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00:00:00.000Hello and welcome to a very special edition of Stay Free with Russell Brand.
00:00:05.000Every week I have an in-depth conversation with free thinkers, radicals, academics, thought leaders and influencers to access truths that we wouldn't find anywhere else today.
00:00:18.000Dr. John came to prominence on YouTube during the pandemic, sharing his incredible insights to a unique global situation, presenting complex medical data, usually data that hadn't been credibly addressed by the mainstream media, often with his unique John Campbell shot from above signature shots, where he would talk us through data, occasionally giving something a tick Or maybe a thoughtful sigh or a hmm that doesn't seem quite right.
00:00:46.000We are honoured and excited to have Dr John with us in our studio today as well as that particular and gloriously iconic piece of apparatus.
00:00:56.000For the first 10 minutes you can watch us wherever you're watching us right now but after that we're going to click over onto Rumble so we can speak openly and freely about complex ideas And sometimes those ideas may be at odds with the interests of centralised globalist authority.
00:01:12.000Therefore, we're on a platform that guarantees us free speech.
00:01:15.000And it is our intention to ensure that that free speech brings people together, that justifies community, collective power and democracy against centralised elite interests wherever we find it.
00:01:26.000So please welcome our special guest to Stay Free, it's Dr. John Campbell.
00:01:47.000It's called Physiology Notes, so it's all the sort of basic systems of the body.
00:01:51.000Because what's important is there's a lot of people putting forward ideas.
00:01:56.000And if those ideas are inconsistent with fundamental science, with things we know to be correct, then the idea is probably not correct itself.
00:02:05.000That's part of the evidence base, you know, we know the background of the science and we like to be consistent with that.
00:02:11.000Can you give me a clear example, Doctor, of how that evidence-based science is being compromised or contradicted in a There's a really interesting one that I'm actually quite worried about.
00:02:25.000So at the moment, the British government have decided to produce, in cooperation with Moderna, a plant to produce 250 million.
00:02:34.000MESSENGER ribonucleic acid vaccines a year.
00:02:38.000Similar plant planned for Canada, 100 million doses a year.
00:02:44.000And of course, they're already producing it in the United States.
00:02:47.000But the thing about that is with the mRNA vaccines, it actually goes into the circulatory system.
00:02:53.000It's supposed to stay in the arm, but it actually circulates to quite some degree.
00:02:57.000And these lipid nanoparticles that the mRNA is in goes into the cells and it's the cells themselves that produce the antigen.
00:03:08.000The thing the immune system recognizes as being foreign.
00:03:11.000Now, if that's in your arm, that's kind of okay, because the mRNA will go into the muscle cells in your arm, produce this antigen, it will go onto the surface of the cells in your arm, and that will give you a bit of a sore arm because of the inflammatory reaction.
00:03:25.000But if we're getting systemic absorption, if we understand the way the circulatory system works, We know that from the arm, there's some systemic absorption of these mRNA particles around the body.
00:03:37.000Of course, it circulates around the body.
00:03:39.000Of course, the blood from your arm drains back through the heart, goes out to the lungs, goes back to the heart, but then it's going through the heart.
00:03:48.000Now, the cell membranes in the heart are very similar to the cell membranes in your arm.
00:03:54.000So, if the systemic absorption and these things are floating around the body, There's nothing in theory to stop these lipid nanoparticles absorbing into the myocardial muscle cells, the heart muscle cells producing the antigen, and then the immune system recognizing that and generating an inflammatory response, potentially in the heart.
00:04:13.000Now, if that's in the myocardium, we call that myocarditis.
00:04:17.000If that's in the pericardium, we call that pericarditis.
00:04:19.000And they're both really potential serious conditions.
00:04:22.000So we've got a fundamental scientific question here, based on the axioms of science that we've known about for hundreds of years, that really haven't been answered.
00:04:31.000And yet people are plowing ahead with this massive Cooperation between Moderna in this case and our governments to produce huge amounts of vaccine for which there may be a potentially fundamental problem that means they can't be used.
00:04:47.000So there you've got an interesting conflict really or certainly a paradox at the moment where science is saying one thing and potential interest or even potential vested interest, who knows, is saying something else and the two don't quite marry up.
00:05:04.000So we have to keep going back to the original science to see where reality lies.
00:05:09.000Obviously, Dr. John, as a prolific YouTuber, I'm relying on you to demark where the WHO's stroke YouTube's guidelines suggest this conversation should be curtailed and directed.
00:05:23.000What's of enormous interest to me, is precisely this point of contra interest and vested interest where we find that there are economic and financial outcomes that are favorable that perhaps mean that science and clinical research in particular becomes a subset of those interests
00:05:43.000And that there's such a will for particular outcomes that the facts are often neglected, negated or ignored.
00:05:51.000And also the media reporting on these facts and the whole phenomena of the pandemic.
