And a group of doctors is helping push it over the edge.
So now we don’t have to
listen to what those doctors said in front of the US Supreme
Court, because it turns out that one of them has some whacky beliefs about sex
with demons causing reproductive disorders. What a relief.
I’m not going to pretend that
the things Dr.
Stella Immanuel has said don’t sound just a little crazy
to me. They do. But I’ve been observing this game
long enough to have a pretty good idea of how this works:
Someone
says something that contradicts the dominant narrative (in this case, the
narrative about medical science), and the machine that supports that narrative
goes into overdrive to discredit them, with whatever information they can dig
up–as long as it doesn’t involve discussing the actual substance of what the
person has said.
I understand that for some
people, maybe even for a great many, that is the end of the conversation. So
for everyone who is satisfied with the “fringe doctors promoting
hydroxychloroquine also believe demon sex causes fybroids” narrative–please,
stop here. Your ride is over, and you may go on believing that this group of
doctors and other professionals has been thoroughly discredited by these
statements.
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For everyone else, if you are
at all interested in why such a coordinated effort has been launched to silence
and discredit this group, why–even before the sex demon stuff was
uncovered–videos of the group’s press conference were quickly yanked from
YouTube, and why their own website was taken down without warning by
its host, SquareSpace, (their new website can now be found here)
then please keep reading.
WHAT THE AMERICA’S FRONTLINE DOCTORS
GROUP SAID:
What follows is a brief summary of the key points made by the
group America’s Frontline Doctors at their
press conference last week. I will not comment on the validity of their claims,
however founder Dr. Simone Gold has provided support for much of what the group
said, in a white paper that can be found here.
1. They believe that hydroxychloroquine
is an effective treatment for Covid-19.
This is the claim made by several of the speakers, including Dr.
Immanuel, based on their own clinical experience, as well as on multiple
published studies. Many of those studies are listed here,
and here.
2. State licensing boards are using their
power to forcibly prevent people from having access to this drug.
According to Dr. Gold, many states have empowered their pharmacists to
not honor prescriptions for hydroxychloroquine to be used in treating Covid-19.
This, she says, is unprecedented: “It has never
happened that a state has threatened a doctor for prescribing a universally
accepted safe generic cheap drug off-label.”
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Meanwhile, says Gold, the drug is available over the counter in many other countries, including Iran and Indonesia, where
it can be found “in the vitamin section”.
3. There is a coordinated campaign to discredit and suppress information about
the drug hydroxychloroquine as a possible treatment for Covid-19:
“If it seems like there is an orchestrated
attack going on against hydroxychloroquine,” said Dr. James Todaro, “it’s
because there is.”
Dr.
Todaro is speaking from experience. He was the co-author of a
March 13 white paper arguing for the use of
hydroxychloroquine against Covid-19. The paper was made public on Google Docs,
received a lot of attention, and was then removed–without warning–by Google.
(It has since been put back up.)
4. The World Health
Organization (the authority upon which YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki has said she bases her company’s policy
on “misinformation”) halted its trials of
hydroxychloroquine based on a blatantly fraudulent study that relied on data that
it appears never even existed. The WHO later resumed trials after independent
investigators discovered the problems and the study’s authors retracted it.
5. We
should be able to have a free and open discussion about this.
Dr.
Dr. Joseph Lapado from UCLA, sums it up:
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“We’ve been using
(hydroxychloroquine) for a long time. But all of a sudden it’s been escalated
to this area of looking like some poisonous drug. That just doesn’t make sense…
At the very least, we can live in a world where there are differences of opinion
about the effectiveness of hydroxychloroquine, but still allow more data to
come, still allow physicians who feel they have expertise with it to use that
medication, and still, you know, talk and learn and get better at helping
people with Covid-19.”
WHY THE
ALL-OUT MEDIA ASSAULT ON THE FRONTLINE DOCTORS?:
The
influence that the pharmaceutical industry wields over media outlets is no
secret. As of 2018, an estimated 70% of all news advertising in the US came
from pharmaceutical companies. I have written elsewhere about how “reporting” on medical issues can be difficult
to distinguish from outright marketing for drug companies.
