Yesterday The American Spectator published my article on censorship of unauthorized thought by YouTube. YouTube is a subsidiary of Google, one of the cyber companies that control what content we can access on line.

Readers of this blog may recall My Excellent D.C. Adventure (posted on November 9, 2019) about my wife and I attending the annual TAS banquet in Washington. That article contained the following reference:

There was a panel discussion featuring, among others, Harvard Senior Research Psychologist Robert Epstein, a Hillary Clinton supporter, who warned of the dangers of the surveillance state that has been created by Google and Facebook, the pernicious hidden influence that they bring to bear on public opinion and undecided voters,  and the internal Google memoranda about its plans to defeat Trump in 2020 and to help the Chinese government control its subjects. (I will write more about this in later posts.) Because he has publicly warned of these matters before, he has been viciously attacked by the New York Times and other liberal media.

When I was leaving the event, I stopped to tell Dr. Epstein how much I valued his remarks and that I would champion his cause in the pages of the Spectator and my mighty blog. He said that his biggest supporters have been members of the conservative media including Glenn Beck. His organization’s url is mygoogleresearch.com which can be accessed by clicking on this link. You should check it out and watch this blog for further coverage of Dr. Epstein’s important work.

What I failed to mention in the article is that Epstein’s research confirms that Google intends to affect the next election by using algorithms that will yield anti-Trump search results while suppressing pro-Trump content. Epstein contends that,  by using this technique, Google will influence millions of votes.

With that in mind, I conducted an experiment. Didier Raoult, the world-renowned medical researcher, recently completed a clinical trial of hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) as a treatment of COVID-19. Raoult had conducted two previous trials which demonstrated the effectiveness and safety of HCQ, but critics dismissed those studies because of their small patient cohorts. But this third and latest study had a cohort of 1061 COVID-19 patients of which 973 were cured by taking HCQ on an outpatient basis, 31 required hospitalization, 46 had a poor outcome, 10 were transferred to the ICU, and 5 (who were 74-95 years old) died. (More on this later.)

Obviously, these astoundingly positive results are important and good news that support reopening America and prove, once again, that President Trump was right when he characterized HCQ as a “game changer” in the fight against COVID-19.

So, what happened when I did a Google search for this latest study?  It yielded a series of articles about the first two trials criticizing them for having small patient cohorts and calling Raoult “a B.S. artist” and worse. For a week, I plugged in different iterations of the search terms, but, using Google, I could find no mention of Raoult’s latest, large patient cohort study. It was as if it had never happened.

Then I switched search engines and used DuckDuckGo. Within a nano-second I found the abstract of Raoult’s latest study and articles about its significance.

This prompted  me to write the below article. Hope you find it to be of interest.

 

The YouTube Memory Hole (UPDATED) | The American Spectator

The establishment nannies who run YouTube have struck again. This time they have removed the video of a compelling COVID-19 briefing by two California physicians who question the effectiveness and advisability of the social distancing lockdown that is well on its way to destroying our nation. I saw the video before YouTube made it disappear. The doctors spoke rationally and cited the available data in making a convincing  case that the lockdown is, in fact, ineffective, medically contraindicated, and the exact opposite of sound public health policy. They also questioned why physicians are being pressured to classify deaths as being the result of COVID-19 in cases in which there are other more likely causes.

After several million views, YouTube removed the video for violating its “community guidelines.” Apparently these guidelines require the suppression of any dissenting viewpoints that challenge the prevailing official orthodoxy.

For a while, this briefing was posted on MSN.com, but, as of today, if you click on the link to that website you will receive this message: “We’re sorry, this video is not available.”

Strange that.

Fortunately the doctors’ presentation can still be accessed — at least for now — by clicking on this AIR.TV link. It runs for about an hour and is certainly worth your while. I found it to be so interesting and well-delivered that the time passed quickly.

So, take a look and — here’s a novel and dangerous idea — decide for yourself whether or not these doctors make sense.

But, before you watch the briefing, there is a video of researcher Judy Mikovits, Ph.D., regarding what she claims is the corruption of modern medical research by an unholy alliance of large pharmaceutical companies, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the National Institute of Allergies and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), and other moneyed interests to discourage and suppress the use of hydroxychloroquine to treat COVID-19 while promoting a strategy of developing and using new vaccines and treatments of questionable benefit and potential harm. According to her, this strategy is calculated to yield massive royalties and profits for the patent holders and manufacturers of these new drugs and vaccines. In making her argument, she takes direct aim at Dr. Tony Fauci, director of NIAID, and Dr. Robert Redfield, director of the CDC.

I have no information regarding Dr. Mikovits and offer no endorsement of her views save that I share her concerns about the efforts to discourage the use of hydroxychloroquine, which has overwhelmingly proven to be a safe and successful treatment for COVID-19. In any event, Dr. Mikovits appears to be a rational and serious person, and, at the very least, she is entitled to be seen and heard. You can view her interview below. Again, take a look and decide for yourself if she is making sense.

But you better hurry. Something tells me that Dr. Mikovits is about to take a trip down the YouTube memory hole for violating “community standards.”

UPDATE: Well, that didn’t take long. Within two hours of this article being published online, Dr. Mikovits’ video was removed “for violating YouTube’s Terms of Service.”

Again, I make no representations regarding the truth or falsity of her narrative. But, if YouTube doesn’t want us to hear her story, that’s good enough for me. So, you can access an equally inflammatory and alarming video of Dr. Mikovits on the BitChute website by clicking on this link. It runs 30 minutes and presents a framework for questioning why the use of inexpensive hydroxychloroquine to treat COVID-19 has been shunted aside by those who are pushing for the much more lucrative development, manufacture, sale, and use of so-far untested vaccines and drugs.

Anyone want to bet on how long it will take before she gets de-platformed again?

For those who would like a less evanescent presentation of her story, Dr. Mikovits and Kent Heckenlively, JD have co-authored Plague of Corruption: Restoring Faith in the Promise of Science (foreword by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.) in which she details her chilling accusations against the medical research establishment. At least for now, it is available in hardback through Amazon.com.

Who knows? If sales take off, our establishment betters may have to bring back good, old-fashioned physical book burnings.

For our own good, of course.

George Parry is a former federal and state prosecutor. He blogs at knowledgeisgood.net and may be reached by email at kignet1@gmail.com.