00:05:55.000One of the things you did so expertly, if I may say, is that you focused forensically, solely and modestly on data.
00:06:04.000And also it seemed to me that you went on An interesting journey, as I suppose scientists must, as data alters, the narrative alters, and the scientists and indeed science's perspective must alter.
00:06:17.000We started, one of the key examples, I think, is the way that, just to take one example, It's the way that the story around vitamin D, a relatively uncontroversial and now I guess empirically demonstrable fact that can be sort of represented.
00:06:33.000Can you talk us through a little bit what happened with vitamin D?
00:06:35.000Because I remember 18 months ago that saying, oh vitamin D might be helpful in fighting this virus.
00:06:42.000That was like saying, there are people living at the centre of the earth and they're reptiles and they're against us.
00:06:55.000And of course, if we live in England as we do, this time of year you're not getting any sun exposure so we're not making much vitamin D.
00:07:02.000Now, vitamin D is one of the fat-soluble vitamins.
00:07:04.000They're A, D, E, and K. And we used to think that these vitamins can be stored for quite a long period of time.
00:07:11.000But it appears, if you go on your holiday, or you get some nice sun in August and September in England, that by the time Christmas comes around, you've basically got very low levels of vitamin D in your blood.
00:07:24.000So throughout winter, we're not making enough vitamin D.
00:07:27.000So pretty well everyone in the UK, and we know it's also true in the northern states, especially of course people with darker coloured skins, who make it much more slowly, they're chronically short of vitamin D. Now we used to think that vitamin D was important for bone and teeth health, and of course it still is.
00:07:43.000If you haven't got enough vitamin D you can get rickets and you can get bendy bones in children.
00:07:46.000It's still a problem in some parts of the world.
00:07:49.000But we now know there's vitamin D receptors in a lot of different cells in the body.
00:07:54.000And vitamin D is necessary for the activation of hundreds if not thousands of genes.
00:08:00.000So there are vitamin D receptors in all of the immune cells.
00:08:04.000The white cells that deal with immunity, the variety of white cells.
00:08:08.000If you haven't got enough vitamin D and these receptors are not stimulated, then the enzymic systems in those cells are not going to work properly and you're going to have a suboptimal immune system.
00:08:19.000So we have lots of people with suboptimal immune systems, purely because they're not getting enough vitamin D.
00:08:25.000And because we don't get it in the diet, we're not getting it in the sunshine, the only way is to supplement it.
00:08:30.000Now, normally we don't recommend too many supplements, but vitamin D is one that's important.
00:08:36.000And just as an aside, people that are taking vitamin D should also take some vitamin K2 with it.
00:08:42.000Again, it sounds like I'm just recommending another supplement, which in a sense I am.
00:08:47.000But the vitamin K2 comes from fermented food.
00:09:08.000But a lot of people in England, the traditional diet, we're not eating fermented food.
00:09:11.000So we need to take some K2 in addition to that.
00:09:15.000And that means that any liberated calcium goes into your bones to give you strong bones and teeth, rather than going into the tissues of the body where it can cause Problems.
00:09:24.000But vitamin D receptors in all of these immune cells, and if you haven't got enough vitamin D, the immune system is probably not working as well.
00:09:32.000But to take data, because we like to be fairly specific, there's a meta-analysis just studied on this recently, which looks at pre-diabetes.
00:09:40.000So at the moment in the United Kingdom, I don't know if you want to have a guess, Russell, what proportion of the percentage of people in the United States have got diabetes or pre-diabetes?
00:09:51.000In the United States, whole population, what percentage?
00:10:00.000It's about 7% of people that are diabetic at the moment.
00:10:03.000Poorer countries like Cambodia, for example, where there's been a lot of malnutrition in the past and now there's a better diet, it can be 20 or 30 percent of the population.
00:10:10.000It's an absolute pandemic of diabetes.
00:10:13.000So there was a three year study carried out in the States where they gave vitamin D supplements to people that were pre-diabetic.
00:10:21.000That is people that weren't quite diabetic yet, but they were struggling and would become diabetics in the next few years.
00:10:28.000And of course, if you're diabetic, that predisposes to a whole range of possible medical problems, heart disease, circulatory problems.
00:10:37.000Problems to the peripheral circulation resulting in black feet, kidney disease, diabetic blindness, there's a whole range of problems that can be associated with that.
00:10:46.000But what they found is giving these people vitamin D reduced by quite a significant percentage the number of people that went on to be diabetic and it was around about a 78% relative risk reduction by giving vitamin D. The doses that were given were normally about 4,000 units a day.
00:11:11.000Preferably, I would give it every day.
00:11:13.000And that dramatically reduced the amount of people that are pre-diabetic going on to develop diabetes.
00:11:19.000Now it is true, as the British Diabetic Association says, that obesity is the main single factor in the development of type 2 diabetes.
00:11:29.000But people that are obese are even more likely to be vitamin D deficient.
