> This is why you shouldn't get your medical advice from Joe Rogan. I mean, you should never really take advice from any expert that isn't sitting in front of

> This is why you shouldn't get your medical advice from Joe Rogan. I mean, you should never really take advice from any expert that isn't sitting in front of you, imo. Podcasts exist to gather views and often incorporate bias and misinformation in various forms to achieve those ends. They're no different from listening to Tucker Carlson or Rachel Maddow in terms of information quality; they may interview SMEs but at the end of the day the way they interview them and the subjects they focus on matter much more if you're not a discerning person on a given subject. When I listen to podcasts, even ones that try to give good information like Freakonomics, I always listen to them for entertainment first. It's like maintaining boundaries with your information sources.