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Aaron Siri
Joe Rogan podcast. Check it out. The Joe Rogan Experience. Train by day, Joe Rogan podcast by night. All day.
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Joe Rogan
So you had a pile of notes and then you just folded them up? Like, did you commit them to memory?
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Aaron Siri
No, just these two things have the links I sent you guys. Oh, okay. And just some stuff that I just
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Joe Rogan
saw, the pieces of paper that you folded. I was like, what's in there? That's just. How did. First of all, I want to talk you through. Like, when you were a younger man, before you had looked into this, what was your opinions on medical science? What was your opinions on vaccines? Were you skeptical? Or did you just kind of assume that everything that we're told is exactly how it is and the experts have only the best interests of human beings in mind and not money?
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Aaron Siri
I had what you would effectively call the mainstream view. Vaccines saved humanity.
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Joe Rogan
Me too.
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Aaron Siri
We'd all be dead without them. You know, they are the. There was the Bible given to Moses at Sinai and then there were vaccines. Yeah, that's basically.
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Joe Rogan
You know, I think it's Anybody that didn't consider themselves a fool, you know, you would have to be a fool, like a real fool to ignore all this medical science, which is the reason why there's so many people alive today that would have died. And a lot of that's true, like penicillin, antibiotics. There's a lot of stuff that is saved a lot of people's lives. But the vaccine won. Until this COVID epidemic, I would have never questioned it. I mocked anti vaxxers. I was like, these people are silly. Don't they know all the good things that vaccines have done? And this, the blatant propaganda that we were force fed, like one of those ducks are trying to make foie gras with it just made me stop and pause and go, is the whole thing like this? Is this whole thing just a dirty money laundering operation? Because it kind of seems like that's at least part of the reason why they were telling people to get boosted when they knew it wasn't working. And telling young people that didn't need it to. They wanted to make a lot of money. That's the only reason why you would do any of those things after a certain amount of information is out. And so it just made me stop and think about the whole thing and go, well, why would I assume that this is the one area where pharmaceutical drug companies, doctors, everybody's been totally honest in this one area. When it's like a religious thing, if you question it, and I love the title of your book.
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Aaron Siri
Yes, Vaccines. Amen. The religion of vaccines.
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Joe Rogan
That's what it is. It's a religion for secular, intelligent people with a higher education.
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Aaron Siri
And it causes incredible cognitive dissonance for anybody out there to come to the conclusion that the CDC and the FDA and our public health authorities and what the entire medical establishment has been telling you may not be accurate about vaccines. Because like what you just said, the claim that you're a flat earther, you're an anti vaxxer, deserts. And they're used as a way to say you are really out there and dumb.
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Joe Rogan
They're completely equal in their impact.
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Aaron Siri
And so it takes incredible cognitive dissonance to say there are real problems with vaccines. But vaccines really sit in their own little universe. They're unlike any other medical product. They're not like penicillin, they're not like any other drugs. They're not like any other product out there. Any other product in this room, anything out there, for one major reason, every other product that exists, I can sue the company, I can hold them accountable if that product injures or kills you or your child on the basis that product could have been safer. The only product, and I mean this literally, the only product in America where you cannot sue to say, had you made that product safer, my child wouldn't be dead, my child wouldn't be seriously injured, they wouldn't have a neurological disorder, they wouldn't have immunological disorder, they wouldn't have a nervous system disorder, they wouldn't have a cardiac issue. Our childhood vaccines and child vaccines used by adults, it's the only one. And that's because of a law called the National Childhood Vaccine injury Act of 1986. It gave pharma companies that incredibly special immunity. Now, just to put that into context, okay, and I'll tie this back in a second as to how we ended up with this notion of this belief, religion and vaccines. Because, you know, given industry 40 years of, of unopposed ability to influence, they're going to get pretty dang far. And they did with vaccines. And so, you know, a lot of industries face a crossroads where their products are causing more harm than good. Gas tanks used to explode. What did they do? Made a better gas tank. Right. Building materials, had asbestos caused cancer, what do they do? They make it better building materials. Right. Did they give them immunity? No, of course not. But in the instance of vaccines leading up to 1986, there were only three routine vaccines. That's it. That's all. There was a child following the CDC schedule in 1986 got three injections on or before their first birthday. Okay? Those three products were causing so much harm and injury that every manufacturer of them went out of business. And that was the MMR vaccine, the DTP and the OPV vaccine. Every single one from six down to one or for the pure testis vaccine, six down to one for measles, about three down to one for polio. And with one company left for each. Instead of forcing them to do what every other industry has to do. Like I said, make better building materials without asbestos, make better cars that don't explode. Go down the chain of different products out there. Congress did something completely unique. It said, you know what? We're just going to give you immunity. We're going to make it so that no company, excuse me, no individual, no parent, no child can sue you for the injuries and deaths caused by your vaccine products. That is what the National Childhood Vaccaccine Injury Act 1986 did. And not only for those three products, but for any other childhood vaccine thereafter. And what that effectively has done is given 40 years for the industry to promote their products. No pushback. When you read about a problem with a car, where are you reading about it from? Usually a class action lawsuit in the paper. Right. You're not going to read about that in vaccines, typically. And because of that you ended up where we are anyways. There's a lot more detail to that, but I'll stop there for now.
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Joe Rogan
No, please, keep going.
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Aaron Siri
Well, I mean, when you think about what makes products safer, right, Because I've got a law firm with over 100 individuals. I'm the managing partner of the firm. Half my firm does all types of plate to side class actions. We can hold companies accountable for almost anything. Your data. We do hundreds of data breach cases, genetic privacy cases, biometric privacy cases. We do all kinds of. All types of lawsuits of that nature, by the way. And New York Times loves those lawsuits, by the way. That stuff nobody attacks me for. Okay. Oh, making, Making my privacy better. Oh, protecting me from cars that explode. Oh, thank you. Make vaccines safer. You want to kill everybody? Okay. In any of it.
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Joe Rogan
But that's where it's really weird.
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Aaron Siri
Well, here's where I think I'm hoping I can make it make sense without causing cognitive dissonance. So going back to how we make products safer in America or anywhere. Okay. It's not the government. Governments don't make products safer. Look at extremely authoritarian regimes where there is very little free market like the former ussr. You think products are safe? No. What makes products safe? It's the economic self interest of the company. It's the economic interest of the company to make the product safer. Why you probably own stock, all right, and where do you want your stock to go? Up or down? How do you want it to go? You want it to go up or you want it to go down? Where do you want it to go? Up. You want it to go up? Okay, so do all the investors, right? So does everybody who owns that stock. So does Wall street, so does the CEO, so does the board, so does everybody, the people of the stock, everybody involved, all the employees that have stock options, including usually the major ones, everybody wants it to go up. If you lose money, it doesn't go up. So normally the interest to assure a product is safer is aligned with the profit motive because if your product causes injury and harm, then you're going to lose money. So you want to know, typically you have an economic self interest as a corporation to know. Not because you're altruistic, not because you're moral, not because you're ethical, just because you have that economic self interest to assure the product to safe before you go to market and after you go to market. Okay? And that exists for every product in America, with effectively one exception. Vaccines. That's really it.
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Joe Rogan
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Aaron Siri
Now I'm going to show you one result of that in practice. Okay. When you think of drugs, and this will help, I think, tie into what you were saying about what happened with COVID Most drugs are licensed based on multi year placebo controlled trials. Most of them. Why? Because the FDA requires it? Because the FDA's so great? No, nothing to do with the FDA. It's because the company wants to know whether the drug is safe or not before it goes to market. Because you know what happens with the drug that they put out that's going to make 40 billion in revenue or 20 billion, but causes 100 billion in harm. They end up upside down. So they want to know to a reasonable degree how safe the drug is before it goes to market. In an attempt not to cherry pick, as I did in my book, I found an article that listed the top four selling profitable drugs by Pfizer as of like 2000, 2021 or something. 2019. Okay. And if you look at those four most profitable drugs, as I put in my book, each one has two to seven years of follow up in the clinical trial that was relied upon to license that drug against a placebo control group. Just to make sure everybody, I'm sure everybody knows what that means, but that just means a group that gets something inert. So this way you give the group the experimental drug, you give a group the placebo something inert. You track them for multiple years and then you compare all the outcomes, cardiovascular outcomes, neurological outcomes. Go down the list, cancer rates, and you see the difference. You get a real actual sense of the safety between those two for that product. In contrast, for most childhood vaccines, instead of years, it's often days or weeks of safety review in the clinical trial relied upon how to license them. Not a single, and I know that folks contest this all the time, but it's in the FDA literature, not a single routine injected childhood vaccine was licensed based on a placebo controlled trial, save for the COVID vaccine, by the way, for children. It's the only one not A single one. Okay.
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Joe Rogan
Nor
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Aaron Siri
was the vaccine sometimes uses the control itself, licensed based on a placebo controlled trial. Nor anywhere down that chain. Chapter 10 of my book, I go through every vaccine I go through, I have it all cited to the FDA licensure documents. You can listen to the talking heads or you can rely on the primary sources from the fda. Which is why I call my book Vaccines Amendment. Because there is what they tell you and then there's what the actual evidence shows. So that gives you an example, the outcome of not having an economic self interest with drugs. They have it, so they want to know the safety.
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Joe Rogan
Can I challenge you on that? What about Vioxx? Like the Vioxx people knew that there was. One of the things that was revealed during the trial is that they knew that there was going to be issues. But I think the quote was, we still think we'll do well. And that was one of the damning aspects of the email disclosure. Because you got a chance to see how these guys talk about this drug that they're about to release. I think they wound up paying a percentage of the amount of money they made from the drug, but they made way more from the drug than they did the fine.
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Aaron Siri
No, I appreciate that challenge. And it's why I said, when I was saying that they do the analysis of whether they're gonna have 100 billion in loss or 40 billion in revenue. I'm not saying they won't put out a drug that causes harm.
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Joe Rogan
You're saying they can't cause too much harm.
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Aaron Siri
Exactly. Okay. They don't want to end up upside down. And remember, the whole reason a drug is licensed is because it can cause harm.
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Joe Rogan
The crazy thing about the Vioxx one is I think it killed somewhere north of 50,000 people and they still made profit off of it, which is kind of bananas. They pulled it and made billions in profit. This is the darker aspect of this. If you were talking about companies that never did anything wrong and had the highest moral and ethical standards and they're the ones. Because it's not about money, it's about saving people's health and it's about public safety. And we gotta make sure that we do this right. We're gonna make sure we squash all the disinformation. But that's not what you're talking about. You're talking about these companies that have been fined billions, billions of dollars in criminal fines for fraud, for all kinds of shit. These are the people. And the idea that they wouldn't lie about vaccines like this is the one thing they're gonna tell you the truth. Ruthless capitalist attached to money and drugs. This thing they're gonna 100% tell you the truth about. That seems kind of kooky. That's a hard sell. For anybody who's not ideologically captured, that's a hard sell.
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Aaron Siri
Yeah, but I don't think you need to go down the road that there's some kind of evil nefariousness there.
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Joe Rogan
That's not what I'm saying.
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Aaron Siri
It's a broken economic and regulatory system. From my perspective, it's just a completely broken economic. To your point about Vioxx, Right. So in Vioxx, it caused incredible amount of harm, but they still decided that the benefits raised the risk. Do you know the story about the cars that used to explode? It's the classic case we learned in law school. And the gas tank and you know these cars.
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Joe Rogan
Was it a Pinto?
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Aaron Siri
It was the Pintos. That's right.
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Joe Rogan
Yeah.
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Aaron Siri
And a number of them exploded every year, burning the people inside them alive to death. Right. Horrible way to go. And there was a lawsuit. And in that lawsuit, what they discovered was the company had done an internal calculation in which it did the math. What's it going to cost to actually fix all the gas tanks? What's that dollar number versus what's it going to cost to just pay out for those deaths every year for those people that we burn knowingly are going to die and burn to death in those cars? And the calculation was that it was going to cost less to pay out for the deaths. And. And that is what the internal document showed. And that, by the way, is in part the case, the quintessential case, you learn in law school, for why they have punitive damages. Because the punitive damages were there to force the company to conform its conduct in exactly that scenario where the economics weren't going to do it. Right. Even in something that horrible, when the market forces weren't sufficient, the economic self interest wasn't there, you had to make it happen. How? Through punitive damages. I know there's a lot of news about punitive damages. Oh, it's excessive and so forth, but that's what they're there for. They're there for that scenario. We're just holding them accountable. Now go back to vaccines. Think about how incredibly harmful and how much harm these vaccines must do that they cannot survive on the market without this immunity from 1986. Think about that.
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Joe Rogan
If you were gonna steal me on the argument against that.
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Aaron Siri
Yes.
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Joe Rogan
Wouldn't you say, look, these are we can't have frivolous lawsuits against these people that are providing us the most important medication that's available to humans. The whole reason why we survived smallpox and polio and all these different things, it's these vaccines. Without them, we'd all be dead. This episode is brought to you by Montana Knife Company. I have used their knives for years. They are absolutely fantast. The company was founded by one of the most experienced master bladesmiths in the world. My friend Josh Smith. He has been making knives since he was a kid. He. He's been making knives for 30 years. He made his first hunting knife when he was 11 years old and became a master bladesmith at 19. This man loves knives. The construction of knives, they are absolutely next level. Everything is made right here in the usa, in Montana. And these knives are designed, tested and built by hunters. They come insanely shar of the box and are crazy easy to sharpen. Mon Montana Knife Company is a young company working hard to keep up with demand because these knives sell out in minutes. If you want one, head over to montana knife company.com to see what's available. Now sign up for their email newsletter so you know when they restock and get in on their SMS notifications for special knife drops. My personal favorite blade is the Speedgo 2.0. I use it all the time and it's an amazing knife. Montana Knife Company. Working knives for working people.
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Aaron Siri
Let's just assume that the last part of what you said is true, which we know it's not. But with that said, steel manning it. Let's steel manning it. Easy response. Okay.
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Joe Rogan
Okay.
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Aaron Siri
Drugs. Drugs that are for very small populations, meaning not a lot of market, not a lot of sales that cause incredible side effects, can survive on the market profitably. Think about that for a second. Why? Okay, here's why. It's a little bit of legal stuff, but it's not that hard, it's not that bad. Okay. The primary claim you would typically bring against a product is the claim that it could have been made safer. It's called a design defect claim. It's a claim where I say, hey, had you put in a 2 cent stopper on that gas tank, it wouldn't have exploded. If you'd have put in a one penny plastic shield on that saw, I'd have my finger. Okay, Design defect claim. The claim you could have made a product safer. It is the primary claim you would bring for a product. Okay. Injury claim. So how do you protect against it? You make the product as technologically safe as Possible, Right? So if you have a drug that causes incredible side effects that we just talked about, make the drug as safe as possible, make sure that there are no contaminants, make sure that you use the best possible ingredients, make sure the combination. Right. The safest adjuvant, go down the road. That's number one. Number two, the second way you hold them accountable is you bring a claim called a failure to warrant claim. I failed to warn you about the harm that the drug could have caused. Okay? And so what do you have to do there to protect yourself? The company has to disclose all the potential harms. If it has it right there in the package insert and you get it and it says, hey, it can cause this, this, this, this, this. You were told you chose to still take the product. They made it as safe as technologically feasible. They disclosed the risks. And that is how companies typically limit their liability with medical products, with drug products. Okay? Why can't they do that with vaccines? Why can't they just make them as safe as technologically feasible? Can't sue them for design defect and disclose all the actual risks in the package insert. Okay? The logical conclusion is. And one other point to that, and then I'll respond to your steel, man. Okay? And it's this. All right? It's been 40 years for some of these vaccines. Hep B vaccine, for example, licensed in 86 and 89, the two standalones. It's been 40 years. You're telling me they still don't know it's safe enough to lift that immunity? You're giving it to millions of kids a year. You're making billions of dollars on sales of this product, and you still don't know it's safe enough to lift that immunity. Please.
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Joe Rogan
Okay. If I was a silly person, I would probably say these vaccines are more important than any medication that's ever existed because they are the reason why we are here. Because that's how we survive smallpox and polio and the measles and everything else. And without them, we would have perished. We would have never achieved the technological states that we're at because we wouldn't have been healthy. We would have gone through mass plagues.
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Aaron Siri
Okay, Response.
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Joe Rogan
So. So because of that, it's just important that they stay. They stay in business.
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Aaron Siri
Well, a few things.
