What did the Joe Rogan episode with Terrence Howard get wrong?
We checked 15 claims from JRE #2152 - Terrence Howard, aired May 22, 2024. 15 claims didn't hold up: 10 false, 5 distorted. Jamie Meter: Look into it. The strongest sourced finding: I paid for my own experiments to disprove gravity using magnets and a rotating coil system (False). Accurate claims aren't listed on this site, so this is a count of what needed a second look, not a score of anyone's honesty.
0 unresolved findings. These do not count as false claims.
On-air corrections
No separately verified correction is recorded in this briefing. That does not mean none occurred.
Selected claims only. This briefing is assembled from published findings; it is not a complete transcript review or a measure of the speaker’s honesty. Open each check for attribution and sourcing status.
Jamie Meter · 15 flagged claims How the count works ↓
The Jamie Meter
How many times someone at the table should have said “pull that up.”
15 claims didn't hold up. False, distorted, or one-sided. Unverified claims don't count against it.
Enough got stretched that you'll want the sources open.
The meter counts false, distorted and one-sided findings. It is not a percentage. Unverified claims do not count. Selection and extraction affect the total.
We haven’t separated the voices in this episode yet, so the meter counts every speaker’s misses, the guest’s included.
Magnetic levitation, including the diamagnetic kind, works by balancing gravity with an equal and opposite magnetic force, not by getting rid of gravity. An object floating above magnets is held up the same way a book is held up by a table, two forces canceling out while gravity keeps acting on it the whole time. No magnet and coil setup has shown that gravity doesn't exist, and physicists have not accepted claims that it disproves the force.
Gravity and electromagnetism are separate forces with different behaviour. Gravity acts on mass and energy, only ever attracts, and has no charge to cancel it out. Electric force acts on charge, pushes as well as pulls, and is around ten to the thirty-sixth times stronger between two protons. General relativity, which treats gravity as curvature in spacetime, is what GPS satellites correct for every day to stay accurate.
Research on 'infantile amnesia' shows the brain structures needed for explicit memory, especially the hippocampus, aren't developed enough at birth or before to form memories a person could consciously recall years later. That's the mainstream explanation for why virtually no one can reliably remember their own birth or time in the womb. Researchers who study this generally treat claims like this as reconstructed or false memories rather than genuine recollections.
There's no credible scientific evidence that the Flower of Life symbol encodes hidden physics. Howard's own explanation of it, built around terms like 'wave conjugations,' uses real sounding scientific language incorrectly, and outlets that reviewed his claims found the underlying terminology and math don't hold up. The Flower of Life is a sacred geometry symbol with cultural and decorative history, not a repository of undiscovered physical laws.