What are UFOs and UAPs?
Joe Rogan & I break it down in 13 minutes here.
Extraterrestrial spacecraft?
Russian/Chinese drones?
Ordinary objects: balloons, flares, planes, birds, blimps, Venus, meteors, space junk, satellites, swamp gas, ball lightning, ice crystals, lens flares...?
University presidents everywhere need to embrace this simple statement by Ben Sasse, President of the University of Florida:
"At the University of Florida, we have repeatedly, patiently explained two things to protesters: We will always defend your rights to free speech and free…
People compare Hamas to Nazis.
That's not fair.
Nazis knew killing Jews was wrong.
That's why they did it in secret, mostly in Poland at isolated death camps (Auschwitz, Majdanek, Treblinka, Sobibor, Chelmno, Belzec).
At war's end covered over their crimes, burned documents,…
There are 1.8 billion Muslims in the world.
There are 50 majority Muslim nations in the world.
There are 16.1 million Jews in the world.
There is 1 Jewish nation in the world.
Do not Jews have the same right to nationhood as everyone else?
The claim
@joerogan
& guests are "intentionally spreading misinformation" is wrong: they don't think what they're saying is misinformation—They think they have a valid point. They may be wrong but that's different. Instead of accusing them of lying explain why facts say otherwise
Dear
@PeterHotez
I encourage you to debate
@RobertKennedyJr
on
@joerogan
on vaccines, autism, Covid, cell phones & cancer & all the rest. I did a 3.5 hour debate on Joe's show—he's a stand-up guy & will absolutely be fair & give you the time you need. Podcasts are the new media…
Why would anyone fake a hate crime?
@MrAndyNgo
nails it: "Because of the mainstreaming of academia’s victimhood culture, we are now in a place where we place more value on being a victim than on being heroic, charitable, or even kind."
"Why are the BLM supporters, climate extremists, academic feminists, and trans activists so quick to side with Hamas? Why are those who champion women’s reproductive rights so quick to align themselves with a Hamas-controlled Gaza where women lack the right to drive, let alone…
Dear YouTube: I’ve watched dozens of
@prageru
@DennisPrager
videos. I agree with 50% of them, unsure about 25%, & disagree with 25%. Please adjust your algorithms so that I only see the ones I agree with, demonetize the uncertain ones, & ban the disagreeable videos. Thank you.
I've read
@jordanbpeterson
's 2 books, listened to many of his lectures & read most critiques of him. I have yet to find anything indicating he's a white supremacist, racist, bigot, misogynist, anti-Semite, etc. If you're looking to demonize someone you've got the wrong guy.
"Like many other old-fashioned liberals, I’d mistakenly perceived the social-justice phenomenon as a moral extrapolation of the civil-rights movement. In time, I realized that what I was really doing was signal-boosting the values of far-left academics seeking to destroy liberal…
This sickens me & it should everyone. 10x nationals, 3x Olympics, 3x worlds, 2x TdF cyclist Inga Thompson who survived breast cancer & a double mastectomy is canned by her team for defending women's rights in sports (no biological males—duh).
@ithompsonfdn
Israel tells Palestinians to evacuate Gaza because they don't want to kill innocent people.
Hamas orders Palestinians to remain in place as human shields because they don't care if innocent Palestinians die.
See the difference?
If you think
@jordanbpeterson
/ 12 Rules for Life explains the New Zealand massacre you've lost your mind. If you think Cambridge U students would be harmed hearing Jordan's ideas, you shouldn't be in the education business. This is getting insane & has to stop.
"Israel is committing genocide"
—every critic
“You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means”
—Inigo Montoya
Genocide: “the destruction of a nation or of an ethnic group” or “a coordinated plan of different actions aiming at the destruction of…
"He" won the women's race. People can identify however they want but in a sport with divisions for male & female if a biological male enters & wins the female division, it's unfair. Accuse me of misgendering but it doesn't change the outcome. This is wrong
Why has college tuition has increased more than other goods & services over the past half century? Here's one reason:
For 16,937 students Stanford lists 2,288 faculty & 15,750 administrative staff.
As with Twitter, It would be interesting to fire half admin & see what happens.
A biological male entering a female division in most sports is unfair, unethical and a form of cheating no different than doping with testosterone injections, steroids, human growth hormone, EPO, etc., no matter how much he feels like a she (or a ze feels like a zer). It's wrong!
With 9.2 million views you'd think the MSM would understand the appeal of long-form conversations like this one with
@joerogan
&
@elonmusk
Of all the interesting topics covered in 2.5 hours, a 30-second tote makes the news. It's a great listen. Well done.
