Dr. Mary Talley Bowden: How Vaccines Got Politicized and the Medical Industry Lost All Credibility
Summary
In this episode, Dr. Bruce Lipton joins Dr. Kelly to discuss his role as one of the first doctors to recognize the dangers of the new HIV/AIDS pandemic, C.O.V. Pandemic. Dr. Lipton is a physician in private practice in Texas and was one of only a few people in the United States who correctly predicted the outbreak of the HIV virus in the early 2000s.
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You were one of the people who was right about COVID.
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And certainly more right than the U.S. public health authorities and the global public health authorities.
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And I'm just going to summarize in two sentences what I think your position was.
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So you're a physician in private practice in Texas.
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But at first, you like have no real reason to think that this is all completely backward.
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But then you treat COVID patients, thousands, I think.
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And you start to realize that the therapies that the U.S. government is recommending are
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not working, that the vaccines are not working as advertised at all.
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And you start saying something about it and offering alternatives to it, which are badly
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And you're attacked, really attacked, your livelihood, your professional credentials
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And then time passes, now four years, and it becomes really clear that once again, you were
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more right than the U.S. public health authorities.
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So here's my question, after a long preamble, have you been rewarded for it?
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Has the AMA given you the Physician of the Year award?
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Has anybody said, we were wrong in attacking you, and you deserve credit for your foresight
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No, and I mean, I'm still fighting to keep my license.
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I mean, I still have the Texas Medical Board coming after me for something that happened.
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I have a hearing coming up end of April, and I was trying to save somebody's life.
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This is a man that has served for 29 years trying to protect and save the public, father
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And he contracted COVID, and this was in the fall of 2021.
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And that was the third and the largest surge of the pandemic.
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That's when, you know, this was following the rollout of the COVID shots.
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So this was eight months following the rollout of the COVID shots, and they clearly weren't
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He couldn't find a doctor willing to prescribe it.
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He ended up in the hospital, and he was, you know, went downhill like so many people did.
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And his wife, you know, the hospital was talking hospice.
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And, you know, he was a big guy, but he had no comorbidities.
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And so, you know, this is, we saw this, though, with so many people, you know, day, if you
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didn't get early treatment, the second week of illness, people would start really getting
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This massive inflammatory response would kick in.
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And, you know, the primary care doctors just shut their doors to these people.
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We'll let it run its course and then go to the emergency room if you can't breathe.
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Why would primary care physicians, whose duty it is to treat patients, and they must
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have known by this point that day eight is the critical day, why would they not treat
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Because there's a dogma that we are taught in medical school and in our training that
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you don't treat a virus, that you let a virus run its course, because there's this
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So they don't want people overprescribing antibiotics.
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And so the assumption, if somebody comes to you with an upper respiratory tract infection
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in the first three, four days, five days, and they don't test positive for strep, you
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basically say, oh, you've got a virus, and we'll just wait and see what happens.
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I mean, that was really, and I learned so much.
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I mean, I had that mindset prior to the pandemic, but I just, it just didn't sit well with me
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when people were coming in and, you know, really struggling to just do nothing.
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And so initially, I tried hydroxychloroquine, but as soon as President Trump came out and
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said how great it was, the Texas State Board of Pharmacy, they literally shut it down.
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Like, they prohibited doctors from prescribing hydroxychloroquine.
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So I put it on the back burner, and I just did my best.
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But initially, I didn't really have a lot of demand for people coming in needing treatment.
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I was doing a lot of testing, and that sort of got me recognized in town because I had
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a saliva test that didn't require a swab up the nose, and I was able to get the results
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You might remember, initially, LabCorp was the only lab in the country that had the test,
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and they became inundated, and it was taking two weeks to get the test results back.
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So we had a saliva test, and people could just, we could just give a cup, and they could sit
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in their car and spit in it, and then we'd have the results back the next day.
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And then monoclonal antibodies came about, and those worked great.
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I'd just contact the manufacturer, say, I need 200 doses.
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But what happened is, and this is during that big surge when Jason Jones, a sheriff's deputy,
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got sick, couldn't get monoclonal antibodies, couldn't get ivermectin.
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So the summer of 2021, well, so let's start in the spring of 2021.
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So this is following the rollout of the COVID shots.
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The government is upset because people are not buying it.
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People are not getting, there's very low uptake, very low interest.
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So in March, they started their PR campaign, the government.
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The FDA put something on their website about you can't use ivermectin for COVID.
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That Biden doled out $11.5 billion to groups around the country.
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Influencers, church groups, sports leagues, all sorts of people, just funneling out taxpayer
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money to go after doctors like myself that were spreading misinformation and to, you know,
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this is, you know, push people to get these COVID shots.
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And that's how, so Houston Methodist Hospital, and that's where I had privileges.
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They were the first hospital in the country to mandate the shots.
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And this was the exact day that Biden announced COVID-19 Community Corps, that, that billion,
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I think the mandate started in Houston for a reason.
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I knew, I think that they knew if they could get away with the mandates in Texas, they could
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In fact, I have the CEO of Methodist, Dr. Mark Boom, on camera saying that Governor Abbott
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That's, that's according to the CEO of Methodist.
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But, you know, he did, he did come through eventually.
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So then that summer, started having all these breakthrough cases.
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And I was seeing it because I was testing people.
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So I started to track people that by their vaccination status.
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And I saw that the vaccinated outnumbered the unvaccinated and they were just as sick,
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So I brought this to the attention of Houston Methodist.
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People that were coming to my office to get tested.
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So it allowed me to do things that other doctors can't do.
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But I was actually collaborating with Methodist.
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I was sharing my data with them because I had so many.
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I mean, basically, I was just, all I saw was COVID for a few years.
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Um, and we were trying to get the data published.
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Um, at the same time, I had all these people coming to me very distraught about the mandates.
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And, you know, because we were ahead of the time, right?
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This was before the rest of the country was mandating the shots.
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But in Houston, if you, uh, a lot of people, Houston Methodist, they employ about 30,000 people.
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Um, and then I, and then I see that they're not working.
