One of the big outstanding COVID crisis questions is “How did the medical care system get things so wrong?.” This excellent essay from Dr. Randall Bock uses personal experience and anecdotes from a lifetime of primary care practice spanning rural W Virginia to big city Boston to illustrate and illuminate the sickness at the heart of modern western medicine. I first met Dr. Bock right after the recent election when he reached out to interview me about USG HHS, government contracting, and BARDA. We have had many conversations since, and I have become a fan of his work and perspective. But I had no idea of his personal history. What this essay reveals is the systemic medical system dysfunction seen throughout the US and western medicine during COVID was part of a much broader problem.
“Chemistry – well, technically chemistry is the study of matter. But I prefer to see it as the study of change…. But that’s all of life, right? It’s just the constant, it’s the cycle…. It is growth, then decay, then transformation. It is fascinating. Really.” — Walter White, Breaking Bad
Like Walter White, I started as a chemistry major. During medical school summer breaks, I taught organic chemistry at Yale. That subject (which for most premeds involved “rote” memorization) is better tackled gleaning structure; finding coherence in complexity; crossing pathways of learning a language and mastering circuitry. I co-majored in physics as both disciplines demand clarity, logic, proof.
College, for me, had been a time of free-form exploration: fear, discovery, curiosity, and the exhilarating process of learning how to make propitious use of time with so many diversions possible. Medical school, by contrast, was a shock. I had imagined a deeper dive into science; what I found instead was regimentation: biology boot camp. The emphasis wasn’t on understanding but on discipline– on memorizing vast catalogs of facts before smartphones made the world’s knowledge a thumb-swipe away. It was a jarring adjustment. You weren’t guided to think critically so much as force-fed– like the goose in the pâté de foie gras process– stuffed with information until deemed ripe. Then tested.
Medicine talks a lot about being a science– but too often, it behaves like abstract art. And not the rigorous, rule-bound kind. It resembles Jackson Pollock: slapdash, mood-driven, open to interpretation depending on who’s paying the bill or writing the guideline. To be fair, some domains– like pathology or parasitology– offered clarity. I had professors in those fields whose lessons I still carry. The facts were the facts; the science was the science.
But in softer, more interpretive areas– especially those entangled with human behavior, hormones, or institutional consensus– medicine shifts. It gets personal, tribal, even theatrical. One moment, doctors are confidently headed in one direction; then comes a splash in the water– and the whole “school” veers. This isn’t clinical reasoning– it’s choreography, and fishy at that.
We call medicine an “art,” but that doesn’t excuse it from having structure. When medicine forgets it is grounded in science, it stops being either: good medicine or good science– let alone worthy art.
A Physician’s Unorthodox Path
My journey through medicine hasn’t followed the path most physicians walk. It’s been both more mundane and more surreal. I’ve practiced more hands-on primary care medicine—without mid-level clinicians—than any other MD in my circle (27 years running a solo outpatient office in a blue-collar town). I followed a simple principle: if you’re sick, come in; letting care come before coding (I also offered appointments).
A few years earlier, I’d stepped off the medical-academic track—turning down a Yale Psychiatry residency to spend a year doctoring in Calhoun County, West Virginia: a region of proud but impoverished, tradition-bound people, where time moved differently, and medicine meant earning trust across the chasm of an English spoken seemingly from different centuries (theirs from the previous).
Switching back and accepting a slot in Harvard-MGH’s Psychiatry, I found myself clashing with hierarchy and conformity, a theme that has dogged and defined much of my career. (For those interested, I tell the full story in On Becoming a Doctor, a chapter within my as-yet unpublished memoir.)
That restless streak—the refusal to go along just to get along—shaped everything that followed. I’ve questioned sacred cows, challenged orthodoxy, and paid dearly for it: a personally and professionally painful form of “no good deed goes unpunished”.
I have always believed that physicians (like attorneys) must serve the needs of the individuals enlisting them– not any institutional nor governmental directive (unless those happen to align). But in today’s system – far too often, the opposite has become the norm: medicine (perceptually and practically) genuflects to bureaucracies, to pharmaceutical incentives, and public health “narratives”– all wrapped in the sterile armor of “consensus”.
I’ve essentially never not said what I thought. That is the starting point for creating patient interactions’ comprising integrity; and shepherding a best pathway to health– or at the very least an accommodation to chronic disease. I practiced just outside of Boston, arguably a “medical mecca”; yet time and again, I saw patients emerge from these prestigious institutions utterly confused, unable to grasp what their physicians had explained: words spoken over the patient’s head, directed to medical students in tow. “Elite care” had failed the most basic test of communication.
One episode that has stayed with me involves a brilliant, older family friend who had had a one-day bout of delirium, likely due to an infection. The hospital– Brigham, no less– quickly slotted him into a psychiatric pathway (albeit on a medical floor, but failed to obtain acutely the most basic of tests to rule out intercurrent infection); perhaps subtly branding him as just another doddering, demented elderly man. Various medical teams seemingly hadn’t bothered to ask the right questions or listen. They didn’t grasp that this man had been attending dinners and holding his own in conversations at the highest intellectual levels. He had a life, a mind, a voice– and they ignored all of it: seeing only the outer mask of an old man’s briefly spouting nonsense.
It wasn’t the hospital that called me in, but the family, who were rightfully alarmed that he was being dismissed and misunderstood. Unpaid and unofficial, I found a disjointed set of subspecialists’ drifting by like ships in the night, each pursuing its own protocol without any unified direction or clinical narrative– or cohesive “business plan”within the chart.
Shockingly, no blood cultures had been done. I had to push to get even a urine culture ordered. They weren’t curious, merely operating in silos: ticking off non-sequitur procedures; entirely missing (and never finding) the cause of his condition. I made multiple phone calls to each of the sub- branches (pleading for a concerted effort to find the cause of his acute delirium), but could never get them together on a conference call.
Fortunately, he recovered fully (because of – or despite this medical stay). His mind is sharp as ever (but for that one day).
This experience, among many others, crystallized my growing disillusionment with a medical system that too often prioritizes protocol over patients, pushing me to question not just clinical practices but the very institutions shaping them.
Challenging Medical Dogma
My Authority Magazine bio-interview sketches the outlines of regulatory injustices’ culminating in professional tragedy – and rebirth. I grew up in a financially struggling (five of us in a 1.5 bedroom apartment) but conversationally forthright household, where my parents sacrificed to send us to private school. Asking inconvenient questions in pursuit of truth is my way of paying them respect. That paradigm led to my exposing the shakily irrational underpinnings of Zika-microcephaly in my book Overturning Zika; to dissect the institutional and semantic inflation behind autism diagnoses in my Substack (praised by Dr. Robert Malone as a “treatise”); and to push back against both the COVID panic machine and the prevailing mythologies of addiction.
These seemingly disparate medical topics are not unrelated threads. They represent stories of how external factors distort medical theory. Public health today isn’t about your health: it’s about managing perception, maintaining hierarchy, and avoiding blame. This pattern of prioritizing ideology over evidence extends beyond addiction to other medical domains.
Rethinking Addiction: A Heretic’s Approach
When I wrote that methadone maintenance had ignited (and continues to fan) the opioid crisis, I wasn’t merely guessing.
I had developed a successful, (multi-month-duration) slow-taper detox program– offering a pathway back to genuine sobriety, not a subscription to a lifetime of dependency, via replacement narcotics (whether methadone or Suboxone).
My patients came from all over New England– but mostly from poorer enclaves of Lynn, Chelsea, and Revere (and so often with stories sadder even than merely poverty: foster care, broken households, abuse). Many gave testimony to the joy at making progress in their lives rather than being treated with methadone clinics’ “soft bigotry of low expectations” that they would never be able to “get clean” completely. This was especially poignant on the occasion of women in early pregnancy who had begged and begged their methadone counselors and physicians to be allowed to taper to zero so they could avoid the mewling, tense, isolating detox that a methadone-babyendures on birth.