00:11:34.000Because vitamin D is a fat-soluble vitamin.
00:11:37.000And if you take some vitamin D and you're obese, it's going to fill up your fatty reserves first.
00:11:41.000So you'd have to give someone with vitamin D probably 10 times, someone with obesity 10 times as much vitamin D to get it into their blood as you would to someone who's got a low amount of adiposity, a low amount of fatty tissue in the body.
00:11:54.000So why on earth don't we reduce the amount of people getting pre-diabetes developing into diabetes by 78% with a relatively simple evidence-based intervention?
00:12:05.000And if we treated 30 people in this way, every 30 people we treated would prevent one case of people becoming diabetic.
00:12:14.000And that's actually a really quite a good ratio.
00:12:16.000Compared to some of the ratios I've heard lately, that seems like a very effective way of treating.
00:12:21.000I think everyone should have to take vitamins, whether they want to or not.
00:12:25.000Not just for themselves, but for everybody else.
00:12:28.000It's astonishing listening to you, Doctor, to Even contemplate given your obsession over details data and facts that you could ever be regarded as anything other than a diligent professional and yet you have had a YouTube strike which shows that this is obviously just my opinion that there are areas where
00:12:52.000This kind of censorship, or at least these kind of measures, are undertaken not in order to protect people, but for some other agenda.
00:13:01.000Now, also, Dr. John, most people will know that over the course of the pandemic, your perspective altered somewhat radically.
00:13:10.000You're certainly not a person that could ever be described as an anti-vaxxer, because I believe you advocate for vaccination in all sorts of instances.
00:13:19.000I want to ask you, doctor, about AstraZeneca in particular, yellow card events.
00:13:24.000I want to ask you about the censorship that's taken place during this pandemic.
00:13:28.000I want to ask you about your style and by God am I keen to see that overhead camera.
00:13:42.000So the yellow card system is the way that we report adverse events to any medication or to vaccines in the UK.
00:13:49.000And originally it was yellow cards at the bottom, the back of the British National Formula, where you still get these yellow pieces of paper.
00:13:55.000You can fill them out and send them in.
00:13:56.000Of course, these days it's mostly done online.
00:13:58.000Now, the problem with the yellow card system is it depends on people actually getting round to and doing it.
00:14:04.000So MHRA itself, Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency, has Wow.
00:14:09.000recognized only about 10% of severe adverse reactions get reported. So
00:14:15.000basically this yellow card system that the UK depends on you could say is
00:14:19.000pretty well 90% useless. Wow. Because people simply don't get around to doing
00:14:22.000it and for the more sort of less serious side effects the estimate only two to
00:14:28.000four percent are reported but that's what we've actually got.
00:14:51.000Part of it is they might not actually report that to a nurse or a doctor.
00:14:55.000If they do report it to a nurse or a doctor, it's an extra job, isn't it?
00:14:58.000You know, you've got to spend 10 minutes going through the form, doing it yourself.
00:15:01.000Of course, any member of the public can report it.
00:15:04.000I developed higher blood pressure than I'd ever had in my life after my third dose of the vaccine.
00:15:09.000So at that point you were just taking vaccines, you were into it?
00:15:12.000Well, I've been giving vaccines out all my life.
00:15:16.000I've organised teaching programmes for people giving out vaccines for diseases like polio, which have been virtually eradicated with the vaccination.
00:15:25.000The only places we've still got polio now Parts of Africa and parts of Pakistan and a few areas in Asia where there is no security, where vaccine teams aren't free to go.
00:15:37.000Apart from that, polio has been basically eradicated.
00:15:40.000Now, you go into any village in Asia, Cambodia, India, anywhere like that, and you see terrible, still young people with polio form deformities.
00:15:49.000And that has basically been eradicated with vaccination.
00:15:51.000Now, people debate smallpox, but there's no question in my mind The main reason we don't have smallpox now is it was eradicated with vaccination.
00:16:00.000And I've seen people with intensive care with tetanus.
00:16:05.000The people we're getting with tetanus tend to be people in the 70s and 80s who were vaccinated as young children or young adults and the vaccine has worn off.
00:17:00.000Yes because so then not only was the were the initial releases around the vaccine efficacy potentially misleading but also the very nature of the medicine was misleading.
00:17:13.000Do you think that that was possibly deliberate that they didn't from the get-go say oh by the way this is some crazy new thing we're all up to?
00:17:20.000to. They said this is a thing like so that even the first wave of medical professionals
00:17:26.000would recognize the terminology, the language, the pathology that it was meant to address
00:17:32.000as something recognizable rather than, oh, I mean, this is experimental. Do you think
00:19:01.000This is getting the body to produce the antigen.
00:19:04.000And as we've said, it's not just produced in the arm, it can be produced anywhere in the body, causing an inflammatory reaction, potentially anywhere in the body.
00:19:12.000Not only that, the way we give the injections.
