Only 100 of the '270 doctors' demanding censorship of Joe Rogan are medical doctors
Following the release of a viral "Joe Rogan Experience" podcast episode featuring guest Dr. Robert Malone, a letter from more than 270 "doctors" describing Rogan as a "menace to public health" was sent to Spotify urging the company to censor the podcast star. It has since been revealed though that a large portion of those "doctors" are not practicing medical doctors. Investigative journalist Jordan Schachtel reported that out of the more than 270 doctors that signed the letter, only around 100 of those who signed are people with qualified medical degrees.
"As physicians, we bear the arduous weight of a pandemic that has stretched our medical systems to their limits and only stands to be exacerbated by the anti-vaccination sentiment woven into this and other episodes of Rogan's podcast," the open letter states. "Well, I reviewed this open letter, and it turns out that only around 100 of the 270+ signatories to the letter are people with qualified medical degrees. And a large chunk of that 100 or so medical doctors are MDs employed at universities who are not in fact practitioners of medicine," wrote Schachtel.
