Specifically, the furor surrounds interviews he conducted with two doctors who have opinions that counter current thinking about COVID-19.

Unlike, I suspect, most of Rogan’s furious critics, I’ve actually listened to them and found them very interesting, just as I did when he interviewed my former CNN colleague Dr. Sanjay Gupta, who holds very different views about the pandemic.

As Rogan — who’s made it repeatedly clear he’s not himself an anti-vaxxer, saying ‘I believe they (vaccines) are safe and encourage many people to take them’ — explained in an Instagram post last night about his decision to book the two controversial doctors: ‘They have an opinion that’s different to the mainstream narrative, which is why I wanted them on. I’m interested in finding out the truth and having conversations with people who have different perspectives.’

Rogan added that given the science has changed repeatedly throughout the crisis over everything from whether cloth-masks are effective, to the ability of vaccines to stop infection or transmission, and if COVID-19 started in a Wuhan lab, then why is it wrong to challenge it?