“When I first had her, she was really bad. Like, she had tremors real bad. It was the worst thing I could ever, ever see for an infant to be withdrawing.”KATIE (on methadone)
But the Massachusetts Board of Registration in Medicine (BORIM), led by proudly biasedDr. Candace Lapidus Sloane, didn’t see me as a physician committed to helping addicts reclaim their lives. It saw a heretic. My medical license was suspended, in part, based on testimony from a so-called “state expert” who never reviewed a single one of my patient charts. Moreover, she objected to my tapering narcotic addicts to sobriety (vs. “maintaining” them); while her own practice involved tapering benzodiazepine-addiction. Her entire argument amounted to quoting Nora Volkow and proclaiming, without a trace of irony, that addiction is “a brain disease by definition.” By definition (!?), that’s not science; it’s dogma.
To be fair, BORIM had its foot in the door via a patient complaint– a vindictive, vengeful, and entirely self-serving grievance from a narcotic addict who feared I might jeopardize his disability payments by helping him get sober. I never would have “snitched,” but that didn’t matter. He embellished and distorted his story, and BORIM took the word of a part-time heroin dealer over mine. It was a classic “he said, he said” (even though I had four witnesses on premises who had never noticed an untoward word from me nor any note of displeasure from him during his time in our office).
In retrospect, I was probably naïve. Maybe too self-assured. When the Board first opened an inquiry into me, I assumed its sage members would recognize that I was serious, conscientious, even thoughtful about addiction treatment. I had just finished writing Withdraw to Freedom: Navigating the Addiction Maze, which existed in manuscript form. I believed– wrongly– that reading it would reassure them. Instead, it had the opposite effect.
BORIM leadership treated the book as a smoking gun. My core sin? I didn’t believe addiction was a “disease.” The Board’s own summary got even that wrong: I didn’t merely propose “discourse and reflection.” I implemented a structured, taper-based treatment protocol from the outset—gradually reducing Suboxone over months, not just “toward the end.”
Patients came in grieving, broken, often self-destructive—and many left restored. Addiction isn’t Type I diabetes. People fall into despair and drug use, but they can climb back out. I saw it happen, repeatedly. Until I didn’t, 2014, my annus horribilis.
“Addiction is not a disease. We have a word for diseases– it’s diseases— and we have a word for addiction– it’s addiction. Changing the names of things may work for a moment, but ultimately the meaning catches up with them. People say, ‘Well, it is a disease because it changes your brain chemistry.’ Love changes your brain chemistry. Taking a walk in the woods changes your brain chemistry. That’s what the brain is: the brain is a router… for communicating spiritual truths to your physical body so you can experience them as a physical entity.”
That’s not denialism. That’s clarity. Addiction may be tragic, consuming, and complex– but so are many aspects of human behavior. Calling it a disease because it feels grave or because it changes the brain isn’t medicine. It’s theology in a lab coat; dogma dressed as science.
I don’t deny addiction’s complexity. But I reject its rebranding into a deterministic, pathological inevitability– as though relapse were as unpreventable as pancreatic cancer. Not every serious problem is a disease. Break your hip, and it might kill you– but we still call it an injury, a trauma, not a chronic illness.
The author of Naked Lunch (1959), William Burroughs– a dissolute scion of a wealthy family, muse to the Beat Poets, (in)advertent William Tell–wannabe wife-killer, and (of course!) a Harvard man– didn’t stumble into heroin addiction blindly. By his own account, he embraced it knowingly. Burroughs aptly called narcotic addiction a “disease of exposure.” It doesn’t arise spontaneously. It requires cultivation, distribution, and availability of the drug– “junk,” in his terms. Nobody in 1000 years of (not so Dark-) Middle Ages’ Europe suffered from heroin addiction. It didn’t exist. Some in Asia, where opium was prevalent, perhaps did. That makes narcotic addiction a condition with a historically and geographically contingent distribution– not a timeless biological disease.
Even today, addiction correlates more closely with trauma, alienation, idleness– and yes, bad choices: just like gambling, porn, or compulsive overeating– than with any pathogen or gene. And irony abounds: the same population, placed in different social and moral environments, can display wildly different addiction rates. The English and Scots-Irish stock of the Intermountain West, for instance, show nearly zero heroin addiction when Mormon, but substantial addiction rates when not. Likewise, heroin and opium abuse plagued a war-torn Southeast Asia, but plummeted when the same people– Vietnamese, Cambodian, Laotian– migrated to the U.S. and thrived in ways they never could back home. In Indochina, they were impoverished, but for opium crops – but never diseased at the molecular level. Addiction is not destiny. It is context.
Yet instead of treating narcotic addiction as a human condition (or even analogously to how it treats alcohol- or benzodiazepine- addictions: certainly with care and psychotherapy but with either abrupt or gradual detoxing completely away from the addicting substance), medicine decided (surprise!) to “medicalize” it– carving out a permanent revenue stream, wrapped in scientific jargon, enforced by regulation. I had challenged that model: arguing for autonomy; for tapering; for sober pregnancies’ leading to unaddicted babies; for personal agency; for treating the individual– not for extending dependency any longer than necessary under the guise of (a coincidently self-reimbursing) compassion. That stance put me squarely in the crosshairs.
Professional Exile and the Cost of Truth
After I overturned the Board’s first suspension in court, it reinstated my license– and then immediately suspended it again. Not because I had harmed patients, but (arguably) because I was a threat to the model: refusing to endorse the “lifetime Suboxone subscription” racket that lines the pockets of addiction “specialists.” I fought back– again– and won. But the damage had been done: years of lost income; professional exile; endless legal forays and expenses; my beloved walk-in clinic shattered and shuttered.
“Regrets, I’ve had a few”: the upheaval my family was put through; a lack of realizing a Sword of Damocles’ looming within an ideologically-driven BORIM (but how could I have known?)– however, I don’t regret my thoughts, my imperatives, my theories, and (case-by-case) my actions. I am a (pre-Covid -era) victim of thinking freely (wrongthink thoughtcrime). Conversely, my docketed Supreme Court case advocates for medical free speech– and a reversal of politicization of medical boards.
Panic as Policy: Medicine’s Failure to Learn
I see now that this pattern– of channeling physicians’ thoughts and actions through ideology rather than evidence– is everywhere. It’s not just addiction. It’s COVID. It’s autism. It’s Zika. It’s menopause. Remember Dr. Susan Love? A prominent breast surgeon with little clinical focus on hormone therapy, she helped spark a national panic over HRT in the 1990s. The ensuing hysteria– amplified by the media and medicine (via the 2002 Women’s Health Initiative (WHI) study, led by JoAnn Manson)– drove millions of women into abrupt, unmanaged menopause.
Dr. Manson two decades later called it“the most dramatic sea change in clinical medicine that I have ever seen.” Newsweek characterized the response as “near panic.”
Lost in that stampede was the simple truth: regular medical contact– especially for women on HRT– not only improved quality of life, but also enhanced early cancer detection and survival. The initial WHI findings, skewed by a cohort of older women well past menopause, ignored the benefits for younger women in early menopause– where the risks are lower, and the improvements in vitality, mood, and long-term health are significant.
It’s the same playbook we saw during COVID: a narrow risk in one demographic– exaggerated, universalized, and weaponized against everyone. The best course for the young was buried beneath panic meant for the old. We were told the science had spoken, when in fact it had only whispered– and been misheard.
They say history doesn’t repeat, but it rhymes. In modern medicine, it rhymes with silence, panic, and obedience. The fallout from that blind spot is only now being reversed. “Women live longer, feel better. The benefits are overwhelming”, said the FDA’s Dr. Marty Makary– just days ago.
“We” (in “Big Medicine“) should have known better, sooner. PS, I did – and I never changed my HRT-prescribing willingness throughout the 2000s and 2010s: as a lonely voice in the wilderness: treating individuals individually.
Big Medicine too often prefers consensus to truth. Same with autism. As I outlined in my essay Unraveling Autism’s Surge, the explosion in diagnoses isn’t just biology– it’s semantic. Funding, insurance codes, and shifting diagnostic categories, have fueled the surge in autism diagnoses. COVID followed a similar pattern, prioritizing catastrophe over calm, mandates over choice, and censorship over debate, dismissing the collateral damage– overdoses, shuttered businesses, educational collapse– as necessary.