00:19:18.000When I was 18, my charge nurse taught me how to give intramuscular injections.
00:19:22.000You stick the needle in, in the right place, then you draw back.
00:19:26.000And when you draw back, your blood comes into that syringe, you're in a vessel, you don't inject.
00:19:31.000And this is the way we've done intramuscular injections for a hundred years since they've been invented.
00:19:38.000But then the WHO changed the criteria for vaccinating children because they thought it was less painful.
00:19:43.000And with the traditional vaccines, if you're given an inadvertent intravascular injection, you stick it in and by chance you just happen to hit a blood vessel.
00:19:52.000With an ordinary vaccine, that probably doesn't matter too much.
00:19:55.000It probably just means that it wouldn't be as effective.
00:19:58.000With this new vaccine, these new vaccines, in vaccines in inverted commas, I think we'd have to say now, if you give that in a blood vessel, then you're going to get immediate systemic absorption of that.
00:20:27.000And this inflammation, notably, as you've already explained, and it's the first time I've understood it actually, can take place in the heart, and that's what myocarditis is.
00:20:35.000Now, AstraZeneca was quite quickly and quietly withdrawn.
00:20:43.000can be systemically absorbed, so there is a degree of myocarditis, pericarditis, and other inflammatory conditions.
00:20:49.000Even in the original trial, there was a problem with the spinal cord called transverse myelitis, but they managed to write that off as an artifact, but there has been more cases.
00:20:59.000Also, the AstraZeneca vaccine causes thromboembolic events.
00:21:03.000So, when you cut yourself, you want your bleeding to stop.
00:21:23.000And that will block off the blood supply to any part of the body, potentially the brain, the heart, absolute kidneys, anywhere.
00:21:30.000So AstraZeneca was associated with an increased degree of that, as well as the other complications.
00:21:36.000So yellow card data started going in on the AstraZeneca vaccine in early 2021, and it was realized quite quickly that this was causing really quite a high rate of complications.
00:21:47.000Now the British Heart Foundation on their guidelines and the British Heart Foundation are very much promoting vaccination.
00:21:53.000They actually say that we now no longer recommend AstraZeneca in the UK because we're now producing the Pfizer and the Moderna mRNA vaccines and you know what they work better.
00:22:04.000They're not saying that this AstraZeneca vaccine kills people.
00:22:07.000Which over 1,400 fatalities on the yellow card scheme have been associated with the AstraZeneca vaccine.
00:22:13.0001,400 deaths and according... You can't say it's definitely but they've been associated with it.
00:22:18.000Fatalities associated with the yellow card reports.
00:22:20.000And it could be as many as 10 times that.
00:22:22.000I mean is it likely in the case of fatalities that that wouldn't get reported?
00:22:29.000Well the data we have still says that most cases aren't reported because the correlation may not have been made.
00:22:35.000So if someone has the vaccine and six weeks later they have a myocardial infarction, a blockage to the heart muscle, is it related or not?
00:22:42.000Also, John, one of the things that has defined this pandemic has seemed to be an absolute reluctance to report the information accurately, the whole with COVID, from COVID scenario, It's one of your videos in which I learned that previously vaccines have been withdrawn if there's one event in 100,000, one event in 10,000, and this currently stands at one in 800.
00:23:08.000So the reporting of this was biased from the beginning.
00:23:11.000It seems like there was an incredible appetite, a serious set of convergent interests that wanted this medication to be understood in a particular way.
00:23:19.000And that wanted this pandemic to be interpreted and regulated in a very particular way.
00:23:25.000And I suppose we're still dealing with that.
00:23:28.000Do you think that excess deaths is one of the areas that that's most revealing currently about the missteps that were taken during this crisis?
00:23:37.000You know, during the pandemic years, of course, 2020, we would expect excess deaths because there's no question about it, SARS-CoV-2, in the original form, in an immunologically naive population, was a dangerous disease, did kill people.
00:23:52.000So people did die from COVID, SARS-CoV-2 infection, from the original Wuhan wave, the Alpha wave, the Delta wave, and to a much smaller extent in the Omicron, in the Omicron wave.
00:24:03.000So definitely associated with fatalities.
00:24:06.000And there has been in excess fatalities.
00:24:08.000Now the excess fatalities aren't quite as high as the number of people that were officially thought to have died of COVID.
00:24:13.000Because the people that died of COVID are just people that happened to die within 28 days of a positive diagnosis.
00:24:19.000But that doesn't necessarily tell you whether it's of or with COVID.
00:24:23.000But what you wouldn't expect is when Omicron came along.
00:24:26.000Omicron came along basically the end of 2021, beginning of 2022.
00:24:31.000Now Omicron is almost like a supernatural event.
00:25:00.000I was talking to a mate of mine who works on intensive care last week, and originally in these first waves, we had this acute respiratory distress syndrome caused by the Wuhan wave, the alpha variant and the delta variant, where the alveoli basically fill up with fluid and people drown.
