Noted Asshole Joe Rogan Touts "Theory" (Popular W. Assholes) That Magnetic Fields Are REAL Problem [View all]

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A clip of celebrity podcaster Joe Rogan touting a conspiracy theory that links global warming to Earth’s magnetic field has gone viral on TikTok, despite the platform’s new policy prohibiting climate misinformation, a new report warns. It’s the latest report to highlight how Big Tech companies continue to fuel false and misleading claims about climate change online, an issue that some experts say has become a top threat to the global effort to curb rising temperatures.

The report, released last week by watchdog nonprofit Media Matters for America, identified seven TikTok videos promoting the so-called “Adam and Eve” theory, which purports without evidence that shifts in Earth’s magnetic poles have long caused massive swings in the planet’s climate and other catastrophic events of the past, including the floods referenced in the biblical tale of Noah’s Ark. The videos, which garnered more than 20 million views on the popular social media platform between January and April, according to the report, include clips from a Jan. 18 episode of “The Joe Rogan Experience” podcast, in which Rogan uses that conspiracy theory to downplay the climate crisis and calls efforts to address it “a moot point.”

Climate change is “this narrative that just gets repeated over and over and over and this fear mongering and everyone gets freaked out,” Rogan tells his guest, YouTuber Jimmy Corsetti, in the episode. “If the f***ing magnetic poles might shift and we might get hit by a giant rock from space, we might have bigger problems.”

Taken from a book written in 1965 by Chan Thomas, who worked in the aerospace industry and claimed to be a psychic, the “Adam and Eve” theory claims that Earth’s magnetic poles shift every several thousand years. That shift in turn causes cataclysmic events, Thomas claimed, such as tsunamis that destroy civilizations and drastically alter Earth’s geology. Thomas titled his book “The Adam and Eve Story,” hence the name of the theory.

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