Volume 80, no. 8  August 2024

The word “sovereign” does not appear in the U.S. Constitution,  but the U.S. was clearly founded to be independent and self-governing. Jeremy Rabkin writes: “‘Would we be far wrong,’ President Lincoln asked in a special message to Congress in 1861, ‘if we defined [sovereignty] as a political community without a political superior?’” (https://tinyurl.com/5enkpu3x).

The principle of state sovereignty was established in the 1648 Treaties of Westphalia, which ended the Thirty Years War. Each nation was to be equal to the others, and none could interfere in the internal affairs of others. These concepts were reaffirmed by the Congress of Vienna in 1815, when Napoleon I was defeated.

On the eve of WWI, Czar Nicholas II convened two International Peace Conferences (1899 and 1907) in The Hague to “seek the most effective means of assuring all peoples the benefits of a real and lasting peace.” The Conference agreed that, during armed conflict, populations and belligerents must remain under the protection of the principles resulting from “the usages established between civilized nations, the laws of humanity and the dictates of public conscience” (i.e. morality). This system failed in 1914 because states had lost their sovereignty by entering into defense treaties that required them to go to war automatically in certain circumstances (https://tinyurl.com/jtjnsr3f)—the “entangling alliances” against which George Washington warned us.

WWI destroyed the stable order in Europe and set the stage for WWII. Afterward, Roosevelt and Churchill dreamed of establishing a one-world government, controlled by “Anglo-Saxons” (ibid.). Today, conflict rages between nationalists and globalists. The Ukraine proxy war, writes Glenn Diesen, is “a predictable consequence of an unsustainable world order” and the battleground where the future new world order is being decided; it is “either global hegemony or Westphalian multipolarity” (https://tinyurl.com/4weu43v9) (see p2).

Treaties

The Constitution, unlike a treaty, is irrevocable, Rabkin writes. It describes itself unambiguously as “the supreme Law of the Land”—even adding, “any Thing in the Constitution or Laws of any State to the Contrary notwithstanding.”

The Constitution provides for treaties, and even specifies that treaties will be “the supreme Law of the Land.” But from 1787 on, it has been recognized that to be valid, a treaty must be consistent with the Constitution. As Alexander Hamilton explained, “A treaty cannot change the frame of the government.” Since it is the Constitution that authorizes us to make treaties, a treaty that violates the Constitution would be like an agent betraying his principal or authority. Thomas Jefferson was clear on this point: If the treaty power is unlimited, then we don’t have a Constitution. As the late Dr. Curtis Caine wrote: “Surely the President and the Senate cannot do by treaty what the whole government is interdicted from doing in any way” (aapsonline.org/treaties). Few ever questioned this consensus in the past.

In 1919, the U.S. participated in a conference to establish the International Labour Organization (ILO), which planned to vote on labor standards that member nations would automatically adopt. The American delegation refused because it would be surrendering its sovereignty to an international body. Instead, the Americans insisted they would decide upon these standards unilaterally. The U.S. has adopted only three of them in 90 years. 

Today, this principle of non-delegation of power to an international entity has become a contentious issue. In 2006, the National Resources Defense Council (NRDC) sued the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), claiming that it should update its standards for methyl bromide, a chemical thought to be depleting the ozone layer. NRDC stated that Congress had instructed the EPA to conform to the Montreal Protocol (see p2) and updates. In dicta, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals suggested that holding the decisions to be “‘law’ would raise serious constitutional questions in light of the nondelegation doctrine, numerous constitutional procedural requirements for making law, and the separation of powers  (https://tinyurl.com/mt342vm2). The Court’s finding of nonjusticiability was felt by environmentalists to be the best decision achievable, to eliminate any temptation of a future court to find the Protocol unconstitutional (tinyurl.com/yc83ncr8).

The Kyoto Protocol and the Paris Climate Accord similarly delegate enormous authority to globalists. Most recently there is the concern about the World Health Organization (WHO) pandemic agreement (https://tinyurl.com/mvj9j9hy), which is to be considered again in May 2025, overriding our sovereignty. The current draft, however, states that the agreement “should not be interpreted” as providing WHO with any authority over domestic laws or policy. There is no mechanism for punishing member states (tinyurl.com/2bseurjv), but U.S. authorities might use the agreement as cover for their own aims.

Sovereignty Yielded to ‘Protected Class’

Rather than a U.S. Empire, we have a “Money Powers” empire, writes Fadi Lama (tinyurl.com/mtccebx5). Western nations lost their sovereignty simultaneously with the establishment of privately owned central banks (see p2). The “sovereigntist states” are now led by Russia, Iran, and China. We must recover our civilizations and sovereignty, or our future will be “a boot stamping on a human face…forever” (https://tinyurl.com/3fjdvu4u).

The ‘Money Powers’ Empire

         The origins of the situation in which “you will own nothing” (unless you are a member of the tiny “Protected Class”) date back many centuries, but the technical requirements enabling  a global transfer of wealth were put in place in 1973 with the establishment of the Depository Trust Company (DTC), where all securities are digital and are pooled. In 1994, the U.S. Uniform Commercial Code (UCC) was modified in all 50 states. Ownership of securities has been replaced with a new legal concept of a “security entitlement,” a very weak contractual claim. All securities are held in un-segregated pooled form. These assets are collateral for the interests of the “Protected Class” (the largest hedge funds: Vanguard, BlackRock, State Street and T. Rowe Price), which will vacuum them up if the fragile “everything bubble” collapses.

Since 1998, jurisdictional sovereignty has also been eliminated in Europe. “There are now no property rights to securities held in book-entry form in any jurisdiction globally”  (Lama, op. cit.).

A financial crisis could lead to global war. However, the current period differs from that of WWI and WWII. Then, the allies dominated economically and consequently militarily. Currently, the Sovereigntist states dominate both economically and militarily, in Lama’s view. Will the Protected Class opt for the “Samson Option”? Or will it split the world into the Western realm, which they still control—which will experience the Great Equalization and the Great Reset—and a Sovereign realm dominated by Russia, Iran, and China? (https://tinyurl.com/z343vx9m)? Or will people in the Western Realm revolt against this miniscule parasitic financial “elite” and restore America?

The Montreal Protocol Model

Created in 1987, the Montreal Protocol has been signed by nearly 200 countries, and some 100 chemicals have been phased out or down. It has been hailed as a model for environmental treaties. Elements for success include partnerships between governments, industry, NGOs, and academia; the “start and strengthen” approach (at first only three halons and five chlorofluorocarbons [CFCs] were involved); financial incentives; and a global threat. If the proposed Kigali Amendment is implemented, which requires replacing the HCFCs and the equipment which uses them, which replaced CFCs, “experts” claim that up to 0.4 °C. warming can be prevented by the year 2100 (https://tinyurl.com/yeyubc78). A home air-conditioning system is already up to ten times more expensive.

India felt that its sovereignty was threatened and feared becoming dependent on chemicals it could not produce, but it eventually signed under threat of trade sanctions (https://tinyurl.com/5b7ae4jn).

The alarming threat purportedly posed by refrigerators and asthma inhalers is based on computer models (tinyurl.com/yve9ftku) and incompetent “science” (tinyurl.com/2jwpxf4w). Sadly, the Senate ratified Kigali: huge cost for zero health benefit (tinyurl.com/ykx5bsnk). Post-Chevron, it may be possible to  reassert American sovereignty through the courts.

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“It is our true policy to steer clear of any permanent alliance with any part of the foreign world.”

George Washington, Farewell Address, 1796

Nominating Committee Slate

 The Nominating Committee presents the following slate of officers for election at the 81st annual meeting:

President-elect: George Smith, M.D., Covington, GA

Secretary: Lawrence Huntoon, M.D., Ph.D., Eden, NY

Treasurer: Tamzin Rosenwasser, M.D., Venice, FL

Directors: Chandrasekhar Doniparthi, M.D., Yuma, AZ; Martin Dubravec, M.D., Cadillac, MI; Kristin Held, M.D., San Antonio, TX; Thomas Kendall, M.D., Greenville, SC.

Global Public-Private Partnerships

The UN’s core belief is that the Westphalian system of sovereign nation-state primacy is obsolete, and will be replaced in the New World Order by the global public-private partnership(G3P). Leaders of major transnational corporations acquire the equivalent of the divine right of kings. They will exercise centralized control of the entire planet—all its resources and everyone who lives on it (https://tinyurl.com/bdz2su27).

We already see demonstrably false and counterproductive narratives being globally promoted and rapidly transformed into globally accepted public policies without significant debate or scrutiny. Repeated global harmonization of bad policy decisions not only implies but requires centralization and massive data collection (https://tinyurl.com/ysszpjhw).

The Trojan horse for the corporatist coup was public health. A document written by the Department of Homeland Security in 2007 amounts to a full-blown corporatist imposition on the U.S., abolishing anything remotely resembling the Bill of Rights and Constitutional law.  A 2005 draft was a scheme for combating bird flu. These plans were never legislated, debated, or publicly discussed. They were simply posted as the result of various consultations with experts, who worked out their totalitarian fantasies as if scripting a Hollywood film.  Committee members represented big everything: food, energy, retail, computers, water.

Uprooting the problem requires decisive steps, writes Jeffrey Tucker of the Brownstone Institute. The indemnification of pharma from liability for harm needs to be repealed. The court precedent for forced shots in Jacobson needs to be overthrown. But even more fundamentally, the quarantine power itself has to go, and that means the full repeal of the Public Health Services Act of 1944 (https://tinyurl.com/4wk4b3bv).

The pharmaceutical industry is facing a patents cliff. From now until 2030, $180 billion in sales will be at risk. It is shifting its emphasis to biotech, which is significantly more risky—but WHO and G3Ps are pursuing an unprecedented legal process to cement loopholes that could solve these significant market challenges. It needs a permanent pandemic marketplace (tinyurl.com/jrvvx26k).

AAPS Calendar

Sep 18-21. 81st Annual Meeting, San Antonio, TX.

Chevron Overturned

         The 1984 decision in Chevron v. Natural Resources Defense Council, the underpinning of 70 Supreme Court decisions and roughly 17,000 in the lower courts, instructed the courts to give deference to agencies’ interpretation of any law deemed to be ambiguous.   

         Loper Bright v. Raimondo challenged a rule requiring fishing companies to pay for the cost of federal monitors that may be assigned to their boats. The Court held that the rule violated the Administrative Procedure Act and the separation of powers.

Chief Justice John Roberts’s majority opinion is clear in its holding: “Chevron is overruled.” The conclusion is primarily grounded in the view that the 1946 Administrative Procedure Act does not permit courts to defer to agencies’ interpretations of statutes, even if ambiguous (NEJM 7/17/24).

Overruling Chevron provides a first step in restoring constitutional administration, writes John O. McGinnis. He points out that “just because the agency claims that its interpretation of technical words flows from its expertise, does not mean that it actually does.” Post-Chevron, Congress will be less able to blame bad effects of its laws on agencies’ “misinterpretations” (https://tinyurl.com/2vvfdhma).

The decision has already been cited by U.S. District Judge Louis Guirola in Mississippi to stop nationwide implementation of Biden’s interpretation of Title IX rules that interpret “sex” in anti-discrimination rules to mean “gender” and require provision of hormone therapy and mutilating surgery (https://tinyurl.com/3wdnvdc9). Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti, who is part of the lawsuit, said, “The administration has over and over again issued regulations that mangle the law to advance an ideological agenda” (https://tinyurl.com/bdf4vu3j).

In MedPage Today, Elizabeth Cerceo, M.D., laments that “health and environmentalists’ hands are tied.” “Democracy” now depends on the legislature, not the administrative state, to protect “those of us who like to breathe air, drink water, and not overheat.” Chevron deference, she writes, has also protected programs like Medicare and Medicaid, with expert federal agencies like CMS being charged with interpreting and implementing the regulations (https://tinyurl.com/ywhpknvh).

In JAMA (5/7/24), Daniel Aaron, M.D., J.D., and Avery Emery, B.S., call Chevron the “bedrock principle” for agency power “from health care to climate change.” Justice Kavanaugh’s statement that the historic role of the judiciary has been “to police the line between the legislature and the executive to make sure that the executive is not operating as a king,” they state, seemingly implies that “Chevron places agencies in the position of royalty.”

They state that the Supreme Court has been replacing deference with antideference and has instituted the modern major questions doctrine (MDQ), used to strike down EPA’s Clean Air Rule in West Virginia v. EPA (2022). The Supreme Court had previously relied on the MQD, although without yet formally naming it, to strike down the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s (OSHA’s) SARS-CoV-2 vaccine mandate for large employers and the CDC’s eviction moratorium during the COVID-19 pandemic. With Chevron, the FDA won every single case; when courts found the statute clear and granted no deference, they sided with FDA less than half the time.

“The attack on Chevron is part of a wider trend of skepticism toward administrative agencies” (https://tinyurl.com/38x3c3nk).

Supreme Court Rulings on Treaties

·  Reid v. Covert (1956): “There is nothing in [Article VI, the Supremacy Clause], which intimates that treaties and laws enacted pursuant to them do not have to comply with the provisions of the Constitution…. [S]uch construction would permit amendment of that document in a manner not sanctioned by Article V. The prohibitions of the Constitution were designed to apply to all branches of the National Government and they cannot be nullified by the Executive or by the Executive and the Senate combined” (https://tinyurl.com/4pnbezhy). The Court held that treaties authorizing military commission trials of American citizens abroad on military bases could not displace Fifth and Sixth Amendment criminal procedure rights (tinyurl.com/jpfwchfz).

·  Boos v. Berry (1985): The Court held that a treaty-based obligation to protect foreign embassies did not authorize Congress to enact legislation that infringed on individuals’ First Amendment right to freedom of speech (https://tinyurl.com/yb652xmm).

·  Bond v. U.S. (2014): The Court held that “federal law typically does not intrude on the ability of states to regulate local matters, and the Chemical Weapons Convention Implementation Act is not an exception to that general rule. While Congress has the authority to create legislation to enforce treaties, it must do so while respecting the traditional division of sovereign responsibility between the federal government and the states” (https://tinyurl.com/32yuae5s). Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) opined: “As the Framers wisely understood when they ratified the Tenth Amendment, the division of power between the States and the federal government is essential to the preservation of liberty” (https://tinyurl.com/ye29mbrm).

Executive Authority to Enter Agreements

It seems clear from the composition of the U.S. Senate that a pandemic treaty currently has no chance of achieving two-thirds concurrence. However, only 6% of the 15,000 international agreements entered since WWII have gone through the constitutionally prescribed Senate ratification process. Instead, the President has used his Article II authority. The U.S. joined the International Health Regulations (IHR) in 2005, which largely committed the U.S. to information sharing, long a proper source for sole executive action. The President is authorized under the current governing statute to issue broad waivers of intellectual property protections for vaccine technologies. Constitutional constraints will guide U.S. participation in a pandemic agreement (https://tinyurl.com/5v6rt2ka).

Tip of the Month:  “Look before you leap,” the 2,600-year-old adage from Aesop’s Fables, is essential whenever signing an employment contract. Increasingly, hospitals and medical practices are owned by private equity firms or conglomerates that are aggressive in the fine print of contracts for physicians. Often these contracts are provided in an electronic system such that it can be difficult to open all of the attachments or make your own modifications. Do not be rushed or herded into signing these agreements.  When you ask to see the fine print you might be told that you’re the only one who has asked. Remember, whatever a physician signs can and will be used against him in a court of law.

Correspondence

Which First, Vaccine or Pandemic? Just in case there’s a bird flu epidemic in people, the U.S. government is paying Moderna $176 million to accelerate development of a pandemic bird influenza vaccine, as concern grows about cases in dairy cows. It will use the same mRNA technology that allowed rapid development of the COVID vaccine. It can be re-directed in case another type of influenza emerges (https://tinyurl.com/2cnjpfff).

 Lawrence R. Huntoon, M.D., Ph.D., Lake View, NY

From Republic to Hegemon. George Washington understood the principles of Westphalia. But after WWII, his simple, mature wisdom was jettisoned for imperial dreams. Between 1947 and 1989, more than 70 foreign regime-change operations were authorized and managed by the deep state. The U.S. has scrapped morality for the siren song of utilitarianism: The ends justify the means. Realpolitik. And increasingly, socialism and cultural Marxism.  Once morality is compromised, further compromises become inevitable. The U.S. must return to a commitment to its founding principles, to the rule of law, and to a firm, unwavering commitment to the core principles of Judeo-Christian morality.

Robert Malone, M.D., https://tinyurl.com/ycxn77mz

Lawfare Precedent. In 1959, Alabama indicted Martin Luther King, Jr., for felony perjury. Like Alvin Bragg in New York, the Alabama prosecutor ratcheted up a misdemeanor charge of underpayment of state income taxes into a felony charge in an indictment that, like the Trump case, “was the first time in the state’s history that a defendant was so charged in such a case.” As in the Trump case, the objective of the Democrats was to sideline Martin Luther King through lawfare. Had he not been acquitted  by the jury, King might have been imprisoned for up to 10 years (https://tinyurl.com/278z967k).

Willie Soon, Ph.D., Salem, MA

Experts’ Tears Flow. The best part of the Chevron decision so far is the reaction of experts. Laurence Tribe said: “The ones I feel sorry for are my administrative law colleagues who built their courses and careers around the intricacies of Chevron deference.” A short summary: If Congress made de jure law over some area, everybody had to follow that law; if there was no explicit law, government Experts got to decide de facto law on the fly. Experts can no longer get away with that so easily, because now they can be overruled by courts. Oh, sad, sad, sad for Experts. They now have to worry about being right!

William Briggs, Ph.D., https://tinyurl.com/ybeu3wad

Shared Space. Law is not merely downstream from morality; they compete for the same space. If you have too much law, you shrink the moral sphere. In contemporary America, where everything is a crime, it’s hardly surprising that the moral space is so put upon. America is down to the remnants of its “moral space.” This is not only the fault of the left in delegitimizing any institution that obstructs its ambitions, but also that of the right, which being entirely absent from all other societal levers (from Hollywood to the schools) has bet the republic on having five out of nine judges adjudicate every aspect of life. 

Mark Steyn, https://tinyurl.com/bd7ca6jc

Trial by Jury. In SEC v. Jarkesy, the U.S. Supreme Court held that the Securities and Exchange Commission could no longer impose fines for securities fraud in administrative proceedings without a jury and a neutral adjudicator (https://tinyurl.com/3a8f53sm). The Court held that this was the equivalent of a “suit at common law,” to which the 7th Amendment applies. Dissenting Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, and Ketanji Brown Jackson called the decision “a devastating blow to the manner in which our government functions.” Some two dozen agencies may be affected—some depend on revenues from penalties to support their budget (tinyurl.com/5n6hwydk).

  I had assumed the opinion would rest on the 6th amendment—when the government comes after you for a regulatory violation it is the equivalent of a criminal prosecution and never should have been considered a suit at common law. The SEC case involved a claim of fraud. The administrative code of regulations is a quasi-criminal code. Administrative law judges (ALJs) can’t send people to prison, but they have the power to destroy industries. Given the cozy relationship ALJs have with the agencies, there is no unbiased tribunal. If an agency is about to destroy you, you are in the same position as a criminal defendant, and you need a jury and a properly adversarial system before an Article 3 judge, not an Article 1 ALJ.

 John Dale Dunn, M.D., J.D., Brownwood, TX

Truths on COVID Emerging. Speaking in an interview with Chris Cuomo two weeks ago, former CDC director Dr. Robert Redfield accepted some of the self-evident realities we’ve all endured: e.g., the CDC stopped tracking “vaccinated” people who became infected because they didn’t want it to sound as if the shots were ineffective. Had Dr. Redfield said these things a year ago, his license would have been threatened in some states. 

Stewart Tankersly, M.D., https://tinyurl.com/yvcy2t27

 Volume 80, no. 7  July 2024

Lawfare is the use of legal systems and institutions to damage or delegitimize an opponent. It is a type of warfare.

According to the website lawfaremedia.org, “The name Lawfare refers both to the use of law as a weapon of conflict and, perhaps more importantly, to the reality that America remains at war with itself over the law governing its warfare with others—as well as the law governing its own national security strategy.”

Topics include the war on terrorism and extremism, and international conflicts in Ukraine and Israel, but the most prominent ones recently are the Trump trials and the Jan 6, 2021, “insurrection.” This site, published in cooperation with Brookings, is clearly unsympathetic to former President Trump, and does not discuss a “war of America with itself” over political dissent or radical cultural movements (also see AAPS News, June 2024, for lawfare over transgenderism).

Lawfare as a means of influencing elections extends beyond Trump himself and protesters on Jan 6 to members of his Administration. Its use also has profound implications for medicine.

Already in federal prison is the President’s trade advisor, Peter Navarro, Ph.D. He is the sole non-felony inmate in the entire penitentiary—for contempt of Congress. He had claimed executive privilege and refused to testify against President Trump. All Americans should know what he did during COVID-19.

In February 2020, amidst the ambivalence of the senior health leadership and the rapidly developing chaos, Peter Navarro developed an ingenious stop-gap strategy to rapidly acquire N-95 respirators, disinfectants, and other protective equipment until domestic production could catch up. Enclosed-head powered respirators,  mandatory for the safety of intensive-care hospital personnel under OSHA Health Worker Safety Guidelines, were swiftly manufactured to safeguard the nurses and doctors at the institutions that followed those standards. These actions  helped to save hundreds of medical workers, writes Steven Hatfill, M.D., who served in the White House as a medical expert for Navarro.

By March, international researchers were demonstrating efficacy for chloroquine (CQ) and hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) in early treatment. The de facto leader of the White House Coronavirus Task Force, Anthony Fauci, M.D., ignored the accumulating data on HCQ or dismissed it as “anecdotal,” Dr. Hatfill states.

Navarro, a Ph.D. economist, understands statistics and grasped the role for HCQ. He flung a stack of research papers across the table at Dr. I-am-the-Science Fauci in the White House Situation Room, saying “this is science.” After evidence became available in August 2020 that showed a 47% to 66% decrease in mortality in thousands of hospitalized patients given HCQ immediately upon their admission, Navarro scheduled a teleconference with Dr. Fauci in the War Room of the Old Executive Office Building to discuss early-use HCQ. Dr. Fauci had only five flawed studies to present, all in late stage, and asserted that every drug certified by the FDA was the result of a Randomized Controlled Trial (RCT). “That is complete nonsense!” shouted Dr. Hatfill.

RCTs have major limitations when assessing drugs for infectious diseases. Only 14% of the Infectious Diseases Society of America Treatment Guidelines are based on RCTs.

Navarro lost the battle over the FDA’s emergency use authorization for HCQ. He had, however, managed to stockpile 62 million doses of CQ and HCQ before India shut off exports.

The effects of this defeat likely affected thousands of physicians and hundreds of thousands of patients, as lawfare-using administrative agencies suppressed prescribing nationwide, based on FDA’s statements. Many physicians faced battles with licensure boards. Some were disciplined or even delicensed for prescribing repurposed drugs or disagreeing with non-evidence-based diktats on masking, distancing, etc., emanating from Fauci’s domain.

Despite Dr. Fauci, as many as 20 million Americans, estimated from national stockpile use and telemedicine prescriptions, have successfully taken early-use HCQ for COVID-19, to  prevent their possible hospitalization and death.

How many were denied HCQ? Before adjourning the teleconference, Navarro left Fauci and his conflict-of-interest-ridden COVID-19 treatment group a verbal note for the future, stating essentially that “if Fauci was wrong about the early use of HCQ, then he was going to be personally responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Americans.”

Dr. Fauci also bears significant responsibility for lockdowns, school closures, and forced reliance on toxic remdesivir. His actions paved the way for coercive use of COVID “vaccines.”

Dr. Fauci left government under the cloud of the scandal of his funding of a Chinese military-affiliated virus laboratory and his inaccurate denial of coronavirus gain-of-function experiments. His 480-page book On Call: A Doctor’s Journey in Public Service will be published soon—reportedly for a $5 million advance.

Navarro has begun serving a 4-month sentence, and has accumulated nearly $2 million in legal costs (tinyurl.com/2fzf6su4).

“The prosecution of a senior presidential advisor asserting executive privilege conflicts with the constitutional independence required by the doctrine of separation of powers,” his lawyers stated. The Supreme Court declined to intervene (https://tinyurl.com/2pwdwhe3).

Lawfare is war—against the rule of law, the autonomy of physicians, the rights of citizens, and science itself. The body count will not be publicized and will not be known.

AAPS Denounces ‘Diversity, Equity, Inclusion’

         “Our country has been besieged by the Marxist-based ideology, known as ‘Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion,’ which is infiltrating the practice of medicine through medical schools, biomedical research, hiring practices, and government regulations. Intrusion of DEI ideology into medical education and medical care is dangerous for patients and compels AAPS to issue this statement” (https://tinyurl.com/484pepxz).

         Key points of the statement include:

·  Medical ethics based on the Oath of Hippocrates obliges physicians to provide the best possible care individualized for each patient. Physicians need to have the intellectual capacity, motivation, academic achievement, and moral compass to meet this obligation.

·  Standards for medical students and postgraduate trainees must be the same regardless of race, gender, or other social metrics, and include a level of competence measured by academic achievement and standardized tests. They must not include adherence to, or promotion of, ideologies that contradict fundamental Hippocratic principles of medical ethics.

·  Patients must not be prioritized, or discriminated against, based on race, gender, or other politically favored, or disfavored status. 

·  Vigorous and urgent actions must be launched to eliminate the destructive DEI ideology from every aspect of the medical profession. Patients’ lives depend on it.

 Marilyn M. Singleton, M.D., J.D., R.I.P.

AAPS grieves the loss of our dear friend and leading warrior, Marilyn Singleton, M.D., J.D. (1947-2024). A third generation physician, she graduated from Stanford University when Black students weren’t supposed to go there, then from medical school at the University of California San Francisco. She was a resident at UCSF and Harvard’s Beth Israel, and an assistant professor of anesthesiology and critical care medicine at Johns Hopkins. She completed law school at UC Berkeley while working as an anesthesiologist. In 2012, she ran for Congress with a message of personal freedom and limited government.

Dr. Singleton served as president of AAPS in 2018-2019. Her many brilliant op-ed pieces and journal articles are available on aapsonline.org; she compiled our very popular section on mask-facts. Her legal expertise was invaluable in our legal initiatives.

Recently, she conducted numerous interviews with physician leaders in her America Out Loud Pulse podcast. As a visiting fellow of Do No Harm, she was interviewed by Tucker Carlson and was published in the Washington Post explaining the dangers of “implicit bias” training in medicine.

She has left a legacy of eloquent advocacy for ethical medicine and for a return to principles of constitutional government and a restoration of our free American republic.

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“There is no place for dogma in science. The scientist is free, and must be free to ask any question, to doubt any assertion, to seek for any evidence, to correct any errors. Our political life is also predicated on openness. We know that the only way to avoid error is to detect it and that the only way to detect it is to be free to inquire.”

J. Robert Oppenheimer

AAPS Signs Declaration to Protect Children

 The Doctors Protecting Children Declaration, authored by the American College of Pediatricians (ACPeds) and signed by AAPS and numerous other organizations, calls on prominent American medical institutions to halt current harmful protocols promoted for children and adolescents who express discomfort with their biological sex (https://tinyurl.com/45j7a7y4).

President-elect Erika LeBaron, D.O., M.S.N., represented AAPS at the press conference announcing the declaration (https://tinyurl.com/3yys5d7z). She stated that “the protocols currently being pushed on children and adolescents violate the fundamental precepts of Hippocratic medicine which are to ‘prescribe regimen for the good of patients’ and ‘do no harm.’”  She added: “It is past time for our profession to end the harm being done and instead provide care to children that is both rooted in science and principles of medical ethics that put patients, not political ideology, first.”

“Gender affirming” clinics in the U.S. base their treatments upon the “Standards of Care” developed by the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH), which collaborates with the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) (tinyurl.com/92y8pzvu). Age minimums were not lowered (to 14 for hormonal therapy, 15 for mastectomies, 17 for genital surgery) under pressure from the Biden regime due to concerns about political opposition (https://tinyurl.com/6btxkrem).

WPATH standards have been recently criticized in the Cass Report commissioned by the UK’s NHS (https://tinyurl.com/pr2r5u6t). The 387-page report was summarized for the CMDA  by Andrè Van Mol, M.D.  (https://tinyurl.com/ypx8vves).

The Declaration focuses on the scientific case against transgender treatments.

There can be back-and-forth arguments about the merits and flaws of pro and con articles, but fundamentally it is not a scientific argument, writes AAPS executive director Jane Orient, M.D. “The transgender ideology needs to be engaged on the philosophical/religious ground. If the premises are absurd (e.g., ‘being trapped in the wrong body’) and the advocated methods (castrating and mutilating children) are immoral or criminal, then scores on psychological surveys and p-values are distractions and pretexts attempting to justify the indefensible” (https://tinyurl.com/bdzjxcrt).

The Declaration ruins the narrative that “science is settled” and that “all experts” agree. So far, the mainstream medical organizations it addresses have failed to respond. Many left-wing-aligned individuals have expressed anger on social media. There have been two negative ad hominem articles, on Substack and in the New Republic (tinyurl.com/mpk3xnhd).

AAPS Calendar

July 13. Missouri chapter meeting, Lake Ozark, MO.

Sep 18-21. 81st Annual Meeting, San Antonio, TX.

ACTION OF THE MONTH

Scholarships are available to help medical students and residents attend the AAPS 81st Annual Meeting, Sept 18-21, 2024, in San Antonio. Details at https://aapsonline.org/2024am.

AAPS Wins Landmark 1st Amendment Victory

         In July 2022, the AAPS Educational Foundation sued three medical specialty boards (ABIM, ABFM, ACOG) and the U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security (AAPS News, August 2022). The district court dismissed the case, with prejudice, for lack of standing, but the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled unanimously in favor of AAPS on key issues. Judge James C. Ho wrote a separate, powerful statement in support of the 1st Amendment.

         “In this case, a medical association contends that certain medical boards and federal officials have conspired—and continue to conspire—to censor and even destroy the careers of any physician who dares to express the ‘wrong’ viewpoints on a wide range of medical topics, including but not limited to Dr. Anthony Fauci, COVID-19 lockdown policies, mask mandates, vaccines, and abortion” (https://tinyurl.com/bdhnp8y3).

Judge Ho noted the need for “open and rigorous discussion—not self-censorship and cancellation.” He cited reports that “At the peak of the coronavirus pandemic, the longtime National Institutes of Health official [David Morens] encouraged colleagues to evade federal records requirements…[to] protect his high-profile former boss Anthony S. Fauci and others from unwanted scrutiny.” Fauci’s former top adviser “worked to keep the public in the dark and thwart investigations into Covid’s origins.”

Judge Ho disagreed with the majority that the dissolution of the Disinformation Governance Board mooted the case. “[W]hen government officials voluntarily cease some action in response to litigation, courts are supposed to be skeptical. That’s because an official ‘could engage in unlawful conduct, stop when sued to have the case declared moot, then pick up where he left off, repeating this cycle until he achieves all his unlawful ends.’”

 “During oral argument, counsel for the government refused to assure us that the Department would neither reconstitute the Board nor replicate its functions through other means.”

Judge Ho concludes that: “As the Supreme Court recently reminded us, our Constitution is premised on our firm conviction that ‘viewpoint discrimination is uniquely harmful to a free and democratic society’…. Intolerance of differing views contradicts our Founding principles.”

The Eighth Amendment

The 8th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which comes almost verbatim from the 1689 English Bill of Rights, reads: “Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.” 