A Call for Courage in Medicine and Beyond
What I’ve learned is this: we have too many experts, too few advocates.When O.J. Simpson went to court, he didn’t get a general counsel for society– he got lawyers just for him. We are far more innocent than he and we deserve the same and better: not groupthink; not population-level dictates. A physician (rightly) serves the patient, not the state, not the insurer, not the CDC. That was the ethic of my medical office. And for that, I was crushed.
Now, I’m still speaking out: through Brownstone; through Substack; through YouTube; through the courts, where I argued that licensing boards shouldn’t get a free pass to crush dissent under the guise of (a falsely-perceived sense of) “safety.” I’ve paid a price. But I’ve gained something more valuable: clarity.
The real public health crisis isn’t opioids, viruses, or autism. It’s cowardice. It’s the institutional refusal to say, “We were wrong.” And worse– it’s the power to punish those who do. If you’ve read this far, you already know what I mean. You’ve probably felt it. If so, I invite you to stand with me. Because the truth isn’t cheap– but it’s worth every sacrifice.
“The trouble is that …much of the application process isn’t built for honesty. Just as I once scrambled to demonstrate my fluency in D.E.I., students now scramble to script the ideal disagreement [civility test], one that manages to be intriguing without being dangerous.” Alex Bronzini-Vender
Why not admit students based on merit, and then teach them how to debate vigorously and disagree honorably? Civility has its place– on the bus, at the dinner table– but not as a gatekeeping metric for truth-seekers– and not on the debate stage whether real or metaphoric (and medical). Not when lies are on the line, personally and societally. But that’s the direction we’re heading. DEI initiatives, peer enforcement of ideological etiquette, and a shift away from academic rigor toward enforced emotional consensus are eroding the very foundations of intellectual independence.
We need a generation of physicians– and thinkers– trained not in compliance, but in courage. The future of medicine, and of liberty itself, depends on it. But liberty is eroding fast. In the UK, the benignly named Online Safety Bill grants bureaucrats sweeping authority to censor speech online in the name of “protection.” In reality, it’s protection for power– protection from dissent. Echoing Elon Musk, Hananya Naftali noted, “They don’t ban hate speech. They ban speech they hate.”
When we can no longer tell the truth– about medicine, about biology, about addiction, about risk then all we have left are narratives. And those who challenge the narrative become the enemy. We must continue with clarity, courage, and a commitment to serving the individual– not the system. That is the only path forward. The only oath that matters.
Today’s essay provides brief reviews of two recent books that I recommend for your reading pleasure, links to two important recent “insider’ substack essays, and some updates concerning the ongoing PsyWar campaigns designed to divide the Make America Healthy Again movement. MAHA is increasingly acknowledged as the most significant contemporary US political movement. Those industries, cabals, trade organizations (particularly corporate political action committees), and Medical guilds (AMA, AAP, etc.) that are at risk for losing revenue, stock value, power, and status from the coming policy changes are not going to take this lying down.
Forbidden Facts: Government Deceit & Suppression About Brain Damage from Childhood Vaccines
Author Gavin DeBecker is unquestionably the most important person you have never heard of in the campaign for truth, transparency, and medical freedom during the COVID crisis. The author of the bestseller “Gift of Fear”, Gavin is a personal friend of both Jill and me, as well as Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Tony Lyons (publisher and leader of the MAHA Action 501C4), and an amazing broad cross-section of Hollywood/entertainment elite. One of many examples is that he was a close lifelong friend (since childhood) of actress Carrie Fisher. He has provided quiet behind-the-scenes support for many that you would recognize in the COVID “medical freedom”—movement, including myself. He was the original financial backer of the super-PAC that financially supported RFKjr during his Presidential Campaign. During the COVID crisis until now, DeBecker, author of multiple bestselling books published under his own name, has silently ghostwritten and published important COVID books using the names of others. Now he has decided to publish this important new work under his own name.
How do you counter officious “debunking”? How do you refute government-promoted medical falsehoods, propaganda, and gaslighting? This book leads by example. You carefully, calmly, and objectively cite and document multiple examples of how a fake “debunking” process is deployed. How government, industry and academia collude to craft seemingly definitive but false narratives designed to avoid corporate and governmental accountability. You demonstrate that those doing the “debunking” are actually agents acting at the behest of the organizations facing blowback from their actions, lies, and coverups. You leaven the loaf with a bit of sardonic wit to lighten the reader’s burden as they encounter repeated patterns of fraud. You provide the data proving the inconvenient truths previously obscured by the coverups. And then you let your readers draw their own conclusions. That is precisely what this clearly and persuasively written book does, no more and no less.
I was grateful to receive an advance copy to read and review. Talk about truth bombs! One after another. Once again, as when Bobby Kennedy asked me to edit “The Real Anthony Fauci”, I was struck by the sense that – despite all that I thought I knew about US government, Academic medicine, and Pharma/Bio collusion, misdeeds, propaganda, and just plain outright coverups, there is so much more to know. This is a book both for our times and for the ages. Once again, what I learned is not to trust pseudo-government-sounding organizations like the “National Academy of Sciences’, which is just as much of a government organization as the “Federal Reserve”. Read this carefully researched book, and then make your own determination about the promoted truths and falsehoods concerning the safety of the current US childhood vaccine schedule.
As many are increasingly aware, the worm is turning, and now even Wikipedia is allowing edits to the outright defamation and slander that has been woven into what many now refer as “Wokopedia.” While on “working vacation” recently, I was talking to a colleague who specializes in reputation reconstruction following targeted defamation campaigns, and we started discussing the aggressive editing of my own bio on Wikipedia. To my great surprise, when I looked up the latest version of my Wiki bio, I was pleasantly surprised. The usual sentence that I “spread vaccine misinformation during COVID” (which never defines what that misinformation was and relies on biased corporate media propaganda) is still there. As is a quote from the NY Slimes hit piece on me written by the “disinformation reporter” Davey Alba – after which she was terminated from the NYT. No context provided for that one either, including her uncanny insider knowledge of CIA matters. But all and all, it was packed with accurate and generally favorable new information – including a section on Jill, listing her PhD, and reporting that we have a long-standing stable marriage beginning with being high-school sweethearts.
People often speak to me of “how hard” it must have been/still is to deal with the barrage of censorship and defamation campaigns I have experienced during the last five years. My response is always that what I have had to deal with pales in comparison to President Trump. But right up there is the smear campaign and roll up smears deployed against the “Disinformation Dozen” that include Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Dr. Mercola, and Sayer Ji. Akin to my failed suits against the NYT, WaPo, and various social media influencers that engaged in coordinated delegitimization and defamation campaigns, Sayer has filed a lawsuit against the firm that launched this campaign against him – the Center for Combating Digital Hate (CCDH). Notice how these shadowy astroturf organizations like to give themselves such benign-sounding names?
Unlike my lawsuits, Sayer is making progress. The legal climate has shifted considerably, and judges are increasingly aware that people’s rights have been damaged by these PsyWar campaigns. And now, like my own, his Wikipedia page is starting to come around. If you want to know more about what is going on in his case, I recommend you read this recent Substack.
I hesitate to mention this essay because it will just feed the ongoing trollery. Still, for those of you who have been following the escapades of Jane Ruby and her colleagues and associated outrage farmers Sasha Latypova and Naomi Wolf, there has been an update from “Open Vaet”. Just to address that attack line, “Open Vaet” is not an anonymous pseudonym for me, despite Jane Ruby’s delusions. If for no other reason, it is useful to read and engage with this author and her work to better understand the tactics and strategy being used by the current crop of chaos agents.
It’s been an interesting few days since the release of our coverage – produced with a few selfless anons – of Jane Ruby’s life and how her frauds directly endangered children with opioids, for career advancement… before she mysteriously evaded accountability and emerged unscathed from the lawsuit that led to her company’s $2-billion fine…
Another fascinating and very readable survey, in this case written by an author who is firmly rooted in Academic Medicine but has also decided to come out and put his insights and criticisms of the vaccine enterprise on paper, despite the blowback he is likely to receive. And as was the case with the DeBecker book, I was provided with a publisher’s pre-print to read and review.
