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A lot can change in two years. Just before Christmas 2021, Dr. McCullough came over to my house to spend the day discussing the events set forth in our book, The Courage to Face COVID-19: Preventing Hospitalization and Death While Battling the Bio-Pharmaceutical Complex. He arrived in characteristically good spirits, even though he’d just been hit with the most outrageous attack. That morning, Medscape—a popular medical news agency—published a report titled “Physicians of the Year: Best and Worst.” An e-mail blast of the report went out to doctors all over the country. The e- mail’s subject was, “Worst Physicians of 2021: Who disgraced the profession? See who made the list and how many of them you know?”

By itself the subject was foul, and under normal circumstances McCullough wouldn’t have opened the e-mail. However, as it arrived on the heels of his Joe Rogan interview, which had sparked a flurry of negative communiques about him on the internet, it couldn’t be ignored.

He went through the report’s slide show of the “Worst of 2021.” The first 8 were a rogues’ gallery of doctors convicted of performing fraudulent, unnecessary surgery, mass murder, making false diagnoses while under the influence of drugs, sexual harassment, and assault. Peter clicked on slide number 9 and saw a photo of himself under the headline, “Baylor Gets Restraining Order Against Covid Vaccine Skeptic Doc.” The report explained that “Baylor was the first institution to cut ties with McCullough, who promoted the use of unproven therapies for COVID-19 and questioned the effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines.”

Peter laughed this off with his usual Stoicism, but I could tell he’d found this repugnant attack to be painful.

“Nobody with any common sense or decency believes this,” I said, trying to cheer him up. “Medscape is clearly a gutter publication.” Already then, in December 2021, I was confident Peter would ultimately be vindicated. I am gratified to see that this is happening far faster than I predicted it would.

Yesterday the International Association of Top Professionals (IAOTP) in New York City held its annual awards ceremony and gave Peter its Top Internist and Cardiologist of the Year award. Before the ceremony, IAOTP displayed his photograph on the seven-story Nasdaq Tower in Times Square.

I’ve spent forty years studying history, and I am very familiar with how discerning dissidents have been relentlessly persecuted, only later to be vindicated. When the English statesman and poet, John Milton, visited Galileo in the summer of 1633, shortly after Galileo’s trial for heresy, Milton perceived that the astronomer had been unjustly persecuted for simply stating what he’d observed. It was a moving experience that influenced Milton’s famous defense of free speech that he published in a 1644 pamphlet titled Areopagitica. In this speech Milton described censors as “oligarchs” who “bring a famine upon our minds.”

For the last three years, we have contended with a formidable array of oligarchs who have tried to bring a famine upon our minds. As long as a good portion of this nation’s citizenry retains its allegiance to free speech and the free exchange of ideas and observations, the oligarchs will never win.

With each passing day, Richard J. Baron and his fellow inquisitors at the American Board of Internal Medicine Committee—which continues its effort to strip Dr. McCullough of his board certifications—increasingly look like the Inquisitors who punished Galileo with house arrest for the last nine years of his life.

The news that Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton suing Pfizer for fraudulent misrepresentation of its COVID-19 vaccine gave me hope that his discovery will explore a probable connection between Pfizer and the ABIM. On the face of it, this suspicion is highly warranted, because the ABIM, Pfizer, and Moderna all share the same powerful PR firm, Weber Shandwick. Indeed, I wouldn’t be surprised if Weber Shandwick was behind the Medscape hit piece in December 2021.

If Dr. Baron has indeed allowed commercial interests to influence the ABIM’s certification and decertification of medical doctors, he should be carefully examined for possibly having civil and perhaps even criminal conflicts of interest.

In the meantime, congratulations to Dr. McCullough for his much deserved award.

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COVID-19 Vaccination Cripples Senior Marathon Runner Into Wheelchair

By Peter A. McCullough, MD, MPH

The World Health Organization as a layperson explanation of Guillain-Barré Syndrome (GBS) which is appropriate as more people are affected with this condition after SARS-CoV-2 infection and the ill-advised COVID-19 vaccines.

“Symptoms typically last a few weeks, with most individuals recovering without long-term, severe neurological complications. The first symptoms of Guillain-Barré syndrome include weakness or tingling sensations. They usually start in the legs and can spread to the arms and face. For some people, these symptoms can lead to paralysis of the legs, arms, or muscles in the face. In approximately one third of people, the chest muscles are affected, making it hard to breathe. The ability to speak and swallow may become affected in severe cases of Guillain-Barré syndrome. These cases are considered life-threatening, and affected individuals should be treated in intensive-care units. Most people recover fully from even the most severe cases of Guillain-Barré syndrome, although some continue to experience weakness. Even in the best of settings, a small number of Guillain-Barré syndrome patients die from complications, which can include paralysis of the muscles that control breathing, blood infection, lung clots, or cardiac arrest.”