00:25:17.000It's basically a COVID pneumonia, acute respiratory distress syndrome.
00:25:22.000He hasn't seen a case of that for 18 months.
00:25:25.000in a relatively large intensive care unit, because with the Omicron, we don't get it.
00:25:29.000So the Omicron has saved us from so many deaths that were associated with the Delta in the previous waves.
00:25:36.000It really is just, in many ways, you could just say it's a great gift to humanity that the Omicron came along.
00:25:43.000My friends in Uganda, for example, they were doing an interview on this and they said, look, what you've got to realise is Omicron is the vaccine we failed to produce.
00:25:59.000Omicron could have come from someone who was immunocompromised and was infected for a long period of time, developing partial immunity and a more rapid evolution.
00:26:08.000But another line of thought actually thinks that Omicron could have been a reverse zoonosis from mice.
00:26:14.000Because there's things about the Omicron virus that fit very well into a mouse ACE2 receptor.
00:26:21.000that don't fit in so well into a human ACE2 receptor.
00:28:08.000Does that not give you the impression there's some common cause of these excess deaths because they're occurring everywhere?
00:28:15.000We know they're not attributable to COVID.
00:28:17.000Yes, a big chunk of them are caused by delays in health care during the pandemic.
00:28:22.000But we know that Chris Whitty actually said a few weeks ago in his technical report that the reason more people are dying is because less people took statins and less people took high blood pressure medicines during the pandemic.
00:28:35.000But we actually looked at the evidence from Oxford University's data centre on that.
00:29:00.000And Doctor, what this mostly helps me to appreciate is that during the pandemic period, there has been an extraordinary amount of censorship.
00:29:11.000There has been a lot of exerted control over public discourse and a concomitant loss of trust in public institutions, big pharma.
00:29:20.000And I wonder when in particular did you change from being a I'm trying to say this in the right way, sort of conventional medical professional, when did you start to have doubts and start to think this is not being reported on and relayed in an accurate way and there are anomalies that are worthy of discussion?
00:29:40.000What personally made you start to doubt what we'll call, for simplicity's sake, the mainstream narrative?
00:29:45.000At the start, we did think it was a bit of an emergency because this was a new virus and there was a lot of unknowns.
00:29:51.000So at the start of the pandemic, we had the Prime Minister, the Chief Medical Advisor, Chris Whitty, and the Chief Scientific Officer, Patrick Vallance.
00:30:25.000But then as time changed, especially when we came on to Omicron, the risks went down dramatically, and yet people were still advising these vaccines.
00:30:35.000So I started realising that the risk-benefit analysis had dramatically changed roughly at the end of 2021.
00:30:43.000So for me personally, I had the first two vaccines and then I was offered a booster in November 2021.
00:30:50.000And I thought, well, I'm denied about it.
00:30:53.000So I got the booster in 2021, in November.
00:30:56.000But it was about just in the days and weeks after that, I realised that people were getting Omicron.
00:31:02.000Omicron was developing huge amounts of natural immunity.
00:31:06.000So when you breathe in the Omicron virus, it's going into your nose, your respiratory passages, and it's generating immunity there.
00:31:13.000So you've got specialist white cells in your nose, in your respiratory passages, in your mucus.
00:31:19.000that generate a special type of antibody that protect your mucosal compartment called immunoglobulin type A's, the sort of policemen there.
00:31:26.000And they actually stop the virus getting into the body.
00:31:29.000And if the virus does get into the body, you've got this natural immune system that produces the virus protection throughout the body.
00:31:36.000So we've got this mucosal compartment immunity.
00:31:38.000We've got this whole body immunity from exposure to the virus.
00:31:42.000And I realized that this was just not being talked about.
00:31:45.000Why weren't they talking about this wonderful Natural immune system that we've all been blessed with, that recognises 9 billion different types of foreign particle in the body.
00:31:57.000And that's a literal number from the scientific data.
00:32:00.000And this was being ignored and the vaccines were being pushed.
00:32:02.000And I thought, just a minute, this doesn't make sense.
00:32:05.000The risks now from Covid are way less than they were, especially for young people.
00:32:10.000No question, the risks for young people are negligible.
00:32:47.000Dr. John, one of the reasons perhaps the vitamin D, healthy diet, healthy lifestyle, natural immunity may not have been discussed, and this is obviously reductive in particular compared to the vast, deep and varied knowledge that you bring to this conversation, is that these are areas of response that are not monetizable.
00:33:07.000This also seems to make sense when Compared to the ongoing suggestion that different demographics continue to take medication when there is negligible risk, we've talked about young people, that a booster program continues to be augmented and implemented even after the risk-benefit analysis starts to shift dramatically.
00:33:27.000Therefore, it seems like a natural point for us to do two things.
00:33:31.000One, to consider how finance and economics Yeah!