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Joe Rogan
And we trust the science. You should trust the science.
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Aaron Siri
Yes.
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Joe Rogan
Believe, Aaron. Trust the science.
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Aaron Siri
Yes, sir.
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Joe Rogan
Amen.
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Aaron Siri
Amen. Yeah, I try not to do too much believing and I try to do a little bit of, you know, evidence based thinking. But any event, look when it comes to these products, I saved my beliefs for religion, the unanswerables. Where do we go when we die, Right. And so forth. I have to take a leap of faith, and I do it when I need to. But you don't need to with these products. Okay, on, on, on the first part of what you said, first of all, there are products probably that are far more important to humanity at the moment, no question about it, than vaccines, even assuming it had the results that you just claimed, which I'll address in a second. Imagine you said, look, cars are essential. I mean, cars, you can't get an ambulance, you can't get to the hospital without cars, you can't get to work, you can't get your kids to school. I mean, it's essential to a functioning society. So let's give cars immediate liability. Intuitively, you'd say that's ridiculous. Right on the death's point. That is one of the myths. That is one of the mythologies around vaccines that has developed over time, this notion of that everybody in America die without vaccines. In chapter seven of my book, and I lay it out for every single disease, and what I do there is, I say, okay, how many deaths were there in America the year before the vaccine was first introduced? Or widely. Or widely used or so forth? Okay. In any real degree. And what you find is if you go down the list, there were typically dozens to hundreds, maybe a thousand or so deaths from each disease for which we vaccinate. The further back in time you go, the larger the number in that dozens to a thousand or so deaths. Okay, for example, measles. The dreaded measles that they say everybody will die from. No measles vaccine. We're all gonna die. Right? That is the impression they give you. You have any idea how people died of measles in the years before there was a measles vaccine in the United States? How many? About 400 a year.
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Joe Rogan
That's it.
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Aaron Siri
That's it. 400 a year died in the United States at a time when everybody had measles, which comes out to about 1 in 450,000Americans dying of measles. That's in the CDC. Anybody listening to this who's like, come on, that's not true. CDC mortality documents on the CDC website cited in my book 400.
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Joe Rogan
And don't about 50,000 people every year die from the flu?
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Aaron Siri
Well, that statistic is, includes bacterial deaths that they say are potentially the result from having influenza.
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Joe Rogan
But so your immune system gets weakened and then something else Hits you and that kills you. Is that the idea behind it?
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Aaron Siri
Well, that's just the way they gather the data, is the way I'll put it. But with influenza, well, if I finish up with measles, because I think this is important on the measles one, and I can deal with influenza as well. But on the measles one, just to. Really. Because you're saying, well, everybody would die without these. I don't think people think of influenza by the way. They think of measles, they think of those diseases. I don't ever hear anybody say to me, well, everybody will die of influenza without influenza vaccines. Everybody. It's available. Everybody can get it. The mortality hasn't changed much. In fact, if you look at the mortality of influenza before influenza vaccines were widespread, we're not doing that. Great. Okay. Anyway, putting that aside for a moment,
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Joe Rogan
not only that, isn't there data that shows that if you get. You're more likely to get other colds?
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Aaron Siri
Yeah, I have a whole giant footnote in my book about this, and I actually tweeted this out and did a substack about this, a whole series of articles, studies that show that those that have had the influenza vaccines, maybe these studies often reflect, have around the same rate of influenza, maybe they have less respiratory influenza infections, but many studies show they have multiple times the rate of other respiratory infections. So good job. Maybe you reduced your risk of influenza by this much, but you've increased your risk of another different respiratory disease by that much.
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Joe Rogan
How much is it? How much of the increase?
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Aaron Siri
Depends on the study. Some studies show four times risk. Some studies. So three times risk. Yeah, I mean, literally three, four. I mean, huge percentages. So. And they're statistically significant in these studies. And so, you know, when you're looking at a. Now, these are all retrospective epidemiological studies, but when you do a retrospective EPI study, which means you take existing data and then you study it versus saying, okay, we're going to do a study and follow people going forward. Okay, if you find like a 1.3 times, which means 30% increased risk, that's a public finding. This is 3, 400% increased risk. Yes. In many of these studies, it's inconvenient data. So obviously it's not talked about.
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Joe Rogan
Right. So 400 people is not a whole lot, I'm sure. I mean, it's sad when 400 people die, but it's also one of those diseases that when you're a child, it's much more survivable. Right. Than adult Adults. It's rough, isn't it?
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Aaron Siri
Yeah. So measles, the ideal age to get it is not when you're an infant, which in the pre vaccine era, infants typically did not get measles because they got maternal immunity from the mother. And you don't want to get it as an adult because it is more likely to cause problems. Which again, in the pre vaccine era wasn't a problem because everybody virtually got it as a child.
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Joe Rogan
Right?
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Aaron Siri
Yeah.
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Joe Rogan
And when you got it as a child, my recollection of it was the episode of the Brady Bunch. Do you remember?
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Aaron Siri
Yeah.
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Joe Rogan
Remember that episode?
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Aaron Siri
Yeah. They were laughing about it.
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Joe Rogan
Let's watch this. Find that clip and let's watch it. Because it's so indicative of what measles was actually like in the culture of the people that would get it all the time versus this boogeyman of today. I mean, it's so stark. It's so. I mean, it's like imagine the kid coming home, hey, mom, I've got aids, I gotta stay home from school. It's not that. Right.
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Aaron Siri
The way that most folks who've had chickenpox think of chickenpox.
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Joe Rogan
Right. But we're told that it's killing people. We're told that it's killing people now. We're told that it's killing. It's always kids. We're told it's killing kids now. And look, if anybody dies from measles, I'm very sad. But I want to know, is it with measles? Remember the. With COVID or from COVID Like, what kind of condition were these people in before this hit them? Because some. I mean, that was the thing about COVID It's like, yeah, it's fatal. If you have four plus comorbidities. That's. It's more. You're more likely to be fatal. And that was most of the people that wind up dying from it. Right.
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Aaron Siri
That's almost certainly the case. And I can add another data point to that to help support that, which is that between 1900 and this is again CDC data, between 1900 and in the late 1950s, early 1960s, the mortality from measles declined in the United states by over 98%. You know what didn't cause that?
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Joe Rogan
Vaccines.
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Aaron Siri
Yeah. Because it didn't exist.
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Joe Rogan
So immunity had become a herd thing, just like Covid. Ish. Right now. Well, I think everybody basically has had Covid, or at least have been exposed to it by now. Here it is. It's a whole episode.
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Aaron Siri
There's multiple.
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Joe Rogan
So I don't know which one is one.
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Aaron Siri
Just.
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Joe Rogan
Just. Let's just try. I think it's. He finds out, he's coming over. Put on your headphones for a second so we could hear this. Aaron.
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Aaron Siri
Oh, yes.
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Joe Rogan
Grab your headphones.
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Aaron Siri
Thank you. No.
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Joe Rogan
Are you sure it's the measles? Well, he certainly got all the symptoms.
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Aaron Siri
A slight temperature, a lot of dots,
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Joe Rogan
and a great big smile. A great big smile? No school for a few days. You've got measles? Golly. Mothers are supposed to know everything. But do you have to keep proving it? Well, you got a temperature, too. What do you mean, too? Peter was sent home from school a little while ago.
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Aaron Siri
Oh.
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Joe Rogan
What was his temperature? 101.1. Oh, is that all? I'm 101.2. Oh, Greg. You want my railroad? I'll be a sport. You can ride on it free. Thanks a lot. It's your turn, Peter. I know. They're having a measles party.
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Aaron Siri
Missed it. Yep.
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Joe Rogan
Boy, this is the life, isn't it? Yeah. If you have to get sick, sure can't beat the measles. That's right. No medicine inside or out.
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Aaron Siri
Like shots.
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Joe Rogan
I mean, don't even mention shots. Yeah, Okay. I mean, am I crazy, or have we gone through one of the wildest gaslightings of anything ever? There's. There's people out there that because of the things that you said so far about the measles, we'll be 100% freaking out on Twitter. Right, but this is a window into how the American public thought. I know it's a television show. I know it's a sitcom. But you can't joke around about stuff that other people wouldn't think is funny. People would think that was funny. These kids saying, if you're gonna get sick, you should get the measles. And everybody at home will be like, oh, I wish I had a day off. Well, that's how they thought of it.
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Aaron Siri
Yeah. And to put hard data on it, going back to that statistic, over 98% reduction. Remember, it's not like Covid, Joe, because, Covid, there was no immunity in the population. Right, right. Measles has been around for forever, as far as we know, thousands of years. The year 1900 wasn't the beginning of herd immunity. 1900, measles, already endemic. Everybody was getting measles. So every year, there's a few million people cohort that were getting it. And you had this decline. And so you have to ask yourself, what was the decline? It was probably better sanitation, better acute Medical care, I mean, all kinds of things. And you know, who could take credit for most of that stuff? Better sanitation, better living conditions, better, you name it, probably public health authorities, meaning the improvement in acute care, the introduction of antibiotics, better living conditions, not having sewage in the street, you name it, probably had a massive contributor to that reduction, but they never point to that. And there's one other really inconvenient data point with measles. And this is really where it gets upsetting for folks out there who you were just saying are going to watch the show. And it's this, that over 98% reduction in mortality. There's no reason that that curve was not going to continue because pockets of the United States in the late 50s and early 60s were like a developing country. In a developing country, kids are going to die of any infectious disease because of extremely poor living conditions. And as those improved, Most likely that 400 deaths also would have continued to decline. 4.2 million births in the United States in the late 50s, early 60s, about 3.8 million births today. So in fact there's less children being born in America today than there was then. So you have a smaller cohort of babies, young children to infect. And final data point, and it's this, this is really, I know this is going to cause cognitive dissonance for some, but studies that have looked at those that have had measles versus those that don't, find that those that have had measles have a statistically significant greater reduction in deaths from cardiovascular disease and various cancers. So I'll give you an example. There's a 20 year, 22 year prospect of study in Japan funded by the government of Japan and major universities that tracked 100,000 people in Japan for 22 years. And it found that those that had measles and mumps had a 20% statistically significant decline in deaths from cardiovascular disease. Think about that for a second. Just think about that. About 800,000Americans die of cardiovascular disease. If eliminating measles and mumps has increased cardiovascular deaths in the United states by even 1% on a life years lost basis, you are still way upside down on your public health benefit by eliminating measles.
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Joe Rogan
Can I ask you what the speculation is, how that could be? Why would measles and mumps infection at an early age improve your health cardiovascularly?
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Aaron Siri
Why would it? Also those that have not had measles have a 66% increased rate of non Hodgkin's lymphoma and 266% increased rate of Hodgkin's lymphoma, which kills 20,000 people a year. Why would women that have had measles have 50% less ovarian cancer, which kills a lot of women every year? What is it about it? Maybe, and here's the thing, and you can have evolutionary biologists talk about this as well, you've had some on. Think about it this way. Pathogens have come and gone throughout the ages, right?
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Joe Rogan
Right.
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Aaron Siri
This one didn't. Measles, mumps, rubella, chickenpox. They didn't. It could be. Maybe. I'm not saying it is. I'm just saying this is what the data appears to reflect what I just told you about with cardiovascular disease and cancer. They're all in PubMed. They're all PubMed studies. They're all in the published literature, and they're all consistent, having the findings that I just described. Okay, I'm just a lawyer. I'm just repeating to you what the data reflects. It could be that having those fertile childhood infections conferred a survival advantage overall. And it could be the reason they never actually went away over time, became less obviously pathogenic.
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Joe Rogan
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Aaron Siri
Look, theory world. Yeah. Theory of relativity is not intuitive. Why is it as you approach a more massive object or approach the speed of light, as time relatively slow down. I don't know if it makes sense or not. It's just when you put two atomic clocks on a plane, one on the ground, one on the plane, you fly it around the earth, they're not ticking the same. So there it is, right?
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Joe Rogan
You can't pretend that's the case.
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Aaron Siri
That is what it is. It doesn't have to make sense to be true. That's just what it is. And I'm just saying what the studies show. Very inconvenient, a lot of cognitive dissonance there. But it could very well be that this whole program, not only do we. So going back to your whole. Going all the way back to your point, you're like, well, they'll say vaccines are so important, we gotta give them this immunity. No, in fact, quite the opposite. Our babies are so precious, are so important, we want to make sure we have the safest possible product you can have. And the way to do that is to make sure the companies have an economic interest, to make sure they're as safe as possible.
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Joe Rogan
I agree with you entirely. But if I was questioning anything, I would say, okay, if we don't have genetic immunity anymore because our parents didn't have it because our parents were vaccinated against measles, wouldn't it be better to keep vaccinating people rather than let a whole bunch of people with no immunity to measles get it, particularly like older people?
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Aaron Siri
So this is a really important point, actually, I agree with you, because here. Well, can I put it before we
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Joe Rogan
get going, when they mandated vaccines or when they started giving them to people, was what, in, like, the early 60s, I believe, for measles vaccines?
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Aaron Siri
63.
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Joe Rogan
Did a lot of people resist it? Was it back then? Were the hippies opting out? Is there, like, a group that you could follow and track that never got it, never got the vaccine while everybody else did?
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Aaron Siri
Has to be?
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Joe Rogan
Right.
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Aaron Siri
I'm sure there's a group out there you can identify. I mean, the Amish.
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Joe Rogan
There you go. Right.
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Aaron Siri
So you know who we represent right now? Because New York's trying to basically kick them out of New York for not vaccinating.
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Joe Rogan
That's crazy.
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Aaron Siri
We just won in. We just. In the U.S. supreme Court, we were just successful in vacating the lower court decisions. Just a few weeks ago, do you
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Joe Rogan
remember when Kathy Hochul was talking about the vaccines like they're a gift from God? She believes it, but do you remember how she was saying it? I was like, in any other business, if you were running a pharmaceutical drug business, if you were running Chevy and you're making a new Corvette and you started talking about how this Corvette is a gift from God, everybody will go, oh, Kathy's cracked. Like, what are you talking about? It's a bunch of engineers. We put together a great car. Like, what do you. It's a gift from God.
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Aaron Siri
What? People don't say, I believe in tables or I believe in chairs. I believe in TVs and I believe in wallpaper. But they say, I believe in vaccines all the time because it carries a truism.
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Joe Rogan
But do they work? Does the measles vaccine prevent people from getting measles or is it a leaky vaccine? Is it a completely.
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Aaron Siri
So answering that and your prior question at the same time.
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Joe Rogan
Sorry.
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Aaron Siri
No, no, no, don't be sorry.
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Joe Rogan
I'm very scattered.
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Aaron Siri
No, you're not scattered. Is that the measles vaccine, measles, MMR vaccine and chickenpox vaccine can prevent transmission. That is not true of most vaccines. But those can't.
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Joe Rogan
So those can.
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Aaron Siri
Those can. And so to your now going back. So that's the differential. And in fact for most of the other vaccines like pertussis vaccine and so forth, they make you more likely to spread the pathogen if you're vaccinated. And I can tell you all about that. But before I do that, let me just point out that to your last comment, because measles, MMR vaccine and chickenpox vaccine can prevent transmission, you are correct. If measles were to come through society right now, right now, in the current time, it would be problematic because babies who aren't supposed to get it would be more likely to get it because the mothers aren't conferring the same maternal immunity that they did in the pre vaccine era because the vaccine doesn't confer the same level of immunity anywhere near. And older folks, because the vaccine is nowhere as efficacious as having had the infection. Depending on the study, 2 to 10% do not seroconvert even after two doses. Meaning they are not getting immunity at all. Pretty much. Or immunity that's considered immune.
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Joe Rogan
Is this when they take it later in life or when they take it when they're young?
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Aaron Siri
This is when they take it when they're young. And that's why when there's a measles outbreak, a lot of times you'll hear a call to even have folks who are older get the measles vaccine again. Right. There's guidance on that because it doesn't confer. If you've had measles, you're done. You never need a vaccine again, you'll never get measles again. One and done. So yes, it would be problematic right now for mmr, measles, muns, rubella and chickenpox to just kind of let it rip. You would have to really have an educational campaign beforehand if you were going to do that. But for the other vaccines, hep B vaccine, pertussis vaccine, not a problem. Those vaccines don't stop transmission.