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And at that time, I was just very vocal against the mandates.
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So I, um, you know, in August, late August of 2021, FDA put out the infamous horse tweet.
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Um, and that's the, the attractive healthcare worker nuzzling the horse and says, seriously, y'all, you're not a horse.
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That's when Joe Rogan got, uh, smeared for taking ivermectin.
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Um, and then right after that, Biden mandated the shots and they took away monoclonal antibodies.
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But monoclonal antibodies, I've never heard anybody say that they weren't helpful.
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But if you have monoclonal antibodies available as an option, people are going to do that rather than get the shot.
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So that's why, in my opinion, that's why they took away the monoclonal antibodies.
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So this is like the most evil thing that's ever happened in the United States.
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It's just, even though I live this, it's just so stunning to hear it recounted as crisply as you are recounting it.
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But you're sharing your data with the hospital at which you have privileges.
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So their response was one sentence and said, well, we think the shots are there to lessen the severity.
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Well, interestingly enough, they've never shared their data, their hospital data.
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And being the first in the country to mandate the shots, you know they're sitting on an enormous amount of data.
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And if the shots had been effective in preventing transmission or lowering the severity, then they should have shared that.
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They would have been, you know, screaming that from the rooftops if it fits their agenda.
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So, you know, I had, you know, all these things, all these patients coming to me very distraught.
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I had one patient come to me and tell me that her urologist at Houston Methodist called her and said, you're going to need to find a new urologist if you don't get the COVID shots.
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And she was calling me to try to find a new doctor.
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Well, he said that the department was talking, having discussions about not treating patients that were unvaccinated.
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Doesn't he have a moral obligation to treat his patients?
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Yeah, well, we saw all sorts of moral issues during the pandemic.
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And then on the exact same day, I got a notice from a surgery center where I operate that I'd have to get the COVID shot to continue operating.
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And then on the same day, I got a notice from this hospital where I was trying to help the sheriff's deputy.
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They had a court order to give me emergency temporary privileges so that I could give him ivermectin.
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And she was, you know, last-ditch effort, let a dying man try ivermectin before-
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And the court was ordered to give me emergency temporary privileges.
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And then I was to get either myself personally give the ivermectin to him or have a nurse do it because they thought it was too dangerous for one of their own members to do it.
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Um, anyway, I got a notice that they were going to deny my privileges, even though, I mean, I had never, I've never been sued for malpractice, spotless record.
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You know, they made me get letters of recommendation.
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They just fought tooth and nail to make the whole process as difficult as they could.
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And the lawyers ended up having to go back to the judge and fight with, you know, fight with them over just giving me privileges.
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Whereas, you know, at that time, there was a shortage.
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You know, they needed doctors to work in the hospitals.
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And if I, under other circumstances, if I had just shown up and said, hey, I want to help out in the ICU, they would have granted me privileges the same day.
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There wouldn't have been any kind of letters or recommendation or, you know, surgery.
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Can I ask, were you pretty confident this man was going to die without treatment?
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So, the lawyers that were doing this case, Ralph Larigo and Beth Parlato, they did 189 cases around the country.
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Similar situation, the spouse is suing the hospital to try to get their loved one ivermectin in this last-ditch effort to save their lives.
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And in the cases where they won, all but three patients died.
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In the cases where they lost, all the patients died.
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And apparently, the judges, their political party, matched the outcome of the trial.
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So, the Republican judges were the ones that ruled in favor of the plaintiff.
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And then the Democrat judges were the ones that ruled against the plaintiff.
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So, you know, there was a lot of back and forth.
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And they basically, the lawyers told me, you have the green light.
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And she's greeted by the police and the hospital administrator and turned away.
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They appealed and managed to get a stay on the order.
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So, the wife, luckily, she was able to go in the hospital every day, which was unusual.
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And this was at Texas Hugley Hospital in Fort Worth.
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So, she applied ivermectin to him topically every day without the hospital knowing.
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The hospital tied up his feeding tube because they didn't want her sneaking anything in.
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They put towels and rubber bands around it so that nothing could be snuck in.
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And, I mean, they fought tooth and nail to keep him from just trying a very safe medication,
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And then they turned me into the medical board over it.
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That's like, that's a, that's very upsetting to hear that.
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And so, the charges against you, boy, I thought I was done being upset by COVID.
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It's such a, it's such a stain on this country.
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It's a, it's a stain on the medical profession.
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And just that people didn't storm the hospitals.
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You, your, your father, your husband, your children dying alone.
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You should have showed up with guns and said, get out of my way.
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And so I, you know, people should have done that.
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So, your crime is recommending a therapy for COVID.
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Well, there, the technicality is that I didn't have hospital privileges when I sent the nurse to the hospital.
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And I was following the guidance of the lawyers.
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So, your nurse made it to the threshold of a hospital.
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Therefore, you should lose your medical license?
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Well, I don't think they're trying to, I think they just want to fine me and.
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So, you have something called an informal settlement conference.
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There's no witnesses or you don't really get to interact much.
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And they offered to make it go away if I paid them $5,000 and took eight hours of CME and retook.
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So, all doctors in Texas have to take a medical legal exam, which I've already taken and passed.
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They haven't been able to find an expert witness to testify against me.
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The second one just, I think, just chickened out.
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And the third one, the third witness, it turns out that the entire time, and he was the former medical director of the Texas Medical Board.
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The entire time, the last 12 years, he's been working for Planned Parenthood.
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What does a lab director at Planned Parenthood do?
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He was the medical director of the medical board.
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So, do you think, like, take yourself out of this?
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This is just like a med school classmate is going through what you're going through.
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Any potentially legitimate justification for hounding you for four years?
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You know, the medical board's job is to protect the public from dangerous doctors.
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I mean, you get a monthly bulletin and there are, you know, sex...
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Like the ones who give your kids amphetamines for ADHD?
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Or the ones who hook your wife on benzodiazepines because she has panic attacks?
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I mean, we get a monthly email just blasting all the crimes that doctors have done, and
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A multi-billion dollar hospital, Advent Hospital.
