Listen Now

A round table discussion of a chapter from the book Dissolving Illusions by Suzanne Humphries, MD, and Roman Bystrianyk. Our guest is the anonymous internet personality and blogger who writes under the pen name of Medical Nemesis. GUEST: Medical Nemesis: Twitter and Substack WATCH ON YOUTUBE: Watch the episode on our YouTube channel

Our guest is Paul Thacker, an investigative journalist who reports on science, medicine and the environment. He recently received the British Journalism Award in Specialist Journalism for a series of articles in the BMJ investigating undisclosed financial interests among medical experts advising the US and UK governments on vaccines. GUEST: Paul Thacker: Twitter and Substack WATCH ON YOUTUBE: Watch the episode on our YouTube channel

Our guest is Kelley Krohnert, a mom from Georgia who has repeatedly taken to task public health so-called experts for their shoddy analysis of pandemic statistics. In doing so, Kelley has won a large following on Twitter and on her website COVID-19 in Georgia which is well-respected for its reporting on the pandemic. One of Kelley's major fact-checking contribution was to discover that a pediatric COVID mortality statistics that was widely disseminated by the CDC, presented at the June 2021 ACIP meeting, and used to establish vaccine policy, was taken from a pre-print article that contained an egregious error and grossly over-estimated COVID deaths among children. This error was admitted by the authors who were forced to correct the paper. GUEST: Kelley Krohnert: Twitter and webpage WATCH ON YOUTUBE: Watch the episode on our YouTube channel

Our guest is Michelle-Linh Nguyen, a research fellow in the National Clinician Scholars Program at UCSF. She is the first author of a recent article published in Annals of Internal Medicine examining the history of time organization in U.S. outpatient medicine. GUEST: Michelle-Linh Nguyen: Twitter and UCSF webpage WATCH ON YOUTUBE: Watch the episode on our YouTube channel

Our guest is Tracy Høeg, MD, PhD, who returns to the show to share her perspective on the controversial study published by the Florida Department of Public Health analyzing a possible link between COVID mRNA vaccines and cardiac-related deaths. Dr. Høeg has made notable contributions to empirical research pertaining to SARS-COV2 transmission in schools and to vaccine-related myocarditis. She has published her findings in the CDC’s MMWR and has given oral testimony to Congress. GUEST: Tracy Høeg, MD, PhD: Twitter WATCH ON YOUTUBE: Watch the episode on our YouTube channel

Drs. Anish Koka and Michel Accad discuss the controversy regarding the meaning of fetal heartbeats and Dr. Koka's latest Substack article on the subject. LINKS: Anish Koka's Newsletter Michel Accad's Alert and Oriented blog WATCH ON YOUTUBE: Watch the episode on our YouTube channel

Our guest is Ben Recht, Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at UC Berkeley, and co-author with Moritz Hardt of Pattern, Prediction, and Action: A Story About Machine Learning soon to be published by Princeton University Press but already freely available as a pdf format pre-print here. We discuss his work and perspective on machine learning and artificial intelligence. GUEST: Ben Recht: Twitter and webpage LINKS and RELATED EPISODES: AI in medicine: What's hype and what's real (YouTube episode with Anish Koka and Ben Recht) Ep. 187 That Bengladesh Mask Study! (with guest Ben Recht) Ep. 5 Normal is Fuzzy (with guest Saurabh Jha) Lecture by Peter Hacker on the claims of cognitive neuroscience (YouTube)

Our guest is Dr. Andrew Bostom, an academic physician also known as “The Researcher Brown University Doesn’t Want You to Know About.” We discuss his life experience as an academic physician with politically conservative views, his opposition to the pandemic response, and his recent suspension from Twitter. GUEST: Andrew Bostom: Twitter LINKS: Andrew Bostom’s blog RELATED EPISODES: Ep. 192. A Conversation with Viral Myalgia WATCH ON YOUTUBE: Watch the episode on our YouTube channel