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Joe Rogan
And I go into that kind of crazy that they give that to babies. It's kind of crazy. Kind of crazy if the parent aren't intravenous drug users or whatever, whatever would give them hep B that you're gonna inject a baby with a vaccine that prevents them from getting a sexually transmitted disease. And like a rarely, you gotta be doing something rough, Joe.
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Aaron Siri
You just don't understand what Goes on in the nicu.
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Joe Rogan
I mean. Yeah, it just seems crazy.
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Aaron Siri
It is. And here I'll give you another data point, which is in Denmark, okay. There is no Hep B, universal Hep B for kids. The only time they give Hep B in Denmark is if the mother is Hep B positive. So there have Hep B. Vaccination rate amongst children is like 0.1% or something to that effect. Okay, so here you go. Two first world countries, America and Denmark. Universal Hep B here, virtually zero Hep B vaccine given there. The rate of Hep B amongst children, not statistically significant. You know what is different between those two countries? The rate of harm from Hep B vaccine. That's different. You know what a baby's never died of on the first day of life? Hepatitis B. You know what a baby has died of on the first day of life? Hepatitis B vaccine. In fact, adjudicated as such not long ago for a newborn that died from a Hep B vaccine. And I said earlier, you can't sue the manufacturers. You cannot. There is a little program, though, in the federal government where you can bring a claim if you're injured from a vaccine. That's what I'm talking about right now. What about the baby that died of Hep B?
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Joe Rogan
Right.
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Aaron Siri
It's called the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program. I have, like 20 folks in my firm that do that work. And, you know, it's not like a regular court. You don't get an Article 3 judge, Article 3 of the Constitution, a federal judge. You don't get any discovery as of.
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Joe Rogan
Right.
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Aaron Siri
Which is how you prove harms. There's a $250,000 statutory cap on pain and suffering and on death, which is ridiculous. And it doesn't have. You know. Anyways, long story short, it's paid out about $5 billion for damages and so forth from vaccines over the years. But so I didn't want people to get confused. Like when I said, well, how did this baby get adjudicated? Got adjudicated in this program.
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Joe Rogan
Got it.
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Aaron Siri
Got it. Yeah.
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Joe Rogan
So when you have conversations with people and they are the way you used to be and the way I used to be, where you just sort of just assumed that these. The people that are experts in their fields are doing a great job, and that's why we're alive. And you start telling them these things like, are you a real problem at a cocktail party? Like, do you. Have you ever. Have you. Have you ever had a conversation that just went completely sideways? They started getting angry at you for Quoting things.
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Aaron Siri
Yeah, because that's a. It's not a problem for me because I don't know emotions or feelings about the products. They're just products. Right. They're no different for me. But a lot of folks, they. There's two things. First, for some, like medical professionals, a lot of them seem to drive a lot of their self schema, almost their value, their worth, from these products, they saved humanity. How could you question that? We are the saviors, right? In some respects, almost like supplanting God. What's the only thing that will save us during COVID Was it God? No. Vaccines. That's the only thing. And then for others, they think that they know. Okay, but they don't know intellectually. They've never looked at the primary sources. So when you challenge them with evidence, what can they draw from? The intellect? No, they draw from their emotions. They draw from their feelings, and that's why they get angry. I get that. I do get that all. I get that all the time. But I also often get folks who are just curious and interested to listen.
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Joe Rogan
Well, I think there's more of those now than there's ever been before.
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Aaron Siri
Absolutely. I think Covid in that respect forced the conversation. You had millions of people who were listening to basic stuff that 10 years ago, when I started doing this work, nobody talked about what is a placebo, what's a clinical trial, what's the stuff like this became, or even the idea that a vaccine can cause a harm was even just. That notion was totally taboo seven years ago, no more.
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Joe Rogan
Yeah, I think you're entirely correct. And also credit to YouTube, because YouTube doesn't suppress this stuff anymore. Which is why I found dozens of interviews with you on YouTube. I mean, before I had. I mean, I'd seen some of your stuff on social media, but then, you know, I've watched a bunch of your stuff now on YouTube. Whereas during the pandemic, everything you said you would have got removed.
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Aaron Siri
I was removed. Everything I said was removed. I'll tell you the first thing that ever posted that got said it was on. It was on Twitter.
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Joe Rogan
Yeah, the old Twitter.
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Aaron Siri
So we brought this lawsuit against the FDA to get all the documents they relied upon to license Pfizer's COVID 19 vaccine. Okay.
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Joe Rogan
Yeah.
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Aaron Siri
They licensed it in 42 days. And we said, all right, 42 days, give us all the documents. Right. And they want it forever. They wanted to produce at a rate of a few hundred pages a month, which would have taken hundreds of years, if that's effectively got a tranche of those documents took some of them literally took one of the documents and posted it. And my tweet was just literally quoting from the document effectively. And that was taken down as misinformation. Pfizer's own documents submitted to the fda. One of the first things that was just. That was mind jarring.
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Joe Rogan
It was stunning. It was stunning to watch people not be outraged too, when information was getting out about different people that were silenced. J. Bhattacharya and all these different people that were getting attacked. Martin KOLDORFF it was stunning how no one was going, hey, what is going on here? This seems really weird that you're removing posts from guys from MIT and Stanford and banning their accounts. Like, that's fucking crazy. And until Elon purchased Twitter, we really didn't know the extent of it. We didn't really. We really weren't aware that it was government involvement. They were stepping in to remove and remove mal information. That was my favorite.
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Aaron Siri
They came up with, you know, that one Disinformation, malinformation.
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Joe Rogan
Mal's the best because it's true information that might cause problems, which is fucking almost everything. As soon as you have a problem with mal information, like, you are encouraging the creepiest kind of group think that's available. And no one freaked out. Well, a few people freaked out, but not enough. It wasn't. It should have been bipartisan. Should have been a bipartisan freakout. It should have been left and right. But it got politicized in this really stupid way where people on the left were pro vaccine and pro pharmaceutical drug company and pro narrative. And people on the right were like, I'm gonna take my chances. And those were the kooks. And, you know, it was this like, ideological battle as much as it was a public health crisis.
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Aaron Siri
Censorship was bad. It was very bad, Real bad. But I'll tell you what made me think people were gonna go into the street with pitchforks was when the government told everybody, stay at home. That wasn't hidden. That wasn't behind the scenes, the stuff you're talking about. They said, stay in your house. They didn't say, we recommend you stay in your houses. They didn't say, we recommend you get this vaccine. We don't recommend you wear this mask. They said, stay in your house. When they had that first order came down, I was like, people are just going to be outraged. People are going to protest. And when they didn't, that's what dismayed me personally. And I'll tell you why. Okay? Because when you think about civil and individual rights. First Amendment, the right to free speech, the assembly and right that was passed and adopted by the states in 1791. What's the First Amendment intended to do? It's restrict government from infringing on those rights. You think life was easy in 1791? What do you think life was like in 1791? You think it was easy? I think it was all hunky dory. Life in 1791 was brutal. Brutal. You were talking about disease, pestilence, famine, war. You want to talk about a life that is no electricity, no running water, no sewage, nothing. And that amendment was passed for times that are more brutal than that. And here comes a virus and every right you have is basically taken away. And Americans are like, take it, take it away. That is what outraged me. Because look, what was the whole point of this country? What is America born out of? In my view, it's born out of the idea that every other government that preceded it got it wrong. In the following sense. Your life should not be dictated by a king or a dictator or a politburo or a central authority. It's the idea that you are born with inalienable rights. You should be able to choose your destiny, including what risks you want to take. Individual rights come with risks. Letting Joe Rogan say what he wants on this podcast comes with risks. Letting you practice what religion you want, assemble with who you want, especially in Austin, very interesting time yesterday. That comes with risks. Let me tell you. A lot of risks, okay? But the greater risk is always seeding that right to the government, because once you do, you don't get it back often. And so, yes, there was that hidden stuff you talk about. And that was bad, don't get me wrong, that was bad stuff. That's really, really bad. But the stuff they did in the open to me in some ways was even worse. And I hope that there's a lesson that folks learn from that, because let me tell you something. Even if you love every vaccine out there, you listen to this. You love every vaccine, you love every mask, right? Great. I support every American's right. You're 17, you're 18, you're totally healthy, no comorbidities. And you want to get a vaccine a day, wear 70 masks and live in your basement in a self imposed state home order. This is America. I support your right to do. I'll fight for your right to do that. And you're 90 and you're a war veteran and you want to go to the. You have 16 comorbidities. And you want to go to the coffee shop with no vaccine and no mask, you should be free to do that because that's America too.
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Joe Rogan
That's freedom also, just like you can bull ride.
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Aaron Siri
And if you don't stand up for that right now, the day comes when there's something a medical product you don't want, the government says you have to get. Because trust me, it is so much cheaper to lobby to get a medical product required than it is to market to get people to get it. Oh, they've learned that lesson. That's why there's so much lobbying to get mandates, get rid of exemptions across the country that you don't want, and you can't get a job and you can't go to school and you can't leave your house, then what good are the rest of your rights? They're useless. That's why medical liberty truly is a fundamental right. I'm off my high horse.
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Joe Rogan
No, it's a great high horse. That was an awesome rant. You're absolutely 100% on the money. And it's such an important thing to get out there to get people to understand that you can't. It's such a natural human inclination to. When you're in a place of power, of control, any form of government, you want more control. And it's just natural. And what you were talking about, when you lose rights, you very rarely get them back. That was so on display in California with the COVID regulations because they had everybody locked down way past where they had to. A friend of mine's brother worked in one of the COVID some government office when they were considering the closing of outdoor dining. And he brought up, but there's no transmission related to outdoor dining. And the woman who was in charge said, yes, but it's all about the optics. So she was willing to, with a wave of her magic wand, shut down outdoor dining for a bunch of small family businesses that were probably barely staying alive after Covid. Barely. We lost. Somewhere around 70% of Los Angeles restaurants went under during COVID That's fucking bananas. And so they finally get outdoor dining, like, okay, we could, we could kind of pay the bills this month. And then they shut down outdoor dining for optics. So this, this, this kind of desire to just put a foot down, control people, keep a boot on their neck. It's normal, even if it doesn't make sense. Everybody knows that from high school. Everybody knows that from, I mean, the Stanford prison experiments. People like to control people. They enjoy it. And when they get A place like becoming the mayor or becoming the governor and being able to tell people, oh, you gotta listen to me, I've got rule. Everyone stay inside. Be scared. Fucking California. Garcetti literally had a campaign that said snitches get rewards. Snitches snitching on people. Having more than one person over your house, standing too close in the backyard. You get money. You get money for ratting out your neighbor. This episode is brought to you by BetterHelp. In honor of International Women's Day, BetterHelp is celebrating the women in your life. I think we can all appreciate everything the women in our lives have done for us. And everyone deserves a little self care. A good way to get that is through therapy. Because not only is therapy a time for you to focus on yourself, it's also a way to create balance and learn how to take care of your needs in your daily life. And BetterHelp as one of the largest online therapy platforms, makes it so easy to meet with the right therapist. All you need to do is fill out a short questionnaire. You don't even need to go into an office to meet them. You can chat at home from your couch, in your car, before you hit the gym, or while you're walking your dog. Plus, if you aren't jiving with your first match, you can switch to a different therapist whenever you need. Your emotional well being matters. Find support and feel lighter in therapy. Sign up and get 10% off@betterhelp.com JRE that's better. H E L P.com JRE well, when
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Aaron Siri
the government gets it wrong, they always, always double down because, and that's the problem with the mandates. Once they've required it, they have taken a position and then to admit they're wrong. Often what government ends up saying is, oh well, we're the cdc. If we admit we're wrong about this, that's going to hurt our ability to influence the public. And that's more important than admitting we're wrong on this or correcting course because our legitimacy, our ability to influence the public is so important. We have to, you know, we can't admit we're wrong. That's what Bobby's doing right now with some of these things is some of the stuff like the new autism page on the CDC website, for example,
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Joe Rogan
is
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Aaron Siri
contrary to anything I've ever seen come out of the federal health authorities to date. But yes, it's disturbing and it's why government should. No public health authority should ever be able to tell you and infringe on your rights, they should be able to recommend. Recommend the law. Recommend like crazy, but never do it. Because that is the normal course of how tyranny, dictators, bullies, thugs operate. First, they tell you what to do, you don't listen. Apply a little pressure, you don't listen. Then they mandate. They still don't listen. They censor. You still take away more of your rights. That is the normal progression throughout history. And we saw it happen in front of our eyes, which is why it should be a line in the sand. Federal health authorities, state health authorities should be able to recommend and encourage. Never mandate ever.
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Joe Rogan
Fauci literally expressed it that way. I'm sure you've heard that recording of him said, once people realize they can't go to work, they'll drop their ideological bullshit and they'll get vaccinated. Like he's essentially telling them, you're gonna make people's life hell and they'll do what you want them to do. Not. They will have free will. They will have the ability to choose. No, no, no. You will make them do what you want.
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Aaron Siri
Yeah, who wants a government that persuades you on the merits?
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Joe Rogan
Forget that, but imagine that that is something that someone said out loud.
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Aaron Siri
But. But that. I don't think that what Fauci was saying is anything. Fauci. Everything in my view, that you saw during COVID is not like some giant leap into some new territory. To me, it's just another natural step in progression from where we've gone over the last 40 years with vaccines. Fauci saying that is no different than school mandates right now to get children. So Most states have. 45 states have basically checked the box exemption to send your kids to school. There's about five that don't. They're trying to eliminate exemptions. Right. Clearly, they're able to persuade most parents on the merits, but yet they can't take it. They can't take that. A 2, 3, 4% just will not take these products. And I'll tell you, by the way, most of these folks are. They're the folks who really need the exemptions. Because. Because most people who don't choose to take childhood vaccines, they don't typically just wake up and decide to do that for fun. Not many people wake up one day and go, you know what I'm going to do today? I'm going to take a socially ostracizing position that might get my kids kicked out of school, me thrown out of my job. My friends call me an anti this, an anti that, you name it all the horribles that come with not vaccinating. No, most people don't vaccinate. The don't vaccinate because they've had a very, very personal or negative experience with these products. They or one of their kids or one of their family members or they've learned stuff they cannot learn about them, okay? They usually have very good reason not to. And yet, as you saw during COVID it's not about, in many respects, the medicine to the examples you gave, it's about. They cannot stand that somebody is not agreeing with their beliefs. They cannot stand the exceptions, those who stand up, say, no, I've come to a different medical conclusion. They can't let that exist.
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Joe Rogan
Right? That is what it is. And it happens for people regardless of their religious status. It's a weird thing. It is like a religion, I mean, which is why I'm so glad you wrote your book that way. Because I think there's these natural patterns of groupthink and of just. Just complying that people automatically fall into. It's very easy. That's why people can get people to join cults. That's why people are part of like weird Christian sex. Like, wait, what do you guys do? Huh? Who's the guy? Who's the head guy? This guy. And he gets to marry everybody.
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Aaron Siri
What? Okay, well, that's what happened.
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Joe Rogan
It's normal. It's a normal thing. And if you scale it outward, it goes to a lot of stuff. There's a lot of stuff that people just have these, like, climate changes of religion right now. Like, there's certain people that if you confront them with, like, the actual. The ones that are willing to question the narrative, that are legitimate clients, scientists, they'll tell you, like, it is so complicated to figure out what is causing the changes in the earth's climate, warmth and cold, and the fact that it's never been static ever in human history. Never before humans, never. Billions of years, it's done this crazy thing. It involves the precession of the equinoxes and the fucking polar vortex. And it's a lot of. And then also stuff. We burn that too. But, like, what percentage is what. But it doesn't matter. You can't have that conversation. It's like you questioning, you know, whatever messiah this person believes in, they'll just lock down. And climate change is this. Not one climate change prediction of doom has been accurate. Not one. Not even in the ballpark. You remember the fucking Al Gore movie?
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Aaron Siri
Yeah.
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Joe Rogan
We're supposed to be dead. Meanwhile, they're all buying fucking oceanfront houses in Maui, you know, get out of here. Shut the fuck up. This is another thing. This is another thing. Like, yeah, we shouldn't pollute. Yeah, yeah. We shouldn't release particulates in the atmosphere. Yeah, we should have clean energy. Yeah, but also, you guys are crooks. You guys are a bunch of crooks that are making money off of this idea that you're forcing down everybody's throat that everybody's got a green new deal and everybody's got to do renewable this, renewable. And then who's got money invested in all this stuff? A bunch of people who are pushing it. And it's a fucking scam. Just like so many of these things are fucking scams. Doesn't mean we shouldn't be aware of the damage that we're doing to the earth. We should probably stop overfishing the ocean. We should probably stop dumping shit into the rivers 100%. You know who used to go to court for that?