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And, you know, that's what happened with Methodist.
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I stepped on their toes, and they just weren't going to have that.
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So, at any point during this, can you go to the...
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I mean, these are obviously huge corporations, but they're institutions whose goal is to
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save lives, improve lives, bring health to the population.
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Could you ever just, like, call the CEO of the hospital and the medical director of the
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Ivermectin, there's no profit margin in it, right?
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I've seen it, and I'm going to try and help, and why don't you back off?
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I mean, at the time that this was going down, it was a legal battle.
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I just have to, yeah, I can't step outside what the lawyers are telling me to do.
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How much money do these hospitals take from the Biden administration?
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I don't know for sure, but I know that Houston Methodist Hospital has $13 billion in assets.
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And they have, you know, locations all over Houston.
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Do you think we should get rid of non-profit status, period?
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I've met almost no non-profit that I think is good, and that needs to be reformed.
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We could probably close the deficit just by having these people pay the taxes that the
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Was there any hospital in Houston where you live, I think, that was willing to be reasonable
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So, there was a doctor, Joe Verone, who is a pulmonologist, critical care doctor.
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He's now the head of Independent Medical Alliance.
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We'd have patients calling us all over the country saying, help, get me out of this hospital.
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And he would accept transfers from all over the country.
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So, people would be, you know, life-flighted from ICU in Maine and taken down to Houston.
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And this hospital, UMMC, allowed him to use ivermectin.
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And we were, there was a whole protocol that was, it's called the Math Plus Protocol and
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started by FLCCC, which now is Independent Medical Alliance.
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It was all these very basic, you know, not dangerous things that weren't being done.
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I mean, I think he worked over two and a half years straight without even a break.
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But I was fortunate to have him as an ally and somebody that.
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Like, how did those patients do versus patients who were, like, intubated in some Biden-controlled
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Well, if you look at, there's a great website that compiles all the ivermectin data just
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And we have 105 studies showing the efficacy of ivermectin.
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And, you know, it varied depending on the actual patient, as it should.
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So, you know, in my more severe patients, I would use a combination of ivermectin, hydroxychloroquine,
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During that second week, I would do higher-dose steroids if necessary.
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So, it's hard to isolate saying, okay, well, it's just ivermectin.
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But when you look on this compilation of studies, I mean, even in the late stages, and you were
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asking me about this earlier, even in the late stages, they showed that ivermectin could
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It's most effective if you actually take it as prevention.
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And then the people that start day one or two or three, they're the next best.
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But, yes, there's plenty of data supporting that.
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So, why isn't that like the official CDC protocol for COVID?
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Well, you know, it would help myself and other doctors.
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I mean, I'm not the only doctor going through this with the medical board, but if they could
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make it a countermeasure, then it's protected under the PrEP Act, and then it makes all these
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issues that we're having with the medical boards essentially go away.
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Is there anybody who has counterdata, numbers showing the opposite, that people taking ivermectin
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But the studies that are all establishment, you know, in the big journals, they're either
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they didn't give the ivermectin soon enough, or they gave too low of a dose, or the study
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was sponsored by somebody that has financial interest in seeing it not work.
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But if you look at, there's just an abundance of data showing it works, and it's super safe.
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So, I was a little bit nervous before I started using it because of all the, you know, media,
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you know, that's only for horses and that sort of thing.
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I know we kept hearing it was a horse dewormer.
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But so, I looked at the study where Merck submitted to the FDA, it's on their website,
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anybody can find it, and you get toxicity data.
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And there's something called the LD50, which stands for lethal dose 50.
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It's a benchmark number that's used to gauge how toxic a medication is.
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So, the higher the number, the lower the toxicity.
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And in COVID, we were using higher doses of ivermectin than what you use to treat a parasite.
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So, I wanted to make sure these higher doses were okay.
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Well, if you look at the LD50 of ivermectin, it's anywhere from 11 to 82 times what we're
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And then I did a literature search, and I tried to find accidental, intentional overdoses
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And I checked recently, and there was one study showing some issues, and it was a little bit
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But if you look at Tylenol, I mean, there's thousands of papers showing toxicity from Tylenol.
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I know someone who has, you know, advanced liver disease from it.
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I mean, you screw that up by a tiny bit, you're dead.
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Right, but I'm just saying, like, hospitals work with incredibly dangerous drugs every
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I tell people I have a harder time with antibiotics in terms of side effects.
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Like, if I'm going to get a call back in my office, it's usually about an antibiotic
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But you can get some GI issues, diarrhea, and then you can get blurry vision, but the
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blurry vision goes away when you stop taking it.
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So, I guess what you're saying, without saying it, is that there's really no compelling
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medical reason to call the cops if your nurse shows up with ivermectin.
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How did your business get your profession get so politicized?
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And I remember, you know, Methodist came after me very vocally.
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Um, and I had a press conference outside my office as a, you know, I'm not, I'm not
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And I said, you know, politics has no business in healthcare.
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No, I think that's such a wonderful and very American, you have children.
00:32:42.300
And that's, like, a sweet kind of, that's, that's how you should feel.
00:32:51.740
Like, yeah, no, I'm sorry, I'm not making fun of you at all.
00:32:54.800
But now, I feel like there's no other choice, right?
00:33:01.820
Um, so you were not politically aware at all before this started.
00:33:04.760
And were you aware that your business, that medicine was so politicized?
00:33:10.660
No, it's interesting that I went and looked at the data for Texas, because Texas has been
00:33:15.160
infiltrated by people from all over the country.
00:33:22.820
And, um, uh, you look at healthcare professionals, what they donated, like, to political parties.
00:33:30.180
Um, and 10 years ago, they primarily donated to Republicans, and now they primarily donate
00:33:41.520
I have a theory for why, but you, you're the doctor, so you tell me what you think the
00:33:46.120
Uh, well, I think medicine in general, I mean, the corporate practice, it's become the corporate
00:33:55.180
It's, you know, only 1% of doctors are not employed on one of those, but.
