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Joe Rogan realized he could cast a dragnet across the nation for the most ignorant, gullible viewers and, like Alex Jones, sell them bullshit. This bullshit being pushed to the audience is paid for by the highest bidder that Rogan then injects into his dialogue.
Then again, I wonder if he's just a stoner wholeheartedly embracing the Dunning-Kruger Effect, thinking he's got it allllll figured out.
Do you think he's aware of the false equivalence fallacy he props up when he would bring on, say, an anti-vaxxer person and then 1 pro-vaxx person but not recognize that there's probably 999 pro-vaxx infectious disease experts, doctors, scientists for every one anti-vaxxer? What if he interviewed with proportionality?
I mean, he's rich well into the hundreds of millions of dollars. The guy has never been dumb, per say. He's just made a career of playing a dummy on TV.
Dude knows what he's doing (or, he did at one point, perhaps before he fried his brain with DMT).
I don't think he particularly cares. He's had pro-vax guys on his show. He's had anti-vax guys. The dude is a Carney and his show is a three-ring circus. You can always find something to scratch your libidinal itch in there somewhere.
Idk about that statistic. There's certainly a healthy amount of denialism and conspiracy theory in mass media. Probably give you 10:1 on a good day.
But even if it was 1 pro-vax doctor in 100 antis, the numbers don't really matter. What matters is the spectacle of two people arguing a point the audience will never have the education to verify one way or another.
This is, at its heart, infotainment. It isn't about who is right and who is wrong. Its about putting people in a ring together and have them duke it out with words. Then cutting to another ring where MMA guys duke it out with fists.
His show is about fighting. That's all he wants.
Just to let you know, the expression is written 'per se':
Borrowed from Latin per sē (“by itself”), from per (“by, through”) and sē (“itself, himself, herself, themselves”). Wiktionary source