What does this mean? We no longer use the rack or thumbscrews, but is prolonged solitary confinement “cruel and unusual”? What about imprisoning an elderly woman with health problems, and canceling her hip surgery, for praying inside an abortion clinic? What about caging a woman with a six-foot-tall male multiply convicted sex offender who now identifies as a woman? Is that a state-prescribed punishment or simply an administrative decision by private prison employees? What about confining an elderly, nonviolent person who filed a form incorrectly with young violent criminals known to beat or rape other inmates?

In The GULAG Archipelago, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn described how the regular criminals brutalized political prisoners. The late Gonzalo Lira described how he was extorted and tortured in a Ukrainian jail—by prisoners, not by guards. One even apologized for beating him, saying he was coerced. Could this happen here? What is an excessive fine (https://tinyurl.com/3r8ej2b8)? One such that a multi-billionaire like Donald Trump cannot pay it, over a matter in which no one suffered a loss? Nearly $1 billion in judgments against Alex Jones for spreading incorrect information? Bankrupting fines over Environmental Protection Agency rules applied to mud puddles? Huge fines on medical practices concerning violations of HIPAA administrative rules? And what about the enormous legal fees the complex process entails? Is “the process is the punishment” concept constitutional?

The tyranny of the courts or the administrative state trickles down to the smallest practice or business.

Whistleblower Threatened with Prison

Houston surgeon Eithan Haim, M.D., has been indicted for alleged HIPAA violations carrying a sentence of up to 10 years in prison after he revealed that Texas Children’s Hospital (TCH) had lied about pausing “transgender services” to children (https://tinyurl.com/2fuhh5fk). It had been providing such services in secret to children as young as 11. Dr. Haim released this information as an anonymous whistleblower to Manhattan Institute fellow Christopher Rufo, who exposed it in the City Journal.  Soon after, the Texas legislature made such procedures on minors illegal (tinyurl.com/yc5yjpf4). Patient privacy was not compromised, as identifying information had been redacted. However, TCH claims to have suffered financial harm. The federal indictment alleges that Dr. Haim obtained data “under false pretenses, with intent to cause malicious harm to the hospital” (tinyurl.com/53urn9w9).

TCH Nurse Threatened

Following his May 2023 story about Dr. Haim, Vanessa Sivadge, R.N., approached Rufo to claim that TCH was pushing “gender-affirming care” on young patients while ignoring their underlying psychological problems. Two weeks later, two FBI agents followed her home. “They promised they would make life difficult for me if I was trying to protect the leaker,” she reported. “They said I was ‘not safe’ at work and claimed that someone at my workplace had given my name to the FBI.”

Sivadge has also accused doctors at TCH of Medicaid fraud for billing gender interventions for minors to the program. The state of Texas prohibits Medicaid funds from being used for “sex change operations” (https://tinyurl.com/3xu39zez).

Tip of the Month: Sen. Charles Grassley (R-IA) is investigating harm by private equity in medical care. Between 2001 and 2020, the annual investments by private equity in acquiring hospitals, medical practices, nursing homes, etc., increased by a factor of ten. Private equity typically extracts the assets, such as real estate owned by hospitals, while piling on suffocating debt. When it all collapses, patients are stranded, while tax loopholes enable private equity to write off their losses against unrelated profits, and come out ahead. For example, after a private equity firm took $695 million in fees and dividend recapitalizations from a hospital in San Antonio, it shut the hospital down in 2019 and laid off almost a thousand workers. Beware of giving private equity managers control of your medical practice or hospital.

Correspondence

Beyond ‘Disruptive.’ It’s bad enough that we have the vague and subjective “disruptive” physician concept where facial expression, tone of voice, and body language can be used to prosecute a physician. Now the Oregon Medical Board has added  “microaggressions” to the definition of “unprofessional conduct.” It is mandatory for physicians to report such behavior or face discipline themselves. Microaggressions are grouped with fraud, sexual assault, and ordering unnecessary or harmful surgeries. There is no glossary of forbidden language, but terms such as “melting pot” have been considered racist (tinyurl.com/tj2wny34). My advice—talk as little as possible at work, about professional matters only.  No jokes. No off-the-cuff comments. But be friendly. I am aware of one case in which a doctor was accused of not smiling enough when passing people in the hall.

 Lawrence R. Huntoon, M.D., Ph.D., Lake View, NY

A Republic? As the Trump verdict shows, the ruling party in the U.S. has criminalized opposition and made normal politics impossible. The party that is so indifferent to elementary maxims of prudence that it’s prepared to invent crimes out of whole cloth to convict the leader of the opposition is not one you’d want to bank on to keep us from stumbling into, say, a third world war. America is not a land of laws, but of men: whether for the 45th president or a “niche Canadian,” we’re in basic “Who? Whom?” territory, as the Leninists would say. I’ve got just two lousy cases, and I’m ruined—utter ruination is the difference between the U.S. legal system and the rest of the West. Will appeals courts intervene? Maybe, but a judges’ republic is a contradiction in terms. Much of the U.S. is now institutionally evil (e.g., the bodily mutilation of middle-school girls). On America’s watch, all of Western civilization is sliding off the cliff. Can this be reversed?

Mark Steyn, https://tinyurl.com/588fb2ju

Missouri Sues N.Y. over Lawfare. Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey announced he is filing a lawsuit against the state of New York for what he called the “direct attack on our democratic process through unconstitutional lawfare against President Trump.” He alleges that the investigations and subsequent prosecutions of Trump appear to have been conducted in coordination with the U.S. Department of Justice (https://tinyurl.com/p32fnrvz).  Whenever the DOJ goes after an election candidate, it is election interference. Lawyers who have grown up to disrespect the law and be gamers know exactly what they are doing. The Missouri AG is on to something. 

 John Dale Dunn, M.D., J.D., Brownwood, TX

Globalism Is the New Communism. Rebranded as globalism, communism has its tentacles dug deeply into the flesh of nations on such a large scale that Stalin and Khrushchev would be envious. Apparatchiks are using environmentalism, illegal immigration, hate speech (which is any speech they disagree with), and new racial segregation to keep the country divided. The concept of “class struggle” and racism are the tools of communist propaganda and agitation. As communism was never taught in U.S. schools, young generations do not understand what it is.

Ileana Johnson, Ed.D., https://tinyurl.com/4dzjabdd

Does the FBI Want You? While trying to find a suspected money launderer, federal investigators obtained court-approved subpoenas for any YouTube viewers who watched tutorials on mapping via drones over a one-week period. The subpoena included names, addresses, telephone numbers, and browsing history for Google accounts for as many as 30,000 people, and IP addresses for non-Google  users (tinyurl.com/mrycr2f7).

Willie Soon, Ph.D., Salem, MA

CDC’s Failure. By the end of 2023, at least 87% of Americans had anti-nucleocapsid antibodies to and thus had been infected with SARS-CoV-2, this in spite of the mammoth, protracted and booster-repeated vaccination campaign that led to about 90% of Americans taking the shots. Public health policies caused unnecessary and avoidable damage to millions of lives.

Harvey Risch, M.D., Ph.D., https://tinyurl.com/58us9cab

Doctor Indicted for Not Giving Vaccine. Michael Kirk Moore, M.D., of Plastic Surgery Institute of Utah has been indicted and could face 15 years in prison for allegedly disposing of $28,000 worth of COVID-19 vaccine instead of injecting it into patients who did not want it. He also provided them with vaccine cards (https://tinyurl.com/4ytz6p47). The prosecution has filed a Motion in Limine to preclude a necessity defense.

Craig Wax, D.O., Mullica Hill, NJ

TCH Doctor Teamed up with TG Activists and PhRMA.  Richard Ogden Roberts III, M.D., alleged to have committed Medicaid fraud in billing for transgender treatments (see p 3),  is in an alliance with transgender activist groups backed by drug companies that manufacture puberty blockers and hormones used in “transitioning” (https://tinyurl.com/4fr2vn9c).

Richard Amerling, M.D., St. Augustine, FL

 Volume 80, no. 6 June 2024

In the 1960 Webster’s New World Dictionary of the American Language, “disparity” is defined as (1) inequality or difference, as in rank, amount, degree, excellence, etc.; (2) unlikeness; incongruity. One might think of the disparity between Harvard’s motto “Veritas” (truth) and its current curriculum.

Internet dictionaries now emphasize inequalities that are considered somehow unfair. The American Medical Association (AMA) promotes “equity” through reducing “disparities.” Apparently, equity means that desirable things (salary, promotions, representation in various specialties) and undesirable things (ill health, postpartum hemorrhage, arrests, and prosecutions) should be distributed proportionately by population group.

Racial/ethnic groups are defined by the U.S. Census Bureau as Hispanic or non-Hispanic; the latter include White alone, Black alone, American Indian or Alaska Native alone, Asian alone, Pacific Islander alone, some other race alone, or multiracial. Hispanic can be any race (https://tinyurl.com/5c8fjw5z). Asian includes Indian, Chinese, Korean, Japanese, or others even if these groups consider themselves distinct.

How pure must one be to be “White alone,” or how much is too much or too little to qualify as an oppressor or a victim, “privileged” or “marginalized”? Grandparents were previously determinative. The 1935 Nuremberg racial laws defined a Jew as a person with at least three Jewish grandparents. Mischlinge had one or two. Under the Law of Return, anyone with one Jewish grandparent can be granted Israeli citizenship. Miscegenation laws in the U.S. forbade white persons to marry anyone with one-eighth or more of Negro or “Mongolian” blood. But with genomics, far lesser contributions can be detected. Elizabeth Warren’s DNA shows that she had a Native American ancestor six to ten generations back. This does not qualify her for tribal membership, but her self-identification qualified her for listing as a presumably disadvantaged minority in a law-school directory.

So what criteria should be used in defining “diversity” compliance or eliminating disparities?

The question becomes far more complex with expanding identity politics to gender. According to an AMA Ed Hub presentation, “extensive evidence documents health disparities for lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) women, including worse physical, mental, and behavioral health than heterosexual women” (https://tinyurl.com/5xb69apf). LGB women had much earlier mortality, and this was worse for those also belonging to a “minoritized” racial or ethnic group. “These disparities are due to chronic and cumulative exposure to stressors (including interpersonal and structural stigma)” (JAMA, 5/21/24, https://tinyurl.com/5n97esm4)—evidently not to an unhealthy lifestyle.

“Biases in care based on sexual orientation occur at every point….” And “many clinicians do not receive mandatory, culturally informed training on caring for LGB patients” (ibid.).

Implicit bias, which is supposedly responsible for disparities, is said to be pervasive and hidden. “Education on implicit bias and ways to manage its harms should be part of health system-wide efforts to standardize knowledge in this domain and recognize and manage bias” (NEJM 7/9/22, https://tinyurl.com/56p7knrh).

A new law in California requires that “all [CME] courses shall contain curriculum that includes the understanding of implicit bias,” if taught in California. 2 Cal. Bus & Prof. Code §2190.1(d)(1). It is being challenged in the 9th Circuit. In Virginia, the governor vetoed a bill that would have directed the Board of Medicine to require training on so-called “unconscious bias” for license renewals. Michigan mandates implicit bias training for all medical professionals except veterinarians. One hour per year on average is required forever (https://tinyurl.com/56pz9scp).

UCLA medical school has made great strides in diversity, although race-based admissions are officially illegal. It also happens that half of the students fail tests on basic medical knowledge, a ten-fold increase since 2020 (tinyurl.com/4v9fs23a).

Victimhood: the Root of Marxism

The seminal text of political economy, the handbook for bad economics and the woke movement alike, the 1888 Communist Manifesto, opens with the simplistic declaration: “The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles.”

Everyone was held to be either a tyrant or a victim, by historical accident. Thus, private property and all existing social conditions must be forcibly overthrown.

Since 1945, half of humanity has lived under a Marxist dictatorship, yet despite the miserable, toxic results, the odious doctrine remains popular. Why? Ross McKitrick suggests that Marxist doctrine spreads because the “oppressed” gain instant status and power without need of personal virtues or accomplishments. “Exempt from criticism, the oppressed come to believe they’re entitled to take everything the so-called oppressors have, by force if necessary, or to burn the whole system down for revenge.”

“The only remedy for this cult-like mindset, what Elon Musk called the ‘woke mind virus,’ is to teach people a healthy and proper loathing of victim status” (tinyurl.com/ubpxxjd8).

The whole calculus of disparity is an advanced stage of this fatal virus. The “scholarly” discussions might appear to be, as the late Rush Limbaugh said, “illustrating absurdity by being absurd.” But how can Frédéric Bastiat’s favorite method, the reductio ad absurdum, work, if the absurd becomes undisputable orthodoxy?

Critical Race Theory (CRT) and Anti-Semitism

         Pro-Hamas demonstrations on college campuses have exposed an unusual rift in the generally solid front of the woke Left—and a startling level of anti-Semitism (tinyurl.com/2vyvwff8).

         Jews have been victims of the oldest and deadliest forms of discrimination. But instead of being included in the minorities who unite against a common enemy, Jews are located among the oppressors. Anti-Semitism is the linchpin of intersectionality, which is closely aligned with CRT, writes Edward Halper.

CRT attempts to explain why there is still a black underclass. But the success of Jews in overcoming discrimination suggests that there may be internal, cultural factors explaining why others have not—rather than “systemic racism.” Anti-Semitism forestalls any real consideration of reforms within the black community.

On campus riots, Halper concludes that “the only things shared by Hamas and progressives are anti-Americanism and anti-Semitism” (tinyurl.com/33me5mxd).

 Over the Fiscal Brink

The Congressional Budget Office’s 10-year outlook predicts another $20 trillion in red ink through FY 2034—with the budget gap steadily worsening to $2.6 trillion by 2034. Outlays are expected to consume 25% of GDP while current tax policy generates barely 17% of GDP in revenue. After nearly doubling from $345 billion in 2020 to $659 billion in 2023, interest costs will double again to $1.3 trillion by 2031. They will exceed the cost of defense and Medicare this year. CBO ignores the coming bankruptcy of trust funds. Social Security will be insolvent by 2033, when all beneficiaries will face an immediate 25% cut. This is the “Rosy Scenario” (https://tinyurl.com/bdeudmp2).

The Socialism/Capitalism False Dichotomy

Hedge-fund manager Alex Krainer, born in Yugoslavia, rejected Marxist ideology as a teenager, because the system wasn’t delivering as advertised. At the age of 17, he moved to the “capitalist” U.S., which appeared to be based on a much superior system. But he became convinced that the same seed of doom that made “socialism” unsustainable was also baked into the foundation of the “capitalist” system: Both had a fiat currency with fractional reserve lending. This “reliably corrodes the democratic framework of society, suffocates free market economy, kills entrepreneurship and innovation, and guarantees that government sector of the economy will gradually displace more and more private enterprise.”

The U.S., for more than a century, has had periodic reruns of the “debt ceiling” Kabuki theater. The ceiling always gets raised.

“If we want to fix what’s wrong in the world today it is essential that our analysis goes past the handy but misleading labels of ‘socialism’ vs. ‘capitalism,’ or left vs. right, and that we deconstruct our challenges down to their essential building blocks.

The labels merely maintain an entrenched ideological divide, enabling each side to disqualify the other without ever having to…actually think things through” (tinyurl.com/mr39ezsu).

 X X X

The most powerful force in the universe is…compound interest.

Albert Einstein, apocryphal

What If Police Officers Were Hired by IQ?

In 1939, New York City attracted almost 30,000 men to a written and physical examination for 300 openings in the city’s police force. The written test was similar to the intelligence test then being given by the federal civil service. Positions were offered top down for a composite score on the mental and physical tests, with the mental test more heavily weighted. It was the first class of police officers that had a large number of Jews. The group had far fewer than usual disciplinary infractions and had extraordinarily successful careers, both in and out of policing. One went to medical school and returned as the department’s psychiatrist (https://tinyurl.com/p2vnrz94).

‘Pre-bunking’ Misinformation

Ursula von der Leyen, president of the European Commission, states that the EU will start “pre-bunking” false information. “As technology evolves, we need to build up societal immunity around information manipulation. Because research has shown that pre-bunking is much more successful than debunking…. In short, prevention is preferable to cure…. If you think of information manipulation as a virus, instead of treating an infection once it has taken hold (that is debunking), it is much better to vaccinate so that the body is inoculated. Pre-bunking is the same approach. Because disinformation relies on people passing it on to others, it is essential for people to know what malign information’s influence is and what the techniques are that are behind it. And as the knowledge goes up, our chances of being influenced goes down and that builds up the societal resilience that we will need (https://tinyurl.com/445zdfd3).

COVID Data

·  Vaccine Effectiveness Zero: Based on a study of 2.2 million individual health records, a Czech study (https://tinyurl.com/y3t7vtku) concluded that the healthy vaccinee effect bias caused vaccine effectiveness to be overestimated. Mathew Crawford  adds the effect of miscategorizing the vaccination status of the recently vaccinated. “Every piece of evidence can be explained by a statistical bias filter to reach consistency with the zero vaccine effectiveness hypothesis” (https://tinyurl.com/esk5y7zx).

·  Non-science of WHO Reports: For its Weekly Epidemiological Update (WEU), WHO could not obtain data from each country directly, but likely used the Johns Hopkins University dashboard—which was primarily generated by computer simulations  (https://tinyurl.com/4p4c8cbf).

AAPS Calendar

June 12. Pennsylvania chapter webinar with Do No Harm.

July 13. Missouri chapter meeting, Lake Ozark, MO.

Sep 18-21. 81st Annual Meeting, San Antonio, TX.

Hospital Sued over Failure to Report to VAERS

         Physician’s assistant Deborah Conrad is suing a New York Hospital System under the False Claims Act for failure to complete mandatory reporting of injuries associated with COVID-19 vaccines to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS). Conrad was fired from her job at United Memorial Hospital System, part of Rochester Regional Health, because she did file reports. The complaint alleges that hospital blocked Conrad from submitting approximately 170 reports of serious adverse events between May 27 and Oct 6, 2021, and that the hospital system failed to report more than 12,000 adverse events. The government declined to intervene, so the case is moving forward with Conrad as the relator. For each failure, the mandatory penalty is at least $20,000. Attorney Warner Mendenhall stated that of roughly 2,800 systems in the country he knew of none that had met their obligations under the vaccination program participation agreement that they all signed (https://tinyurl.com/3a826kdf).

Disparate Impact, the Law, and Criminal Justice

The legal profession, which came up with the disparate impact concept in the first place, is seeing its own standards plummet, writes Heather  Mac Donald. In 2020, California lowered the pass score on its bar exam because only 5% of black applicants passed on their first try, compared to 52% of white law school graduates. The lack of proportional representation among California’s attorneys was held to be proof of a discriminatory credentialing system. Whole categories of crime, such as shoplifting, cannot be prosecuted because a disproportionate number of perpetrators are black. No one says the names of murdered black children—if they are killed by other blacks (tinyurl.com/yxmvhszm).

APHA Applauds Biden Rule

The American Public Heath Association, in a letter to Office  for Civil Rights Director Melanie Fontes Rainer, writes that the Medicare Part B exemption from  civil-rights  rules was “a historical anomaly meant to preserve a time when, in many states, separate ‘Whites Only’ signs and separate entries dotted countless medical practices across the health care landscape.” Since “federal funding plays such a foundational role in both public and private insurance financing,” and “coverage and care have become so intertwined,” APHA finds it “essential to clarify the applicability of nondiscrimination duties to the entire continuum of modern hybrid systems of coverage, care, and payment.” Transgender status must be covered, including the withholding of certain health services (https://tinyurl.com/kjrtktbj).

Tip of the Month: Transgender lawfare consists of lawsuits for profit and to advance the ideology. This has been unleashed by new Biden Administration rules that impose, on everyone who accepts Medicare or Medicaid for any patient, anti-discrimination requirements as to transgender patients. Perceived discrimination is far broader than actual discrimination, and many judges are ruling for transgender plaintiffs every time. Group practices have already been looted by this. An office procedure for how to deal with transgender patients is worth developing. Opted-out physicians are not subject to Biden’s new rules.

Conflict of Interest on COVID Vaccine

A COVID vaccination incentive program was offered to Kentucky primary care providers who had a panel of 25 or more members of Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield Medicaid. If 30% of members were newly vaccinated between Sep 1 and Dec 31, 2021, the provider could receive a bonus of $100 per new vaccinee. The bonus increased to $250 per new vaccinee if 75% of Anthem members were vaccinated.

Transgender Lawfare

Could this be as big a threat to Americans as Soviet Communism once was? The trans agenda is linked to lawfare, whereby every institution and employer can be bankrupted by lawsuits over “misgendering” and “discrimination.” One viral video shows a supposed transgender trying to entrap an airline employee into “misgendering” him, presumably for the basis of suing. There’s a new court ruling favoring the transgender side almost daily. The U.S. Supreme Court has dodged, ducked, or denied every petition for review that has reached its docket. Some examples:

·  On Apr 29, 2024, an 8-6 en banc ruling by the Fourth Circuit required States (in this case, West Virginia) to fund transgender surgeries at taxpayer expense through Medicaid.

·  On May 8, 2024, it was reported that the California Coastal Commission required a surfing competition to allow participation by a transgender biological man, over the objection of the event organizers.

·  On May 10, 2024, an effort by Nassau County to ban transgender women from competing in women’s sports was struck down by a State Supreme Court judge.

·    A 2015 decision being cited as precedent, Rumble v. Fairview Health Services, found that Section 1557 of ACA extends to claims of gender discrimination based on gender identity, and that “it is plausible that Fairview staff treated Plaintiff in the manner that they did because of his protected class status.” Rumble was an 18-year-old F-to-M transgender man, who presented to the  emergency department complaining of extreme pain in “his” [female] reproductive organs. “His” wristband identified the patient as “F,” and a sign on the patient’s door identified the consulting physician  as an ob/gyn, effectively identifying “him” to staff and visitors as having female organs (https://tinyurl.com/89ckjw46).

Diversity Is Our Death

Everyone who is anyone has assured us that the “Great Replacement,” a plan to replace white Europeans with minority ethnic groups, is a far-right conspiracy theory, states Mark Steyn. But as Patrick Buchanan wrote in 2002: “In 1960, only sixteen million Americans did not trace their ancestors to Europe. Today, the number is eighty million. No nation has ever undergone so rapid and radical a transformation” (tinyurl.com/ycxfpu9e). Despite our “Founding Myth of Equality,” it is ridiculous to believe that all people are, in direct and hostile opposition to all observation in all time, really the same, writes William Briggs (tinyurl.com/ye23y4rc). “Equality is like the worm that bored through RFK Jr’s brain. It has been eating away at our minds since the badly misnamed Enlightenment…. It is now…extraordinarily difficult to get past equalitarian thought-blocks formed by the worm’s tunnels.”

ACTION OF THE MONTH

Scholarships are available to help medical students and residents attend the AAPS 81st Annual Meeting, Sept 18-21, 2024, in San Antonio. Details at https://aapsonline.org/2024am.

Correspondence

NPs Entitled to Due Process. A recent court ruling held that the Health Care Quality Improvement Act (HCQIA) applies to nurse practitioners, who are entitled to due process before revocation of privileges. A clinic was required to void a report to the National Practitioner Data Bank (NPDB). What a reporting entity may do is like holding a committee meeting in secret, determining that an accused person is guilty of murder without even obtaining the accused’s side of the story, marching the victim to the gallows and hanging him—then claiming that an NPDB report is truthful and accurate because it accurately describes the execution procedure. (This is the standard used in NPDB evaluation of “accuracy,” including Secretarial review.)

Lawrence R. Huntoon, M.D., Ph.D., Lake View, NY

Nothing New Here. For years now medical school admission standards, exam pass rates, and licensure pass rates for blacks and Hispanics have been abysmal; now they just changed the standards and grading to hide the deficits. UCLA is one of the majority of medical schools and professional societies that are all in on DEI and CRT and the Marxist agenda.

The medical profession actually is late to the Marxist conquer-America party. Lawyers had already eaten all the hors d’oeuvres and were into their second cocktail, having established the agenda to bring on the administrative state. Just look at today’s lawyers and judiciary—rare to find a trace of law or ethics.

John Dale Dunn, M.D., J.D., Brownwood, TX

‘White Privilege’ in Communist Romania. My “privilege” growing up was to live poorly, starve, and stand in interminable lines daily for basic needs. Nobody gave us generous welfare. We had to be responsible for our own survival, and it had nothing to do with skin color. No one is interested in this, but Americans are heading there as they sleep and go about their lives.

Ileana Johnson, Ed.D., https://tinyurl.com/yyxnxh2s

School-to-Clinic Pipeline. When I was a kid, I couldn’t get an aspirin or Tylenol from the nurse. But now kids in Seattle public schools can get their “gender-affirming” hormones right at school. Neighborcare Health runs 14 school-based clinics. This is not currently listed under services offered on its public website, but an email obtained by Parents Defending Education through a public records request reads: “Our program will begin offering comprehensive, evidence-based, gender-affirming care services to our students and families who need them.”

Douglas Farrago, M.D., https://tinyurl.com/yc4u6kza

Hospitals Enabled the Crisis. As Kip Sullivan explains in the  Star Tribune (tinyurl.com/55b5f42v), Minnesota hospitals didn’t start the HMO craze that led to the stress they are experiencing, but instead of contesting the groupthink that induced policymakers to promote HMOs, they competed with each other to curry favor with them, and succumbed to merger mania. Demand inflation itself, from 1965 federally subsidized “free” insurance, was never understood. The political response was the error of empowering HMOs to ration care for “cost control” through giving them the perverse power to control the benefits they insured; something not allowed indemnity companies. The result has been the panaceas of costly massive corporate bureaucracies that profit from rationing care—at the expense of patients and the hospitals and physicians that care for them.

Robert Geist, M.D., North Oaks, MN

Why Hospitals Became Managed Care Corporate Wolves. The key squeeze play was to require all hospitals doing Medicare/Medicaid—basically all hospitals—to take DRG (diagnosis-related group) government price fixing for all their inpatient services. That killed many hospitals quickly and caused the loss of quality patient-centered hospital services. It was the death knell for a premier multidisciplinary psychiatric treatment program at Metropolitan Medical Center in the 1980s and presaged the demise of the hospital in 1991.

Lee Beecher, M.D., Maple Grove, MN

More ACA Destruction. Doctors, hospitals, pharmacies, and equipment suppliers lost about $1 billion/day when Change Healthcare, a subsidiary of the UnitedHealth Group was unable to process claims because of a ransomware attack. The Affordable Care Act enabled vast vertical integration. [Change Healthcare handles one in three patient records, and processes 15 billion transactions worth $1.5 trillion per year. UnitedHealth Care, based on market cap and revenue, is even bigger than JPMorgan Chase, the nation’s largest bank (tinyurl.com/pdr4hn64)].

Grace-Marie Turner, AmericanHealthcare Choices

On Memorial Day. Ours is not a war fought with cannons and musket balls. Our generation’s war is a mental, emotional, and cultural war, a war waged in secret and in lies, a war with needles and mysterious snake oil payloads, a mendacious war waged against truth, thoughts and feelings. Keep fighting, until we have achieved a new birth of freedom in America. We are all joyful warriors and loyal stewards of the great blessing of freedom bestowed upon our Great Nation by the Creator of the Universe.

Jeff Childers,  https://tinyurl.com/5btkynh2

Volume 80, no. 5  May 2024

The 13th Amendment to the Constitution reads: “Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.”

This forbids the shameful practice of chattel slavery, under which human beings were treated like property. Slaves themselves could own nothing, and in most places were forbidden to work for wages. (A few were able to buy their freedom in this way.) Owners could abuse and even kill them—or, in perhaps the most feared scenario, tear families apart. For decades, freed slaves searched for their children, parents, or siblings; as late as 1905, newspapers carried ads by people desperate for information on lost family (tinyurl.com/j5bhkyc4, tinyurl.com/4jntc8zv).

But how far does the Amendment go in banning “involuntary servitude” for persons whose body is not physically owned?

Consider the 1856 wording that supported  the 1861 Emancipation Edict, which preceded Lincoln’s 1863 Proclamation: “You can yourself understand that the present order of owning souls cannot remain unchanged” (https://tinyurl.com/2p9bsvmj).

This Edict freed more than 23 million serfs and was known as one of the greatest accomplishments in history for human freedom. Czar Alexander II, who reigned 1855–1881, became known as the “Great Liberator,” for which he was beloved around the world, writes Cynthia Chung (ibid.). Both President Lincoln and Czar Alexander were assassinated. Servitude lives on.

Merriam-Webster defines “servitude” as “a condition in which one lacks liberty especially to determine one’s course of action or way of life.”

After gaining their freedom, blacks were still treated as second-class citizens. There were “Jim Crow” laws and government policies. After campaign promises of equal treatment, Woodrow Wilson suddenly imposed racial segregation in the civil service, with devastating effect on blacks, who were serving at all levels (https://tinyurl.com/3kwh25cx).

Franklin Roosevelt signed an executive order forbidding racial discrimination by defense contractors:  “The sole qualifications for a worker…should be his loyalty and his professional or technical ability and training” (https://tinyurl.com/27888zy4). Harry Truman desegregated the U.S. armed forces in 1948.

The civil rights movement of the 1960s aimed to have a “color-blind” society. What an irony if its result was constant racial divisiveness and strife, resegregation to exclude whites, the upending of professional standards, and a new servitude.

The Civil Rights Act of 1964, Title II, prohibits segregation or discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, or national origin in places of public accommodation involved in interstate commerce. The constitutionality of the act was immediately challenged in Heart of Atlanta Motel v. U.S. The owner, who had previously refused to accept black customers, argued that the act was an invalid exercise of Congress’s power to regulate interstate commerce; that it violated the 5th Amendment’s guarantees of due process and just compensation for the taking of private property because it deprived him of the right to choose his customers; and that it violated the 13th Amendment’s prohibition of involuntary servitude because it compelled him to serve certain customers.

In  a 9–0 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court held that the hotel’s policy affected interstate commerce and rejected all the constitutional arguments (https://tinyurl.com/49fzr6bz).

Since 1964, Congress has enacted more laws against discrimination in employment, lending practices, and education, and expanded the prohibited practices to include age, sex, disability, and sexual orientation. The Equal Employment Opportunity Act of 1972 created a Commission with expansive authority to enforce regulations and subregulations, and manage more than 80,000 complaints annually.

With affirmative action and now Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI or DIE), structural racism is assumed to exist on the simple lack of proportional representation in any field.

With the addition of “sexual orientation” and the legalization of same-sex marriage, the idea of “public accommodation” has expanded far beyond having to provide a meal, transportation, or lodging, but to provide certain personalized services. Photographers and bakers have been tied up in court for years arguing for a 1st Amendment right not to serve same-sex weddings. But is a person not allowed to turn down a job for any reason, even if he has no societally recognized religion backing him? Or is he obligated to work for members of governmentally protected groups and provide a product that they demand? Is this involuntary servitude if the option is not to work in one’s chosen occupation at all?

The tipping point may have been reached with the Biden Department of Education’s interpretation of “sex” in Title IX to include “gender identification,” thus allowing men to compete in women’s athletics. At least 15 states have filed lawsuits. Worse, if parents do not serve the transgender agenda, Child Protective Services could take their children; schools are mandatory reporters (https://tinyurl.com/2dc7s8d4).

Physicians are also supposed to serve, as Biden HHS is incorporating Education’s definitions into regulations for §1557 of the Affordable Care Act, and Medicare Part B is newly defined as federal funding for services. Failure to provide “affirming” services, even if patient would be harmed, is now “discrimination.”

Russia and the ‘American System’

In 1840, American slave cotton was the centerpiece of the British Empire’s world cheap-labor system. In 1862, the first critical phase of the Civil War, Lincoln was aware that both France and England were preparing to intervene on the side of the Confederacy, and he sent an urgent letter to the Russian Foreign Minister Gorchakov.