00:33:34.000affects research and the distribution of medicine and two to introduce your
00:33:39.000famous iconic and frankly wonderful overhead camera because I would love you
00:33:44.000to talk us through the economic connotations implications around
00:33:47.000clinical research using this device that we are if you are doctor who that is
00:33:52.000canine this is very much a sidekick we're very excited to have this join us
00:33:59.000the r2d2 yeah of YouTube conspiracy theorists a doctor John's I've had
00:34:05.000If we agree, we can give it a nice big tick.
00:34:08.000If I don't agree, I'll give it a cross.
00:34:11.000So, alright then, on that basis, can you talk us through what... Actually, I can watch it on the telly if you put it up on my screen.
00:35:14.000I suspect they probably are carcinogenic.
00:35:17.000All tobacco products I'm afraid are carcinogenic whether you chew them, smoke them.
00:35:22.000I wouldn't even have them in the same room.
00:35:25.000Right, now the proportion of the budget derived from industry of various agencies.
00:35:31.000So proportion of the COVID-19 vaccine.
00:35:36.000So this is the portion of the budget derived from industry and in brackets we've got the proportion of COVID-19 vaccine committee members that declare a financial conflict of interest.
00:35:48.000So let's start off to begin with our very own, the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency.
00:35:56.000Now the figure there Russell is 86% so let's be clear 86% of the funding for the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency that regulate what medicines you can take 86% of that funding comes from industry.
00:36:13.000Now we're not talking about industry that makes beer here or tractors.
00:36:19.000Of the members of this committee, the Members in Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency, 32% of those members reported, this is the ones that have reported, a potential financial conflict of interest.
00:36:31.000So you'll be pleased to hear that the people on our Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency with a potential conflict of interest is under 30%.
00:38:20.000We're still talking about enough money to organize huge, huge research I mean, if you take another government agency, we've been doing some work lately locally with the Environment Agency about an incineration project, which is really a bad idea because they're producing dioxins.
00:38:41.000And it turns out that the people that are actually building this incineration plant have actually paid the Environment Agency consultancy fees.
00:38:50.000Now, the fact that this company has paid the Environment Agency, which we think is working for you and me, the fact that it's paid that consultancy fees, of course, in no way, they would say, influences their decision making.
00:39:04.000It shows us that the institutional machinery is organised To create certain results that you may as well call systemic at this point.
00:39:13.000And it seems that this unique global event, the pandemic, brought together so many convergent interests, a desire for the increased ability to surveil, the desire for more control in populations that are increasingly harder to control when there are counter narratives, the ability to censor more, the ability for big pharma to make profits.
00:39:34.000It seemed like so many things came together simultaneously that the facts were being lost, massaged, manipulated, neglected, negated and that clearly happens in the pharmaceutical industry anyway.
00:39:47.000That is my limited understanding of how drugs are trialled.
00:39:49.000They can do numerous tests until they get the results that they want.
00:39:55.000It doesn't seem like... One of the things I think that's made you so appealing and successful is that if Seems that at the heart of what you're doing is, what is best for people's health?
00:40:04.000And that that should be the pulse, the beating heart of medicine, or be wellness.
00:40:09.000A sort of a Hippocratic interest in serving people and helping people and of course not harming people.
00:40:15.000And it seems that as much as interests have coalesced around this, controversy has.
00:40:22.000And because of the nature of media now, because of the ability of independent voices, even in the face of some censorship, To communicate openly the kind of questions that are being raised, it seems to me, are now unignorable.
00:40:34.000It seems to me that the narrative and understanding of the pandemic is shifting.
00:40:38.000Do you sense that with all of the adverse events, with the excess deaths, with the information coming out about clinical trials, with the Pfizer profits, with Moderna pushing, you know, 4000% mark up on prices?
00:40:50.000Are you starting to think that people have changed their opinion?
00:40:54.000And also, this is psychologically so somewhat abstract, how do you think people are going to adjust to recognising that this was a period in history that was very badly handled and that there's almost, I would say at this point, a requirement for a reckoning, an investigation at very least?
00:42:34.000Increasingly, we're seeing this modality mapped onto reporting.
00:42:39.000Because of course what you're doing is reporting, essentially, from a firm platform and basis of medical understanding and with a demeanour that I imagine many people find appealing, but it isn't presumptuous, it's not condescending, it's open and ethical, it seems to me at least, but ultimately This has become something that's difficult to achieve.
00:43:01.000Both you and I, on some platforms, have experienced pushback and consequences.
00:43:06.000Both of us have been called conspiracy theorists and crackpots.