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Aaron Siri
Bobby RFK Jr.
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Joe Rogan
He fucking cranks. The guy who is like cleaning up the east river, That's Bobby Kennedy Jr. He was the guy.
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Aaron Siri
And an easy way to identify that, that somebody is not really coming at you with science and they're coming at you with belief. Religion is exactly what you just said, which is they're not willing to debate, they're not willing to discuss it, they're not willing to engage because that is antithetical to the scientific method. The whole idea is, it's never settled. The whole idea is you push the fringes, you push new theories, you push new ideas. Where would science be if you said, this is it? Of course, that is the whole notion of it dispassionately looking at it over and over and over and seeing what more you can learn. And the moment somebody says, no, we need to stop, you can't discuss, you can't debate that. That's when you know you're dealing with a religion, not science.
- [68:10]
Joe Rogan
And when I've talked to certain scientists in different fields that feel very constricted by the academic environment, one of the things that they point to is that the group think involved in that is just like the groupthink involved in everything in left wing politics, whatever it is, just figure out whatever it is. Right wing politics. Groupthink in academia is also higher. It's hierarchical. There's tiers and you gotta agree with everybody that's above you. You wanna get tenure, you wanna progress, you wanna get grants, it's gotta be. You guys gotta be in line on all this shit. And he's like. And anybody thinks out of the box is ruthlessly attacked. And even when they turn out to be correct, no one apologizes. They are reluctantly agree that the person was initially correct, but they'll destroy their career if they can. He's like, the pissing matches are horrifying. And these are the people that are in charge of telling you what's real in the world. They're just like everybody else. They have ego. And there's a fucking social scramble going on at all times. And people are playing succession and Game of Thrones. It's like the reality is not what you're being told in the news. What you're being told in the news is a narrative. And when the news has a giant chunk of their money for advertising, it's paid by pharmaceutical drug companies, and they never criticize and be like, this is wild. Like, this is wild. That this, this is America in 2026. And the only way you can find out what's kind of real is on the Internet. Yes.
- [69:48]
Aaron Siri
And also, when it comes to censorship, if I said some totally crazy, stupid thing about you that was totally untrue, ignore it. If I said about government, they ignore it. When do they censor? They censor when it's true because that's when they're scared, right?
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Joe Rogan
If you start talking about the government being lizard people, nobody's gonna.
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Aaron Siri
Nobody cares.
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Joe Rogan
Nobody comes for you. They're all shape shifters. Nobody cares.
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Aaron Siri
But when you start talking about something that's true, that's when it hurts. That's what they need to suppress. You think they need to suppress stuff about, I don't know, a certain island where. If it's not true. No, but if it is true, that's when it gets scary and that's when you need suppression. And also, I'll note, I went to Berkeley for law school, so I'm familiar with a little bit of what you're just talking about. And that experience, too. It was too. Even though it was over two decades ago, it was going strong back then.
- [70:45]
Joe Rogan
It was going strong back then. But I. I feel like it was much more reasonable. Like, I used to love San Francisco back then. It was a great town to visit. They were smart, they were cool, they were laid back, people liked to drink, but they were fun. They always seem like a smarter LA that got out of show business.
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Aaron Siri
San Francisco, Berkeley were two different things. I completely agree. And even in, I mean, let's throw outside the bubble of Berkeley from 20 years ago. Look back over 20 years ago, who was fighting for civil individual rights. It was the left, aclu. Think about Skokie, Illinois, right, fighting for the neo Nazis to be able to march through a Jewish town to say what they want. Who fought that case? Who protected their right to say that? Democrat, aclu, liberal lawyers and liberal judges. And they said protecting their right to say the things they're saying is despicable. As horrible as we might find, it protects all our right to free speech. Could you imagine those same folks today bringing that case and deciding that way? No way.
- [71:47]
Joe Rogan
No way. And what's stunning is that if you asked anybody alive, then if you had ultimate access to information, literally you could pick up your phone and ask it any question about anything and get information instantaneously. Would people be more or less informed? You would say, well, certainly they'll be more informed. So there'll be more understanding of the value of free speech and they'll know more about that ruling and what a brave stance they took to allow the KKK to march and how it just shows intellectual superiority. The way to beat a bad idea is not to silence it, is to argue it with a much better idea that you would think by 2026, well, they'll be way better. This would be a super advanced society of flying cars. No, no, no. It's more ideologically captured, more wrapped up in the algorithm, which I think is. Is probably at least 50% fake. 50% is a bunch of bots tweeting a bunch of. That's. You know, they don't even believe. They're just trying to rile people up and stir people up and, and push certain narratives. And then people are locked into it 12 hours a day, so they're really crazy. And no one's considering things like the import. Well, let's go back to old cases and let's look at why they did that. And it was like, no, no, no. Everybody's like captured with whatever the is on TikTok today. What's the latest stupid thing you're supposed to be paying attention to? And the fact that now we're at war. Right, okay, great.
- [73:20]
Aaron Siri
Social media and the scrolling through those videos, which is what you're describing, I think is so troubling. First of all, my understanding is that they just show you stuff that confirms what you already believe, because that's what you want to see. You want to see the things that you already agree with. So you just get this incredible confirmation bias that happens, which is antithetical to thinking critically, to really opening your mind to it. And then you end up. Because without actually understanding both sides of an argument, without really understanding it, I mean, look, I understand the stuff about vaccines that I know which ones stop transmission and I know which ones don't, right? And I don't have to live in the world of believing, for example, they all do. I know how much death there was before each vaccine and I know. So I don't have to say didn't ever save any life. And I don't have to say millions would die. I just. The data's the data, right? But if all you're getting is one viewpoint all the time, you're not. You get this terrible confirmation bias. And did you see this recent study that I just read the abstract, so I didn't delve into it, but apparently watching social media reduces your IQ over time. You know, just doing all of that scrolling, that's really scary when you think about our current generation.
- [74:35]
Joe Rogan
Yeah, imagine if it could make you smarter. How many more people would be interested in doing it right? Like if there's a thing, if you could just stare at your phone for a few hours a day and you get significantly smarter. Like it's a 10 point jump in IQ.
- [74:46]
Aaron Siri
You know, my wife calls our Wi Fi at our house. If you find the WI fi, it's called read a book. I'm not kidding.
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Joe Rogan
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Aaron Siri
I mean, in the course of the length of humanity, that's not very long.
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Joe Rogan
It's not very long.
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Aaron Siri
I mean, look, I. I hope WI
- [77:39]
Joe Rogan
fi is not killing us. I really do. It's so convenient.
- [77:42]
Aaron Siri
Look at most, most. Listen, obviously most things that will just kill you get identified, right? It's not the things that kill you immediately that are a problem, typically because they killed you. And so, you know, it's the things that cause slow issues, ongoing issues. I mean, we know folks who work in high power lines have higher, far higher rates of cancer.
- [78:04]
Joe Rogan
Study after study reflects that, which makes sense. I mean, I mean, and look, ipod's bad for you. You know what I mean? If AirPods are bad in your ears, imagine being next to those power lines. What does that do to you?
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Aaron Siri
I don't want to go down this rabbit hole because it's not my area per se, but. But for the whole length of humanity, when you think of the spectrum, we were pretty much only exposed to natural light, which is a very narrow light, narrow band of the spectrum when you think of waves. So as you go down on the left side of the spectrum, the waves get longer. Like AM waves, really long. RM raves, microwaves, natural light. And then above that you get X rays, cosmic rays, and anything above natural light, they say, oh, it's really bad. That's just gonna mess you up and stuff. Below, natural light, they say, well, as long as it doesn't heat up your cells. That's typically the standard our government uses. It's safe. So as long as it's not heating your cell. But that's a very old standard, but it's still the one in effect today. So in any event, when you think about microwaves, they said stay away from. Even though it's below natural light. There's, you know, what is the cumulative effect of being. If you put your wifi around under your bed every night your whole life, what is the effect? There are numerous studies that show that it does have certain effects. But anyway, it's not worth going down that road. But.
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Joe Rogan
Yeah, but it might just be minor or it might be cumulative, right? Yeah. And then how about cell phone signals? You can't even stop those. They're around you all the time.
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Aaron Siri
Yeah.
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Joe Rogan
I mean, if you can FaceTime someone in New Zealand right now from your phone, clearly something's going on in the air.
- [79:46]
Aaron Siri
I'll put it this way. Every environmental insult has the potential to cause some kind of dysregulation in your body, whether it's microplastics, whether it's. You name it. Okay? And the precautionary principle would indicate that until you know it's safe, the onus is on those who want to expose you to it to prove to you it is right. It shouldn't be the other way around. I don't think anybody has to prove to you that WI fi is not safe to say, you know what, Based on the precautionary principle, well, I'm just going to turn off the WI fi every night in my house because, I don't know, that doesn't seem unreasonable to me because humans have been exposed to it forever. I've not seen the studies that validate that it doesn't cause an issue or large, robust studies. And so. But obviously, I think what I just said, some people might hear and go, well, that sounds crazy, but why?
- [80:36]
Joe Rogan
Why would it be crazy if we found out that there's a particular frequency that's bad for your memory or bad for your brain and that we're using it to broadcast something that's. That completely makes sense.
- [80:45]
Aaron Siri
Yeah. Except that I never think about harms the way you just said it, because that would indicate that we have to find out what harms it causes to me. When I go into a car dealership, for example, I walk in and the salesman says, all right, this car, okay? And I say, well, is it safe? And the car dealer says to me, prove to me it's not safe. And I said, well. And I said, well, what do you mean if you can't prove it, you got to take this car. By the way, that's how vaccines work. That's how I lie. And that is become a little bit of the. Depending on the. Mostly for vaccines, but a little bit for some of these other products where it's like, you gotta prove it's not safe. No, I don't have to prove it's not safe. I'm not buying this car. You prove to me it's. No, you prove to me this vaccine causes harm or you better take it. That's the way it's approached. A little bit like that. WI fi and with 5G and the LTE and all that stuff, it's almost like you proved to me that doing this all day is gonna cause brain cancer or else. You're a kook. No, why don't you show me? The study shows it doesn't do that. That's the way it should work with products and product safety.
- [81:54]
Joe Rogan
That makes sense. That's very reasonable. Again, I don't know. I'm not saying that it does, but what I'm saying is there's been things that. That human beings did and they found it was really bad for you. We've talked about it a few times, but those ladies, they used to test the X ray machines with their hands and no one told them, no one told them that X rays can give you cancer and fuck you up. And these poor ladies, every day when they would show up at the medical office, they would put their hand in the X ray machine to make sure it worked. And then you see their hands next to each other. It's horrifying. They got horrible lesions on their hands. And it's like. It's really creepy.
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Aaron Siri
They X rayed pregnant women until the 70s. Until the 70s, they were X raying pregnant women. Not with the X rays of today, that are far less radiation exposure. The X rays of the 70s, which is a lot, they gave the, I believe, the Nobel Prize. I'm pretty sure about this. For the lobotomy.
- [82:49]
Joe Rogan
Yeah.
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Aaron Siri
If I'm not mistaken, I think they did.
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Joe Rogan
I think you're right. I think they did find that out. Jamie put that into our sponsor, Perplexity, the Nobel Prize. Peter Berg told me about the origins of it, and I was like, wait, what? It was a guy who made dynamite, and there was a false story about his death. And in the newspaper, they called him the Merchant of Death. And he realized it and he was like, oh, shit, I gotta change my PR I gotta change my image. And so he came up with the Nobel Prize. He started awarding this prestigious prize and then instead of him being connected with blowing people up with dynamite, he became connected with the most prestigious prize in all of medicine and all of government and the peace, the Nobel Peace Prize. It's pretty crazy.
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Aaron Siri
It's amazing when you have money, how you can influence the world to think certain things about, in his instance, him, in other certain products. Exactly, absolutely.
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Joe Rogan
But what's really stunning is you're also allowed to influence the people that actually deliver the news, which is, you know, that's the crazy one. Like Cali means talked about that like they're advertising. Not because they want to sell their products with the advertisement that they're putting on the air, they're doing that too. But they're also ensuring that this steady stream of revenue that's going to these networks, they won't be opening up any lines of investigation into the vaccine injuries. Like, that's not going to happen. You're not going to see a giant CNN piece about COVID 19 vaccine injuries. It's not happening. It's not happening. You know, you're not going to hear much about anything. It's going to be. It has to be a big fucking story where they have to say it, or they just mention a judgment real quick and then move on. Moving on.
- [84:41]
Aaron Siri
The Rasmutin poll, I don't know if you remember this one. Found that I believe one in four, and I'm not. I think that's right, but I'm not sure 100%. People said they believe they knew somebody that died of COVID vaccine or knew somebody that died of covaccine. When you have that many people with that lived experience. And yet the mainstream media, as you just said, was still able to continue to push the narrative around Covid vaccines the way they did the Nobel Prize.
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Joe Rogan
Wow. Nobel Prize related lobotomy refers to 1949 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine awarded to Antonio Agas Moniz, a Portuguese neurologist, for developing the prefrontal lobotomy.
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Aaron Siri
I believe that continued until the 60s, by the way.
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Joe Rogan
Yeah, imagine that he got that prize in 49. They were like, good job.
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Aaron Siri
Meaning the medical profession as it stood in the 60s when measles vaccine was rolling out. We're still doing this, by the way.
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Joe Rogan
Yeah, I think they stopped lobotomies in 60. Was it 67.
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Aaron Siri
He developed something called a leucotomy, which
- [85:46]
Joe Rogan
was slightly different than what became known
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Aaron Siri
as the lobotomy, which we know as like the Iceberg pick method.
- [85:52]
Joe Rogan
What was his.
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Aaron Siri
It said also called the leucotomy.
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Joe Rogan
So that was this Freeman, that's the
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Aaron Siri
guy who was like the doc.
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Joe Rogan
I think they called him even Dr.
- [86:01]
Aaron Siri
Death or something like that for he
- [86:03]
Joe Rogan
did like he did a ton of
- [86:04]
Aaron Siri
lobotomies all over the country. Unfortunately, today you don't need a lobotomy apparently to have a lobotomy. Just spend a lot of time on social media and get your information from certain places. And it's so bad for me, seems to be you can maybe end up in the same place place.
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Joe Rogan
It's just hard, hard to recommend a certain amount of it. It's like how much Twinkie should you eat in a day? I don't mind if you eat Twinkies, but if you're eating Twinkies all day long, you're going to be up, man. And that's how I feel about like social media interactions. But I do think it's an important way to distribute information. It's if you're say if you're working for some corporation, you know something up is going on and, and you could put it up on Twitter and with details and facts and people could look into it and you can open up a line of reporters and investigative journalists that are going to find this, expose it and you could really break a story that is good for everybody. Having a way to communicate ideas like that is fantastic. Everything else, like all the arguing, all the shit that people do back and forth, you're just rotting your brain out and we're all guilty of it if you're on it.
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Aaron Siri
I mean, during the COVID pandemic, when all of these government overreaches were occurring, but for the existence of social media podcasts like yours and other alternative platforms, right. The information in many respects wouldn't have come out if you didn't have Peter McCullough on, Robert Malone on and if Fox and some just that little portion of the, I guess, more traditional media sphere wasn't willing for a time period to have folks on. I mean, trust me, when I started doing vaccine related work a decade ago, I never thought a single outlet, whether it's Fox or cnn would ever have me on. They had me on numerous times until vaccines kind of like, all right, let's not touch that again.
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Joe Rogan
Was this during, this was during the Biden administration then. And I think part of that was because it was a point of contention between the right and the left. Right. It was the right opposing the draconian measures that the left, who is in power and we gotta get the right back in power because we're all about freedom. So I think there was a little bit of that going on there. Right?
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Aaron Siri
For sure there was some of that going on. As you pointed out, I believe in the past, when Trump was promoting the vaccine, we're not taking that vaccine. And in the moment, Biden was like, we're taking the vaccine.
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Joe Rogan
Kamala Harris was saying it. Why would you trust him? And whatever his vaccine is like, that is so crazy. These people are fake.
- [88:33]
Aaron Siri
I mean, if Trump came out tomorrow and said everybody should get every vaccine out there, I, you know, see what would happen. I don't know, maybe would stop shaking it.
