Joe Rogan Asked a Right Wing Billionaire if He Believed in Climate Science.

Let’s talk about that Peter Thiel (non)answer going around.

Lauren Elizabeth
3 min readAug 19, 2024
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If you aren’t at least aware of who Peter Thiel is, you should probably learn.

Not because he’s a venture-capitalist, the cofounder of PayPal, or the first outside investor in Facebook, but rather because he is a mega donor for right wing political candidates here in the United States.

I mean, that alone is fairly revealing about who he is right?

Of course, he decided to sit out this election, expressing his displeasure about the right wing’s focus on culture issues such as abortion and the bathrooms that transgender people use. But, that has not stopped him at all of course from still putting himself out there and he decided to go on none other than Joe Rogan’s podcast. A podcast where he was asked the most straightforward question about climate science, and struggled to find an answer.

In a viral clip going around social media, point blank Joe Rogan asked Thiel if he believed climate science is a real science. Thiel’s response? Well, he said:

“It’s — it is — um — it’s, it’s, um — well — let me — it’s — I, I, I — there’s several different…

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Lauren Elizabeth

Lauren is a writer & leftist with analysis on topics related to politics & policy. She can be reached at LaurenMartinchek@gmail.com or Twitter @xlauren_mx