Heroes of the Pandemic

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Conspiracy theorists, quacks, and right wing so called medical experts haven become part of daily speech describing those who dare criticize the accepted company line for COVID vaccines and treatments. Unfortunately many that get their news feed from Big Tech or the mainstream media will accept such demonisation without question. The truth is disconcerting to say the least for WHO, CDC. FDA and the Biden administration. Many of these medical experts are not only mainstream but they are at the top of their respective fields. You may see some of these names periodically on the internet or maybe on conservative media; however, to my knowledge you will not see these pulled together as the reference source provided below

The Great Barrington Declaration

The Great Barrington Declaration – As infectious disease epidemiologists and public health scientists we have grave concerns about the damaging physical and mental health impacts of the prevailing COVID-19 policies, and recommend an approach we call Focused Protection. 

Coming from both the left and right, and around the world, we have devoted our careers to protecting people. Current lockdown policies are producing devastating effects on short and long-term public health. The results (to name a few) include lower childhood vaccination rates, worsening cardiovascular disease outcomes, fewer cancer screenings and deteriorating mental health – leading to greater excess mortality in years to come, with the working class and younger members of society carrying the heaviest burden. Keeping students out of school is a grave injustice. 

Keeping these measures in place until a vaccine is available will cause irreparable damage, with the underprivileged disproportionately harmed.

Fortunately, our understanding of the virus is growing. We know that vulnerability to death from COVID-19 is more than a thousand-fold higher in the old and infirm than the young. Indeed, for children, COVID-19 is less dangerous than many other harms, including influenza. 

As immunity builds in the population, the risk of infection to all – including the vulnerable – falls. We know that all populations will eventually reach herd immunity – i.e.  the point at which the rate of new infections is stable – and that this can be assisted by (but is not dependent upon) a vaccine. Our goal should therefore be to minimize mortality and social harm until we reach herd immunity. 

The most compassionate approach that balances the risks and benefits of reaching herd immunity, is to allow those who are at minimal risk of death to live their lives normally to build up immunity to the virus through natural infection, while better protecting those who are at highest risk. We call this Focused Protection. 

Adopting measures to protect the vulnerable should be the central aim of public health responses to COVID-19. By way of example, nursing homes should use staff with acquired immunity and perform frequent testing of other staff and all visitors. Staff rotation should be minimized. Retired people living at home should have groceries and other essentials delivered to their home. When possible, they should meet family members outside rather than inside. A comprehensive and detailed list of measures, including approaches to multi-generational households, can be implemented, and is well within the scope and capability of public health professionals. 

Those who are not vulnerable should immediately be allowed to resume life as normal. Simple hygiene measures, such as hand washing and staying home when sick should be practiced by everyone to reduce the herd immunity threshold. Schools and universities should be open for in-person teaching. Extracurricular activities, such as sports, should be resumed. Young low-risk adults should work normally, rather than from home. Restaurants and other businesses should open. Arts, music, sport and other cultural activities should resume. People who are more at risk may participate if they wish, while society as a whole enjoys the protection conferred upon the vulnerable by those who have built up herd immunity.

On October 4, 2020, this declaration was authored and signed in Great Barrington, United States, by:

Dr. Martin Kulldorff, professor of medicine at Harvard University, a biostatistician, and epidemiologist with expertise in detecting and monitoring infectious disease outbreaks and vaccine safety evaluations.

Dr. Sunetra Gupta, professor at Oxford University, an epidemiologist with expertise in immunology, vaccine development, and mathematical modeling of infectious diseases.

Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, professor at Stanford University Medical School, a physician, epidemiologist, health economist, and public health policy expert focusing on infectious diseases and vulnerable populations.

Sign the Declaration

Co-signers

Medical and Public Health Scientists and Medical Practitioners

Dr. Alexander Walker, principal at World Health Information Science Consultants, former Chair of Epidemiology, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, USA

Dr. Andrius Kavaliunas, epidemiologist and assistant professor at Karolinska Institute, Sweden

Dr. Angus Dalgleish, oncologist, infectious disease expert and professor, St. George’s Hospital Medical School, University of London, England

Dr. Anthony J Brookes, professor of genetics, University of Leicester, England

Dr. Annie Janvier, professor of pediatrics and clinical ethics, Université de Montréal and Sainte-Justine University Medical Centre, Canada

Dr. Ariel Munitz, professor of clinical microbiology and immunology, Tel Aviv University, Israel

Dr. Boris Kotchoubey, Institute for Medical Psychology, University of Tübingen, Germany

Dr. Cody Meissner, professor of pediatrics, expert on vaccine development, efficacy, and safety. Tufts University School of Medicine, USA

Dr. David Katz, physician and president, True Health Initiative, and founder of the Yale University Prevention Research Center, USA

Dr. David Livermore, microbiologist, infectious disease epidemiologist and professor, University of East Anglia, England

Dr. Eitan Friedman, professor of medicine, Tel-Aviv University, Israel

Dr. Ellen Townsend, professor of psychology, head of the Self-Harm Research Group, University of Nottingham, England

Dr. Eyal Shahar, physician, epidemiologist and professor (emeritus) of public health, University of Arizona, USA

Dr. Florian Limbourg, physician and hypertension researcher, professor at Hannover Medical School, Germany

Dr. Gabriela Gomes, mathematician studying infectious disease epidemiology, professor, University of Strathclyde, Scotland

Dr. Gerhard Krönke, physician and professor of translational immunology, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany

Dr. Gesine Weckmann, professor of health education and prevention, Europäische Fachhochschule, Rostock, Germany

Dr. Günter Kampf, associate professor, Institute for Hygiene and Environmental Medicine, Greifswald University, Germany

Dr. Helen Colhoun, professor of medical informatics and epidemiology, and public health physician, University of Edinburgh, Scotland

Dr. Jonas Ludvigsson, pediatrician, epidemiologist and professor at Karolinska Institute and senior physician at Örebro University Hospital, Sweden

Dr. Karol Sikora, physician, oncologist, and professor of medicine at the University of Buckingham, England

Dr. Laura Lazzeroni, professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences and of biomedical data science, Stanford University Medical School, USA

Dr. Lisa White, professor of modelling and epidemiology, Oxford University, England

Dr. Mario Recker, malaria researcher and associate professor, University of Exeter, England

Dr. Matthew Ratcliffe, professor of philosophy, specializing in philosophy of mental health, University of York, England

Dr. Matthew Strauss, critical care physician and assistant professor of medicine, Queen’s University, Canada

Dr. Michael Jackson, research fellow, School of Biological Sciences, University of Canterbury, New Zealand

Dr. Michael Levitt, biophysicist and professor of structural biology, Stanford University, USA.
Recipient of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

Dr. Mike Hulme, professor of human geography, University of Cambridge, England

Dr. Motti Gerlic, professor of clinical microbiology and immunology, Tel Aviv University, Israel

Dr. Partha P. Majumder, professor and founder of the National Institute of Biomedical Genomics, Kalyani, India

Dr. Paul McKeigue, physician, disease modeler and professor of epidemiology and public health, University of Edinburgh, Scotland

Dr. Rajiv Bhatia, physician, epidemiologist and public policy expert at the Veterans Administration, USA

Dr. Rodney Sturdivant, infectious disease scientist and associate professor of biostatistics, Baylor University, USA

Dr. Simon Thornley, epidemiologist and biostatistician, University of Auckland, New Zealand

Dr. Simon Wood, biostatistician and professor, University of Edinburgh, Scotland

Dr. Stephen Bremner,professor of medical statistics, University of Sussex, England

Dr. Sylvia Fogel, autism provider and psychiatrist at Massachusetts General Hospital and instructor at Harvard Medical School, USA

Tom Nicholson, Associate in Research, Duke Center for International Development, Sanford School of Public Policy, Duke University, USA

Dr. Udi Qimron, professor of clinical microbiology and immunology, Tel Aviv University, Israel

Dr. Ulrike Kämmerer, professor and expert in virology, immunology and cell biology, University of Würzburg, Germany

Dr. Uri Gavish, biomedical consultant, Israel

Dr. Yaz Gulnur Muradoglu, professor of finance, director of the Behavioural Finance Working Group, Queen Mary University of London, England

It is important as reference to also specifically recognize those scientists and doctors that bravely risked their careers and livelihood to protect us and tell the truth about COVID as they see it.

Dr Jane M. Orient is executive director of the politically conservative Association of American Physicians and Surgeons. The 74-year-old Arizona native has been vocal in her criticism over coronavirus vaccines, instead opting to promote "medical freedom" and the anti-malaria drug hydroxychloroquine as an alternative treatment. Dr. Orient has so far opposed the idea to vaccinate all Americans against the coronavirus, going so far as to call mandatory vaccination "a serious intrusion into individual liberty, autonomy and parental decisions." "People are sick and dying now, and this will not stop the instant a vaccine is approved and deployed," Orient told Newsweek. The Columbia University-educated physician has been branded a "conspiracy theorist" and an "anti-vaxxer" by some of her critics—labels of which she denies. Dr. Jane M. Orient is the executive director of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons. The Heartland Institute More recently, her recent appointment as lead witness at a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee on early at-home treatment for COVID-19 on Tuesday has elicited criticism from Democrats and others in the medical field. The Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, of which Dr. Orient heads, strongly opposes federal interference in medical decisions, including mandated vaccines. The group, founded in 1943 to "protect private medicine", represents just thousands of the nearly one millions physicians practicing across the US. Government-imposed vaccination would be a "serious intrusion into individual liberty, autonomy, and parental decisions about child-rearing," the AAPS believes, according to a Senate statement on federal vaccine mandates.

