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'Bogus' Adam and Eve Climate Conspiracy From Joe Rogan Guest Finds Defenders at Daily Caller [1]

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Date: 2023-06-02

Last Friday, Media Matters for America published some of the most amusing content we've seen this side of actual literal scripted comedy. This week, it got even better.

It starts seriously enough: TikTok announced a new policy against climate change misinformation in April, so TikToker and misinfo expert Abbie Richards teamed up with Media Matters' Ilana Berger to see how effectively the platform is enforcing that policy.

Turns out it wasn't that hard to find climate misinfo on the platform still, as they found 20 million cumulative views on seven viral TikTok clips warning that climate change isn't real based on "The Adam and Eve Story,” pseudoscience book.

Perpetual misinfo machine Joe Rogan had a guest on his $200 million podcast to tell listeners about the "Adam and Eve" theory that there is supposedly a dramatic six-day, "90–degree flip" of the Earth's magnetic poles that corrects itself on the seventh day. But before it does, the event will apparently be "cataclysmic" with winds of "approximately 1,000 miles an hour."

Winds of that speed would be "past supersonic," NASA scientist Martin Mlynczak told Justine Calma at The Verge , so "Just right there, I mean, the person has no idea what they're talking about." And while the planet's magnetic poles do slowly wobble around over the course of thousands of years, it's definitely not flipping in a week, the technical term for which is "total bogus." (Well, maybe it’s not really a technical term, but that's what Mlyzncak called it anyway.)

As Richards explains on TikTok , hiding in Joe Rogan's obsession with fun and kooky ancient conspiracy theories is regular ol' climate denial, as they're used as an alternative explanation for the boring old fact that greenhouse gasses are trapping heat in the oceans and atmosphere, just like scientists have said for like a hundred + years .

Mlynczak explained (because this is what the brightest minds in the country have to spend time doing), "there’s no proof and no science and no physics behind any of the claims about the magnetic field change being associated with climate change.”

But no proof and no science and no physics is no problem for Joe Rogan's podcast, for TikTok conspiracy theorists, and, apparently, for The Daily Caller.

Because if you think there's absolutely no way anyone would try and defend the "bogus" conspiracy theory then you, like the Adam and Eve theory, would be quite wrong.

Rising to the defense of Rogan's guest Jimmy Corsetti is none other than The Daily Caller, boasting of an "EXCLUSIVE" editorial(?) from "news and commentary writer" Kay Smythe, claiming that " Media Matters launch[ed] misinformation campaign against Joe Rogan, his guests ."

Yes, it appears that there is literally no conspiracy theory too stupid for The Daily Caller to defend, as long as there’s a chance to attack its political opposition. Apparently The Verge and Media Matters were wrong to claim "there is no relationship between Earth's magnetic field and climate change, despite this being an actual part of developing science."

Oh? This Daily Caller writer, whose stories before and after this one are headlined " Dave Chappelle Invites Cancelled 'SNL' Comic On Stage. What Comes Next Is Pure Gold " and "‘ Yellowstone’ Breaks Absurd TV Record ", wants to argue the science with NASA?

Apparently so! "For example," Smythe writes, "while I was studying climate change at Plymouth University in the early 2010s, pole shift theory and its relationship to the climate, the Earth’s core , etc, was part of the conversation and curriculum hosted by my professors."

Mlynczak has done his time on this already, so we asked another climate scientist about it, one who not only took a class on climate in the early 2010s but actually got a degree in it and everything, and they confirmed that yes, pole shift theory "was part of the conversation when I was studying climate too. Namely how it isn't causing climate change." (Though we're keeping their identity confidential so as to protect them from being in any way associated with this stupidity.)

But according to Smythe (who for her Bachelor of Science degree in Geography, according to her LinkedIn , wrote a thesis on "A qualitative study of recreational drug use amongst student populations in the leisure spaces of Plymouth, England"), the pole shift is "definitely not a conspiracy theory. And with so many people trying to shut it down, doesn’t that make you think we need to be paying even more attention?"

Woah. Dude! That's like, super-smart. NASA's best and brightest minds, even their rocket scientists, could never hope to get so high… minded.

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