Analysis by Dr. Joseph
Mercola
Fact Checked September 11, 2022
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STORY AT-A-GLANCE
· John Leake, a true crime
author, and Dr. Peter McCullough have written a new book, “The Courage to Face
COVID-19: Preventing Hospitalization and Death While Battling the
Bio-Pharmaceutical Complex,” revealing the crimes perpetrated by the medical
industrial complex against patients, doctors and the public at large
· What we’ve seen during
these COVID years is a reversion back to a pre-scientific era of immutable
orthodoxy, much like the counter reformation in Europe during the Inquisition
in the late 1500s and early 1600s. There was no due process then and there’s no
due process now
· The American Board of
Internal Medicine is threatening to revoke McCullough’s certification — which
essentially would shut down his ability to be employed — because in
fair-balance he “made public statements that may lead to someone not taking a
vaccine”
· The U.S. Food and Drug
Administration and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention need to be
held to account for their reckless public health decisions, but the real power
base behind these COVID crimes, which must also be held to account, is the
medical industrial complex — a conglomerate of international foundations, the
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, The Rockefeller Foundation, the Wellcome
Trust and the World Economic Forum
· In order for there to be a
reckoning, a sufficiently large portion of the population must demand
accountability, stay on-task, and not allow themselves to be distracted by the
latest “emergency,” whether real or fabricated
In this video, John Leake, a true crime author, and
Dr. Peter McCullough discuss their new book, "The Courage
to Face COVID-19: Preventing Hospitalization and Death While Battling the
Bio-Pharmaceutical Complex." As noted by McCullough, the focus of the
book is not really COVID; it's about crime. It's about the crimes perpetrated
against patients, doctors and others.
"I have
been stripped of virtually everything in my career because I've tried to help
patients," McCullough
says. "And most
of the stripping occurred even before the vaccines came about.
This is
astonishing. I'm the most published person in my field, in the world ... I have
over 650 citations in the National Library of Medicine; over 1,000 publications
on the interface between heart and kidney disease.
I've lectured
at the New York Academy of Sciences, the FDA [U.S. Food and Drug
Administration], the European Medicine Agency (EMA). I'm in the upper echelon
of academic physicians in the world.
But because I
innovated — I got an investigational new drug application, I got large grant
funding, I devised ways of treating patients, I worked with others, I
demonstrated that it works, I testified in the U.S. Senate, helped the White
House the best I could when they reached out to me — because of that, I was
stripped of my job as an academic physician.
Fortunately, I
changed employers and kept my practice going. I've been stripped of two major
editorships, two professorships. I've been stripped of every NIH committee,
every Industry Clinical Trial Committee. And the unique thing about the
stripping is, there's no courtesy call, there's no due process, no explanation.
Anything
contractually that indicates due process is completely violated. No faculty
senate, no board meetings or approvals. So, when it happens, it's simply,
'You're stripped off this activity that you've done, or position held in some
cases, for decades.'"
As noted by Leake, what we've seen during these
COVID years is a reversion back to a pre-scientific era of immutable orthodoxy,
much like the counter reformation in Europe during the Inquisition of the late
1500s and early 1600s.
There was no due process then and there's no due
process now. Someone accused you of being in league with the devil, and you
were summarily declared guilty and/or tortured until you agreed.
Today, we have federal agencies and Washington
bureaucrats, none of whom has ever treated a COVID patient, deciding what
doctors can and cannot do for a COVID patient, and going outside those
recommendations is a heresy punishable by excommunication.
"Fortunately,
I'm not in the gallows somewhere, physically chained to a stake," McCullough says, "but I can tell you,
what's going on is a form of cyber warfare, professional warfare."
Professional Warfare
May 26, 2022, McCullough received a letter,
simultaneously sent to almost every doctor who has spoken out and tried to help
COVID patients, including Drs. Pierre Kory, Paul Marik, Denise Sibley and
others.
The letter was a notice of professional review.
McCullough is board certified in both internal medicine and cardiology, and has
maintained those licenses for four decades, with a perfect track record. The
American Board of Internal Medicine is now threatening to revoke his
certification. He goes on:
"They are
attacking one of the top people in medicine, and in the attack, it says 'You
have made public statements that may lead to someone not taking a vaccine.'
That's actually what's stated in the letter. So, this is under the pretext that
people should be taking vaccines, that there shouldn't be any fair balance or
any discussion on risk and benefits.
And they picked
out five statements that I made under oath in the Texas Senate. Let me tell you
what, when you give Senate testimony ... you raise your hand and [promise to]
say the whole truth, nothing but the truth. And you're going to answer the
questions to the best of your ability, which is what I did.
I am now in a
process of professional reprisal for sworn statements under oath. This should
be a warning to every nurse, every engineer, every lawyer, everybody who now is
trying to help America or [is] involved in some process where statements made
under oath can lead to professional attack.
