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An Open Letter to the “Doctors” Trying to Censor Joe Rogan

You have only yourselves to blame for the lack of trust in modern medicine

Stephanie Brail
Jan 14, 2022
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Dear Doctors, Nurses, Assistants, Med Students, and Others Who Signed the Letter to Censor Joe Rogan:

Well, congratulations. Whoever coordinated your PR campaign to smear Joe Rogan and Dr. Robert Malone did a good job. On the local news last night, after the top story about Prince Andrew, the local newscaster reported that a group of “doctors” had called out Spotify for Joe Rogan’s “misinformation.”

What this story has anything to do with local news is beyond me, but your Orwellian messaging got out, which was I’m sure your purpose: to discredit rather than debate.

In the interest of full transparency, would you mind revealing who was doing the PR for your campaign, and the source of any money that may be funding it? Because getting a coordinated talking point like that out so quickly, to multiple local news outlets no less, is no small feat.

I’m skeptical that you are just a group of “concerned doctors” (and nurse assistants and podcasters and students). But assuming you are who you say you are, and assuming you aren’t getting funding from an organization with a conflict of interest (such as a pharmaceutical company)

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While I’m not surprised that some of you signed this letter, what does surprise me is that you don’t even try to bother and make an argument about patient health or saving lives. Your main reasons for wanting censorship appear to be...first, that the “actions” of comparing pandemic policies to the Holocaust or talks of public health leaders having “hypnotized” the public are... “medically and culturally dangerous.” Huh?

You also state:

As scientists, we face backlash and resistance as the public grows to distrust our research and expertise. As educators and science communicators, we are tasked with repairing the public’s damaged understanding of science and medicine.

So whose fault is that really? We’ll get to that in a moment. But it appears you are more irked that you’ve been taken off your lofty pedestals than any impact on human lives.

I’m also curious as to what exactly medically and culturally dangerous is. It’s vague and doesn’t actually mean much, but it sure packs an emotional wallop. Kudos to the PR person who wrote your letter.

You also say:

As physicians, we bear the arduous weight of a pandemic that has stretched our medical systems to their limits and only stands to be exacerbated by the anti-vaccination sentiment woven into this and other episodes of Rogan’s podcast.

If you in any way resent that patients need your help, then you are in the wrong business. Quit now.

But see, here’s the big problem. If you hadn’t been actively involved in shunning, mocking, and dismissing early treatment – if you had actually done your own due diligence and listened to both sides, and tried different interventions with your covid patients – maybe the medical system wouldn’t be so burdened.

Worse, some of the folks on your side, the researchers who are supposed to help light a potential path forward...well, one of them apparently actively discredited his own early treatment study on ivermectin in order to win $40 million in research money.

Meanwhile, it was your hospitals who put to death so many COVID-19 patients with horrible treatments ranging from remdesivir that kills kidneys (and people) to ventilators that just made things worse; you refused to allow even benign treatments such as vitamin C drips; your hospitals fought the wishes of family members trying to save their dying loved ones with ivermectin as a last resort; you enabled the FDA in suppressing any sort of potential early treatment by doing jack shit and just letting your patients hang out to dry.

If you have a medical license, you should know perfectly damn well that ivermectin is not “horse paste” but a very commonly used parasite drug that has an extremely strong safety profile – some say it’s safer than Tylenol. What’s the harm in trying it out? None.

Any problems with ivermectin are due to people taking the animal version of it and not dosing it correctly. Had you been prescribing it, none of those issues would have occurred. (And despite this self-dosing, the actual number of adverse reactions to off-label animal ivermectin has been extremely low!)

You know damn well that you are allowed to use drugs for off-label use. You do it all the time, and many of you have no problem doing this, even if it means giving children puberty blockers like Lupron that have a very dangerous side effect of severe osteoporosis.

But ivermectin? Nope, you’d rather let someone die of covid than God forbid admit an “anti-vaxxer” might be right.

So let’s get back to your main point of “butt hurt”:

As scientists, we face backlash and resistance as the public grows to distrust our research and expertise. As educators and science communicators, we are tasked with repairing the public’s damaged understanding of science and medicine.

This is not Joe Rogan’s fault or Dr. Robert Malone’s fault. IT IS YOUR OWN DAMN FAULT.

You can try to censor the leading influencers who are trying to talk some sense into covid policies. But they aren’t the ones who destroyed your credibility. YOU DID.

Before Dr. Robert Malone was sticking his neck out, before Dr. Peter McCullough made a stand, there were tens of thousands of people who were questioning the safety of the mRNA covid vaccines. We chatted first in Facebook groups, which were summarily deleted. Then the conversations moved underground to other platforms. We collected stories and testimonials and videos of people who went from being healthy to being barely able to walk after just one shot.