Brian Hooker, PhD, PE

Brian Hooker is both a parent of a vaccine injured child and a vaccine researcher. As a scientist, he has devoted many years of his life to studying vaccines and corruption within the CDC. Dr. Brian Hooker currently holds the position of Associate Professor and serves as the Math and Science Division Chair at Simpson University in California. He graduated from Washington State University in 1990 with a PhD in Chemical Engineering and is a licensed professional engineer in Washington. He is known for fighting against the CDC to reveal the data used in their studies on vaccines and helping to expose how the CDC has hidden data. You know the CDC’s plan, not only their historic plan, but their ongoing plan, to absolve vaccines and vaccine components from anything related to the autism epidemic. You know, we don’t know what causes autism do we? But we know for darn sure tootin’ that it isn’t the vaccines and it can’t be the vaccines. Okay, which is completely illogical. There is no logic. If you don’t know what causes it, then it’s very, very, difficult to say that something doesn’t cause it.Vaccine Whistleblower is a gripping account of four legally recorded phone conversations between Dr. Brian Hooker, a scientist investigating autism and vaccine research, and Dr. William Thompson, a senior scientist in the vaccine safety division at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Thompson, who is still employed at the CDC under protection of the federal Whistleblower Protection Act, discloses a pattern of data manipulation, fraud, and corruption at the highest levels of the CDC, the federal agency in charge of protecting the health of Americans. Thompson states, “Senior people just do completely unethical, vile things and no one holds them accountable.”
This book nullifies the government’s claims that “vaccines are safe and effective,” and reveals that the government rigged research to cover up the link between vaccines and autism. Scientific truth and the health of American children have been compromised to protect the vaccine program and the pharmaceutical industry. The financial cost of the CDC’s corruption is staggering. The human cost is incalculable. Vaccine Whistleblower provides context to the implications of Thompson’s revelations and directs the reader to political action.

Dr. Peter McCullough is an internist, cardiologist, epidemiologist, managing the cardiovascular complications of both the viral infection and the injuries developing after the COVID-19 vaccine in Dallas, TX, USA. Since the outset of the pandemic, Dr. McCullough has been a leader in the medical response to the COVID-19 disaster and has published “Pathophysiological Basis and Rationale for Early Outpatient Treatment of SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) Infection,” the first synthesis of sequenced multidrug treatment of ambulatory patients infected with SARS-CoV-2 in the American Journal of Medicine and subsequently updated in Reviews in Cardiovascular Medicine. He has 51 peer-reviewed publications on the infection and has commented extensively on the medical response to the COVID-19 crisis in The Hill, America Out Loud, and on FOX NEWS Channel. On November 19, 2020, Dr. McCullough testified in the US Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs and throughout 2021 in the Texas Senate Committee on Health and Human Services, Colorado General Assembly, New Hampshire Senate, and South Carolina Senate concerning many aspects of the pandemic response. Dr. McCullough has two years of dedicated academic and clinical efforts in combating the SARS-CoV-2 virus. In doing so, he has reviewed thousands of reports, participated in scientific congresses, group discussions, press releases, and been considered among the world’s experts on COVID-19.

References:

https://www.amjmed.com/article/S0002-9343(20)30673-2/fulltext

https://rcm.imrpress.com/EN/10.31083/j.rcm.2020.04.264

https://www.truthforhealth.org/patientguide/patient-treatment-guide/

Robert W. Malone

Robert W. Malone received his BSc in biochemistry from the University of California, Davis in 1984, his MSc in biology from the University of California, San Diego in 1988, and his MD from Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in 1991.[5][6] He attended Harvard Medical School for a year-long postdoctoral studies program I am an internationally recognized scientist/physician and the original inventor of mRNA vaccination as a technology, DNA vaccination, and multiple non-viral DNA and RNA/mRNA platform delivery technologies. I hold numerous fundamental domestic and foreign patents in the fields of gene delivery, delivery formulations, and vaccines: including for fundamental DNA and RNA/mRNA vaccine technologies. I have approximately 100 scientific publications with over 12,000 citations of my work (per Google Scholar with an “outstanding” impact factor rating). I have been an invited speaker at over 50 conferences, have chaired numerous conferences and I have sat on or served as chairperson on HHS and DoD committees.  I currently sit as a non-voting member on the NIH ACTIV committee, which is tasked with managing clinical research for a variety of drug and antibody treatments for COVID-19. I received my medical degree from the Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine. I completed the Harvard Medical School fellowship as a global clinical research scholar in 2016 and was scientifically trained at the University of California at Davis, the University of California at San Diego, and at the Salk Institute Molecular Biology and Virology laboratories.  I have served as an assistant and associate professor of pathology and surgery at the University of California at Davis, the University of Maryland, and the Armed Forces University of the Health Sciences.  For many years, my wife and I have built and run a consultancy and analytics firm specializing in biotechnology and clinical trials development.

Pierre Kory M.D

Pierre Kory is the former Chief of the Critical Care Service and Medical Director of the Trauma and Life Support Center at the University of Wisconsin. He is considered one of the world pioneers in the use of ultrasound by physicians in the diagnosis and treatment of critically ill patients. He helped develop and run the first national courses in Critical Care Ultrasonography in the U.S., and served as a Director of these
courses with the American College of Chest Physicians for several years. He is also the senior editor of the most popular textbook in the field titled “Point of Care Ultrasound,” a book that is now in its 2nd edition and that has been translated into 7 languages worldwide. He has led over 100 courses nationally and internationally teaching physicians this now-standard skill in his specialty. Dr. Kory was also one of the pioneers in the United States in the research, development, and teaching of performing therapeutic hypothermia to treat post-cardiac arrest patients. In 2005, his hospital was the first in New York City to begin regularly treating patients with therapeutic hypothermia. He then served as an expert panel member for New York City’s Project Hypothermia, a collaborative project between the Fire Department of New York and Emergency Medical Services that created cooling protocols within a network of 44 regional hospitals along with a triage and transport system that directed patients to centers of excellence in hypothermia treatment, of which his hospital was one of the first. Known as a Master Educator, Dr. Kory has won numerous departmental and divisional teaching awards in every hospital he has worked and has delivered hundreds of courses and invited lectures throughout his career. In collaboration with Dr. Paul Marik, Dr. Kory pioneered the research and treatment of septic shock
patients with high doses of intravenous ascorbic acid. His work was the first to identify the critical relationship between the time of initiation of therapy and survival in septic shock patients, an aspect of the therapy that led to understanding all the failed randomized controlled trials that employed delayed therapy. Dr. Kory has led ICU’s in multiple COVID-19 hotspots throughout the pandemic, having led his old ICU in New York City during their initial surge in May for 5 straight weeks, he then travelled to other COVID-19 hotspots to run COVID ICU’s in Greenville, South Carolina and Milwaukee, WI during their surges. He has co-authored 5 influential papers on COVID-19 with the most impactful being a paper that was the first to support the diagnosis of early COVID-19 respiratory disease as an organizing pneumonia, thus explaining
the critical response of the disease to corticosteroids.

Paul Marik, MD

Academic Qualifications:
MBBCh, Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery, University of Witwaterstrand
D.Hom.Med, Diploma in Alternative Medicine, Bantridge Forest school, Sussex, UK
D.Av.Med, Diploma in Aviation Medicine, South African Defense Force
M.Med, Master of Medicine, University of Witwaterstrand
BSc (Hons) Pharmacology, University of Witwaterstrand
DTM&H, Diploma in Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, University of Witwaterstrand
FCP (SA), College of Medicine of South Africa
DA (DA), Diploma of Anesthesia, College of Medicine of South Africa
FRCPC, Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada
PNS, American Board of Physician Nutrition Specialists
UCNS-NCC, United Council for Neurological Subspecialities
Certification:
South African Medical and Dental Council
General Practitioner
Specialty certification in Internal Medicine
Sub-specialty certification in Critical Care Medicine
British Medical Council
General Practitioner
Specialty certification in Internal Medicine
Canadian Medical Council
General Practitioner
Specialty certification in Internal Medicine
Sub-specialty certification in Critical Care Medicine
American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM)
Internal Medicine
Critical Care Medicine
American Board of Physician Nutrition Specialists
Physician Nutrition Specialist
United Council for Neurological Subspecialities (USA)
Neurocritical Care Specialist

Marik CV. Page 3
Publications (Google Scholar and Harzings PoP):
Publications 782 (as listed by Google Scholar)
Citations 48 090
Citations/paper 44
Authors/paper 2.43
H index 105
Expertscape's PubMed-based algorithm: “World Expert” on the topic of sepsis being top 0.1%
of scholars writing about Sepsis over the past 10 years.
https://www.expertscape.com/ex/sepsis
Citation Metrics according to the top 100 000 scientists in all discplines as published by
Ioannidis JP et al. A standardized citation metrics author database annotated for scientific field.
PLoS Biol 2019; 17(8): e3000384
World Ranking: 734 (top 0.01%)
Number of publications: 524
Number Citations: 18 899
H Index: 66

Dr. Jay Bhattacharya

Dr. Jay Bhattacharya professor at Stanford University Medical School, a physician, epidemiologist, health economist, and public health policy expert focusing on infectious diseases and vulnerable populations.. research funding over the past 22 years of his career has come almost entirely from grants from the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, the US Department of Agriculture, and participation on contracts with the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) via a government contracting research group, Acumen, LLC. He has never accepted or received any funding from pharmaceutical companies, nor from any other large corporation. Senior Scholar of Brownstone Institute, is a Professor of Medicine at Stanford University. He is a research associate at the National Bureau of Economics Research, a senior fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research, and at the Stanford Freeman Spogli Institute. From the very beginning of the COVID-19 crisis, Dr. Jay Bhattacharya has been on the front lines of analyzing, studying, and even personally fighting the pandemic. In this wide-ranging interview, Dr. Bhattacharya takes us through how it started, how it spread throughout the world, the efficacy of lockdowns, the development and distribution of the vaccines, and the rise of the Delta variant. He delves into what we got right, what we got wrong, and what we got really wrong. Finally, Dr. Bhattacharya looks to the future and how we will learn to live with COVID rather than trying to extinguish it, and how we might be prepared to deal with another inevitable pandemic that we know will arrive at some point.