Social-media
platforms are not immune to this influence, whether it comes via advertising
dollars; “partnerships” such as that between the CDC Foundation and
MailChimp (which like many other platforms, has an explicit policy of censoring
content about vaccines that does not align with the positions of the CDC and
the WHO); direct investment, such as that of Google’s
parent company Alphabet; or indeed at the behest of
politicians such as Congressman Adam Schiff, who last year wrote to the CEOs of
Amazon, Facebook and Google, requesting that those companies censor information
and products that did not conform to the officially sanctioned position on
vaccines. All three complied.
So it
should come as small surprise that both Google and YouTube have now taken to removing
content supportive of hydroxychloroquine, a drug that is no longer covered by
patent, and can be made and sold by any generic producer, for a fraction of the price that Gilead, for
example, might charge for its still-patented
Remdesivir. Twitter and Facebook have likewise removed posts about the drug, most notably–and with no
visible sense of irony–removing posts of the video in which the Frontline
Doctors speak out about widespread media censorship of the topic. (You can now
see those videos on Bitchute.)
One
need not have an opinion on the merits of the drug hydroxychloroquine in order
to recognize that something very odd is happening here. Something that doesn’t
seem to have anything to do with free and open inquiry or honest scientific
discourse.
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Many
argue that the politicization of this drug is founded in a desire to unseat
President Trump, that the opposition to it is primarily because it was endorsed
by Trump, and if it is deemed to be a failure (or even better, dangerous to patients) it will be a
powerful strike against the president. That may well be part of what has
motivated this. But there is
another motivation, having to do with the desire to push a more expensive medication onto the
market, and to push a new vaccine on the world’s population.
More broadly, it has to do with the narrative that those in the business
of selling drugs demand we believe: that we are all in desperate need of their
products (but only the ones still under patent) if we are to be healthy–or
indeed, if we are to survive at all.
If it turns out that this “new” virus is easily treatable, with
hydroxychloroquine or anything else, then the industry’s dreams go up in smoke.
If hydroxychloroquine turns out to be a safe and effective way of treating
Covid-19 (as multiple studies and the experience in many other countries outside of the US indicate it may be) then there is much
less reason for anyone to receive a vaccine for it, let alone the entire
world’s population. Likewise, there is no pressing need to develop a new, more
expensive treatment.
But even more than that: If it turns out
that hydroxychloroquine is after all a
safe and effective treatment for Covid-19, then this whole episode–the
silencing of dissenting voices, the “fact-checking” on social media, the
campaigns against “misinformation”–will be revealed in plain sight, for what it
has always been: Nothing more than a well-funded marketing campaign and
damage-control effort on behalf of the industry that wants you to believe that
you need to use its expensive products in order to go on living.
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So when a group of doctors took to the
steps of the US Supreme Court and told the world how they were having success
using a cheap anti-malarial that had been in use for 65 years to treat the most
deadly contagion of our generation, it was a massive blow to the narrative upon
which the pharmaceutical purveyors’ success depends. And over the next few
days, as viewers engaged in a race with the censors, quickly downloading videos
before they were removed, to post them on other platforms… it became clear that
the censors and the gatekeepers had lost control of the conversation.
This is not only about
hydroxychloroquine. Every time media outlets or social-media platforms engage
in outright censorship of content, in a way that
happens to benefit pharmaceutical companies, both parties lose just a little
more credibility. The actions we are witnessing now are not the actions of an
industry confident in the value of what it provides to the world. They are the
actions of a desperate, threatened creature. They are the actions of an entity
that is not strengthened by the truth, but weakened by it. That is what these
(increasingly obvious) acts of censorship tell us. What we are witnessing are
the pangs of a lumbering, wounded, behemoth.
Bretigne
Shaffer [send
her mail] was a journalist in Asia for many years. She is the author
of Annabel Pickering & the Sky Pirates,
and Urban Yogini (A Superhero Who Can’t Use Violence). She
blogs at www.bretigne.com.
Copyright © Bretigne Shaffer
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