Joe Rogan Experience #2547 - Daniel Everett · Aired Aug 27, 2026
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Some remote Amazonian tribes may still practice cannibalism when foreigners are not present.
The finding
What remains unresolved
Not a checkable claim: when asked if cannibalism still happens in the Amazon, Everett answered 'Probably, but none that I know of.' He then passed on a late missionary friend's belief that one group may still do it when no outsiders are around. That is a guess and a secondhand opinion, not a factual claim, and he himself noted that some anthropologists disagree. A documented, recent, verified case of cannibalism in an Amazonian group would turn this into something that could be checked.
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Quick answer
Is it true that some remote Amazonian tribes may still practice cannibalism when foreigners are not present?
We can't say yet. ' He then passed on a late missionary friend's belief that one group may still do it when no outsiders are around. That is a guess and a secondhand opinion, not a factual claim, and he himself noted that some anthropologists disagree. Daniel Everett said it (matched by voice) on Joe Rogan Experience #2547 - Daniel Everett, aired Aug 27, 2026, at 2:16:49. We couldn't settle it from the evidence we captured, so it stays an open question, not a false claim. No supporting source was captured, so don't treat this as a sourced conclusion.
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