Our guest is Mattias Desmet, Professor of Psychology at the University and Ghent and author of The Psychology of Totalitarianism. He discusses with us the phenomenon of "mass formation" and its emergence from a background of a mechanistic ideology that has gripped the developed world over the last 300 years, WATCH ON YOUTUBE: Watch the episode on our YouTube channel

Our guest is Dr. Stanley Goldfarb, author of the recently-released Take Two Aspirins and Call Me By My Pronouns, a book that details the intrusion of critical race theory and identity politics into medical education and medical practice. He is a former Associate Dean for Curriculum at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine and returns to the show to discuss his book and the new organization that he is leading to push back against the new trend. GUEST: Stanley Goldfarb: Twitter LINKS: Do No Harm RELATED EPISODES: Ep. 102 Curriculum Subverted: An Academic Leader Pushes Back Against Woke Medicine (with Stanley Goldfarb) Ep. 140 Amy Wax on Wokeness in Medicine Ep. 149 James Lindsay: Critical Race Theory, Post-Modernism, and Medicine WATCH ON YOUTUBE: Watch the episode on our YouTube channel

Our guest is Steven Calvin, a maternal-fetal medicine physician who is currently serving on the US HHS Secretary’s Advisory Committee on Infant Mortality (SACIM). Dr.Calvin has 40 years of experience in the field and is the founder and medical director of the Minnesota Birth Center. We have a wide-ranging conversation discussing trends in maternal mortality, COVID and pregnancy, and the role of midwives in the ecology of obstetric care. GUEST: Steven Calvin: Bio at the Charlotte Lozier Institute and Minnesota Birth Center LINKS: Studnicki et al. Improving the metrics and data reporting for maternal mortality: A challenge to public health surveillance and effective prevention (published in OJPHI) Studnicki and Fisher. Recent increases in the US maternal mortality rates: Disentangling trends from measurement issues (published in Obstretrics & Gynecology) Ameya Kulkarni. Maternal Mortality: Separating Signal from Noise (published in The Health Care Blog) WATCH ON YOUTUBE: Watch the episode on our YouTube channel

Our guest is Dr. Amy Doherty who was issued a restraining order from her former employer for allegedly violating a non-compete clause. She received the order a week after opening her new practice in an underserved area. GUEST: Amy Doherty: Practice website, FaceBook page, and personal blog LINKS: "Divine Savior suit seeks to stop doctor from opening a Portage practice" (report in the Portage Daily Register) RELATED EPISODES: Ep. 80 How to Rollback Bad Healthcare Laws (with Marcelo Hochman) Ep. 18 A Doctor Fights Against CON Laws (with Gajendra Sign) WATCH ON YOUTUBE: Watch the episode on our YouTube channel

Our guest is Ian Miller, author of Unmasked: The Global Failure of COVID Mask Mandates, a detailed chronicle of 24 months of arbitrary, wholly inconsistent, and grossly unscientific mask mandates.  GUEST: Iam Miller: Twitter and Substack LINKS: Anish Koka “The COVID Pandemic: Who Dunnit?” (from The Health Care Blog) RELATED EPISODES: Ep. 187 That Bangladesh Mask Study! (with guest Ben Recht) Ep. 188 Jason Abaluck on the Bangladesh Mask Trial WATCH ON YOUTUBE: Watch the episode on our YouTube channel

Our guest is Ali Mortazavi, CEO of eTherapeutics, a UK-based computational biology company focused on the development of RNA technology. He shares with us his perspective on mRNA vaccines and the application of RNA technology to medicine in general.  GUEST: Ali Mortazavi Twitter and company website WATCH ON YOUTUBE: Watch the episode on our YouTube channel