Of course, I've
done a response letter. I have evidence to cite every single statement made.
Sen. Johnson stepped up and he called out the American Board and said, 'Listen,
let's just meet about this. Let's have a round table discussion on the issues
at hand.'
The American
Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) has stonewalled him. The Association of
American Physicians & Surgeons has filed a lawsuit against ABIM [for] this
act of professional reprisal. I'm publicly damaged by the American Board of
Internal Medicine.
As we sit here
today, the American Board of Internal Medicine says they're going to do a
closed review. They will not let me attend my own meeting or even understand
the discussions that take place. To my knowledge, not a single person on this
credentialing committee is an expert on COVID-19. They don't have the expertise
that I have on the problem at hand."
At present, McCullough is in private practice in
Dallas, Texas. However, in order to be able to be on call at the hospital, he
must maintain staff privileges, and to do that, he must be board certified.
Without board certification, he cannot work with insurance companies. So, being
stripped of one or both certifications would have severe professional
consequences.
Even if the ABIM doesn't go through with it, a
certain amount of damage has already been done. "People's lives are in our
hands and we must maintain the most forward-facing, beyond-reproach status with
our boards," he says. "I've now been permanently tarnished, no matter
what comes out of this review."
History Repeating Itself
Leake has long been fascinated by the tragic story
of Dr. Ignaz Semmelweis, which ended up serving as a foundation for the story
in "The Courage to Face COVID-19."
Semmelweis was a Hungarian physician working in the
Vienna General Hospital's first obstetrical clinic. For some reason, the
maternal mortality was three times higher in the doctors' wards compared to the
midwives' wards, and around 1847, Semmelweis intuited that the lethal puerperal
fever (childbed fever) that was killing these women might be related to the
fact that the doctors also worked in the morgue.
"He
proposed that anatomy students wash their hands with chlorinated lime, and
quickly, the incidence of fever in this maternity clinic dropped down to less
than 1%," Leake says. "It was a staggering
mortality rate prior to this procedure. I think it was up to 18% at one point ...
So, professor
Semmelweis makes this observation — he actually does some pretty solid
documentary statistical analysis of what he's observing — and how do the
medical imminence of Europe react at this time?
They say,
'You're crazy. There's no basis for making this postulation for any of your
conclusions. You're nuts.' And he loses his professorship and ultimately dies
in an insane asylum. That always haunted me. He was later vindicated, as we
know, but not without suffering a massive penalty.
I had this
story in my head. I even thought about writing a screenplay about it. Fast
forward, SARS-CoV-2 arrives, and I began to perceive that it's the same thing
as the Semmelweis story. Our so-called purported authorities are imposing an
orthodoxy, and anyone who questions the orthodoxy, like Dr. McCullough, is
stripped [of their credentials].
So that's the
basic drama of the story. Pioneering doctors who had the courage to actually
treat COVID, to learn as fast as they could, as much as they could, and then to
advocate for the treatment of COVID, and like Semmelweis were heavily
persecuted. And so, it's a true crime story based on this medical drama. It's
part true crime, part medical thriller."
Leake interviewed a range of people for the book,
to get their first-hand accounts. And, again, as stressed by McCullough, these
stories reveal a crime — perhaps the biggest crime of all time.
Follow the Money
As noted by Leake, financial incentives clearly
played a role in the hospital massacres that occurred:
"The Cares
Act, signed into law, I believe on March 26, 2020, created all of this pandemic
response money that was generated out of thin air by our government. Overnight,
with the stroke of the keyboard, about $2 trillion were created for pandemic
response.
And people who
were admitted to hospital, even if they just had a positive PCR test but were
admitted for other symptoms, injuries or other illnesses, were coded as COVID
patients. And there was of a host of financial incentives to hospitals for
doing that. That alone was rather disturbing.
But what I
found extremely disturbing was that the hospitals received a 20% bonus on the
entire hospital bill if the hospital used Remdesivir. So, a massive financial
incentive, and this was the guideline:
If the patient
required supplemental oxygen, the hospital received a 20% bonus on the full
hospital bill for administering Remdesivir, which is an emergency use
authorization product, a patented product that had grave safety concerns,
particularly with respect to kidney and liver damage.
Even the WHO
concluded it should not be used on patients. Nevertheless, this perverse
incentive remained for U.S. hospitals. I spoke with many nurses who said it was
like a well-conducted, trained schedule. About day six or seven, the urine
output started to diminish. There were clear signs of kidney damage from the
administration of Remdesivir. So that was extremely disturbing.
The other thing
was, patients or their families who read the FLCCC protocol or the McCullough
protocol, and started requesting things like ivermectin — even things that had
been around forever, extra strength aspirin ... to reduce thrombosis — even
these things were denied to the hospitalized patients.