Author’s Bio follows as provided by the publisher. Northwestern Med Transplantation Immunology (Chicago- my alma mater) AND Scripps (LaJolla, CA) is about as mainstream medicine as you are going to find. And yet here it is. An amazingly broad analysis of the history of virology, vaccines, molecular biology, and the comprehensive corruption of the entire academic/governmental/pharmaceutical industrial complex inadvertently brought about by the Bayh-Dole Act.
DR. RICHARD K. BURT is a Fulbright Scholar, CEO of Genani Biotechnology, a tenured retired Professor at Northwestern, and current Scripps faculty. He pioneered America’s first hematopoietic stem cell transplant for autoimmune diseases like multiple sclerosis and scleroderma. Dr Burt has seven United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) patents on using induced pluripotent stem (IPS) cells for aging and degenerative diseases.
Dr. Burt was awarded Leukemia Scholar of America, the Lupus Foundation of America Fidelitas Award, the van Bekkum Award by the European Society for Blood and Marrow Transplantation (EBMT), the Distinguished Clinical Achievement Award by the Clinical Research Forum, the EBMT Clinical Achievement Award, and the “Keys to the Vatican” in Rome. He has spoken at numerous conferences, universities, and institutions. Hospitals worldwide offer his stem cell protocols to patients.
Dr. Burt was recognized by Science Illustrated for accomplishing one of the Top 10 medical breakthroughs and by Scientific American as one of the Top 50 individuals for improving humanity and outstanding leadership. Dr Burt has written 150 medical / science articles, four medical textbooks, and two lay books: Everyday Miracles and Kill Switch.
What is the Kill Switch that Dr. Burt refers to in the title? Basically, Burt argues that transparent disclosure of risk and proper informed consent for medical procedures provides the most effective check on out-of-control medical research and mandates.
The scope of this volume is amazing, reaching back to the dawn of the written history of western civilization and the role of Smallpox as both a bioweapon and as a key factor in the collapse of the Roman Empire, through the development of the initial Smallpox vaccines, to the missteps and consequences of early polio vaccine development and deployment, through AIDS, the Ebola vaccine, and ending with the origin of SARS-CoV-2. However it stops short of commenting on the missteps associated with Operation Warp Speed and the genetic vaccines, and to my jaded eye, cautiously side steps a number of controversies that I have had direct experience with. Particularly notable is the lack of a chapter describing the early attempts to develop an RSV vaccine and the problem of vaccine-associated disease enhancement. Despite those mild reservations, I really enjoyed reading this during my recent ‘working vacation’, was fascinated with the many historic facts that the author did discuss, and am completely aligned with his comments and analysis concerning the central critical importance of informed consent as well as the deeply corrupting effects of the Bayh-Dole act.
Another book that is absolutely worth reading, made even more so because the author is so deeply embedded in mainstream academic medicine and biotechnology. The intellectual landscape concerning the modern vaccine and biomedical industrial complex is clearly shifting. This book provides hope that it is moving in the right direction. For those not familiar with the history of vaccination, the role of modern biochemistry and molecular biology, and the ethical issues confronting this sector, this is also an excellent introductory primer.
For the gullible, easily manipulated, and frankly, paranoid personalities, outrage trolling – or really, rage-baiting posts and essays- often cause great confusion and anger, as they are meant to do.
What is outrage trolling or rage-baiting?
(Definitions below) are based on AI queries)
Outrage trolling involves intentionally posting inflammatory, provocative, or offensive content online designed to provoke strong negative emotions like outrage or anger.
It exploits controversial topics or polarizing opinions to spark heated arguments, disrupt discussions, or manipulate groups into public outrage. This behavior is common on social media, comment sections, or forums where emotionally charged content can spread rapidly, increasing division, misinformation, or the visibility of the troll’s message.
Outrage trolling is a specific form of provocative trolling and is closely related to rage-baiting or rage-farming, which also aim to generate engagement by manipulating emotions.
It is related to what I often refer to as “Fear Porn”, but represents a significant departure and evolution of the use of fear to drive clicks, likes, follows, and social media engagement.
**Key features of outrage trolling:**
• **Intentional provocation:** Posts are created to maximize anger or offense.
• **Escalation of conflict:** It often amplifies debates and spreads misinformation through emotionally manipulative tactics.
• **Viral potential:** Emotions like outrage are particularly effective at increasing online engagement and visibility.
**Limitations:** Although related to general trolling behaviors, outrage trolling mainly targets anger and public controversy, not just annoyance, confusion, or humor.
Rage-baiting is a deliberate online tactic aimed at provoking anger or outrage to increase engagement, such as comments, shares, and visibility or revenue. This is often done through inflammatory posts, memes, headlines, or comments intended to trigger strong emotional responses – mainly anger from audiences.
Key aspects of rage-baiting include:
Intentional provocation: Content is crafted to elicit anger or frustration, often without regard for truth or accuracy14.
Engagement-driven: The manipulation is aimed at increasing online interaction, which in turn boosts the post’s visibility due to how social media algorithms reward engagement, regardless of whether it is positive or negative246.
Financial and social incentives: For creators, this can result in more followers, subscribers, and sometimes direct financial gain from increased traffic or monetization27.
Distinction from trolling:While similar to trolling, rage-baiting is usually more calculated, aiming at maximizing algorithmic reward rather than simply upsetting individuals for amusement3.
Common in politics, political influence campaigns, media and marketing: It is also used as a political tactic to manipulate public opinion, distract from issues, or target opponents, sometimes by combining partial truths with misinformation.
Have you stopped beating your wife yet?
There isn’t any way to respond to rage baiting, except to ignore it. That includes queries and comments from the gullible, who don’t seem to understand that the attacks are coordinated and meant to stir up outrage and confusion. Usually for revenue and that these attacks are being coordinated.
It used to bother me a lot, so a few years back, I consulted various experts as to how I should respond. This is the standard playbook that I follow:
“Do Not Engage Emotionally: Trolls thrive on provoking emotional reactions. Responding in anger feeds the cycle and can damage your public image. Maintain a calm, collected, and professional tone in all public interactions123.
Resist the Urge to Respond: In most cases, the simplest and most effective response is silence. Ignoring trolls deprives them of the attention they seek. They often lose steam if there’s no reaction from their target145.
Block and Report: Use moderation tools to block the offender and report abusive content to the platform. Take screenshots before doing so, in case legal action or official reporting becomes necessary.”
The truth is that blocking stops the angst, but reporting does very little.
That said, I personally have recently had a full day with two FBI agents about the harassment, threats, cyberstalking, cyberbullying, psyops, etc. Apparently, an investigation has been launched from within the government.
And yes, we do fear for our lives sometimes.
So, when I don’t respond to the hate, which is designed to cause engagement by the readers, it isn’t that I don’t want to. It is that my responses would literally “feeds the trolls.”
What I don’t know is how many of these attacks are coordinated. I do know that some (maybe most) of the people involved are getting paid to do this. And I know of at least one organization that pays people to write this filth.
I recently received an apology from someone who has been involved in slandering and libeling me. I won’t dox them – but here are parts of their letter (some of it has been redacted both to protect the writer and because of the ongoing investigation0:
“I’ve owed you an apology for quite some time now, and I deeply regret not delivering it sooner. That delay is on me. But I believe we’re now more aligned in how we view things, and I want to be transparent with you. First, the article in question (redacted) was written by me. I regret it deeply. I didn’t write it voluntarily—I was under duress. But that’s not an excuse. I take full responsibility and offer you a sincere apology.
(redacted)
I said things like, “His posts don’t seem to be affecting sales. There’s no reason to go to war with him publicly.” I wanted us to focus on content that mattered to people, not petty drama. I was worried that obsessing over you would sink the business (redacted). But (redacted) shut me down: “We tried ignoring him. He’s not going away. We have to do something.”
