Spelunking down rabbit holes

Grab a helmet, get a light and join me!

“It’s easier to fool people then it is to convince them they’ve been fooled.” - Mark Twain.

“80% of people’s health is what they do. Americans have to take personal responsibility.” - John Abramson on the Joe Rogan Experience.

When I was in grade 4, I was bored at school and my teacher gave me extra projects to keep me from dominating the class with inappropriate comments from the peanut gallery (not a lot has changed). Oddly, I chose to research HIV, AIDS and the new miracle cure AZT. Of course, much of the 80s and 90s were ruined as we were all too afraid to kiss anyone and toilet seats could ruin your life. We knew little about AIDS and what little we did know, we learned from Dr. Anthony Fauci. Early in that pandemic, he said: “if the close contact of a child is a household contact, perhaps there will be a certain number of cases of individuals who are just living with and in close contact with someone with AIDS, or at risk of AIDS, who does not necessarily have to have intimate sexual contact or share a needle, but just the ordinary close contact that one sees in normal interpersonal relations.” This was despite there being ZERO cases ever recorded of transmission like this. Sound familiar? It should.

In grade 4, and without the internet, I didn’t know that AZT was a chemotherapy drug that was so toxic they abandoned it and at the time, Dr. Jerome Horowitz didn’t even patent it. By 1984, was the AIDS scare hit America, Burroughs Wellcome (now GlaxoSmithKline) found some early promise with the abandoned AZT.

It was rushed through FDA trials, data was cherry picked and doctored, and the trial was ended early after the drug company had the results they wanted. 19 people on the placebo died, and 1 died on AZT leading to the claim that it was 95% effective in delaying death from AIDS. What they didn’t say? They gave transfusions to the AZT patients to keep them alive because AZT was so toxic. Other drugs that showed promise were ridiculed, derided and never got the support from the NIH to test. And the head of the agency? None other than Dr. Fauci. Don’t take my word for it, here’s a phenomenal award winning article on it. Curl up with a fire, a bourbon or a coffee and have at it. It’s absolutely fascinating.

George W. Bush once famously said “fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice and … ahh…. Well… well I won’t get fooled again.” Maybe worth a deeper look into the Pfizer trial for their COVID vaccine?

During the Pfizer trials for their vaccine of 44,000 people, 8 caught COVID with the vaccine, 162 caught COVID without. The efficacy rate they advertised? 95%? That’s the relative risk reduction. The absolute reduction? 0.7%.

And deaths? They reported 1 person died on the vaccine “of COVID” but 2 people died on the placebo. What they didn’t report, of course, was that 15 died on the vaccine in total- 5 with cardiac events, and only 14 died with the placebo. By the 6 month follow up, and after they unblinded it and offered the placebo patients the COVID vaccine, there were 21 deaths on the vaccine and 17 on the placebo. Now, I’m no doctor, but help me understand this trial? I have A LOT of questions, as I have about the data since March 2020. Fortunately, despite the FDA requesting that a judge allow them to release the actual trial documents over the next 55 years at 500 pages a month, the judge ruled they must release 55,000 pages a month, meaning in 8 months, we will have them all. THAT will be interesting.

There is a lot of data available now. It takes very little effort to find and read work by Dr. Malone, Dr. McCullough, Dr. Abramson, and Dr. Kory. All of them have been on Joe Rogan. All lay out all their data in blogs, articles and interviews.

To expedite things, I’ll point you to three sources. Ryan Ray had Dr. McCullough on and his 45 minute podcast is one of the best. The Dr. Malone summary text is best laid out here. And RFK’s book “The Real Anthony Fauci” is the best researched thing I’ve come across. And it terrifies me.

I’ll close with this. Boeing certified it’s own Max 737 because the FAA didn’t have the skills to do so. 2 crashed. The FDA is shielded from so much of the trial data, they are given interpretations from trials designed and paid for by the company seeking approval. And former FDA Commissioners end up in the board of Pfizer AND on TV telling you how “safe and effective” vaccines are. Bextra was approved by the FDA based on doctored and misleading data and Pfizer paid a $1.2 billion criminal fine. Vioxx was pulled after 5 years for killing an estimated 40,000-60,000 Americans. And in the middle of all this, is Dr. Fauci, the same doctor that knew AZT was killing people but expanded it’s use to asymptomatic HIV people, anyway.

Back to the AZT trial, the person who survived the longest from the AZT trial? He was one of the ones given the placebo. Today, it is largely understood that “doing nothing” led to a longer lifespan and higher quality of life than AZT. I didn’t know that when I was in grade 4. And I won’t be fooled again.