Does anyone think this is fair to women to have to compete against men (who identify as women)? Seriously. I'm not asking for a friend. I'm asking because I can't believe anyone would find this acceptable, no matter how ideologically bound they may be.
Men took the top two podium spots in the women's singlespeed category at the Illinois State Cyclocross Championships yesterday.
Tessa (Michael) Johnson took 🥇and "Evelyn" Williamson took 🥈
Thanks to
@usacycling
, men are racing in women's categories all over the US.
To be clear: when
@jk_rowling
says that MTF trans are not women she is simply stating the scientific definition of sex. Biological males produce small gametes (sperm); biological females produce large gametes (eggs). MTF trans cannot produce eggs so by definition are not women
“The campus police did nothing. The dean of students was there and did nothing. There will be no repercussions unless I have something to do with it. I will be pursuing legal action. These people need to face repercussions.”
Go
@Riley_Gaines_
It's time.
The Washington Post deleted & apologized for this Michael Ramirez editorial cartoon.
Of course they did because:
1. it is accurate
2. the Jew-hating readers of the WaPo called the cartoon “racist,” “deeply malicious” & “full of bias & prejudice”
3. anti-Semitism = Leftism
The truth matters.
@jk_rowling
is not only not a transphobe she defends trans rights along with women's rights. The critics fail to recognize conflicting rights issues & pick one over the other. Rowling is defending women's right to their own spaces/sports
There is no "genocide against trans people":
FBI crime stats for 2020: a total of 266 hate crimes against transgender people, 44 murdered. Murder rate of 2.66/100,000 transgender vs. general population of 6.52/100,000.’ In 2021 32 were murdered, so lower:
When I debate Christians, Jews, Creationists, climate deniers etc. they are unfailingly polite, respectful, thoughtful, discerning, & listen to my arguments. Far Left SJWs do not. They simply look for fault & pounce.
@EricRWeinstein
@BretWeinstein
@benshapiro
@RubinReport
You all know I'm not a Trump supporter, but I don't get the argument that if he's re-elected it will be the end of our democracy. How would he do that, exactly?
Trump doesn't control SCOTUS (they refused to hear his case about the 2020 election)
Trump doesn't control state/county…
In more than 30 years of studying pseudoscience I have never encountered anything so far removed from reality. In the WPATH Files here's a discussion of Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID, or Multiple Personalities) for which consent for transitioning must be obtained from each…
For those who support BLM, DEI & other progressive woke causes in which even microaggression words are violence for which safe spaces are needed, why is it acceptable for Hamas to rape women, cut off the heads of babies & murder masses of people? Is it because...they're Jewish?
“After our hospital began offering hormonal interventions” for teens questioning their gender “we began to see that the miracle we had been promised was not happening.”
Some 90% “of our patients were girls”
“the vast majority presented with severe psychiatric conditions.”…
Astonishing admission from the pioneer of research on implicit bias/bigotry/racism, Mahzarin Banaji, that DEI training programs don't work & even hurt. Racist attitudes still exist but much improved since 60s & most don't act on them anyway. End DEI now.
This is not an example of an evolved heritable behavior. This organism was "assigned beaver at birth" and then was exposed to TV nature programs about how beavers are suppose to behave according to the hegemonic beaver patriarchy.
No gloating. No catastrophizing. Trump is not Hitler. Biden is not Stalin. We did not live last 4 years in tyranny. We are not heading for 4 years of socialism. Moderation is no vice. Extremism is no virtue.
Spike in gun sales among American Jews
Why?
Spike in anti-Semitism & death threats against Jews
By whom?
Leftists
Congratulations leftists: you have become tiki-torch wielding, "Jews won't replace us" chanting, far right-adjacent Jew haters.
Announcement:
I've decided to pull back from public life & seek a quiet private existence. To do that I plan to:
1. Go on Oprah to talk about my private life—especially my dysfunctional family.
2. Produce a 6-part Netflix series about my private life. 3. Write a tell-all memoir
Wokeism is a cult. Getting members to disconnect from family is the 1st step in cult brainwashing:
"Musk’s anti-woke sentiments were partly triggered by the decision of his oldest child, Xavier, then 16, to transition. “Hey, I’m transgender, and my name is now Jenna,” she texted…
Say it: "I'm an atheist"
"The more I say I’m an atheist, the more other people will feel comfortable calling themselves atheists. And the stigma will gradually dissolve.
