Monthly episodes discussing this topic, 2020-01 to 2026-09.
The people on the most episodes about this topic over the trailing three months, excluding their own shows — ordered by VoiceRank, their score across the whole corpus. The chart tracks each one’s episodes month by month.
Positions people took on this topic in transcripts, grouped by school of thought. Within a camp, people with demonstrated expertise on the topic come first, then those who reached the most listeners on it. Every quote links to the episode it came from.
The medical establishment is corrupted by financial interests, bias, and a lack of transparency that undermines patient care.
11 people · 10 episodes
Medical research is frequently unreliable and biased because of the financial interests of pharmaceutical corporations and the failure of regulators and journals to maintain integrity.
“The real scandals are regulators failed to prevent misconduct by industries and by industry and doctors, academic institutions, and medical journals that have a responsibility to scientific integrity collude with industry for financial gain.”
Dr. Drew · Jun 2023 · 2 episodes · 3.5M views on this topicThe current medical establishment has been compromised by managerialism and external interests that prioritize profit over the traditional doctor-patient healing relationship.
“when our medical institutions are compromised by money, power or other interests external to healing the sick and when medical schools succumb to ideological fads, the risks to individuals and society cannot be overstated. If medicine itself is sick, we are all in trouble.”
The Jimmy Dore Show · Dec 2025 · 1 episode · 27K views on this topicThe current public health response to outbreaks, such as mass animal culling and mandate-driven vaccination, is based on outdated, profit-driven policies that ignore ethical concerns and alternative t
“It's it's gone. It's become entrenched as policy as kind of this reflexive knee-jerk thing that if we have an outbreak, what we do is we kill because we can't control the virus.”
Joe Rogan Experience · Feb 2026 · 1 episode · 1.0M views on this topicDoctors are untrustworthy because they prioritize profit and drug sales over patient well-being.
“and doctors they're telling me they don't know if I should do it and I mean doctors these people are the scum of the earth they'll tell you to do anything really so if doctors are saying just we don't know yet doctors their jobs just to sell your [ __ ]”
The Tim Dillon Show · Sep 2023 · 1 episode · 584K views on this topicThe pharmaceutical industry played a major role in promoting the chemical imbalance theory in the 1990s primarily to increase drug sales.
“It was the 1990s when the pharmaceutical industry got involved and conducted these um very thorough uh promotional campaigns that really spread this spread this idea. And yes, of course, they did it in order to sell more drugs.”
Triggernometry · Jun 2026 · 1 episode · 332K views on this topicMedical professionals are abandoning ethical standards by using manipulative or ideological practices to pressure patients and families.
7 people · 5 episodes
He believes the medical establishment has completely abdicated its responsibility by promoting radical gender interventions instead of providing evidence-based care.
“it's a complete abdication of responsibility by everybody involved nobody even chimed in and said hey maybe we should follow up with these people”
Jordan B Peterson · Mar 2024 · 6 episodes · 10.8M views on this topicThe medical and mental health professions have abandoned their duty to patients by promoting affirmation without long-term evidence and by demonizing concerned parents.
“our profession the mental health profession is not giving them our profession is demonizing them”
Jordan B Peterson · Apr 2023 · 1 episode · 2.3M views on this topicHe maintains that medical professionals are actively aware that parents and children cannot adequately grasp the severe long-term consequences of medical gender transition.
“there's a lot of conversations about the problems they have in getting kids and adolescents and their parents to understand that these procedures will result in sterilization and likely a loss of sexual function”
Jordan B Peterson · Mar 2024 · 1 episode · 1.2M views on this topicClinicians and institutions engage in emotional blackmail by using suicide threats to coerce parents into consenting to gender-affirming procedures for minors.
“Miner had her breast removed. Parents consented because doctors threatened that she would commit suicide if she was. So, you've heard them say that. You've heard a lot of people say that. And that's that's called emotional blackmail.”
The Jimmy Dore Show · Feb 2026 · 4 episodes · 373K views on this topicThe speaker believes medical associations have lost all credibility because they prioritized political agendas and self-preservation over objective truth regarding minors.
“The fact that the American Medical Association ever even for one second said that men can become women and especially that little boys can be little girls means that their credibility has been permanently destroyed in matters of open honest conversation.”
Michael Knowles · Feb 2026 · 3 episodes · 214K views on this topicMedical practice must be grounded in established principles like informed consent, autonomy, and the preservation of human life.
4 people · 3 episodes
The author argues that mandates and policies that disregard informed consent violate the foundational medical ethic of individual autonomy and risk-benefit analysis.
“the idea of the state or a doctor performing a medical procedure forcibly on a person or drugging them into compliance without their consent is an abiding terrifying theme of many science fiction dystopias and it's a fear that runs very deep in the modern psyche”
Jordan B Peterson · Jan 2022 · 1 episode · 311K views on this topicResearch ethics require that scientists adhere to principles such as doing no harm, benefiting the subject, and obtaining informed consent.
“There are different principles that were being proposed, things like, "do no harm", you need to make sure the research benefits the subject, and then you need to make sure that there's autonomy, there's informed consent, so a lot of the bioethical principles came out as a result.”
StarTalk · Sep 2019 · 1 episode · 161K views on this topicMedical education has been degraded because medical students and residents are no longer taught the four pillars of medical ethics.
“they don't even teach the uh pillars of medical ethics and those sorts of things I really want to get into that with you”
Dr. Drew · Nov 2023 · 5 episodes · 122K views on this topicThe four pillars of medical ethics are foundational to protecting patients from being abused by the medical system.
“I've written is really Just a Bill of Rights for patients what it really what those medical ethics pillars are is they're really protections against patients being abused by the system and by physicians it's like a Bill of Rights”
Dr. Drew · Nov 2023 · 1 episode · 22K views on this topicPositions are extracted from transcripts by a model and may misattribute who said what. Every quote links to the episode it came from.
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