My Board Certifications Have Been Revoked ⋆ Brownstone Institute

I will simply begin by saying that I believe that the ABIM’s decision was 100% predetermined before we even received their first charge in June 2022There was no way they were going to declare us innocent of misinformation, even though a good portion of this country knows how effective and accurate our evidence-based Covid treatment advice was (and still is).

One of the reasons they never wanted to leave us alone is that if they had declared us “innocent” (i.e., accurate), that action would have immediately jeopardized the decisions of medical boards across the country that have persecuted hundreds of doctors for using ivermectin or hydroxychloroquine or for advising against mRNA gene therapy products for Covid-19. More importantly, it could have potentially triggered hundreds of thousands of lawsuits from the families of patients who died due to the lack of early treatment offered by clinics and hospitals or provided by pharmacies.

The above examples, which have resulted in the deaths of so many people, show the absolute power of mega-corporations that put their financial interests before our health and our lives. Through their overwhelming influence over almost every institution of society and science (media, journals, health agencies, politicians, medical schools, doctors, etc.), they have literally managed to deprive a country (and the entire world) of the most effective, cheapest, safest and most widely available treatments for Covid. My greatest concern is that this crime against humanity will never be recorded in the history books and will therefore eventually be erased from memory. Which seems likely.

The enormous financial opportunities that Covid immediately presented to Big Pharma have been threatened by the “inconvenient truths” that Paul and I have exposed. This action by ABIM is a way for Big Pharma to punish those who are stupid enough to do so. “Stupid” is not quite the right word in our case, because I would say we were simply naive about the consequences of our public advocacy for the use of off-patent drugs for a hugely profitable disease. It was not heroism as some people think, but rather extreme naivety.

I never thought I would have to lose/quit three jobs and now three board certifications for telling the truth. Remember, I was very well known in my field before Covid and was about to become a full professor when I resigned as Chief of Critical Care at the University of Wisconsin (where I was also Medical Director of the Trauma and Resuscitation Center). Washington Post The article was a pretty sobering reminder of how far I supposedly “fell” (not so fun fact: they completely overestimated my salary since the money I received in 2022 included retroactive pay for 2021).

But I am still standing, my friends. I am happily practicing medicine at my Leading Edge clinic with my amazing partner Scott Marsland. As many know, we specialize in the treatment of vaccine injury syndromes and long Covid, and I believe we are approaching the treatment of our 1,400th patient.

Thank goodness I was able to open a private practice two and a half years ago. At the time, I knew this was coming, even though I already knew I was “unemployable” according to the system. I was fired from my last hospital on a completely fabricated complaint, despite the fact that they desperately needed me. I was an independent contractor at the time and my partners in the ICU and all the nurses really liked me. But my partners told me they were under increasing pressure from the chief medical officer to “get rid of Kory.”

Although they resisted at first, my position on vaccines began to cause them even more problems. When the director of intensive care, who was both a friend and a colleague, called to fire me, his last words were: “Pierre, I know there is a war going on and unfortunately you are a victim.” There have never been more accurate words :).

Just know that board certification is not a license to practice medicine (that comes from the state medical licensing boards of which I am still a member). But this decision by ABIM now puts a definitive end to any hope of returning to an academic or “system” position (even though I no longer have that hope). Why?

Well, because board certification was originally just a badge of honor that doctors could use to impress each other and their patients. But they have since weaponized and monetized board certification, so that it is currently impossible to get a faculty position at an academic medical center without such certification. You also cannot work in most hospitals without such certification. Worse yet, insurance plans will not list you as a provider without such certification. So while I have been completely excommunicated from the “system,” I could not be happier about it.

You have to understand that what happened to me this week was a devastating act of censorship, pure and simple. It was carried out for two reasons: the first was to destroy my reputation and credibility so that my voice would no longer carry (basically, to silence me) and the other was to send a message to doctors: if they deviate from the consensus, no matter how scientifically absurd (e.g., mRNA vaccines against coronavirus), dangerous (e.g., remdesivir, mRNA vaccines) or ineffective (Paxlovid), they will be punished.