Dr. Sunetra Gupta

Dr. Gupya is a professor at Oxford University, an epidemiologist with expertise in immunology, vaccine development, and mathematical modeling of infectious diseases.. research funding over the last 30 years has principally been through fellowships and investigator awards from the Wellcome Trust and the European Research Council.  She has also received funding from the UKRI, the Royal Society, the Leverhulme Trust, the Emily and Georg von Opel Foundation and the Oxford Martin School. She and Dr. Craig Thompson have developed a novel method for producing a universal influenza vaccine (derived from a mathematical model) and this has now been licensed and is going through early testing. She does not hold any consultancy contracts or stock shares in any commercial company. My main area of interest is the evolution of diversity in pathogens, with particular reference to the infectious disease agents that are responsible for malaria, influenza and bacterial meningitis. I use simple mathematical models to generate new hypotheses regarding the processes that determine the population structure of these pathogens. I work closely with laboratory and field scientists both to develop these hypotheses and to test them. I have an interest in the public understanding of science and also in the connections between science and literature at the level of language and narrative.

Dr. Martin Kulldorff

Martin Kulldorff, PhD, is a Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. His research centers on developing new epidemiological and statistical methods for the early detection and monitoring of infectious disease outbreaks and for post-market drug and vaccine safety surveillance. Kulldorff (born 1962) is a Swedish biostatistician and epidemiologist. From 2015 to 2021, Kulldorff was a professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and biostatistician at the Brigham and Women's Hospital.[2][3][4] He is a member of the Food and Drug Administration's Drug Safety and Risk Management Advisory Committee and a former consultant for the Centers for Disease Control.[1][5]

In 2020, Kulldorff was a co-author of the Great Barrington Declaration, which advocated lifting COVID-19 restrictions on lower-risk groups to encourage herd immunity while attempting to protect more vulnerable groups. He opposed measures against the coronavirus such as lockdowns, contact tracing and mask mandates.

Dr. Harvey Risch

Dr. Harvey Risch is a Professor of Epidemiology in the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health at the Yale School of Public Health and Yale School of Medicine. Dr. Risch was a faculty member in epidemiology and biostatistics at the University of Toronto before coming to Yale. Dr. Risch’s research interests are in the areas of cancer etiology, prevention and early diagnosis, and epidemiologic methods. He is especially interested in the effects of reproductive factors, diet, genetic predisposition,histopathologic factors, occupational/environmental/medication exposures, infection, and immune functioning in cancer etiology. His major research projects have included studies of ovarian cancer, pancreas cancer, lung cancer, bladder cancer, esophageal and stomach cancer, and of cancers related to the usage of oral contraceptives and noncontraceptive estrogens. Dr. Risch is Associate Editor of the Journal of the National Cancer Institute, Editor of the International Journal of Cancer, and Member of the Board of Editors, the American Journal of Epidemiology. The doc has authored more than 325 original research publications in the medical literature, has an h-index of 88, and is a Member of the Connecticut Academy of Sciences and Engineering.

Dr. Tess Lawrie

Dr. Tess Lawrie is a world-class researcher and consultant to the World Health Organization. Her biggest clients happen to be those who are involved in the suppression of repurposed drugs. She has decided to speak out in protest against the current medical establishment at considerable personal risk. She co-founded the BIRD panel, an international group of experts dedicated to the transparent and accurate scientific research of Ivermectin. On April 24, 2021, she convened the International Ivermectin for COVID Conference, the first such symposium in the world held to focus on Ivermectin to prevent and treat COVID-19.

Bret Weinstein, PhD

Bret Weinstein is an American biologist and evolutionary theorist. He began his undergraduate studies at the University of Pennsylvania.

In 2004, he took a leave of absence from his position at Evergreen State College to complete his doctorate in biology at the University of Michigan. In 2009, Bret received his doctorate and returned to Evergreen at that time. Bret is a married man. He is married to Heather Heying, who is also an evolutionary biologist and also worked at Evergreen. Heather resigned from the college with Weinstein, having taken a similar political position when events unfolded. Bret spent the majority of his academic career as a professor of Biology at Evergreen State College in Washington. In 2002, Bret published The Reserve-Capacity Hypothesis. The book proposed that the telomeric differences between humans and laboratory mice have led scientists to underestimate the risks new drugs pose to humans in the form of heart disease, liver dysfunction, and related organ failure. He took a hiatus from Evergreen to earn his Ph.D. in Biology from the University of Michigan with a dissertation on evolutionary trade-off mechanisms. Bret experienced controversy again when he became the focus of a campus protest at Evergreen State College, where he was teaching biology. It all began when he wrote a letter to Evergreen faculty in March of 2017. Bret’s letter objected to a change in the College’s decades-old tradition of observing a “Day of Absence” during which students and faculty of a minority race would stay home from campus to highlight their contributions to the College. The Day of Absence was inspired by a 1965 play of the same name by Douglas Turner Ward. The 1965 play was based on an imaginary Southern town in which all the black people disappear one day. The announced change would flip the traditional event, asking white students and faculty to stay home. Bret’s letter strongly opposed and criticized the change. Late May 2017, student protests—focusing in large part on the comments made by Bret, disrupted the campus and called for a number of changes to the college. Bret claims the college’s president refused to allow law enforcement to quell protesters. He also claims campus police told him that they could not protect him and encouraged him to stay off campus. Bret would then hold his biology class in a public park. Later in September of 2017, a settlement was reached in which Weinstein and his wife, professor Heather Heying, resigned and received $500,000 after initially seeking $3.8 million

1. Weinstein, Bret S; Ciszek, Deborah (2002). “The reserve-capacity hypothesis: Evolutionary origins and modern implications of the trade-off between tumor-suppression and tissue-repair”. Experimental Gerontology.

2. Lahti, David C.; Weinstein, Bret S. (January 2005). “The better angels of our nature: Group stability and the evolution of moral tension”. Evolution & Human Behavior.

3. Weinstein, Bret S. (January 2009). “Evolutionary Trade-Offs: Emergent Constraints and Their Adaptive Consequences”

Dr. Simone Gold

Simone Melissa Gold [ is an American physician, attorney, author, and the founder of America's Frontline Doctors, She gained attention when a video of an America's Frontline Doctors press conference in front of the US Supreme Court Building went viral in July 2020. She has commented on the COVID-19 vaccine: "[w]e doctors are pro-vaccine, but this is not a vaccine." On January 5, 2021, Gold spoke at a rally in Washington D.C., telling attendees to refuse to be vaccinated for COVID-19 . In July 2020, Gold and her group, America's Frontline Doctors, held a press conference on the steps in front of the Supreme Court. The press conference was referred to as the "White Coat Summit" and was organized by Gold in conjunction with the Tea Party Patriots, a right-wing political organization, and was broadcast by Breitbart News. It featured Gold and her colleagues speaking about the merits of hydroxychloroquine, They have opposed wearing masks to prevent the spread of COVID- The video went viral after being retweeted by the Trump family and reached over 14 million views Gold was fired from hospitals where she had worked as an emergency department physician in the aftermath of the video. The day before the distribution of Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine, Gold spoke outside the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention headquarters in Atlanta, repeatedly calling the vaccine "experimental" and criticizing potential vaccine mandates. drawing criticism from doctors and researchers. Gold spoke about the COVID-19 vaccines at The Stand, an event that describes itself as a series of "Open Air Mass Healing & Miracle Services." In the speech, she praised hydroxychloroquine and continued to make claims about dangers of the COVID-19 vaccines. After Gold was blocked from Facebook for violating their community standards, her anti-COVID 19 vaccination speeches began appearing on the hosting platform Rumble. These videos feature Gold telling audiences not to get vaccinated for COVID-19 and praising hydroxychloroquine as a treatment . She alleged the United States Government experimented on black people to test the general safety of vaccines. On January 5, 2021, Gold spoke at a rally in Washington D.C. to a crowd of people gathering in the city for the following day's "Stop the Steal" rally. She criticized the COVID-19 vaccines, said the COVID-19 was non-fatal. She told supporters, "If you don't want to take an experimental biological agent deceptively named a vaccine, you must not allow yourself to be coerced!". Gold was scheduled to speak the at the Rally for Health Freedom scheduled for 6 January but the rally was cancelled before her speech. On May 21, 2021, Gold and America's Frontline Doctors sued the United States Department of Health and Human Services in an attempt to prevent children from receiving COVID-19 vaccines. The 80-page petition, filed in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Alabama, calls the vaccines "experimental injections" and says COVID-19 presents "zero risk" of death to children. Regarding the petition, Gold said "We doctors are pro-vaccine, but this is not a vaccine. This is an experimental biological agent whose harms are well documented (although suppressed and censored) and growing rapidly, and we will not support using America's children as guinea pigs."

Dr. Vladimir Zelenko

Dr. Vladimir “Zev” Zelenko was born in Ukraine and raised in New York, where he would eventually graduate from Medical School in 2000.  His entire time as a Doctor has been practicing in New York and he was most recently a family medicine physician in Monroe.  A true family man, “Zev” is married and has eight wonderful children.  Additionally, he has written several books and just recently released his own supplement called “Z-Stack” which can be found on his website https://vladimirzelenkomd.com/ Dr. Zelenko has become very well-known globally during the fight against Covid-19.  His work has been so well-renowned globally that he was recently nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize.  Please click on the podcast below to hear his amazing story in his own words. In this podcast you will hear him go through the entire timeline of events that led to him being in the public spotlight very early-on during the pandemic and all of the controversy that came with it.  In addition, he details just how quickly and aggressively the Coronavirus hit his densely-populated community and began to spread… forcing him to find any solution possible to keep people out of hospital and to save lives.  You will learn about the particular combination of drugs that he used and continues to use for early treatment of Covid-19 with amazing, peer-reviewed results and why he chose these particular drugs and dosages.  He also opens up about all of the different ways that other people and organizations tried to silence his voice, cast doubt on his work and suppress life-saving information.     

