Of the 270 globalist doctors, physicians, and “science educators” who signed an open letter to deplatform Joe Rogan from Spotify, only 87 out of 270 of them are certified medical doctors – a number that also includes a dentist and a veterinarian.
Following news that a group of close to 300 individuals in medical fields signed the letter calling for Rogan’s expulsion — and for Spotify (and other platforms) to add a misinformation policy to stop people like Rogan from questioning the establishment’s narrative on COVID — defenders of the popular podcaster dug into the claim that the signatories consisted of “a coalition of scientists, medical professionals, professors, and science communicators spanning a wide range of fields.”
The letter followed Rogan’s interview with Dr. Robert Malone, one of the co-creators of mRNA vaccines, who the group condemned for promoting conspiracy theories around the pandemic. As a result, YouTube removed Rogan’s interview with Malone, and Twitter suspended his account for supposedly breaking its guidelines on misinformation.
“By allowing the propagation of false and societally harmful assertions, Spotify is enabling its hosted media to damage public trust in scientific research and sow doubt in the credibility of data-driven guidance offered by medical professionals,” the letter stated. “Throughout the Covid-19 pandemic, Joe Rogan has repeatedly spread misleading and false claims on his podcast, provoking distrust in science and medicine.”
It was reported that the group consisted of 270 “doctors.” But this couldn’t be further from the truth. On Wednesday, as the Daily Mail reported, only 87 out of the 270 who signed the letter were medical doctors, including Dr. Christine Garvey, a New York-based vet, and Dr. Colleen Trecartin-Frost, a New Jersey dentist.
Teachers, engineers, social workers, and those in social sciences made up the bulk of the signatories.
The Blaze, which did further digging into the signatories, reported:
The range of credentials among the signatories includes: 82 medical doctors (MD), five doctors of osteopathic medicine (DO), more than one dozen nurse practitioners, nearly 100 Ph.D.s and Ph.D. candidates (most of whom are professors), registered nurses, veterinarians, a dentist, a psychologist (which is different from a psychiatrist, which requires an MD), physicians’ assistants, a biochemist, master’s students, research associates, pharmacists, a “COVID-19 laboratory supervisor,” medical students, public health advisers, teachers, engineers, social workers, and even a podcast host.
As the publication states, the majority of those who signed the letter are not legally permitted to practice medicine without supervision from medically-certified doctors, and a significant number of those with medical degrees are not even direct medical providers.
The group of people, while eclectic, represent nothing more than a broad selection of the general public whose expertise on epidemiology and the pandemic is as questionable as Rogan’s himself — they are hardly experts on the subject.