Can you imagine? If we all knew how many of us there are?
It would give everyone permission to be honest…
“sex is binary in all animals. In humans, for example, the frequency of exceptions to the binary is only 0.018%, or 1 person in 5600. That is about the same probability of flipping a nickel and having it land on its edge, but we don’t say “heads, tail, or edge?” when calling a…
This trans woman athlete says there is no evidence whatsoever that men have an advantage over women in sports, ergo men who ID as women should compete in women’s divisions. O-kay, then why not end all women’s sports & just have a single open division? Anyone think this is right?
The ultimate problem of wokeness encapsulated in 7 minutes by
@KonstantinKisin
Does anyone who watches this who considers themselves woke have a rational rebuttal to these arguments about the true nature of human progress (work, produce, create)?
To be clear, listening to the entire
@joerogan
episode with
@RobertKennedyJr
I found at least a dozen claims I think can be refuted (mercury was taken out of vaccines in 2000 & autism rates continued to climb, 5G towers do not degrade immune systems, cell phone energy is not high…
Dear
@billprady
I am not anti-trans. I am pro-women. Where there are no conflicting rights I 100% support trans rights. It's not ok for trans women to enter women's spaces & sports. If you are a post-puberty MTF trans it is not fair to compete against women. Don't you agree?
Instead of these idiotic “debates” I propose that
@RubinReport
devote 1 hour per candidate to make their case to be POTUS then we all record our top 3 preferences. Top 6 move on to 2nd round. Dave has 3 2-person debates, vote, then final round of 3 in studio. Winner take all.
Seems a lot of people want to hear more from
@AndrewYang
after the mic incident at the debate. We created a playlist of short videos where he explains his most important positions:
An LGBTQ Ohio University Student Senate member arrested by OU Police Department on Monday & charged with 3 counts of making false alarms—she reported she received 3 threatening messages. Turns out she sent them herself.
"Does calling for the genocide of Jews violate [your university’s] code of conduct or rules regarding bullying or harassment?"
"It depends on the context"
A good test of a moral principle is its generalizability.
Would they have given the same answer if instead of "Jews" it was…
Please read Thomas Sowell's explanation that income "redistribution" is a fallacy because income was never "distributed" in the first place. Economics 101. The quest for cosmic justice is what clouds peoples' thinking on these matters. Important book.
US Leftist college students:
"Black Lives Matter"
"BIPOC Lives Matter"
"Diversity Equity Inclusion"
"We stand in solidarity with all minorities & denounce bigotry in all forms."
What about the Jews?
"Fuck the Jews"
"Gas the Jews"
"Destroy Israel"
Leftism is hypocritical hate.
Ignore the idiotic criticisms of this "incident"
@daumkeziah
Critics are:
1. Ignorant of what culture is & how it develops (all cultures appropriate).
2. Virtue signaling to each other in a circle jerk of faux moral outrage.
3. Cheerless saps jealous of your joy.
4. Losers.
It is also a "privilege" to be:
attractive
tall
intelligent (general)
gifted (specific)
emotionally/mentally stable
socially intelligent
funny/quick witted
athletic
young (now that I'm middle-aged I realize how "privileged" I was in my youth)
So what?
I wish I was 6-1 instead of…
There is so much wrong with this Johns Hopkins University DEI statement. It is also a privilege to be:
1. born human vs. cattle (except in India)
2. born in the West vs. Somalia
3. born at all vs. the trillions of other sperm-egg options
4. The vast majority of people on this…
The day my wife Jennifer quit the Catholic Church in Germany—you have to opt-out at the courthouse so that they stop withholding money from your paycheck for your previously selected religion (Scientology tried to get in on that—denied). What if the 1 billion+ Catholics all quit?
The kind demeanor of the young man at the end is so admirable. There are so many good people praying on the sidewalks of abortion clinics every day. Grateful for them.
The Joe Rogan Effect
My latest Skeptic column on why censorious responses to controversial claims is not the road to a free society, triggered by the latest protests against
@joerogan
Whenever you hear evidence-free assertions like those made by
@RudyGiuliani
about 100s of thousands of ballots appearing mysteriously in the middle of the night remember Hitchen's Dictum: "That which can asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence."
"Jews will not replace us" —White Supremacists at the Unite the Right rally, Charlottesville
"Gas the Jews" —Palestinian Supremacists rally celebrating Hamas murder of Jews, Sydney Australia
If you go far enough to the Left you end up on the far end of the Right
Even with my libertarian/classical liberal leanings I can't support "parental choice" for vaccines, unless unvaccinated children are not allowed to be in public parks, schools, etc. Unfair to put other children at risk. The freedom to swing your arm ends at my nose.
