Joe Rogan Experience #2563 - Dan Richards · Aired Oct 8, 2026
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The average time for peer review for a vaccine test is about 10 years.
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Dan conflates the full vaccine development timeline with peer review and concludes that development in roughly eighteen months necessarily skipped scientific steps. FDA describes preclinical work, phased trials, regulatory review and overlapping development during the COVID emergency. A shorter elapsed timeline alone does not demonstrate omitted testing; authorization also did not guarantee complete long-term knowledge.
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Is it true that the average time for peer review for a vaccine test is about 10 years?
Partly. The claim stretches what the evidence shows. Dan conflates the full vaccine development timeline with peer review and concludes that development in roughly eighteen months necessarily skipped scientific steps. FDA describes preclinical work, phased trials, regulatory review and overlapping development during the COVID emergency. Dan Richards said it (matched by voice) on Joe Rogan Experience #2563 - Dan Richards, aired Oct 8, 2026, at 12:36. The supporting source is fda.gov, linked below.
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