To: maceng2 who wrote (1490232 ) 10/2/2024 12:02:53 PM From: Eric 1 RecommendationRecommended By pocotrader
Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 1574267 Spreading more KoolAid again are you? COVID-19 In April 2020, Kirsch founded the COVID-19 Early Treatment Fund (CETF) to fund research into off-label treatments for COVID-19 among drugs already having FDA approval for other diseases, donating $1 million himself and also fundraising from others. [11] [13] [14] He recruited what MIT Technology Review called "a powerhouse board" of scientific advisors including Robert Siliciano and management by Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors . [11] By October 2021 the fund had made grants totaling $4.5 million to various researchers. [11] The fund found a "promising candidate" for further study in fluvoxamine , according to MIT Technology Review . [11] After funding a successful small trial which ended in November 2020, CETF provided further funding for a Phase 3 trial, which as of October 2021 was analyzing data. [11] [12] Kirsch, frustrated that CETF's scientific advisory board was not willing to promote use of the drug based on results of a small preliminary study, wrote a post on Medium titled The Fast, Easy, Safe, Simple, Low-Cost Solution to COVID That Works 100% of the Time That Nobody Wants to Talk About . Medium removed his access to the site, citing misinformation concerns. [11] Kirsch also refused to accept the outcome of a CETF-funded study on hydroxychloroquine , which had found the drug ineffective; he eventually warred with CETF's scientific advisory board over CETF's treatment of both drugs to the extent that in May 2021 all 12 members resigned. [11] Vaccine misinformation In May 2021, Kirsch posted an article online claiming that COVID-19 vaccines affect fertility , while also underplaying the vaccines' ability to prevent illness and death, both statements criticized by fact checkers as being inaccurate and misleading. [15] In September 2021, speaking at an FDA meeting and identifying himself as CETF's executive director, Kirsch claimed that the vaccines "kill twice as many as they save"; the FDA responded that Kirsch had misinterpreted data and that there was no evidence his statement was true. [11] [16] Reuters assessed the claim as false. [16] In March, 2023 Kirsch reported that he'd offered a woman sitting next to him on a first class Delta flight $100,000 to remove her mask for the entire flight. She refused. [17] In October 2021, Kirsch founded the anti-vaccine group Vaccine Safety Research Foundation (VSRF), [18] which created ads depicting deaths the group attributed to vaccines. [19] [20] Foundation advisors include Robert Malone , Peter McCullough , and Stephanie Seneff . Before this, in June 2021, Kirsch had appeared with Malone on the Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying podcast, which according to MIT Technical Review "introduced Kirsch to followers of the ' intellectual dark web '" and allowed him to access a "large and receptive audience to his claims about a fluvoxamine conspiracy". [11] [14] en.wikipedia.org I didn't see any virologists on his website. Clueless, spreading nothing but lies. Eric