- [88:42]
Joe Rogan
Yeah, if he really got into trans kids, they'd put a ban to it immediately. Yeah, it's weird. It's weird to watch. Weird to watch us so divided and at each other's throats. And I really do think that a giant percentage of the uptick and the craziness is just social media. I don't think people are designed for it. I just thank God Elon bought Twitter, because if he didn't, we would not have the kind of access to the actual truth, the real data, it would all be suppressed. You would never find out about it. How would you know about these studies? You're not going to go scouring through journals. And even if you do, what are you going to do? You got to get on Rumble and talk about it. It's probably the only way you can. And if anybody from Rumble tries to share that on the Twitter, they'll get banned. So it's like we were in a real pickle. It was a bad spot, and it was just a few years ago, which is nuts.
- [89:35]
Aaron Siri
We could have gone a very different direction. And I'll use an analogy when they remember the airlines, because CDC required masks on planes. When that got struck down by the courts, a number of airlines said, we're gonna keep our mask mandate. I don't know if you remember that. They proudly came out. The COs said, We're gonna keep it. Half of them said they were gonna keep it. The other half immediately lifted the mask mandate on. And those that decided to keep it, they dropped it within a day or two, I think, or something like that, really rapidly, because economically they were losing business. I think that changed the center of gravity on that issue. I think Elon buying Twitter X basically changed the center of gravity on censorship, whereby without that, they might have all just kept going, even in the worst direction they saw they were losing market share to adopt once he Bought it and he didn't have censorship, I think that conformed their conduct.
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Joe Rogan
Well, it was also. It was indicative of how people actually felt versus what was suppressed. Like, when you realize that there's. Well, have you ever seen, like, how people identifying as non binary and trans dropped off, like, right after purchase of Twitter? Because people got a chance to talk about it now, and you can criticize, and people could put up memes and they can call it a mental illness again. And then all sudden, everybody's like, hey, what are we. What are we supporting men with penises in the women's room? Like, did we get hypnotized? Like, what the fuck happened? And now you're seeing even prestigious mainstream media publications talking about the dangers of gender transition for young kids. Wow. Okay, so what happened? What happened? What happened was Elon bought Twitter and people were out to. To actually accurately gauge what people are willing to tolerate and what they actually want versus what's being shoved down everybody's throats. With censorship and with mainstream media narratives, they just keep piping back and forth, pretending everybody agrees with them.
- [91:37]
Aaron Siri
That's one piece of it. They are also, by the way, a lot of the hospitals and doctors are getting sued right, left and right on this.
- [91:45]
Joe Rogan
In fact, especially after that first rule, right.
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Aaron Siri
We have, you know, And I can't talk about it, but it's very, very troubling matters which include suicide and hiding it from parents, school districts, hiding. I mean, it's really troubling stuff.
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Joe Rogan
Do you have children?
- [92:08]
Aaron Siri
Yeah, I do.
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Joe Rogan
I do, too. And one of the things you realize if you have children is that they are very malleable and they want to fit in, and they are subject to social contagions. And that social contagion can be dressing up goth. It could be like, whatever it is. Like, they want to fit, and they're experimenting. They're kids. And if you just decide, oh, you're a boy, and then you bring that kid to it, and you're giving them all this positive attention, and you're giving them all this positive feedback, and then you go to school, I'm trans now. And everyone says you're brave. Like, for awkward kids, that is absolutely enticing. And not only that, they do it in clusters. Like, Abigail Schreier has written about this. This is. A lot of these girls have autism. And a lot of these girls, they're socially awkward and they're very uncomfortable with their body, and they're going through puberty, which kind of freaks them out already. Freaks out any girl. And then Something comes along like this, and now you've been taken to a doctor and had your breasts removed and you're 15. That's fucking crazy. And to say anything in opposition to that somehow became you're a bigot or you're a Nazi or you're transphobic. This is crazy talk. Like you're talking about very malleable children doing something. You can't even get a fucking Tattoo if you're 15, why can you get your breasts removed? That's nuts.
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Aaron Siri
Unfortunately, it became a very big business. The number of centers in America that perform these surgeries exploded. And so with that explosion, you need clients like every business. It needs to feed that business model, right? And so that is so evil, it's
- [93:49]
Joe Rogan
so creepy to think that people are willing to talk people into that just for money, but they've done it with so many other things. It's not impossible to believe that it's true. It's scary.
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Aaron Siri
A lot of times if you follow the money trail, you can see how things develop and where they go. It often helps, you know, puts it in perspective. And look, rare is the person that says, I'm evil, I'm bad. I mean, people find a way to justify things. They find a way to excuse them and, you know, find, you know, the, well, I'm doing more good than bad justification in their minds.
- [94:28]
Joe Rogan
Or there's the diffusion of responsibility that comes with being a part of a corporation that's doing something. Hey, look, I'm just an accountant, or, hey, I'm just an engineer, or, hey, you know, I'm doing. I'm not. I don't want the company to move in this direction. However, I do own stock.
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Aaron Siri
So as it goes up, especially, especially in public traded companies. Which brings us back to the very beginning of this, which is, you know, that is what happens in those corporations.
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Joe Rogan
Should that be a thing? Like, if you could redo the. If you had a magic wand and you could completely redo the economy, would you have the stock market? I mean, isn't it enough that people just buy things, sell things? Your company's worth money because it makes money. Isn't that enough?
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Aaron Siri
Why.
- [95:08]
Joe Rogan
Why do we have to complicate it?
- [95:10]
Aaron Siri
Why.
- [95:10]
Joe Rogan
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Aaron Siri
I don't know if the stock market itself is the problem. I mean, stocks, the whole idea is just to find a, you know, a more efficient way for me to sell you shares in my company. That's all it is. But the underlying problem is not the market, in my view. It's not the existence of the stock market. It's the government. Government intervening into the market forces in a way that do not result in a good outcome. And often that is at the behest of industry. When government, there needs to be some government regulation.
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Joe Rogan
So that's the problem. The problem is that corporations have money. They can use that money to influence laws, influence government.
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Aaron Siri
That is a significant part of the problem. Because, look, look, most regulatory agencies are born out of some crisis, right?
- [97:58]
Joe Rogan
Right.
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Aaron Siri
So they often start as a great idea, like people wanting to do good, members of our Congress wanting to do good. But then who's got the time, money and inclination to influence that regulatory agency? You. Well, you do have Some money. But you. Me who? No, it's going to be. Even wealthy folks don't have it. They don't. They're not going to do it. The very. It's not even the lobbyists per se. It's the very industry they're trying to regulate. They have the money, time, patience, inclination to do that, to create the revolving door. Right?
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Joe Rogan
Right.
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Aaron Siri
Think about it like this. Article one of the Constitution creates Congress. Right. First article. And what's its purpose? Primary purpose is to pass laws. Right. How many laws a year is it passed, do you think? Approximately about 200. Okay. Our agencies on the federal government. Do you know how many regulations which have the same exact weight as law they pass every year?
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Joe Rogan
Can I guess? Yeah, 2000.
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Aaron Siri
It depends on the year, but often more.
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Joe Rogan
Really?
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Aaron Siri
Yes. There's a chart on this. I'm sure it can be pulled up, but it's not. But it's something to that effect. Depends on the year, but somewhere between, let's say 100, 300 to thousands on the other side. And who are those folks passing? Are they part of the Article 1? The constitutional branch is supposed to pass laws that are elected representatives. No. The unelected bureaucrats sitting there and you name your Alphabet agency that you've probably never heard of that pass these regs that are the same force of law and who really has again, the time and inclination to influence them? It's often the very industries. So it starts as a good idea, but unfortunately it ends up being what the literature calls. This is the political science literature came out of Harvard and Yale and all those places. They don't want to talk about it today. Captive agencies, okay. That's what they often become. Cdc, fda, and very much are, to varying degrees depending on what they're doing are very much captive agencies. When you look closely at it and you understand it, that's true of many other parts of the government. And so.
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Joe Rogan
Well, particularly people don't know. A lot of people don't know that haven't gone down these rabbit holes that a lot of these people. It's a revolving door. They leave the FDA and then they go and work for the pharmaceutical drug companies. They make a lot of money.
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Aaron Siri
Yes. Like Julie Gerberding, who was the head of the CDC in the 90s that oversaw some of the most controversial disputes about what. Whose products. Merck's vaccine products. Okay. And then after her, you know, she cleaned all that up, left CDC and went to work for who?
- [100:50]
Joe Rogan
Merck.
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Aaron Siri
Making tens of millions of dollars. I believe she's made over the time that she's been there. So she did good, she got rewarded. You think if she didn't do good, she wouldn't get rewarded? You don't think other people see that in the federal health. Of course they know. They all know.
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Joe Rogan
Of course. So it's the golden parachute and everybody strives for it. If you can get that post, you can get the top of the food chain over at the cdc, guys. See you in about five years then. In five years, you're thinking about your Lamborghini. You got a yacht in your future. It's just. It's kook. Yeah, I mean, it's kooky that it's legal.
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Aaron Siri
Look, I don't know if it's as nefarious to that in the minds of people in public health, let's put that way, since we're talking about public health officials. But I think that it has a corrupting influence that cannot be detangled from the fact that they're human. It will influence them.
- [101:44]
Joe Rogan
I don't think it's like there's also a precedent. There's a precedent that's been set with many people before them. So it's something they look forward to. If you get this job, you will likely get a job like this afterwards. A bunch of people have. And so you think about that while you're trying to get that job. It's part of the motivation is financial reward.
- [102:01]
Aaron Siri
Absolutely. Well, there was a. There's a Pfizer executive who is serendipitously recorded specifically saying that. Something. It's in my. I have the exchange in my book. It's something to the effect of, well, you know, those who are working at the fda, you know, are. They're eventually going to come work for industry, so they don't want to hurt industry too much. The person asking the question says, well, you think that's bad? He goes, yeah, it's bad for America, but not bad for the companies.
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Joe Rogan
That's the problem.
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Aaron Siri
That's exactly right.
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Joe Rogan
Well, this is the thing about having an obligation to your shareholders. Which brings me back to the whole stock market thing. I know this is kooky thought, but I mean, if we never had the stock market in the first place and you didn't have an obligation to your shareholders to consistently make more money every quarter, if people could just accept the fact that you own this business, this person, you make a certain amount of money, everybody's doing great. Like, why. Why have all these people making money just moving stocks around insane amounts of wealth, manipulating systems to Crash stocks. And there's people that are like in public office that say things that aren't necessarily true that influence the market. Then it turns out they were totally wrong. And then you find out that they bet on it and they made a bunch of money in the stock market. This is crazy. This is crazy. And it's all true and it's all legal, which is so fucking bizarre that in a time where we are completely aware that all this stuff is taking place.
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Aaron Siri
All right, can I put that into three different buckets?
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Joe Rogan
Yeah, yeah, please.
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Aaron Siri
I'll put it in three different buckets. There's the bucket of making products, right? There are companies that make products. There are companies that provide services, including financial services that can be useful. Like. Like you need a mortgage. If you can buy a house, you can't afford it. So mortgage products are a service that are brought for the financial industry. And then there's, I think, what you're talking about, which is the part of our economy that is finance, it's just moving money. It's just moving numbers where they've got, you know, high speed computers that are trying in micro fractions of a second to beat out the other guy to basically triage and make money based on that adds no value to our economy. You know, products and services add value. And to our. Everything you see around that we're sitting in right now is made by a company. Right? And so. And I'm not aware of a
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Joe Rogan
system
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Aaron Siri
that has been more efficient at producing products and services that improve the lives of others than the free market system with some regulate. Okay, I'm not aware of one. Socialism doesn't do it. We've seen that in action. Communism does not do it. We've seen that in action.
- [104:45]
Joe Rogan
We need to just do it. Right.
- [104:46]
Aaron Siri
Dictators. But so kidding, clearly. So I wouldn't throw out the whole system is what I'm saying. What I'm saying is that.
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Joe Rogan
I'm not saying that.
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Aaron Siri
Yeah, I'm saying that that part of it's good. Now when you break the alignment of economic self interests of the companies, the market interest to whatever it is, protect consumers, that's when you're a problem. And that is the idea, or at least they sell it as the idea from a lot of government regulations. Well, the company is not on its own going to do what's right in this instance. So we need government to do it. And if government really only stepped in when it was truly needed, it would be a good system. You're right. But the system often breaks when they Step in when they're not needed. Sometimes when they step in and have the opposite effect, when they're really just protecting the industry at the expense of consumers, which happens too often is the
- [105:49]
Joe Rogan
benefit of the stock market. And this is again nonsense. I'm not an economist, clearly. But if we had never invented it, if human beings had never come up with this idea, if instead we just had a free market, what has the stock market, what has publicly traded companies, what has the ability to own stocking companies and hedge funds and all that stuff, what has that done for innovation and for progress and for creating more products? Do you think it's encouraged more products and encouraged more activity in the economy and we're further ahead than we would have been if no one had invented it. It because it seems like at the very least it's a weird opening for people that just move money around and add no value and extract enormous amounts of wealth. So that seems like you got a hole in your pipe. Like why are people that aren't even involved, why do they get to make all the money on this? Like what is going on here? You're doing a weird thing that I don't know if you had to do to achieve the same result that you achieved with a free market capitalist society that doesn't have a stock market that just has a bunch of companies making money and everybody doing the stuff they do is like is it a necessity? Is what I'm asking?
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Aaron Siri
Well, outside of my air expertise, but
- [107:10]
Joe Rogan
definitely outside of mine.
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Aaron Siri
I mean, I'll give you my musings.
- [107:15]
Joe Rogan
Yes, please.
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Aaron Siri
So this is just my off the cuff musings and that's something I'd actually really want to think about more. But, but so when I think about companies going public, it certainly appears to help drive capital to those companies because hedge venture capital funds, a lot of times their exit strategy. So I'm willing to give you all this, I'm a venture capital, I'm willing to give you all this money to start this company because I know at the my goal is three to five years from now it can go public and I, the venture capital fund can get back X amount of my money. That's the exit strategy for that investment. Now if there was no efficient market to do that, meaning you couldn't just have a publicly traded market where where just easy to sell shit to have this public offering. What would that do to venture capital funds? Would they still invest as much? They might and instead they might just focus on hard money returns. They want companies that really just make Money, cash on cash, versus this immediate bubble of equity inflation that happens when you go public because it's now liquid. The ownership.
- [108:40]
Joe Rogan
Right.
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Aaron Siri
Market caps. I don't know if that answers your question, but I don't think it does because your question was a good one. It's far more sophisticated than what I'd answered. Because you're saying what does it contribute to society, right?
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Joe Rogan
I don't think it contributes anything.
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Aaron Siri
I just answered it so narrowly and said, well, it might entice venture capitalists though. I don't know. I don't even know if what I just said is entirely correct. They might still do it anyway because they'll just might do the best thing. Now, what does it add to the side all over to have liquid? I mean, it'd be harder to have like a retirement account in the way you have right now to own stock. Right. That would be more difficult to put your money in and buy shares of Coca Cola. Would you prefer for big corporations to be owned by, you know, certain families or would you rather them be owned by the public?
- [109:32]
Joe Rogan
I think you should be allowed to keep your company in your family if you own it.
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Aaron Siri
Well, you should. Well, you certainly can. Look at the New York Times. The New York Times. The family kept control. My understanding, again, we're outside of my normal area of expertise, but the family, my understanding, has the controlling of votes in that company. But it's publicly traded as well. New York Times, yeah. If I'm not mistaken, I know people
- [109:57]
Joe Rogan
that have taken their company public and regretted it. It's too much shit you deal with, too much nonsense afterwards. And then they're like, it wasn't worth it just for the hassle and the quality of life. I would have never done it if I had known this.
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Aaron Siri
I guess it depends what they wanted.
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Joe Rogan
I guess it depends what they wanted. But the question is, if a bunch of people are making money that aren't contributing, they're just like siphoning money by moving money around all over the place. Isn't that leaky money? If you don't really contribute anything, you don't provide any value, and yet you're extracting extreme wealth. Don't you have a leak in the pump? It seems like if that money was just being distributed normally, like the buying and selling of goods and services, that would be a much more honest society. But would it have the same amount of. Would it have the same amount of innovation and would it have the same amount of productivity? Or is that productivity not just enhanced by this flood of capital, but Also encourage. So it like stimulates everything. So like having these vampires sucking on the pipe, like ultimately it does move numbers around and it gets more stuff out there and. Which also encourages innovation. I don't know.