The families
would beg, would plead, 'Please administer ivermectin.' Nothing else is being
offered by the hospital's own admission. The patient is headed for the
ventilator and is probably going to die, yet the hospitals and their hired gun
attorneys would fight tooth and nail, even in the face of a court order,
[against administering] some of these McCullough protocol drugs, in some cases,
going to the extent of flouting a court order.
A judge would
say, 'You have to administer ivermectin, extra strength aspirin, whatever it is
that the patients are asking for,' in the hearing. The patient's family would
get a court order, but the hospitals would still refuse to administer it.
I heard
numerous stories in different jurisdictions, some in New York, some in Texas,
in which nothing was offered to the patients — on the contrary, denied, denied,
denied until the end. And the outcome was death for the patient."
Immunity Provisions and Organized Crime
To date, no hospital has been held to account for
ignoring a court order. There have been no legal ramifications whatsoever, even
when it resulted in death.
"So,
there's an element in this story that I think the American people need to
awaken to. I'm down here in Mexico and people talk about Mexican corruption. If
you get pulled over by a cop, you might have to grease his palm. In the United
States, our corruption, I think, is multiple orders of magnitude higher,
namely, it's not that we disobey the law, we just change the law.
There's this
rule by pharmaceutical industry lobbyists, who have deployed an army on Capitol
Hill. We see it in the Cures Act of 2005, and in the Cares Act of 2016 — there
are all of these blanket immunity provisions in these massive emergency
statutes where, should there be, by the judgment of federal health agencies, a
pandemic ... if the Department of Health and Human Services declares an
emergency, then two things happen.
An immense
amount of money is generated out of thin air and distributed to the
bio-pharmaceutical complex. That's the first thing. The second thing is, any
medical professional who is the recipient of these funds is granted immunity
for using these emergency use products. So, great work, if you can get it.
You get filthy
rich receiving federal funds, if an emergency is declared, and if the patient
is injured, then you're fully indemnified. So, it's a massive, organized
complex that has resulted in what I think the reader can only conclude is
crime. It's criminal conduct."
Predictions and Prognostications
Right now, it appears we're in a lull. Few
communities are in lockdown. Mask requirements are rare, and efforts to push
for COVID jab mandates have stalled. The question is, what's next? McCullough
weighs in:
"We have
implicitly moved from a COVID zero aim, where we would get to zero cases, to a
COVID inevitable situation where it's inevitable everyone's going to get it.
The question is when. When the Spanish flu swept through the United States,
there wasn't any of these things that we talk about, and it took about two
years. It basically exhausted itself.
The goal of so
many things was to slow the spread. And I think, probably the spread was slowed
and we've actually prolonged the agony. COVID does appear to be inevitable.
There may be a small fraction who are spared. When I do large public programs,
thousands of people attend, and about 70% to 90% of people raise their hand and
say they've had [COVID].
June 27, 2022,
in the Texas Senate, the dean of the University of Texas School of Public
Health in Houston presented data from a large sample using a high-grade
research assay for exposure to SARS-CoV-2. The conclusion is 99%
seroprevalence. Everyone's been exposed to this [virus].
Now it's just
the issue of who's going to have, essentially, the manifestation of a common
cold, or a little bit worse. The hospitals are empty. I can tell you at this
point in time, the emergency is long gone. I think the emergency or any threat
of overrunning the hospitals ended in January 2021.
Yet the
administration has extended the emergency claim. There are still large
employers that have not returned to the workplace ... What I predict will
happen is, we will have multivalent COVID-19 vaccines in the fall, and then
we're going to see a change in the messaging.
The messaging
is going to be, 'Listen, the first-generation vaccines weren't so good, but now
the new ones are so much better. Everybody has to take it' ... The claim will
be made, 'You have to take the vaccine to prevent COVID from coming back.'
Watch out for that."
Why Variants Don't Need To Be Feared
As for COVID-19, McCullough predicts there will be
additional variants, and that they'll become progressively milder over time,
becoming indistinguishable from the common cold, which rarely needs
prescription drug intervention. Viricidal nasal washes can help reduce viral
load in the nose and throat, and nutraceuticals and supplements can help speed
recovery. My favorite go-to is nebulized hydrogen peroxide.
If you've had COVID and are fretting about newer
variants that have mutated to evade natural immunity — relax. If you haven't
gotten the jab and get reinfected with the BA.5 or other variant, understand
that this exposure essentially works like an "immunization booster"
and will radically improve your immune response to future variants.
As noted by McCullough, we're now learning just how
important it is to have an intact immune system to be able to respond to this
virus and all its variants. What the gene therapy program has achieved is
widespread immune imprinting, which basically directs the immune system to the
wrong target once a new variant arises.