00:33:59.920
Like, so, 77% of doctors are employed by a hospital, 20% are employed by private equity
00:34:09.000
or, um, an insurance company, and 2% are employed by the government, and only 1% are like myself,
00:34:18.440
Okay, so your choice is, like, your corporate douche overlords, private equity or insurance
00:34:26.300
companies, if it's, like, hilarious, like a joke, or the government.
00:34:30.840
Um, and you're in the 1% that has your own business.
00:34:40.420
I mean, we have to, doctors need to regain their power.
00:34:47.780
They're just like little worker bees getting ordered around.
00:34:50.060
I designed, so, I, when I got out of residency, I worked in a traditional practice, and I started.
00:34:58.160
Just ear, nose, and throat, and sleep medicine.
00:35:00.780
And, um, it was small, but it was, it was easy, and, but I was always bothered by the
00:35:06.200
stranglehold that the insurance companies had over my ability to treat my patients.
00:35:10.480
So, like, one easy example is an ear, nose, and throat doctor, we do an endoscopic exam
00:35:19.460
Doesn't sound that fun, though, for the patient.
00:35:25.620
Um, but if I did that, and I, and I marked the code on the sheet, on the receipt, the
00:35:33.380
patient might get some gigantic bill, like $400 for doing this little simple procedure,
00:35:41.100
It's part of our, you know, makes us different from the primary care doctor.
00:35:45.820
Um, so it would always stress me out in the back of my mind, like, I'm going to do this,
00:35:50.480
and is the patient going to get some big bill, right?
00:35:53.480
Um, so when I, I, you know, I took time off because I had, I had four boys in five years.
00:36:08.760
I, I, I started off, I'm just going to take a year off, and that led to seven years off.
00:36:13.500
I wasn't sure I was even going to go back to medicine, but as I got older, yeah,
00:36:19.760
So I decided to go back, but I decided I was going to do it on my own terms.
00:36:27.220
I don't contract with hospitals, and I don't contract with the government.
00:36:30.980
And the only people I work for are my patients.
00:36:34.440
So they just like give you a credit card when they come in, that's it.
00:36:38.600
They can file a claim to their insurance company.
00:36:46.240
And it's actually, you know, there's so many people that have very high deductible insurance
00:36:50.500
now that they're basically cash patients unless something catastrophic happens.
00:36:54.760
And if you go to a traditional doctor's practice, half the time they don't even know what to charge
00:37:00.720
you for a cash patient because they're just so entrenched with the insurance industry.
00:37:04.620
But there is a growing movement of doctors like myself, and I'm a specialist, so it's
00:37:10.320
a little unusual, but there's something called direct primary care.
00:37:13.680
And direct primary care is like affordable concierge care.
00:37:16.880
It's your paying cash, but it's the cost is typical like a gym membership.
00:37:26.100
You got a lot more time, probably more quality.
00:37:29.540
They're not always like-minded in terms of COVID.
00:37:33.800
And to me, that's a litmus test for your doctor.
00:37:39.300
You get much more access, higher quality care, more time.
00:37:43.640
And, you know, save your insurance for the catastrophic care.
00:37:49.660
And, you know, use your HSA, so health savings account, if you can get one of those.
00:37:56.280
And the government could expand those and make those more available for people because
00:38:00.500
right now it's sort of limited based on your employer.
00:38:03.800
But if you can pay out of pocket for your basics, then you are likely to have a better experience.
00:38:11.880
I think it's in, but it also frees the doctor to think independently.
00:38:25.020
I, in my mind, I thought, okay, this thing, I don't think it's going to work.
00:38:30.760
But I didn't think it was going to hurt people.
00:38:32.240
I just thought, I just don't think it's going to work.
00:38:38.020
Yeah, I really had never given the FDA, CDC, HHS a thought.
00:38:43.280
I just sort of assumed that everything was fine.
00:38:45.060
Well, but because you assumed that, it's interesting that you didn't think the shot would work.
00:38:54.720
I thought, well, how are they going to get this together so quickly that it's going to work?
00:38:59.080
I also, I looked at the study, and I looked at how they conducted the study, and I didn't like how they did that.
00:39:05.520
So, the people, the test subjects were not routinely tested.
00:39:10.680
They were just tested that the doctor felt like they needed to be tested, which seemed a little too muddy to me.
00:39:20.860
And then I showed up, but, you know, I had this looming deadline because I had privileges at Houston Methodist, and you had to sign an attestation.
00:39:28.520
And the attestation said that you either got the shot or you intended to get the shot.
00:39:33.820
So, I just woke up on a Saturday morning, and I'm like, I'll just do it.
00:39:38.200
I went to a grocery store, and I stood in line where everybody should get their medical care, right?
00:39:50.560
Stood in line, and the line was long, and I got impatient.
00:40:06.200
You know, you treat patients, but this is part of your business.
00:40:10.040
And you're a doctor, so you kind of have to get the shot.
00:40:14.480
And they really were mad at doctors who didn't take it because that's, and nurses, because that's such a statement.
00:40:23.080
Well, I mean, here's how I justified it in my mind.
00:40:28.080
I had privileges there just as an emergency situation.
00:40:32.480
So, it wasn't like, okay, let's say I got COVID because I didn't get the shot, and then I'm going around the hospital infecting everybody.
00:40:42.560
So, I knew that, you know, this shot was not necessary because I was seeing it first time.
00:40:47.920
I know, but there's so much pressure on everybody, particularly on physicians at that point, to do it.
00:40:55.360
And so, just like, I don't know, the tide is moving really briskly in one direction, and you decide to swim against it.
00:41:07.980
And I'm just trying to get to the heart of why you made it.
00:41:29.920
And I just remember thinking, oh, I'm just going to go get this over with and just knock this off my list.
00:41:34.980
And then when it didn't happen, I thought, well, this is a sign.
00:41:49.580
So, I mean, that decision changed your life, of course, because it puts you on the other side from everyone else.
00:42:01.960
So, I used to give out my cell phone to everybody, especially, you know, the sick ones.
00:42:09.580
I even had some really, really sick people come in in the second, third week.