00:43:09.000And even legitimate voices like, well you tell me, are voices like that of Peter McCulloch and Dr. Robert Malone, are these voices that in a genuine scientific discourse ought to be all have been included and was an early warning sign that
00:43:24.000something unusual was happening, the exclusion of certain data and what's that thing the Barraclough
00:43:29.000report or where it's called the Barrington? Oh the Great Barrington Declaration. Yeah
00:43:32.000when that kind of stuff gets started getting excluded from the conversation and those revelations around
00:43:36.000Fauci's emails, the fact that there were three theories at the beginning and then
00:43:40.000all of a sudden they just stopped talking about two of them and the fact that Wuhan does have ties to
00:43:45.000the EcoHealth Alliance, all of this accumulative information, what does it suggest
00:43:50.000to us about the driving force behind the narrative, the driving force behind policy and the
00:43:58.000exclusion of certain voices from media?
00:44:01.000Yeah, there's no question that there's been a particular narrative.
00:44:04.000If we take the BBC, for example, they've had a particular line all the way through this pandemic.
00:44:09.000And argument against that really hasn't been allowed.
00:44:14.000And again, big tech have had a particular narrative.
00:44:17.000And you're not really allowed to argue with that big tech narrative.
00:44:22.000Now, even if these people are wrong, if they're putting forward science,
00:44:28.000if they're putting forward sensible ideas, then they should be allowed to do that.
00:44:33.000They should be allowed to publish that.
00:44:34.000Because a lot of medical publications now are controlled to quite a large extent.
00:44:40.000A lot of peer-reviewed papers are actually ghost-written by pharmaceutical industries.
00:44:45.000The very trials that are done Of course, trials, the pharmaceutical industry can do some trials and choose not to do other trials.
00:44:53.000So the data that we get out from this is only what they've decided to put into the system in the first place.
00:44:58.000But we've got people like those scientists you mentioned, our mutual friend, Dr. Haseem Malhotra, for example, who's actually in India advocating against the use of mass vaccination in India as we speak.
00:45:10.000When people like that are putting forward ideas, they've earned the right to be heard.
00:45:20.000So for potential scientific data to be rejected out of hand, before it's been analysed, before it's been critiqued, because it doesn't fit with a particular narrative, is a form of intellectual fascism.
00:45:31.000It's saying who can speak and who can't speak.
00:45:35.000Anyone putting forward a legitimate scientific argument should be able to publish that, should be able to debate it and should be able to do so freely.
00:45:43.000And the argument should be based on the content of the argument, not on the man.
00:46:10.000I mean, I talked at the start of this pandemic to the leading physician in the state, one of the leading respiratory physicians in the state, Dr. Pierre Khoury.
00:46:18.000He testified to Senate about the use of steroids in Covid.
00:46:52.000Of course, that video was taken down because it didn't quite The narrative.
00:46:56.000You've got people of the caliber of Dr. Tess Lorry, who I interviewed as well.
00:47:00.000She did the original Cochrane data review on ivermectin, found it was efficacious, sent it in, it was rejected.
00:47:07.000She couldn't quite work out why it was being rejected.
00:47:09.000It's because it didn't fit this narrative.
00:47:11.000So we've got We've got Professor Norman Fenton, again a statistician of international renown, putting forward data, but the data is being rejected because it doesn't fit the narrative and that's not acceptable.
00:47:23.000If we're going to deny the nature of scientific reality, then why do we bother having scientists we're not going to listen to?
00:47:30.000We might as well go back to the Stone Age.
00:47:33.000Scientific information, you know, the axioms of science, like we talked about in the basic physiology, The data, it's all being ignored or suppressed if it doesn't fit a particular narrative, rather than an open dialectic debate, which is what we need.
00:47:48.000In fact, there are still videos up from much earlier in the pandemic where you can see people say, like, you know, not just people, presidents, prominent newscasters saying, take this vaccine, you won't get this thing and you won't be able to spread it, it stops with you.
00:48:03.000Transmission seems to be another area where there was a degree of opacity that seems irresponsible and a lot of the social leverage that was offered was around a kind of a public duty which for me was a very effective method of communication because if you believe as obviously you do in this sort of sanctity significance and beauty of human life then protecting other people protecting the more vulnerable is a significant push To take a medication not for your own health, but for somebody else's health.
00:48:31.000And yet it seems that even that assertion is not one that can be made on a scientific basis.
00:49:00.000But as time has gone on, it's become patently clear that that is not the case.
00:49:05.000So now, if you are vaccinated, you probably are going to spread the disease a little less for a short period of time, but only for a very short period of time, probably only about 10 or 15%.
00:49:17.000So this emotional blackmail that you should have your shot to protect your granny, really, why did people say that when it was patently untrue?
00:49:26.000After the first few months, we knew that wasn't true.
00:49:30.000And that's another problem with the pandemic.
00:49:33.000As time has gone on, the data that was collected is no longer being collected.
00:49:38.000So the Office for National Statistics, for example, every two months, absolutely religiously, published deaths by vaccination status.
00:50:25.000It does seem a bit strange that they were meticulous about it every two months.
00:50:28.000We know that the ONS is still being funded by the government, to the tune of several million pounds a month, but they're not producing that data.