Gorchakov replied: “We are very, very anxious that…any course should be pursued—which will prevent the division which now seems inevitable. One separation will be followed by another; you will break into fragments.” The Russian Navy arrived on both the east and west coastlines of the U.S. in the autumn of 1863. In this way, Russia may have saved the Union (Chung, op. cit.).

Czar Alexander stated that he did this out of love for Russia, because he did not want Great Britain to be left in control of modern industrial development. He recognized the “American system” as the only system to have successfully challenged the system of empire, which he identified as the root of all slavery. As economist Henry C. Carey stated in The Harmony of Interests (1851):

One [system] looks to pauperism, ignorance, depopulation, and barbarism; the other in increasing wealth, comfort, intelligence, combination of action, and civilization. One looks towards universal war; the other towards universal peace. One is the English system; the other,…the American system,…the only one ever devised [with] the tendency of…elevating while equalizing the condition of man throughout the world.

What happened to Russia? How did Bolshevism triumph over the movement toward an enlightened constitutional monarchy? Was Lenin’s 1917 coup  a “color revolution,” a staged event, orchestrated by foreign [British] intelligence services? Richard Poe suggests that Bolshevism was the answer to the threat that a strong Russia posed to British global dominance (tinyurl.com/ycx5r9sv). This obscure, convoluted history may   yield clues pertaining to what is happening to America.

Why Russophobia Now?

On Apr 29, Tucker Carlson published an interview with Russian philosopher Aleksandr Dugin, whose books amazon refuses to sell. Dugin said that the West has progressed far beyond  the classical liberalism of individual freedom and liberation from slavery. The new liberalism demands liberation from any identity that transcends the individual—from the church, the nationalist state, the family, and even gender. The ultimate step is liberation from humanity—transhumanism (tinyurl.com/zbwp5s8c).

Tucker asked why progressive Americans, who had defended the Soviet system for nearly 80 years, and even participated in Stalinism, suddenly hate Russia. Dugin said they had discovered that Putin is a political leader who is strongly defending the traditional values that they intend to abolish. The hatred is not just a mood: “It’s metaphysical.”

“There is ever a peculiar connection, a sympathy of feeling and affection…between these [the lower classes] and the highest order, that of gentlemen. In society,… it is the middle [class] which is the region of disorder and confusion and tempest.”

Kenelm Henry Digby, c. 1848, spiritual leader of Young England

Parallels: Pro-Slavery/Abortion Arguments

From comments posted by Nathan Prindler:

· “This slave/baby is my property/body. You can’t tell me what to do with it.”

· “My property/body rights come before the rights of a slave/fetus.”

· “No one is forcing you to have slaves/abortions; mind your own business.”

· “If slavery/abortion ends, most of these slaves/babies wind up on the street without a job.”

· “Slavery/abortion is in the best interest of the Africans/babies. The world can be a cruel place, so it’s actually best for them to enslave/abort them.”

· “Slavery/abortion was vindicated by the Supreme Court. It’s already been decided. It’s settled law.”

· “Slaves/fetuses aren’t really people; they aren’t like us; they’re physically different; therefore we can own/kill them.”

· “Slavery/abortion has been around for thousands of years. It’s never going away. We might as well have a safe and legal system in place for it” (https://tinyurl.com/4atfpykk).

Flashback

By March, 1840, the Communist movement in Paris was deemed sufficiently threatening that a German newspaper denounced it, saying, “The Communists have in view nothing less than a levelling of society—substituting for the presently-existing order of things the absurd, immoral and impossible utopia of a community of goods” (Augsburger Allgemeine Zeitung, Mar 11, 1840).

Karl Marx’s Communist Manifesto was published in 1848. The founding father of communism was “Gracchus” [François-Noël] Babeuf, writes Richard Poe. Marx and Engels called Babeuf the first modern communist. More than 50 years before their manifesto, a group of French radicals calling itself the Conspiracy of Equals was preaching classless society, abolition of private property, and the need for revolutionary action.

 Babeuf derived many of his ideas from British mentors, at least some of whom were British intelligence operatives, such as James Rutledge, who called himself a “citizen of the universe” and preached the abolition of private ownership. Marx was also influenced by British mentors, at least some of whom are known to have been intelligence operatives. Marx had family connections with the British aristocracy. One common idea of various influencers was hatred of the bourgeoise.

Is Communism a British invention (Poe, op. cit.)?

AAPS Calendar

June 12. Pennsylvania chapter webinar with Do No Harm.

July 13. Missouri chapter meeting, Lake Ozark, MO.

Sep 18-21. 81st Annual Meeting, San Antonio, TX.

AAPS Defends Ohio Law Protecting Children

          In an amicus brief in the Supreme Court of Ohio, AAPS supports the Saving Ohio Adolescents from Experimentation Act and the Save Women’s Sports Act, enacted in January as H.B. 68 by overriding the governor’s veto. Implementation of the bill has been blocked by an injunction from a lower court.

  The law protects children from transgender surgery. Children are not able to give informed consent for this mutilating surgery.

The brief’s argument focuses on natural law, which is embodied in the Ohio Constitution. “The strongest judicial ruling against slavery prior to the Civil War was expressly based on natural law, and was rendered by the Ohio Supreme Court,” the brief states. Natural law, referred to in the Declaration of Independence although not in the U.S. Constitution, is the basis for many fundamental rights, including the right to self defense.

“H.B. 68 is analogous to laws against statutory rape, which no one would claim are unconstitutional,” AAPS’s brief explains.

Feds Plan to Circumvent State TG Laws

Through its litigation against HHS to enforce a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request for Assistant Secretary Levine’s communications regarding pediatric “transgender clinics,”  America First Legal has obtained emails regarding behind-the-scenes meetings with “gender affirming care providers” in states that have banned these practices. Providers of chemical castration and genital mutilation are seeking federal cover for attempts to evade state laws (https://tinyurl.com/3etkjmmh).

TG Child Removed from Home; Cert Denied

The U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear the appeal of parents whose child was removed from their home by the state of Indiana (M.C. and J.C. v. Indiana Department of Child Services, No. 23-450). The agency had received two reports of abuse related to the child’s transgender identity. While it conceded that parents were “fit,” it removed the 16-year-old anyway. Parents stated that the removal and placement of their son in a “gender-affirming” home was because of their Christian belief that children should be raised in accordance with their sex, but the state claimed it was because of the child’s eating disorder (https://tinyurl.com/5955b2dt).

The petition for certiorari argued:

 [T]he numbers of transgender youth are rising, matched by governmental willingness to remove gender-dysphoric children from their parents’ custody. Indiana’s tack—blame a comorbidity and dodge adjudication of parental fitness—provides a playbook that any state can use to eviscerate bedrock constitutional protections while guaranteeing they remain insulated from review. 

  About 70% of children with gender dysphoria have a serious mental health comorbidity, but “parents who want to treat the comorbidity without affirming the dysphoria—based on their beliefs and a growing body of research—are gambling with the custody of their children” (https://tinyurl.com/43esje55).

Indiana claimed mootness when the child came of age. As the brief pointed out, if Indiana is correct, “all child welfare cases will become unreviewable when the child turns 18. That is textbook capable-of-repetition-yet-evading-review.”

Tip of the Month: Beware of private equity monopolizing medical practices. The Colorado attorney general intervened against U.S. Anesthesia Partners of Colorado, Inc. (USAP), run by a New York City private equity firm. USAP bought up many anesthesia practices in Texas and then expanded into Denver. “By 2021, USAP bought out all its major competitors and established control of surgical anesthesia at the two largest hospital systems in the Denver area, accounting for more than 70% of health plan reimbursements,” the Colorado attorney general discovered. Harmful results included “onerous non-compete restrictions on health care professionals, and patients often facing delays or outright cancellation of their surgeries,” the State found. In February Colorado required USAP to divest its exclusive contracts at five hospitals, and to relax and ultimately end its non-compete restrictions on physicians (https://tinyurl.com/27yb9f6k).

Medicare Part B Swept under Title IX

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has changed its long-standing position and for the first time will consider Medicare Part B payments as a form of Federal financial assistance for purposes of triggering civil rights laws (tinyurl.com/22haezh7).

“In determining whether a covered entity violated section 1557 by denying or limiting a health service sought for the purpose of gender-affirming care, OCR [the Office of Civil Rights] will continue to consider evidence that the covered entity would provide that same service for other purposes,” states the Federal Register (https://tinyurl.com/mr2a9678). So, if a urologist performs an orchiectomy for cancer, might he also be obliged to do it for “gender affirmation”?

“Given the wide-sweeping effect of HHS’s declaration in the final rule, this is an area ripe for potential legal challenges,” according to McDermott Will & Emery (tinyurl.com/2tv73kjb).

The March through Legal Institutions

The Civil Rights Act has expanded into every sphere, public and private, metastasizing far beyond its original purpose and prohibiting more than 30 kinds of discrimination, including against persons with criminal records, welfare users, and drug addicts. It was made possible by educational theory inculcating multiculturalism, which constitutes a new moral order based on identity, inclusion, recognition, respect, and equity. The new form of law, a hybrid of civil and criminal law, has the goal of a leftist form of Sharia, writes Alexander Riley, “a…very Western, secular, up-to-date alternative to the Ministry for the Propagation of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice.”

The “emergence of the bizarre, reality-rejecting doctrine of ‘disparate impact’ after the passage of civil rights legislation was a singular moment in American legal history.” When empirical evidence of discrimination disappears, the state looks for it “in a fantasy world of invisible structures and ghostly forces.”

While the Left is the most vigorous proponent of this expansive doctrine, the mainstream Right does everything possible to avoid criticizing it. Civil Rights is holy writ. “Conservatives” would not dare allow mention of repeal. But once we have sounded its depth, we must do everything we possibly can to thwart the “antidiscrimination” regime (Chronicles, April 2024).

Correspondence

Déjà Vu. We see a number of striking similarities between the COVID-19 situation in which physicians who did not comply with the official COVID narrative were often attacked and destroyed, and the observational study by Andrew Wakefield 20 years ago. Both situations involved pharmaceutical companies that did not want any negative information circulated about their vaccines. Their supporters said the “science was settled,” and the vaccine-autism connection was a “debunked myth.” Now, a recent meta-analysis published in 2019 (https://doi.org/10.3389/fncel.2019.00385) makes the same association between autism and GI changes as Dr. Andrew Wakefield did.  And, apparently HHS has compensated 62 patients with autism for “injuries described as vaccine-induced brain damage.” According to the article, researchers are afraid to do studies on GI disease and autism because of what was done to Dr. Wakefield.  

Lawrence R. Huntoon, M.D., Ph.D., Lake View, NY

Hills Not to Die On. In 2017, pronouns were not really a thing. Now the right to be called he, she, they or some fancy of your own concocting is backed by the full force of the government of the U.S. The EEOC says that banning misgendering and bathroom restrictions for trans people “logically extends” from the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2020 Bostock ruling that added sexual and gender identity as a protected category under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act. This decision was given us by rock-ribbed originalist Neil Gorsuch, effortlessly twisting the English language into a supersized pretzel to demonstrate why the Framers were totally on board with 57 genders. A land of legalisms is not the same as a land of laws—and the ra-ra Right’s retreat to the Supreme Court as every hill not to die on was surrendered has proved strategically disastrous. Objecting to the abolition of biological sex isn’t a conservative hill. So the left proceeded with its demolition of human biology while Paul Ryan worked on his tax cut—and now America leads the world in the mutilation and sterilization of pre-pubescent schoolgirls. This hill has transitioned into a pit of hell. In the post-9/11 self-deluding blather, we could at least say that, unlike Islam, we don’t slice body parts off little girls. Now we do. The Left made a bonfire of “the facts of life”—while the right stood by and watched.

Mark Steyn, https://tinyurl.com/2433ab6b

RIP, Trans Agenda? Evidence mounts that “gender-affirming care” (chemical castration and genital mutilation), harms children. A Swedish study, which followed more than 300 patients for 30 years (https://tinyurl.com/2n54uhpx), showed that those who underwent sex reassignment surgery had a suicide rate 19 times higher than population controls. Medical outcomes were dismal.

For most children, gender dysphoria is transient. There is no justification to “treat” a condition that is likely to go away on its own. Given the absence of benefit and presence of substantial risk, any medical “treatment” would constitute a violation of medical ethics and an act of malpractice. Legal bans are needed. Sex change surgeries have increased four-fold in the past decade, while the rate of complications exceeds 50%. 

Mark McDonald, M.D., https://tinyurl.com/2hphftz4

Scotland: from Enlightenment to Insanity. As predicted, Scotland Police was deluged with 4,000 complaints in the first day after passage of a new hate crime law. Under this law, a person found to have been verbally “abusive” or “insulting” toward a transgender person, in person or online, could be imprisoned for up to 7 years. In case I ever visit Scotland, I am stating for the record that Dr. Rachel Levine is beautiful.

Craig Cantoni, Tucson, AZ

First Breakaway. In what’s likely to be a watershed moment, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has become the first elite private university to end the use of diversity statements for faculty hiring (https://tinyurl.com/cjfnk2ve).

Willie Soon, Ph.D., Salem, MA

TG Foreign Policy. According to a federal grant posting, the Biden State Department wants to train at least 200 activists to advocate for transgender rights in India as part of a program ostensibly designed to advance America’s “national interests.” Preference would be given to “trans and intersex community leaders” (https://tinyurl.com/zcsh94wz).

Joseph Scherzer, M.D., Paradise Valley, AZ

The Big Medical Short. Beware of big corporations  trying to be direct primary care (DPC). When private equity firms acquire physician practices, the intended end goal is to sell the entity so investors can see a return on investment. Exits within three to eight years are a natural part of the private equity cycle.

Buying private practices is a losing proposition. Corporations are replacing doctors with non-doctors, trashing the already terrible medical system we have. Walgreens and Walmart are losing tons of money on primary care. They are burning it all to the ground. It’s like the insanity where apes take over the world in Planet of the Apes. Our only hope is the small, individually owned practices that keep the system going. 

Douglas Farrago, M.D., https://tinyurl.com/5cms6zut

Volume 80, no. 4 

The U.S. is said to be a “Vaccine Nation.” The central dogma of public health and most pediatric practices is that vaccination is the most important medical advance. It purportedly has saved “millions” of lives, is the necessary bulwark against massive outbreaks of lethal diseases, and being “up to date” on some 70 doses of vaccine is needed to safely attend school. Questions about the COVID-19 vaccines are an existential threat: They might spark “vaccine hesitancy” about established childhood vaccines, and hinder the development of thousands of new vaccines on an mRNA platform, even for noninfectious diseases.

In an amicus brief in the case of Murthy v. Missouri (originally Missouri v. Biden), the American Academy of Pediatrics, the AMA, et al. argue for the compelling interest of the government in protecting the public against “misinformation” on vaccines. All approved vaccines are “safe and effective,” they state, but the American public is being strongly influenced by claims of harm including autism and infertility. Reportedly, “41% of parents with minor children were sometimes or often exposed to negative messages about vaccines on social media” (tinyurl.com/y3f3ht69).

One study showed that “viewing typical vaccine-critical websites for only five to 10 minutes increases the perception of risk” regarding the most common vaccinations for young children and significantly decreased the intention to vaccinate. Medical professionals must spend considerable time countering these messages, diverting resources from clinical care. “Post hoc efforts to mitigate the harm from vaccine misinformation are less effective at preserving public health than reducing the spread of misinformation in the first place” [by censorship] (ibid.).

AMA president Jesse Ehrenfeld writes that “vaccine misinformation poses a grave threat to public health….  [W]e seek to partner with the federal government to advance factual information.”

“Anything less than a comprehensive effort to prevent the dissemination of medical misinformation—using the powers of the federal government, public health agencies, healthcare organizations, social media companies and media outlets…—abdicates our responsibility” (https://tinyurl.com/2kduszfa).

Part of the “infodemic” causing vaccine hesitancy is said to be the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS). Prepandemic, few people were aware of it. The rapid roll-out of COVID vaccines brought global attention. Reports may “seed misinformation” when people are unaware that events are unverified or not necessarily caused by a vaccine (JAMA 3/26/24).

Vaccination vs. Treatment Paradigms

Vaccination targets the whole population, rather than the smaller set of sick persons. Vaccination strives to make a permanent or long-lasting change in the body’s immune system, so that it “remembers” a previous exposure and can turn on antibody production. In contrast, treatment is generally short-term—and it can be stopped if there is an adverse response.

Disease occurrence and death prevented by vaccination are hypothetical—unless subjects are (unethically) exposed to the disease. There’s inevitably guesswork—speculation that things would’ve been worse without the vaccine. With treatment, in contrast, there is a denominator—the number of actual cases. “Vaccine-preventable” diseases are usually declared to be untreatable, or like COVID they are simply not treated.

Vaccination Outcomes

It is frequently asserted—correctly—that mortality from childhood diseases such as measles, pertussis, and diphtheria is far less than it was in the 19th century. However, the precipitous drop in mortality occurred before the vaccines became available (https://tinyurl.com/57dyxtcz). Vaccine zealots still predict outbreaks if we relent. One test occurred in Sweden, where pertussis mortality fell 98% between the 1860s and early 1950s. Vaccine was introduced in 1953. In 1978, 84% of children diagnosed with pertussis had had three doses of  whole-cell pertussis vaccine.  The vaccination was discontinued from 1979–1996, with no increase in deaths (tinyurl.com/3wwxwutm). (Note that pertussis is treatable: erythromycin and vitamin C are reportedly effective.)

For other examples, see Jordan Henderson on “Vaccine Evangelists, Apostates, & Apologists” (tinyurl.com/3jsfdbrn).

A successful public health intervention should lead to a healthier population. The U.S., however, has a heavy burden of chronic disease and neurological disability, especially in children, including: food allergies, asthma, allergic dermatitis, recurrent otitis media, attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (one in ten, https://tinyurl.com/mrya9m7c), autism, diabetes, and sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS, https://tinyurl.com/4f945hs2).

Pediatrician Paul Thomas, M.D., of Portland, Ore., respected parents’ views on vaccines, and tracked children by vaccination status (2,700 variably vaccinated; 560 not vaccinated). The unvaccinated were “off the charts” healthier on numerous measures, and had zero diagnoses of ADHD in 10 years (https://tinyurl.com/bddj9z9p). In December 2020, the Oregon Medical Board suspended Dr. Thomas’s medical license and his license was surrendered in 2022 (https://tinyurl.com/26bcakej).

U.S. life expectancy has declined, and reports of sudden death, heart disease, strokes, and unusual or unusually aggressive cancers proliferate since 2021. What else new has happened? Climate change? A sudden invasion of microplastics? More PM_2.5s?

$1.6 Trillion/Year Autism Tsunami

The prevalence of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) in the U.S. continues to increase. A new model, which accounts for this along with the shift to adult-dominated costs and the transfer of costs from parents to government, forecasts costs growing from $223 billion/year in 2020 to $589 billion/year in 2030 to $1.36 trillion/year in 2040. The Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders (JDD) retracted the article about it—one of its most frequently downloaded articles. It has been republished in Science, Public Health Policy, & the Law (https://tinyurl.com/3wyvnuc3).

One of the authors, Toby Rogers, discusses the back story (https://tinyurl.com/388s665n). He states that the article falsifies the genetic approach to autism. The Simons Foundation, the second largest funder of autism research, after the NIH, has spent hundreds of millions of dollars searching for the “gene for autism,” to the exclusion of environmental factors. The article nowhere mentions the “v” word that is on people’s minds, or other factors, but apparently even a discussion of costs cannot be tolerated by the “trillion-dollar autism industry.”

An unusual signal was noted in the prevalence data: an unprecedented decrease in ASD for birth years 2000–2013 in Marin County. Wealthy white parents began opting out of the CDC vaccine schedule. They may have done many other things as well. But the FDA and CDC never investigated this fascinating trend, the only positive sign we’ve ever seen in the autism data.

Absence of Evidence and Negative Evidence

“Since the 1991 Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices recommendation of universal HepB immunization of infants, no evidence of either an increased trend in the overall number of neonatal deaths or in neonatal deaths after HepB vaccination reported to VAERS was found…. [I]ndirect indices, despite their limited interpretability, do provide some reassurance that HepB vaccination is not causing a clear increase in unexplained neonatal or infant deaths. As events reported to VAERS may be coincidental, detailed epidemiologic studies are needed for more definitive evaluation of potential causal relationships between vaccination and serious events or death” [emphasis added] (Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med Dec 1999, https://tinyurl.com/3jwac935).

As of 2024, I cannot find such a study on PubMed. Nor are there large retrospective cohort studies published in major journals to support or refute Dr. Paul Thomas’s findings. For such a controversial and important subject one would expect many NIH-funded studies by major academic institutions. Their absence is “negative evidence” of an agenda to conceal inconvenient information (https://tinyurl.com/3r2j3zas).

“[B]y means of ever more effective methods of mind-manipulation, the democracies will change their nature; the quaint old forms—elections, parliaments, Supreme Courts and all the rest—will remain. The underlying substance will be a new kind of non-violent totalitarianism. All the traditional names, all the hallowed slogans will remain exactly what they were in the good old days. Democracy and freedom will be the theme of every broadcast and editorial…. Meanwhile, the ruling oligarchy and its highly trained elite of soldiers, policemen, thought-manufacturers and mind-manipulators will quietly run the show as they see fit.”

Aldous Huxley, Brave New World Revisited

Mechanisms of Action—and of Adverse Effects

The medical student’s or layman’s view of vaccination, illustrated with lock-and-key cartoons, is that the vaccine contains an antigen that is present on the surface of a pathogen, without the whole pathogenic organism. The immune system produces an antibody that locks onto the antigen, and neutralizes the pathogen. Memory cells reactivate production of antibodies on later exposure. This is vastly oversimplified, but sounds benign.

One problem is that modern vaccines that use pure recombinant or synthetic antigens are less immunogenic (and less toxic) than the older live or killed whole-cell vaccines. Thus, an adjuvant, an agent to stimulate the immune system, is needed. Since the stimulus is nonspecific, undesirable allergies (e.g., to peanuts) or autoimmunity can also be provoked.

Thimerosal, which has an adjuvant as well as a disinfecting effect, has been removed from pediatric vaccines (except for influenza). Most vaccines contain aluminum adjuvants. Their mechanism of action is not well understood; they might target components that play a key role in brain development (https://tinyurl.com/29fnz6bw).

Brains of 10 autistic patients were demonstrated to contain some of the highest levels of aluminum ever recorded in human brain, in immune cells and microglia. Sheep injected with aluminum-containing substances develop behavioral changes comparable to autism (https://tinyurl.com/yb43ybdj).

The plethora of adverse effects reported after vaccination involve many different body systems. One of the best candidates  for the common thread between those injuries is microstrokes throughout the body—from microclots or “sludging” of the blood. Understanding the biophysics of blood flow, largely neglected in American medicine, could be key to treating vaccine injuries and many chronic illnesses, writes “A Midwestern Doctor” (https://tinyurl.com/4uxswdbm).

Canadian neurologist Andrew Moulden linked vaccine injuries to blood clumping caused by reduced zeta potential, which measures electrostatic repulsion between adjacent, similarly charged particles in a colloidal dispersion. (This is related to crystalline water (see Gerald Pollack, The Fourth Phase of Water.) Colloids with high zeta potential are electrically stabilized while colloids with low zeta potentials tend to coagulate. “Blood stasis” from traditional Chinese medicine, linked to autoimmune conditions may be impaired zeta potential. The strong positive charge on the COVID vaccine’s spike protein likely impairs zeta potential, as does aluminum (tinyurl.com/4k9s534w).

Vaccines may trigger a sustained cell danger response (CDR)  The common genes known to increase the risk of autism can be shown to play a role in CDR signaling or maintenance (https://tinyurl.com/bdehekr9).

AAPS Calendar

July 13, 2023. Missouri Chapter Meeting, Lake Ozark, MO. – https://mailchi.mp/aapsonline/july-13-2024-mo-chapter

Sep 18-21, 2024. 81st Annual Meeting, San Antonio, TX. – https://aapsonline.org/2024am

ACTION OF THE MONTH

Scholarships are available to help medical students and residents attend the AAPS 81st Annual Meeting, Sept 18-21, 2024, in San Antonio. Details at https://aapsonline.org/2024am.

A Compelling Interest in Freedom

In its amicus brief (https://tinyurl.com/3ywt3khx) in Murphy v. Missouri, AAPS counters arguments by the AMA amici. “Abuse of government power through misuse of scientific or medical assertions is not new, and a robust First Amendment free of government censorship is necessary to deter such abuse,” AAPS writes. “Freedom to criticize is an essential safeguard against tyranny.” And “the proper antidote to alleged false information is a stronger right to free speech.”

“There have not been any new categories of unprotected speech in more than 50 years, and there is no textual, historical, or logical basis for making vaccine criticism unprotected.”

While AMA amici claim “there is no evidence of significant harm from the Covid vaccine,” the government “fails to investigate and disclose pervasive evidence of its actual and potential harm,” the brief states. AAPS cites numerous examples of past vaccine harms. It notes that more than 600 federal court decisions have cited VAERS. Federal law requires the posting of VAERS data. Congress having implicitly adopted a policy of transparency and robust public debate, the executive branch cannot properly engage in a censorship campaign.

Failure by government to investigate and disclose details about the uptick in reporting adverse events is “grounds for further alarm, and not a valid basis for denying possible harm.”

Young, Healthy Autistics Scheduled for Death

A 28-year-old Dutch woman, and a 27-year-old Canadian woman (M.V.) with a diagnosis of autism applied for state-facilitated suicide despite not suffering a terminal or debilitating physical illness. M.V.’s father is asking Alberta’s top court to block  the death order on the basis of doubt about the “tie-breaker” doctor’s impartiality and her inability to give consent.

Alex Schadenberg, executive director of the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition, noted, “Canada’s euthanasia law was not designed to protect vulnerable people. The law is designed to protect the doctors who are willing to kill.”

As a proportion of all deaths in Holland, the first country to legalize euthanasia, doctor-assisted suicides increased from less than 2% in 2002 to more than 4% in 2019 and continue to climb, reaching 8,720 in 2022 (https://tinyurl.com/5n6hcrms).

FDA Agrees to Remove Anti-ivermectin Postings

In a settlement that dismissed the case of Mary Talley Bowden v. HHS (U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas, Galveston Division, No. 322-cv-184), FDA agreed to permanently remove several social media posts urging people not to take ivermectin for the treatment of COVID-19 (tinyurl.com/2sy5dauh). Dr. Bowden stated: “This landmark case sets an important precedent in limiting FDA overreach into the doctor-patient relationship.” The FDA denies any wrongdoing and states that it has not changed its position that available clinical trial data do not demonstrate ivermectin’s effectiveness against COVID-19.

Some might speculate the FDA opted to settle to avoid…the discovery process and [being] forced to produce documents that might reveal information it would prefer the public didn’t know,” writes journalist Eric Starkman (tinyurl.com/bdev4eef).

Tip of the Month: The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) might protect some victims of sham peer review and other unfair retaliation. The ADA extends its protection to any impairment that substantially reduces someone’s ability to function in an important part of life, which can even include substance abuse. It is only when substance abuse or another disability impairs someone’s ability to do the job that the person, including a physician, may be fired or denied an employment opportunity on that basis. Nearly 50 years ago, decades before ADA, the leading decision on this was by the California Supreme Court when it rejected the notion that a physician employed by the State as a medical consultant could be fired for lunchtime alcoholic consumption not proven to affect his work performance. Skelly v. State Pers. Bd., 15 Cal. 3d 194, 199 (1975).

FDA Promotes Products Off Label

During his first term as FDA Commissioner during the Obama administration, Robert Califf, M.D., proposed allowing companies to advertise their products off label, an illegal practice under FDA regulations. Sen. Edward Markey (D-Mass.) pushed back with a letter concerning off-label use of opioids. Others in the Obama Administration blocked Dr. Califf’s proposal.

In 2009, Pfizer pled guilty and paid a record $2.3 billion criminal fine for illegally marketing more than a dozen drugs off label.

Dr. Califf, back for a second term under Biden, posted a message on X promoting the off-label use of COVID vaccines to protect children against long COVID, citing a news article in Nature Magazine about a small, non-peer-reviewed study.

CDC Director Mandy Cohen, M.D., M.P.H., also promoted this off-label use on X (https://tinyurl.com/mtu26uzw).

Texas Pediatricians Forced to Order COVID Shot

Juana Salazar, TVFC/ASN Audit Coordinator . Garland Public Health Clinic, wrote to participants in the Texas Vaccines for Children program: “TVFC providers please make sure to add covid vaccines to this months order, I wont be approving orders unless I see covid vaccines included see email below. It is not a choice it is a REQUIREMENT.  Thank you all J [sic].”

A physician reported having to buy a special freezer that can send temperature data to the health department. Each time a temperature outside the correct range was recorded, she was supposed to call the vaccine manufacturer, document their instructions about the vaccines that were being stored, and send the instructions to the health department.

Thanks to the intervention of Sen. Bob Hall, the Texas Dept. of Health and Human Services backed down, and orders for vaccines were not to be placed on hold because of this requirement.

From Checks and Balances to Gold Rush

Pharma took advantage of the deep recession to pass the 1980 Bayh-Dole Act that allowed federal officials and recipients of taxpayer-funded grants to patent their research. A healthy system of checks and balances—regulators and academic and corporate  researchers—was transformed into a gold rush as all were now on the same team looking for profit from their intellectual property (https://tinyurl.com/2s43wb6f).

Correspondence

‘Misinformation’ Is at Least 2,000 Years Old. The chief priests and scribes, the “Disinformation Governance Board” of the day,  brought charges against Jesus, saying, “We found this man misleading our people; he opposes the payment of taxes to Caesar and maintains that he is the Christ, a king.” (Luke 23:2-3) But, of course, Jesus never opposed paying taxes to Caesar, and he never put himself forward as a king. At one point when people wanted to carry him off and make him a king, he fled. Based on these false charges and the accusation of spreading misinformation and disinformation, a sham trial ensued, and the rest is history. 

Lawrence R. Huntoon, M.D., Ph.D., Lake View, NY

Return Soul, Reduce Costs. Personalized care, the soul of medicine, was possible in the early 1980s, before the mass consolidation and corporatization of the medical industry, caused in large part by a federally imposed non-market artificial payment system. Government attempts to control run-away healthcare costs, by removing the patient from control of the funds, have failed, partly by creating a massive bureaucracy that consumes about one-third of all medical costs. We need to return medical buying power to the patient.

Ken Fisher, M.D., https://tinyurl.com/nhpu9385

Machiavelli and Adam Smith. I have not seen others make the connection between these two men, probably because the first is hated and the other loved, but to me it seems obvious. Machiavelli broke with the classical and Christian aspiration to temper the tyrannical temptation through an education in virtue, scoring the premodern philosophic tradition as an unbroken series of unrealistic and unreliable fantasies, “for the gap between how people actually behave and how they ought to behave is so great that anyone who ignores everyday reality in order to live up to an ideal will soon discover that he has been taught how to destroy himself, not how to preserve himself.” Machiavelli proposed grounding a political philosophy upon readily observable human behaviors of pride, selfishness, greed, and the quest for glory, arguing that liberty and political security were better achieved by pitting different domestic classes against one another. Our Founders applied Machiavelli’s arguments, pitting the different branches of government against each other.

Toby Rogers, https://tinyurl.com/2p8xznwn

Logan’s Run? In Canada, the number of assisted suicides has increased every year since 2016, reaching 13,241 in 2022 for a total of 44,958. Since 2021, death does not need to be reasonably foreseeable. The government apparently has a financial interest in the death of children in the welfare system: a conflict of interest.