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Aaron Siri
I mean, I think that there is a gray. All right. I think there's a gray area between the second and third bucket. So we were talking about like products and services. Maybe we make that one bucket because those can have value to sell from many of them. And then there are the extreme. There's like just like triage nonsense that happens. You know, I put my supercomputer as close as possible to, you know, the super. The stock exchange. And so I can like make money on fractions of a fraction. Like that's crazy. That's like the. And then there's something. Then there's like that gray zone in between where there's, you know, mortgages.
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Joe Rogan
Good.
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Aaron Siri
Okay. Help the American family achieve their dream of owning a home. Now mortgage backed securities, maybe not so good. Mortgage backed securities that are double, triple, sliced into all these tranches getting worse. Going down that road, there's a degree where you're getting further and further away from the very point of that financial instrument that had good. So I think that there's a point at which. Yeah, no good. But I think it's hard to talk in generalities in my mind. Like if you have a specific example. Let's go down that road.
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Joe Rogan
Well, Bernie Madoff's the best example.
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Aaron Siri
Right.
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Joe Rogan
Obviously everybody had to know something was. There was some shenanigans taking place because the returns were too crazy. But look out how many intelligent people invested money with him because he was so successful.
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Aaron Siri
Just my old office in Manhattan when I used to work at Latham and Walk was I think three floors above Bernie's office in the Lipstick Building. I was on 20, 30, I think it was a 24. Nothing to do with him anyways. Zero. Okay. But Bernie, Bernie just straight up stole. Just stole. I mean, that's not, that's not even a thing. Come on. He just.
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Joe Rogan
No, no, no, you're right. He just made.
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Aaron Siri
He just, he just stole money and gave out like fake returns as far as I know.
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Joe Rogan
Yeah, yeah, yeah. He, he had people thinking, yeah, they were making all this money.
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Aaron Siri
Yeah. He's just. It's just a pyramid scheme. Basically 100% that was eventually gonna fail. I mean, it only could go on for so long.
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Joe Rogan
Well, I think it fucked up because of the 2008 crisis. Right. They think he could have kept it going if there wasn't the Crash. Wasn't that what did him in?
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Aaron Siri
There's always gonna be a dip. So it was only a matter of time. I mean, he was gonna get.
- [113:31]
Joe Rogan
That was a big one, though. And people wanted their money back. And he was like, yikes.
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Aaron Siri
Just. I mean, that's an incredible. It's an incredible scheme. It's amazing that somebody should even pull that off, frankly.
- [113:42]
Joe Rogan
It is crazy and it is incredible, but it just shows you that this is a weird system that you can pretend to be moving money around and you don't have any products.
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Aaron Siri
But it corrected.
- [113:51]
Joe Rogan
It did. It's a good point because he did go to jail.
- [113:53]
Aaron Siri
He corrected. He went to jail. And man, did he become the post trial of like Wall street fraud. Don't do that.
- [113:59]
Joe Rogan
Don't do that. He became. Don't do that. Yeah, it's just. It's probably a stupid question because I don't know anything about economics, but I was just thinking that couldn't we have the same world and not have that? Wouldn't that be more honest and more beneficial? But it would have to have happened from the beginning. It would have to be like. There was never publicly traded companies from the beginning.
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Aaron Siri
All right, let's think of a company. You like Coca Cola. You like Coca Cola.
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Joe Rogan
I like a little Diet Coke every now and then when I want some brain fog.
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Aaron Siri
All right?
- [114:33]
Joe Rogan
I want a nice taste in my mouth and an aspartame hangover. Okay, I'll think of another one.
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Aaron Siri
I don't know.
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Joe Rogan
Chevy.
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Aaron Siri
Chevy. Okay, Chevy. So. I don't know. Without the ability to raise money in liquid capital markets, would Chevy have grown to what Chevy became, or at least in the speed at which it did that then revolutionized automotive and other industries?
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Joe Rogan
Probably not.
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Aaron Siri
Maybe not.
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Joe Rogan
Yeah, maybe not.
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Aaron Siri
Maybe not.
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Joe Rogan
But you wonder, like, if people were motivated and people were ambitious and we always have been, you know, like if that wasn't a part of our economy, I wonder. I bet it has a pretty big impact when you put it that way. You think about something as big as Chevy, you know, but it's just the motivation of money is always going to be there. And if people ignore it because it's inconvenient and it doesn't align with their ideology, you've been captured. And this is why I think what you're talking about all the time is so hard for people that are true believers to swallow because it makes you have. You're forced to reformulate your entire worldview. If you've been duped that hard by something like the actual Data on vaccine efficacy and who's really profiting and why it's set up the way it is and what the studies really are. When you realize you've been duped that hard, it's a hard pill to swallow for a lot of people.
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Aaron Siri
Of people, absolutely. But I will say this. You don't need to go down a rabbit hole, okay? Because that happens to a lot of people with vaccines I've seen. Not the majority, not most, but it happens to some where it's like, oh, my goodness, if the government's lying or not telling me the truth about these products, then what can I believe? And some folks can go down some different alleys. And I would say that really, truly, I have not seen anything like vaccines. Vaccines really are in their own bucket because of that immunity. It's what I call original sin. In my book. There really is no product, no product that I'm aware of that operates in this kind of landscape. Like I said, every other product, the market force will, to varying degrees, with wrinkles, correct for the issues because there's economic self interest. They broke that with vaccines. So we've gone from three shots following the 19 in 1986, one before the first year of age at the beginning of 2025. You know how many shots it was that a baby got honor before their first birthday? Take a guess.
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Joe Rogan
72.
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Aaron Siri
No, no, that's their whole childhood. 29, 29, first birthday. Yes. Honor before the first birthday went from three to 29 shots, including in utero. Now with the recent changes, it's down to 19. And the reason I focus on the first year, most of the shots in the first six months of life is that's when the baby is going through really critical stages of neurological immunological development. Right. Synapse. I mean, think how small a baby is. Okay. And so they're really susceptible to various effects also. So babies can't express what's going wrong with them. Okay, so now in the normal course, okay, in the normal course, you've got a product. You've gone from three of them in 1986. By the first year, you're up to 29. Beginning of 2025. Now you're at 19 still. And during that period, you've gone from under 10% of kids had a chronic health issue in the early 1980s. According to the data, you now have over 40%. Some data show over 50% of kids having chronic health issues, often multiple times the rate. Okay, and what are those chronic health issues that have exploded? To be sure, by the way, any environmental insult can cause dysregulation in the body, okay, Including a pharmaceutical product, including vaccines. But when you look at those chronic diseases that have exploded, almost all of them have an etiology relating to some form of immune system dysregulation. Look at asthma, look at atopic issues, look at tics, look at adhd. Nobody thinks about it this way, but if you look at the PubMed literature, there's immune markers that have gone awry in kids with adhd. Okay? So you look at that. Now, I'd say, okay, the lawyers, those who would hold these companies accountable would look at that, and then they would start looking at the data. And I'll show you what some of the data shows. We talked about the Amish earlier, for example, okay, The Amish that I represent in New York, there's three schools. The New York Health Department decided that it doesn't like what the Amish beliefs are. It wants the Amish to adopt their beliefs and abandon their real religious beliefs and to give their kids these vaccines. Otherwise they were going to impose crushing fines on these three Amish schools.
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Joe Rogan
Schools.
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Aaron Siri
Three schools, by the way, which means a room, no electricity, a teacher. You know what I mean? On Amish land, they don't take tax money. They pay taxes, but they refuse to take tax money taught by Amish teachers. And so amongst those families, of those three schools, there was like 160 or something kids. And what we did is we did a survey. We asked them, what health conditions do those kids have? Those 160 kids, many of them already older, too, too. So you would know their health outcomes. And this is all in our court papers. It's all in a federal docket. Anybody can go and read it for themselves. Okay, Amongst those children you would expect to have. Because like, 1 in 10 kids approximately have asthma, you would expect to have like nine cases of asthma. You'd expect to have six cases of this, five cases. They have none. Zero of the chronic health conditions plaguing kids in America today. And the approximately 10 or so studies that have been done, and I'm bringing this back to my legal point, there are approximately 10 or so studies that have done that. Compare kids with no exposure, meaning zero vaccines, to kids that have had one or more vaccines show the same outcome. Kids with zero vaccines. Almost none of the chronic health issues that face kids today in America. Kids with one or more vaccines. Multiple races of the chronic health issues facing kids today. Now, that data all exists. I put those studies in my book. Anybody can read them. I even put The Amish information in my book, it's all cited. You can go look at it yourself if you're out there. Some of them are even a PubMed. The market could have corrected for that if you could hold those pharma companies accountable, but you can't.
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Joe Rogan
Is it correct that the only instances of autism they found in Amish kids were adopted kids?
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Aaron Siri
There are data and some reports that reflect that. But if we. So there are that. But those are more news reports. Those are not. Somebody will criticize you, by the way. You're gonna get criticism and say, well, that's not a peer reviewed study.
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Joe Rogan
Well, I had a follow up question that maybe clarify.
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Aaron Siri
Yeah, well, and so we can say, we can go move on to what does the peer reviewed literature show?
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Joe Rogan
If you want the follow up question would be, are they even being diagnosed? So if they're getting Amish care and Amish teachers and Amish, Is it possible that there are some kids that are just behaving odd that would be diagnosed? Like this is the criticism.
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Aaron Siri
Yes.
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Joe Rogan
People say, like this is. When you hear some mainstream suit talking on television. Well, there was always someone odd when we were kids. You know, there's no. The diagnosis is different today. That's why it's 1 in 12 boys in California. They're over diagnosing and I'm like, no, no. I have friends that have multiple friends that have non verbal children. I never had that when I was a kid. That was not normal. That was not a common thing. It was very, very, very rare.
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Aaron Siri
The notion that autism is just better diagnosed and that's the only reason for the increase is. I don't know a better word for it. I'm gonna say nonsense. Okay. Even if you look at the. Because they've changed the DSM 5, which is what we're up to, the diagnostic manual, that is the psychiatric manual that has the criteria for diagnosing autism. It has changed over time. But when you even just look at severe autism, just severe autism, which California has very good data on from the 70s and onward until today, it's exploded. Okay? So the notion that we just have better diagnosis is not a serious point. But putting that aside, the Amish do go to doctors.
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Joe Rogan
Do they go to Amish doctors?
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Aaron Siri
No.
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Joe Rogan
Okay.
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Aaron Siri
They go to regular doctors. The Amish, for example, could even go in a car. They just can't drive a car.
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Joe Rogan
So they can get an Uber.
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Aaron Siri
There's different. I should be. I should be.
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Joe Rogan
Somebody orders it.
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Aaron Siri
I should be clear about that. Just like every religion, there are different. You know, communities. And so there's like old, old Lion Amish and then there's Old Lion Amish. And so God, you know, and Christianity and Islam and Judaism and all different, you know, there's different degrees, black hat Jews and there's so forth. So in many respects they do still go. But you know, as I was told by one of the main folks who I interact with there, and I've been up there and I've slept there and I've interacted with them. He told me, he said, yeah, you know, there are a few that mistake got some vaccines. And he goes, one of those kids, they just don't act right. He sell it to me. But we don't see that with our other kids. And I'll tell you this about the Amish community. They don't have phones, not, you know, smartphones. They have old school phones. Some of them, they don't have TVs when they're with their kids, they're with their kids when they're there at the end of the day, they really are so much more tuned when I spend time with them. And when I went up there, I mean, it's incredible, you know, we have lost. It's a hard thing to experience maybe for somebody who keeps like, maybe the closest thing I think of is like those who observe the Sabbath biblically, you know, so they're just, they're just totally locked in. They lock in with their families for a day or things like that. And so they're very in tune with their kids. They know if those kids have health issues and those kids don't have those issues. But forget the Amish, go to the rest of the kids in the other studies that are not Amish studies. The 10 other studies that I just told you about. One is three pediatric practices that have vaccinated of unvaccinated kids. There are a whole line of studies of nothing to do with the Amish community. But if you do want to focus on autism, okay, which is here's just one potential issue from vaccines, by the way. What you find in the peer reviewed literature is that 40 to 70% of parents who have a child with autism report still report that they believe vaccines cause their child's autism. Okay? 47%. That's after how much billions of dollars to try to tell them and gaslight them and convince them, them that it's not autism, that vaccines don't cause autism. Apparently no matter how much you beat these families, they're just not going to change their lived experience. And what vaccines do they point to. They often. They point to the vaccines given in the first six months of life. When you ask them what vaccines do you think cause your child's autism, they'll say, the vaccine's given in the first six months of life. And then they'll also point to MMR vaccine, which is given no earlier than one year of age. Okay? And so, on behalf of icann, which is the informed action nonprofit that our law firm represents, we sent a Freedom of Information act request, FOIA request to the cdc. And we said, hey, your website says vaccines do not cause autism. Great. Please give us the studies that show that Hep B vaccine given three times in the first six months of life do not cause autism. Please give us the studies that show that DTaP vaccine given three times in the first six months of life do not cause autism. Same thing for IPV vaccine, for PCV vaccine, and for Hib vaccine. Okay? Each one of those vaccines is given three times each in the first six months of life. Fifteen injections. K. Okay, you say vaccines don't cause autism. These parents are saying these vaccines cause their child's autism. Provide us the studies. They never gave us the studies. I sued them in federal court. I didn't go to Texas. I sued them in Southern District of New York. Okay? Not the friendliest territory to bring that kind of lawsuit. Okay. Days before the hearing, I get a list of 20 studies finally from. Also from the DOJ, because they represent the CDC. Okay? Maybe they think I don't read. So I looked at the 20 studies. I've read them. 19 of them have nothing to do with the vaccines given in the first six months of life. They were all either MMR studies or studies of an ingredient that wasn't in those vaccines. One of them was an Institute of medicine review from 2012 that canvassed all the literature on whether DTaP vaccine does or does not cause autism. Because the CDC and HRSA, which is the agency in HHS that fights vaccine injury claims, asked the IOM to look at whether dtap causes autism because it remained one of the most commonly claimed injuries still, according to them, okay? And the Institute of Medicine came back and said we could only find one study on dtap and autism. And in fact, it showed an association between vaccine, dtap vaccine and autism. But the IOM threw it out because it said there's no unvaccinated control in it. So they threw out the studies based on VAERS data, if you know what that is. So I called up the DOJ attorney. This is days before the hearing. And I said, I got the list of 20 studies. I said, are you sure that your client, the cdc, wants to settle this case? Basically on the basis that these are the studies they rely upon to claim that vaccines don't cause autism. The vaccines in the first six months of life do not cause autism. Because that's what the lawsuit was about, that FOIA request. He went, he called me back and he said, yeah, they want to settle it. I said, all right. I gave him another chance. Those 20 studies were put into a settlement agreement between the CDC and ICANN. My client, the DOJ, signed it on behalf of the CDC, I signed it on behalf of my client. And a federal judge in the Southern District of New York entered as an order of the court in 2019, I believe it was. And there it was. I mean, I had done years and years of work fighting with them to try and figure out, show me the vaccines don't cause autism. This was the crescendo. This was the end. I mean, when their back was to the wall, they have nothing. There are no studies. They could not produce one that showed the vaccines given in the first six months of life do not cause autism. And here's the thing they left out. There is one study out there regarding Hep B vaccines in autism. It's from Gallagher and Goodman out of the University of Stony Brooks. In the peer reviewed literature, and it showed that kids that got Hep B vaccine versus those that did in the first month of life had three times the rate of autism, statistically significant. Gallagher Goodman University of Stony BROOK it's on PubMed. That is the only study of Hep B vaccine and autism you will find in the peer reviewed literature. If you're gonna do it based on the science, on the published literature, that's the only one out there. That dtap vaccine study is the only one out there for dtap given in the first six months of life.
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Joe Rogan
So when this narrative, which you hear all the time on these panels, on these new shows, vaccines do not cause autism, that has been thoroughly debunked. Where's that come from?
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Aaron Siri
Vaccines. Amen. That's why I call my book Vaccines. Amen.
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Joe Rogan
Have you seen those live shows where crowds cheat?
