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Dr. Peter McCullough’s Libertarian Medical Train Makes a Pit Stop in East Palestine | Office for Science and Society - McGill University
McCullough’s cash-only Wellness Company doesn’t want the government or the pharmaceutical industry to tread on its profits
Jonathan Jarry M.Sc. | 10 Mar 2023
"We are pledging to assist those Americans who are impacted by this disaster by offering free medical care.” On its own, a statement of solidarity and benevolence. But given who released the statement and the context in which it was made, I can’t help but see this as a public relations stunt.
On February 3rd, 2023, a freight train carrying hazardous materials derailed in East Palestine, Ohio. The event encouraged important discussions about the regulation of train maintenance and the toxicity of the chemicals that were spilt and burnt, but in the midst of all this, a virtual care business called the Wellness Company pledged “to put patients before profits” by offering free medical care until August to the people of East Palestine.
The twist? Its Chief Scientific Officer is none other than Dr. Peter McCullough, one of the best-known faces of COVID-19 misinformation, and the Wellness Company he helps lead is a striking example of the very lucrative libertarian medical movement that claims to stand against the profit-motivated pharmaceutical industry while replacing drugs with expensive dietary supplements....
...Above these providers sits the leadership team, which includes Dr. Peter McCullough who has claimed that the pandemic was planned and that those who got COVID now have permanent immunity. The American Board of Internal Medicine recommended last October that his board certification be revoked in light of the barrage of false claims he has made publicly. The leadership team also consists of Dr. Richard Amerling. His article, provocatively titled “The Nazification of American Medicine,” exemplifies the deranged vision of libertarian medicine: the COVID-19 measures were “medical tyranny,” the vaccines were “experimental” gene therapy, and the WHO, CDC, and FDA are melting in the corrupting bath of industry money.
Amerling’s solution is “science, logic, deductive reasoning, judgment, and clinical experience,” but I saw none of this when combing through the solutions actually proposed by the Wellness Company. Instead, we get 22 dietary supplements, including a “Spike Support Formula” which is claimed to counteract harmful spike proteins, like the coronavirus’. If curing COVID-19 was as easy as popping a blend of herbs and minerals, we wouldn’t have a global death toll of 6.9 million people. The five scientific papers listed as proof that this supplement works are thin gruel: they all showcase experiments done with cells in the laboratory, occasionally in animals. The only trial in humans is of an enzyme, part of the Spike Support Formula, that comes from boiled soybeans which seemed to lower blood pressure in one study. Meanwhile, this Spike Support Formula also contains 50 milligrams of dandelion extract, while the authors of the paper they cite as support conclude that more studies are needed to determine what the right therapeutic dose of dandelion might be. Given the Company’s aversion for evidence-based medicine, I would say that stuffing pills with arbitrary amounts of herbs is as far from evidence-based practice as possible. |
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