Robert W. Malone, M.D., https://tinyurl.com/ckkxesh3

Is This a Free Democratic Society? Charlatan modellers and civil liberty executioners have been showered with honours and sycophantic treatment while Western governments criticised China for adopting similar measures. Russia and China are here among us, pressing you to conform, think and act alike like Fritz Lange’s zombie-like citizens in his greatest movie, Metropolis.

What’s left of evidence of insane COVID policies after the official cull is what in archaeology would be called “residual deposits surviving later disturbance,” meaning what’s left of documentable and verifiable evidence after thieves, robbers, and demolition squads have taken their toll.

Tom Jefferson and Carl Heneghan,  tinyurl.com/muhxkwcc

Information Dominance. The mainstream media in our country has won the battle for control of information. Six corporations have full control of the narratives disseminated by government agencies, corporations, and non-governmental organizations (NGOs). Once an entity has full control of information, it controls the country. After the successful 2020 cultural Marxist coup in the U.S., Americans need to study the history of communist countries. In Romania, Ceausescu’s reign of terror (1965-1989) killed thousands of religious and political dissidents; arrested and jailed more than one million non-criminals; demolished 7,000 villages to destroy the peoples’ ties to their centuries-old traditions and civilization (the Marxist euphemism for this destruction was “systematization”); destroyed tens of thousands of historical buildings and monuments; employed hundreds of thousands of Romanians to work for the much-feared Securitate. Worse than the hunger and poverty was the destruction to the human psyche and soul. Giurescu described it so: “after 45 years of communist rule, the country has been psychologically crippled and physically lowered to sub-minimal standards. People fear each other…. Envy and hostility prevail over civic spirit; profiteering and idleness over steady work.” Thus the result of information dominance.

Ileana Johnson, Ed.D., https://tinyurl.com/2esph5pk

A New Record. In response to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request, the CDC “released” a 148-page study of myocarditis after COVID “vaccination.” Every single page was completely redacted (https://tinyurl.com/5ycvd8tf). The redaction code was said to be (b)(5), deliberative process privilege.

Willie Soon, Ph.D., Salem, MA

Volume 80, no. 3  March

The foundation of our rights is not “freedom and democracy”; this is the label used by the Central Intelligence Agency
(CIA) in U.S.-instigated “color revolutions” to topple unfriendly governments and influence elections worldwide (https://tinyurl.com/22h9jeya). “Protecting Our Democracy™” is now the mantra for protecting our ruling elite as by censoring “misinformation” or punishing protests against election fraud.

The Founding Fathers were fearful of democracy—mob rule—and devised Constitutional protections against it.

Voting rights do not guarantee our liberties. The franchise was restricted in our early days: it was (and is) plain that all are not equal in ability to make prudent, fair community rules. Yet government was much less tyrannical than today, when “voters” might  even be fictitious. The Founders could not have imagined current methods for massive fraud that can negate millions of votes.

The only freedom mentioned in Biden’s 2024 State of the Union message was the freedom to have an abortion. This as a supreme right extinguishes the rights of everyone except pregnant women and abortionists—even the right of the voters to protect women against dangerous practices or practitioners, and the rights of persons attempting to persuade mothers to choose life.

The “unprecedented assaults on freedom” that Biden recognized were from Vladimir Putin and from the Jan 6 protest, which he called a “dagger aimed at the heart of democracy.”

The First Amendment is first because without freedom of speech, of religion, and of assembly, there is no freedom. But it is not the foundation, nor does it stand alone. Even in the 1980s before the cancel culture, Czech expatriate Petr Beckmann told me that “you have the right to say anything you want—as long as not very many people are listening.” He could publish politically incorrect books and the newsletter Access to Energy because of the print shop in his basement: the Golem (an offset press), a linotype machine, folding equipment, etc., that he operated by himself.

The great economist John Locke, whose writings and ideas had a major influence on our nation’s Founders, wrote that “life and liberty are secure only so long as the right of property is secure.” John Adams argued, “The moment the idea is admitted into society that property is not as sacred as the laws of God, and that there is not a force of law and public justice to protect it, anarchy and tyranny commence” (https://tinyurl.com/482veshk).

Property rights have come under sustained attack, especially since the New Deal, and crushing regulation and taxation have driven essential American industry offshore. Biden falsely claimed to (somehow) be bringing it back, though his promise to increase corporate taxes to 21% is not likely to help. The Green New Deal is deliberately destroying industry and, worse, farming. The SOTU did not mention Amish farmer Amos Miller, whose organic farm was raided, and $100,000 worth of food placed “under detention” (https://tinyurl.com/2u8tka23).

People have served time in prison for violating regulations, as by filling in a mud puddle, and the lawfare against Donald Trump is showing how the “justice” system can ruin a business empire because of an allegedly inaccurate valuation that caused no harm.

The criminalization of speech is following. France quietly passed a bill (https://tinyurl.com/nhb5p46b) that could imprison a person for 3 years and fine him 45,000€ for advising against the use of therapeutic or prophylactic treatment (including experimental mRNA gene therapy). In the “free” U.S., the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), which was historically focused on anti-Semitism, is urging law enforcement to investigate Matt Walsh and Chris Rufo, claiming that their criticism of transgender ideology might cause “hate” and violence (tinyurl.com/69srfvnb).

Why Is This Happening to Us?

In May 2023, Stephen Meyer recalled the somber, prophetic 1983 acceptance speech that Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn gave on accepting the Templeton Prize (tinyurl.com/yckhzupe). As disaster spread after the Bolshevik Revolution, the old people said, “These things are happening to us because we have forgotten God.”

Meyer lists some of the disasters in America: suicide, fentanyl overdoses, gender confusion, homelessness, crime waves. Does this devastation result, he asks, from “the entire 20th century being sucked into the vortex of atheism and self-destruction”?

Citing Dostoyevsky, Solzhenitsyn said that “the world will be saved only after it has been possessed by the demon of evil.” The only hope is to reach for the hand of God. “There is nothing else to cling to, in the landslide: all the thinkers of the Enlightenment can give us nothing” (ibid.).

“The atheistic and nihilistic revolutionaries who populate Dostoevsky’s novel Demons…reject what is given and leave tragedy in their wake. They burn everything to the ground,” writes Aaron  Alexander Zubia. “Dostoevsky said of them: ‘These people imagine that nature and human society are otherwise than God made them and than they actually are’” (tinyurl.com/58jxjb2e).

Self-creation is the ideal of contemporary liberal thought, which rejects a priori universal truth and requires annihilation of all limits, human and divine. As James Madison wrote, economic utility is not the standard of right and wrong. Washington’s inaugural address, ghost-written by Madison, said that national policy must be grounded on private morality, based on “the eternal rules of order and right, which Heaven itself has ordained” (ibid.).

Without  a foundation of truth, there is no freedom.

Which Foundation?

         In a 1942 memo to Henry Luce, publisher of Time, former Communist spy Whittaker Chambers wrote:

         Tentatively, I am calling what I have written: The irreconcilable issues—Belief in God or Belief in Man…. I wish to show that these issues are the real line of cleavage in the modern world between conservative and revolutionary, cutting across all lines of economic class and political party; binding together proletarian and capitalist in a common belief in the primacy of God, just as they inexorably throw together those who believe in the primacy of secular Man no matter what their superficial differences or pseudo-religious trappings.

In testimony to the House Un-American Affairs Committee (HUAC), Chambers, according to Arthur Koestler, “committed moral suicide to atone for the guilt of our generation.” He identified several Soviet spies, including Alger Hiss.

Chambers said: “I know that I am leaving the winning side for the losing side, but it is better to die on the losing side than to live under Communism.” The driving force for his work at Time was to take every possible opportunity “to clarify, on the basis of the news, the religious and moral position that made Communism evil” (Terry Teachout, ed. Ghosts on the Roof: Selected Journalism of Whittaker Chambers, 1931-1959, Regnery Gateway, 1989).

Flashback: ‘The New Deal’s Dark Underbelly’

Though hailed as a champion of democracy, FDR violated civil rights time and time again, writes Marcus Witcher in a review of The New Deal’s War on the Bill of Rights by Paul Beito (https://tinyurl.com/fdpfat3m).

FDR empowered his allies in the Senate to harass, undermine, and delegitimize political enemies and critics through formal investigations. The [Hugo L.] Black Committee was used as an instrument of political surveillance. The IRS issued “a ‘general blanket order’ for access to the tax returns of potential witnesses.” Roosevelt’s Federal Communications Commission (FCC) also granted “authorization to require the telegraph companies [to] comply” with Black’s requests for complete access to witnesses’ telegrams.

In response to the National Committee to Uphold Constitutional Governance (NCUCG), which played a key role in defeating his court-packing scheme and his proposed restructuring of the federal government, FDR empowered Sen. Sherman Minton (D-Ind.) to form a committee to try to force organizations to disclose their donors, in order to enable New Dealers “to embarrass, worry, terrorize and destroy.” This succeeded in freezing donations. FDR used the regulatory scheme to suppress negative radio coverage. He looked the other way when Black Americans’ voting rights were being suppressed. He issued the executive orders that interned more than 100,000 Americans of Japanese ancestry though most were loyal American citizens.

X X X

“The Communist answered: ‘Democracy is the most perfect form of government for capitalism because it offers the most perfect illusion of freedom…. But democracy is not something that cannot be overstepped. Democracy is a stage in the course of the development from capitalism to Communism.’” Whittaker Chambers, op. cit.

Anti-Human ‘Rights’

One result of burning down our traditional foundation might be democratically enacted (by referendum) in Ireland. This would establish iron-clad legal protections to all elements of Nature. “Every human being alive would be deputized to bring lawsuits to uphold the rights of every aspect of existence on the planet. In other words, the most radical, anti-human environmentalists would be empowered to harness courts to impede any use of the Earth’s bounty,” writes Wesley J. Smith.

The Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature’s “Universal Declaration for the Rights of Mother Earth,” he states, “declares unscientifically that ‘Mother Earth is a living being,’ with ‘inalienable’ rights that ‘arise from the same source as existence’—a  generating cause that it doesn’t identify—without ‘distinction of any kind, such as may be made between organic and inorganic beings [!], species, origin, use to human beings, or any other status’” (https://tinyurl.com/mrzwp3jh).

Smith calls it neopaganism, as in the worship of the goddess Pachamama—already shutting down development in Panama.

The Destruction of Liberal Individualism

The “New American Way” of nihilistic subjectivity and identity politics comes from the destruction of belief in the moral and civic preconditions of a constitutional republic, writes Richard M. Reinsch II in a review of The New Leviathans by John Gray (https://tinyurl.com/56unmrb6). Gray cites Dostoevsky’s 1871 novel of ideology, Demons, for the portrayal of how God-builders justified the destruction of human beings and Russian society. One character in the novel, Shigalyov, finally understands that his desire for absolute freedom has led him into absolute tyranny. 

‘Reflections on the Revolution in France’

Edmund Burke, a champion for the American Revolution, was appalled by the doctrinaire spirit and ruthless methods of the French revolutionaries. Excerpts from his 1790 essay were quoted in a Wall Street Journal editorial, “You See Nothing but the Gallows,” on Jul 14, 1989:

“[Y]ou chose to act as if you had never been molded into civil society and had to begin everything anew. You began badly by despising everything that belonged to you.”

“[S]ee what is achieved by those extravagant and presumptuous theories that have taught your leaders to despise all their predecessors…. By following…false lights, France has bought undisguised calamities at a higher price than any nation has purchased the most unequivocal blessings! France has bought poverty by crime!” (https://tinyurl.com/2w4xp8zk).

AAPS Calendar

Sep 18-21, 2024. 81st Annual Meeting, San Antonio, TX.

ACTION OF THE MONTH

Scholarships are available to help medical students and residents attend the AAPS 81st Annual Meeting, Sept 18-21, 2024, in San Antonio. Details at https://aapsonline.org/2024am.

Sentencing Guidelines in the USSR

‘The Liar’

A cell in prison. A new prisoner has just been brought in.

“How much did you get?” asked the other inmates.

“25 years.”

“What did you do?”

“Nothing! Believe me, I am innocent!”

“Oh, come off it! You only get ten years for that!”

Petr Beckmann

 Hammer and Tickle: Clandestine Laughter in the Soviet Empire

         [“The penalty for telling one of these jokes was 10 years of forced labor, which meant death.”]

A $1 Million ‘Message’

After 12 years, Mark Steyn finally got his day in U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., in Mann v. Simberg and Steyn. Michael E. Mann of the University of Pennsylvania had sued for defamation related to criticism of the “Mann-made Hockey Stick.” This graph is the foundation of climate alarm, as it purportedly shows a recent rapid acceleration of global temperature rise like the blade of a hockey stick. (It resembles the graph of the U.S. accumulation of debt, https://tinyurl.com/mw3a7n2k). Mann’s graph has been criticized by many, especially after exposure of the Climategate emails (tinyurl.com/5d37ubdh; also see AAPS News, January 2010, tinyurl.com/28rnwwf6).

Mann’s career, grant funding, and stick remain intact, and the jury awarded him only $1 in actual damages—plus $1 million in punitive damages. Mann’s counsel had told the jury that “these attacks on climate scientists have to stop,” and also drew a comparison between “climate deniers” and “election deniers” (Trump and the J6-ers). A press release quotes Mann as saying, “I hope this verdict sends a message that falsely attacking climate scientists is not protected speech” (https://tinyurl.com/j729hcnp).

Steyn’s counsel is filing post-verdict motions stating that the verdict is unlawful (ibid.).

The Court of Appeals “has stated repeatedly that an attorney must not ask a jury to ‘send a message’ to anyone.” Bowman v. United States, 652 A.2d 64, 71 (D.C. 1994). This is the law for good reason: “Juries are not in the message-sending business. Their sole duty is to return a verdict based on the facts before them.”

A verdict like this is likely to have a profound chilling effect on disfavored speech on important political or social issues: COVID-19, transgender ideology, voting fraud, and others.

Steyn thinks the Constitutional issues are compelling, but that the way to bet is that it would cost another $5 million to prove it.

Tip of the Month: Hospitals report to the National Practitioner Data Bank “any professional review action that adversely affects the clinical privileges of a physician or dentist for a period of more than 30 days,” quoting the Data Bank Guidebook. We’re hearing about dirty tricks to ensure a longer-than-30-days restriction, triggering a Data Bank report. One such trick is a requirement of monitoring a certain number of procedures by the physician, while making it impossible for him to complete that monitoring within 30 days. That becomes a reportable event even though the monitoring finds no deficiencies.

After Trump, Who’s Next?

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul declared the state wouldn’t target businesses with political cases after winning a $454 million judgment against Donald Trump. But Attorney General Letitia James is charging the world’s largest beef producer, JBS USA, with misrepresenting its carbon emissions, using the same law she used to sue Donald Trump for allegedly defrauding banks by inflating his assets: Executive Law Section 63(12). Courts have interpreted the law to provide for disgorgement of “ill-gotten gains” even when there are no victims who lost money.

Although neither New York nor federal law says companies must disclose their greenhouse-gas emissions, James complains that JBS didn’t quantify its Scope 3 emissions.  JBS says it plans to become “net zero” by 2040, but because existing technology can’t reduce methane from cow burps, James argues that JBS’s emissions will inevitably increase. She contends that the climate promises motivate customers to buy more meat and pay more.

The Securities and Exchange Commission’s proposed climate disclosure rule will force companies to report their emissions publicly, opening them to suits for alleged misrepresentations (Wall St J 3/5/24, https://tinyurl.com/mt7nr3p3).

The Inversion of Democracy

Tucker Carlson states that the defining fact of this country is freedom of speech, “the right from which all other rights flow.” This is threatened by a new type of censorship on the pretext of suppressing mis-, dis-, or malinformation—without reference to its truth. He explores the development of the control apparatus in an interview with former State Dept. official Mike Benz, founder of the Foundation for Freedom Online.

Internet free speech functions were initially developed by the national security apparatus as a tool for overthrowing foreign governments unfriendly to the U.S. agenda. (Google was originally  branch of DARPA.) The pretext of RussiaGate facilitated the morphing of the whole scheme into a domestic as well as a foreign operation, just in time for the 2020 election, Benz stated.

“What I’m describing is military rule,” Benz concluded. Democracy itself is a threat. It needs to be redefined as the sanctity of democratic institutions instead of the will of the voters. These include the military, NATO, the IMF and the World Bank,  legacy media, and NGOs (largely state-department-funded)—the elite establishment (https://tinyurl.com/5fs6skyr).

Contentless Conservatism

American conservatism arose in the mid-20th century to defend “good liberalism” against advancing progressivism, writes Patrick Deneen. It fights for issues such as religious liberty, academic freedom, limited government, and free markets, all designed by modern liberals to be used as battering rams to overthrow a predominantly Aristotelian/Thomistic world view. They are contentless, and while conservatives deplore relativism, the challenge from the Left is not relativism: they know what they believe, and pursue that goal with fierce determination. It’s the defenders of Con. Inc. who are the relativists, promoting a world in which the individual is the measure of truth and increasingly radical positions must be affirmed (tinyurl.com/4kzh65wh).

Correspondence

We’ve Got Their Number. The February issue of AAPS News highlights deep state censorship, the tactic of government contracting out censorship of  speech to social media and others.

         In 1973, socialists in Congress recognized that government-run medicine (Medicare and Medicaid) and government-overregulated insurance were nonsustainable long term, and that rationing care would be necessary. Not wanting to be held accountable for denying care, Congress contracted out the job to HMOs, created by the HMO Act, of which Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.) was the principal sponsor. After HMO abuses and wrongful denials became evident to all, Sen. Kennedy proposed the Patients’ Bill of Rights to curb HMO abuses that his own bill had invited. Delegating the violation of rights to “private” entities is a long-standing government method.

 Lawrence R. Huntoon, M.D., Ph.D., Lake View, NY

CDC’s Misrepresentations. CDC knowingly misrepresented scientific facts in order to align messaging. Articles labeled as “misinformation” were accurate, according to internal emails and experts (https://tinyurl.com/yeywax2w).  The supposed point of public-health “paternalism” is that the experts do know what they are doing, more than the general public. When the experts misrepresent facts, they completely lose credibility as experts, which at the very least compromises the ability of their public institution (CDC) to do its job. These identified people should be fired, and CDC must publicly state that their goal is to be accurate, not to be zealots for special-interests messaging.

Harvey Risch, M.D., Ph.D., Yale School of Public Health

Doublethink. Psychoanalyst Eric Fromm (1900-1980), who fled Nazi Germany to save his life, wrote an “Afterword” to George Orwell’s novel 1984. He explained that with “doublethink”—holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them—the person is no longer saying the opposite of what he thinks; he thinks the opposite of what is true.  With  a successfully manipulated mind, he feels free because there is no longer any awareness of the discrepancy between truth and falsehood. In the West, we present our society as being one of free initiative, individualism, and idealism when in reality we are a centralized managerial industrial society of an essentially bureaucratic nature, motivated by a materialism that is only slightly mitigated by truly spiritual or religious concerns. For me, doublethink broke down when trying to practice medicine and psychotherapy controlled by the power of corporate bureaucrats.

Lee Beecher, M.D., Maple Grove, MN

Dezinformatsiya. In his book Disinformation, Ion Mihai Pacepa, who was head of the intelligence service of Romania and the highest ranked defector to the U.S., explained how the rulers in the Soviet Empire used “framing,” rewriting history, and manipulating records and documents to bring about a desired outcome. There were more agents working on dezinformatsiya in the Soviet Bloc than there were people in the armed forces and the defense industry. One of the main disinformation messages produced by media is that America is not vulnerable to the virus of Marxism, thus lulling Americans into a false sense of security. This powerful tool is everywhere today, and is being employed by rich globalists to transform nations into police states.

Ileana Johnson, Ed.D., https://tinyurl.com/4sedsxf4

Transmission Riddles. Some narratives about outbreaks of respiratory illnesses are wholly in keeping with germ theory and our contemporary understanding of immunity and transmission. But how do we explain the worldwide presence of genetically identical viruses and their near synchronous appearance thousands of miles across? Do respiratory viruses live with us and activate when the time comes? In 1919, general practitioner Andrew Garvie concluded about the spread of influenza in an industrial area in Halifax, England: “With the experience gained in over 100 cases and with many hours spent in analysing the observations made, I cannot help but express the view that if public health authorities canny [can’t] be a help to the general practitioner, they should at least refrain from being a hindrance.”

 Transmission is a lot more complicated than it appears. 

Tom Jefferson and Carl Heneghan,  tinyurl.com/3asr5d4j

Cognitive Warfare. Many social media warriors and alternative media “journalists” are unaware of how effectively they are being manipulated. Documents from the Communist Party of China, the People’s Liberation Army, NATO, and the UK’s 77th Army Brigade summarize the state of the art. By learning how state, non-state, and corporate actors are influencing us, we can possibly develop immunity to this grave threat to freedom.

Robert W. Malone, M.D., https://tinyurl.com/w6y4f4f

Convicted for a Joke.  A New York court, after 3 days of jury deliberation, convicted Douglas Mackey, a.k.a. Ricky Vaughn, for posting a joke about Hillary Clinton in 2016 (tinyurl.com/mur983sm). According to U.S. attorney Peace, he was attempting “to deprive individuals of their sacred right to vote for the candidate of their choice.” He joked from Florida, but the internet cable passed through N.Y.

William Briggs, Ph.D., https://tinyurl.com/mu76hezr

Volume 80, no. 1 

Philosophy, culture, and forms of governance, like mathematics, are based on “self-evident truths” or axioms. If the axioms are changed, so is everything that follows. Consider a current example: performances of The Nutcracker.

Tchaikovsky’s 1892 ballet, still the source of 40% of professional dance companies’ revenue, has been performed annually for and by children for generations—and recently by 1,500 drones (tinyurl.com/m4nr9k84). It is full of joy, magic—and innocence. Snippets of its tuneful melodies are heard everywhere. This year, Jill Biden brought a transformed version  to the White House.

In the 2010s, The Nutcracker was called “racist,” and its Chinese and Arabian sequences “cultural misappropriation” and even “demeaning” (tinyurl.com/2mpw32tz). Some say that “the whole ballet tradition is inherently racist” (tinyurl.com/y5eya4pz).

The White House jazz version was an avant-garde tap dance performance by the Dorrance Dancers, whose website says that tap is a “subversive” dance form that is “rooted in protest and transcendence” (tinyurl.com/2fw8rzp8). The site answers questions about “white privilege, systemic racism, white fragility, and anti-racism” (tinyurl.com/taacmsbm). A “tap dancer is to be an ambassador to the world for the unsung history of a Black art form” (https://tinyurl.com/4pdne473).

An observer raised in the 1950s might see a lewd, sexualized performance that invites speculation on the gender identification and orientation of the dancers. And she might view dance as art that can be created, performed, or enjoyed by humans of any race.

The settings of the two Nutcrackers are radically different. When the ballet debuted in 1892, Russia and the rest of Europe were experiencing unprecedented prosperity. The opening scenes are in a comfortable middle-class home, where several generations and many children are celebrating Christmas with abundant gifts. Passports had not been invented, and the world enjoyed cross-cultural exchanges. The audience could not have imagined the horrors of the Great War and the economic and societal wreckage that followed it, writes Jeffrey Tucker (tinyurl.com/ywh9jxne).

The institutional features of the world of the ballet were faith, property, family, security. But after the Bolshevik Revolution, the Party ruled under the pretext of ideological communism, which consisted of opposition to faith, property, family, and the very bourgeois life that is celebrated in The Nutcracker.

The Biden White House is in the vanguard of a movement that thinks American foundational principles are evil and need to be subverted—and forgotten. Including faith. Many deny that America was a Christian nation at any point. Although some of the Founders were deists or atheists, the culture was Christian, and the law was derived from Judeo-Christian principles and morality. Nativity scenes until recently were everywhere, representing the historic event that marked year 1 of the Common Era, until recently designated A.D. But no one was required to be a believer.

There is still a small creche in the East Room of the White House, but this remnant is well within the “endorsement” or “reindeer” rule formulated by the late Justice Sandra Day O’Connor. A display on public property can include the Christmas story without violating the “Establishment Clause” as long as it has enough secular symbols such as Rudolph or Santa Claus or Frosty the Snowman to balance it (https://tinyurl.com/mw6csm9x).

Portraying a family or home typical in 1892 could be “exclusionary.” Two married parents may soon be in the minority. A spacious home is becoming the impossible dream in America—a rented apartment in the pod or a “tiny home” (300 sq ft) may become the norm. No room for a Christmas tree, a big family dinner, or dancing. No space for books, tools, or extra supplies.

What Are American Axioms?

The U.S. Constitution makes no mention of God or a universal lawgiver. While it is intended to protect religious freedom, it is more often being used today to suppress religious and other nonapproved speech. The problematic Declaration of Independence refers to the Creator and Nature’s God as the source of rights—and is a call for insurrection against tyranny.

But what is self-evident? That “all men are created equal” is manifestly untrue. All are unique individuals differing widely in strength, talent, and virtue. Jefferson evidently meant equal under the law. America was not to have an aristocracy or a caste system, and this principle required the abolition of slavery.

But what about the “unalienable” rights to life, liberty, and “pursuit of happiness”? What exactly does the last mean? Was it substituted for “property,” which is protected by the Constitution’s Fifth Amendment, because some considered slaves to be property? What is the meaning of a right to life and liberty if people have no right to own and use property to sustain their life, but must be dependent on a lord or government for sustenance?

Today, equality is taken to mean Equity (see p 2)—defined and enforced by authorities, who eventually acquire totalitarian powers. Is this inherent in the Lockean philosophy that our Founders embraced? And is it a flaw that can be mended?

The Nutcracker was a gift that got broken, but was repaired and transformed into a prince. The ballet was written in a “time of clarity when…even statesmen saw what was right and true,” writes Tucker. That world is shattered today beyond recognition. But we need not repeat the errors and horrors of the past. Can we put   America’s wonderful gift back together again?

Aberration or Consequence?

Today’s Marxist Wokeism might be an invasion of an alien philosophy. But why has America been so susceptible? And could our own assumptions lead to that result—and to fascist tyranny?

In The Apprentice’s Sorcerer, Ishay Landa makes a complex  argument that fascism flows from contradictions built into the liberal tradition.

Statistician William Briggs calls the Enlightenment “the Great Corruption.” Its first axiom, secularism, is “the belief that man is the measure of, and ultimate end of, all things. From secularism, nihilism necessarily follows, and from nihilism comes anarchy, and from anarchy arises tyranny, both large and small, and who today would not say we suffer from multiple tyrannies, and that worse are to come?” From the second axiom, egalitarianism, follows community of property—communism. “Equality is the most insidious belief.” Since Equity is impossible, it must be coerced.

“The age of chivalry is gone,” he notes. “That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever” (https://tinyurl.com/39rc4e6r).

“Abstract speculative reason, mindlessly generating ‘natural rights,’…is arbitrary and ends inevitably in tyranny,” writes Winston McCuen. Political action needs to be rooted in custom and tradition, he states. Government is not established to secure  abstract rights, but “ordained…by God…to protect society from internal and external enemies” (https://tinyurl.com/mr2zxehb).

The tradition of “democratism,” traced back to the writings of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, which influenced Thomas Jefferson, serves as a compulsory ersatz religion, which makes an idol out of temporal power (https://tinyurl.com/7r5bwazz).

‘Equity’ Updates

Mea culpas from NEJM. The journal confesses to having been a prominent forum for discussing the superiority of Whites, and called the doctrine of equality “an anatomical, physiological and scriptural impossibility.” It actually argued that slavery had protected Blacks from insanity, tuberculosis, and the moral hazards of freedom and responsibility. “The 2020 murder of George Floyd galvanized physicians to take the legacies of slavery more seriously”—and alleviate entrenched inequities in health, perhaps with reparations (tinyurl.com/23evwhbj).

‘Antiracist’ Documentation. How and where the patient’s race is recorded in the chart may shape clinical encounters and decision making (NEJM 9/28/23).

Gender Categories. In evaluating diversity and equity in Mohs surgery fellows and program directors, further improvements could include “additional gender categories and intersectional identities” (JAMA Dermatol, September 2023).

Race Quotas. Tennessee’s use of quotas for government boards, which deny equality and opportunity, are being challenged by Do No Harm (https://tinyurl.com/fv8xe9px).

“Millions of citizens have lined up, from the French Revolution to this day, to pursue universal happiness at the expense of individual freedom; the worship of supreme authority instead of the ethics of personal courage; class hatred instead of neighborly love; the myth of historical progress instead of the traditional wisdom grounded in what really works.”

Mihail  Neamtu, https://tinyurl.com/y4vy8u3a

‘Witness’ Testimony, 70 Years Later

In his 1952 book Witness, Whitaker Chambers wrote that he  knew with certainty that he “was no longer a Communist” when he came to believe that it was just as wrong to cold-bloodedly kill the Tsar and the royal family and to “throw their bodies down a mineshaft as it is to starve two million peasants or slave laborers to death.”  It took longer to articulate the ground of his break— “rooted in a reaffirmation of the goodness of God against false claims made on behalf of mind or reason beholden to nothing beyond itself, and idolatrous appeals to history or progress as the only tribunal of human judgment.” He came to see the “the falsehood of reductive and materialist accounts of both the human being and the world,” and freedom as a profound “need of the soul.” He concluded that “external freedom”—political liberty—was unsustainable without a recognition of the soul’s “interior freedom” (https://tinyurl.com/3a2n988d).

COVID Vaccine Adverse Effects

Studies. Dr. Robert Malone has entered about 750 published peer-reviewed studies of adverse events in the congressional record (https://tinyurl.com/yck79j4h); there are more than 6,000 studies on overcoming vaccine hesitancy. The privately funded React-19 group has more than 36,000 vaccine-injured members. The Yale-funded LISTEN study demonstrates “an urgent need for expeditious investigation.”

EMS Calls. Data obtained through Freedom of Information Law by Dr. Pierre Kory reveal that the Department of Emergency Services in Westchester, NY, received a shocking number of vaccine emergency calls as well as requests for ambulances to be “on standby” during vaccination clinics. In 2021, for an area with 800,000 people, 165 EMS calls specifically mentioned the vaccine as a cause of distress (tinyurl.com/bddk3wcz).

Excess Deaths. In September, CDC stopped updating its tracking of excess deaths on its website, without explanation. FDA chief Robert Califf called the drop in U.S. life expectancy “catastrophic”—a headline in The Hill called it “bigger than COVID”—but has no clue about why. Maybe smoking, junk food, or driving gasoline-fueled cars (tinyurl.com/yf5k6hsc).

COVID-19 Community Corps

More than 17,000 organizations and individuals have signed up with the Corps and commit to encouraging COVID-19 vaccination. The list includes public health and medical organizations, leaders in ethnic communities, and business, labor, and faith leaders (https://tinyurl.com/4ttujkfr).

AAPS Calendar

Jan 20, 2024. Board of Directors meeting (virtual).

Sep 18-21, 2024. 81st Annual Meeting, San Antonio, TX. – https://aapsonline.org/2024am

ACTION OF THE MONTH

Scholarships are available to help medical students and residents attend the AAPS 81st Annual Meeting, Sept 18-21, 2024, in San Antonio. Details at https://aapsonline.org/2024am.

Jacobin Justice

The left-wing Jacobins were the most powerful political faction to emerge during the French Revolution. Their power derived from their ability to manage the Parisian mobs. To satisfy the mob’s bloodlust, the Jacobins imposed a state of revolutionary justice untethered to any traditional sense of Judeo-Christian morality. In the resulting Reign of Terror, more than 10,000 people  were tried and executed. 

Jacobins in the U.S. media, in cases from Sacco and Vanzetti to the Central Park Five, mustered evidence that seemed to exonerate the accused and suppressed the evidence that convicted them. But by 2012, the Jacobins were finding common ground with Robespierre.  Instead of resisting the mob, they sided with it, managed it, encouraged it. “Instead of defending the transparently guilty, they felt free to condemn the transparently innocent,” writes Jack Cashill. “Oddly, almost no one noticed what may have been the darkest turn in judicial history.”