Mr. Rod Shears is a 77 year-old former CEO and super fit marathon runner in the UK. He lives about 15 minutes outside of central London. Please listen to the description of what happened to him in 2021 after two AstraZeneca adenoviral COVID-19 shots and then a Pfizer mRNA booster. His syndrome is not classic for GBS because it is a dominant demyelinating motor neuropathy.

This video is important, because Rod is in a wheelchair and obviously devastated with his vaccine injury. He has never heard of McCullough Protocol Base Spike Detoxification. As you will see, he has agreed to try the protocol and check in with Courageous discourse at 3, 6, 9, and 12 months to report on his condition. In the absence of large randomized trials, we must rely on clinical judgement and empirical evidence to understand safety and treatment effect. Let’s hope for the best for Mr. Shears.

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Peter A. McCullough, MD, MPH

Chief Scientific Officer, The Wellness Company

Ken Paxton Leads the Charge

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During the 1948 presidential election campaign, President Truman delivered a speech attacking the Republicans. During the speech, a supporter yelled out, “Give ’em Hell, Harry!” Truman replied, “I don’t give them Hell. I just tell the truth about them, and they think it’s Hell.”

I was reminded of Truman’s remark yesterday when I saw the news that Texas Attorney Ken Paxton is suing Pfizer “for mis­rep­re­sent­ing COVID-19 vac­cine effi­ca­cy and con­spir­ing to cen­sor pub­lic discourse.” Since the beginning of the pandemic, I have gotten the overwhelming impression that most of what we hear from most politicians and their buddies in the Bio-Pharmaceutical Complex consists of fraudulent misrepresentations of everything, starting with the origin of the virus.

Earlier this fall I was delighted to see Ken Paxton vanquish the insufferable weenies who tried to take him down. Now comes the news that he’s suing Pfizer.

As many readers of this Substack are aware, this isn’t the first time Pfizer has been sued for fraud. In 2009, the company was found guilty of the largest healthcare fraud in U.S. corporate history. A leopard never changes its spots.

Please read Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton Press Release and share the link with your friends.

Give ‘em Hell, Ken!

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Pfizer Periodic Safety Update Report Confirms Batch Variability

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By Peter A. McCullough, MD, MPH

As an epidemiologist I am in the business of determining scientific validity of published studies. The Schmeling analysis that demonstrated the batch or lots of Pfizer mRNA vaccines seemed to have very imbalanced side effect profiles was externally consistent with VAERS data presented by Senator Ron Johnson to the CDC. This has been the major explanation of why some are fine and others are injured or dead after COVID-19 vaccination. But, was there any confirmation of what Schmeling et al found?

In a reply to a letter to the editor, Schmeling et al reveal the Pfizer Periodic Safety Update as an source of internal validity.

“Finally, after publication of our report, we have become aware of the first Periodic Safety Update Report (PSUR) for the BNT162b2 vaccine covering the period 19 December, 2020 to 18 June 2021 that was submitted to the European Medicines Agency on 19 August 2021 by the market authorization holder (BioNTech).11 This PSUR appears to confirm a large variation in numbers of adverse events between different BNT162b2 batches and batches with the highest number of adverse events reported here were all those represented by the blue ‘high SAE’ trendline in the figure of our published study.”

Schmeling M, Manniche V, Hansen PR. Batch-dependent safety of the BNT162b2 mRNA COVID-19 vaccine. Eur J Clin Invest. 2023 Dec;53(12):e14102. doi: 10.1111/eci.14102. Epub 2023 Oct 13. PMID: 37833825.

So it appears as if the “hot lot” theory is confirmed. This explains why some ~32% have virtually zero side effects and have little reason for concern. We only wish everyone could be in that group. All others have some reason for personal health vigilance for the emergency of vaccine-induced medical problems.

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Schmeling M, Manniche V, Hansen PR. Batch-dependent safety of the BNT162b2 mRNA COVID-19 vaccine. Eur J Clin Invest. 2023 Dec;53(12):e14102. doi: 10.1111/eci.14102. Epub 2023 Oct 13. PMID: 37833825.

Where Medicine and the Constitution Intersect

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Last night, Dr. McCullough gave an interview before a large audience in the Debate Chamber of the Old Parkland Hospital in Dallas. Founded in 1894, Old Parkland served the people of Dallas through two World Wars as a teaching hospital and innovator in medical technologies. In 1954, the working hospital moved to a new location (to where President Kennedy was rushed on November 22, 1963). However, the original Old Parkland buildings remained in use for other city and county services.