Some of us didn’t experience vaccine side effects directly, but found out we had odd symptoms such as irregular periods after being around the vaccinated. Instead of showing an interest in what mechanism might be at play, you just wrote this off as “conspiracy theory.” When it came out that women’s periods were apparently being affected by the vaccines, you yawned, as if this were no cause for alarm or even cautious observation.

So what did you do as doctors and scientists? You went into denial mode. You acted like it was impossible for a vaccine to ever cause a side effect. You acted as if it were an offense against God to even question vaccine efficacy or safety.

You turned a blind eye to all the death and damage reports in VAERS, acting as if they didn’t matter at all – if these reports don’t matter, why bother to collect the data?

You shrugged your shoulders when we came to your offices for help. Or you wrote off our symptoms as “anxiety” or “functional neurological disorder.”

You didn’t do your due diligence as medical professionals and just swallowed whole anything our government and Big Pharma told you.

Your answer, then and now, to these problems was to first shut your ears and sing “la la la” and then pound your fist and demand censorship of anyone asking questions.

Because...apparently in your universe, companies like Pfizer are 100% perfect and could never screw up. Never mind the fact that just at the beginning of their mRNA vaccine launch, one of their manufacturing plants had persistent mold problems and a history of recalls:

The facility’s record of recalls and field alerts include vials of medication that contained glass and cardboard particles and, as one customer complained, a “small insect or speck of dust.”

A 2017 FDA warning letter — which is a strong rebuke for the agency — said the contaminants such as cardboard and glass found in vials posed a “severe risk of harm to patients” and indicated that the facility’s process for manufacturing sterile injectable products was “out of control.”

If you recall, Johnson & Johnson had issues at one of their plants too.

Gee, am I allowed to talk about the possibility that the reason why some people are having problems with the vaccines is that they were rushed to market and maybe the manufacturing isn’t up to snuff?

If you had been following Dr. Malone, you’d know that certain batches of Pfizer and Moderna have the highest rates of adverse reactions. (This, by the way, is empirical evidence that VAERS is signaling something, because it’s showing a consistent set of reactions across specific batches.)

Nothing to see here, folks, move along.

See, here’s the problem with your heavy-handed medical fascism:

When real people start talking about problems they are having after taking a brand-new vaccine with a technology that has never before been used in humans, we need to investigate what might be happening and why.

To not investigate these reports is the height of egregious malpractice. It is unethical to the core.

So what is your solution?

You want to shut down that debate completely. You think if we just stopped letting people like Dr. Robert Malone speak, the problem will magically disappear.

No, it won’t. People won’t ever forget. Not when, for example, a healthy 26-year-old dies from myocarditis – as shown in his autopsy report – directly due to the Pfizer covid vaccine.

You can try to sweep this under the rug, but you cannot. These are real people’s lives we are talking about here.

But by shutting down the debate, you may be stopping us from finding out what is causing vaccine reactions. For all we know, maybe manufacturing problems, not the vaccine ingredients, are causing the issues. Or maybe there is something fundamentally flawed with mRNA technology, and we need to know that too.

That you think the vaccines are safe is not a universal truth handed down from God on high, never to be questioned. In the end, it is your opinion, that’s all. You can try to back up your opinion with facts and data, and I’ll try to back up mine.

But don’t try to tell me that just because you have an MD after your name, you get to shut me up or silence me. Dr. Malone has an MD after his name, and you want to silence him.

Don’t try to tell me that you have “more MDs” on your side. Immaterial. Just because a majority believes something, that doesn’t mean it’s true, and that’s Logic 101.

I’ll tell you the real reason I think you want heavy-handed censorship: You can’t admit you were wrong.

If you were wrong about early treatment, you just killed a million or more people.

If you were wrong about vaccines, you just destroyed countless lives. For what? A vaccine that isn’t actually that effective.

But I’m not convinced you actually give a crap about people’s lives so much as your reputation.

But you sullied your reputation, not critics like me. I didn’t have to write one damn word on this Substack to turn public opinion on those mRNA vaccines.

The person who lost their kid to a heart attack a week after vaccination knows it was the vaccine. The person who suddenly developed neuropathy right after a single shot of Moderna knows it was the vaccine. The son who saw his elderly mother deteriorate rapidly and die right after she got her booster knows it was the vaccine.

They’re wrong, you say? Just a coincidence? How the hell can you say that for sure when you haven’t even bothered to investigate?

Well, having a temper tantrum and demanding that someone be silenced because they disagree with you shows at best, a frightened mind, and at worst, an arrogant one.

