The Checkup with Doctor Mike
Hated By Anti-Vaxxers & His Public Fallout w/ Joe Rogan | Dr. Peter Hotez
25 May 2025
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You have now a rough relationship with Joe Rogan. It started off positive.
How are you, sir? How are you? Good to see you again. I'm thrilled to be here.
He was inviting you on as an expert to talk about what's going on in the early days of the pandemic. How did that change?
I criticize him when he puts out vaccine disinformation and ask him not to do that. If you're like 21 years old and you say to me, should I get vaccinated? I go, no. I was writing to him. I said, Joe, have me on because what you're doing is dangerous. People are now making decisions based on what they're hearing.
How did he respond to your messages?
There was no response. I didn't hear from him in two years until he taunted me to debate RFK Jr., There were a few reasons why I wasn't going to debate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. I didn't want to send the message that science is done by a debate with crackpots. And whoever says more clever things in a debate, that's how science gets done. I thought that would be very dangerous.
You faced a lot of abuse during that time. Harassment, anger, vitriol from the general public. What was that like?
I got stalked at my home by an anti-vaxxer, a couple of anti-vaxxers. It was very dark, very quickly.
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