Geert Vanden Bossche DVM, PhD

Geert Vanden Bossche received his DVM from the University of Ghent, Belgium, and his PhD degree in Virology from the University of Hohenheim, Germany. He held adjunct faculty appointments at universities in Belgium and Germany. After his career in Academia, Geert joined several vaccine companies (GSK Biologicals, Novartis Vaccines, Solvay Biologicals) to serve various roles in vaccine R&D as well as in late vaccine development. Geert then moved on to join the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s Global Health Discovery team in Seattle (USA) as Senior Program Officer; he then worked with the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization (GAVI) in Geneva as Senior Ebola Program Manager. At GAVI he tracked efforts to develop an Ebola vaccine. He also represented GAVI in fora with other partners, including WHO, to review progress on the fight against Ebola and to build plans for global

Denis Rancourt, PhD

Denis Rancourt holds B.Sc.(1980), M.Sc (1981). and Ph.D. (1984, University of Toronto) university degrees in physics.

He has been a Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) of Canada international post‑doctoral candidate in prestigious research laboratories in both France and The Netherlands (1984-85, 1985-86).

He became a national NSERC University Research Fellow, in Canada. He was a professor of physics at the University of Ottawa for 23 years, attaining the highest academic rank of tenured Full Professor.  He developed new courses and taught over 2000 university students, at all levels, and in three different faculties (Science, Engineering, and Arts).  He supervised more than 80 junior research terms or degrees at all levels from post-doctoral fellow to graduate students to NSERC undergraduate researchers.  Several of his former graduate students are government and private‑sector scientists, university professors, teachers, managers, and business leaders. He headed an internationally recognized interdisciplinary research laboratory, and attracted significant research funding for two decades. Dr. Rancourt has been an invited plenary, keynote, or special session speaker at major scientific conferences 40 times, including recently in 2020 (by virtual attendance). He has published over 100 research papers in leading peer-reviewed scientific journals, in the areas of physics, chemistry, geology, materials science, soil science, and environmental science. He has made fundamental scientific discoveries in the areas of environmental science, measurement science, soil science, bio-geochemistry, theoretical physics, alloy physics, magnetism, and planetary science.

Dr. Rancourt’s scientific impact factors (h-index) is 40, and his articles have been cited more than 5,000 times in peer-reviewed scientific journals. ( See Google-Scholar profile: https://scholar.google.ca/citations?user=1ChsRsQAAAAJ )

Dr. Rancourt is a frequent media commentator. His medical, political and social theory articles and interviews are published in many venues.  His recent video interviews and reporting videos about the science of the COVID-19 epidemic and the science of face masks for preventing viral respiratory diseases have been viewed more than 2 million times, in both French and English.

When I review scientific articles, in particular, in relation to COVID-19, my personal knowledge and ability to evaluate the facts in the said scientific articles are grounded in my education, research, training and experience, as follows:

1. Regarding environmental nanoparticles. Viral respiratory diseases are transmitted by the smallest size-fraction of virion-laden aerosol particles, which are reactive environmental nanoparticles. Therefore, the chemical and physical stabilities and transport properties of these aerosol particles are the foundation of the dominant contagion mechanism through air. My extensive work on reactive environmental nanoparticles is internationally recognized, and includes: precipitation and growth, surface reactivity, agglomeration, surface charging, phase transformation, settling and sedimentation, and reactive dissolution. In addition, I have taught the relevant fluid dynamics (air is a compressible fluid), and gravitational settling at the university level, and I have done industrial-application research on the technology of filtration (face masks are filters).

2. Regarding molecular science, molecular dynamics, and surface complexation. I am an expert in molecular structures, reactions, and dynamics, including molecular complexation to biotic and abiotic surfaces. These processes are the basis of viral attachment, antigen attachment, molecular replication, attachment to mask fibers, particle charging, loss and growth in aerosol particles, and all such phenomena involved in viral transmission and infection, and in protection measures. I taught quantum mechanics at the advanced university level for many years, which is the fundamental theory of atoms, molecules and substances; and in my published research I developed X-ray diffraction theory and methodology for characterizing small material particles.

3. Regarding statistical analysis methods. Statistical analysis of scientific studies, including robust error propagation analysis and robust estimates of bias, sets the limit of what reliably can be inferred from any observational study, including randomized controlled trials in medicine, and including field measurements during epidemics. I am an expert in error analysis and statistical analysis of complex data, at the research level in many areas of science. Statistical analysis methods are the basis of medical research.

4. Regarding mathematical modelling. Much of epidemiology is based on mathematical models of disease transmission and evolution in the population. I have research-level knowledge and experience with predictive and exploratory mathematical models and simulation methods. I have expert knowledge related to parameter uncertainties and parameter dependencies in such models. For example, my 2006 co-authored model of biogeochemical cycling of nutrients in lakes is highly cited (from my laboratory, lead researcher). I have recently made extensive simulations of epidemiological dynamics, using standard compartmental models and new models.

5. Regarding measurement methods. In science there are five main categories of measurement methods: (1) spectroscopy (including nuclear, electronic and vibrational spectroscopies), (2) imaging (including optical and electron microscopies, and resonance imaging), (3) diffraction (including X-ray and neutron diffractions, used to elaborate molecular, defect and magnetic structures), (4) transport measurements (including reaction rates, energy transfers, and conductivities), and (5) physical property measurements (including specific density, thermal capacities, stress response, material fatigue…). I have taught these measurement methods in an interdisciplinary graduate course that I developed and gave to graduate (M.Sc. and Ph.D.) students of physics, biology, chemistry, geology, and engineering for many years. I have made fundamental discoveries and advances in areas of spectroscopy, diffraction, magnetometry, and microscopy, which have been published in leading scientific journals and presented at international conferences. I know measurement science, the basis of all sciences, at the highest level.

Dr. Flavio Cadegiani, MD, MsC, PhD

The founder of Corpometria Institute, Dr. Flavio Cadegiani, MD, MsC, PhD is a board certified Endocrinologist, with MsC and PhD degrees in Clinical Endocrinology at Federal University of São Paulo, and focused on investigations in the fields of hormonal physiology of athletic training, pathophysiology of Overtraining Syndrome, etiologies of fatigue, obesity, and androgens. Dr. Cadegiani has two concurrent careers, in the research and in private practice. Currently Dr. Cadegiani has a position of CEO of Corpometria Institute and Clinical Director at Applied Biology. He obtained his medical degree in University of Brasilia in 2008, finished his residency in internal medicine in the same university in 2010 and fellowship in Endocrinology and Metabolism in HBDF, Brasilia, Brazil, in 2012. He obtained both master degree (MSc) and PhD in Clinical Endocrinology at Federal University of São Paulo (Unifesp/EPM), mentored by Prof. Dr. Cláudio Elias Kater. Dr. Cadegiani has become a worldwide expert in both Endocrinology and Sports Medicine fields, providing a unique endocrinological perspective from Physical Activity, in addition to a deeper understanding of the underlying mechanisms of fatigue. However, Dr. Cadegiani research fields go beyond fatigue and related conditions. He is a worldwide known expert for obesity management, perhaps amongst the largest experts in actual multidrug pharmacological weight loss management, and the creator and of the first protocol of a combination between pharmacological and non-pharmacological treat patients with moderate and severe obesity clinically and avoid bariatric surgery, and that has been scientifically demonstrated to be effective in the short and long terms. Dr. Cadegiani contributions to the obesity field also include the first chapter fully dedicated to describe the dysfunctions of the liver in obesity and responses to bariatric surgery. He also described scientifically the first drug to reduce both early and late Dumping's syndrome that typically occurs after bariatric surgery, and he has now demonstrated paradoxical weight loss markers, including increase of homocysteine and triglycerides, which usually are considered as being negative parameters, but that was positivetely associated with fat loss. Besides fatigue-related conditions, overtraining syndrome, endocrinology of physical activity, and obesity, Dr. Cadegiani believes that there is much to discover in the world of androgens and skin-related diseases, and how skin and hair can provide a deeper and more precise steroidal and metabolic mapping, particularly in the long term, in contrast to the snapchat sort of analysis of blood samples. He wants to expand the understanding of the multiple crosstalks between skin and hormones, and describe a thorough characterization of the peculiarities of the steroidal steroidogenesis in the hair and skin, as well as the implications for diagnoses and therapeutics.

Dr. Wolfgang Wodarg

Wolfgang Wodarg (born 2 March 1947) is a German physician and politician. He was a member of the Bundestag for the SPD from 1994 to 2009.

