Joe Rogan Quotes

I am discounting the reports of UFOs. Why would they appear only to cranks and weirdos?

We have Internet now and people are not stupid. But it seems that some people are trying to push the same agenda of the Cold War of conspiracy theories and amazing achievements that are very easily traced and validated.

Conspiracy theories are an irresistible labor-saving device in the face of complexity.

A typical National World Weekly would tell the world how Jesus' face was seen on a Big Mac bun bought by someone from Des Moines, with an artist's impression of the bun; how Elvis Presley was recently sighted working in a Burger Lord in Des Moines; how listening to Elvis records cured a Des Moines housewife's cancer; how the spate of werewolves infesting the Midwest are the offspring of noble pioneer women raped by Bigfoot; and that Elvis was taken by Space Aliens in 1976 because he was too good for this world. Remarkably, one of these stories is indeed true.

Francis Wheen takes a hugely enjoyable sweep through the tangled thickets of superstition and gullibility in which modern man likes to ramble. He takes particular delight in reminding us how easily fools are parted from their money and how many of them there are.

the greatest American superstition was belief in facts.

Pseudoscience and nonsense …

You might not believe me, but I really don't like conspiracy theories.

I'm disturbed when people let superstition, magical thinking, extreme conspiracy theories and so on blur their minds.

Conspiracies and all the theories of conspiracy are a part of the canon of fakes. And I'm involved, in all of my writings, the theoretical ones as well as the novels, with the production of fakes.

In some corner of the world they are probably still holding regular meetings of the Flat Earth Society. We derive no comfort because important people, vocal people, or great numbers of people agree with us. Nor do we derive comfort if they don't.

If smart people are parodying it, that's a sure sign that some less smart people are believing it.

The best defence against bullshit is vigilance. So if you smell something, say something.

Science literacy is a vaccine against the charlatans of the world that would exploit your ignorance.

You have to tease enough misinformation and lack of information to hopefully make people want more.

The imprimatur of truthfulness does not guarantee truthfulness. People should know better. But they don't.

For those that have said I seemed dickish to some of the nuttier guests on Joe Rogan Questions Everything - guilty as charged. As the season wore on I lost my patience with some of those folks unfortunately. I think I overdosed on ridiculous/likely fake stories. I certainly learned a lot about the kind of people that invest a large portion of their life on fringe subjects - they're all white. I think there's something interesting about the subjects, (UFOS, etc) but the study of them has often been overrun by silly thinking.

Though the Americans can be fooled, as they have been, and they can be propagandized, as they have been... But, as Lincoln said, "You can fool all of the people some of the time, and some of the people all of the time. But you can't fool all of the people all of the time." And so hope lies in the fact that little by little, even if the American people can be fooled, even if they continue to be fooled in the 2004 presidential election, they will gradually learn, as they have learned - for instance, in the Vietnam War and turned against the Vietnam War.

Bullshit is unavoidable whenever circumstance require someone to talk without knowing what he is talking about.

This isn't the old days where you can just say stuff and people will believe it.

In some aspects of alternative medicine we are fighting an almost medieval belief in magic but debunking such beliefs is like telling people that the tooth fairy is sniffing glue.

Let us never tolerate outrageous conspiracy theories.

Enormous numbers of people are taken in, or at least beguiled and fascinated, by what seems to me to be unbelievable hocum, and relatively few are concerned with or thrilled by the astounding-yet true-facts of science, as put forth in the pages of, say, Scientific American.

Because I've heard so many stories that I don't know which one is the most popular. But I do know which is the least popular. The truth.

Many people believe everything others say, even though what they see with their own eyes, should be enough to tell them otherwise.