In 2006, Crow Holdings acquired the historic landmark with plans to preserve, renovate, and develop the 12-acre property as Dallas’ premier office campus. As a Dallas Morning News feature described the renovated campus:

This is an American fantasyland created by Crow as an homage to the American Experiment. Towering bronze statues of founding fathers George Washington, Alexander Hamilton and Benjamin Franklin stand as sentinels at three buildings.

“The idea was to celebrate the ideas of the American founding using specific founders, but also their intellectual antecedents from the Enlightenment,” says [Harlan] Crow, who’s more than just a history buff. “So there’s a lot of John Locke and Adam Smith and guys from the Enlightenment who never came to America but who greatly influenced the founders.”

More than two dozen sculptures by Auguste Rodin, Antoine Bourdelle and Aristide Maillol grace the 9.5-acre grounds, half of which is communal green space.

I have long admired Harlan Crow for his extraordinarily beautiful “homage to the American Experiment.” The building containing the Debate Chamber is a masterpiece of the Federal Style of architecture, graced by portraits of Washington, Jefferson, and Madison.

Since I started working with Dr. McCullough two years ago, I have held the conviction that he is our country’s most rigorous defender of the United States Constitution against encroachments by dictatorial emergency power.

To understand what I mean by this, consider that every notable dictator in history has invoked “Emergency Power” in order to augment his executive power and to suspend normal legal protections. The reason why this tyrannical gambit always works is that when people are frightened of an emergency, they crave protection from the state, and willingly suspend their liberties.

James Madison, the author of the U.S. Constitution, perfectly understood this, and he frequently wrote and spoke about it. For most of history, dictators invoked the emergency of armed men invading or purportedly threatening to invade. In 2020, the Secretary of Health and Human Services invoked the emergency of an invasion by invisible pathogens. Dr. McCullough understood that the proper response to this threat was not to lock everyone down—a drastic measure that would not make the virus go away—but to treat the illness in order to prevent people from going to hospital and dying.

In defining the Mission of McCullough Foundation, I conceived our key objective as conducting scholarship and education not only for optimizing public health, but also for defending Madison’s basic principles in framing our Constitutional Republic.

We thank Mr. Harlan Crow for his homage to the founding principles of our Republic, and for graciously allowing Dr. McCullough to address a large assembly on his splendid campus. Special thanks to Austin Hopper for proposing and facilitating the event.

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Upper Extremity and Distal Musculoskeletal Problems Months after COVID-19 Vaccination

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By Peter A. McCullough, MD, MPH

I had a patient in the office recently who told me she developed a frozen shoulder in the same arm that received a COVID-19 vaccine. Adhesive capsulitis is a problem that is painful and limits range of motion of the shoulder progressing to becoming completely useless. It took months of therapy for her to work out of this problem.

Park et al performed a retrospective nationwide cohort study used data from the Korean National Health Insurance Service (NHIS) database, involving 2,218,715 individuals. The first shots were by Pfizer 57%, AstraZeneca 35%, and Moderna 2%. They found not only frozen shoulder, but a wide range of upper extremity problems, presumably in the same arm that took the shot.

Correlation between COVID-19 vaccination and inflammatory musculoskeletal disorders. Young Hwan Park, Min Ho Kim, Myeong Geun Choi, Eun Mi ChunmedRxiv 2023.11.14.23298544; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.11.14.23298544

Data in the table suggest the inflammatory joint problems stirred up by vaccination go beyond the arm and include herniated vertebral discs, chronic back pain, Achilles tendonitis, and plantar fasciitis. It’s my speculation that sites in the body that have pre-existing inflammation may get more heavily seeded with lipid nanoparticles laced with mRNA that work to install the inflammatory Spike protein into those joints and tendons, further worsening the inflammatory pain.

This paper is important for those who are still taking COVID-19 boosters since for each shot the arm has to be chosen. Everyone should be aware this is a manifold increased risk even 12 weeks later of incurring a disabling arm problem with continued vaccination. Additionally, a vaccine candidate should do a self-inventory of body aches and pains before vaccination to give an objective report to doctors on changes with the ill-advised injection.

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Correlation between COVID-19 vaccination and inflammatory musculoskeletal disorders. Young Hwan Park, Min Ho Kim, Myeong Geun Choi, Eun Mi ChunmedRxiv 2023.11.14.23298544; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.11.14.23298544