As chair of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe Health Committee Wodarg co-signed a proposed resolution on 18 December 2009, which was briefly discussed in January 2010 in an emergency debate and he has called for an inquiry into alleged undue influence exerted by pharmaceutical companies on the World Health Organization’s global H1N1 flu campaign.[2] His comments on the COVID-19 pandemic drew criticism from scientists, politicians, and the media. Born and raised in the town Itzehoe in Schleswig-Holstein, in 1966 Wodarg went, after his secondary school exams, on to study in medicine in Berlin and Hamburg. He got his physician's licence in 1973, and in 1974 he received his Dr. med. doctorate degree from the University of Hamburg with a dissertation on the Mental Diseases of Seafarers – a study of suicide, alcoholism and other major psychiatric disorders. He subsequently began work as a ship's doctor, and following a research trip to South Africa he began in the position of port doctor in Hamburg. Since 1983 he has held the position of Amtsarzt at the health department of Flensburg, of which he became director in the same decade. Wolfgang Wodarg is a lecturer at the University of Flensburg. Wodarg is member of the party Die Basis. He has been member of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) from 1988 until 2021. From 1992 to 2002 he was the head of the SPD's Schleswig-Flensburg district. From 19 November 2005 to 1 December 2007 Wodarg was chairman of the SPD district of Flensburg. Since 1990 Wodarg has been member of the executive committee of the national Association of Social Democrats in the Health Sector, and since 1994 the federal deputy chairman, and in 2002 he became elected chairman of the federal Committee. Wodarg first came to the attention of the general public in the 1980s when he was head of the Public Health Department (German: Gesundheitsamt) in Flensburg, Germany, and as such was (technically) "responsible" for employing as a doctor the medical impostor Gert Postel, later famously revealed to be a postman by training. He later appeared in the documentary Der Hochstapler - Die schwindelerregende Karriere des Postboten Gert Postel. From 1986 to 1998 Wodarg belonged to the parish council of his native Nieby. From 1994 to 2009 he was a member of the Bundestag. Here Wodarg was spokesman from 2003 to 2005 of the SPD caucus in the inquiry commission ethics and law of modern medicine and spokesman for issues of minorities in the German-Danish border area. He was a representative for the directly elected Bundestag seat for the Flensburg-Schleswig constituency from 1994 but lost his mandate in the 2009 German federal election. Since 1999 Wodarg has also belonged to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe. Since 2002 he has been vice chairman of the Socialist Group, and since 2006 president of the German social democrats and deputy head of the German delegation. His comments on the COVID-19 pandemic drew criticism from German scientists and some German media outlets. According to the critics, In a December 2020 petition to the European Medicines Agency, Wodarg and former Pfizer scientist Michael Yeadon called for all mRNA vaccine trials to be halted. Their petition that the vaccines could cause infertility in women by targeting the syncytin-1 protein necessary for placenta formation, soon began circulating on social media.

Richard M. Fleming, PhD, MD, JD

Dr. Richard M. Fleming is a Nuclear and Preventive Cardiologist, born and raised in Waterloo, Iowa, USA. He attended the University of Northern Iowa and has degrees in Physics, Biology, Psychology and Chemistry. He attended the University of Iowa College of Medicine, Creighton University and the University of Texas Health Science Center in Houston. In addition to training in Cardiology he has special Certifications in Positron Emission Tomography. He was Board Certified in Internal Medicine in 1990 and Nuclear Cardiology in 1996. He developed both the Unified Theory of Vascular Disease establishing 'Inflammation” as the cause of coronary and peripheral vascular disease and the Quadratic Blood Flow Equation for Coronary Flow Reserve in the early to mid-1990s. He has published more than 50 papers in peer review medical journals, over 50 presentations at scientific conferences throughout the U.S., Europe and Asia, has authored 8 chapters in Medical Textbooks and written 3 independent books on Health Care. He has served as Faculty and a Professor at various Universities and in 2003 received a Physician of the Year award. His current work on SPECT Cardiac imaging promotes the detection of Vulnerable Inflammatory Plaques (VIPs) through reductions in radiation dosage by using principles similar to the detection of black holes and dark matter.

Dr. Mike Yeadon

Dr. Yeadon is an Allergy & Respiratory Therapeutic Area expert, developed out of deep knowledge of biology & therapeutics and is an innovative drug discoverer with 23y in the pharmaceutical industry. He trained as a biochemist and pharmacologist, obtaining his PhD from the University of Surrey (UK) in 1988 on the CNS and peripheral pharmacology of opioids on respiration. Dr Yeadon then worked at the Wellcome Research Labs with Salvador Moncada with a research focus on airway hyper-responsiveness and effects of pollutants including ozone and working in drug discovery of 5-LO, COX, PAF, NO and lung inflammation. With colleagues, he was the first to detect exhaled NO in animals and later to induce NOS in lung via allergic triggers. Joining Pfizer in 1995, he was responsible for the growth and portfolio delivery of the Allergy & Respiratory pipeline within the company. During his tenure at Pfizer, Dr Yeadon was responsible for target selection and the progress into humans of new molecules, leading teams of up to 200 staff across all disciplines and won an Achievement Award for productivity in 2008. Under his leadership the research unit invented oral and inhaled NCEs which delivered multiple positive clinical proofs of concept in asthma, allergic rhinitis and COPD. He led productive collaborations such as with Rigel Pharmaceuticals (SYK inhibitors) and was involved in the licensing of Spiriva® and acquisition of the Meridica (inhaler device) company. Dr Yeadon has published over 40 original research articles and now consults and partners with a number of biotechnology companies. Before working with Apellis, Dr Yeadon was VP and Chief Scientific Officer (Allergy & Respiratory Research) with Pfizer.

https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/health-coronavirus-vaccines-skeptic/

Dr. Judy Mikovits

Mikovits is a proud graduate of the University of Virginia, where she earned her Bachelor of Science degree in Chemistry with a specialization in biology, in 1980. From there, she was accepted at the National Cancer Institute in Frederick, Maryland, where she developed purification methods for Interferon alpha. From 1986–1987, she worked at Upjohn Pharmaceuticals in Kalamazoo, Michigan, where she developed production methods to insure biological materials manufactured using human blood products were free of contamination from HIV-1. In 1992 she completed a joint Ph.D. program in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at George Washington University. Her Ph.D. thesis was titled “Negative Regulation of HIV Expression in Monocytes.” Mikovits was a postdoctoral scholar in molecular virology at the Laboratory of Genomic Diversity, National Cancer Institute, under Dr. David Derse. Dr. Mikovits obtained her Ph.D. in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology from George Washington University. Dr. Judy Mikovits is a modern-day Rosalind Franklin, a brilliant researcher shaking up the old boys’ club of science with her groundbreaking discoveries. And like many women who have trespassed into the world of men, she uncovered decades-old secrets that many would prefer to stay buried. From her doctoral thesis, which changed the treatment of HIV-AIDS, saving the lives of millions, including basketball great Magic Johnson, to her spectacular discovery of a new family of human retroviruses, and her latest research which points to a new golden age of health, Dr. Mikovits has always been on the leading edge of science. With the brilliant wit one might expect if Erin Brockovich had a doctorate in molecular biology, Dr. Mikovits has seen the best and worst of science. When she was part of the research community that turned HIV-AIDS from a fatal disease into a manageable one, she saw science at its best. But when her investigations questioned whether the use of animal tissue in medical research were unleashing devastating plagues of chronic diseases, such as autism and chronic fatigue syndrome, she saw science at its worst. If her suspicions are correct, we are looking at a complete realignment of scientific practices, including how we study and treat human disease. Recounting her nearly four decades in science, including her collaboration of more than thirty-five years with Dr. Frank Ruscetti, one of the founders of the field of human retrovirology, this is a behind the scenes look at the issues and egos which will determine the future health of humanity.

A now-former employee of United Memorial Medical Center in Batavia has attracted national attention in recent weeks as a self-proclaimed “whistleblower” around what she describes as a “cover-up” of potential dangers of the COVID-19 vaccine. While employed at UMMC, Conrad spoke to multiple media outlets in September, including the New York Times, about her hesitancy around the COVID-19 vaccine. She has also spoken locally on the matter. In an hour-long video interview published in September by The HighWire, a website run by the Texas-based anti-vaccine group Informed Consent Action Network, Conrad stated that her hospital had seen a noticeable increase in patients coming in with conditions including heart attacks, strokes, blood clots, gastrointestinal bleeds, sepsis, pneumonia, appendicitis, pancreatitis and “recurrent cancers” following the initial public rollout of the COVID-19 vaccines in early 2021.

VACCINE DATABASE IS A TOPIC OF CONCERN

One of Conrad’s primary concerns, as she has stated in multiple speaking engagements and on her GoFundMe page, is public awareness of the federally-run Vaccine Averse Event Reporting (VAERS) database. The database, which has existed since 1990 and is co-managed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, “accepts and analyzes” voluntarily-submitted reports of “adverse events,” or possible side effects, after a person has received a vaccination, according to a description on the official VAERS website.

“Most people don’t even know what VAERS is,” Conrad said at the EverPresent event in late September. “I didn’t know what VAERS was and I’m a health care worker.” In the HighWire video interview, Conrad said that she had submitted the names and information of more than 120 UMMC patients to the database since the COVID-19 vaccine was rolled out, including an estimated 50 patients in the span of one particular month — accounting for the bulk of all the VAERS reports submitted by the hospital in that time, according to Conrad. At one point, Conrad said, she approached hospital administration to ask for support in her work reporting patients to the VAERS database, as it had become a “full-time job.” That request was “met with resistance,” Conrad told the HighWire interviewer. In an undated phone call with UMMC President Dan Ireland recorded by Conrad, a clip of which was played in the video produced by The HighWire, Ireland clarified that the hospital system’s policy was that each health care provider “has the responsibility to report on their own patient” when it comes to submitting adverse events to the VAERS database. For some patients and their families, a lack of broad public awareness of the database have lead to confusion around why certain cases are reported to VAERS and what these reports indicate. The parameters of VAERS reporting -- and what his wife's inclusion in the database meant -- were not made clear to him during the call, Owens said. He said he was told during that call that Billie's inclusion in the database meant that she was confirmed to have had an adverse reaction. (When contacted by The Batavian, the nurse confirmed that she had provided Owens with a VAERS identification number but did not provide any other details about their exchange.)

When Owens watched Conrad’s interview with The HighWire — in which she suggested that a number of UMMC patients with serious conditions may have been hospitalized due to side effects from the vaccine — his confusion turned to frustration and anger, he said, largely on behalf of other families who may have found themselves in similar situations, leaving them susceptible to misinformation about the vaccine. 

“Of course I was scared to death and I knew my job would be on the line as a result,” Conrad said, in reference to the interview. “I knew I would be exposed… I don’t want to hurt anybody, but I just can’t stand to see the injustice going on.”