Here's the 242-pg WPATH Files of revelations that medical professionals had no idea of the consequences of transitioning youth.
E.g.:
Question: Fertility & orgasmic response?
Answer: No one knows.
Result: transition them anyway.
Massive lawsuits coming.
Why would LGBTQ people support Hamas, who would readily throw them off tops of buildings for their "sins"?
My answer: they are confused & mistaken ideologues who see everything through the lens of oppressor & oppressed.
Israel has more power than Hamas so they must be oppressors.
The following three conditions are incompatible:
1. God is Omnipotent (all powerful)
2. God is Omnibenevolent (all good)
3. Evil Exists
1. If God is all powerful, can He not prevent evil from existing?
2. If God is all good, should He not prevent evil from existing?
3. If evil…
Dear
@amrook
transwomen are not women. They’re men. And women are not “assigned” female at birth. They are born female. Treating women this way degrades them, violates their rights, & objectifies them as just body parts. Be pro-women & defend their rights in sports & life.
"Maybe you believe that trans women racing against those assigned female at birth is unfair or wrong. But I truly believe that a ban is much MORE wrong…I don't have an answer, but I know in my gut that this isn't the right decision."
If you don't like "Intellectual Dark Web" call it something else. "Intellectual Free-Thinkers" "The New Enlightenment" "The Intellectual Free Enlightenment" whatever. The name isn't important, nor are the people leading it. It's the idea of free thought that counts.
Sadly, ending the DEI debacle is probably going to take lawsuits that bankrupt colleges into capitulating, because true believers & members of the DEI cult will never admit they were wrong. I wish Matthew Garrett success but am not optimistic.
“You were lied to…and everyone sees it.”
“I can’t stop you from making this process painful for me and my family…but, in the end, I am unbreakable, and you will lose.”
Matthew Garrett, fired by Bakersfield College after opposing its radical DEI agenda, to the trustees:
Liberals/progressives: please heed this observation from a fellow progressive liberal who heads “a socialist think tank focused on analyzing deep structural issues in late capitalist consumer society” & consider why he trusts conservatives more than progressive liberals.
In my 36 years as a climate activist, no conservative who has disagreed with me on climate has ever tried to destroy my career, my home, my relationship, my friendships, my social media accounts, my radio shows, my podcasts or my recreational activities.
People working in the…
If you think Michael Cohen's testimony was explosive, Alex Jones just told
@joerogan
there's an alien base in San Francisco to make intergalactic deals, we took over British government in 1930, government is pumping "astronaut-level" humans with DMT...
The courageous journalist
@MrAndyNgo
faces down Antifa with the one weapon they hate most: a video camera. He gets shot with bear mace in the face. Keep up the good work Andy.
The long-term solution to climate change is not to eliminate people (Ehrlich) or capitalism (Thunberg) but to get poor people rich enough to care about the problem, to transition from burning cow pies, dung & wood, to fossil fuels, to renewables, which takes money & freedom.
"A Harvard University student left a lecture on microaggressions a little early so he could make it to the 'Kill the Jews' rally on time. The University happily hosted the rally for mass murder & rape after being assured that no one would be misgendered."
Wrong.
Poverty is the default.
Poverty doesn’t need an explanation.
It’s what you have if you do nothing.
2nd Law of Thermodynamics/entropy is the ultimate explanation for poverty so wealth results from extropic activity: carving out order from entropy.
Not a zero-sum activity.
There is so much wrong with this Johns Hopkins University DEI statement. It is also a privilege to be:
1. born human vs. cattle (except in India)
2. born in the West vs. Somalia
3. born at all vs. the trillions of other sperm-egg options
4. The vast majority of people on this…
"You have a right to your private lexicon, but you are not entitled to insist that we change our language to suit your whim. And you absolutely have no right to bully and intimidate those who follow common usage and biological reality in their usage of 'woman' as honoured…
When you start the 1st Mars colony
@elonmusk
what documents would you recommend using to establish a governing system? U.S. Constitution/Bill of Rights? Universal Declaration of Human Rights? Humanist Manifesto? Atlas Shrugged? Against the State: An Anarcho-Capitalist Manifesto?
Of 20 Democratic contenders
@TulsiGabbard
&
@AndrewYang
are my two picks to move to the next round, to get a first-impression rose, to make the playoffs (pick a metaphor). Not endorsing anyone—just calling out who I think is the most rational, thoughtful, clear & non-pandering.