Among other cases, Cashill considers the death of George Floyd. Under threat, the Hennepin County medical examiner, Dr. Andrew Baker,  added “neck compression” to his assessment, and
“four innocent police officers went to prison.”

“In this last decade, Jacobin justice has been unleashed on everyone from school board protesters to local police to a former president of the U.S. Much of it flows directly from the DOJ, but state and local prosecutors have been keen to launch witch hunts of their own.  In doing so, they have corrupted evidence, rigged juries, allowed fear to dictate outcomes, and abandoned all traditional notions of equality before the law” (tinyurl.com/2xnpt59k).

See TheFallofMinneapolis.com concerning the Floyd trial.

Government Demands Metadata

The warrant demand from Special Counsel Jack Smith to Twitter for information on Donald Trump’s account includes “all information from the ‘Connect’ or ‘Notifications’ tab for the account, including all lists of Twitter users who have favorited or retweeted tweets posted by the account, as well as all tweets that include the username associated with the account (i.e., ‘mentions’ or ‘replies’)” and “all associated logs and metadata.” This includes billions of data points on millions of Americans, their locations and IP addresses, turning Trump into the center of a surveillance virus. Enhanced artificial intelligence (AI) will be used to comb through the data to protect the internet from “disinformation” under the auspices of national security (tinyurl.com/4nt5rhsc).

Tip of the Month: On Dec 11, the U.S. Supreme Court dodged the issue of the free-speech right of psychiatrists and other licensed professionals to counsel teenagers in favor of affirming their biological sex. The Ninth Circuit, the vast federal appellate court presiding over the most western states, ruled against the rights of a faith-based counselor in the State of Washington. The Eleventh Circuit, presiding over the southeastern states, has ruled in favor of the free-speech rights of counselors and against cities’ attempts to ban therapies that affirm traditional gender or sexual orientation. Justices Thomas and Alito dissented from this denial of cert., as both deplored this infringement on free-speech rights by the Ninth Circuit in Tingley v. Ferguson. D.C. and 20 States have enacted laws prohibiting or restricting “conversion therapy.”

Winning the War

There’s a war on medical freedom, and on Western civilization, and much is centered on COVID-19 and the response.

There is a deep partisan divide, and polarization has progressively intensified. A tremendous power asymmetry strongly favors the Left (https://tinyurl.com/4h94dpbe).

Truth is the most important weapon and the greatest threat to any tyranny.  However, the way to discovering the truth is typically long and difficult, filled with errors, false hopes, and disappointments (https://tinyurl.com/3af6xf3t). And the Medical Freedom Movement is itself fractured.

As Nietzsche pointed out, “He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.”

Left-wing tyranny is delusional, prevaricating, arrogant, insolent, illogical, demonizing, and cruel. Its opponents must not morph into a mirror image.

What about “Nuremberg 2.0”—on which many seem to be pinning their hope? This assumes that we have a fair and just authority that will set things right—we don’t. It also omits any details about Nuremberg 1.0. This was a tribunal of victors in a war, accusing enemies who had been utterly crushed and had surrendered unconditionally. Defendants argued that their actions had been legal under the regime they served. What was the higher authority? God’s law? Consensus? The Soviets were aggressive atheists, and guilty of at least as many atrocities—for which they have never been held accountable. Who will judge now, or carry out the desired sentence to “hang them high”?

What about rules of evidence? Lists are being widely circulated, including names of private citizens who were performing highly sophisticated academic research—inaccurately (deceitfully?) described. Their laboratories, homes, and families have been threatened and attacked—Leftist tactics.

Exciting news is a great fund-raising device—but discredited reports, and often the funds, disappear.

While complex political conspiracies are a reality, they are difficult to study in detail. Right-wing “detailed” conspiracies based on guesses, delusions, or lies are only detrimental.

A winning strategy, states AAPS executive director Jane Orient, M.D., must be based on meticulous attention to facts.

Can WHO Override Our Constitutional Rights?

Is the U.S. on the verge of ceding its sovereignty to the World Health Organization through the International Health Regulations (IHR)? Many have expressed that fear.

“These claims absolutely deserve close scrutiny,” writes AAPS business manager Jeremy Snavely. “However, a closer look reveals that the current threat from the WHO is not as severe as is being stated, and is certainly less that the attack on the rights of Americans being perpetrated by our own U.S. states and federal government.” The proposed WHO treaty will not “give the WHO authority over U.S. domestic pandemic policies.” Instead, it is focused on forcing countries’ “equitable” redistribution of  knowledge, technology, and other resources—harmful DEI policies (“socialistic policies”) that AAPS warned about in 1955 (https://tinyurl.com/4ae9kte4). AAPS opposes the WHO agreement (https://tinyurl.com/yve27bak).

Correspondence

Challenge to Censorship. In the AAPS reply brief in the case against specialty boards and the Biden Administration for censorship (https://tinyurl.com/2s4fn4sh), I particularly liked the State Action argument. Government agencies and advisory committees have developed particular expertise in ways to hide the truth. The level of deviousness in this case, as in sham peer review, never ceases to amaze me. As the brief states, “It is well settled that a defendant’s voluntary cessation of a challenged practice does not deprive a federal court of its power to determine the legality of the practice…. A defendant, without court compulsion, could legally return to its former ways.” 

 Lawrence R. Huntoon, M.D., Ph.D., Lake View, NY

Sex Offenses in Schools. In 2023, there were 57 arrests statewide with a sexual component involving a school employee, mostly public school system employees, and a student or minor. Those arrested will include significant numbers of women. Whereas women could once be relied upon to apply the brakes before such interactions could take place, they now pursue such activities. In both sexes, the restraint based on a Christian-informed worldview, well-formed conscience, and a defined understanding of right vs. wrong is lacking.

Joseph Guarino, M.D., Reidsville, NC

Enantiodromia. Carl Gustav Jung coined this word for “the transformation of the hitherto valued into the worthless, and of the formerly good into the bad,” a concept taken from Heraclitus. This is the grand unifying theory for the controlled demolition of the Western world. In the Oppositeland of 2023, the season of good will to all men required counterterrorism police to safeguard carols and Nativity scenes.

Mark Steyn, https://tinyurl.com/59rkrh57

Data on COVID Vaccine Outcomes.  I have been trying to go through the AMA to make sure that they will not sue me for publishing or analyzing my data stored in my EMR since AMA owns the CPT codes and I was forced to sign a click contract almost one year ago forbidding me from sharing my data. I have yet to receive confirmation that I can legally share life-saving information, but I hope that waiver will be forthcoming soon. 

I also asked whether NCHS might add a codes for “adverse reaction to COVID-19 vaccination,” or “fully vaccinated for COVID-19,” since incredibly, (two years out) no codes exist. This prevents accurate tracking of what we know is occurring. 

Sheri Weinstein, M.D., Sarasota, FL

Life under Communism. Elena Ceausescu, the wife of the Romanian dictator Nicolae, allegedly told a high-ranking government employee who displeased her, “The house you enjoy with your precious wife is not yours. It belongs to the Party. So does your car, and everything else you have.” The Ceausescus were proud of installing a security agent for every 15 citizens.

The nonviolent neo-Marxist revolution is now being achieved step by step, decree by decree, law by law, with international treaties that do not benefit the involved countries,  endless executive orders, and other means.

In 2009, then U.S. Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, presented Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov with a red industrial button with the word “reset” on it. The translation into Russian was incorrect; instead of “reset,” it meant “overload.”

Ileana Johnson Paugh, Ed.D., https://tinyurl.com/bddc6fsr

‘Decolonization.’ An entire issue of the British Medical Journal was devoted to “decolonizing health and medicine” (http://tinyurl.com/5ecm9kuh). Which beliefs they want to purge (logic, rationality, and old-school science) have been obvious since the misnamed Enlightenment began. But which beliefs do they want to impose in their place? “The decolonisation movement demands that we examine class, race, gender, and geographical inequities in health and medical institutions and knowledge production, and calls for radical social change.” There’s that rotten fruit of egalitarianism in all its blackened splendor.  

William Briggs, Ph.D., https://tinyurl.com/yme343zn

Snipe Hunts. This practical joke dating back to the 1840s sends young persons on a hunt for a mythical lizard as a form of hazing.  Participation is necessary to fit into the group culture. As an adult I was terribly disappointed to learn that huge swaths of the social sciences and of the economy are multibillion dollar snipe hunts…that maim and kill people. Why a culture built around artificiality? Why pursue escapism through drugs and alcohol, temporary adrenaline hits, and fakes? I think it’s because most of us do not know why we are here. With the breakdown of the old social order (family, community, connection to the earth, and humility and reverence for the divine) we are left naked and alone on this rock hurtling through space. The fake, the simulated, and the ridiculous become welcome distractions from existential doubts.  Participating in ridiculousness reveals that one is part of the club, bonded together through shared ritual. We feel safer in the group, even if that group is participating in fascism. The revolution we seek is about a turn away from the artificial and to building a culture that cherishes the good and the beautiful.

Toby Rogers, https://tinyurl.com/2r6vrbvt   

Volume 79, no. 12

 According to the American Medical Association, nearly 63% of physicians reported symptoms of burnout at the end of 2021,  up from the already high 38% in 2020, when the COVID pandemic raged (https://tinyurl.com/5skhvxzk). More than one in ten of the 13,000 physicians surveyed by MedScape considered or attempted suicide in 2021, and young, beloved residents who seemingly were doing well completed it (tinyurl.com/4mz2arke).

AMA proposes to add “improving the clinician experience” to the Institute for Health Improvement’s Triple Aim, making it a Quadruple Aim (https://tinyurl.com/bdhjbmra). Limiting work hours and improving “work-life balance” has obviously not cured burnout. Better access to mental health services (and removing the stigma), and reducing administrative burdens are proposed—without naming the burdens that AMA has advocated, such as electronic health records, “value-based” payments and the huge documentation burden, and constant recertification.

Nor does AMA recognize the moral injury inflicted by the medical regulatory-therapeutic complex (https://tinyurl.com/yks3ukt3), or the toxic medical workplace, which coerces or pressures physicians to act in a manner contrary to their beliefs about what is best for individual patients (tinyurl.com/mzt76rp9). This is constantly present in systems devoted to the bottom line, and crescendoed during COVID to collect government incentives (https://tinyurl.com/3zt3bu3f) or to enforce official mandates for lockdowns or vaccines. AMA hardly recognizes the threat of professional death from unjust prosecution, delicensure, or sham peer review chronicled in our Journal (https://jpands.org).

Once again, efforts to change AMA’s opposition to assisted suicide failed in the House of Delegates—but will probably return until it passes. In nations further down the vortex than the U.S., Medical Aid in Dying (MAiD) may be authorized for patients with psychiatric illnesses (https://tinyurl.com/32spr5c9).

Missing from the Social Determinants of Health (SDOH)

Formal SDOH assessment tools, which physicians may be required to complete on patients, are being developed, and Healthy People 2030 sets “data-driven national objectives” (tinyurl.com/4x6pu89p). Medical students and physicians should all score well on these, as their physical and economic circumstances are generally acceptable. So, why the burnout?

Are there determinants of health, applying to both patients and their doctors, in the nonmaterial realm? Are there areas that a Chief Wellness Officer or “safe spaces” or “cognitive restructuring” or “somatic therapy exercises” (tinyurl.com/ym338kmu) can’t address? Human features that can’t be digitized or coded?

Austrian psychiatrist Viktor Frankl (1905-1997) writes about the young American student who says: “I am a 22-year old with degree, car, security, and the availability of more sex and power than I need. Now I have only to explain to myself what it all means.” Dr. Frankl calls this condition an “existential vacuum.” In the 2000 edition of Man’s Search for Ultimate Meaning (updated from the 1975 The Unconscious God, translated from the 1948 Der Unbewusste Gott), he says that 60% of his American students had had an “abyss experience.”

American students are indoctrinated with concepts such as: “man is a naked ape”; life is “nothing but a combustion process, an oxidation process”; man is “an adaptive control system”; values are “homeostatic restraints in a stimulus-response process, ” or “nothing but reaction formation and defense mechanisms.”

Frankl spent some time in Nazi concentration camps, and states that survival was much more likely in those who believed life had meaning—often, but not always, based on religious beliefs.  There is meaning up until the last moment, and even in suffering, he writes. To today’s grievance culture, he says: “I do not forget any good deed done to me, and I do not carry a grudge for a bad one” (https://tinyurl.com/yhbh9p2f).

Dr. Frankl founded the “logotherapy” school of psychiatry, which focuses on helping patients find meaning.

In his 1983 book, Lost in the Cosmos: The Last Self-Help Book, Walker Percy writes: “…the self in the twentieth century is a voracious nought which expands like the feeding vacuole of an amoeba seeking to nourish and inform its own nothingness by ingesting new objects in the world but, like a vacuole, only succeeds in emptying them out.” He wonders: “Why do people often feel bad in good environments and good in bad environments? Why did Mother Teresa think that affluent Westerners often seemed poorer than the Calcutta poor, the poorest of the poor?”

Schoolchildren are being pushed to look inside themselves to figure out which “gender” they identify as. Yet, as Dr. Frankl writes, “the true meaning of life is to be discovered in the world rather than within man or his own psyche, as though it were a closed system.” The goal of “self-actualization” is achievable only through “self-transcendence.”

The “data-driven objectives” have no place for the need to love, “the ultimate and highest goal” states Dr. Frankl; the meaning of life; faith; family; duties and responsibilities; appreciation of art, music, or the Crab Nebula; playfulness or humor.

Without these, one is burned out and lost in the cosmos.

Overturning Tyranny

Writing in 1978 from Communist Czechoslovakia, in his book The Power of the Powerless, dissident playwright Václav Havel, describes the predicament of a “post-totalitarian” society. By “living within a lie,” he wrote, “individuals confirm the system, fulfill the system, make the system, are the system.” He asks us to consider what it would mean if a greengrocer one day refused to put up the customary sign “Workers of the World Unite!”  

“This act of defiance would surely put at risk the greengrocer’s reputation, if not his job, his livelihood, his own and his family’s well-being, or worse,” writes Michael Robillard (Chronicles, October 2023, https://tinyurl.com/3a7w8mfs). “But this act would nonetheless constitute a reclaiming of personal dignity and a kind of spiritual protest.” Further, it would “start to dissolve the metaphysical ‘glue’…—the consent of the public through fear and intimidation. It would inspire others to disobey as well….  The system is brittle; courage is contagious.”

Rekindling Sparks of the Spirit

After 50 years, “The Gulag Archipelago can still rekindle the moral scruples essential to our humanity,” writes Daniel
J. Mahoney. “Solzhenitsyn took pointed aim at the ideological justification of tyranny and terror and the chimerical affirmation of a ‘New Man.’” He told the truth of full-blown totalitarianism.

“In Lenin’s hands, good and evil have been completely and utterly relativized. What is good is whatever serves the cause of revolution, no matter how intrinsically evil or ignoble.” Lenin was the first of the 20th century’s “ideological monsters, a theorist/practitioner who vehemently warred with both human nature and moral conscience.” Solzhenitsyn stated, sardonically: “Hitler was a mere disciple [of Lenin and Stalin], but…his murder camps have made him famous, whereas no one has any interest in ours at all.”

“A human being has a point of view!” Solzhenitsyn insisted. “This is what cynics, pseudo-sophisticates, materialists, and ideologists, cannot see,” writes Mahoney. “They are blind to the reality of the human soul…. Communism, and modern theory and practice, has increasingly turned human beings away from the things of the spirit, from the wellsprings of conscience, from the rich and enduring intimations of natural justice and God’s grace.” 

Can the horror happen again? Solzhenitsyn feared that it could. As Jordan B. Peterson writes in his foreword to the 2018 abridged Gulag, today in the West “the doctrine of group identity” renews the ideological lie by placing whole swaths of individuals in suspect groups as the new “class enemy,” deemed “oppressors” for whom there can be no mercy.  But we have been warned, and will have no excuse if we follow this path. Solzhenitsyn reflects on what saved him from becoming an NKVD officer. The thought filled him with “a sense of revulsion.” He was “ransomed by the small change in copper that was left from the golden coins our great-grandfathers had expended, at a time when morality was not considered relative and when the distinction between good and evil was very simply perceived by the heart” (https://tinyurl.com/4hj2wnxf).

“Silence is all we dread/ There’s Ransom in a Voice
“But Silence is Infinity/ Himself have not a face.”

Emily Dickinson

Transgenderism News

Russia’s Supreme Court banned the LGBTQ+ “movement” operating in Russia as an “extremist organization.” The decision apparently does not “outlaw gay people,” but appears to criminalize LGBTQ+ “activism,” especially where connected with international groups. Russia seems suspicious that the movement might not really be about advancing sexual minority rights, but has some darker purpose, like population reduction or social destabilization (https://tinyurl.com/4v874499).

Sharyl Attkisson reports on funding for the top-down “Transgender Leviathan”: Big Pharma (two injections of LupronDepot® cost as much as $73,000); billionaires; and the taxpayer (https://tinyurl.com/2bezezd9).

“Gender-affirming” mastectomies were done in 602 underage Canadian girls, billed to Ontario’s health plan. Figures from private clinics are not available (tinyurl.com/ypvcmzzt).

A trans pronoun mandate was announced by the Biden HHS Dept. for National Coming Out Day. Transgender clinics have support at the highest levels of the Biden regime (https://tinyurl.com/3wjdsah9)

The empire is in flux. Despite its sudden, pervasive rise, cracks are beginning to appear in the transgender empire, writes Christopher Rufo. Its desired outcome is to topple the natural structure of Creation, to transform society in a radical way, and to change the nature of humanity. But it could turn out like the final scene of Mary Shelley’s novel, when Dr. Frankenstein’s hulking monster, shunned by society and betrayed by his father, drifts off into the ice floes, filled with despair (tinyurl.com/459n6twa).

CDC Declines to Test Samples from Biolab

When a housing inspector discovered a clandestine laboratory in Reedley, Calif., because of an illegal garden hose at a supposedly abandoned warehouse, CDC was promptly notified of the thousands of humanized mice, vials labeled as containing numerous pathogens (many in Chinese), and a refrigerator labeled “Ebola.” The filthy, unlicensed facility was claimed to be manufacturing COVID test kits. For months, the CDC refused to investigate. Finally, after a 2.5-day inspection, it concluded that there was “no evidence of select agents,” according to CDC director Mandy Cohen responding to questions from Rep. Neal Dunn (R-Fla.), a surgeon (https://tinyurl.com/33dwyr9s). She denied that there was a sign on the refrigerator. CDC declined  to test for Ebola, tuberculosis, malaria, or other pathogens. The lab operator, international fugitive Jesse Zhu/David He, was receiving unexplained payments amounting to at least $90,000 via wire transfer from Chinese banks (tinyurl.com/2rabfuwu).

AAPS Calendar

Jan 20, 2024. Board of Directors meeting (virtual).

Sep 18-21, 2024. 81st Annual Meeting, San Antonio, TX. – https://aapsonline.org/2024am

ACTION OF THE MONTH

Our 80th annual meeting sold out! Plan early to attend the 81st annual meeting of AAPS September 18th through 21st, 2024, in San Antonio, Texas. https://aapsonline.org/2024am

N.Z. Whistleblower Arrested; Data Deleted

Barry Young (“Winston Smith”), who designed and built the COVID vaccine database for the New Zealand Ministry of Health, and designed its pay-per-dose program, became concerned about the mortality he was seeing, and called it to the attention of the Ministry. Instead of doing its own analysis, NZMH besmirched Young as a purveyer of misinformation. Steve Kirsch downloaded and analyzed the data and invited others to do so (tinyurl.com/tuu3v2cj); however, this is no longer possible.

Mortality rates, Young reported, varied greatly between vaccination sites and vaccine batch. As many as 30% of the persons vaccinated at some sites were dead about two years later. More than 21% of persons receiving one particular vaccine batch are dead, he stated (https://tinyurl.com/4pexykkv).

Prof. Norman Fenton pointed out many potential sources of bias, but stated that this “is potentially one of the most important publicly available datasets for examining covid vaccine safety.” He thought the claim about exceptionally deadly batches could be discounted (https://tinyurl.com/2a2pcw7t).

Statistician William Briggs examined the data—which were anonymized, he notes—and concluded that “perhaps the vaccine killed a few, probably younger, people, though we cannot tell for sure.” There was no data on cause of death. “An insurmountable problem…is lack of data on people who did not get any shots.” The only possible comparisons are between people who got various numbers of shots. He did not look at batch numbers. He thinks that the vaccine probably caused deaths because all vaccines do, and there is no evidence that these are any better. “I think the signal of Expert and ruler lying is stronger than any signals of vax-caused death” (https://tinyurl.com/4akksv2f).

The strongest signal might be Young’s arrest, after his home was surrounded by police and raided, for “accessing a computer system for dishonest purposes.” He had anonymized and time-shifted the data to prevent identification of individuals. He could be sentenced to seven years in prison (tinyurl.com/353eemsa).

Although it is too late to keep others from seeing the data, the misinformation authorities are destroying accounts that downloaded it—and not stopping with that file. Researcher Kevin
McKernan, who has reported on DNA contamination of mRNA vaccines (https://tinyurl.com/3af6xf3t) has had all of his lab’s research data (about 1 TB), representing man-years of work, deleted because he hosted a downloadable copy of that file. McKernan used MegaPrivacy as his storage provider for his end-to-end encrypted data.

Jeff Childers suggests that some entity might have access to search all cloud providers and the legal authority to destroy accounts. Dr. McKernan surely had no inkling that he was subject to the jurisdiction of New Zealand—or is there a global authority?

Childers advises:  (1) Keep your critical data on your own server, or at least keep a current local backup. Data stored on someone else’s server is not your data anymore. You’re just allowed to access the data—for now. (2) Cloud data is not private, so don’t put anything on the Internet you wouldn’t want the world to see. Public panic brought us digital “privacy” laws (e.g., HIPPA), but instead of protecting us against government, the government is wielding such laws against us.

Childers concludes: “The silver linings are that, first, the globalists have exposed a significant search capacity that we didn’t know they had. Second, it’s obvious they are terrified of the Young data” (https://tinyurl.com/ynr4mby5).

Childers fact-checked the rumor that 11,500 New Zealand politicians got exemptions from the vaccine, while pushing mandates on everyone else. The actual number is 11,005 (ibid.).

Jacinda Ardern, the N.Z. prime minister responsible for the COVID tyranny, has stepped down. But the newly elected government, while easing tobacco bans, has not promised to end vaccine mandates (https://tinyurl.com/4u3mk5an).

Tip of the Month: Consider options to the oppressive Maintenance of Certification (MOC), or reduce your stress by realizing that options are available. The National Board of Physicians and Surgeons (NBPAS) has a less onerous, inexpensive certification that is recognized by hospitals in most states now, as listed on its website here: https://nbpas.org/pages/accepting-hospitals. This has no affiliation with AAPS, but we have members who are pleasantly surprised to learn that a nearby hospital accepts NPBAS certification, without the hassles of MOC. Also, to “de-emphasize timed, high-stakes performance exams in the continuous certification process” imposed by ABIM, the American Board of Cardiovascular Medicine has broken away from ABIM and has the support of the American Heart Association, American College of Cardiology, Heart Failure Society of America, Heart Rhythm Society, and Society for Cardiovascular Angiography & Interventions (https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/998168).

AG Ken Paxton Sues Pfizer

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has sued Pfizer for engaging in “false, deceptive, and misleading acts and practices by making unsupported claims regarding the company’s COVID-19 vaccine in violation of the Texas Deceptive Trade Practices Act.”

The claim of 95% efficacy was based on a misleading relative-risk reduction, with only a two-month follow-up. “And, despite the fact that its clinical trial failed to measure whether the vaccine protects against transmission, Pfizer embarked on a campaign to intimidate the public into getting the vaccine as a necessary measure to protect their loved ones.”

When it became apparent that its vaccine was failing and that the viability of its cash cow was threatened, Pfizer responded by “intimidating those spreading the truth, and by conspiring to censor its critics. Pfizer labeled as ‘criminals’ those who spread facts about the vaccine. It accused them of spreading ‘misinformation.’ And it coerced social media platforms to silence prominent truth-tellers” (https://tinyurl.com/mvhudjyf).

Unlike Florida’s, the Texas DTP Act does not exempt Pharma. Remedies could range from damages for each misrepresentation to disgorging all the profits (tinyurl.com/4v874499).

SCOTUS Asked to Hear Military Mandate Case

Two former military members are petitioning for writ of certiorari in Dan Robert and Hollie Mulvihill v. Lloyd Austin. Petitioners were driven out of the military by the unlawful implementation of a mandate by the Biden Administration to receive the experimental mRNA injection known as the COVID vaccine. The issue is exceptionally important because more biological experimentation is in the pipeline, the brief states (tinyurl.com/n7xrhdnn).

Correspondence

George Floyd and the Official False Narrative. The documentary film, TheFallofMinneapolis.com, is a must watch. The corruption of the legal system should frighten us all. Understandably, people’s opinions are formed by what they see in the media. The film shows information that will never appear in legacy media. The false narrative presented by leftist politicians and the media is very similar to the technique used during the pandemic. At the trial of Derek Chauvin, the suppression of evidence is shocking. Prominent people took the witness stand and lied under oath to achieve the desired result. Medical evidence from the autopsy simply did not match the official narrative.

 Lawrence R. Huntoon, M.D., Ph.D., Lake View, NY

Abortion and the Culture of Death. As a graduate student, I was a pro-choice libertarian. When I was teaching an evening corporate finance class, a woman in her 40s, for unknown reason, stopped by my desk and showed me drawings of a “partial birth abortion.” I was horrified. Two years later, as Libertarian Party candidate for governor, I took a stand against partial-birth abortion, but was still not convinced that all abortions should be illegal. I called Rep. Ron Paul, M.D., and he sent me a copy of his book Challenge to Liberty, now out of print [his booklet Abortion and Liberty is available at tinyurl.com/2c5yhykw]. After reading it, I became pro-life, as is consistent with the libertarian nonaggression principle and the Commandment “Thou shalt not kill.”

Ohio voters amended the state constitution and effectively allowed abortion up to birth. The “culture of death” mindset explains the state of America and the world. It will take a philosophical revolution to replace the culture of death with “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.” 

Murray Sabrin, https://tinyurl.com/ywdnm9ft

Arch-Enemy. How does one become the arch-enemy of the elite thought-shapers of 21st century Western civilization? By uttering heresy against their doctrinal precepts. As Vladimir Putin said in 2013: “People in many European countries are embarrassed or afraid to talk about their religious affiliations. Holidays are abolished or even called something different; their essence is hidden away, as is their moral foundation. And people are aggressively trying to export this model…. I am convinced that this opens a direct path to degradation and primitivism, resulting in a profound demographic and moral crisis. What else but the loss of the ability to self-reproduce could act as the greatest testimony of the moral crisis facing a human society?”

William Schryver, https://tinyurl.com/yc7w2jhs

The Heisenberg Effect. The Dept. of Justice posted a new job listing for eight attorneys to defend the federal government in vaccine injury cases. It is apparently trying to moot lawsuits that claim the PREP Act’s Countermeasures Injury Compensation Program (the CICP) is a horrifying nightmare of bureaucratic incompetence, designed to fail. This is a tiny sign of progress. Werner Heisenberg observed that you can never know what a subatomic particle was doing before you looked at it because the method used to look at it changes it. People act differently—usually better—when they know they are being watched. A  lawsuit or a phone call to an official may not work in the short term. Often, the Heisenberg Effect delivers results long-term, as slightly more careful, slightly better conduct adds up over time. It is one of the best, but least-well-known weapons for change. Never underestimate the value of just paying obvious attention to what government actors are doing.

Jeff Childers, https://tinyurl.com/yckyvmcw

Samizdat in America. [On receiving the first Samizdat Prize from RealClear Politics:] From the earliest days of the pandemic, scientists would pass papers to each other and secretly talk to each other in whispers in the corridors of Stanford…. We would tell each other, “Here’s what the data are showing,” “Why aren’t people seeing this?” And if you tried to share it, God forbid that happened…. I’ve lost count of the number of scientists and doctors who would write to me to say please keep speaking; I can’t, usually because of the threat of losing their job…. American government officials, in concert with big tech companies, attacked and suppressed me and my colleagues for criticizing the official pandemic policies—criticism that has been proven prescient…. The idea was if they could attack me as a “fringe epidemiologist,” what are other scientists going to do? Keep their heads down. It had the desired effect of creating self-censorship at scale…. Scientists are never right; we’re wrong most of the time. The only way we get…close to right is by having people correct us. Censorship is the death of science and the death of people.

Jay Bhattacharya, M.D., Ph.D., https://tinyurl.com/xh6hkrt6

Influenza Vaccine Effectiveness. I have taken more than 40 annual influenza shots in accord with medical staff regulations.  Now I am asking, what is the benefit? Interim data from the REVELAC-i Network on influenza vaccination March–July, 2023, in the Southern Hemisphere show a paltry 38% effectiveness in older adults, with the lower bound of the confidence interval at 13%. I demand at least 50% efficacy and will not be recommending the vaccine in my practice this year.

Peter McCullough, M.D., https://tinyurl.com/4vjw89fu

Our science has progressed beyond that of the academy at Lagado in Gulliver’s Travels. One project was “extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which were to be put in phials hermetically sealed, and let out to warm the air in raw inclement summers.”

“Filling the tank with sunbeams and breezes” is promoted in order to “green the grid” to “decarbonize the economy” to help achieve Net-Zero emissions (https://tinyurl.com/438dhje3).

This assumes that Net Zero is an achievable goal that would “protect” earth’s climate, presumably by keeping it cooler and preventing or reducing hurricanes and other catastrophes.

The American Medical Association (AMA) considers climate change to be an “existential threat.” AMA trustee and M.D./Ph.D. candidate Drayton Charles Harvey states that the health sector needs “to commit to decarbonization and public health” (tinyurl.com/4djweb2b). The AMA Journal of Ethics discusses redesigning “our unsustainable health system” to be a “net-zero” one that “delivers care not at the expense of future generations and our planet but for them” (tinyurl.com/7m25r5ky).

Billionaire Michael Bloomberg is spending $500 million on a “Beyond Carbon” campaign designed, among other things, to destroy the American coal industry (tinyurl.com/2p936beb).

“Decarbonize” means to reduce the human-caused contribution to atmospheric CO₂ (about 8 Gt C/yr into a total of about 720 Gt) in an effort to achieve a “pre-industrial” concentration of about 278 ppm, in contrast to the current level of 412 ppm (0.0412%). This could be achieved by reducing emissions or by capturing CO₂ and returning it to the ground, where it is inaccessible to the atmosphere—or biosphere. The latter is the only means for dealing with the 97% of CO₂ from natural sources.

Various carbon-capture technologies, all extremely costly, are being developed. Since 2014, CarbFix (carbfix.com) has removed about 100,000 tonnes (0.1 Gt). The natural mechanism is incorporation into the calcium-carbonate shells of marine organisms, which has sequestered 100 million Gt C, according to Greenpeace cofounder Patrick Moore. This accounts for the decline from the pre-pre-pre industrial level of CO₂ of 2,500 ppm 160 million years ago (tinyurl.com/2d2h9kd3) and close to 6,000 ppm in the Cambrian Era 570 million years ago (tinyurl.com/c6khdvzf).

The “clean, renewable” energy meant to replace the 80% of world energy currently derived from coal, oil, and natural gas generally refers to wind and solar. These, according to economist Peter St Onge, are a $10 trillion scam—to be paid for by future generations (https://tinyurl.com/4pemwv55). Despite the massive subsidies in the Inflation Reduction Act, utilities are demanding rate hikes of up to 64%. Recently, he notes, electricity prices in Texas increased 200-fold when the wind wasn’t blowing.