00:42:15.440
So, second, third week is when the inflammatory cascades set in and people will get really sick.
00:42:21.420
I had a man come in with an oxygen saturation in the 60s.
00:42:32.020
And he basically said, I'm not going to the hospital.
00:42:34.920
Because normally, if somebody walked to my office like that, I'd call the ambulance and say, hey.
00:42:40.000
But I had to allow him to potentially die in my office, which was very scary.
00:42:58.120
We gave him antibiotics, breathing treatments, high-dose IV vitamin C.
00:43:03.700
And we brought him in every day as an outpatient.
00:43:06.680
Because I didn't have a hospital bed in my office.
00:43:16.180
I mean, I learned that just because somebody's oxygen saturation is low, they don't need to be immediately put on a ventilator, which is the dogma that we came into the pandemic with.
00:43:26.680
But I think that dogma has changed, or at least I'm not in medicine, of course.
00:43:30.000
But for normal people, there is a sense that, like, stay away from ventilators.
00:43:38.820
I mean, I can see why doctors did it initially.
00:43:42.120
Because, you know, if somebody's struggling to breathe, that's a really scary, distressful feeling for a patient.
00:43:52.840
But I guess what I don't understand is why they didn't do more to keep him off the ventilator.
00:43:59.500
I mean, they gave him steroids, but they gave him very small doses of steroids.
00:44:03.500
I mean, why didn't they just throw the kitchen sink at these people?
00:44:06.160
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00:46:32.280
So, you said you didn't want to go to the hospital.
00:46:35.940
I live in an obviously tiny world like we all do, but I don't know anybody in my world who wants to go to the hospital.
00:46:43.360
I know a lot of people who have resolved, I'm never going to the hospital.
00:46:53.960
Yeah, I realized I've been in the hospital seven times.
00:47:03.420
I mean, I had pneumonia and sepsis, and I'm very grateful to the people who helped me.
00:47:08.940
And this is from the flu, and I had gotten a flu shot, by the way.
00:47:12.260
Um, but now, like you said, I mean, everybody is terrified to go to the hospital.
00:47:20.340
I mean, the hospital used to be the place you go.
00:47:25.460
And now people are terrified to go to the hospital.
00:47:28.100
And so, you know, our current administration needs, if they don't do anything, that's a big problem because the trust has just been destroyed.
00:47:39.280
Oh, yeah, that's the most common question I get is, where should I go if I need to go to the hospital?
00:47:46.700
You know, your best bet is just keep yourself healthy.
00:47:49.040
I mean, the biggest thing people can do is keep themselves healthy, manage your diet, manage your stress, get enough sleep, exercise, get enough sun, and just stay out of the hospital.
00:48:02.380
But keeping your weight under control is probably number one.
00:48:09.740
Because you gain weight, you're more susceptible to infection, you're more susceptible to heart disease, you're more susceptible to cancer.
00:48:20.020
And you have to buy new clothes, which is unacceptable.
00:48:25.400
Well, but, you know, if you lose weight, you have to put, I've, so I did carnivore for six months and I had to buy a whole new wardrobe.
00:48:53.260
I did it for six months and, you know, it's not for everybody, but I will say it's a lot safer than Ozempic and Mangiorno and it's very simple.
00:49:04.220
I mean, you, you basically eliminate all carbohydrates from your diet and you just eat meat and fat.
00:49:20.360
I mean, you do go through the sugar withdrawal.
00:49:32.600
I've heard that for women, it's not as effective.
00:49:36.000
I worry that it slows down metabolism, but, you know, I have never tried it and I know people swear by it.
00:49:43.920
So, you don't have a good answer on the hospital question, I noticed.
00:49:55.260
Well, if you have to go to the hospital, be prepared.
00:50:14.380
Well, when I started 20, 23 years ago, patients didn't have a lot of access to information.
00:50:25.940
We were definitely in charge because we had the information and patients really, unless
00:50:29.620
they had textbooks, they didn't have it because it wasn't, we didn't have online information.
00:50:38.660
And so, every conversation I have with a patient, I'm, I know that they have been researching
00:50:44.840
and they have a lot of information at their disposal.
00:50:50.080
I embrace it because, I mean, I learn from my patients.
00:50:54.180
And if, if a patient finds something, I will dig into it because I don't have time to dig
00:51:00.060
And you see weird things and I like it, but I think that doctors don't like that.
00:51:08.860
And, um, I mean, it can be frustrating on the flip side.
00:51:12.280
If you feel like you really know what's going on and you're challenged by something, somebody's
00:51:19.720
Um, but it's, um, yeah, the doctors just don't, it's, it's a power thing and an ego thing,
00:51:30.920
Um, so what did you end up thinking of the shot, the COVID shot?
00:51:39.400
Should have been pulled off the market a long time ago.
00:51:41.820
I looked at my patients in the two years following the rollout of the COVID shots and
00:51:46.580
7% of my new patients were coming to see me for severe injuries.
00:51:50.940
I've never seen anything like it with any other product on the market.
00:51:54.720
If this were an antibiotic and you were seeing all these side effects, it would have been
00:51:59.940
So normally the FDA will put a black box warning on a medication.
00:52:05.200
If there've been five deaths, they will pull it off the market.
00:52:10.400
Well, according to VAERS, which VAERS is vaccine adverse event reporting system.
00:52:16.740
And it's, it's vastly under underreported, which I have seen firsthand.
00:52:21.540
But it's been in place for 50 years or something.
00:52:24.560
So we can see the response to all these different medications, right?
00:52:29.340
According to VAERS, there've been 38,000 deaths from these COVID shots.
00:52:33.920
So under normal circumstances, the FDA would have pulled it.
00:52:39.320
They've put the shots on the childhood vaccine schedule.
00:52:43.560
All babies are expected to get three COVID shots by the time they're nine months old.
00:52:48.220
The shots are still under EUA status for this age group.
00:52:52.880
So under 12, they're not even fully approved by the FDA.
