Episode #585: August 8, 2021

Topics covered:

• Alex reports on and embellishes the comments of a German pathologist

• Alex is terrified of the infrastructure bill

• The infrastructure bill does include impaired driving reduction initiatives

• Alex is mad, and a little bit racist, about Obama’s 60th birthday party

• Alex misrepresents comments made by Dr. Fauci about how local mandates will be likely after the Covid vaccines achieve full FDA approval. Instead of using a primary source for the story, Alex reports on a website from Nigeria that was just reposting the content of a USA Today article

• The Paul Ehrlich who co-authored Ecoscience with John P. Holdren is not the same Paul Ehrlich for whom the Paul Ehrlich Institute is named. Alex does not know this and thinks they are the same person

• The scientist who authored the paper Joe Rogan discussed said that Rogan completely misunderstood the paper

• Alex decided that maybe the whole martial law thing isn’t going to start on August 11 after all