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Aaron Siri
But this is what I'm talking about. This is why I wrote the book. I wrote the book because in 10 years that I have litigated 200 lawsuits against federal and state health agencies, that I have deposed the world's leading vaccinologists, including Dr. Stanley Plock, and you go down the list and chasing them when they're in a deposition, when their back is against the wall in a federal or state lawsuit, and they have no choice but to admit the truth or give the evidence, put up or shut up. What I have found is that the claims they make about vaccines versus the reality are completely different. And it is distjarring. When I came into this, had you told me, yeah, they don't have any studies that show vaccines don't cause autism. First six months, I'd be like, you're crazy. Get out of here. They tell you it's thoroughly debunked, thoroughly studied. The most studied thing ever. They have a mountain of science, Joe. There's a mountain of studies. You know how big it is? It's so big. And you know what's on top of that mountain? Another mountain of studies. You know, another mountain. There's so many studies, they're drowning in studies that vaccines don't cause autism. But then when you demand it, it, not the bull crap that they say on tv, but you actually demand it, that's the result. And that you could pull it up on the Internet, by the way, that court stipulation, it's right there. You could also hear me depose Dr. Stanley Plock in the world's leading vaccinologist, where I said to him, I said, doctor, and you have this clips on the Internet. I said, there's no studies that support the dtap does not include autism, Right? And. And at first he said, well, I said, well, what do you think the IOM concluded? He goes, well, I would assume they said it doesn't. I showed it to him and he goes, oh, this is the world's leading vaccinologist. He didn't even know this. He goes, oh, okay, There are no studies. Okay. He goes, so I said, shouldn't you wait until you do. Shouldn't you wait until you have the studies that show that DTAP doesn't cause autism to then tell parents that vaccines don't cause autism? You know what he said to me? No, no, I don't wait. I don't wait because I have to take into account the health of the child. He said. I said, so for that reason, you're willing to tell parents that vaccines don't cause autism even though you don't have the data to support it? He said, absolutely. You can play that clip if you want. It's on the Internet. And then I deposed in a case about vaccines and autism. It was about it. Dr. Katherine Edwards, who is one of the four, I guess, leading vaccinologists in the world, one of the four editors of the medical textbooks on vaccine, which is called Plotkin's Vaccine Vaccines. I deposed her about vaccines and autism and I said, do you have a study that shows hep B vaccine doesn't come to autism? This was after this court stipulation, the court order I told you about. She didn't have any for hep B for hit, for the ones I just took the first six months of life. So yes, they say on TV it's thoroughly debunked. But I'm telling you, that is a belief that is not science, that is not fact. It is not based on data. It is based on pure belief.
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Joe Rogan
And they say it just like they say Jesus Christ is Lord.
- [133:55]
Aaron Siri
I think they believe actually in vaccines more because they'll kick kids out of school in some archdiocese even and some other Christian schools, far less. Most archdiocese won't if the kid won't get vaccines. So I actually think they believe in vaccines more than Jesus. And some places, by the way,
- [134:14]
Joe Rogan
what an amazing job of gaslighting and propaganda they've done.
- [134:18]
Aaron Siri
But I just want to, I just got to be clear because anybody hearing this might think that that just sounds crazy. But I implore anybody who heard me say that, pull up the court order yourself, look at it yourself, Watch the depositions, go to PubMed, see for yourself. Oh, and by the way, do not rely on AI because I've done this fun job with. I'm like, I'm like, do Hep B vaccines cause autism? It's been thoroughly researched and there's no studies. I go, okay, great. So how do you. And I say to AI, I go, how do you reach a scientific conclusion? Well, you use peer reviewed studies. I go, wonderful. So to conclude that Hep B vaccine does not cause autism, you need peer reviewed studies. That is correct. Wonderful. Now please, in a list, these studies that show Hep B vaccine does cause autism, Give me three studies. I've had chatgpt makeup studies, literally, hepbaccine does not cause. And I'm like, that doesn't exist. Give me the PubMed number. You are correct. I aim to provide valid information. But in this instance, I fell short. Literally made up a. I'm not joking. Made up a study.
- [135:22]
Joe Rogan
I've had it, it fell short.
- [135:24]
Aaron Siri
I lied to you. I've done this for fun with friends. And so I'm like, watch this, watch this. And finally I'll get it to admit that the, the only study is the Gallagher and Goodman study. That is the only study I will get it to admit it takes about often 45 minutes to an hour.
- [135:38]
Joe Rogan
Really?
- [135:38]
Aaron Siri
Yeah, it takes a while, but it will eventually admit it. And they all do it. Grok does it too, by the way. Grok's better, by the way. Better. But it's bad too. And they will say on all of these questions, they will make stuff up and unless you know, like I know the universe of studies, I know it's blowing.
- [135:56]
Joe Rogan
Can I ask you this? Do you think that, that these large language models are programmed with certain truths that they can't fight against? Or do you think it's because they're pulling from so much bullshit on the Internet and so many bullshit narratives on the Internet from trusted sources that'll tell you that vaccines don't cause autism. Like there's a ton of major newspapers, major magazines, there's a ton of them that have talked about how it's been thoroughly debunked and then they'll quote doctors and scientists that don't list any specific studies, but they'll say, we've done exhaustive studies. They've been thoroughly debunked. They'll say that. And they'll print that. And so is the, is the AI just pulling from so much bullshit online that it like looks through all the noise and this is like 89% say vaccines do not cause autism, therefore it must be true. Or is it programmed? Say, hey, this is what you say, vaccines don't cause autism.
- [136:55]
Aaron Siri
You must hold me in very high regard. You've held me out as an. You helped me to incredibly complex economic questions and now language model questions.
- [137:04]
Joe Rogan
You're a very smart guy.
- [137:05]
Aaron Siri
I appreciate the compliments so far on that score. With that said, I mean, I don't know the answer, but I will speculate cuz I don't know the answer that I'm going to guess. I'm really guessing that it might be a mix of some programming because Google, for example, if you go and you search for Aaron Serie substack, you get Paul offit. Substack.
- [137:39]
Joe Rogan
Why?
- [137:41]
Aaron Siri
How in the world do you get Paul off at substack when you search for mine and mine's like it's not even like on the first page. I don't think it's on the second now. Maybe they fixed that, I don't know. So some of that.
- [137:55]
Joe Rogan
Is that using Google?
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Aaron Siri
That's using Google.
- [137:58]
Joe Rogan
Let's look right now.
- [137:59]
Aaron Siri
Last time I've done it.
- [137:59]
Joe Rogan
Let's go. Let's do it right now. Let's do it right now. Let's do it because have you seen Robert Epstein's work? Robert Epstein's been on my podcast a few times, unfortunately last time name but he has nothing to do with that. He is a data scientist and. Well, I don't know what his original background is, but what he does is he is very vocal about how they're using these coordinated it's very curated search results. And through that, especially during election times, they can take a lot of people that are undecided voters and swing them a very noticeable number number like I forget what the number was, but it's a large percentage. 10%, 20%, something like that. So if you google something about say Hillary Clinton, for instance, during that first election, you would get all these positive articles. If you googled Trump, you would get all these negative articles. And if you, you know, asked it certain things, it would give you things that were completely contrary to that. So you'd look at that first and I think that's you and Paul Offit.
- [138:58]
Aaron Siri
It could be.
- [138:59]
Joe Rogan
Let's find out.
- [138:59]
Aaron Siri
Maybe it's. Maybe it's fixed at this point.
- [139:01]
Joe Rogan
How do you mean a word this. Because that just Aaron series substack.
- [139:04]
Aaron Siri
Yeah, just do Aaron series substack.
- [139:06]
Joe Rogan
Just do that on Google results are.
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Aaron Siri
But while he's pulling that up, I'll add that I saw this might be some of that again I'm on speculation territory. And then separately though.
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Joe Rogan
So it goes right away.
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Aaron Siri
It goes right away to me this
- [139:18]
Joe Rogan
time you know what it is. They got Jamie's data and they know from your metadata, like if you ask a question in a word way, it might come up different. Differently. It's like what?
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Aaron Siri
No, that's what I. That's what I did. Try Aaron Siri injecting freedom substack. See what happens. Okay. That could be the way we search for it. This episode is brought to you by the focus features film Hamnet.
- [139:42]
Joe Rogan
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Aaron Siri
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- [140:07]
Joe Rogan
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Aaron Siri
I don't see Paul off it in there.
- [140:57]
Joe Rogan
Have you talked about this publicly before?
- [140:58]
Aaron Siri
No, never.
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Joe Rogan
Oh, too bad.
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Aaron Siri
No, I just did. I just. This happened. This was actually literally just a few days ago.
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Joe Rogan
Well, I think one of the things that Robert Epstein, because of being. He's been on my podcast, been on multiple podcasts, but he's been talking about the dangers of these curated search engines engines and how it's essentially election rigging, like you're manipulating a statistically significant number of people to one side or the other. And you could do it by curating search engines.
- [141:24]
Aaron Siri
Well, the experiment we just did might reflect that. My first theory might be less of that. Right. Because look, there it is. It's happenstance. That's why I said I have no idea. I'm speculating. But it could be pre. It could not.
- [141:38]
Joe Rogan
It could be also your own algorithm because maybe you were searching for Paul offsetting off it. Maybe you had googled Paul Offit's full of just before that.
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Aaron Siri
I don't need to Google that. That's not. I don't need to. I've had.
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Joe Rogan
I don't know when they've added this, but they've. They definitely added on the screen what they call personalization for these results. Aha. Results are personalized. Try without personalization. That could have something interesting. Well, let's try it without personalization. Let's see if it changes. Well, I'm already done a different route. Oh, you already put Paul Offit in there. Start searching for.
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Aaron Siri
Okay, so if you do without personality, doesn't delete the prior one.
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Joe Rogan
Interesting. Personalized. It knows you're a right winger, started using AI a long time ago, but knows you're a radical.
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Aaron Siri
But I would, I would, I would speculate that the probably bigger component is the who's got. Again, it comes back to who's got the money to understand how these AI algorithms work and to maybe put the stuff out there that it's going to most likely read from. I mean, when you do AI, you, you can get that. I see that like crazy scroll of all the things it's looking at. Right, right. So if I've got, if I am a pharma company and I've got a multi billion dollar budget every year to influence and to market and so forth, I'm going to deploy that in the way that's probably the most effective. One of the things I probably would do is maybe do the things that would influence the results on AI potentially.
- [143:03]
Joe Rogan
Yeah, I would do. Especially if there's no regulations. That's the weird thing about curating search engines. If it's like your search engine, you can kind of do whatever you want. Especially if your company like wasn't it like one of the major tech companies after Donald Trump won in 2016 that had meeting. They were like, we can't let this happen again. Was that Facebook or Google? Do you remember, Jamie? It was like very famous that people were like, what are you talking about you. Why? What? How can you say that? How could you even say that? Even if you, you're right, like the idea that you can somehow stop someone from being elected if the public wants that person to be elected because you disagree with it is kind of a crazy thing to say out loud.
- [143:47]
Aaron Siri
Well, you know, I'm thinking more about your question. So when we found that thing with Paul Offit. We found that thing with Paul Offit a few days ago. My social media manager. I've got a lot of folks at my law firm and we have somebody who does like Google AdWords stuff and SEO stuff. Stuff. And then we have another guy who does the, the web related stuff. I know they did some things and maybe with my little measly budget it had that effect. And so Matt, so if that would go to my second point, that with enough dollar and, and who cares about my. I mean I don't think pharma cares about my substack. Trust me, they're not scared of my subset.
- [144:24]
Joe Rogan
Well, I don't know about that because even if you don't have a ton of subscribers, it's still out there. And all it takes is one podcast appearance like this one, and people go there and then all it takes is one investigative reporter to talk about it, to get a. It's a weird time for all right,
- [144:45]
Aaron Siri
well, let's see if two weeks from now it goes back.
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Joe Rogan
Yeah, they'll never put it back. They'll never put it back. But if you guys did do something about it, that does make sense that they corrected it and you complained about it.
- [144:56]
Aaron Siri
Well, no, I Think that, you know, they had brought up doing, like, keywords and stuff like that, because I did. There was some emails about. I remember trying to fix it. I'm amazed that it looks like it did.
- [145:07]
Joe Rogan
Well, I still don't want that smoke.
- [145:09]
Aaron Siri
You know, maybe it's, you know, it just kind of.
- [145:12]
Joe Rogan
They just need to be, yeah, shine light on it. It's the best. Disinfection, sunlight. I. I just don't like the idea of curated search engines. It's really spooky. It's. It's no different to me than curating information on social media platforms based on whatever your ideology is. Like, I don't think think you should be able to do that in terms of, like, I don't think the company should be able to tell you you can't see certain things. And YouTube was terrible about that. During the pandemic, all the things that turned out to be true could have got you banned from YouTube. The lab leak theory kicked off. You know, the fact that the vaccines, even if you get vaccinated, you still can catch COVID Remember, that was a breakthrough infection. It was extremely rare. Extremely rare. Breakthrough infection. Infection. Never heard of it.
- [145:57]
Aaron Siri
Yeah.
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Joe Rogan
And now it's everybody, Literally everybody. And then it became this weird. Everybody did these weird mental gymnastics where they started repeating, oh, but it stops hospitalization and death. And like, what. What are you talking about? You never said that before. You are saying that. They were saying it stops hospitalization and death. And you don't even have anything to gain here. You just don't want to be wrong about your decision to get injected and to promote it, which is nuts. It's like people are doing the man's work for the man. They've signed up as volunteers in the propaganda army and shaming all the people that didn't go along with it and never apologizing. No one wants to apologize for calling people plague rats and telling people that they should have their children taken away from them. Nutty, weird, dystopian shit.
- [146:47]
Aaron Siri
They don't realize that they are the. They are creating more vaccine hesitancy with that kind of conduct than anything that you and I could do on this podcast at all. Because, you know, and like they say, you know, the CDC webpage on vaccines and autism has now been updated, and it says now that there's effectively no studies to show the vaccines in the first six months of life do not cause autism. It now says that. And that we have missed that. The CDC has misled the public on that score and people trashed the Mainstream media trash Bobby for that while instead of celebrating it as an opportunity to correct course of transparency. Honestly, people are more likely to trust our federal health agencies when they're honest, when they're apologized, when they're willing to admit mistakes. They're not there yet, though, unfortunately, no,
- [147:36]
Joe Rogan
because it's still a part of their political ideology. It's a part of their clan. And they don't even think about it. They don't look into it. They don't read any studies, they don't read any synopsis of any studies. They just go full bore ahead. It's been thoroughly debunked and they'll argue with you. It's been thoroughly debunked. It's all nonsense.
- [147:56]
Aaron Siri
You know how many depositions I've taken of vaccinologists, pediatricians, infectious disease experts and immunologists where I will say something about this? You know, these studies show that, for example, the studies show that children that have had cancer and measles have lower rate of cancers. And they'll go, ah, that's just nonsense. Those studies are just junk. I'll say, have you read the studies? Have you seen them? No. See, but they knew already. They've already reached that a priori conclusion. I remember in my deposition not to go back to autism of Dr. Edwards, where I said to her, you have any studies that show the Hep B vaccine does not cause autism? She said, no. I said, but there is a study that shows three times rate of autism amongst kids that didn't get Hep B vaccine. And she says, well, I don't think that's not a good study. I said, what study is that? She goes, why don't you show me the study? Because she hadn't read it. She doesn't know. Why didn't you show me the study? Because it doesn't fit within the belief system, unfortunately, when it comes to this. And it's so easy because like you said, all you got to do is just say they're just an anti vaxxer and you're done.
- [149:09]
Joe Rogan
Exactly, exactly. And it's all. When you have a company like whatever company it is, whether it's Google or Facebook or whatever, and that company operates on an ideology that's not grounded in reality, and then they enforce it across their platform, it's very frustrating and really nutty to watch. And just thank God there exists some alternative, like you would need a. You need a crazy person worth a ton of money like Elon to just go and buy it and then also show, hey, it's still the number one platform for distributing information in the same
- [149:43]
Aaron Siri
way that what what Elon did for social media. If he could do that for search, that'd be great. But I think search is dying. I don't think search is. Yeah AI is going to take over. I don't see.
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Joe Rogan
I hardly ever search things anymore.
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Aaron Siri
Everybody goes to AI these days from
- [149:58]
Joe Rogan
what I could see because I can ask a question question like how did this come about? I could, I could ask follow ups. Are there any dissenting opinions? I. I love doing that.
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Aaron Siri
It's good but it also requires less thinking. So it's bad in that regard. But yes.