Knut M. Wittkowski, PhD

Dr. Wittkowski received his PhD in computer science from the University of Stuttgart and his ScD (Habilitation) in Medical Biometry from the Eberhard-Karls-University Tuüingen, both Germany. He worked for 15 years with Klaus Dietz, a leading epidemiologist who coined the term “reproduction number”, on the Epidemiology of HIV before heading for 20 years the Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology, and Research Design at The Rockefeller University, New York. Dr. Wittkowski is currently the CEO of ASDERA LLC, a company discovering novel treatments for complex diseases from data of genome-wide association studies. His work has been widely cited in the technical/medical literature. So try to understand his frustration with everything going on around him. A lifetime of work toward understanding diseases and their spread, and he has to watch all this unfold in the most brutal way that contradicts everything he knows and has tried to teach.
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Knut_M_Wittkowski
At the last moments of this interview below (full transcript) he says the following:
With all respiratory diseases, the only thing that stops the disease is herd immunity. About 80% of the people need to have had contact with the virus, and the majority of them won’t even have recognized that they were infected, or they had very, very mild symptoms, especially if they are children. So, it’s very important to keep the schools open and kids mingling to spread the virus to get herd immunity as fast as possible, and then the elderly people, who should be separated, and the nursing homes should be closed during that time, can come back and meet their children and grandchildren after about 4 weeks when the virus has been exterminated…. We are experiencing all sorts of counterproductive consequences of not well-thought-through policy…. Well, we will see maybe a total of fewer cases—that is possible. However, we will see more cases among the elderly, because we have prevented the school children from creating herd immunity. And so, in the end, we will see more death because the school children don’t die, it’s the elderly people who die, we will see more death because of this social distancing….
If we had herd immunity now, there couldn’t be a second wave in autumn. Herd immunity lasts for a couple of years, typically, and that’s why the last SARS epidemic we had in 2003, it lasted 15 years for enough people to become susceptible again so that a new epidemic could spread of a related virus. Because typically, there is something that requires cross-immunity, so if you were exposed to one of the SARS viruses, you are less likely to fall ill with another SARS virus. So, if we had herd immunity, we wouldn’t have a second wave. However, if we are preventing herd immunity from developing, it is almost guaranteed that we have a second wave as soon as either we stop the social distancing or the climate changes with winter coming or something like that…. [Extreme reactions] cost the US taxpayer $2 trillion, in addition to everything else that it costs, but it also has severe consequences for our social life, and depression is definitely something that we will be researching. I can say for myself, walking through New York City right now is depressing…. We should be resisting, and we should, at least, hold our politicians responsible. We should have a discussion with our politicians. One thing we definitely need to do, and that would be safe and effective, is opening schools. Let the children spread the virus among themselves, which is a necessity to get herd immunity. That was probably one of the most destructive actions the government has done. We should focus on the elderly and separating them from the population where the virus is circulating. We should not prevent the virus from circulating among school children, which is the fastest way to create herd immunity…. And the final question and answer: “So, is there anything else you want to say about this that—what’s been aggravating you the most? Or what would you like people to know?”I think people in the United States and maybe other countries as well are more docile than they should be. People should talk with their politicians, question them, ask them to explain, because if people don’t stand up to their rights, their rights will be forgotten. I’m Knut Wittkowski. I was at the Rockefeller University, I have been an epidemiologist for 35 years, and I have been modeling epidemics for 35 years. It’s a pleasure to have the ability to help people to understand, but it’s a struggle to get heard.

Zach Bush, MD

Zach Bush MD is a physician specializing in internal medicine, endocrinology and hospice care. He is an internationally recognized educator and thought leader on the microbiome as it relates to health, disease, and food systems. Dr Zach founded *Seraphic Group and the nonprofit Farmer’s Footprint to develop root-cause solutions for human and ecological health. His passion for education reaches across many disciplines, including topics such as the role of soil and water ecosystems in human genomics, immunity, and gut/brain health. His education has highlighted the need for a radical departure from chemical farming and pharmacy, and his ongoing efforts are providing a path for consumers, farmers, and mega-industries to work together for a healthy future for people and planet.

Peter Breggin, MD

  Peter R. Breggin MD is a lifelong reformer known as “The Conscience of Psychiatry” for his criticism of biological psychiatry and his promotion of more effective, empathic, and ethical forms of psychological, educational, and social approaches to people with emotional suffering and disability. He graduated from Harvard College with Honors and his psychiatric training included a Teaching Fellowship at Harvard Medical School. Following his training, he became a Full Time Consultant in the U.S. Public Health Service at NIH, assigned to the National Institute of Mental Health. Since then, he has taught at several universities, including Johns Hopkins, George Mason, and the University of Maryland, as well as at the Washington School of Psychiatry.

Medical and Scientific Publications

          Dr. Breggin is the author of more than 20 medical and scientific texts, as well as popular books, including the bestseller and highly-documented Talking Back to Prozac. Coauthored in 1994 with his wife Ginger, Talking Back to Prozac has sold close to one million copies and continues to sell. Dr. Breggin’s more than 70 peer-reviewed scientific reports and articles have been published in many journals, including JAMA (the Journal of the American Medical Association), the American Journal of Psychiatry, the AMA Archives of General Psychiatry, and most recently several European journals, including Medical Hypotheses and Children and Society. He is known worldwide as the leading critic of authoritarian biological psychiatry and an advocate of psychosocial approaches to healing the mind and spirit.

          Dr. Breggin is on the editorial board of several journals, including the International Journal of Risk and Safety in Medicine, which is the premier medical publication concerning risks associated with medical treatments, and is published in Europe. He is also on the editorial board of The Humanistic Psychologist, an official journal of the American Psychological Association.

          Dr. Breggin has also published science-based articles and letters in newspapers and magazines, including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post, as well as Reason and Human Events.

Media, Film, and Press Coverage

          Over several decades, Dr. Breggin has appeared as a medical and psychiatric expert on most major TV news and feature shows such as Oprah (six times), Larry King Live (many times), 60 Minutes, Hannity (on TV and radio), the O’Reilly Factor, 20/20, Nightline, Frontline, morning and evening news shows, and many others. His work has been covered in most if not all the major print media, including The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, Time, and Newsweek, as well as many European publications.

          For many years, Dr. Breggin has had his own weekly radio/TV show, interviewing pioneers and heroes in broad fields of psychiatry, psychology, medicine, and human freedom. The weekly show is now produced and shown on www.Brighteon.TV and is called “ReFounding America—and Reclaiming Ourselves.” Its focus is much more on COVID-19 and the ongoing struggle to recapture democracy and liberty in America and the world. The show is streamed worldwide on television on ROKU and, like his earlier show, continues to be heard on www.prn.live, one of the largest internet radio networks. In addition, Dr. Breggin is seen for an hour as a guest expert every first and third Monday of the month on “The Tamara Scott Show” on Mike Lindell’s new TV station, also streamed on ROKU. These two TV stations are young but growing enterprises with substantial financial backing and are rapidly becoming known by freedom-loving people around the world.

          The Breggin’s internet newsletter run by Ginger, “Free Frequent Alerts,” has more than 40,000 subscribers with an astonishing open rate in the range of 40 to 50 percent. Several of Dr. Breggin’s videos had been downloaded from YouTube in the hundreds of thousands, with one approaching one million views. When YouTube took down his massive channel within 45 minutes after he announced the publication of COVID-19 and the Global Predators, Ginger switched all his videos and shows to www.brighteon.com, where they continue to thrive.

          Dr. Breggin is frequently interviewed by independent film makers whose productions have won awards and have been seen by tens of millions worldwide. In 2018, he was featured in The Minds of Men, a documentary about mind control that has been seen by several millions of viewers.

Current Reform Activities

          Since January 2020, the Breggins have set aside most other activities to examine the real science surrounding COVID-19 and to criticize the fraudulent science used to justify the outrageous attacks on personal and political liberty throughout the world. In mid-2020, Dr. Breggin was asked to write a medical/psychiatric expert report for attorney Tom Renz in an injunction to stop the Ohio governor from continuing his oppressive, unending state of emergency with its lockdowns, mandates, and outright interferences with the doctor-patient relationships. The 100+ page report helped get the case accepted by the court, which resulted in the governor withdrawing his emergency edict. The broad appreciation of the report, its depth, and its success in court made the Breggins realize that they had already begun to draft a book about COVID-19. They did not anticipate it would take more than a year to complete with more than 600 pages and over 1,000 references.

          Since early in 2020 to the present, Dr. and Mrs. Breggin have been active every day in supporting and participating in the freedom movement to restore individual and political liberty in America, in a campaign they call ReFounding America. They are working with thousands of other dedicated people around the world, many of them lawyers and medical professionals, to tell the truth about COVID-19 and how it is being used to suppress and destroy Western democratic republics and freedom throughout the world.

          Dr. Breggin continues to see patients and to do legal work. He also frequently appears on radio and TV and, with Ginger, he writes blogs and makes individual videos. Ginger acts as researcher, coauthor, editor, producer, and contact person for professionals around the world. Ginger Breggin, along with Peter, is an invited member of several international medical, scientific and professional groups devoted to COVID-19 issues, including “The C-19 Group” cofounded by Peter McCullough MD, MPH, as well as others in Europe and South Africa. Ginger is most active in these groups, representing herself and Peter. The Breggins are also on Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.’s informal legal advisory committee and continue to work with attorneys worldwide. Dr. Breggin does not charge a fee for any legal consultations and testimony related to personal and political liberty in this fight for the freedom of America and the world.

Congressional and Trial Testimony

          Dr. Breggin’s reform accomplishments include his approval as a medical and psychiatric expert in more than 100 trials on behalf of patients injured by psychiatric drugs, electroshock, and lobotomy, as well as involuntary treatment and related abuses. In many cases, federal or state courts empower him to investigate the internal workings and records of enormous drug companies and hospitals. Dr. Breggin has testified by invitation many times before the U.S. Senate, House of Representatives, and federal agencies, including the National Institutes of Health (NIH), National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), and National Institute of Neurological Disease and Stroke (NINDS). NIH selected him to be a scientific expert in two prestigious and widely covered Consensus Development Conferences, one on electroshock treatment and one on the uses of medication to treat ADHD. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) hired him as a consultant concerning the adverse effects of antidepressant medications on pilots. He has testified at public hearings before the FDA on several occasions.