This is why most of the serious COVID infections
are now occurring in those who have received one or more COVID jabs. In a
nutshell, their immune systems have been compromised. The unvaccinated, on the
other hand, their immune systems are well-equipped to handle variants, and if
one slips through, it acts as a "booster" that reprograms the immune
system to be alert to an even broader range of variants.
Will There Be a Reckoning?
Without doubt, crimes have been committed. The
question is, will anyone be held accountable for what they've done? Will anyone
be held accountable for all the people killed and injured?
Leake points out that, historically, large-scale
psyops such as this one typically leave the population in a confused and weary
state where they're unable to hold leadership accountable. And, as long as new
emergencies keep coming, everyone just forgets about the wrong that was done
earlier.
"We know
from the financial crisis in 2008, we know in the invasion of Iraq under false
pretenses, in 2003, there wasn't really any accountability. What seems to
happen is, there will be a certain critical mass of growing awareness of what
happened, but then we lurch on to the next emergency. And the public's
attention is then distracted ...
It seems the
American people are constantly having our attention directed from one crisis to
the next. So, I'm not particularly hopeful. We hope that people will read our
book in its narrative form. I think it will enable people to understand what
has happened for the last two and a half years, and we hope that with growing
awareness, maybe there can be a reckoning."
Who's Really in Charge of Our Health Policy?
While individuals within U.S. health agencies such
as the Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention clearly need to be held to account for their reckless public health
decisions, international players — the medical industrial complex — need to be
held to account as well. That's the real power base behind these COVID crimes.
Leake explains:
"The
medical industrial complex is a group of international foundations, the Bill
& Melinda Gates Foundation, The Rockefeller Foundation and the Wellcome
Trust, working in close orchestration with the World Economic Forum in
Switzerland.
These
international foundations — and this is not a theory, this is well documented —
have assiduously taken over and are now driving international health policy.
All you have to
do is look at their own documents and you'll see that what they completely,
100%, favor as a response to any emerging infectious disease, whether it's
real, perceived, exaggerated, made in a lab — it doesn't matter what it is and
what the true threat posed by it is — it's always the same monolithic response:
vaccine development and deployment.
And the thing
that we have marveled at in our research is that this is completely out in the
open. None of these principled players has tried to conceal their agenda. They
openly speak about it. They do pandemic planning simulations that are videoed
and released to the world.
They have
business plans that they circulate on the internet to prospective investors and
their vaccine development programs. This is all just plainly out in the open.
We know who is driving this. We know they are immensely well-capitalized and
connected to the media, the pharmaceutical industry and the pharmaceutical
lobbying industry in Washington. They're the ones that are driving this
policy."
Prepare, Prepare, Prepare
The British National Health Service has already
announced it's planning for the "biggest vaccination drive in
history" come this fall.1 The nations of the world are working in
lockstep, so be prepared for a massive vaccination campaign after the U.S.
midterms.
If you suspect your employer might impose a vaccine
mandate, start looking for a new job now, to insulate yourself from unnecessary
stress. So many have lost their lives by giving in to coercion. So, situate
yourself in such a way that you don't have to submit to it.
"I
completely agree," McCullough
says. "A method
of staying healthy is to not take injections of the genetic code for the lethal
Wuhan spike protein that was devised in a bio-security lab in China. Keep the
foreign genetic material out of your body.
I think people
should look at their vulnerabilities with respect to their investments, their
civil liberties, their personal relationships. Things could get pretty rough
this fall. There's no doubt about it. There seems to be no protection of civil
liberties at this point in time. Freedom of speech is gone; due process is
gone."
Also, take steps to improve your overall health. In
July 2022, the Journal of the American College of Cardiology2 posted an update on the metabolic fitness or
flexibility of the American population.
Previously, 88% were metabolically unfit. Now it's
over 93%. Metabolic fitness includes things like blood glucose and blood sugar,
blood pressure and weight. This means 14 out of 15 Americans could benefit from
improving their metabolic health. Diet can also make a tremendous difference.
McCullough comments:
"There's a
very good paper that specifically analyzed diet and categorized diet in a
continuum from very healthy to very unhealthy, and those who had the healthiest
diets had the lowest frequency of SARS-CoV-2 and the lowest risk of
hospitalization and death.
That's a
prospective cohort, well-done study. So, it's about survival of the fittest. If
there's anything we've learned with SARS-CoV-2, it's that there's an
opportunity for health redemption. Now's the time to get on the healthy
train."
In closing, be sure to pick up a copy of "The Courage
to Face COVID-19: Preventing Hospitalization and Death While Battling the
Bio-Pharmaceutical Complex." It's a real page-turner. Leake has done a
magnificent job of threading all the stories together, such that it reads like
a novel while still being highly informative.
- Sources
and References
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1 Mark Crispin Miller Substack August 13, 2022
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2 Journal of
the American College of Cardiology July 2022; 80(2): 138-151
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