I tried to resist further, but I eventually caved to the idea of … (redacted). Drama was the only angle you were vulnerable to because, frankly, you had been right about almost everything. I published (redacted) under the (redacted) name because I did not want my name attached to it.
At first, I didn’t promote it. I was already mad that I was strong-armed into doing this, and I didn’t want to be a part of their drama. I figured no one would even see (redacted) unless I shared it (redacted).
Then came the pressure. (Redacted) called me and said (redacted) was worried I was “wavering”—meaning that I was not passing his loyalty test. At the time, 80% of my income came from (redacted). I caved and chose the path of least resistance.
For that, I am truly sorry. I’m even more sorry that it appears the (redacted) may have harmed your reputation. That’s what weighs on me the most. You didn’t deserve that (redacted), and your criticisms of (redacted) were completely fair.
I see (redacted) for what they are now, and I’m disgusted that they built their success by exploiting my influence and grifting off the medical freedom movement. (redacted) operation deserve to be held accountable. I am sorry that I not only hurt your good name but contributed to their success. If there is anything I can do to make this right, I am open to having that conversation. Sincerely, (redacted)”
(end of letter -sent to my X DM from an account with almost two million followers)
At least one person apologized. More than I ever expected. But this is my world. Sometimes, it is hard not to be bitter or afraid.
The outrage trolling and rage baiting is not “just” about engagement farming. The outrage trolling and rage baiting is coordinated, and yes, pharma is involved.
Secretary Kennedy and his team at HHS are also under attack. From literally all sides. But please understand, none of us subjected to these types of attacks can defend ourselves. We just have to suck it up. No matter how much we want to fight, clear our good name, or strike back with some pithy comment.
The only thing we can do is go quiet. To engage in their war is to lose.
In the meantime, I continue to keep my gate closed, my dogs wild, and my weapons nearby. But not too nearby, because frankly, the risk of getting swatted is great, and makes any defense dangerous. And yes, the widespread deployment of swatting continues unabated, and according to my sources, the FBI won’t do anything to stop it.
The rage baiting against MAHA may eventually get someone killed, and at times, I am afraid it will be me.
There is no winning in this war, except by educating followers and MAHA movement supporters of how this trick is played, in hopes that they will not fall for the bad jacketing and false flag attacks.
In retrospect, was this an attempt by legacy media, at the behest of the deep state controlled by Obama, to set the narrative that the findings of the Mueller report were inaccurate, due to Mueller’s “cognitive aging”?
As the deep state knew dam well that Trump did not collude with the Russians all along and that the report exonerating Trump was exactly what they didn’t want to come out – with the 2020 presidential election on the horizon?
This was propaganda, plain and simple. PsyWar tech was repeatedly deployed by the deep state against American Citizens to delegitimize a duly elected president.
Will there be consequences?
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With Stephen Colbert gone from Cable TV, just think about we all will be missing.
Yah, “that” vaccine dance!
But for anyone who needs more indoctrination and propaganda from our good friends in the pharma industry and government – oh, Stephey delivered so much more!
(If you watched all of that video, you are a better man than I)!
So say we all- Good riddance to bad trash news!
But what about big bird?
Let’s face it, who remembers when “Bird Bird” tried to guilt parents of toddlers into getting their babies vaccinated with an experimental product, to “save” grandma?
And we thought thegood times would never end <insert sarcasm>!
Taking out the trash…
The truth is that when Big Bird became a child predator, it became time to defund PBS.
This week Congress did the right thing. They deserves our gratitude for defunding PBS.
It is past time to eliminate such rubbish from the airwaves.
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My experience working in the Ebola response in 2014 re-enforced a very different lesson than that of the COVID policy wonks, who ran Operation Warp Speed and then the Biden White House Response.
That is that vaccines would never be the answer to an ongoing viral outbreak. Just to say, once again, the genetic “vaccine” products did not work. They did not stop infection, transmission or death. They may have even driven viral evolution towards vax/antibody escape mutants. In the case of the West African Ebola outbreak, it was controlled using non-pharmaceutical interventions. Not vaccines or drugs.
Medical countermeasures for future outbreaks involving pathogens for which we do not have direct-acting anti-pathogen pharmaceuticals must include a response that listens to hands-on physicians tinkering to find medical countermeasures that work in the field. Generic, FDA-approved medicines that have worked in the past for early treatments of disease processes will work in the future. They must be the first line of defense.
Rather than being suppressed, autopsies and fundamental understanding of the pathophysiology of disease caused by novel pathogens must be promoted. Furthermore, public health responses to non-respiratory infectious diseases will differ from those for respiratory contagious diseases. One size does not fit all.
And finally, that the US intelligence community is deeply embedded in the bureaucracy that sets “public health” policies, particularly during infectious disease outbreaks, and works hand-in-glove with Bill Gates, WHO leadership, US State Department, and the giants of the BioPharmaceutical industry, such as “Bio”. And the US “Intelligence” community has repeatedly bungled “public health” policy. They are not equipped for this mission, and should not be meddling in this space. This is yet another example of mission creep.
During COVID, the all-of-government response focused on vaccines and that is what they got (all of government meaning DHS, HHS, DoD, Department of State and CIA/IC). And it was a colossal fail that infringed on fundamental human rights principles.
The USA had far more deaths attributed to COVID per capita than most or all other countries. This response was developed and operationalized by Ron Klain and then by Jeff Zients. Zients was both President Biden’s COVID czar and then moved to Chief of Staff. Jeff Zients WAS one of the key COVID puppetmasters. There must be investigations, and there must be consequences.
We live so far out in the country that even Jehovah’s Witnesses don’t knock on our door.
My life…
Exactly one year ago today, President Trump narrowly escaped an assassination attempt. Just 64 days later, on a Florida golf course, the Secret Service intercepted another potential assassin, Ryan Wesley Routh, who was aiming a rifle through bushes at the President, 400 yards away.
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Tomorrow will be the one-year anniversary of the attempt on President Trump in Butler, PA. There has still be almost no information released by the government regarding this event. No Secret Service agent has been held accountable to any serious extent, with only six agents suspended for brief periods, ranging from 10 to 42 days.
How can that be possible?
BTW- Ryan Wesley Routh’s trial is set to start in September… Let’s see if the dead media actually reports on it – or whether it will be yet another buried story. Not worthy of headline news.
The same goes for cats.
One of the most important acts that Trump did early on was to stop the Federal funding of progressive causes. USAID was symbolic of that – but the WH administration is systematically going through each agency, from HHS to the State Dept, and cleaning out the BS.
Thank goodness!
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Transitioning to a cashless society results in more frustrating self-service machines and reduced personal interactions.
The right to privacy is guaranteed in our Constitution. A cashless society can never protect our right to privacy, there every transaction is recorded and put on the cloud.
Who has access to that data?
How long before hackers, the government or the CCP find ways to use that data without permission?
Some like to call it summer, not climate change…
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According to a new book reviewed by the New York Post, the choice to pick Tim Walz as Kamala Harris’s running mate was based on a gut feeling by Kamala, that was rooted in Walz’s love for Diet Mountain Dew…
It turns out that the other candidates, Shapiro and Kelly, chose water, while Walz requested Diet Mountain Dew during the final interview for the VP position.
Kamala believed that this demonstrated his Midwest credentials and would help her connect with rural voters. She thought Walz would appeal to the flyover states because… well, apparently, rural Americans prefer vice presidential candidates who eat junk food.
Makes sense to me!
That disastrous and frankly bigoted decision cost her the election – right from the start of her campaign.
“He ordered a Mountain Dew, so the Coastal Elites thought he was an authentic midwesterner. They never met someone from the Midwest before, but had seen the Wizard of Oz, a film that takes place in Kansas.”
-Winnie Psaki, comment on NYP article
Can’t make this stuff up.
Musk’s America Party seems to have pretty much fizzled, before it even left the launch pad…
Musk’s fantasy:
Versus the reality:
“How’s the AmericaParty working out now that we know the FEC filing was fake?