Our guests are University of Chicago Professor Harold Pollack and Robert Graboyes, Senior Fellow at the Mercatus Center discussing the place of conservatives in public health. GUESTS: Harold Pollack: Twitter and Website Robert Graboyes: Twitter and Website LINKS: Harold Pollack: “Why Public Health Experts Aren’t Reaching Conservatives on Covid” (from Politico) Robert Graboyes: “Conservatives and Public Health: A Warm Welcome in a Cold Climate” (from Discourse Magazine) RELATED EPISODES: Ep. 179. Political Conservatism: Cure to a Failed Health Care Liberalism? (with guest Shawn Whatley) WATCH ON YOUTUBE: Watch the episode on our YouTube channel

David Cayley returns to the show to discuss the the social fractures and "divisions among friends" engendered by the pandemic response. Using the thought of Ivan Illich as a point of departure, we have a wide-ranging conversation on the myths and realities of the role of science in political life. GUEST: David Cayley Website LINKS: David Cayley "Concerning Life" A conversation on Ivan Illich's Shadow Works (YouTube) RELATED EPISODES: Ep. 150 David Cayley on Ivan Illich Ep. 159 Terence Kealey on the Myths of Public Funding of Science WATCH ON YOUTUBE: Watch the episode on our YouTube channel

Our guest is Dr. Shamez Ladhani, a pediatric infectious disease specialist with a focus on vaccine-preventable diseases. He also holds a position of epidemiologist at Public Health England and has been among the first to obtain real life data on the effects of the pandemic on children and schools. He joins us to discuss his perspective on what a public health policy based on data, rather than perception and fear, should look like. GUEST: Shamez Ladhani: Twitter and ResearchGate profile LINK: Shamez Ladhani. "Children and COVID-19 in Schools" Perspective article in Science Magazine, November 2021 WATCH ON YOUTUBE: Watch the episode on our YouTube channel

Dr. Accad and Dr. Koka hash out their disagreements on the question of brain death. RELATED EPISODES: Ep. 35 Why Brain Dead Isn’t Dead: An Introduction to “Shewmon’s Challenge.” with Alan Shewmon, MD Ep. 45 Brain Death at the Bedside with Fred Rincon, MD Ep. 145 Diagnosing Brain Death: Clinical and Legal Quagmires with Doyen Nguyen, MD, and Alan Shewmon, MD Ep. 196 Taking a Stand Against Brain Death with Paul Byrne, MD, and Christine Zainer, MD WATCH ON YOUTUBE: Watch the episode on our YouTube channel

Our guests are Drs. Paul Byrne a pioneer neonatologist and Dr. Christine Zainer, an anesthesiologist from Wisconsin. Drs. Byrne and Zainer discuss their involvement in the care of patients with severe brain injury, particularly those given a diagnosis of "brain death." GUEST: Paul Byrne: Website LINKS: "Dr. Paul Byrne: From preemies to end-of-life issues, one man has made a difference." (article from Celebrate Life magazine by Rob Sample) Doyen Nguyen: The New Definitions of Death for Organ Donation and Transplantation: A Multidisciplinary Analysis from the Perspective of Christian Ethics (Amazon link) Michael Potts, Paul Byrne, Richard Nigels Beyond Brain Death: The Case Against Brain-Based Criteria for Death (Springer) RELATED EPISODES: Ep. 35 Why Brain Dead Isn't Dead: An Introduction to "Shewmon's Challenge." with Alan Shewmon, MD Ep. 45 Brain Death at the Bedside with Fred Rincon, MD Ep. 145 Diagnosing Brain Death: Clinical and Legal Quagmires with Doyen Nguyen, MD, and Alan Shewmon, MD WATCH ON YOUTUBE: Watch the episode on our YouTube channel

Our guests are Aiden and Emily Jo Ekanayake. Aiden had vaccine-induced myocarditis last June and he and his mother relate the experience and the consequences—physical, emotional, and financial—that they are facing to this day. GUEST: Emily Jo Ekanayake: Twitter WATCH ON YOUTUBE: Watch the episode on our YouTube channel