00:52:58.360
And according to the CDC, nine million American children have gotten the latest version of these
00:53:28.760
But I'm just stunned to learn that that's happening right now.
00:53:57.060
So Texas actually passed a law outlawing mandates for COVID shots.
00:54:02.120
Um, but I actually reached out to people on Twitter yesterday and they said, all these
00:54:08.140
people say, yeah, it's still requiring the shots for jobs or a nursing program or, uh,
00:54:16.340
So we're going to let you die unless you get the shot.
00:54:27.780
Well, the shots need to be pulled off the market immediately.
00:54:43.920
I mean, we need, we can't sweep this under the rug because we will never restore that trust.
00:54:49.900
And that's, that's the key thing is if nothing happens, it's just a festering wound and, uh,
00:54:59.580
Are there any indications that this is coming soon?
00:55:03.060
I mean, I'm not privy to conversations in the government, but.
00:55:06.400
I think you probably follow this as closely as anybody.
00:55:09.440
So I'm going to just plead ignorance on that basis.
00:55:13.560
Multiple wars and the economy and, you know, there's just a lot to distract you from this
00:55:18.140
question, but I think it's a really important question, but you are focused on it.
00:55:21.420
Have you seen any sign at all that these products, which according to the
00:55:26.840
self-reporting system, VAERS, have killed 38,000 people that they're going to be pulled
00:55:32.520
I mean, I, it seems to me that HHS, their focus now has shifted or I don't know, their
00:55:38.860
focus is, uh, on food and food quality and, uh, improving that.
00:55:45.740
Um, and I haven't heard a word about COVID or the COVID shots.
00:55:55.740
But that's, I mean, I'm just reading what you're reading.
00:56:00.940
Food is like smoking and, and I love bad food and I love smoking.
00:56:07.740
And I, I'll just say that and I don't hate me for it, but it's just true.
00:56:15.840
I don't think I've ever eaten a slice of pizza without knowing it was bad for me.
00:56:22.520
I mean, I do think like we shouldn't allow food stamps or snap to be used for Coca-Cola.
00:56:27.840
Obviously there are changes you can make for sure.
00:56:30.780
But like, you know, when you're eating garbage, that's why we call it garbage.
00:56:42.420
So like, I'm not, I mean, I think it's important.
00:56:46.140
I do think eating right is important and I try not going to eat any freaking vegetables
00:56:54.940
But like the COVID stuff seemed that the VAT, the shot seems like an imminent threat.
00:57:03.560
And my concern, giving it to babies because myocarditis, you're positive that's actually
00:57:22.440
So myocarditis, we know there's an increased risk of myocarditis in teenage boys who take
00:57:29.120
We don't know what that risk is for nonverbal babies because the symptom is chest pain.
00:57:35.960
So a baby, the baby could be getting myocarditis and we have no idea.
00:57:40.620
Myocarditis can leave a scar on the heart and then years later, you know, the heart is permanently.
00:57:53.960
These babies could be getting myocarditis and we have no idea.
00:57:57.360
Do you believe that those shots are responsible for permanent immune system damage?
00:58:02.840
I think, well, what I have been looking at is spike protein antibody levels.
00:58:08.920
So when you get a vaccine, you can traditionally we call them titers.
00:58:14.680
So like people who get hepatitis B vaccine, you can look at the titers, the antibody levels
00:58:25.740
So they want to make sure if you work in the hospital, if you get stuck by a needle, you're
00:58:30.740
So I've started looking at these spike protein antibody levels and it's alarming because the
00:58:36.500
people I can tell immediately if somebody had the shot in the vaccinated, these antibody
00:58:42.040
levels are I did an average last night, 13,000 and the unvaccinated average is a thousand.
00:58:53.520
And these people, most of these people have gotten two, maybe three.
00:58:59.340
And none of these people have been sick recently with COVID.
00:59:05.120
It suggests, I mean, we don't know, but it suggests that spike protein is still active
00:59:31.380
So when I see these levels like this, it really concerns me that we have an issue with
00:59:40.960
What are the consequences of that, do you think?
01:00:02.020
It appears that the spike protein, the mRNA shots have SV40 in it, which is an oncogenic
01:00:12.820
So when the mRNA is in production, is integrating, that it can produce new proteins just by little
01:00:23.940
So these new proteins, we don't know what they are, but they could cause autoimmune disease
01:00:34.260
I mean, we don't even, we need a test to detect spike protein.
01:00:41.260
We really need a lot more, we need an antidote.
01:00:44.360
We need, I mean, I am struggling because I have all these injured people and I usually
01:00:51.260
It binds the spike protein and it's anti-inflammatory, but we're really limited and we need a solution.
01:00:57.340
So we need the NIH to really dig into this and help these injured patients because they're
01:01:03.960
very challenging and, you know, we're sort of just, you know, experimenting because we
01:01:12.480
I would say, I mean, I get, you know, I've tried a lot of things and my, the thing that
01:01:16.700
works the best is ivermectin, but it's slow going.
01:01:22.140
It's, you know, I usually put people on for a long period of time before saying, okay, this
01:01:27.960
Um, and it's just hard because we, you know, there's just not, we need the NIH to step up
01:01:39.860
I got a call from a friend of mine yesterday, honestly, true story, who said his girlfriend
01:01:56.220
Then the next day, this same friend is driving at twice the speed limit through a major American
01:02:02.960
Cop takes his license registration, goes back to the patrol car, runs him, comes back, looks
01:02:06.740
in the window and sees a tin of Alp on the dashboard, pauses, stunned, says to my friend, you use
01:02:16.860
He looks at my friend thoughtfully and goes, drive safely, sir, and hands back his license
01:02:21.740
So in two days, he's saved from a tragic marriage to a girl who doesn't like Alp and
01:02:32.660
In an age to 350 million people, we're guessing there are about 350 million Alp stories.
01:02:51.740
So one of the primary platforms we use for distribution is YouTube, which in general
01:03:01.060
A lot less censorship than I got at any television job I ever had.