But this is par for the course with your profession. From the get-go, modern Western medicine has established itself by ruthlessly smearing, undercutting, and banning their competition – from the destruction of American folk medicine in the late 1800s to the war on chiropractors to the outright banning of India’s medical system Ayurveda under British colonialism.

You lobbied for laws that gave you the “right” to claim you treat and heal disease, while banning anyone else from using those words. Never mind that you rarely “heal” anything. You just treat symptoms, often with drugs that have worse side effects than the initial problem.

You don’t bother to learn about nutrition or holistic health in med school. That’s “beneath” you. Instead, you get a strange satisfaction from mocking those “superstitious” people who might believe in folk remedies, even though they’ve been developed through thousands of years of trial and error.

You’ll say that you think racism is a public health crisis on the one hand, but then act completely racist on the other by mocking Hindus (see this picture in Forbes

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) who are following an old Ayurvedic remedy, gomutra (cow urine). You aren’t actually open-minded enough to ask whether it might actually have some unknown benefit and call for a study on it.

You aren’t actually that curious. You do paint-by-numbers medicine. Your insurance company or higher ups give you a box of symptoms and treatments you can use for said symptoms. So when a patient comes to you who is out of the box, you have no clue what to do with them.

Worse, medical malpractice is a leading cause of wrongful death and permanent injury at a rate of between 45,000 and 98,000 cases each year.

Prior to covid, prescription medications were possibly the third leading cause of death in the US and Europe after heart disease and cancer, and even if you drop that down to fourth place, we’re looking at 128,000 Americans dead each year thanks to prescription drugs.

I’m sorry, get off your damn high horse.

And you have the nerve to try to shut down debate over vaccine safety?

GTFO.

You are an embarrassment to your profession.

Are there good doctors out there? Yes. But increasingly, they are forced to choose between corporate healthcare, and working with a straightjacket on, or do what so many integrative doctors are now forced to do – get out of the health insurance racket completely so they can be free to really treat their patients.

So, while I’m sure it felt satisfying to lash out at the so-called “conspiracy theorists” out there who have legitimate questions about mRNA vaccine technology...you have a lot more problems than just vaccines when it comes to your credibility.

The whole Western medical system is corrupt from top to bottom.

Start talking about that, and maybe we’ll start listening to you.

Until then, thanks for a list of “doctors” we now know to avoid.

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People are trying to track down who is behind this. Here’s a portion of a thread on an organizer, Dr. Jessica Malaty Rivera, on Twitter -

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Mr. Third eye gucci @MTatersalad
@jackiemccaffrey @SlowNewsDayShow The Covid Tracking Project is from the Jeffrey Goldberg's run Atlantic. theatlantic.com/author/covid-t… BC does get millions from RF. Along with Google. She's "CNN" & "NBC" go to. She's also an Consultant on vaccines portfolios. Also works in Public Relations linkedin.com/in/jessicamala…
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The text under the featured photo: “During the pandemic, there have been claims that drinking urine can help against Covid-19. Here a member and supporter of 'Akhil Bharat Hindu Mahasabha' (ABHM) drinks cow urine as a supposed cure for the new coronavirus as he attends a 'gaumutra (cow urine) party' to fight against the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus. (Photo by Yawar Nazir/Getty Images)”

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Dennis Field
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Jan 16, 2022Liked by Stephanie Brail

Catharsis. Thanks.

I constantly am asking people how do they knew who to trust anymore. Occassionally, when I've gone about thinking out loud on Twitter, trying to figure out the actual risk to my children, or trying to figure out who to trust I inevitably run into condescending prigs.

I've been asked my education level

Been told while 'trust the science' can be insulting, I deserve to be told 'trust the science'

I've seen the Twitter mob turn angry at Matthew McConaughey for giving Fauci a tough interview and taking a wait and see approach with his children They ask 'who the hell is he?' And forget he's a parent. A father.

The smugness and condescension that stands on the sand of a medical institutions that were prescribing Opioids just a few years back is insufferable.

They've lost the trust and now are lashing out at people who are simply having conversations and daring to talk through the issues that have uprooted our lives for the last two years.

I'm sick of just playing defense from people that assumed nothing could be done once the virus slipped past our masks. Nothing to boost immunity. Nothing to mitigate inflammation or slow replication. Nothing that could be done while Merck and Pfizer were developing drugs to attempt to do what current proven safe drugs were already doing.

At what point do their past mistakes count as disqualifying misinformation?

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Betsy Frost
Jan 15, 2022Liked by Stephanie Brail

I love this! It should be demanded that every single medical professional read this. Although my guess is that the majority are so arrogant that they will not see it is directed at them. They are all guilty by association in their refusal to either speak out or provide early treatments.

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