          In 2017, Dr. Breggin was the defense medical and psychiatric expert in a highly publicized case on behalf of Michelle Carter, who at the age of 17 allegedly “texted her boyfriend to death” by urging him to commit suicide. Dr. Breggin testified concerning the destructive mental effects on Michelle from antidepressant drugs and an abusive relationship at the hands of the deceased young man. His testimony had widespread coverage in newspapers and on TV, including 20/20 and a two-part HBO TV documentary.

          Dr. Breggin has also been a consultant or medical expert in several high-profile mass murder cases including the Columbine High School and Aurora Theater tragedies in Colorado. In the early 1990s, he was the single scientific and medical expert appointed by a consortium of attorneys and confirmed by a federal judge in the approximately 150 product cases against Eli Lilly & Co. surrounding murders, mayhem, and suicide potentially caused by Prozac. His tasks, among many others, included examining the company’s records for evidence of fraud in its development and marketing of Prozac, as well examining the FDA’s handling of its approval process for the drug, including the controlled clinical trials. His legal research in product liability cases against drug companies and his expert reports, medical books, and scientific articles helped prepare him for his research in COVID-19 and the Global Predators: We Are the Prey.

Proffesor Karl Friston, FSC

Karl Friston is a theoretical neuroscientist and authority on brain imaging. He invented statistical parametric mapping (SPM), voxel-based morphometry (VBM) and dynamic causal modelling (DCM). These contributions were motivated by schizophrenia research and theoretical studies of value-learning, formulated as the dysconnection hypothesis of schizophrenia. Mathematical contributions include variational Laplacian procedures and generalized filtering for hierarchical Bayesian model inversion. Friston currently works on models of functional integration in the human brain and the principles that underlie neuronal interactions. His main contribution to theoretical neurobiology is a free-energy principle for action and perception (active inference). Friston received the first Young Investigators Award in Human Brain Mapping (1996) and was elected a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences (1999). In 2000 he was President of the international Organization of Human Brain Mapping. In 2003 he was awarded the Minerva Golden Brain Award and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2006. In 2008 he received a Medal, College de France and an Honorary Doctorate from the University of York in 2011. He became of Fellow of the Royal Society of Biology in 2012, received the Weldon Memorial prize and Medal in 2013 for contributions to mathematical biology and was elected as a member of EMBO (excellence in the life sciences) in 2014 and the Academia Europaea in (2015). He was the 2016 recipient of the Charles Branch Award for unparalleled breakthroughs in Brain Research and the Glass Brain Award - a lifetime achievement award in the field of human brain mapping. He holds Honorary Doctorates from the University of Zurich and Radboud University. euroscientist Karl Friston, of University College London, builds mathematical models of human brain function. Lately, he’s been applying his modelling to Covid-19, and using what he learns to advise Independent Sage, the committee set up as an alternative to the UK government’s official pandemic advice body, the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage).

How do the models you use differ from the conventional ones epidemiologists rely on to advise governments in this pandemic?
Conventional models essentially fit curves to historical data and then extrapolate those curves into the future. They look at the surface of the phenomenon – the observable part, or data. Our approach, which borrows from physics and in particular the work of Richard Feynman, goes under the bonnet. It attempts to capture the mathematical structure of the phenomenon – in this case, the pandemic – and to understand the causes of what is observed. Since we don’t know all the causes, we have to infer them. But that inference, and implicit uncertainty, is built into the models. That’s why we call them generative models, because they contain everything you need to know to generate the data. As more data comes in, you adjust your beliefs about the causes, until your model simulates the data as accurately and as simply as possible.  

Karina Reiss, PhD

Karina Reiss was born in Germany and studied biology at the University of Kiel where she received her PhD in 2001. She became assistant professor in 2006 and associate professor in 2008 at the University of Kiel. She has published over sixty articles in the fields of cell biology, biochemistry, inflammation, and infection, which have gained international recognition and received prestigious honors and awards.

Does the race for vaccine development make sense? What are the chances of success? Will the vaccine be safe? Will people accept it??

In June 2020, Corona, False Alarm? exploded into the German market, selling 200,000 copies and 75,000 e-books in the first six weeks.

No other topic dominates our attention as much as coronavirus and COVID-19, the infectious disease it triggers. There’s been a global deluge of contradictory opinions, fake news, and politically controlled information. Differing views on the dangers posed by the pandemic have led to deep division and confusion, within governments, society, and even among friends and family.

In Corona, False Alarm?, award-winning researchers Dr. Sucharit Bhakdi and Dr. Karina Reiss give clarity to these confusing and stressful times. They offer analysis of whether radical protective measures—including lockdown, social distancing, and mandatory masking—have been justified, and what the ramifications have been for society, the economy, and public health. Dr. Bhakdi and Dr. Reiss provide dates, facts, and background information, including:

• How Covid-19 compares with previous coronaviruses and the flu virus

• What infection numbers and the death rate really tell us

• The challenges around lockdown: Were the protective measures justified?

• Mandatory mask-wearing: Does the science support it?

• Vaccines: What are the chances of success? What are the risks?

Corona, False Alarm? provides you with sound information and substantiated facts—and encourages you to form your own opinion on the corona crisis.

Heiko Schoning, MD

Production of COVID-19 vaccine: Who, how, what

Heiko Schöning, MD, Vice President of The World Doctors Alliance, Vice President of The World Freedom Alliance

Sucharit Bhakdi, MD

Sucharit Bhakdi was born in Washington, DC, and educated at schools in Switzerland, Egypt, and Thailand. He studied medicine at the University of Bonn in Germany, where he received his MD in 1970. He was a post-doctoral researcher at the Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology and Epigenetics in Freiburg from 1972 to 1976, and at The Protein Laboratory in Copenhagen from 1976 to 1977. He joined the Institute of Medical Microbiology at Giessen University in 1977 and was appointed associate professor in 1982. He was named chair of Medical Microbiology at the University of Mainz in 1990, where he remained until his retirement in 2012. Dr. Bhakdi has published over three hundred articles in the fields of immunology, bacteriology, virology, and parasitology, for which he has received numerous awards and the Order of Merit of Rhineland-Palatinate. Sucharit Bhakdi and his wife, Karina Reiss, live with their three-year-old son, Jonathan Atsadjan, in a small village near the city of Kiel. In February, 2021, Professor Sucharit Bhakdi, M.D. and a number of his colleagues warned the European Medicines Agency about the potential danger of blood clots and cerebral vein thrombosis in millions of people receiving experimental gene-based injections. Since then, two of the four injections have been suspended or recalled in Europe and the United States for just that reason. In this episode of Perspectives, Professor Bhakdi explains the science behind the problem, why it is not just limited to the products already suspended, and why in the long term we may be creating dangerously overactive immune systems in billions of unwitting subjects.

Dr. Roger Hodkinson

Dr. Hodkinson is the CEO and Medical Director of MedMalDoctors. He received his general medical degrees from Cambridge University in the UK (M.A., M.B., B. Chir.) where he was a scholar at Corpus Christi College. Following a residency at the University of British Columbia he became a Royal College certified general pathologist (FRCPC) and also a Fellow of the College of American Pathologists (FCAP). He is in Good Standing with the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Alberta, and has been recognized by the Court of Queen’s Bench in Alberta as an expert in pathology. Dr. Hodkinson has had a long and varied career giving him valuable insight into many fields of medicine that now benefits our clients:
★ General practitioner in the UK and Canada
★ Assistant Professor, Faculty of Medicine, University of Alberta, with extensive teaching
experience.
★ Laboratory accreditation inspector for the College of Physicians and Surgeons of
Alberta.
★ Staff Pathologist, Misericordia Hospital, Edmonton, Alberta.
★ President, the Alberta Society of Laboratory Physicians.
★ CEO of Stirrat Laboratories, a large private medical laboratory in Edmonton.
★ Pathologist with the Medical Examiner’s Office, Edmonton, determining the cause of
death at autopsy.
★ Chairman of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons Examination Committee in
General Pathology Ottawa.
★ CEO and Medical Director of an IME company: Western Medical Assessments
Corporation, Edmonton Canada.
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Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is an activist, environmental attorney, and author. He is best known as the son of Robert Francis Kennedy, who was shot dead at ‘The Ambassador Hotel’ in Los Angeles, California. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. works with various nonprofit organizations and is currently serving as the president of ‘Waterkeeper Alliance,’ which is an environmental organization. As the chairman of ‘World Mercury Project,’ he is also working towards eliminating mercury exposure from pharmaceuticals like vaccines. Thanks to his vast knowledge on environment, he has been serving at ‘Pace University School of Law’ as a professor of ‘Environmental Law’ for more than 30 years. He also co-hosts a nationally syndicated radio program called ‘Ring of Fire.’ As an environmentalist and activist, Kennedy Jr. has won a number of awards, including the prestigious ‘Champion of the Environment’ award.

Childhood & Early Life

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was born on January 17, 1954, in Washington, D.C., United States of America. He is the third-born child of Ethel Skakel Kennedy and Robert Francis Kennedy. He spent his childhood at the famous ‘Hickory Hill’ in Virginia, along with his siblings.

Though he was born into a family of famous politicians, Kennedy Jr. had a tough childhood as he had to witness the assassination of his uncle and that of his father at a very young age. While John F. Kennedy was murdered when Kennedy Jr. was just nine years old, his father Robert Francis Kennedy was killed when he was in his early teens.

Young and disturbed, Kennedy Jr. took to the streets post his father’s death and was eventually arrested in Hyannis, Massachusetts for possessing marijuana. However, he quickly got his act together and managed to secure his diploma from ‘Palfrey Street School.’

He then went to the famous ‘Harvard College,’ from where he graduated with a ‘Bachelor of Arts’ degree in 1976. He also attended ‘The University of Virginia School of Law’ to earn himself ‘The Juris Doctor’ degree. He also has a ‘Master of Laws’ degree, which he earned from ‘Pace University.’