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Joe Rogan
Well it depends on how you're using it. When I'm using it is usually when I'm writing, I'm writing about a certain subject. I'm like well who. Who are the first people to discover these Aztec pyramids? You know I'll get into something like that. Like what were they looking for? Like you know what I mean? And like you could. It's almost like you're talking to an expert. So instead of it being like something that I use to think for me it's like a super smart friend I'm bouncing questions off of and you could find so much about things so quickly as opposed to having to go through article after article after article and like. And that's what I'm looking for. What did court, how did he trick those people and to give them up their land? There's only 600 of them. How'd they do that? You know like you need to like AI is fantastic for that kind of shit but if you're using it all day like a lot of kids in my school, my kids schools are getting busted it for writing papers that are 100 AI like they were a seventh grade.
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Aaron Siri
It's like PhD genius level paper. Yeah.
- [151:10]
Joe Rogan
And it's 12 year olds are wizards.
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Aaron Siri
Yeah.
- [151:12]
Joe Rogan
It's hilarious. It's.
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Aaron Siri
It's not good.
- [151:14]
Joe Rogan
I mean you saw that's not good.
- [151:15]
Aaron Siri
You saw those studies that came out. I don't again not my area but. And I don't know, I've only read the abstracts. I don't, I don't know but that the more that technology has been adopted into classrooms it appears the more detrimental it has been on actually the markers of what you would consider an educated or education or intelligence 100% it's a distraction.
- [151:37]
Joe Rogan
There's no way it could be Good. You're on TikTok all day.
- [151:40]
Aaron Siri
But if you're using AI the one thing I will say Depending on the topic, but you probably should do it for all topics is never just rely on the output. You got to ask, show me the primary source and look at it yourself. It's so critical in every area, especially
- [151:52]
Joe Rogan
if it's something controversial. I mean generally I'm asking questions about something I'm looking up that's not that controversial in terms of like whether or not it's argued.
- [152:00]
Aaron Siri
You ever look up yourself? No, no.
- [152:03]
Joe Rogan
Jesus Christ. I don't look up myself ever because I don't want to know. I don't want to know people's opinions, I don't want to know what it thinks of me. I couldn't care less. I think it's much better to just keep on going. If you're in a public eye, including you. Now everyone is subject to an opinion and there's certain opinions that are just. They're not people that you would ever want to talk to and those kind of people exist. There's going to be shitty people out there and their opinion written down looks just like your opinion. Better to not have any of it. Better to not watch any videos. Better to not listen to anything. Just be a good internal judge. Be objective about your own self and be self critical to the point where it's healthy and leave it alone. I was watching like I was talking this the other day, I was watching this lady who's this very boring, not very exciting lady talking about how bad the Beatles were and I was like, you should shut the up. Like no, the Beatles are incredible. You're just a, you're just a dull brained dork just wandering through life spread. But you're allowed to, you're allowed to have those opinions. It's like good luck finding a bunch of people that agree with you. But you're allowed to try. But I don't want to be a part of it. I don't want to be washing, swimming through opinions all day long. I don't think it's healthy.
- [153:24]
Aaron Siri
Yeah, but I, I do think facing the opinions and the views, substantive opinions, views of those that don't agree with you is an important exercise in life and in any, in every area frankly. I mean when it comes to the work that I do, I welcome having debates with those who claim they are the vaccine experts.
- [153:47]
Joe Rogan
Well, we're talking about a very different kind of thing than looking at yourself. Yeah, you're looking up hard line data and it's very important what you do because it's crazy to say that being honest in this regard is courageous, but it is courageous because. Because I've seen you attacked, I've seen crazy shit that people said about you. And it's like, good Lord, are you paying attention to what he's actually saying? Or like. Or are you some bot from somewhere, some fucking bot farm in Vietnam that's been hired to push a narrative? I don't know. But there's a reality to data that's undeniable, that needs to be promoted. And I think that's what you're doing. There's a reality to the data. You really. I don't imagine a whole lot of people are lining up to debate you about this.
- [154:39]
Aaron Siri
Well, Paul Offit and I had an exchange on the Internet. First we had it on Twitter, in person in Twitter. No, he won't do it. So we had it on Twitter.
- [154:46]
Joe Rogan
Yeah, that's what you're talking about.
- [154:47]
Aaron Siri
And then he moved it onto substack and it's all there. It's a great exchange. And I've offered him, and not just to be clear, not like a gotcha debate, debate. I've offered him to have a debate where we each get 10 minutes. 10 minutes. 10 minutes. And we each get to present the evidence. So we have a screen, we can put up our evidence and we can go back and forth with equal amount of time so nobody's talking over each other. It's civil and it's based on the substance. I've offered him to do that, but the truth is I don't need to debate him. I've already debated the world's reading vaccinologist, Dr. Stanley Plotkin, at a nine hour deposition. People talk about we should have a vaccine debate. Well, I've done that. It's nine hours, it's all on Internet and you can watch it. And when my client put it out there and it ended up on YouTube, this was many years ago, it had like millions of views at one point. And then YouTube took it off and then people keep putting it back on and it's just a deposition. It just keeps coming back and forth and back and forth.
- [155:45]
Joe Rogan
Why are they YouTube? Leave it up. Stop.
- [155:48]
Aaron Siri
Well, I don't know if they're still taking it down right now.
- [155:50]
Joe Rogan
I hope now the climate change used
- [155:53]
Aaron Siri
to take it on and down. And so, And I've, you know, and I've done Senate hearings where they've. But those vaccinologists, they don't want to show up anymore.
- [155:59]
Joe Rogan
I offered Peter Hotez that opportunity on the podcast and I told him I would donate a hundred thousand dollars to whatever charity of his choice. And he, like, mocked that number as being insignificant. I'm like, well, tell me what the fucking number is. Like, just come on. And I was gonna have him and RFK Jr cause he was talking about me having RFK Jr on. They're saying a bunch of lies. And like. Well, instead of saying that. And I think he. God, I forget what term he used for me. I'm like, peter, you've been on my podcast twice. So what the fuck are you talking about? Like, why are you behaving like this? This is crazy. What did he call me? Like it was something about some alt right adjacent or neo fascist adjacent.
- [156:45]
Aaron Siri
The point is, it was ad hominem instead of substance.
- [156:47]
Joe Rogan
Exactly.
- [156:48]
Aaron Siri
You gave him an opportunity to show he was right in front of the world. He is the vaccinologist. Bobby, just a lawyer, obviously will drool on himself, like, debate him.
- [156:59]
Joe Rogan
And I remember after he did that, he had said all this stuff about me because Bobby was on the podcast. And it was one of the rare times that I have to go after that I ever go after anyone on Twitter. But I was like, stop.
- [157:12]
Aaron Siri
I remember this.
- [157:13]
Joe Rogan
Why are you saying that? This is stupid.
- [157:14]
Aaron Siri
And I remember a whole bunch of people added in, like, they were willing to add. I thought it was over. I forgot the number. It was in like a million, two million.
- [157:21]
Joe Rogan
It was in the millions.
- [157:22]
Aaron Siri
Willing to. And he still would not sit down and do it. And the argument that you'll often hear is they'll say, well, I'm not good at debating. It's, you know, he's a lawyer. He'll use lawyer tricks.
- [157:32]
Joe Rogan
Peter Hotez is a lawyer.
- [157:34]
Aaron Siri
No, no, no, no.
- [157:35]
Joe Rogan
He's a lawyer. Bobby.
- [157:35]
Aaron Siri
Bobby's a lawyer. Or they'll say that he's a lawyer, or I'm a lawyer, you know, and what they don't. But, you know, data wins. Exactly. The substance.
- [157:45]
Joe Rogan
And I would let that. Data win.
- [157:46]
Aaron Siri
The substance should win.
- [157:48]
Joe Rogan
I want you. If you're right, I want to know. Like, I don't fucking know. You tell me.
- [157:51]
Aaron Siri
I'm willing to debate Peter Hotez here any day.
- [157:54]
Joe Rogan
I don't think he's going to do it.
- [157:55]
Aaron Siri
I'll fit any of them. They can all. In fact, Stanley Plotkin just wrote me a letter after all these years, after I deposit him first time ever. Wrote me a letter.
- [158:03]
Joe Rogan
Really?
- [158:03]
Aaron Siri
What'd he say? He said, I heard you wrote a book. I heard you wrote a book. And your deposition went very, very long, and I wasn't prepared enough. He's the world's leading vaccinologist and I will be credited with saving millions and you will go down in history as the one who's harmed and killed children. That's what he wrote me, a letter and I wrote him back a response and I said, Look, I said, Dr. Plock, and I said, thank you for your letter. I appreciate that you're writing me finally because I've reached out to him before, one time at least. And I said, look, I said, I, I think we can agree on one thing. We want to save as many children as possible. I want to save children from infectious disease. That's important, I agree. But I also want to save children from the harm from these products. They matter too. They're not just there shouldn't be accepted casualties. The tens of thousands of families have contacted my law firm. Devastating harms from these products, they matter too. And I said, let's work together, let's work constructively. I said, because look, at the end of the day, if you don't address this, if you don't address this issue, I said, history is not going to remember you for the good. History is going to remember you for all the harm you caused. Because when people look back in history at products that cause devastating harm, which vaccines can do, they don't remember the good those products did. They remember the harms that people ignored, that were overlooked and those were just cast aside. I said, that will be your legacy. I said, but there's time to correct. He hasn't written me back, so. Of course he hasn't. I posted both letters on my sub stack and I tweeted them out. So this way I figured they could do some good that way. So they're available to everybody to read.
- [159:46]
Joe Rogan
Well, I think it's a very unique time that this message can get out there because what they did when they removed liability and they gave them blanket protection like that, they, they opened up the door to a bunch of people that really don't give a about you. They just want to make as much money as possible. There's the scientists, this is what I always describe, like these companies, you've got the people that are making these drugs, you've got these really interesting, brilliant scientists and then you have the fucking money people. And the money people don't give a shit. They just want to make more money and they're both together. So you have this weird contradictory world where you have like some amazing pharmaceutical drugs that helped so many people and kept people alive and cured diseases and then you got the money people who want everybody to get shot up because it's going to make them more money. And those two working together is a very bad mixture. Especially when you have mandates. Then you mandate that these people have to be able to inject you and inject your children with this thing. That's going to make them money and they have zero liability. Like, how could that possibly go? Well, knowing what you know about human beings, who would sign off on that?
- [161:04]
Aaron Siri
I don't know.
- [161:04]
Joe Rogan
That's crazy.
- [161:06]
Aaron Siri
You know, I had a business idea for you.
- [161:08]
Joe Rogan
Okay.
- [161:08]
Aaron Siri
Wanna hear it?
- [161:08]
Joe Rogan
Sure.
- [161:09]
Aaron Siri
It's a great business idea. Hey, listen, we're gonna sell this product, okay? We're gonna make.
- [161:12]
Joe Rogan
Let's go.
- [161:12]
Aaron Siri
Okay, we can, it's, we can inject it into people. Are you worried it's gonna hurt people?
- [161:17]
Joe Rogan
Well, I'm a little worried until I want to hear your story first.
- [161:19]
Aaron Siri
But don't worry, don't worry, don't worry, don't worry about it. Because governments can give us immunity, liability, no matter how many people we hurt, a couple kill. Okay?
- [161:26]
Joe Rogan
How'd you work that out?
- [161:27]
Aaron Siri
Yeah, I know. Now, now the weird part is you might be saying to me, you say, aaron, Aaron, wait a second. But, but who the hell shouldn't take that? And I'll say, joe, don't worry, the government's going to mandate it too. And you might say, okay, but what do people rise up? And I'll say, joe, don't worry, they're going to spend billions convincing the public it's the best thing since sliced bread. And then you're going to say, but, but what if people still don't wanna pay for it? And I'll say, don't worry, the government, through a program, literally pays for half of all vaccine, guarantees payment to the pharma companies, even if people cannot pay.
- [162:04]
Joe Rogan
So sounds like a good investment.
- [162:06]
Aaron Siri
No liability, guaranteed market, free promotion, guaranteed payment. It's the most. If it wasn't vaccines, you'd say, it's insane. It is insane. And that is the business model of vaccines.
- [162:19]
Joe Rogan
That literally is what I just said.
- [162:22]
Aaron Siri
So you're right, it's perverse. But this thing that you're just saying before about like the money men who want to just make money, like, look, we live in a capitalist system where we have tapped into that self interest, but we try to harness it for good. So every company has that to some degree. You know, people have that to some degree. But the idea with capitalism is, yeah, but you gotta channel that and you gotta do good, you gotta do a good product, you gotta do a good service. You gotta do something positive. And if you. And if you don't, you'll be held accountable. So it's. It's at. It's got guardrails. It's got guardrails.
- [163:00]
Joe Rogan
Yes.
- [163:01]
Aaron Siri
So, you know, it's. It's, you know. Cause I, you know, people are like. Well, what are you saying? Like, people are sitting there in the farm, coming with horns and evil. No, they're just. But they're just. They don't have guardrails, and they've gone totally. You know, they've gone totally off the rail. Do you like my business idea?
- [163:16]
Joe Rogan
It's a great idea. Let me talk to my lawyer first, because I don't want to go to jail.
- [163:21]
Aaron Siri
Well, you're right.
- [163:23]
Joe Rogan
I was thinking of saying, society, I get locked up for the rest of my life, especially if it killed a bunch of people, which is really crazy that none of these people do wind up going to jail. They pay giant criminal fines, and then they slip away. I mean, look at the Sackler family. They haven't been jailed.
- [163:37]
Aaron Siri
Right.
- [163:38]
Joe Rogan
Wasn't there, like, they were going to get immunity in favor of, like, $6 billion or something crazy. But then a judge kind of put the kibosh on that after Painkiller, the Netflix docudrama came out.
- [163:50]
Aaron Siri
Yeah. And then critically, too, I would say. It's like, remember during the bank crisis, there were the banks that were too big to fail, so they want to touch those. The Sackler family, to me, it's like the smaller bank that they could. There was. I mean, it was bad, but they could sacrifice the. Them. They could sacrifice that pharma company. Are they going to sacrifice Merck, Sanofi, Pfizer, gsk, any of those guys? Are they going to sac? Are they really going to sacrifice them at the end of the day, no matter how much harm they do? I don't know. It's hard to see it.
- [164:24]
Joe Rogan
Well, listen, I'm glad you're out there, and I'm glad you can articulate these points so clearly and passionately, because people need to hear it. They need to know what the actual data is, what the actual story is about, all of it. And it's better for all of us. And as hard as it is a pill to swallow, people need to get that glass of water and start swallowing. So thank you very much. Thanks for being here. I really enjoyed it. And tell everybody your book. Did you do an audio version of it?
- [164:52]
Aaron Siri
I did.
- [164:53]
Joe Rogan
Did you read it?
- [164:53]
Aaron Siri
I did.
- [164:54]
Joe Rogan
Oh, how much work was it?
- [164:56]
Aaron Siri
Oh, my gosh. Oh, my gosh. That was a lot. I did. I didn't. I didn't. I thought I could read, by the way. I was like, I could read. Yeah, it's reading. And then I realized. But I had to read the book. It was like I couldn't read anymore.
- [165:08]
Joe Rogan
Oh, that's.
- [165:09]
Aaron Siri
Oh, my gosh. Did you have to ever have to read an audiobook?
- [165:11]
Joe Rogan
No, but I do ads for the podcast, and Jamie will tell you, I'm always like. I'm always fucking up sentences, then you got to redo them. It's brutal.
- [165:19]
Aaron Siri
Yeah, talk.
- [165:20]
Joe Rogan
Just talking is fine. But when you have to read out loud, like, your tongue gets all tripped up.
- [165:26]
Aaron Siri
And I'm like, I go to federal court. I can argue. I go to Senate hearings. I can, like. I'm, like, telling the audio guy, because we're in the studio alone, I'm like, I really am. I think I'm you. I. It might seem like a total moron, but I probably am a moron. But I'm just a little bit of a lot. I don't know. I felt like such a moron.
- [165:44]
Joe Rogan
Yeah. I have kids that have read their own books and feel the exact same way.
- [165:47]
Aaron Siri
It was so painful. Oh, my goodness. It's like. But I did it. It's done. It's out there on Audible and the books on Amazon.
- [165:56]
Joe Rogan
All right, Aaron, thank you very much. It was an honor and a pleasure
- [165:59]
Aaron Siri
having you in here.
- [166:00]
Joe Rogan
I really appreciate it.
- [166:01]
Aaron Siri
Thank you.
- [166:02]
Joe Rogan
Thank you. Goodbye, everybody.