01:03:08.880
But the one area where we get censored by YouTube is when we talk about the COVID shot,
01:03:16.780
Um, so this will probably be censored on YouTube, but I just want to, I just want to ask you,
01:03:22.540
but you're a physician, clinical physician, you're treating people, thousands of people.
01:03:29.120
Um, and so I, I feel like I have to ask you this.
01:03:35.060
So I don't get the, the sudden, you know, collapse, uh, myocarditis, stroke sort of situation
01:03:45.140
I see, I see the, um, yeah, it's, it varies, but, uh, I've seen some very strange rashes
01:03:51.520
that don't go away with steroids and antihistamines and have actually like rashes, like bumpy, red,
01:04:23.360
So POTS is, uh, when the blood pressure drops suddenly or goes up real high suddenly for no
01:04:36.000
That's been a big thing with the COVID patients.
01:04:44.100
POTS are postural orthostatic, uh, hyper or temporal hypertension, uh, postural orthostatic
01:04:55.360
I probably shouldn't have asked you, but like, what are its effects?
01:04:59.640
So you, you may just be standing there and your blood pressure drops or, or your, um,
01:05:05.140
or your pulse goes up way high and you feel like you're having a panic attack, that sort
01:05:09.880
Um, so it's symptomatic changes in your blood pressure that occur without any kind of trigger.
01:05:15.980
I mean, that sounds like it could be dangerous.
01:05:29.000
I've saw a patient a little bit older than me, CEO of a company.
01:05:33.640
He came in and he gave me his business card and he said, hi, I'm this so-and-so.
01:05:38.780
And he, and he gave me his other card and he'd go, and this is the biggest mistake I've
01:05:44.320
Um, very difficult to, to, I mean, we've gotten a little bit of improvement, but just,
01:06:02.360
A lot of these patients say they feel a lot of burning, like pins and needles when they
01:06:16.880
And they don't just, it's not like giving them an antibiotic and a week later they're better.
01:06:30.940
I don't know if she, so React 19 is a organization started to help the injured from, you know,
01:06:36.500
The head of that organization was involved in the AstraZeneca trial.
01:06:41.060
So she was a, she volunteered to be a guinea pig and she got injured.
01:06:45.160
Government just came out and said they're not going to help her.
01:06:47.560
They're not going to give her any kind of financial reimbursement.
01:07:03.800
Well, I mean, the government was, in her case, she was part of the clinical trials, you said.
01:07:10.240
But everybody else, not including me and you, uh, took it because we were, you know,
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subject of like the biggest propaganda campaign in American history.
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So we were forced by the government to take it.
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By the way, why aren't the companies paying these people?
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Companies have no, uh, liability risk with these products.
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And so under the PrEP Act, they're even more shielded?
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Anything that happened, anything that's designated as a countermeasure is protected.
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So anything that happens in the hospitals, anything that happens from these shots, uh, it's all protected from liability.
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There, there is one really monumental lawsuit going on that could change that.
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Uh, Brooke Jackson is a whistleblower for, for Pfizer and she was involved in the research.
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She was, uh, the manager and she was seeing all sorts of issues with the way they were conducting the trial.
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And she brought that to the company's attention.
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She brought that to the FDA's attention and she was fired.
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So she has been in this gigantic legal battle against Pfizer, um, for a long time now.
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And unfortunately, and this was during Biden, the DOJ stepped in and, and basically said, no, you can't sue Pfizer.
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But the DOJ stuck up for Pfizer, which is not usually how that works.
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Um, I'm surprised they didn't arrest her for complaining.
01:09:10.860
You don't seem like a radical person, but this is, makes me feel radical.
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So neurological symptoms and you, and you're pretty convinced those are also from the shot.
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Well, you look at, okay, what was their past history?
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And then when did these things start happening?
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And then the other thing is they typically go to other doctors and they get the million dollar workup and they can't find anything to explain it.
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I saw one patient on a sleeping pill, a benzodiazepine, and an antidepressant.
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Why do we have so many mass shooters in this country?
01:10:02.940
So they used to, I mean, in just American culture, they used to make fun of 19th century medical cures for hysteria.
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You know, it was always like, you know, the Victorian medical cures and one would have a problem and they'd be like, here's a giant vibrator or, do you know what I mean?
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And, and I was, I'm hardly a feminist, but I was kind of sympathetic to that.
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I've had to report every single patient that came to my, to see me for an injury.
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I was the one, even though they'd seen multiple other doctors, it was me that had to report it to VAERS.
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I love the idea of VAERS and it, I remember reading the VAERS report in 2021 when I worked on, in television and just going on one night and reading it, like, here's what's been reported from this compound that people are being forced to take.
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And man, I got so attacked by, you know, the Atlantic Magazine and everybody.
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It's like, no, this is a federal reporting system.
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And that was kind of the last I ever heard of VAERS.
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Like, what's the, what's the point of having it if it's like irrelevant?
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If you look on there, you don't, you don't have to have a degree in statistics to understand what's going on.
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And then whoosh, you know, just, it's not subtle.
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It was in place during the rollout of a bunch of other vaccines.
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So it's like, you know, measles, rubella, COVID.
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So does that, do you ever hear federal officials make reference to VAERS?
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So the idea of VAERS seems to be that people are complaining again, they need to shut up.
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It's one more thing that's being swept under the rug.
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So you've told a much sadder story than I expected to hear.
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Um, are you concerned that because the technology in these shots was, you know, brand new, never deployed before at scale anyway?
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Um, and the, you know, the trials for these drugs were like, I think we can say it's fair to say a joke.
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Uh, that there are consequences that like haven't manifest yet.
01:12:49.560
Yeah, it's, it's hard to get up-to-date cancer numbers, but I'm hearing all sorts of things.
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Why is it hard to get up-to-date cancer numbers?
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We're in the middle of a cancer moonshot, doctor.
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I, there, there's probably people that have access to that data, but publicly it's hard.
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And, you know, so I have to rely, I don't see a ton of cancer in my practice, but I do have friends at MD Anderson.
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And they said they've never seen anything like it.
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I mean, the young people coming in with very advanced tumors, I think that's what we have to be worried about now.