00:50:35.000We need to know deaths by vaccination status because we know the efficacy of the vaccine wanes with time.
00:50:41.000We know that it's not really preventing transmission in any serious way.
00:50:45.000We know that the vaccine protection against severe illness, hospitalisation and death wanes with time.
00:50:51.000But at the same time, we know that because there's such a high prevalence of Covid in the community, that you and I are constantly being reinfected.
00:50:58.000We know that's boosting our mucosal immunity and we're getting this constant top up.
00:51:03.000So we're still getting this narrative where the natural immunity is being ignored.
00:51:07.000The vaccine benefits are being talked up dramatically, but how many people are dying by their vaccination status has been ignored for the last eight months.
00:51:17.000If we had that data, it used to be published in even in spreadsheet form, it was still published, then people like Professor Fenton are chomping at the bit to analyse that data.
00:51:30.000Why has that not been published is a very interesting question.
00:51:33.000On the spectrum of how this pandemic could have been conveyed to the public, the evolving story, where between it would have been better if they'd just done nothing at all, not had vaccines, not done lockdowns, not done masks, and Uh, you know, certain portions of the population, people with respiratory conditions, people that were vulnerable, comorbidities, whatever.
00:52:09.000So it feels like, would this have been better if they'd just not done anything?
00:52:13.000Or would this have been better if they'd have, sort of, from the beginning been explicit?
00:52:17.000Like, if you're, like, it seems now, like... And also, isn't that kind of discourse impossible when you have the kind of interests at play?
00:52:38.000You know, in the early stages of the pandemic, Boris Johnson said it's necessary to flatten the sombrero.
00:52:44.000So we're having this big spike in cases.
00:52:47.000And I think we did need to get it down because at the time there was a lot of unknowns.
00:52:50.000And if it had turned out that this disease had something like a 5% mortality rate, we really didn't know at the time because the data coming out of China was completely useless.
00:53:01.000If it had turned out to have a high mortality rate and done nothing, then of course that would have been negligent.
00:53:06.000So we did need to prevent the transmission of The SARS-CoV-2 in the early stages of the pandemic, during the Wuhan wave and arguably during the Alpha wave, in the earlier waves.
00:53:18.000I think that was necessary to do that to some extent.
00:53:38.000Now, there was a time when a lot of people were being admitted to hospital all at the same time.
00:53:42.000And if we'd had a situation where people were queuing up ill outside hospitals, that would have not been good for the people and it would have been politically embarrassing.
00:53:50.000And if we'd let the disease just run rip in the early stages of the pandemic, that could have happened.
00:53:56.000And more people, I think, would have died.
00:53:58.000When you have lobbying as a sort of just a normalised component of conventional US politics and politics elsewhere, when you have bodies like the WHO that are funded by organisations that appear to have a vested interest in particular outcomes, and to be less cryptic, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation heavily invest in the WHO, similarly they invest in Numerous vaccine programs.
00:54:23.000And similarly, there are organizations that they fund that fund the WHO.
00:54:28.000So their impact and influence cannot be overstated.
00:54:31.000It's difficult when there is a pivotal moment, even if you don't take a sort of an adverse or an inverse and proportional reaction of like, never trust anyone, never do anything like, you know, which is sort of almost my pathology doctor.
00:54:44.000It seems that much earlier, as you've just explained, during the Omicron phase, with true objectivity, what could have happened then is, listen, we can radically re-evaluate this.
00:54:55.000Also because of what's happening culturally, it became sort of unduly politicised and attached to ideological ideas that are absolutely nothing to do with medicine at all!
00:55:02.000So to do with liberalism and conservatism, both of which are ultimately framed within such a narrow economic framing anyway, but they amount to pretty muted and muted ideologies when it comes to what's required to change the world.
00:55:16.000So it's been an extraordinary period for learning for our species.
00:55:20.000I suppose because it is a pandemic, it was an opportunity to look at the planet as a whole and to look at human nature And to look at our institutions and to look at power dynamics.
00:55:29.000And I think that your role in helping reason, rationale, medicine, duty, stay central to that, I think, is incredibly significant and important.
00:55:41.000Thanks for your diligence and your duty.
00:55:44.000I actually feel a bit better in some ways, because I feel like now I'm more in contact with the reality.
00:55:49.000Two years ago, I would have said I'm now more cynical.
00:55:53.000But I actually now do think there is a lot of vested interest at government level, at corporate level, at what you might call the philanthropy level, at the whole control level.
00:56:03.000And that doesn't always, in fact, you could argue that most of the time, that doesn't operate in the interest of the ordinary people, because healthcare should be of the people, for the people.
00:56:14.000Dr. John, thank you so much for joining me on this special episode of Stay Free.
00:56:18.000And thanks again for the incredible work you've done during the pandemic and presumably up to that point, because I can tell that this isn't a hobby for you.
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