Social Determinants of Health (SDOH)

The AMA states that SDOH drive 80% of patient outcomes, and urges a comprehensive approach. It supports the creation of 23 new diagnostic (ICD-10) codes for social factors that include access to nutritious food, adequate and safe housing, available transportation, and financial ability to pay for utilities (https://tinyurl.com/2uaktv4c). But the Arizona Medical Association reference committee recommended outright rejection of the following resolution: “that ArMA will actively oppose any governmental rules or programs that will tend to downgrade SDOH, as by causing scarcity or increased prices of housing, electricity, private transportation, or food such as meat and dairy products” (tinyurl.com/3bccpyy3).

They wrote: “ArMA has existing policies on SDOH, and this resolution is not compatible with current evidence and could have long-term implications that lead to worse outcomes.” The “whereas” clauses concerned scarcity and increased costs from Net Zero, and the “sustainability” goal of decreasing consumption of meat and dairy products—as through reduced nitrogen fertilizer, culling herds, shortage of diesel fuel, and seizure of farmland.

Decarbonizing the health sector, responsible for 8.5% of U.S. “carbon emissions,” is claimed to be the overriding concern, since climate change-related health problems “already kill millions of people per year” (NEJM 12/2/21, tinyurl.com/38v72572).

The Real Purpose

As Richard Lindzen, Ph.D., pointed out: “Controlling carbon is a bureaucrat’s dream. If you control carbon, you control life.”

“The human-induced climate change hoax is a trojan horse through which unelected globalist bodies such as the [UN] are attempting to seize totalitarian control over every minute detail of our lives” (https://tinyurl.com/mr63zmzd).

An extensive review of the evidence concludes that: “increases [in atmospheric CO₂] during the 20th and early 21st centuries have produced no deleterious effects upon Earth’s weather and climate…. Predictions of harmful climatic effects due to future increases…do not conform to current knowledge.”

 Increased CO₂ has, however, “markedly increased plant growth.” Moreover, abundant low-cost energy is an excellent food insurance plan (tinyurl.com/3f4w2tf8). Arguably, the liberation of sequestered underground CO₂ is saving the earth from CO₂ starvation, as declining levels had been approaching the 150 ppm level minimum for plant survival (tinyurl.com/mwjvxbfr).

“Net Zero” might ultimately mean net-zero life—or in the short term contribute to a human depopulation agenda.

Is the result the intention?

The Invention That Destroyed a Dynasty

          Paper money was invented 1,000 years ago in the Song Dynasty in China. This was one of humanity’s most spectacular golden ages, which invented much of the modern world. The early Song dynasty was prosperous, thanks to pro-growth Confucian policies. Traditional nobles were replaced with the Imperial Exam system, which promoted from all ranks of society according to ability rather than birth. Economics in the Exam curriculum  taught that property rights and open markets were the foundations for prosperity. But the Song’s printing blocks, which centuries later were brought to Europe by Johannes Gutenberg, were used by interventionist Prime Minister Wang Anshi to finance his socialist policies by printing counterfeit silver certificates. No longer needing tax revenues, the government changed from parasite to predator, writes Peter St Onge (https://tinyurl.com/yj23kez5). Hyperinflation and the collapse of the economy—including coal production and iron smelting as is now occurring with suicidal “Green” policies—followed. The money printers increased their annual issues nearly 14-fold—right up until the capital fell to the Mongols.

“Since 2008 the printing has accelerated to the point that Covid lockdowns finally showed the world’s governments that they don’t need us anymore. Some even say it out loud: MMT  [Modern Monetary Theory] proponent Stephanie Kelton has bragged how governments don’t really need taxes, so they should instead use taxes to punish carbon sinners and “wrong-thinkers” (ibid.).

Costs of Net Zero

·  Running  an all-electric logging truck for one day would require 50,000 pounds of batteries (https://tinyurl.com/ye23jcyh).

·  Grid balancing and backup batteries for a “carbon free” U.S. electrical generating system would cost up to $290 trillion (https://tinyurl.com/58s2bayv).

·   One day of world energy storage at Elon Musk’s best price would cost $190 trillion, twice global GDP—and the batteries wear out in 10 years, writes Alex Epstein (tinyurl.com/53ku7esy).

·  Because of policies that deny people affordable electricity, 70% of Africa’s forests have been cut down for cooking or heating, and clean water cannot be pumped  (tinyurl.com/5y3e7vzk). Net Zero will trap millions in extreme poverty.

·  Because solar and wind projects are typically far from population centers, 49.7 million miles of transmission lines—enough to circle the globe 2,000 times—will need to be built. And tens of thousands of transformers will be needed to step voltage up or down (https://tinyurl.com/2p8eh2vc).

·  Interconnection simulations related to wind and solar are showing that a far more ambitious expansion of infrastructure is needed than anyone has been willing to embrace (Science 9/8/23).

·  The official true cost of Net Zero is the same as spending £1 per second for 31,000 years, states Matt Ridley (https://tinyurl.com/yve2sdfy).

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“If you take environmentalism to an extreme, you start to see humanity as a plague on the surface of the earth.”

Elon Musk, https://tinyurl.com/2jkyf47y

80th Annual Meeting Report from Fort Worth

Officers and Directors: Jane Lindell Hughes, M.D., assumed the office of president, and the following were elected:

President-elect: Erika LeBaron, D.O., Manassas, VA

Secretary: Lawrence Huntoon, M.D., Ph.D., Lake Eden, NY

Treasurer: Tamzin Rosenwasser, M.D., Venice, FL

Board of Directors: Michael Ciampi, M.D., South Portland, ME; Peter Curka, D.O., Houston, TX; Gil Robinson, M.D., San Antonio, TX; and Craig Wax, D.O., Mullica Hill, NJ.

Resolution 01-2023 passed: Now therefore be it resolved that the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons opposes the WHO convention, agreement, or other international instrument on pandemic prevention, preparedness, and response (“WHO CA+,” pandemic accord, amendments to International Health
Regulations, etc.) as drafted by the Intergovernmental Negotiating
Body of the World Health Organization (tinyurl.com/yve27bak).

Awards:

Jeremy Snavely received the Shining Pen “In recognition of your extraordinary contributions to further the cause of ‘All for the Patient.’ Your tireless research, editing, and management have immeasurably enhanced AAPS causes.”

Peter McCullough, M.D., M.P.H., received the Shining Scalpel “In recognition of your courage which has made your
knowledge and experience so valuable. ‘Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at
the testing point’ (C.S. Lewis).”

GOP Presents ‘Health Care Plan Framework’

The Republican Study Committee, chaired by new House Speaker Mike Johnson, has released a 56-page plan (https://tinyurl.com/2svhm4rj) that includes:

·  Reforming the tax code to provide equal tax treatment in the employer and individual health insurance markets;

·  Allowing use of Health Savings Account funds for insurance premiums, direct primary care, and health sharing ministry dues;

·  Increasing allowable, pre-tax contributions to HSAs from $3,500 to $9,000 for individuals and from $7,000 to $18,000 for families;

·  Eliminating ObamaCare mandates that force Americans to pay for coverage they do not want or need;

·  Removing barriers to telemedicine, direct primary care, association health plans, and health sharing ministries; and

·  Enhancing HSAs to allow individuals to effectively own their personalized coverage that will be portable if they change jobs.

AAPS Calendar

Jan 20, 2024. Board of Directors meeting (virtual).

Sep 19-21, 2024. 81st Annual Meeting, San Antonio, TX.

Mandatory Reporting for Net Zero Medical Care

          At present, reporting of greenhouse-gas emissions by HCOs (health care organizations) is voluntary, but authors of an NEJM Sounding Board article, including former CMS administrator Donald Berwick, advocate for mandatory adoption of centralized nationwide metrics to achieve net-zero health care (https://tinyurl.com/5fr6hcjc). Reporting and improvement in emissions would be part of quality assurance programs, Joint Commission accreditation standards, Conditions of Participation in CMS programs, and value-based purchasing. Emissions to be monitored include CO₂, CH₄, hydrofluorocarbons, perfluorocarbons, sulfa hexafluoride, nitrous oxide, and chlorofluorocarbons. The purportedly “patient-centered” program would require consideration of hypothetical global climate impact in choice of anesthetics.

Court Rules for Children’s Climate Crusade

In the Held v. Montana decision that a 15-year-old plaintiff applauded as “monumental,” the court held that the state was required to consider climate change in approving or renewing
“fossil fuel projects.” The cited basis is a clause in the Montana constitution that guarantees residents “the right to a clean and healthful environment,” and stipulates that the state and individuals are responsible for maintaining and improving the environment “for present and future generations.”

The case, which involves 16 plaintiffs ranging from five to 22 years old, is the first such children’s case to go to trial. Individuals claim that the state has enabled industry to harm the climate.

Michael Burger, executive director of the Sabin Center for Climate Change Litigation at Columbia University, said: “This was climate science on trial, and what the court has found as a matter of fact is that the science is right,… and every ton of greenhouse gas emissions matters” (https://tinyurl.com/2h35pawt).

The case will be appealed, but as it stands gives a single judge the power to rule on “science,” and to hold economic development hostage to concerns about hypothetical future climate.

Facebook Bans 1950s Quotation

A letter attributed to an 85-year-old retired judge quoted a 1954 textbook warning of “ways to overturn a democracy”: “divide the nation philosophically,” “foment racial strife,” “swarm the nation’s borders indiscriminately and unconstitutionally,” “encourage civil rioting and discourage accountability for all crime,” as well as over-taxation and controlling elections and media. It was shared 11,000 times, before one man who shared it was booted from Facebook. He created a new account, but no longer has access to his original profile, with reunion photos and other memories (https://tinyurl.com/44sa568r).

Consortium News Sues NewsGuard and U.S.

The Consortium for Independent News has filed suit in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York  (23-cv-07088) alleging that NewsGuard and the U.S. government are violating First Amendment rights by a practice of labelling, stigmatizing, and defaming American media organizations that oppose or dissent from American foreign and defense policy. Consortium states that NewsGuard has branded the entirety of its 20,000+ articles as “unreliable” based on just six examples. NewsGuard’s “Misinformation Fingerprints” program is contracted with the Department of Defense Cyber Command. NewsGuard, which calls itself “the librarian for the internet,” also has contracts  with WHO, Pfizer, Microsoft, and the American Federation of Teachers. Its advisors include Michael Hayden, “the architect of George W. Bush’s secret domestic spying program,” and Richard Stengel, “a former senior official in Obama’s state department who once described his role as being that of ‘chief propagandist’”  (https://tinyurl.com/4u5ascwn).

Tip of the Month: Regulatory waivers during COVID have mostly ended now. Texas’s relaxed rules expired on June 15, and enforcement may ramp up again. Expirations included a telemedicine waiver that allowed establishing a patient-physician relationship with audio-only telephone, and permitted physicians to diagnose, treat, prescribe, and order tests on this basis. Texas has also ended its waiver of its requirement that physicians register with the medical board their supervising and prescribing authority for PAs and APRNs. Texas has reinstated its limit of seven PAs or APRNs whom a physician can supervise. Other states have also reinstated their pre-COVID  regulations.

‘Reproductive’ Rights in Ohio Constitution

Nearly 57% of Ohio voters approved a state constitutional amendment, making it one of the most pro-abortion states. It guarantees that “[e]very individual has a right to make and carry out one’s own reproductive decisions, including but not limited to decisions on contraception, fertility treatment, continuing one’s own pregnancy, miscarriage care and abortion.” 

Restrictions on abortion would still be technically permissible post-“viability,” though physicians are given the authority to decide viability “on a case-by-case basis.” Moreover, abortions up to birth are protected under the amendment if deemed necessary to protect the mother’s life or health.

Critics have warned that the language of the amendment could also preclude protections against sterilizing or mutilating procedures on minors, because “gender identity” could be construed as relating to reproduction.

Meanwhile, ballot measures to clarify that the states’ constitutions contain no right to abortion failed in Kansas and Kentucky, as did a Montana measure to protect infants born after an unsuccessful abortion attempt (https://tinyurl.com/zy44hum6). 

COVID-Related Litigation

·  Ivermectin Denial. In a wrongful death case, Scott Mantel has sued Mount Sinai Hospital for refusing to continue his wife’s  ivermectin treatment, in defiance of a court order, even though an initial brief trial had led to improvement (tinyurl.com/ypfna5bf).

·   ‘Defective’ Oxford-AstraZeneca Vaccine. Two test cases in the UK may pave the way for as many as 80 damages claims worth an estimated £80 million over vaccine-induced immune thrombocytopenia and thrombosis (VITT). Plaintiffs state that the efficacy of the vaccine, which was never authorized in the U.S., was overstated. Government advisor Sir John Bell called the risk of the vaccine “asteroid-like” (tinyurl.com/bdhvbh5y).

Correspondence

Texas Church Facilitates Evasion of Law against Sterilizing or Mutilating Minors. A Fort Worth church has established a program called the North Texas TRANSportation Network (NTTN) to provide financial help for persons wishing to travel out of state to seek “transgender procedures.” Texas law SB 14 blocks children from receiving puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, mastectomies, and genital surgeries in the state, and requires the state to revoke the medical licenses of physicians providing such treatments. The American Civil Liberties Union in Texas and LGBT legal advocacy groups sued to block the law, but the Texas Supreme Court allowed the law to go into effect as the case moves through the legal system (https://tinyurl.com/yefc9r67). At least one church of this denomination removed the American flag from its sanctuary.

Lawrence R. Huntoon, M.D., Ph.D., Lake View, NY

The American Climate Corps. Just as Biden cancelled the Keystone XL pipeline (and thousands of American jobs) with a stroke of pen, with another decree he will deploy 20,000 uniformed young climate activists to “advance environmental justice” while “tackling climate change” (tinyurl.com/4ettrf6r). The Administration declines to reveal the cost. If they win Congress in 2024, Democrats vow to deploy an army of 1.5 million climate youth. Perhaps they’ll knock on your door wielding a clipboard and ask about your air conditioner or gas stove (https://tinyurl.com/2m98yxux).

Willie Soon, Ph.D., Salem, MA

It’s Worse than You Think. From a perfect paragraph in an article by Chris Bray: it’s not just that “the news media lies,” or “there’s a lot of misleading discourse…. [W]hole overlapping layers of high-status America—in academia, in media, and in politics—are psychotic, fully detached from reality and living in their own bizarre mental construction of a fake world, [having] cultivated a complete mental descent through the looking glass.”

Toby Rogers, https://tinyurl.com/mubsfpx7

There Is No Climate Emergency. Climate science should be less political, while climate policies should be more scientific. Scientists should openly address uncertainties and exaggerations in their predictions of global warming, while politicians should dispassionately count the real costs as well as the imagined benefits of their policy measures.

Global Climate Intelligence Group, www.clintel.org

Masking: Proof of Bias. A retrospective of all the studies in the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) after 2019, which highly influenced U.S. COVID policy, showed that more than 75% of 77 studies drew positive conclusions about mask effectiveness. However, only 30% even tested masks, and less than 15% had statistically significant results. No studies were randomized, yet more than half drew causal conclusions. The level of evidence was low, and the conclusions were most often unsupported by the data. “Our findings raise concern about the reliability of the journal [MMWR] for informing health policy” (Am J Med 9/28/23). The fix was in. They just lied or said whatever they wanted to in order to control and change the behavior of the public. Science became a mirror image of politics.  They are doing the same thing with the COVID vaccine.

Douglas Farrago, M.D., https://tinyurl.com/4hnf288x

Abortion Is the Symptom. A radio commentator said that Ohio voters had “enshrined” the right to abortion in the state’s constitution—a shrine being  a place of worship. A mass of “womb bodies” (their term) shouted for joy, and some Republicans lamented that abortion was on the ballot because it made it hard for them to win. Soon it will be a moot point as more states build their shrines. When Republicans eschew all losing positions, no measure will ever be on the ballot that attacks the foundations of leftward drift—measures that attack secularism, the expertocracy, or “Equality” (now Equity), the driver of DIE. Becoming more “moderate” (more like a leftist) may be the way to win votes—but not to Win.

William Briggs, Ph.D., https://tinyurl.com/46t8jj2k

COVID Vaccines Damage Hearts. It has long been known that the mRNA vaccines can cause myocarditis. Now, Radiology has published a study of myocardial fluorine 18 (18F) fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) uptake on PET/CT images in asymptomatic patients vaccinated against SARS-CoV-2 compared with nonvaccinated patients (https://tinyurl.com/7n834m38). It showed that patients who received their second vaccination 1–180 days prior to imaging showed increased 18F uptake compared with nonvaccinated patients. Dye uptake indicates inflammation/damage. It was asserted that the Moderna causes more damage than the Pfizer vaccine because it contains a higher dose.

Joseph Guarino, M.D., Reidsville, NC

 Enablers of Tyranny/Oligarchy. The awful state of science and its use by totalitarians—as with climate change and COVID—allows  governments to grab more power and control.

John Dale Dunn, M.D., J.D.

Volume 79, no. 4  April 2023

If religion is defined as “ultimate concern,” then even committed atheists have a religion. Our Founders were opposed to a federal established church, but the “wall of separation” between church and state is only being applied to recognized religion—not to totalitarian, godless ideology.

 Religions generally have a creed, scriptures, a hierarchy, a priesthood, rituals, concepts of sin and judgment, a means of salvation, and punishments for nonbelievers.

“Wokeism” seems to fit these criteria. As do Critical Race Theory, DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion), and radical environmentalism. Sacraments or rituals include abortion, “anti-racism” struggle sessions, vaccines, and obsessive recycling.

Three great dystopian novels of the early 20th century seem to be prophetic. As in 1984, we have equivalents of the Memory Hole, the watchful telescreen, children spying on parents, the Two-Minute Hate, and the Junior Anti-Sex League meant to discourage romantic love and non-Party loyalty.

We don’t yet have decanted babies as in Brave New World , but they could be here in 15 years if ethical constraints were removed, according to visionary filmmaker and “molecular biologist by trade” Hashem Al-Ghaili. EctoLife facilities could grow 30,000 babies per year in transparent pods, monitored by an artificial-intelligence-based system, he claims. “An ‘Elite Package’ would allow people to choose their baby’s level of intelligence, height, hair, eye colour, physical strength and even skin tone.” Experts do not rule out the possibility (https://tinyurl.com/2dvzznak).

That Hideous Strength by C.S. Lewis is about transhumanism,  seeking immortality, and creating a god: a disembodied Head.

What is the underlying ideology?

Cultural Marxism

Wokeism, DEI, queer theory, radical feminism, post-colonialism, etc., are different species, but all of the same genus—Marxism, stated James Lindsay, founder of New Discourses, in a talk to the European Parliament (tinyurl.com/3mpa9wes). Classical economic Marxism has evolved, like the virus attributed to Wuhan, to adapt to the host.

Although considered an economist because he wrote about economics, Marx was basically a theologian, Lindsay states. In his early writings, Marx says that what makes human beings special is that man is a being that is incomplete and knows that he is incomplete. Marx wanted to create a religion that would supersede all religions and bring man back to his true social nature. To do this, he sought to awaken the underclass and make them the historical agents of change to foment revolution and transform society.

At the end of history, we would have socialism, or equity.

Today’s definition of equity is an administered political economy in which shares are adjusted so that citizens are made equal. The only difference between equity and socialism is the type of property they redistribute. The new species intend to redistribute social and cultural capital as well as economic and material capital.

The working class did not rise up. As Herbert Marcuse pointed out in the 1960s, capitalism gives people a good life. So, the working class is irrelevant, and Marxists who are seeking power can make friends with corporations. The energy for revolution is no longer with workers but in racial minorities, sexual minorities, feminists, and other outsiders.

The formula for the genus of Marxism is to identify an elite class that has access to a special kind of property (e.g., whiteness or normality), and create underclass consciousness against it, to get people to band together to channel resentment and gain power. Marxists call everything they want to control bourgeois, or racist, or homophobic, until they gain control of it.

For 30 years, Marxists studied what they called the culture industry, which commodifies and packages culture and sells it back to people—empty, abstract, stripped of what it actually is. They seized the means of production of the culture industry and started to transform it to sell racial, gender, sexuality-based agit prop as though it were genuine culture.

Wokeness is identity-based Marxism, a constellation of species that all work with the same operating premise, each located in a different “Volk.” LGBTQ is a Volk, as is the Black community. They think of themselves as nations—don’t they all have flags? They are bound together like the various colonized nations around the world seeking liberation from Western civilization.

Wokeism is a Maoist cultural revolution with Americanized identity categories. The new program features “inclusion” and “sustainability.” UN Agenda 2030 is the new socialist standard.

Our future looks like China, if we do not stop the Woke religions, says Lindsay. It’s been successful so far because we cannot even name the enemy. Education has been “redwashed.” Children are taught nothing about Communism.

The Power of Words

In the best-selling novel The Book Thief by Markus Zusak, a Jew who had been hidden in the basement of a German couple wrote a book for their foster daughter. How did Hitler come to power? “The Führer decided that he would rule the world with words…. He planted [the words] and cultivated them…and also planted seeds to create symbols…. [People] were placed on a conveyer belt…. Words were fed into them…. Next, they were fitted with their symbols, and everyone was happy.”

The Importance of Public Opinion

In 2022, the WHO European office produced the Vaccine Crisis Communication Manual, to help countries respond to events that might “erode the public’s trust in vaccines and authorities that deliver them” (https://tinyurl.com/3wrcszym). The overarching goal is to “rebuild trust in vaccines.” However, writes Dr. John Day, “The ‘unsinkable’ control-narrative of global elites has hit an iceberg of cold facts. The band…continues to play waltzes, but not everybody is dancing” (tinyurl.com/2c6vdjd4).

A perspective: Whenever the government of the United States shall break up, it will probably be in consequence of a false direction having been given to public opinion. This is the weak point of our defences, and the part to which the enemies of the system will direct all their attacks. Opinion can be so perverted as to cause the false to seem true; the enemy, a friend, and the friend, an enemy; the best interests of the nation to appear insignificant, and trifles of moment; in a word, the right the wrong, and the wrong, the right. In a country where opinion has sway, to seize upon it, is to seize upon power. As it is a rule of humanity that the upright and well-intentioned are comparatively passive, while the designing, dishonest and selfish are the most untiring in their efforts, the danger of public opinion’s getting a false direction is four-fold, since few men think for themselves.”

– James Fenimore Cooper (The American Democrat 1838)

Updates on COVID Shots

CDC’s VAERS safety signal analysis for mRNA COVID-19 vaccines, based on reports from Dec 14, 2020 – July 29, 2022, shows that there are more than 500 adverse events with a safety signal stronger than for myocarditis (tinyurl.com/3xa7v6r9).

Switzerland withdrew all COVID vaccine recommendations; doctors are now liable for harm (tinyurl.com/4msec2f5).

FDA has pulled the Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) for the original Pfizer and Moderna products (https://tinyurl.com/ucr5b8sv), and CDC has issued new guidance for use of the updated bivalent products: “CDC recommends 1 updated COVID-19 vaccine dose for everyone aged 6 months and older” (https://tinyurl.com/ydpvsx3b).

The FDA has, without citing data, lowered the total dose of mRNA to be administered (tinyurl.com/2p8n8f8a).

The “moderate increase in protection [from a bivalent booster] against a probably generally mild disease will be short-lived,” writes Paul Offit, M.D. (NEJM 2/9/23).

The first three people have received compensation from the Countermeasures Injury Compensation Program (CICP) for COVID-vaccine injuries:  $2,019 for severe allergic shock and $1,582 and $1,582 for myocarditis. More than 8,000 applications have been filed (https://tinyurl.com/2p96dbta).

The vaccine dose-fatality rate (vaccine-related death/doses delivered) increases dramatically with age, reaching 0.6% for persons over 80 in Israel (https://tinyurl.com/3az4t2kd).

“The illusion of freedom will continue as long as it is profitable to continue the illusion. At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to maintain, they will just take down the scenery, they will pull back the curtains, they will move the tables and chairs out of the way and you will see the brick wall at the back of the theater.”

Frank Zappa

Nonbelievers ID’d

Another species in the Marxist genus is the cult of public health compliance and COVID vaccination.

The International Classification of Diseases (ICD) system authored by WHO has added a set of codes, not for a disease but for a decision—not to take a COVID-19 shot—and for the reason for declining. Code Z28.3 indicates underimmunization status. Reasons immunization not carried out: contraindication (Z28.0-); patient decision for other or unspecified reason (Z28.2-); patient decision for reason of belief or group pressure (Z28.1).

Once encoded and uploaded into a database, a person’s vaccination status can be accessed by government and private health insurers alike once the CDC classifies it as a reportable event (https://tinyurl.com/4f8sewwt).

The federal government is tracking unvaccinated people who go to the doctor or to the hospital (tinyurl.com/yhr6dwau).

The CDC has so far declined to answer questions by Republican lawmakers, including Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas), about why the CDC and National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) are gathering data on why Americans decline the COVID shot and how they plan to use it (https://tinyurl.com/5zfr4nt2).

Unvaccinated New York City teachers are having “problem codes” attached to their records, and their fingerprints are being sent to the FBI.  By having their biometric data sent to the FBI, “NYC educators were being set up to be viewed as ‘right-wing extremists’ or even ‘terrorists,’” said Michael Kane, national grassroots organizer for Children’s Health Defense and founder of Teachers For Choice (https://tinyurl.com/3bzp4cxc).

There are plenty of codes for symptoms experienced with COVID-19 disease, but not with COVID-19 vaccine injury (https://tinyurl.com/5bheymba).

How Much Harm Is Too Much?

Of course, we know that correlation does not prove causality,  but how do we establish causality? In 1965, Sir Austin Bradford Hill, a medical statistician, established a set of nine “viewpoints” to determine when data demonstrated causation. The nine criteria are: strength, consistency, specificity, temporality, biological gradient, plausibility, coherence, experiment, and analogy. These were used to show that tobacco causes cancer. Satisfying any one criterion is enough to suggest causality. Of course, temporality is essential (cause must precede effect). Former pharmaceutical executive Sasha Latypova states that all criteria show that the harms of COVID-19 vaccines exceed the benefits (https://tinyurl.com/2p8w3ahs).

AAPS Calendar

Jun 9. Pa. Chapter. https://aaps.pub/pajune9.

Jul 15: Mo. Chapter. https://aaps.pub/mojuly15.

Oct 26-28. 80th Annual Meeting, Fort Worth, TX. https://aapsonline.org/2023am

ACTION OF THE MONTH

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Biden Nationalizes DEI Bureaucracy

By a Feb 16 Executive Order (tinyurl.com/36jcnuw9), President Biden is overhauling the entire federal government along the principles of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI). The order will create cadres, “Agency Equity Teams, ” to see that DEI ideology is embedded everywhere in a patchwork fashion, explains Christopher F. Rufo (https://tinyurl.com/yu3sknsm). Tens of thousands of DEI ideologues will be subverting the constitutional order with a death-by-a-thousand-cuts strategy. Persons who disagree will be filtered out. The culture will be set by changing the meaning of language and bombarding employees with a constant stream of ideological materials and “training.” Even the use of artificial intelligence (AI) will be regulated. If people are categorized by race, and there’s a difference in any outcome between the groups, it is evidence of racial discrimination. This statistical manipulation justifies the entire package. The initiative will fund third-party political activism and weaponize civil-rights laws. Advocates of Marxist-Leninist guerrilla warfare against the U.S. government will be hired as outside diversity consultants to teach NASA engineers about their “white fragility.”

Religious Exemptions Upheld

Families with religious objections can no longer be forced to vaccinate their children in order to attend school, ruled the U.S. District Court for the Southern Division of Mississippi in Bosarge v. Edney (1:22-cv-00233). Attorneys for Informed Consent Action Network (ICAN), led by Aaron Siri, argued that since from a public health perspective, a medical exemption to vaccination has the same effect as a religious exemption, the government cannot treat secular activity more favorably than religious activity (https://tinyurl.com/bdfm23xx). According to Greg Glaser, general counsel for Physicians for Informed Consent, this could open a way to limit Jacobson v. Massachusetts (the 1905 decision legalizing mandatory vaccination without religious exemption).

Public Health Powers Curtailed

More than 1,000 legal decisions have been made at the local, state, and federal level regarding public health protections since March 2020, a quarter of which succeeded in weakening public health powers. “The courts are leaving us vulnerable,” said Wendy Parmet, director of Northeastern University’s Center for Health Policy and Law. Additionally, at least 30 states, nearly all led by Republican legislatures, have passed laws that restrict the imposition of mask mandates, school closures, or other measures, or require permission from legislatures to renew emergency orders.

“Big court wins” will prevent government overreach in the next declared pandemic, said Peter Bisbee, executive director of the Republican Attorneys General Association. “We’ll die with our rights on,” said Lawrence Gostin, director of Georgetown University’s O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law (Wash Post 3/8/23, https://tinyurl.com/ypcmmufj).

Tip of the Month: Beware of making humorous references to the word “gun” in a hospital. Hospital administrators and nurses looking for something to pin on a good physician have claimed that a mere mention of a “gun,” whether as a joke or quoting popular culture, creates a safety issue for the hospital. Of course, this is an absurd tactic of retaliation.  But in liberal regions where guns are considered by some to be taboo, hospital administrators and nurses in a sham peer review case distorted a joking reference to a gun. Physicians should conduct themselves in a business-like fashion at all times.  No jokes, no levity of any kind, and no comments not directly related to the task at hand. Anything you say can and will be used against you in a hospital “kangaroo court.” 

Sham Peer Review in South Africa

Dr. Shankara Chetty is being accused by the Health Professional Council of South Africa of “unprofessional conduct” and contravening ethical Rule 19, which requires practitioners to use only technologies that have been proven by evidence-based medicine to fulfill claims made about them. Dr. Chetty saw patients in person throughout the pandemic. He treated 14,000 patients with COVID, including those with comorbidities; zero (0) patients were hospitalized or died. He observed a type 1 hypersensitivity reaction that occurred on day 8 in susceptible patients, which required high-dose antihistamines and steroids. He advised hundreds of specialists from around the world and received a Malaysian award for saving thousands of lives. But he did not accept the official narrative. Those who do not are “now the victims of this new apartheid,” writes Nadya Swart (tinyurl.com/x5xsuts6).

Vaccination Incentives (≠ Kickbacks)

Reportedly, insurers offer substantial bonuses to pediatricians for vaccinations if most of the patients in the practice are fully vaccinated”—up to $400 per child (tinyurl.com/2xk2p268). These are “performance-based incentives” (https://tinyurl.com/3xay4h9t).

It is unlikely that anti-kickback statute penalties would apply to incentives to receive COVID-19 shots (https://tinyurl.com/jeecz9a4). California Medicaid paid $350 million to providers between September 2021 to February 2022 for meeting performance criteria such as increasing vaccination rates in certain groups by 75% (https://tinyurl.com/5xutvtds).

Chilling the Transgender Industry

Lawmakers propose expanding the statute of limitations for medical malpractice suits related to treating minors with puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, or “sex change” surgery.  

In most states, the statute of limitations is around two years, making it impossible for some detransitioners to sue. It may take 4 or 5 years for patients to realize that they have made an irreparable mistake. Dr. Stanley Goldfarb, board chair of Do No Harm, stated that creating a private right of action and expanding statutes of limitation would sharply curtail the child “gender-affirming”  industry. Most pediatric gender clinics are part of large hospital institutions that are highly sensitive to litigation. Most are self- insured, and would not want to risk a trial that might be 20 years out, for example, for not getting proper informed consent or not explaining potential complications (tinyurl.com/2p8na43z).

