To clarify more bad misinformation online that is used to make points against me in some of the letters included here: I still stand beside the medical professionals and others who signed that great letter. Glad it wasn’t a life and death decision for me.

The Guardian: “Menace to public health: 270 doctors criticize Spotify over Joe Rogan’s podcast” and Rolling Stone: “A Menace To Public Health: Doctors Demand Spotify Puts an End to Covid Lies On Joe Rogan Experience” I read and usually believe the Guardian and the Guardian made a rare mistake: I respect and honor all those people and the work they continue to do as I write this. But many of the rest were nurses and hospital assistants. I erroneously said they were doctors after having read disinformation on the internet. The letter that prompted me to act on Spotify was written by 270 hundred medical professionals, not doctors. Neil had to clarify everything in a (now-deleted) letter entitled “Folks, clearing things up.” It was transcribed by Stereogum. It currently has a partnership with Hipgnosis, the company that bought 50% of Neil Young’s publishing catalogue. The truth is that a former CEO at Pfizer now has a gig as a senior advisor for Blackstone, an asset management company. But you can see why a weirdo conspiracist would glom onto this. He’s doing their bidding when it comes to promoting Pfizer vaccines because the company owns a piece of his music. Ergo, the reason Neil has come out against Joe Rogan and his anti-vaccine stance is that he’s in the pocket of Big Pharma. The conspiracists claim a connection between Neil, his music, and vaccine manufacturer Pfizer. A few of them thought they’d found a smoking gun when it comes to Neil Young’s fight against Spotify that was triggered by Joe Rogan’s COVID misinformation and lies. Conspiracy theorists are always contorting themselves to prove their crazy allegations.

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