay Gupta of CNN, or several veganism advocates. In such long conversations, you inevitably get to see what a person really believes in, rather than what they want to pretend. In contrast, the corporate media usually only selectively airs the worst part of their ideological opponents when they interview them before writing hit pieces on them. I started listening to the podcast a few years ago because of his interest in optimizing human health (among so many other interests) and I honestly think it is the best thing the internet has to offer today. I don’t agree with everything he or his guests say, but there is nobody I agree 100% with. For example, take a listen to this podcast with Robert Malone, MD and judge for yourself the humbleness of Dr Malone; contrast it with Fauci, who claimed HE is science and repeatedly makes divisive, politically-charged, and wrong claims that get disproven in just few months. See how much Dr Malone knows what we don’t know: a sign of a true scientist, sorely lacking in the medical leadership of the country, which in contrast to Dr. Malone, has deep financial conflicts of interests with the very companies selling the products they promote/mandate. Look at Dr Malone’s academic history I described at the beginning of the article and listen to the podcast and judge for yourself whether he has a right to be heard.
To hear the opposite perspective, you can listen to this 3+ hour long with the CNN doctor Sanjay Gupta:
See how the conversation is respectful and how much time he gives the guest to explain their perspective fully. The full conversations are always uploaded to spotify with NO CHERRY-PICKING.
The Joe Rogan Experience podcast is what the corporate media should have been. It does what is most needed in today’s America: bringing both echo chambers together and letting each side put their perspectives in depth. Sadly, the blue side wants to wipe it off internet. Consider subscribing to his podcast on Spotify.