If you tuned in last night, you saw me lose my mind over a graph. Not because the graph was wrong, but because millions of people are being fed a complete misinterpretation of it by someone who seemingly can’t distinguish between a timeframe of 200 years and 485 million years. We also covered the absolute corruption happening at the NIH and the irony of cowboys wearing masks for horses but not for Grandma.
Here is the reality check on the news that actually matters.
⚓ THE ANCHOR: Joe Rogan vs. The X-Axis
The Mainstream Narrative (Rogan’s Take): Joe Rogan pulled up a Washington Post article showing Earth’s temperature over the last 485 million years. He looked at the dip at the very end of a massive geological timeline and concluded that the Earth is actually in a “cooling period” and that the “idea that the whole thing is based on carbon emissions from human beings is total b******t.”
The Dr. Greg Reality: This is the “gaslight of the century.” Rogan is looking at a geological timescale and ignoring the one variable that actually kills us: The Rate of Change.
Here is what Rogan and his guest (Mel Gibson, of all people) missed:
* The Consensus: The scientists who made the graph agree that humans are having a negative impact.
* The Physics: “When temperatures rose 10 degrees Celsius in 50,000 years, there was a mass extinction that killed almost everything... the rate of climate change we’re currently experiencing is approximately [50 times faster].”
* The Bottom Line: Humans need homeostasis. We evolved in a specific climate niche. We can’t survive on a “Globe covered in ice” or a “nightmare hellscape.” We built our major cities near current water supplies and matched our crops to where they grow now.
Rogan isn’t just wrong; he is dangerously confusing weather with climate and geological epochs with human history.
📋 THE ROUNDUP
Here is the breakdown of the other stories we tore apart last night:
1. The Death of Meritocracy at the NIH
* They Said (The Policy): The NIH is removing “pay lines” (peer-review scores) from grant decision-making to allow for a “unified strategy” based on geography and “priorities.”
* The Data Says (Dr. Greg): This is “transparently corrupt.” By removing the score threshold, they are allowing political appointees—not subject matter experts—to pick winners and losers. It is “ideologically gatekeeping funds for science.” If you have hundreds of millions of dollars to buy influence, you get access; if you’re a scientist doing the work, good luck.
2. China is Saving the World (Accidentally?)
* They Said: Green energy is too expensive and we can’t fix the climate.
* The Data Says: “Global greenhouse emissions will soon flatten or decline... driven by China’s surge in renewable energy.” China spent $625 billion on clean energy last year—almost as much as the Biden administration spent on the IRA and Infrastructure Bill combined. When the government steps in with “moonshots,” economies of scale happen.
3. Cowboy Hypocrisy & Horse Herpes
* They Said: Masks don’t work, lockdowns kill the economy, and Grandma had to die for the Dow Jones in 2020.
* The Data Says: Now that a virus (Equine Herpes Virus - EHV-1) is threatening horses (and the rodeo bottom line), they are canceling events, isolating animals, and supporting vaccines.
* The Takeaway: “They didn’t do that for people... but I just found it interesting... that now they are all for kind of saving their bottom line keeping horses away from each other.”
4. Virgin Births are Real
* The Fact: In response to the Rogan/Jesus talk—Virgin births (Parthenogenesis) actually happen in nature. We see it in lizards and sharks. Nature is wilder than their fiction.
Quote of the Night:
“I don’t have faith. I have science, dude.”
One Last Thing: We have identified 423 anti-science bills trying to be passed across the country. A lot of them have failed because MAHA is lying and politicians know vaccines don’t cause deaths. But we have to pile on.
Current Stats: 1,146 Vaccines given to our community. 720 Political Actions taken.
Go to action.drgregshow.com right now. Find your state. Send the email.
See you tomorrow.