As of the latest available information, Elon Musk has not officially filed with the FEC to create the AmericaParty. While Musk announced the formation of the AmericaParty on X on July 5, 2025, following his public feud with President Donald Trump over the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” there is no evidence in FEC records or credible reports confirming that he has submitted formal paperwork to register the party.
Multiple sources note that Musk’s plans appear conceptual at this stage, with no concrete steps toward legal formation, such as setting up a tax identification number, bank account, or treasurer, which are required for FEC registration.”
Some basic facts about homelessness. The homeless population in the U.S. is growing. Recent data indicates a significant increase nationwide, with 2024 recording the highest number of homeless individuals since tracking began. Over 770,000 people were homeless in 2024, surpassing the previous year by more than 118,000. The homelessness rate increased from 1.75 per 1,000 in 2022 to 2.3 per 1,000 in 2024, representing a 30% rise over the two-year period. Overall, the homeless population increased by 18% from 2023 to 2024. Additionally, chronic homelessness, defined as individuals homeless for at least a year or experiencing repeated episodes, grew by nearly 30% between 2020 and 2023 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.
Under the Biden/Harris administration, the U.S experienced the largest increases in homelessness ever recorded, both in terms of the number of people and the percentage rise. Many experts believe that the federal spending and stimulus measures under the Biden administration contributed to inflation, which in turn drove up rents and home prices. Since 2019, rents have grown by more than 27% and home prices by nearly 50%. This forced many people to live on the streets.
Once people become homeless, it is very difficult to find employment and to lift themselves out of poverty. This leads to a spiral of dysfunctional behavior as people no longer have opportunities for a better future.
This is our future, unless we change American culture right now.
This is a children’s playground in Oakland, California. Kamala Harris’ hometown It is now completely overrun with a homeless encampment, trash and needles. This is what Gavin Newsom and Democrats have done to California you don’t see reported on the news.
Not all homeless individuals are without jobs. In the U.S., approximately 53% of those in homeless shelters and 40% of homeless people on the streets are employed in some capacity.
Many homeless individuals are functionally unemployed. About 66 million Americans, or nearly one in four working-age adults, are functionally unemployed—meaning they are either jobless, unable to find full-time work, or earning less than $25,000 annually. That accounts for 24.3 percent of the workforce 7.
Somehow, we have a situation whereby almost 25% of the workforce is functionally unemployed. Yet it is also argued by the experts and industry leaders that we have to import illegal aliens to do our “dirty” jobs. That Americans are incapable or unwilling to mow lawns, do landscaping, garden, do farm work, butcher, houseclean, and even complete basic construction tasks. The list of jobs we rely on illegal immigrants for goes on and on.
Of course, none of these are jobs that AI will replace anytime soon, which is why these “dirty jobs” are the jobs of the future.
But the situation gets worse. Dario Amodei, the CEO of Anthropic, one of the world’s leading creators of artificial intelligence, forecasts that over the next five years, AI could automate or eliminate between 10% and 25% of jobs in advanced economies, with certain sectors and entry-level roles facing even higher risks. The overall global job loss rate due to AI is projected to be between 9% and 14% by 2030, with the most rapid disruption expected between 2025 and 2028 7.
This is the future we all have to prepare for.
Work has become the enemy in the minds of many Americans. For many years now, the USA has been slowly drifting away from core elements of a functional industrialized society. There is a strong belief that a four-year college degree is the best route for most people to achieve success. Pop culture has celebrated the “corner office job,” overlooking the important roles played by the workers and jobs that helped create that office.
Moreover, the traditional and essential roles of maintaining a household and raising a family have been denigrated.
Because of this, many see other pathways to success, like trade schools, apprenticeships, and certification programs, as less valuable or just “alternatives.” Well-meaning parents and counselors often view apprenticeships and on-the-job training as suboptimal options, relegated only to individuals who aren’t suited for a college degree in some manner.
This focus on higher education is in part due to a decline in vocational programs and trades classes in high schools nationwide. Unfortunately, these trends have contributed to a growing skills gap. A gap for which the solution for many small and large businesses is to either hire illegal immigrants or export their labor needs overseas.
Last Monday, I was at an event in DC, speaking with a conservative who matter-of-factly told me that we have to import labor because Americans are not going to go out and cut their grass or clean their own houses anytime soon.
However, here’s the thing: when things get bad enough, or the stigma is removed from such jobs, they will. And that is the future we have to plan for and enable.
On Sunday, we had dinner with a German family visiting the States. I was speaking to Julian, who is a German housewife. She and I were discussing the dire economic situation in Germany, primarily caused by the large influx of immigrants. The proportion of people in Germany who are immigrants, as well as their children (where both parents are immigrants), is almost 25%.
Juxtapose this with Poland. Immigrants in Poland represent about 7% of the population, and the vast majority of immigrants in Poland are from Europe. Poland’s economy is expanding at one of the fastest rates in the European Union. There is almost no unemployment. Why is this? One of the main reasons is that Poland has not taken on vast numbers of immigrants, unlike Germany. Germany is awash in immigrants who can not find work and are now relying on government services to live. [Nie słyszał o Zełanskim i Ukraińcach? md]
According to Julian, the economy in Germany is so bad that now some Polish people are actually hiring German women to clean their houses. This is an exact reversal of the situation a few years back, when Germans hired Polish women to clean their houses.
Another reason the Polish economy is thriving is that it has a highly skilled labor force. Poland has made significant, ongoing investments in teaching people the trades. This has been achieved through a combination of government funding, employer incentives, and curriculum modernization. The result is that in Poland, a more flexible and industry-aligned vocational education system has been established, equipping both youth and adults with the skills necessary for the modern economy. [fantazjuje… md]
There is a lesson to be learned from all of this for America. We must prepare for a future where trades, including manufacturing, play a significantly larger role in the economy.
Work must become not an enemy of the middle class as it is now, but their savior. And this major shift in thinking must happen rapidly.
Unfortunately, our primary and secondary schools teach children that attending college is the path to success, implying that without a college education, one cannot achieve a successful career or true mental enlightenment. College has replaced religion as the citadel of knowledge. Teachers are teaching what they were taught in college, that the pathway to success and happiness lies in a “good education.” That the trades are something we hire “others” to do. That the domestic arts are not of value. This has to change.
The Department of Education should start by creating educational materials for elementary schools that highlight the advantages of entrepreneurship, the requirements of trades careers, and the positive impact on families of such employment. These materials should emphasize that working in an industrialized setting or as a tradesperson offers stability and job security, along with opportunities for family and leisure time. That a career in the trades requires as much or more skill than a college degree. That such a career is desirable and a goal worthy of a young person’s consideration. Additionally, a vocational education system aligned with industry needs must be implemented in high schools immediately. This system should equip students with essential skills for the modern economy, taking into account the impact of AI on various industries. High schools need to stop hiring teachers with four-year degrees and instead hire skilled tradespeople.
The USA has a huge unmet need for tradespeople, and lots of high paying jobs are going begging for applicants/
To Make America Great Again, Make the Trades Great Again!
Of course, this will be implemented on a state-by-state level, as it should be. But as long as we have a Department of Education, it can be used constructively to facilitate these changes.
We can not afford to be like Germany, whereby we have a vast immigrant population and not enough jobs. In the USA, we already have almost 25% of our workforce as functionally unemployed, capped off by a growing illegal immigrant population. This imbalance is unsustainable. Without a strong economy and good jobs, our birth rates will continue to decline, and our nation will stagnate economically. Overnight what constitutes a “good job” has changed, and Americans must adapt to this new reality.
The golden future for America is work. Real work. Not bullshit make-work jobs.
That means, good-paying jobs that have meaning, but that do not require a college degree. People have to be re-educated to view such jobs as worthy of their time and effort. This will require that our children learn to work again. This will require that many college-educated people be retrained for jobs in the trades.
For our families, they must reorient to this new reality. Saturday morning chores, which require our children to perform real work, must become the norm again. Families must relearn that the risk-benefit ratio of being outside and playing will cause more injuries, but that is offset by strong, healthy bodies. That children learn that physical work is not to be avoided, but rather to be embraced. That parents set an example and work with their children to clean the house, teach organizational skills – the domestic arts as well as how to use a screw driver, how to mow their lawns, plant vegetables and keep chickens. These basic homesteading skills teach children how to move their bodies and teach muscle memory. A child who has spent their life on their cell phone is not equipped for the world that awaits them.
