Censorship of Drs
Almost everyone was/is trying to censor Drs over early treatment of Covid-19, especially with hydroxychloroquine and Ivermectin.
Medical boards and authorities (pharma companies, behind the scenes), medical Journals, mainstream media, social media, science media,
Also in on the censoring act were were governments and international institutions.
Doctors even censored themselves!
A quick look at censorship of Drs in Canada, which provided many of the most extreme examples:
“Total mainstream censorship of evidence based science data”
Stop press… Dr. Jennifer Hibberd gave a speech at a conference in Ontario in December 2021, detailing her extraordinary experience dealing with early treatment censorship as well as her roles co-founding the Canadian Covid Care Alliance, and more recently the World Council for Health (see Chapter 7). (18:15):
“there was total mainstream censorship of evidence based science data, censorship of healthy robust scientific debate, and threats sent out to the healthcare professionals via the regulatory bodies and the ministry of health across Canada.”
See also Dr Ira Bernstein on this same link, https://itsnotabouthealth.ca/#chapter2. There is a lot on this link.
Dr Bernstein has been called the Canadian expert in covid treatment; in this 2022 discussion Dr Bernstein told Wayne Peters of What’s Up Canada (about 31m in) that “None of my patients have been hospitalized with covid”. He trains physicians in early treatment, and co-founded the Canadian Covid Care Alliance.
Dr Bernstein experienced the ultimate in censorship, when he was required by the CPSO to display a message like this in his waiting room:
…causing Steve Kirsch to write: They’ve officially forbidden the practice of medicine in Ontario, Canada.
These restrictions on Dr Bernstein obviously impact on some of his patients’ treatment, that even the CPSO deem legitimate; for example patients with lupus or river blindness for which Hcq and Ivm (respectively) are often indicated. An element of humiliation was intended too, as a deterrent to other naughty doctors of independent mind not to oppose the Covid-19 or vaccine narrative – or else!
Dr. John Littell was kicked out of a board meeting at Sarasota Memorial Hospital after testifying to the effectiveness of early treatment medicines for treating COVID-19 patients. The Rounding the Earth Newsletter has the story: Hydroxychloroquine: Still Works.
In interviews outside the hospital, Dr Littell spoke eloquently about early treatment, Hcq, Ivm and physicians in his hospital self-censoring out of fear:
“There’s doctors on the staff at this hospital who will not speak their mind. For fear of retribution, for fear of losing their jobs. And what I wanted to tell her, as a doctor taking care of other physicians with covid for the last 3 years, other physicians, cardiologists, obstetricians, paediatricians, calling me for Ivermectin and Hydroxychloroquine. But they wouldn’t ever let anyone know….they are fearful of eventually being kicked out.”
Censoring doctors over Ivermectin
As the suppression of the efficacy of hydroxychloroquine (Hcq) firmed up, with much of the western medical world and media learning their lines, a new threat to the Covid-19/vaccine narrative emerged in the shape of ivermectin (Ivm). Ivm was another drug whose results when used to treat Covid-19 early seemed to obviate the need for a vaccine. This would make an emergency authorisation for the expermental vaccines invalid.
Accordingly the censorship of Ivm was every bit as draconian as that of Hcq.
There were a lot of physicians who used Ivm and Hcq, and reported considerable success; and these are two of the safest drugs. As people were dying in numbers significant enough to supposedly warrant damaging lockdowns, to prevent doctors from treating patients with them defied logic, if the priority was public health.
Physicians are even censoring themselves
The AFLDS White Paper on Hydroxychloroquine notes that:
“…many doctors have personally attested to the four harms caused by these Governors/State Medical Boards.60
1. doctors have been sanctioned, disciplined, interrogated
2. pharmacists have been empowered to over-ride physicians
3. patients get sicker and die
4. physicians self-censoring due to fear of retribution”
Ref 60 above is to a case brought by AAPS to a Michigan court.
Physician self-censorship is a thing!
Dr. Shira Miller, Allow physicians to communicate honestly (application for Federal Court Injunction 26/1/23);
Physicians are being scared into not giving their opinions, Medical Censorships;
California doctors self-censoring after Newsom signs bill banning medical misinformation
In bill AB2098 California governor Gavin Newsom has put doctors dissent into law; as California doctor Houman Hemmati recounts, a surgeon colleague asked by a patient if they should get the Covid-19 vaccine in advance of surgery, was forced to reply :”I can’t tell you what I feel”.
In the bill, medical misinformation is defined as “false information that is contradicted by the contemporary scientific consensus contrary to the standard of care”; a definition riddled with logical errors, particularly in the case of covid!
Finally, the phenomenon of self-censorship by doctors is evidenced firsthand by the 2022 paper:
Suppressing Scientific Discourse on Vaccines? Self-perceptions of researchers and practitioners (Elisha et al, 2022) which noted:
Self-Censoring “Some respondents also noted that they refrain from expressing their critical position on vaccines, both to colleagues and health officials, for fear of being marked as “vaccine opponents” or “anti-vaxxers,“ which might harm their career. To support their concerns, they recounted cases of physicians who expressed their critical views on vaccines and were subsequently summoned to a hearing or disciplinary committee by their country’s Health Ministry or licensing board and their careers harmed.”
Therefore physician self-censorship happens – from the passing of AB2098 in California, and from the wider harassment of Drs telling patients their honest opinion, it is a clear aim of policy.
PS/M