The number of pediatric transgender clinics in the U.S. has grown from one in 2007 to 300 now, according to Abigail Shrier (https://tinyurl.com/bthm7j35).

Correspondence

No Gun Control for Federal Agents. Why do HHS and FDA need military drones, hundreds of millions of rounds of hollow-point bullets, shotguns, submachine guns, and assault rifles? “The number of federal agents armed with guns, ammunition, and military-style equipment, authorized to make arrests, and trained in military tactics has nearly tripled over the past several decades.”

And “there are now more bureaucratic (nonmilitary) government agents armed with weapons than there are U.S. Marines. As Forbes reports, ‘The federal government has become one never-ending gun show’” (tinyurl.com/ynujznar). Whatever happened to the Posse Comitatus Act?

Lawrence R. Huntoon, M.D., Ph.D., Lake View, NY

Masks Don’t Work; Cochrane Reviews Compromised. The Cochrane review found that wearing masks in the community probably makes little or no difference to influenza-like or COVID-19-like illness transmission—as many of us said two year prior. However, Cochrane weakens the result. Once the premier resource, it has been corrupted by pharma and academic  scientists. It has lost its way and destroyed itself over COVID funding money. In an interview with Maryanne Demasi, the study’s lead author Tom Jefferson stated: Cochrane delayed the release by 7 months, during which critical policy decisions were made and some Cochrane scientists published unacceptable studies that gave “the right answer.” Jefferson doesn’t think much of the “Swiss cheese model,” which assumes that we know how respiratory viruses transmit—but we don’t.

Paul Alexander, Ph.D., https://tinyurl.com/9zzxw2vb

The End to the Exception? In his book Tocqueville in Arabia: Dilemmas in a Democratic Age (2013), Joshua Mitchell writes that the business of gender is a permutation of the equity obsession. 

In Democracy in America, deTocqueville invented the idea of American exceptionalism because America was the first nation founded on equal rights for citizens, in a world where aristocracy/oligarchy was the rule. He warned, however, that equality could be the end of democracy if equality of opportunity was distorted to mean equal outcomes (“equity”), a nonsensical idea that requires totalitarian management by a tyrant class of oligarchs.  

Mitchell writes: “A new political religion has full command over the hearts and minds of elect parishioners, who operate on the basis of an intersectional debt-point scheme that gives them moral clarity about who is pure and who is stained. This is identity politics, the spiritual eugenics of our time…. I worry that the idea of original sin has migrated…into politics,…[in] the form of…  group-scapegoating, which intends to purge…[the] irredeemably stained, along with all that they have wrought in history, so that the world may be made pure (https://tinyurl.com/b5hxv6kh).

John Dale Dunn, M.D., J.D., Brownwood, TX

The Rest of the Story on Race and Poverty. A higher percentage of Blacks (19.5%) live in poverty than non-Hispanic whites (8.1%). But the absolute number of impoverished non-Hispanic whites is higher (15.9 million vs. 8.5 million), showing the falsity of the claim that all whites come from privilege. From 1970–2019, the poverty rate for whites increased slightly, while decreasing for other ethnic groups. With rising costs, the middle class—which keeps a nation from bifurcating into a two-class society of the powerless poor and the powerful wealthy—is under siege. Home ownership has declined; nearly three in eight homes today are rentals. As Victor David Hanson says, “The result is a new American peasantry,…who own little or no property.” They are like medieval peasants dependent on propertied overlords.

Craig Cantoni, Tucson, AZ 

Death Down Under.  Even Australia—the poster child for COVID fascism—now recommends the shots only for the elderly and those with health risks. Perhaps it’s because Australia is experiencing worse excess mortality than at any point in 80 years, while neighboring New Zealand is experiencing the worst mortality since the Spanish flu. Officials won’t openly acknowledge the likely cause, but their policy changes regarding boosters clearly demonstrate a quiet walk-back of the needle idol, as Daniel Horowitz points out (https://tinyurl.com/syyaj7mr). The Associated Press fact-check team has concluded that the surge in deaths must be because of COVID itself. But that is a self-indictment of the vaccine.

Stewart Tankersley, M.D., Montgomery, AL

The ‘Equity’ Agenda. The UN introduced Agenda 21 with its 17 Sustainable Development Goals in 1992. It has been adopted in every country at all levels of government. The new target date is 2030 to bring equity to everyone on earth. The motivator—fear of climate change—infiltrated public schools via student TV channels, video games, movies, Saturday cartoons, and other mass media forms of indoctrination (https://tinyurl.com/n2tda9fu). An Equity Pledge proposed by the Racial and Social Justice Commission of Prince William County, Virginia, promises to agree to the group’s norms by “monitoring my thoughts for internal dialogue” and to “reflect on my…impact on others before asking a question or making a comment.” 

Ileana Johnson, Ed.D., https://tinyurl.com/2kupnerv

Volume 79, no. 2

The biostate was born, it is said, at the meeting of G20 leaders in Bali, Indonesia, Nov 15-16, 2022. Its declaration (https://tinyurl.com/4z7n5ktb) called for the establishment of a global vaccine passport and digital health ID scheme. “We acknowledge the importance of shared technical standards and verification methods, under the framework of the IHR (2005), to facilitate seamless international travel, interoperability, and recognising digital…and non-digital solutions, including proof of vaccinations.”

The International Health Regulations (IHR) 2005, which went into force in 2007, are a legally binding agreement of 196 countries developed under the auspices of the World Health Organization (WHO). They require countries to strengthen surveillance capacities at border crossings, and they introduced international certificates of vaccination.

The Business 20 (B20) panel held ahead of the G20 summit  urged widespread adoption of digital COVID-19 certificates that would be part of a “technology-enabled ‘always-on’ global health infrastructure.” Their proposal, to be introduced at the World Health Assembly in May 2023, would revise the IHR to give WHO legally binding powers to implement such measures in the future, potentially overriding national sovereignty.

WHO would not have the power to force compliance, but peer pressure works. So far, the only resistance has come from African countries, who view it as neocolonialism.

The COVID passport is the gateway for all-encompassing digital ID, stripping citizens of all rights and replacing them with a revocable privilege to work, to travel, to obtain medical care, to be educated—to live. The Indian Aadhaar system, the world’s largest biometric ID system, which covers 92% of the population, “acts as a tool for social exclusion and corporate influence.” Several cardless persons reportedly starved to death because they could not access benefits to which they were entitled.

At the G20, Klaus Schwab claimed that the current  crises  represent an opportunity for “a deep systemic and structural restructuring of our world,” with “the fusion of our physical, digital and biological identities.” Digital IDs are essential in a “revolution” aimed at blurring the line between our bodies and emerging technologies, e.g., robotics, artificial intelligence, nanotechnology, and quantum computing (tinyurl.com/yn9zwac7).

The Meaning of ‘Bio’

In today’s perversion of language, certain adjectives or prefixes stealthily reverse the meaning of a word. “Social justice” means injustice to individuals to benefit the collective. A biostate would destroy the nation state and subject existing laws to a “global  health infrastructure.” Bioethics, according to the late Jeffrey Hall Dobken, M.D., M.P.H., replaces the Oath of Hippocrates. It mainly involves calculations of relative social value. Bioethicists consider themselves guardians of social justice and stewards of correct thinking (https://tinyurl.com/brdt74ev).

Paradoxically, “bio” ultimately negates biology and strives to transition through “transhuman” to “posthuman.” Instead of “cyborg,” “augmented human” is becoming the preferred, less threatening term. First, a direct human-to-computer interface—human/machine fusion—then possibly augmented reality and virtual reality, including nerve stimulation.

Medical possibilities include controlling prosthetic limbs with thought, but the major impetus comes from the military. The newly established Biotechnologies for Health and Human Performance Council (BHPC) aims to enhance warfighting capability. Two-way data transfer through neuro-silica interfaces could, for example, enhance target acquisition for drone attacks. The military is also heavily invested in gene-editing.

Propaganda is one of the BHPC Study Group’s functions: “Efforts should be undertaken to reverse negative cultural narratives of enhancement technologies” (tinyurl.com/2f3jvv98).

Human augmentation research is called “evolution” by the UK Ministry of Defence (ibid.). The future of life will not be natural selection as in the past, but intelligent design—by Homo deus, says World Economic Forum advisor Yuval Noah Harari. We have the biotechnology to hack the software of life. All we need is information. The products of the future will be “bodies, brains,  and minds,” Harari states (https://tinyurl.com/3z9ucbem).

In a Net Zero, decarbonized world (in which some even advocate killing our cats and dogs to reduce our “carbon footprint”), will we transition from carbon-based to silicon-based life—once the stuff of science fiction (https://tinyurl.com/2zx35uce)?

Much research is now “in silico” (computer-based modeling) rather than in vitro or in vivo. Some speculate that computers or robots, with sufficiently complex artificial intelligence, might develop consciousness . Some even speculate that they could achieve immortality by downloading their “software” into a computer (would its consciousness be your consciousness?).

Let us not imagine that robots will follow Isaac Asimov’s First Law of Robotics (see I, Robot): “A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.” Military robots are designed to kill.

Human-designed life forms might follow a WEF-defined “rules-based order,” but Harari et al. make no mention of characteristics present even in animals like dogs: displays of joy or sorrow, empathy, or instinctive protection of their human.

The biostate is a biology denier—indeed, a life denier.

The Roots and Offspring of Transhumanism

The term “transhumanism” was coined in 1957 by Julian Huxley, brother of Aldous and grandson of Thomas Huxley (“Darwin’s bulldog”). Julian managed the post World War II eugenics movement. After the Nazi atrocities, a radical eugenics policy became “for many years politically and psychologically impossible,” but one goal of UNESCO, which Julian founded, was to inform the public “so that much that is now unthinkable may at least become thinkable.” Achieving UNESCO’s goals would require “the transfer of full sovereignty from separate nations to a world organization” (tinyurl.com/5n8z5kcb).

“Cybernetics,” Norbert Wiener’s term, based on aeronautics and radar systems, was envisioned as the tool for global information control. He wrote that the ultra rapid computing machine that used consecutive switching devices was a model of the nervous system. He assumed that “metaphysical” concepts (such as purpose, free will, justice, and soul) had no existence beyond the merely physical characteristics of the measurable electrochemical properties of the brain (tinyurl.com/3ahr2rhd).

The growing cult of Artificial Intelligence is guided by a belief in the inevitable merger of man and machine. To deal with the “unpredictability” factor of human creativity, the Frankfurt School developed new brainwashing tools such as “sensitivity training,” which relies heavily on guilt complexes—the foundation of Critical Theory. Leading psychiatrists from London’s Tavistock Clinic and the Frankfurt School organized a concerted program to “eliminate the sickness of national patriotism, belief in truth, and family love throughout the Cold War period” (ibid.).

Neo-Malthusians gained great power when John Holdren, a protégé of Paul Ehrlich, became Obama’s science czar. Now, Biden’s science czar Eric Lander has overseen the re-activation of  Obama-era science policy in a technocratic overhaul conforming to the WEF’s Great Reset agenda, using the vast power of the Emergency Authorization Act to steamroll gene therapy technologies in the guise of “vaccines.” The connection between yesterday’s eugenics organizations and the rise of modern mRNA operations “should be kept firmly in mind,” writes Matthew Ehret (https://tinyurl.com/5n8z5kcb).

 Gene therapy and other modes of human “enhancement” do not fall under ethical research guidelines because they are not intended to be therapeutic (https://tinyurl.com/mrydrh23).

Jerry Arnett, M.D., R.I.P.

Jerry Arnett, M.D., a freedom fighter for 50 years, was well-known to AAPS meeting attendees and to readers of our journal, for which he wrote frequent book reviews. As a flight surgeon, Dr. Arnett flew 144 combat missions in Vietnam. In his pulmonology practice, he connected directly with patients, not government or insurance companies. He inspired his daughter Brenda Arnett, M.D., to open an independent cash-based family practice.  “He was West Virginia at its best,” writes James Bovard (https://tinyurl.com/ynf2mrav).

“And thus I clothe my naked villany/ With odd old ends stol’n out of holy writ/ And seem a saint, when most I play the devil.”

William Shakespeare, Richard III  (I, 3)

Is Pfizer Doing ‘Directed Evolution’? 

In a Project Veritas (PV) video that has garnered some 20 million views despite efforts to suppress it, a highly placed executive seemed to be saying that Pfizer was “mutating” COVID so that it can produce new vaccines. “Don’t tell anyone this!” This would be good for Pfizer but not good for Americans, he said. He also remarked on the revolving door between regulators and drug companies. When the interviewer asked whether Pfizer was doing gain-of-function research, the answer was laughingly no, but you might call it “directed evolution.”

The internet was quickly scrubbed of the credentials of Jordon Trishton Walker, M.D., Pfizer Director of Research and Development—Strategic Operations and mRNA Scientific Planning. In a follow-up meeting with James O’Keefe of PV, Dr. Walker became extremely agitated when he learned of the video, and asserted that it was all a lie to impress a date.

Tucker Carlson discussed the mainstream news blackout (tinyurl.com/4ayr6rak). Along with commentary on the PV video, Dr. Peter McCullough and Steve Kirsch discussed the research that Pfizer and the government are not doing on COVID vaccine adverse reactions, especially possible cardiac effects in airline pilots (tinyurl.com/476b99ed).

Pfizer released a response late Friday evening (https://tinyurl.com/5bskxxmv), which was subjected to a “forensic autopsy” by Dr. Robert Malone (tinyurl.com/5n7km5c9).

Cheering for the End of Humanity

According to French philosopher Michel Foucault, “Man is an invention of recent date. And one perhaps nearing its end.”  Adam Kirsch writes in The Atlantic (tinyurl.com/mum4z79b) that from Silicon Valley boardrooms to rural communes to academic philosophy departments, a seemingly inconceivable idea is being seriously discussed: The end of humanity’s reign on earth is imminent, and we should welcome it. While anti-humanists and transhumanists have opposite views on many issues, they agree that human beings should rightfully disappear. Transhumanists only worry that it might happen too soon, before we have invented our successor to “secure the future of the mind.”

Humanity’s purpose is “to transform the cosmic endowment—all the matter and energy in the accessible universe—into computronium.” That would correspond to Ray Kurzweil’s “singularity,” the ultimate destiny of the universe.

The anti- and transhumanists’ destruction of civilization,  renunciation of childbearing, and replacing humans with machines sound like a Great Reset. Is that where the biostate and the evolution of bioethics is leading?

AAPS Calendar

Feb 18, 2023. Board of Directors meeting, virtual.

Oct 26-28, 2023. 80th Annual Meeting, Fort Worth, TX. – https://aapsonline.org/oct-26-28-2023-aaps-80th-annual-meeting/

ACTION OF THE MONTH

Comment in support of the FTC proposal to ban non-compete clauses in employment contracts at https://bit.ly/ftcnoncompete before March 10.

Anti-Free Speech Law (AB 2098) Enjoined

The California law that threatens physician with delicensure for spreading COVID “misinformation” has been enjoined by Judge William B. Shubb of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California (Hoeg v. Newsom).

  At first the proposed AB 2098  was aimed at those who question the safety or efficacy of COVID vaccines in the media or social media, thereby creating public mistrust. AB 2098 also characterizes advocacy for use of repurposed FDA-approved drugs such as ivermectin as “COVID misinformation.” As passed, the law refers to one-on-one communication with patients.

The law bans doctors “from providing ‘treatment or advice’ ‘to a patient’ ‘related to COVID-19’ when that treatment or advice includes (1) ‘false information’ (2) ‘that is contradicted by contemporary scientific consensus’ (3) ‘contrary to the standard of care.’”

Judge Shubb notes that terms in AB2098 are unconstitutionally vague, putting physicians in the very difficult position of having to know what the “consensus” is at any given moment. Moreover, “the First Amendment applies not only to expression of majority opinions, but to minority views as well.” 

One issue is whether advice to patients is one of the seven categories of speech that the U.S. Supreme Court finds to be unprotected by the First Amendment.

Judge Shubb’s ruling prevents enforcement of AB 2098 pending resolution of the lawsuit. Judge Shubb’s ruling technically is limited only to “the plaintiffs, all persons represented by the plaintiffs, and members of the organizations that filed the lawsuits” (https://tinyurl.com/bdfyhnwd).

In a reply memorandum in the merged case Hoang v. Bonta, Attorneys Richard Jaffe and Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., write: “Defendants are effectively admitting that physicians can be punished for speaking truth, as long as the government declines to recognize truth as truth” (tinyurl.com/2p99duwe).

Origin of Censorship in the U.S.

It formerly would have been unthinkable for the White House to send e-mails to social media companies such as Facebook and Twitter directing them to censor prominent public speakers such as Tucker Carlson and Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

Aspiring dictators have always relished public emergencies because they provide a rich opportunity for expanding their power, writes Peter McCullough, M.D. The seeds for the current blooming garden of unchecked federal power seem to have germinated in 2002 with the passage of the Homeland Security Act and the Homeland Security Council, an entity within the Executive Office of the President created by President Bush’s Executive Order 13228. Since 2002, more laws and administrative actions have enabled the state to deem you a “misinformation spreader” or “domestic terrorist” and censor and even detain you, to quell a purported emergency (https://tinyurl.com/y74xabcy).

Tip of the Month: Harassing state medical board complaints related to COVID-19 are continuing to plague good physicians, but nearly all of these complaints have been dismissed. The trick is to respond politely before the deadline, and the substance of the response appears to be less important than its timeliness. Extensions in the time to respond are freely granted if requested. 

Criminal Grand Jury on Vaccine Harm

With the approval of the Florida Supreme Court, Gov. Ron DeSantis is empaneling a grand jury to “investigate criminal or wrongful activity in Florida relating to the development, promotion, and distribution of vaccines purported to prevent COVID19 infection, symptoms, and transmission” (tinyurl.com/mr3s94uw).

The governor’s petition states: “The pharmaceutical industry has a notorious history of misleading the public for financial gain.” It includes a summary of the many times Pfizer, Moderna, the CDC, and high government officials falsely claimed that the vaccines would safely and effectively reduce the spread of the virus and that unvaccinated people would be responsible for continuing the pandemic if they didn’t take the jabs. It also lists studies showing a higher rate of myocarditis in young persons who received the injections.

“Ron DeSantis just became the world’s political leader of the Covid Accountability movement,” writes Jeff Childers in his Coffeeandcovid Substack. The grand jury can issue indictments of people and companies, issue criminal subpoenas, require witnesses to appear and testify under oath, publish a final report summarizing its evidence, and also recommend civil lawsuits.

Childers writes that while he is seeing people apologize for being wrong about COVID lockdowns or mandates, he has not yet seen anyone apologize for not trusting government during COVID (https://tinyurl.com/5bb8sd7e).

Possible Liability for Vaccine Administration?

According to a letter from the Australian Medical Professionals Society (tinyurl.com/yfv55yvx), “Administering of COVID-19 vaccination is likely not an indemnified action—this is notice of your obligations, rights, and potential risks.” A proposed medical indemnity scheme for health professionals administering the COVID-19 vaccines was never established. The letter refers to the decision of the High Court of Australia in Rogers v Whittaker 1992 (https://jade.io/article/67721), in which a patient was not told of the risk of sympathetic ophthalmia, as a precedent and standard for informed consent obligations. “A doctor has a duty to warn a patient of any material risk involved in a proposed treatment, or else risk tortious liability from patients,” writes AMPS. This might apply even if there is a body of expert opinion supporting nondisclosure. The letter recognizes threats of regulatory action “for anti-vaccination messages in professional health practice” or on social media, but states that under the Good Medical Practice Code of Conduct, doctors have a right not to provide or directly participate in treatments to which they conscientiously object. These liability and freedom issues also remain to be resolved in the U.S.

Mandate on Federal Contractors Blocked

A panel of the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals voted 2-1 to uphold a decision that blocked the September 2021 Biden executive order requiring worker vaccination as a requirement for federal contracts. The issue could affect 20% of U.S. workers. Judge Kurt Engelhardt said a broad interpretation of the Procurement Act could give Biden “nearly unlimited authority to introduce requirements into federal contracts” (tinyurl.com/357z9vn9), such as requiring workers to reduce their BMI below a certain number.

Correspondence

Totalitarians Suppress Truth. The Marxist totalitarians in medicine have claimed a monopoly on truth, facts and science. As Dr. Aaron Kheriaty writes, quoting  Italian philosopher Augusto Del Noce: “[I]f people in a communist society contradict communist doctrine, the party does not explain why they are wrong. The authorities simply dismiss dissenting opinions as instances of ‘bourgeois rationality’ or ‘false consciousness’.… Authorities assume that dissenting opinions must be motivated by

class interests (or racial characteristics, gender, or whatever), which dissidents are trying to defend” (tinyurl.com/4bf8reaf). This is precisely what we have seen with medical boards, specialty boards, hospitals, and certain medical associations. 

Lawrence R. Huntoon, M.D., Ph.D., Lake View, NY

Beyond Censorship. In a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland, the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Medical Association, and the Children’s Hospital Association ask him to investigate and prosecute individuals and entities that coordinate, provoke, and carry out bomb threats and threats of personal violence. The concern was about groups who re-posted information showing that Boston Children’s Hospital was lying when it claimed it was not doing “gender-affirming” surgery on minors. The online group was not responsible for the threat (there was no bomb) and even offered a reward to catch the guilty party. But the AMA and AAP want people who “provoke” disagreement with them to go to jail.

Douglas Farrago, M.D., https://tinyurl.com/56z5a36x

Psyops Research. Even though the testing of COVID vaccine products was highly abbreviated and did not meet regulatory norms for either vaccines or genetic therapies, the development and clinical testing of psyops and nudge messaging were carefully performed using a prospective, randomized, controlled clinical trial structure with short-term, three- and six-month follow-up. In  July 2020, Yale University initiated clinical trial #NCT04460703 to optimize means to psychologically manipulate people to overcome “vaccine hesitancy.” Twelve different messages were tried, including anger, embarrassment, guilt, trust in science, personal freedom, economic benefit, and “not bravery.” It was found that emphasizing vaccination as a pro-social action not only increased uptake but also increased willingness to pressure others to get the shot. These results were used to guide the federal U.S. (and global) propaganda campaign to promote compliance. We have been subjected to a focused and field-tested psyop.

Robert W. Malone, M.D., https://tinyurl.com/v5sd78yn

At Odds with Reality. Recently, the idea has been spreading that  having the body of one sex but believing oneself to be of another is part of the normal human experience. Organizations such as the American Psychiatric Association have lent credence to the idea, stating that it is not a mental disorder because “many transgender people do not experience their gender as distressing or disabling.” However, while distress is an important treatment consideration, it is not a defining characteristic of medical pathology. Normal internal experience has traditionally been distinguished from abnormal by whether it is consistent with external reality. The mainstream psychiatric press is not asking  whether a person’s internal experience can be so far from reality as to justify “sex reassignment” surgery and still be called normal.

Boris Vatel, M.D., https://tinyurl.com/5424cj47

Rationing Promoted. The government is promoting migration to privately administered corporate Medicare Advantage plans. By design, these plans restrict patient access to “providers,” who then ration medical care and prescription drugs. During the 2022 enrollment period (10/15-12/7), MA plans touted dental, vision-care, and prescription drug benefits, and, depending on ZIP code, reductions in monthly Medicare deductions to boost one’s Social Security check. This is an appealing sales pitch, and MA now represents 55% of total Medicare spending. When asked, MA providers I’ve contacted will not say for what or how they are paid. They have a pre-paid care guarantee arrangement; patients have no say in it.  How can a rational consumer compare MA with generic Medicare benefits?

Lee Beecher, M.D., Maple Grove, MN

Rationing to Control Costs Is Theology That Failed. Cost control through “health maintenance,” “quality care,” and “accountability” is theological flim-flam. The word “incentive” has been corrupted to mean bribery. The hot dragon breath of HMOs and ACOs has burned up much of the money in medicine. Legalized corporate profiteering to ration care is not a moral public policy. Empowering American families is the only salvation to achieve affordable medical care. For the poor, ownership of resources is the path to a decent life free of poverty and dependency: a goal for all Americans.

Robert Geist, M.D., North Oaks, MN

Hippocrates Nullified. In the 21st century medicine appears to be preoccupied more with biopolitics and biopower exerted by the New World Order, and transgenderism and transhumanism, instead of healing the sick and treating the suffering.

Ileana Johnson, Ed.D., https://tinyurl.com/2p8tkvzp

Volume 79, no. 1  January 2023

The world is experiencing many crises simultaneously: war, financial instability, civil unrest, looming shortages of food and energy, political chaos—and of course continued fear of COVID and predicted future pandemics, as well as of imminent climate apocalypse. To some, a grand “solution” appears to be inevitable: a “Great Reset” under a totalitarian technocratic global government, with a global central digital bank.

Are the crises somehow connected? The FTX scandal is possibly the thread that could unravel the whole scheme, writes Mathew Crawford (tinyurl.com/4xmphcsy).

The magnitude of the FTX scam and the depth of corruption, money laundering, and political influence peddling are beyond imagination, writes Jeffrey Tucker, founder of the Brownstone Institute (tinyurl.com/3n78xuvh). At rocket speed, FTX became the second-biggest crypto exchange on the planet, with billions in venture funding and a million customers.

The timing is notable. FTX was founded in 2019, just soon enough to enter the public realm concerning pandemic controls, and then it disappeared just following the 2022 midterm elections, over which its funding arm had a huge influence. Was it intended to have a short shelf life, transferring billions and manipulating public opinion during the Great Reset, then shutting down?

One might ask whether Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF) is just a geek with too much success too fast, engaged in entirely heartfelt philanthropy. The New York Times and the Washington Post ran articles portraying SBF as a “more-or-less honest businessman with a big heart who got tangled up in a bad situation” (https://tinyurl.com/bdewyra7). In an interview hosted by the NYT, which cost $2,400 to attend, he said he was “deeply sorry” [about stealing people’s life savings] (tinyurl.com/bd3cm6b7).

But the FTX-Alameda story isn’t solely the SBF story. The pool of players is far larger,  writes Crawford. The company’s philanthropy arm, which funded the pandemic planning industry, was a network of astonishing complexity.

The “Effective Altruism” (EA) arm funded media outlets such as ProPublica, Vox, Intercept, and Semafor, all of whom backed lockdowns and mandates.

SBF funded the TOGETHER trial, which purportedly found that ivermectin is ineffective in COVID. Principal investigator Ed Mills stated that FTX became involved only after results were published, according to Reuters Fact Check (https://tinyurl.com/59b9e5de). “But smart people will understand that this does not demonstrate a lack of influence,” states Crawford, as there are grants depending on results. The study used a nonstandard dosage of IVM and is still under scrutiny for a wide variety of statistical anomalies (tinyurl.com/2e929rdj).

The war against hydroxychloroquine needed a randomized controlled trial to show that it was ineffective and harmful. This was supplied by David Boulware—who headed up the ivermectin arm in the TOGETHER trial—and many others. Though the study was called negative by NEJM (tinyurl.com/5n7f3yvb), independent analysts come to the opposite conclusion, Crawford points out (also see AAPS News, June and July 2020).

One of the funders was software entrepreneur David Baszucki, who is best known as the co-founder and CEO of Roblox. With children out of school during the pandemic, this computer game saw its user base explode by tens of millions of users—including fully half the U.S. school children under 16 and three-quarters of all those ages 9 to 12. In March 2021, Roblox’s initial public offering had a $41 billion valuation—“an instant pandemic-pumped blowout valuation.”

“Video games are part of the concoction of digital drugs Yuval Noah Harari [of the World Economic Forum] suggests is the method for dealing with the useless people who might otherwise revolt against the status quo powers.” And Roblox team members, notes Crawford, have been the subject of an astounding number of pedophilia and child sexual abuse claims.

“The pandemic is the fog of war intended to create the opportunity and obscure the activities” involved in a “new global financial network and currency,” Crawford writes. FTX might have been a failed attempt to create this.

The endgame might be to create an intellectually (genetically) superior human race, in which the mass gathering of genetic data and gene-drive technology likely play a role.

“This plan connects a lot of stories, including the activities of Bill Gates and Jeffrey Epstein. It weaves through MIT Media Labs along the way, but goes to the heart of the powers who ultimately control the military-intelligence-banking complex—and that includes the pedophile elite,” Crawford states.

SBF is enmeshed in a very tangled web. Is it pure conspiracy theory? How would Epstein fit in? Aside from his sexcapades with underage girls, Epstein was a specialist in financial crime, Crawford notes, and “these two crimes go hand-in-hand most closely in a world in which politicians are hard to blackmail with a garden variety sex scandal.” Epstein seems to have touched all the currently important power circles. It may not be coincidence that his close friend Bill Clinton helped build the FTX brand recognition.

Most FTX political contributions went to Democrats; however, Kevin McCarthy allegedly used FTX cash to defeat conservative candidates (https://tinyurl.com/44wxmx5v).

It’s a huge thicket that might only be the tip of an iceberg. “The cover-ups have already begun,” Tucker writes.

COVID-19 and Global Debt

The global debt bubble began with the creation of the Federal Reserve in 1913, writes financial analyst Edward Dowd. Central bank-enabled financial fraud long preceded COVID-19. In the form of a dystopian movie script concept, Dowd predicted the pandemic response with amazing accuracy, all predicated on the thesis that COVID was the cover for the end of the global debt bubble. Not one banker went to jail for the crimes that led to Great Financial Crisis of 2008-2009. This marked the rise of global central bank dominance, facilitated by unprecedented cooperation between the U.S. Federal Reserve, the EU Central Bank, and the Bank of Japan in the form of money printing and debt purchases. World governments went into deficit spending to make up for the catastrophic wealth destruction, job losses, and demand destruction. With the COVID-19 crisis,  central banks had an excuse to print huge amounts, increasing  M1 by 65% from 2019 to 2020. The U.S. government now commands 40% of GDP, up from low double digits 40 years ago (tinyurl.com/5n6a57ke). Digital ID would enable total control.

Pandemic Only the First Step in a Global Coup

In a presentation to Doctors for Covid Ethics International on Nov 22, 2022, Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò stated that we must not stop with the pandemic but consider all events in their “full coherence and inter-connectness.”

The existence of a very powerful private organization with enormous economic means, which exercises undue power over world governments, is a “fact is of unprecedented gravity.” Klaus Schwab said: “In the fourth industrial revolution the winners will take it all.” The implication is that those who do not adapt will lose everything, including their freedom.

While the economic part cannot be disregarded, what is happening is not solely the result of profit-seeking. There are unstated purposes that stem from a “theological” vision—a rebellion against God, with the desire to destroy the created order, Viganò said. The operations of social engineering and mass manipulation have demonstrated that this crime was premeditated. In this war, there can be no neutrality (tinyurl.com/3a6w6mux).

Phyllis Ann Orient, R.I.P.

“Ann,” the telephone voice of AAPS for nearly 30 years, took her last breath on Dec 11, 2022, at age 97, surrounded by family at home. She worked in her daughter Jane’s office every day from 1981 until she was well into her 90s. She spoke with thousands of patients and physicians from across the land. Until recently, she proofread every issue of AAPS News. During her last hospital stay, she sang “America the Beautiful,” then alternated it with the Lord’s Prayer, as the shades were open to let in the sun. Her husband fought for our freedom in WWII, as she did all her life.

“The National Security Agency’s capability at any time could be turned around on the American people, and no American would have any privacy left…. If a dictator ever took over, the N.S.A. could enable it to impose total tyranny, and there would be no way to fight back.”

Senator Frank Church (1975)

 Trapped in a Virtual Reality Show 

In the 1998 movie The Truman Show, which prefigures today’s reality television, the unsuspecting star Truman Burbank is filmed  24/7 by hidden cameras. He lives in the town of Seehaven Island, a complete set built within a giant dome, populated by crew members and actors who highlight the product placements that generate revenue for the show. To prevent Truman from discovering the false reality, he is subjected to constant fear messages about the dangers of traveling.