I had a little chuckle yesterday when someone commented that my homesteading posts seemed elitist because they thought most people couldn’t homestead. But that really isn’t the case at all! Even folks living in apartments can enjoy a vegetable garden or try their hand at hydroponics. Learning a craft like knitting or how to cook to feed a family is all part of the self-sustainability movement. This isn’t elitist; it looks towards a different future. His inability to understand this reality and message reveals that a certain mindset is at play, one that makes it seem like tradecraft and a lifestyle focused on self-sustainability are out of reach for most Americans.
The cognitive dissonance that homesteading and prepping are elitist, while also viewing the domestic arts and trades as inferior uses of time, is a real phenomenon. This is a result of our educational system and media.
Teaching basic skills in our educational programs is critical to the well-being of society. Home economics must become a core curriculum, along with how to use tools. I took shop classes in high school – woodworking, metalworking, auto, drafting, at the same time I took advanced algebra, chemistry and biology and participated in the California gifted and talented high school training program. I would not have the skill sets I have needed throughout my life if I had not done this. That was California back in the 70s. All gone now, all gone woke.
Modernizing those old educational programs and making them the centerpiece of a model educational system is a critical step in shaping the American economy for the future. Those old-fashioned jobs in industry combined with modern training for skills involving robotics and artificial intelligence have to be elevated to the place in the hearts of Americans that they deserve.
“Behind the Curtain of the New CDC Panel on Vaccines: Dr. Robert Malone and Retsef Levi”
After retiring the entire prior membership of the CDC Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) and appointing first eight, then seven (one could not resolve conflict of interest concerns) new ACIP members, a wave of coordinated media attacks on both Secretary Kennedy and those he appointed hit the internet, newsstands and corporate cable news broadcasts. This time, the approved narrative was that none of the newly appointed members were qualified or had any vaccine-related experience. Whether congratulations or condolences were due, I was one of those whom Secretary Kennedy appointed and passed the conflict of interest review. But what I actually am is a highly experienced academic and commercial vaccine developer, and all of my fellow appointees have deep, highly relevant experience and expertise. To the surprise of precisely no-one who has been paying attention to details or to how fake news media likes to spin up fear to advance the interests of their corporate sponsors.
The decisions made during the first meeting of the reconstituted ACIP were quite conservative (in the classical sense) and most definitely based on objective analysis of available data tempered with a focus on patients (and their children) rather than physician and corporate interests. However, after the meeting there was a lot of criticism of the decisions made. Criticism from all sides. It seems that no-one got exactly what they wanted, and they were mad as hell about it. The sense of entitlement ran strong in these ones.
I suggested that Epoch Times should be allowed to interview myself and Dr. Retsef Levi to discuss what just had happened during the meeting, and examine the logic, discussion and internal ACIP member dissent revolving around those decisions so that others can see for themselves how this new team approached these issues. Fortunately, the HHS Press Office agreed to this proposal, the resulting interview has now been released, and a copy is provided below in native Substack format so that you can view for free.
Hopefully this will demonstrate to all concerned that, in fact, the “new” ACIP committee is not a rubber stamp organization, that the members take their assigned tasks very seriously, and that they have the necessary knowledge, skills, and abilities to do the job and do it well.
Yes, the interview gets a bit technical in places. We tried to avoid diving too deep into “The Science”. Please keep in mind that there are two general audiences being targeted here. First and most importantly, the citizens of the United States. Secondly, the nattering nabobs of the self-annointed vaccine expert caste. The deeper science discussions are targeting the latter, and demonstrate that these will continue to embarrass themselves if they persist with the false narrative that the new ACIP is inexperienced and incompetent.
I hope that, at a minimum, each of you learn something from the interview.
“This is the full version of Jan Jekielek’s interview with Dr. Robert Malone and Retsef Levi, released on July 5th, 2025.
Recently, the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) met for the first time after Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. replaced its entire membership with new picks. In this episode, I’m sitting down with two new ACIP members, Dr. Robert Malone and MIT professor Retsef Levi, for a deep dive into all things ACIP.
“They basically impact billions of dollars of revenue for the pharmaceutical industry. So there’s big money at stake here. There’s big policy at stake,”
Malone.
“One of the problems that we had in the context of vaccines, and more broadly maybe pharmaceutical products, is that debate was considered confusing to patients and something that we should avoid,”
Levi
We take a look at some key discussions during the recent meeting, from thimerosal in certain flu vaccines to RSV shots for children, and what may happen with this committee moving forward.
“What you’re seeing here is a firm commitment on the part of these two volunteers, and I think the committee as a whole, in trying to be open and transparent to the general public”
Malone
CHAPTER TITLES
0:00:00 – Introduction to ACIP and New Committee Members
This headline has garnered so much attention on social media that I was asked to participate in an interview last night to discuss the topic. First, I had to clarify that I cannot be interviewed about ACIP issues without prior clearance from HHS Communications. Once that was understood, at 6:00 PM (dinner time!) I dialed in via Zoom, and we talked on the record. No, I do not know if or when the interview will be aired. Before the interview, as usual, I did the necessary diligence to avoid embarrassing myself due to ignorance, keeping in mind the first rule of social media.
It is often better to stay quiet and have people wonder if you are ignorant than to tweet and remove all doubt.
Let’s dive into the details. I think that this particular situation provides a great example of how bias, combined with insufficient background and subject matter experience, can lead to unjustified clickbait headlines. This is a chronic problem on both sides of the mRNA “vaccine” safety debate, one which makes it so, so much harder to get to the bottom of all of this.
I will try to explain so that most can understand, but it may get a little technical. The nuances of clinical research study design and implementation are complicated. Please try to stick it out, if for no other reason than it does lead back to some statements from CDC’s Captain Dr. Sarah Meyer (CDC/NCEZID) during her recent presentation titled “COVID-19 safety update” regarding long-term outcomes from COVID-19 mRNA product myocarditis. Consider that an embedded easter egg.
To illustrate how much traction this article received, below is a clipped post from Canadian influencer Liz Churchill, which has garnered about a million views as I write this. Now, I have no issues with Liz Churchill. She follows me, pretty sure I follow her. She often posts content I find interesting. She does tend towards being a bit strident, and like many (particularly some Canadians), she has been radicalized by what we all have experienced during the COVIDcrisis. But for the sake of discussion, let’s look at Mr. Frank Bergman’s alarming Slay News article that she was posting about from the point of view of the question in her “X” post. Rephrasing and dialing the rhetoric back a bit, Liz basically poses the question, “Why is it legal for Pfizer to delay this study until 2030?”
As a starting point, when asked to comment with a video record, my first reaction was to go along with this narrative. Pfizer and FDA had clearly previously attempted to keep adverse event data concerning the “Comirnaty” mRNA product from independent scrutiny for a very long period of time, and it took legal action and a court order to get those data released.
Querying Grok on the topic with the question “Did Pfizer and FDA try to hide adverse event data about Comirnaty?” yielded the following summary conclusion:
While delays in data release and trial oversight issues raised suspicions, there’s no conclusive evidence that Pfizer or the FDA systematically hid adverse event data. The FOIA process, though slow, followed legal protocols, and adverse event reports were publicly accessible, with limitations clearly stated. However, skepticism persists due to the initial timeline, whistleblower allegations, and distrust in institutional transparency.
Well, that is one AI’s interpretation of events. I personally take a bit darker view of what happened in light of the assertion that it would require until 2076 to release these documents. Still, in the end, the data were disclosed, as I had suggested to Steve Bannon the War Room Posse was recruited to review the documents. Feminist writer, PhD Dr. Naomi Wolff (neither trained nor experienced in science or medicine), then published her summary of their findings.