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Can I ask, you've made reference like five times to, to numbers and the difficulty in getting numbers.
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I don't understand why, I mean, I understand why the identity of patients is shielded by federal law.
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That seems reasonable to me for privacy reasons.
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But, you know, the, just the fact that someone has this or that disease with no identifying markers connected, like that seems like it should be public information.
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Why is there so much secrecy around medical data?
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It could be, there could be an agenda behind it.
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It could just be a total inefficiency of the bureaucracy.
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It's hard to say, but yeah, it'd be nice if we could have more data.
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But, you know, it's, it's also, I guess it's complicated in some degrees to get it all out there.
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But, yeah, transparency would be, even aside from the cancer numbers, I mean, like I said, with COVID, there are all these hospitals that had so much data at their disposal and didn't share it.
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But it'd be nice to see, you know, Houston Methodist come out and share their data with us since they were the first.
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It'd be nice to see how successful that effort was for their employees and for their patients.
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I sued to get their financial data because as a nonprofit, they are supposed to give it to you if somebody from the public wants to know.
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But this is what they get in exchange for not paying property taxes.
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I don't understand really why we lost, but we did.
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Do you think that COVID, clearly there's been no reckoning.
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You've not been recognized for your bravery and prescience.
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You called it and you should be rewarded for that.
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There's no effort to pull this stuff from the market.
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You can't afford to hire lawyers and you can't sue the companies that make these products and you can't sue the government officials that force you to take these products.
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And it's like crushing actually to hear all of this from you.
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Do you see medicine in the United States getting better now that people are paying attention know what's up?
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I think people are feeling more empowered, which is how they should be.
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I mean, they're not listening to the government for their health care decisions anymore.
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You know, there was a time where I couldn't even I was banned from Twitter.
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But, you know, we are free speech is coming back.
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I mean, they I'm not like they couldn't ban me from Twitter.
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I'm just some like random talk show host with an opinion.
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The people they want to ban are the people who are telling the informed truth.
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The physicians who are treating thousands of covid patients like you're the threat, not me.
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Hey, I'm grateful to you for having me on here because this is old news to most people.
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And, you know, we just need to keep speaking out.
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I mean, my foot is on the pedal, you know, even though there is no pandemic anymore.
01:17:52.380
Well, it sounds like indications suggest, I mean, I don't want to overstate anything, but it feels like they're the consequences are still rippling.
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And I don't know why there's not an organized effort to find out, you know, our cancer rate spiking.
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We eliminated cigarette smoking, which was supposedly the main driver of cancer.
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I'm not attacking you, but, like, I demand an answer.
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How hard is that to get some statistician at NIH or wherever, HHS, to tell me what's happening with cancer rates and pediatric cancer rates especially?
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I think, you know, the money is there for the treatment, not for the cause, right?
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Like, how can you recommend treatment without knowing its effect?
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You can't make any wise decision without all the facts, as we say.
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But this is not, I mean, this is financially driven.
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So, if you're in it to make money, you're going to go after the treatment, not the cause.
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Would you have gone into this if you had known?
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It's been very difficult, but it's been impactful.
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And, you know, in some ways, I'm glad it happened.
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And, you know, I have hope that it will change.
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So, and the seeds were there before COVID, but COVID brought it all out there.
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And hopefully, you know, we could actually learn from it and change course.
01:20:05.240
You said you got a flu shot and then you went up in the hospital with pneumonia and sepsis.
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I'm certain not to laugh at your illness, but you got a flu shot.
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I've never had a flu shot because I'm lazy, but you clearly believe, you know, you wouldn't have got it.
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You wouldn't have got it unless you thought it was efficacious.
01:20:26.040
Has what you've seen over the past five years changed your view of other vaccine courses?
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I mean, I, what I've realized is I made a lot of assumptions about vaccines.
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It was, you know, the gospel according to vaccines when I was in training.
01:20:51.900
And they have not been tested like other products on the market.
01:21:10.680
There's no repercussion if something goes wrong.
01:21:14.320
And there's no reason for it to spend a lot of money to ensure that it's safe.
01:21:17.860
So, now, you know, I have questions about all of them.
01:21:22.400
Now, I will say I'm not seeing the carnage from, you know, flu shot that I've seen with the COVID shot.
01:21:29.800
I think there's a different degree of danger there.
01:21:35.460
And if you look at the flu shot, in fact, has never been shown to decrease hospitalization or death in people that get the flu shot.
01:21:43.000
And it actually makes you more susceptible to other viruses.
01:21:49.320
So, I had a child who was badly injured by the flu vaccine.
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And for me, that was one of the drivers in not, I mean, I had, when it happened, it was almost 20 years ago.
01:22:03.360
I had no idea that, in fact, I never thought the vaccines could hurt anybody.
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I thought they were like one of the great miracles of science.
01:22:13.180
I was so proud that we developed the polio vaccine, which I'm not against.
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But I didn't know that they had potential downsides.
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And that's one of the reasons I was like a little slow to want to.
01:22:31.020
So, it sounds like you're not like against vaccines, but from what you just said, the system around vaccines does not put patient safety at the forefront of concern.
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What I do is so important to the commonwealth that you literally can't sue me.
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So, I mean, just make them go through the process any other product has to go through.
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It was in 1986 when Reagan put the act in place.
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I guess there were two companies that almost got just decimated financially because of all the kickback, the lawsuits.
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I really hate lawyers quite as much as doctors, but in that range, okay.
01:24:00.220
Some of the tort awards are insane and all of that stuff, but I also think it's fair if someone keeps getting sued for the same thing.
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Like, if I get a sexual harassment suit for political reasons, if I get eight of them.
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What are you going to do now that this is all over?
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Or, like, how are you, other than treating patients, how are you as a formerly politically disengaged person spending your time?
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I try to get away from it all as much as I can.
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And that's what I would advise anybody is just find something, a hobby, that gets you away from things and get outside as much as you can.
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I probably, you know, I'm probably going to slow down my practice a little bit just to give myself some breathing room.
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