There are clues, such as a spotlight falling out of the sky, and Truman eventually manages to escape.

Jim Quinn compares Truman’s situation to that of the world population during the pandemic (tinyurl.com/vekamdff). “The world seems to be scripted and directed by Machiavellian managers, working behind a dark shroud, representing an invisible governing authority, molding our minds, suggesting our ideas, dictating our tastes, and creating fear.” Their goal, he writes, is to destroy our civil society and common culture on behalf of globalists attempting to implement their Great Reset agenda.

Christof, the show’s creator, declares that Truman could discover the truth and leave at any time, while using every diabolical trick to keep that from ever happening, because his show generated revenues exceeding the GDP of a small country.

“The plot of the movie focuses on individuality versus conformity, consumerism, voyeurism, reality versus manipulation, false narratives, the truth about the American Dream, and the dangers of surveillance in a technologically advanced society.”

The ending of the show is a tribute to the strength of an individual. How can people today escape, as escape hatches are sealed off? Quinn discusses “Irish Democracy,” where a silent dogged resistance, marked by the withdrawal from society, belligerence to authority, and non-compliance with government dictates by millions of ordinary people would accomplish far more than rioting and armed revolution.

“Millions have already practiced a form of Irish Democracy by not masking, not social distancing, not getting jabbed, and taking control of their own health decisions.”

Quinn offers hope: “The beast isn’t as strong as it portrays. It’s broke and its empire of debt is crumbling.” If enough patriots walk away from this abnormal society, “our totalitarian Christofs”  could “wallow in their failure to control the truly awoken.”

Information Heals

For guidance through the cacophony of biased, deceitful, or unverified information, see neutralresearcher.substack.com.

AAPS Calendar

Jan 19, 2023. Marxism in Medicine Webinar.

Feb 18, 2023. Board of Directors meeting, virtual.

Oct 26-28, 2023. 80th Annual Meeting, Fort Worth, TX.

ACTION OF THE MONTH

Download our newly revised and updated COVID Patient Guide at aapsonline.org/covidpatientguide/. This Guide has been requested by millions of patients in the U.S. and worldwide.

Do ESG Policies Violate the Law?

Companies that follow the goals of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) criteria may be breaking antitrust, civil rights, and Employee Retirement Income Security Agency (ERISA) laws, according to former investment banker Kevin Stocklin. Hundreds of the world’s largest corporations have signed joint pledges  committing to “net zero” carbon goals. This might constitute “coordinated action” against other companies, in violation of antitrust laws, writes C. Boyden Gray (tinyurl.com/4tydvj9j). Preferences for certain racial or sexual minority groups are being challenged as discriminatory.

Fiduciary laws require corporate and public pension fund executives to act in the best interests of investors and shareholders. Currently, 24 states forbid ideological investing, including ESG, for their public pension funds (ibid.).

“It is inappropriate to require that candidates for promotion and tenure demonstrate their commitment to a political ideology. Forcing candidates to declare their support for DEI when many undoubtedly oppose it would compel dishonesty,” writes Stanley Goldfarb of Do No Harm (https://tinyurl.com/5c8p3dc9).

A coalition of 19 state attorneys general have launched a formal investigation into six major U.S. banks, citing legal concerns about banks’ ESG investing and their involvement with a UN alliance fighting carbon dioxide (CO₂) emissions. The banks “appear to be colluding with the UN to destroy American companies” and undermine the nation’s best interests, one of the AGs said. Another said the policies resulted in shipping jobs to China, as the regime there ensures low-cost energy from coal. Missouri AG Eric Schmitt said the Net-Zero Banking Alliance would keep Missouri farmers, oil leasing companies, and other vital businesses from getting loans. Pensioners’ retirements would be sacrificed to BlackRock’s climate agenda (https://tinyurl.com/5bxw2x75).

Worker’s Compensation for Vaccine Injuries?

Some lawyers think the employees who suffer an injury or disability after receiving a mandated COVID-19 shot might be able to collect benefits from worker’s compensation. While success is not assured, the process is easier, more rapid, and more likely to succeed than the government’s PREP system, and does not preclude receiving benefits from another source. The “no-fault” system precludes blaming government compulsion.

 “The more people file claims…, the more employers—and their insurers—may feel pressure to reconsider employer-mandated vaccines in the future, attorneys suggest (https://tinyurl.com/3ej4zdv9). 

Tip of the Month: The FDA wrongly disparages ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine, despite being approved as safe for decades, but meanwhile it just bypassed physicians by authorizing pharmacists to sell an abortion drug directly to the public. Under new rules released by the FDA the first week in January, the abortion medication mifepristone may be sold directly by pharmacies that sign up for this program, without a physician ever evaluating or advising the patient. States may prohibit this, and some do. But California and New York, which just led the country in having the biggest population decreases of the past year according to the Census, welcome this new rule to bypass physicians.

ESG Demands for Patients

Mass General Brigham has enacted a Patient Code of Conduct, which it claims is similar to that of many healthcare systems. It prohibits “offensive comments about others’ race, accent, religion, gender, sexual orientation, or other personal traits” and invites anyone who witnesses such behavior to report it. Violators may be “asked” to make other arrangements for care (https://tinyurl.com/2hnt762d). Officials refused to say whether “mis-gendering” would count as a violation (tinyurl.com/3v4u8eb7).

Double Standard for Disparities?

While discriminating against non-“Woke” persons, even to the extent of denying treatment, may be required, permitting patients to purchase better care is “ethically indefensible,” argue two young physicians in AMA Journal of Ethics. “To allow VIP health care to exist condones the notion that some people—namely, wealthy White people—deserve more care sooner and that their well-being matters more” (https://tinyurl.com/yc5hchev).

FDA Sued over Abortion Pill

Four physicians, along with the American Association of Pro-Life Obstetricians and Gynecologists (AAPLOG), the Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine, the American College of Pediatricians, and the Christian Medical & Dental Association, filed suit against the FDA over the approval of the chemical abortion drug mifepristone (Mifeprex™). Attorney Julie Marie Blake stated that FDA “has failed to protect the safety of women and girls by exposing them to drugs that are dangerous and never properly studied for safety, and that never, under the law, were allowed to be approved in the first place” (https://tinyurl.com/35ezmnuw).

Plaintiffs ask that the Court issue a preliminary and permanent injunction ordering the drug to be removed from the market.  The Complaint alleges that FDA “eliminated the few safeguards it initially established to protect women and girls who go through the chemical abortion drug regimen.” It “never required an assessment that evaluated the safety and effectiveness of chemical abortion drugs on pregnant girls under 18 years of age” even though “endocrine disruptors such as mifepristone could have significant impacts on an adolescent girl’s developing body and reproductive system.” It also eliminated the requirement to report nonfatal adverse effects, allowed mail-order prescriptions despite express prohibition under federal law, and increased permitted gestational age, among other problems (https://tinyurl.com/366vrsen).

Rebuilding Jefferson’s ‘Wall of Separation’

Leftists agitating against Nativity scenes or prayer at a football game completely misinterpret a sentence fragment from a letter by Thomas Jefferson referring to a “wall of separation between the church and state.” The letter was in response to a letter from Baptists concerning the 150 years of persecution they had suffered in both New England and southern colonies. They wrote: “What religious privileges we enjoy (as a minor part of the State) we enjoy as favors granted, and not as inalienable rights.” Jefferson’s “wall” was to protect people of faith from government, not the other way around  (https://tinyurl.com/26szn5ua).

Correspondence

Certification in Transgender Treatment. At age 24, Prisha Mosley is telling her story about the “gender transition” therapy she was subjected to, with testosterone therapy at age 17 and bilateral mastectomy at age 18. She had been sexually assaulted and had several mental health problems including anorexia. She discovered transgenderism on line, and as soon as she mentioned it, a therapist rushed her into “gender affirming” treatment. Her parents were told that she would die without it (https://tinyurl.com/26rdam6j). There is an organization that “certifies” “providers” in various specialties to perform such abuse and mutilation (wpath.org/gei). The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) cites it in its section on “Treatment of Transgender Youth” on its website aap.org.

Lawrence R. Huntoon, M.D., Ph.D., Lake View, NY

Hyperaggressive AAP Approach Not Supported. In Sweden, the diagnosis of gender dysphoria has increased 20-fold over the past 10 years in persons under the age of 20. The policy of “watchful waiting” in many Western nations contrasts sharply with the “affirmation and action” policy of the AAP. Four of the six members of AAP’s LGBT Health & Wellness Committee are actively working in and promoting gender-affirming therapies, an obvious conflict of interest. Their policy paper fails to mention that the dysphoria may be transitory, neglects to cite outcomes literature, and misrepresents the contents of some citations.

Ken Fisher, M.D., https://tinyurl.com/2p9vvjrz

‘I Can’t Recall.’ In a 7-hour deposition by Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry and Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt, Dr. Anthony Fauci, who once said “I am the science,” could recall hardly anything about his COVID-19 response or social media censorship of opposing views.

Paul Alexander, Ph.D.,  https://tinyurl.com/mvydu6ba

Who Is Telling the Truth? Seeing the stark opposing positions between left and right on almost every issue, a person might ask, how can one determine which position is right, and which one might not only be wrong, but a lie? The intolerance of leftists reveals their mendacious mindset—and the true believer’s inability to consider evidence proving their ideas wrong. Dennis Prager writes: “With rare exceptions, the party that calls for censorship is lying. People who tell the truth can deal with dissent…. In fact, truth-tellers welcome debate.” If correct, this means the Left is virtually always lying (tinyurl.com/5778h2j9).

John Dale Dunn, M.D., J.D., Brownwood, TX

Extreme Politicization of Science. Coronadoom research has reached new heights of asininity. Exhibit 1: A paper in The Lancet: Regional Health claims to show that “exposure to conservatism,” reflected in voting records of members of Congress, correlated with COVID mortality rates (tinyurl.com/4ubcp47v). Exhibit 2: A paper in Am J Med claims to show that vaccine hesitancy increases the risk of involvement in a traffic crash. Authors conclude that “a distrust of government or belief in freedom…contributes to both vaccination preferences and increased traffic risks” (https://tinyurl.com/yp74m466).

William Briggs, Ph.D., www.wmbriggs.com/post/44227/

Why Do Doctors Push Mass Vaccination? In early 2021, the HHS/CDC $13 billion “COVID-19 Community Corps” made undisclosed individual payments to hundreds of organizations, including AMA, AAFP, ACOG, AAP, and AMSA. Investigation will probably show a temporal link to vaccine-promoting activities. Might this explain the AMA’s 2021 campaign to “abolish” the use of ivermectin? Or promoting vaccines for children and pregnant women without safety trials?

Peter A. McCullough, M.D., M.P.H., tinyurl.com/2cy7cxfe

‘We Own the Science.’ UN communications representative Melissa Fleming, who spoke on a World Economic Forum disinformation panel on Sept 28, 2022, stated that the UN had partnered with big-tech search platforms such as Google to manipulate search results, e.g., on climate change and COVID-19. The UN is in the process of setting up the tools to censor ALL misinformation that the UN deems unhelpful for a “stable, peaceful, harmonious and UNITED world.”

Robert W. Malone, M.D.,  https://tinyurl.com/5zdejm8b

Why It Keeps Happening. Everything that’s happened and is happening becomes much simpler and it all makes sense, only when you force yourself to think the impossible. If you experimentally adopt the position that our government is actively working to harm us, to dismantle modern society and enslave all people in a digitally controlled totalitarian world, it all fits. Nothing is surplus. Many have asked why people didn’t resist tyrants in the past. Partly it is fear. But it’s more than that. It’s that normal people, like you and me, simply cannot imagine being so evil. Most people are good. Few are truly terrifyingly horrible. But some are. It’s the inability to believe it’s happening that really stopped people objecting when they should, when the evidence was unmistakable but had not yet quite reached their door, their family. But now they are coming for you and your children.

Michael Yeadon, Ph.D., https://tinyurl.com/2a8rux7n

Volume 78, no. 10  October 2022

President Biden famously said: “For those brave right-wing Americans…if you want to fight against the country, you need an F-15. You need something little more than a gun” (https://tinyurl.com/58mmvn5j). A gun is also of no use against SWAT teams in riot gear, search warrants, subpoenas, indictments, prison terms, and crushing fines.

  At present, the FBI is concentrating on those who question the 2020 election results or who might strongly and effectively support pro-Trump or anti-leftwing candidates in future elections.

In what Tucker Carlson called a “full-scale purge” of Trump supporters, about 50 very broad search warrants and/or subpoenas from the “Capitol Siege” section of the Department of Justice, demanding communications relating to election irregularities, were served. Such activities are, we thought, protected by the First Amendment (https://tinyurl.com/2jr3r2ye).

But it’s not just about electoral politics, and it’s not new. Melania Trump’s wardrobe was searched for documents. Decades ago, agents searched shoeboxes in a physician’s closet, looking for medical records in a failed attempt to prove Medicaid fraud (AAPS News, June and November 1990, August 1992). Agents pointed a gun at an innocent physician’s 9-year-old son, while searching his home for records (AAPS News, July 1997).

Mike Lindell of MyPillow, prominent in alleging election fraud, had his cell phone seized, keeping him from conducting his business. Two top Trump advisors also had their phones seized, according to Judicial Watch. Many physicians have had their computers and patient records seized in the War on Drugs.

It’s forever war: on healthcare fraud, on drugs, on terrorism,  on a virus, on “climate change,” on “misinformation,” on “white supremacy,” on “extremism.” An FBI whistleblower stated that agents are now pressured to label cases as “domestic violent extremism.” The increasing cases being identified throughout the country are all connected to Jan 6 (tinyurl.com/4m7wpnub).

When Did It Begin?

Some say it started in 2001 with 9/11. A quantum leap in federal power and surveillance resulted when the PATRIOT Act quickly emerged from somewhere full-grown. Americans were  reminded of the horror, again, in the 21st anniversary memorial.

Is the 9/11 Narrative a test of Americans’ credulity? We repeatedly see planes crashing into WTC-1 and WTC-2, but not the  late-afternoon collapse of WTC-7, purportedly due to a few office fires. Yet an enormous recent fire in China failed to bring down a 42-story skyscraper (https://tinyurl.com/yhpzjk6h); indeed, WTC-7 is the only skyscraper ever collapsed by fire.

There are other questions, and conspiracy theories. Recall the original conspiracy theory about the assassination of President Kennedy: that Lee Harvey Oswald, acting alone, did not kill JFK. A single accomplice creates a conspiracy. Did Osama bin Laden, acting alone, orchestrate 9/11 from a hospital bed in Pakistan (https://tinyurl.com/5dwy4fa3)?

If the official Narrative is true despite many contradictions and the rapid destruction of evidence, it raises serious doubts about the capability of U.S. F-15 and F-16 air defenses.

To the regime, the events of Jan 6 are comparable to those of 9/11, except that the former was an “inside job” involving many co-conspirators who are still being tracked down. One woman was awakened by three armed FBI agents the day after Biden’s anti-MAGA speech, on the basis of a false anonymous tip that she had been at the Capitol on Jan 6 (tinyurl.com/36dmb25v).

Apocalyptic, “existential” threats, to Americans emotionally primed by the image of the rapid destruction of two of the safest structures in the world, have much of the population in a state of chronic terror, longing for government-ensured safety. Perhaps that accounts for the results of a Rasmussen poll. Asked about Biden’s assertion that “Donald Trump and the MAGA Republicans represent an extremism that threatens the very foundations of our republic,” 48% of likely voters agree, including 36% who strongly agree. Only 47% disagree, with 39% disagreeing strongly, reports Paul Craig Roberts (https://tinyurl.com/576xf6dj).

The COVID-19 Test

COVID-19 measures are the test for compliance and “social responsibility,” which billions of people passed, states Mridul Kaushik, mission director for the Smart Cities Mission of the World Economic Forum. Similar measures are being extrapolated into WEF “climate change” protocols (tinyurl.com/39the9zm).  People will only be able to rent, not own, what the system permits—no cash. Deprivation of access to food and energy could suppress dissent with no need for prosecution (and due process).

As EU Commission president Ursula von der Leyen said prior to the election of Giorgia Meloni as prime minister of Italy, “We will see the results of the vote in Italy. If things go in a difficult direction, we have tools” (https://tinyurl.com/bdzbfk92).

Germany is leading the way. Dissenters from COVID measures are not just being stigmatized and demonized, but criminalized as dangerous “extremists,” who are “anti-democratic and/or delegitimizing the state in a way that endangers security.” For example, they protest non-violently, or speak out against, or criticize, or satirize the global ideology called the “New Normal” (https://tinyurl.com/ydss42sz).

Flashback

The COVID-19 pandemic response is eerily similar to the response to smallpox 135 years ago, when vaccination mandates were accompanied by increasingly harsh punitive measures, writes Steve Kirsch. “The solution then was not trying to convince decision makers using rational scientific arguments. It was a mass public protest that resulted in the abandonment of what the ‘experts’ were saying to do and adoption of new methods that worked that were opposed by the medical community” (https://tinyurl.com/mr2vtx9m). Vaccination still got the credit.

One example: By the end of 1868, more than 95% of the inhabitants of Chicago had been vaccinated. After the Great Fire of 1871, vaccination was made a condition of receiving relief supplies. A devastating smallpox epidemic hit in 1872. More than 2,000 persons contracted smallpox, of whom more than 25% died, with the fatality rate among children under 5 being the highest ever recorded (https://tinyurl.com/yc2vw4s5).

Vaccination Updates

Denmark Bans COVID Jab under Age 50. The Danish Health Authority, after previously banning COVID-19 shots for nearly everyone under age 18, has expanded the prohibition to age 50, unless patients are at “higher risk of becoming severely infected.” It said that “the purpose of vaccination is not to prevent infection with COVID-19,” and that there is already good immunity in the population (https://tinyurl.com/2txwembz).

EU May Mandate Shots. European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen stated that we have a horrible pandemic, and life-saving vaccines, but they are not being used adequately everywhere. About one-third of the European population is not vaccinated. Discussion is needed about making  vaccination mandatory (https://tinyurl.com/4j9xwjv6).

Excess Mortality. The European country with the second highest vaccination rate (Portugal) has the highest excess mortality, and the country with the lowest vaccination rate (Bulgaria) has the lowest excess mortality, but “correlation does not prove causality,” and “there’s nothing to see here,” says Mark Steyn (https://tinyurl.com/5axe6fzh).

Death Rate Higher in Vaccinated. Based on data from the UK Office for National Statistics (ONS), Dr. Marian Laderoute calculated that mortality from both COVID-19 and other causes was higher in vaccinated persons (2.16 times and 11.41 times as high, respectively, in December 2021). She states that rescinding the emergency use authorizations (EUAs) in May 2021 would have prevented nearly 400,000 deaths from all causes between Jun 1, 2021, and May 31, 2022 (https://tinyurl.com/mpnnr4y4).

Pregnancy Outcomes. In the thousands of pages of Pfizer documents that a court has ordered released each month, it appears that the outcome was known in only 32 of the 270 pregnancies that occurred in vaccinated women. Only one normal outcome was reported. Most of the fetuses or newborns died, writes Dr. Pierre Kory (https://tinyurl.com/ysaxrjv5).

“[T]he people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger.”

Hermann Goering

Threats to the State

Surveillance of “Extremists.” The Office for the Protection of  the Constitution, the German domestic intelligence agency, set  up a new department specifically tasked with handling cases (such as coronavirus deniers) that “seek to delegitimize the state,” since they do not fit the mold posed by the usual, politically driven groups, including Islamic extremists. Psychologist and conspiracy expert Pia Lamberty said: “The danger of Querdenken [lateral thinking]” she said, “has long been underestimated.” When “deniers” drew 40,000 protesters to Berlin, a small number managed to jump police lines and climb Parliament’s outside stairs. This was characterized as an “attack on the heart of democracy” (NY Times 2/28/21, tinyurl.com/msfnwbxu).

California Senator Richard Pan. “These [anti-vaccine] extremists have not yet been held accountable, so they continue to escalate violence against the body public…. We must now summon the political will to demand that domestic terrorists face consequences for their words and actions. Our democracy and our lives depend on it…. They’ve been building alliances with white supremacists, conspiracy theorists and [others] on the far right” (Wash Post 2/28/21, https://tinyurl.com/4jhhkhhz).

Peter Hotez. “The [UN] and…governments must take direct, even confrontational, approaches…, and move to dismantle anti-vaccine groups…. Efforts…should include experts who have tackled complex global threats such as terrorism, cyber attacks and nuclear armament, because anti-science is now approaching similar levels of peril” (Nature 4/27/21, tinyurl.com/ya6bbe24).

Climate Police. The Ministry of Environment & Climate Change Canada (ECCC) is building a new facility in Winnipeg that will house a firearms armory, interrogation rooms, biological labs, and intelligence facilities. The Impact Assessment Act (IAA), which was quietly passed in the final days of Trudeau’s majority government, empowers agents of the Ministry of Climate Change to enter premises without a warrant to “verify compliance or prevent non-compliance with [the Act].” Climate Police may also prohibit access to the location entirely. Opponents say this has the potential to cripple the food supply (tinyurl.com/nhzvkv3).

Power Shift to NGOs. An incestuous network of elites was able to overwhelm governments and take control of the global COVID response, without accountability. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is the most powerful organization, and Gates is also involved in Gavi, the Wellcome Trust, and the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI). Bolstered by contacts at the highest levels of Western nations and empowered by well-grooved relationships with drug makers, they form a kind of global health monopoly (tinyurl.com/yc7fdn4u)—according to Woke mainstream Politico, which would have dismissed these ideas as right-wing conspiracy theory one month ago.

AAPS Calendar

AAPS 80th Annual Meeting: October 26-28, 2023, Ft. Worth, Texas.

ACTION OF THE MONTH

The AAPS Educational Foundation offers scholarships to medical students and residents to attend our meetings. Have interested persons contact us at aaps@aapsonline.org.

The Court Versus the Left

The U.S. Supreme Court is no longer a belligerent in the culture war, writes Wesley Stine. Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization reversed 20th-century liberalism’s biggest achievement, as accomplished in the Warren and Burger Courts, which consisted of finding increasingly creative ways to say, “The old separation of powers is abolished. We are the real legislature now.”

The Court found itself playing the role that Octavian and his heirs had played in first century Rome, Stine observes. Like early imperial Rome, the U.S. was still nominally a Republic, but its the elected arm had been relegated to the role that the senators, consuls, and tribunes played under the principate—their power was limited to those issues on which the emperor (in our case, the Supreme Court) did not have a strong opinion.

The Left is now losing on abortion, on guns, on religious freedom, and on the powers of regulatory agencies like the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

The ruling class is very angry. In Orwellian doublespeak, they insist that allowing the abortion issue to be resolved “by citizens trying to persuade one another and then voting” is an attack on democracy. Progressive leaders are dropping their support for judicial supremacy. The Court has lopped off one head of the many-headed hydra. “But the state courts, the universities, the press, the administrative state, and the major corporations are still lined up against the American people, and they will continue to wield the bulk of real power.” Restoring the Republic will be a hard struggle, with an uncertain outcome, in Stine’s view (Chronicles, August 2022, https://tinyurl.com/ycxfywj3).

“The court has only just begun to reshape the country,” laments editorialist Maya Sen (“Save the Supreme Court and Democracy,” Science 8/11/22). But reform is “not impossible.”

Litigation Briefs

NYPD Union Members Ordered to Be Reinstated. New York City police officers who were fired because of the COVID-19 vaccine mandate must be reinstated, ruled Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Lyle Frank. The mandate imposed a new condition of employment and issued enforcement beyond monetary sanctions prescribed in the law. The city said it would appeal, likely freezing the judge’s ruling (https://tinyurl.com/2hyxjn9p).

Freedom of Conscience. Physicians cannot be forced to do abortions or to provide transgender drugs or surgeries, ruled the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals in Franciscan Alliance v. Becerra. The Biden Administration and the ACLU were attempting to compel performance of these actions under §1557 of the Affordable Care Act (https://tinyurl.com/3cts2s4f).

Tip of the Month: The finest Supreme Court Justice of the last century was Robert H. Jackson, who never attended college and never graduated from law school. He presided in the 1940s and 1950s, and yet is denied credit by leftist law professors. In ruling for the religious liberty of a student, Jackson famously held, “Compulsory unification of opinion achieves only the unanimity of the graveyard.” One of his comments can come in handy amid so many tyrannical prosecutions today: “Any lawyer worth his salt will tell the suspect in no uncertain terms to make no statement to police under any circumstances.”

FBI Invades Home of Pro-Life Activist

At 7 a.m., 25 to 30 heavily armed FBI agents entered the home of Mark Houck, pointing their assault rifles throughout the house and terrifying seven children. Houk was taken away in handcuffs on a charge of assaulting an abortion clinic volunteer a year ago, a charge dismissed by the Philadelphia District Court.  Reportedly, Houck had pushed back against the man, who was verbally abusing his son. Houck has been indicted for violating the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act, a felony charge that carries a prison sentence of up to 11 years, and fines of up to $350,000 (https://tinyurl.com/3kmnrbm8). Pro-abortion activists that are attacking pregnancy resource centers are also subject to FACE but are not being prosecuted, states Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) (https://tinyurl.com/5vpukjdf).

JAMA Bemoans Constraints on Agencies

The Supreme Court’s action on vaccine mandates limits the  federal government’s ability to flexibly protect public health, write Lawrence Gostin, J.D., et al. They cite justices dissenting in the OSHA case: it “stymies the Federal Government’s ability to counter unparalleled” threats (JAMA 2/22/22). Biden advisor Ashish Jha, M.D., is “deeply worried” that people are going to start unwinding other vaccine mandates. AMA president George Harmon, M.D., said the Court had “halted one of the most effective tools in the fight against further transmission and death from this aggressive virus.” AMA requires both the primary COVID series and boosters of all 1,200 workers, even those who never report to an office (Abbasi J, et al., JAMA 2/22/22).

Professional Civil Disobedience

According to the AMA Code of Medical Ethics, there may be times when physicians must accept, en masse, fines, licensure suspension, even imprisonment, rather than harm a patient. Past examples include Soviet imprisonment of political prisoners in psychiatric facilities, South Africans filing false reports on prisoners injured by police, and participation in torture. In today’s America, Matthew Wynia, M.D., M.P.H., suggests that professional associations consider supporting physicians who engage in civil disobedience on one issue: participation in illegal abortions: “to repair the moral fabric of our country and the integrity of our profession, which have been so injudiciously ruptured by the Supreme Court” (NEJM 9/15/22, https://tinyurl.com/t596u95b).

The Scarlet ‘E’

The late Angelo Codevilla wrote: “Asking Americans to label one another ‘extremists’ is the most ruinous thing that the woke oligarchy’s malevolent morons are doing to our country. They mean to criminalize insufficient deference to themselves.” Machiavelli recognized that nothing destroys republics more surely than placing anonymous accusations into the hands of rulers.

Codevilla cites the apocryphal story that when the Nazis demanded that Jews in Denmark wear a yellow star, all Danes, starting with King Christian X, put on the star. It is within our power to defang the accusation of extremism in a similar way, he suggests (https://tinyurl.com/4ck3nz2v).

Correspondence

A Model. Chinese officials look at the UK as a cautionary tale of a government placing “human rights above security.” Instead, Xi  Jinping encouraged implementing aspects of the U.S. “war on terror” following the 9/11 attacks. He said to “show absolutely no mercy” in the “struggle against terrorism, infiltration and separatism.” The “organs of dictatorship” are needed to deal with extremism. Prolonged isolation and detention of Uighurs for “vocational training” is justified by the language of disease. “Freedom is only possible when this ‘virus’ in their thinking is eradicated and they are in good health.” There has been resistance from local officials. In 2017, there were more than 12,000 investigations into party members for violations related to the “fight against separatism” (https://tinyurl.com/mppkjvv7).

The New York Times acquired some 400 pages of leaked Chinese documents (https://tinyurl.com/48n6rx8r).

In the U.S., failure to support “ruling authorities” (hospital administrations) can land a physician in a treatment center for “disruptive” behavior that applies similar methods. The “patients” may be on lockdown for months and not allowed to have any contact with spouse or family—not even phone calls. Coercive drugging may occur. In one case, we learned that a resident physician was threatened with electroconvulsive shock therapy unless he altered his attitude toward the ruling authorities (it was never actually administered). Where are we headed?

Lawrence R. Huntoon, M.D., Ph.D., Lake View, NY

It’s the Money. Here’s the secret to the explosion of transgender surgeries. In 2014 Obama modified Medicare/Medicaid law to pay for this. Then in 2016 Obamacare forced such coverage onto private insurers. No wonder Johns Hopkins restarted its sex change program in 2015, and so many other institutions have gotten on the bandwagon. Just 3,256 gender transition procedures were performed in the U.S. in 2016; the next year, the number surged by more than 150%, and in 2020 surpassed 16,000 (https://tinyurl.com/4399cafr).

John Dale Dunn, M.D., J.D., Brownwood, TX

Shadowbanning Search Engines? If you search my Substack for “rabbi,” “rabbis,” or a similar word, many articles come up, but not the one about rabbis misleading people on COVID jabs’ effect on fertility. Is it because Substack doesn’t want people to see my discussion of a 82% miscarriage rate in women jabbed during the first two trimesters of pregnancy, based on an article in NEJM (https://tinyurl.com/2tbazr53)?

James Hill, M.D., San Francisco, CA

“Science.” Dr. Paul Thomas is suing the Oregon Medical Board for $35 million (https://tinyurl.com/mu6cfc8t). Apparently, he did a study, got it published in a journal, and the state medical board suspended his license because they don’t like his findings. Whatever happened to free speech, free scientific inquiry? A plaque at the University of Wisconsin (1894) states: “Whatever may be the limitations that trammel inquiry elsewhere we believe that the great state University of Wisconsin should forever encourage the continual and fearless sifting and winnowing by which alone the truth can be found.”  

Albert Fisher, M.D., Oshkosh, WI

Howling at the Moon. The administrative state and its voice, the corporate media, are having a temper tantrum over Supreme Court decisions—demanding that we “discipline” or ditch the “rogue” Court. Or even the Constitution or the Union itself. One might think that threatening justices and their wives would be more likely to warrant the term “domestic terrorism” than discussing the merits of early COVID treatment or the dangers of novel genetic vaccine technology. What is causing the extreme anguish is the Court’s attempt to leash the out-of-control Administrative State and bring it to heel. And to force Congress to stop delegating responsibility to a bureaucracy that has morphed into a corporatist inverted totalitarian state Mastiff.

Robert Malone, M.D., https://tinyurl.com/3t426ytz

Thinking Points. CDC budget, $10.6 billion; FDA budget, $6.1 billion; Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine revenue, $33 billion; Moderna COVID-19 vaccine revenue, $21 billion; advance purchase order for reformulated shots, $3.2 billion; efficacy trials for the rejiggered boosters, 8 mice. The most expensive BALB mouse costs about $48.91. The antibody tests cost $391.28. Add a bit for mouse food. No autopsies were done.

Toby Rogers, Ph.D.

Misinformed Rabbis. I have read that two respected Zionist rabbis said that the unvaccinated are not following rabbinical law and should be barred from worshipping in temples. They are ignorant of medical facts. Jewish law simply says that health should supersede any Talmudic law.

Joseph Scherzer, M.D., Paradise Valley, AZ

Driven by Fear. World-wide bureaucrats learned from this two-year experiment in lockdowns and mass vaccinations that abject fear can be effective in population control but destroys the world’s economies and irreparably alters people’s lives forever.

Ileana Johnson, Ed.D., https://tinyurl.com/ytwdsrwy