I think that we can all agree that, in the context of Pfizer, FDA, and Comirnaty, “distrust in institutional transparency” is an understatement. When viewed through that experience, this Slay News headline appears as the same three players coming together again to rub salt into the gaping wound of public trust. I admit that was my reaction when I saw posts about the article. Here they go again. What arrogance! New administration, and still the same old… stuff. Kick the can down the road to avoid accountability. Yawn. Old news. Move on to the next click.
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Reszta w oryginale, bo długie,a istota tu już jest md]
New York is already lost. The best they can hope for now is that Eric Adams manages to capture enough votes to win in November.
But this poisoned apple is the gift that keeps on giving to the Republicans. His radical views will be used as talking points for the mid-term elections!
One of his slogans was “globalize the intifada,”
Zohran Mamdani has taken a clear and public stance in support of expanding access to gender-affirming care for transgender youth in New York City
A citywide rent freeze on all rent-stabilized units
Creation of a Social Housing Development Agency to build 200,000 units of publicly owned, affordable housing over the next decade
Increased taxes on the wealthy and corporations, including a proposed 2% city income tax on those earning over $1 million, and higher corporate taxes
Free public transportation and subsidized groceries
Universal childcare
Expanded tenant protections and an end to no-fault evictions
Zohran Mamdani has a well-documented history of supporting the movement to defund the police
Let’s make Mamdani the new face of the Democratic Party!
2028 here we come!
Code switching with Zohran Mamdani!
“If this socialist mayoral candidate wins in New York City, you’re gonna see real estate values skyrocket even more in Palm Beach, because people are gonna get out of that city.”
Gov. DeSantis
On to Florida, where governing is done a little differently than in NYC!
Gators, ICE, and Florida – a partnership few could have dream of!
If you aren’t up to speed on the Gator news story, stay with me on this and watch the video below:
Why alligators and ICE?
The connection between alligators and the Department of Homeland Security’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) stems from the new migrant detention facility being built on an abandoned airport in the Florida Everglades, which has been nicknamed “Alligator Alcatraz.” The facility’s remote location is situated in an area surrounded by alligator-infested swampland, serving as both a literal security feature and a theme in government communications and memes.
‘Gators have been used in official DHS statements and social media memes, which are pretty darn funny!
Even better, the DEI Democrat organizations immediately tried (and failed) to make the alligator link politically incorrect. The usual suspects – that is, the radical arm of the environmental movement, Native American groups, and illegal immigrant advocates are now protesting the facility, citing both “ecological harm” and “cultural insensitivity.” I just love to think of these progressives out in the middle of mosquito-infested, nowhere land, in the blazing hot sun, protesting the repurposing of an old airport.
Below are “real” images from the protests happening outside of the facility.
Honestly, the absurdity is beyond funny, and if the DHS branding themselves as alligators is what the Democrats’ plan of attack will be in the 2026 and 2028 election cycles, more power to them!
Yeh- this is going to go over like a lead balloon in 2026!
Blast from the Past- Just in case you missed this, JD Vance has his own opinion on the topic of “childless cat ladies”. Which then triggered a dead media meltdown.
The ability of these AI systems to influence our sub-conscious, our lizard brain is huge. Know that even as you remain skeptical, they are training your implicit biases.
Stay serious, my friends…
True story, as written by a local HVAC repairman in Virginia.
I just learned that I have been appointed co-chair of the ACIP (Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices at the CDC) by HHS Secretary Kennedy. Boy, that was never on my bucket list.
I did not wish for this, but I will do my best to be objective, honest, transparent, and rigorous, and to act with integrity.
Keeping this short, as I have more meetings today, but I just wanted to share the news with my Substack subscribers who have shown so much support for us over the years. You all have no idea how much it means to Jill and me.
Speaking at an anti-vaccine rally in 2022, Malone spread dangerous falsehoods about mRNA Covid-19 vaccines: “These genetic vaccines can damage your children. They may damage their brains, their heart, their immune system and their ability to have children in the future. Many of these damages cannot be repaired.”
By the way, besides being a pro-pharma propaganda rag, Wired magazine appears to have ties with, shall we say, “the intelligence community”
Hold on to your horses there, “Beth Mole”, Tech Bro.
What do you think myocarditis is? What do you think blood clots do? What do you think the damage to the pituitary/hypothalamac/gonadal axis is? What do you think that passing a decidual clot in a pre-menopausal girl is? Do you think these are not damaging? And you got your training in Pathology and Medicine where?
This is just one of many examples currently being pushed by dead media to delegitimize the current Secretary of Health and Human Services and build the false narrative that both RFK jr and his appointees are wild-eyed crazies.
NBC news, for example, just invents quotes that I did not write concerning Measles and Measles vaccines. Measles vaccines are 60 – 80 % effective, depending on the study and context. That means that, on average, if you expose 100 people to an infectious dose of measles, 20 – 40 of them will get infected. Technically, that is what is called in the business a leaky vaccine. Measles vaccines are live attenuated, and at a low frequency will genetically revert and can cause measles, and others can be infected when this happens. The recent West Texas outbreak happened in a Mennonite community. Mennonites historically, for decades, do not generally vaccinated their children. This has nothing to do with RFKjr. It is a historic fact. An immigrant family introduced wild-type measles into that Mennonite community, and it spread like wildfire – measles virus is extremely infectious but rarely lethal. Some in the surrounding region who thought they were protected became infected. See above statistics. Two young girls died. Their medical records demonstrated that their immediate cause of death were 1) inadequately treated mycoplasma pneumonia, and 2) inadequately treated hospital acquired E coli pneumonia. Not measles.
Another example, from the “Associated Press”, states that “Malone, who runs a wellness institute and a popular blog, rose to prominence during the COVID-19 pandemic as he relayed conspiracy theories around the outbreak and the vaccines that followed.” Apparently the Associated Press is confused about the difference between myself and Dr. Peter McCullough. I do not run a “wellness institute”, whereas Peter is the CSO for The Wellness Company. The capabilities of these reporters and their editors to even factcheck their own work product appears to be…. limited.
I have previously written about the roll up smear in our book “PsyWar, Enforcing the New World Order”, and here is a relatively mild example of that strategy being deployed by the generally more centrist “News Nation”.
The wrap-up Smear is a deflection tactic whereby a smear is made-up and leaked to the press. The press then amplifies the smear and publishes it, which conveys legitimacy. Then another organization or author can use the press coverage of the smear as a validation to write a summary story which is the wrap-up smear.
The teaser prelude to the piece (before the break) was to frame me as one of the “Nation’s leading vaccine skeptics”. Then the opening cuts to headlines attacking the Secretary of HHS and his legitimacy. Then it transitions to the Wired Magazine smear piece, and then comes the wrap-up.
Key context for this includes the following:
HHS/CDC communications leadership has asked me to not engage in interviews concerning the ACIP, and to refer interview requests to designated CDC personnel.
I have a booker, paid for by Skyhorse publishing, that sets up interviews to promote sales of the “PsyWar” book. News Nation went through her to book me, but did not disclose that the intention was to discuss the ACIP situation rather than the book.
I get a notice from the booker yesterday that she has lined me up for a News Nation interview last night (9:30 PM). Nothing shared about the topic, which I presume is the book. I log on and am told that the interview will be all about the ACIP. An ambush wrap-up smear. At that point I have two options – tough it out and then inform the CDC press people that this happened, or cancel at the last minute. I decide to go ahead, but start by refuting the lede that I am one of the Nation’s leading vaccine skeptics, and then do what I can to defend the Secretary and the current CDC/ACIP.
I admit that this exchange was pretty unsettling, and I had a very restless night. It did not help that we left the front door cracked open and one of the dogs got sprayed by a skunk, and then came into the bedroom to lie down.
In the AM, I wrote the notifications to the CDC press personnel so that they would not be surprised. In the afternoon I received a very supportive call from a senior white house official, along with a gentle suggestion to not do any more interviews at least until next week’s ACIP meeting was over, a conclusion already reached between myself, the publisher and the booker.
Never a dull moment. Now I have to sign off because our senior Stallion (Jade) just broke out of his paddock and is busy trying to convince the mares that it is time for making whoopee, and he has to be caught and put back in against his will.
Malone News cross-posted a post from Randall Bock
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