Kennedy Jr. began his career in 1983, when he started serving as the Assistant District Attorney. In 1984, he joined the famous non-profit environmental organization, ‘Riverkeeper.’ After joining as an investigator, he became the senior prosecuting attorney of the organization and was eventually admitted to the New York bar.

A good percentage of the total environmental enforcement lawsuits of ‘Riverkeeper’ was litigated and supervised by Kennedy Jr. He also served as a board member of another organization called ‘Long Island Soundkeeper.’ As a part of these environmental organizations, he had to fight against the administration of many cities and industries.

Kennedy Jr. played a crucial role in ending the practice of shooting lead shots into the Long Island Sound, which is part of the Atlantic Ocean. The act, which was practiced by ‘Skeet Gun Club’ and ‘Remington Arms Trap,’ was ended after Kennedy’s landmark victory.

He filed lawsuits to shut down ‘New York Athletic’ clubs and Pelham Bay landfill, claiming the facilities were causing troubles to those who visit Long Island Sound. He also filed a number of lawsuits against municipalities and industries that were discharging pollution into the environment.

In 1987, Kennedy Jr. came up with ‘Environmental Litigation Clinic’ and made it a part of ‘Pace University School of Law.’ He then served as the supervising attorney and co-director of the program for the next three decades. The clinic then became responsible for prosecuting a number of companies and governments for polluting Hudson River and Long Island Sound.

Apart from cleaning up various cities and minimizing the damage caused to the environment, ‘The Pace Clinic’ also serves as an inspiration to many other environmental-friendly law clinics like ‘Golden Gate,’ ‘Boalt Hall,’ ‘Widener,’ and ‘Rutgers.’

In 1991, Kennedy Jr. represented environmentalists in a number of lawsuits against New York State and New York City. He even wrote many reports and articles claiming that New York State was failing to fulfil its responsibility. In 1996, he played a critical role in finalizing the $1.2 billion ‘New York City Watershed Agreement,’ which was covered by ‘New York Magazine’ under the title ‘The Kennedy Who Matters.’

In the same year, Kennedy Jr. met the then Cuban President Fidel Castro to try and persuade him to defer his proposal of constructing a nuclear power plant. Throughout the late 90s, he played a prominent role in helping Mexican fishermen by halting Mitsubishi’s plan of building many facilities in Mexico that could have caused serious hindrance to the fishermen community. He even met the then Prime Minister of Japan Keizo Obuchi as part of his campaign against the Japanese company’s proposal.

In 1999, Kennedy Jr. and his followers gathered in Southampton, Long Island to help create ‘Waterkeeper Alliance,’ which now runs 320 licensed programs across 38 countries. Kennedy Jr. is currently serving as the president of ‘Waterkeeper Alliance’ and oversees its fundraising programs among other things.

In 2000, Kennedy Jr. joined hands with a lawyer named Kevin Madonna to come up with a law firm called ‘Kennedy & Madonna, LLP.’ The law firm represents private plaintiffs, who choose to act against polluters. The following year, Kennedy and Kevin Madonna formed a team of their own to act against the pollution caused from industrial poultry and pork production.

Kennedy Jr. and his team also work towards improving the conditions and lifestyle of the poor and those belonging to minority communities. In fact, Kennedy’s first case dealt with a lawsuit, which was against the proposal of building a garbage transfer station in Ossining, New York, a neighborhood packed with minority groups.

Over the years, Kennedy Jr. has been a major critic of the Army and the Navy. He and hundreds of Puerto Ricans were arrested for trespassing ‘Camp Garcia Vieques,’ a US Navy base. They were arrested for protesting against the usage of Island of Vieques for training purposes.

Apart from filing many cases against the US Army and Navy, Kennedy also wrote an article accusing the federal government and the Department of Defense. In the article, which was published by ‘The Chicago Tribune’ in 2003, he had also claimed that the Pentagon had already contaminated more than 21,000 sites and that the army may have contaminated 40 million acres of land across the United States.

In 2017, ‘Kennedy & Madonna, LLP’ was responsible in securing a $670 million settlement for more than 3,000 residents whose drinking water was polluted by a toxic chemical, which was released by a company named ‘DuPont.’

Kennedy Jr. and his team continue to fight against factory farms, oil industries, mining practices, hydro projects, and nuclear power plant proposals among many other practices that cause serious damage to our environment.

Thanks to Kennedy’s heroic acts and noble intention, many film-makers have come up with numerous films and documentaries based on Kennedy’s works. In 1998, a film-maker named Les Guthman directed a movie titled ‘The Hudson Riverkeepers,’ which focuses on Kennedy and his environmental works.

In 2000, Guthman directed another movie titled ‘The Waterkeepers,’ which was similar to ‘The Hudson Riverkeepers.’ In 2008, Kennedy Jr. appeared in an IMAX documentary film titled ‘Grand Canyon Adventure: River at Risk.’ In the film, Kennedy Jr. appears along with his daughter and his anthropologist.

In 2004, Kennedy Jr. appeared in another documentary film titled ‘Indian Point: Imagining the Unimaginable,’ which was directed by his sister and film-maker, Rory Kennedy. Apart from writing articles for various leading publications, he has also written or edited at least 10 books, including three children’s books. Two of his books have made it to the list of ‘New York Times bestsellers.’

Awards & Achievements

Kennedy Jr. has won many prestigious awards in his illustrious career so far. Not surprisingly, most of the awards won by him talks about his contribution towards cleaning up our environment.

After winning the ‘Green Star Award’ in 1995, he managed to win ‘Thomas Berry Environmental Award’ in 1997. He also won the ‘EPA Environmental Quality Award’ the same year and then backed it up by winning ‘Water Watch Award’ in 1998.

In 1999, Kennedy Jr. was named one of the ‘Heroes of the Planet’ by ‘Time Magazine.’ The following year, he was named ‘Champion of the Environment’ by New York State. In 2004, he won the prestigious ‘Marshall P. Madison Award.’

In 2008, he won a couple of awards, namely ‘Theodre Gordon Flyfishers Conservation Award’ and ‘USC Dornsife Sustainability Champion Award.’ In 2017, he won multiple awards, including ‘Moms Across America Healthy Communities Award’ and ‘Earth Justice Mountain Heroes.’

Personal Life

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was married to Emily Ruth Black from 1982 to 1994. Together, they had two kids, namely Robert Francis Kennedy III and Kathleen Alexandra Kennedy. Kennedy Jr. later married Mary Kathleen Richardson and had four children with her. Mary was found dead on May 16, 2012 and her death was later confirmed to be a suicide. On August 2, 2014, Kennedy Jr. married Cheryl Hines and the two have been living together ever since.

Kennedy Jr. is a licensed falconer, who has been training hawks from a very young age. He is also a licensed wildlife rehabilitator and raptor propagator and has served as the president of ‘New York State Falconry Association.’ He is also an expert whitewater kayaker and has organized many white-water expeditions, including the ones to unexplored rivers, such as The Apurímac River.

Dr. Scott Atlas

Dr. Atlas investigates the impact of government and the private sector on access, quality, pricing, and innovation in health care and is a frequent policy advisor to government and industry leaders in these areas. During the 2008, 2012, and 2016 presidential campaigns, he was a Senior Advisor for Health Care to a number of candidates for President of the United States. He has also advised several members of the United States Senate and House of Representatives and testified to Congress on health care reform. He served the nation from August to December, 2020 as a Special Advisor to the President and a member of the White House Coronavirus Task Force. His most recent book is entitled Restoring Quality Health Care: A Six‐Point Plan for Comprehensive Reform at Lower Cost (Hoover Press, 2020, 2nd ed). Some of Dr. Atlas's previous health policy books include In Excellent Health: Setting the Record Straight on America’s Health Care System (Hoover Press, 2011), Reforming America’s Health Care System (Hoover Press, 2010), and Power to the Patient: Selected Health Care Issues and Policy Solutions (Hoover Press, 2005). Dr. Atlas has participated with leaders from government and academia on the World Bank’s Commission on Growth and Development. He has also advised leaders on health care and medical technology in several countries outside the US, including Latin America, Southeast Asia, and Europe. Dr. Atlas has published and been interviewed in a variety of media throughout the world. Dr. Atlas is also the editor of the leading textbook in the field, the best‐selling Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Brain and Spine, now in its 5th edition and officially translated from English into Mandarin, Spanish, and Portuguese. He has been editor, associate editor, and a member of the boards of numerous scientific journals and national and international scientific societies over the past three decades. His medical research centered on advanced applications of new MRI technologies in neurologic diseases. While Professor of Radiology and Chief of Neuroradiology at Stanford University Medical Center from 1998 until 2012 and during his previous faculty positions, Dr. Atlas trained over 100 neuroradiology fellows, many of whom are now leaders in the field throughout the world. He lectures on a variety of topics, most notably the role of government and the private sector in health care quality and access, global trends in health care innovation, and the key economic issues related to the future of technology‐based medical advances. In the private sector, Dr. Atlas is a frequent advisor to start‐up entrepreneurs and companies in the life sciences and medical technology. Dr. Atlas has received numerous awards and honors in recognition of his leadership in policy and medicine. He was awarded the 2021 Freedom Leadership Award, Hillsdale College’s highest honor, “in recognition of his dedication to individual freedom and the free society.” He has been an ad hoc member of the Nominating Committee for the Nobel Prize in Medicine and Physiology for several years. He was named by his peers in The Best Doctors in America every year since its initial publication, as well as in regional listings, such as The Best Doctors in New York and Silicon Valley's Best Doctors. He was honored with the 2011 Alumni Achievement Award, the highest career achievement honor for a distinguished alumnus from the University of Illinois in Urbana‐Champaign, his alma mater. Dr. Atlas received a BS degree in biology from the University of Illinois in Urbana‐Champaign and an MD degree from the University of Chicago School of Medicine.