"What’s the moral difference between Ms. Huffman’s getting her daughter into college with an SAT score she didn’t earn and Harvard’s institutionally elevating the lower test scores of whites, blacks and Latinos above the higher scores of Asian-Americans?"
“'Freeing Palestine' is a synonym for 'destroying Israel.' That’s what supporters of Palestine mean when they chant, 'From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.' The 'sea', of course, washes against the west coast of Israel."
Jerry Coyne nails it:
Election conspiracy theories are self-refuting: Democrats are so devilishly clever that they coordinated multiple states & hundreds of counties to rig the election for Biden; but so stupid & inept that they forgot to rig taking the Senate & even lost seats in the House. QED.
Lindsay Shepherd
@NewWorldHominin
tells
@RubinReport
she's a left-leaning feminist, environmentalist, believes in universal healthcare who is now thinking about going to the right because they welcome diversity of thought whereas the left doesn't. This helps explain 2016 election
I'm not a Trump fan but I agree with
@RepMeijer
that Section 3 of the 14th Amendment only applies if the person has actually been tried & convicted. But:
"no federal court has found, nor is the Justice Department even alleging, that Trump is guilty of anything close to…
I concur
@bariweiss
"It is time to end DEI for good. No more standing by as people are encouraged to segregate themselves. No more forced declarations that you will prioritize identity over excellence. No more compelled speech. No more going along with little lies for the sake…
This is utterly brilliant. A student accuses
@jk_rowling
of being transphobic. This teacher skilfully dissects the claim and challenges it by asking questions.
He teaches not what to think, but how to think critically.
Watch until the end.
You see the epiphany in real-time.
Dear
@KyleKashuv
I recommend you channel your inner
@jockowillink
& in response to this Harvard rescind you respond "Good"—they don't deserve you. Good—opportunity to attend a better school. Good—we all learned about Harvard's lack of moral depth & the depravity of social media.
1/ THREAD: Harvard rescinded my acceptance.
Three months after being admitted to Harvard Class of 2023, Harvard has decided to rescind my admission over texts and comments made nearly two years ago, months prior to the shooting.
I have some thoughts. Here’s what happened.
To be clear: ANTIFA, an all-white fascist organization, just grew violent and attacked an all-black and Hispanic police force.
Because I, a BLACK woman, was eating breakfast.
Is this the civil rights era all over again?
Question:
Is the "sharp rise in adolescent depression" (and anxiety disorders, eating disorders, suicidal ideation, ADHD, etc.) due to exogenous causes like social media/smart phones, parental coddling, life history theory, etc?
What if the cause is endogenous—an artifact of…
Dear
@KonstantinKisin
As a card-carrying member of the New (and Old) Atheists, for us, God's existence is not a question of pragmatic truth (what works is true), or of mythic truth (pace
@jordanbpeterson
) but of empirical truth (what is actually true).
It may sound appealing…
There is a crisis of meaning and purpose in our post-Christian world. I wonder if the four horsemen of New Atheism who I still so admire would have been quite as keen for tear down religion if they had seen where it would take us in advance?
My take on the Atheism Delusion:
Leviticus 19:33-34 “When a stranger sojourns with you in your land, you shall not do him wrong. You shall treat the stranger who sojourns with you as the native among you, and you shall love him as yourself, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt"
Gunung Padang on West Java oldest pyramidal structure in the world at 16,000-27,000 years BP.
Astonishing.
I acknowledge
@Graham__Hancock
's "stuff keeps getting older" principle.
It would seem human history is vastly deeper & richer than we ever realized.
“My boyfriend could basically walk in tomorrow, identify as a female, compete, & the next day go back to being a man again. No proof, no ID required, just basically going on how you feel that day or whatever gender you want”
Does anyone think this fair?
I disagree w/
@MattWalshBlog
here. The current trans phenomena did not follow immediately on the heels of the feminist movement (which was decades ago); it exploded on the scene a few years ago, likely the result of GenZ mental issues (depression, anxiety etc.) + social contagion…
So-called “gender critical” feminists like
@HJoyceGender
fail to understand how feminism itself set the stage for trans ideology. The trans mania never would have taken hold of our society without feminists setting the stage for it.
YouTube deleted the episode of
@jordanbpeterson
with
@RobertKennedyJr
Why? I listened to it. He is a POTUS candidate with a POV. Does
@YouTube
think we're so dumb that we can't think for ourselves if we hear something they take issue with? Stop censoring!