The damage this will do to patients is, again, incalculable. Doctors in the “system” will no longer be able to practice medicine with the autonomy they need to make the best decision for each patient. Almost everything they do will be in line with treatment protocols recommended by society (i.e., a consensus manufactured by the pharmaceutical industry). They will no longer be able to “think outside the box” or use treatments that, while recognized as effective, do not have the blessing of those who control this system. I am more terrified than ever of needing a hospital.

Without wishing to exaggerate the significance of their actions, medicine as I knew it, or thought I knew it, is even more dead if that is possible. If you cannot have a different scientific opinion without losing your career, then how can one call it medicine or science? In fact, in our repeated written defenses, we have challenged ABIM, asking where “the line” is between legitimate scientific debate motivated by divergent insistence or interpretation of data and outright misinformation.

Misinformation, as I understand it, is defined as information that is “incorrect or misleading.” For us to be misinformers, in my view, would mean that all the data from trials and studies that exist on Covid therapies;

1. The overwhelming preponderance of data on the efficacy and safety of ivermectin in Covid shows that it is ineffective and dangerous
2. The overwhelming preponderance of data on vaccines shows they are safe and effective

In fact, it all depends on how you interpret the totality of the existing evidence. Paul and I have strictly adhered to a “totality of evidence” approach, drawing on in vitro, in vivo, clinical and epidemiological data. It has all come together in a truly beautiful, inspiring and unprecedented way. Well, except for the “Big 7 RCTs” that manipulated the design, conduct and analyses to conclude that ivermectin was ineffective.

I have spent literally hundreds of hours (along with others like Alexandros Marinos) publishing reviews that have exposed the most absurd scientific misconduct I have ever witnessed. If you are interested, here are some of these reviews, for example the Oxford PRINCIPLE trial, the TOGETHER trial (three parts, here , here and here , and the NIH ACTIV-6 trial).

We have also evolved with the data, unlike the agencies that quickly determined in December 2020 that the vaccines were safe and effective and have never, ever, wavered from that position to this day. In contrast, the founding members of the FLCCC have, for quite a long time, diverged on the efficacy, safety, and necessity of mRNA vaccines. I was the first and most vocal against mRNA vaccines (as of April 2021), which almost led to the dissolution of the FLCCC or at least the composition of the original 5 members.

Before April 2021, I was simply neutral/skeptical. This skepticism was due to what I thought was the folly of trying to vaccinate against a coronavirus (I knew that coronavirus vaccines had historically failed because vaccinated animals developed antibody-dependent enhancement and also that coronaviruses mutate rapidly). Then I did my first deep dive into VAERS and the epidemiological data showing massive spikes in mortality and hospitalizations synchronized with vaccine rollouts in dozens of countries. Voila, I was now “anti-vaccine.”

I continued to follow and analyze the data that kept emerging and the horrors it revealed. This work eventually led the FLCCC to reach an internal “consensus” that vaccines should be avoided at all costs (literally at all costs, because none of the costs of taking the vaccine were worth someone’s life). Regardless, I simply wanted to show that we evolved with the data, always questioning and revising as new data emerged.

I will end by reminding everyone how dangerous the actions of ABIM will be for all of our lives, as they will further erode and/or literally destroy the patient-physician relationship. As I wrote in a previous editorial in the Daily call January 31, 2023, “A war is still being waged against doctors who question Covid orthodoxy”:

By virtue of their professional training, physicians are required to inform their patients about available treatments and the known risks of any treatment or procedure. By threatening physicians who might provide them with information that differs from their preferred worldview, ABIM disrupts the doctor-patient relationship.

When allowed to practice freely, physicians can prevent societal catastrophe by focusing on individual patients, informed by clinical experience.

Groups like ABIM and public medical officials like Fauci should support and encourage evidence-based debate and patient-centered care.

Instead, they have stifled both this debate and this therapeutic approach by persecuting its supporters. This campaign must stop, its origins and evolution must be carefully documented and must never be allowed to happen again. The autonomy of doctors must be restored so that all patients do not suffer.

Republished from the author’s Substack