Frank Speidel is a retired emergency room physician who hosts “The Doctor Is In”, a public access television show on the Main Line Network in suburban Philadelphia. Recently, I was a guest on his show. The topics were COVID-19 and the public health authorities’ response to it. I found Dr. Speidel’s opening remarks and questions to be insightful, provocative and well-informed. For my part, I repeated for his viewers some of the information and points that I have presented on this blog. Together we laid out enough non-politically correct COVID-19 heresy to get us arrested by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania’s...
Pictured above is Ghostbusters’ Dr. Peter Venkman who spoke for experts everywhere when he famously warned, “Back off, man. I’m a scientist.” I recently had an interesting conversation with a suburban Philadelphia emergency room physician regarding the COVID-19 pandemic. We discussed, among other things, the wide divergence between the theories and predictions of the public health experts and the reality that the physicians and nurses on the frontline are confronting. Remember how we had to shelter in place in order to “flatten the curve” of infections so that our medical facilities could somehow survive the predicted tsunami of COVID-19...
Pictured above is Pennsylvania’s Secretary of Health Rachel Levine and Governor Tom Wolf. When this duo extended the lockdown of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (where I reside) to June 4, 2020, I was prompted to write the below article which was published in yesterday’s The American Spectator. I felt that it was far past time to question the purported public health benefits of the ongoing, oppressive and destructive economic shutdowns that have been decreed by state governors across America. Here’s the article. Time to Stop the Madness | The American Spectator My maternal grandparents were Lebanese Christians who came to...
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...
Yesterday The American Spectator published my article about the Front Line COVID-19 Critical Care Consortium, a group of ICU physicians who have developed a treatment protocol which they are using to successfully treat COVID-19 cases. The article is set forth below. Shortly after the article went live on TAS’ website, I received an email from one of the consortium members, Dr. Paul Marik (pictured above) who is Chief of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at Eastern Virginia Medical School. This led to telephone calls with Dr. Marik and Dr. Joseph Varon, Professor of Acute and Continuing Care at he University...
I have been working hard on yet another analytical piece about the COVID-19 pandemic and hope to publish it soon. In the meantime, I just came across the below “Hitler in the bunker” parody. It’s about Governor Brian Kemp’s bold decision to completely reopen the State of Georgia for business. As I will explain later, I think Kemp made the right decision. Anyhow, as a Georgia native, I find Hitler’s tirade and observations about my home state to be sidesplittingly funny. So heeeere’s Der Fuhrer! Enjoy! Share this: Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window) LinkedIn Click to...
Pictured above is the late environmental activist and counterculture leader Ira Einhorn presiding over the very first Earth Day 50 years ago this month in Philadelphia. In addition to being the Earth Day guru and a leader of the environmental movement, Einhorn was also a conman who lived off and abused gullible women. One of these was his long-suffering girlfriend Holly Maddux, a graduate of Bryn Mawr College. After five years of degradation and abuse, Holly finally found the courage to end her relationship with him. On September 9, 1977, she went to retrieve her belongings from the apartment they...
Yesterday, The American Spectator published my article regarding Dr. Jonathan Geach and his argument for ending the COVID-19 lockdown. You can access the article along with readers’ comments on the AmSpec website by clicking on this link. Otherwise here’s the article. Hope you find it to be useful. Whither Our Nanny Police State? The Case of Dr. Jonathan Geach – The American Spectator Tennessee physician Jonathan Geach, M.D., describes himself as “a simple country Anesthesiologist with big ideas.” Working with a group of distinguished colleagues, he recently wrote a well-reasoned and compelling article calling for an end to the destructive...
All of us owe Scott Johnson at Powerline a debt of gratitude for championing the cause of Dr. Jonathan Geach, a Tennessee physician who has been waging a lonely battle against internet censorship. Dr. Geach’s article “Eight reasons to end the [COVID-19] lockdown now” was recently published on the Medium website. In it, he explained why the lockdown was medically unnecessary and counterproductive. But, after the article began to – pardon the expression – go “viral”, Medium took it down and posted this helpful notice: Hello, Due to elevated risk of potential harm to persons or public health, Medium’s Trust &...
Every day I watch President Trump and the White House COVID-19 team do battle with the committed propagandists of the mainstream media. There is a certain amount of pleasure to be derived from watching the frustration of the reporters as they set one gotcha’ forensic trap after another for the president only to have him talk past, over and around them. Occasionally Trump will point out that a reporter has asked a “nasty” question or is a “loudmouth” or “wise guy”. While this has a certain limited entertainment value, overall Trump does better when he completely ignores the trick questions...
Pictured above is world-renowned infectious disease expert Professor Didier Raoult, the head of the Institut Hospitalo-Universitaire (IHU) Méditerranée Infection in Marseille, France. Researchers under his leadership have recently conducted two clinical trials that have demonstrated the efficacy of treating COVID-19 with a combination of hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) and azithromycin. In the second clinical trial that drug combination reportedly cured 79 out of 80 patients. There was 1 fatality who was in his 80’s. Noting that “adverse events were rare and minor,” the researchers summarized their findings as follows: In conclusion, we confirm the efficacy of hydroxychloroquine associated with azithromycin in the treatment of...
Here’s a slightly edited and improved iteration of my article which was published in yesterday’s The American Spectator regarding the rapidly proliferating clinical and laboratory data that support the use of the inexpensive, safe and widely available antimalarial drug hydroxychloroquine to treat and prevent COVID-19 infections. I hope you find it to be interesting and useful. The $20 Solution to Coronavirus: ‘Anecdotal Evidence’ Is a Life-Saver | The American Spectator Over the weekend, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued an emergency authorization for the use of hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) and chloroquine (CQ) to treat hospitalized COVID-19 patients. Simultaneously, the Department of...
Set forth below is my article that was published in yesterday’s The American Spectator about the antimalarial drug chloroquine being used alone or in combination with the antibiotic azithromycin to successfully treat and possibly prevent COVID-19 infections. When President Trump recently expressed his belief that chloroquine could be a “game changer” in the fight against the pandemic, the New York Times accused him of exaggerating its potential and claimed that it showed “limited evidence of healing the sick.” As you will see, the available evidence fully justifies Trump’s optimism. Since publication, even more information has come to light supporting Trump’s view....
I’m not a doctor, and I don’t play one on television. But I do have many friends, former clients and professional associates who are health care professionals. So, when The American Spectator asked me to write an analysis of the COVID-19 pandemic, after I finished rolling around on the floor laughing at the absurdity of me – a pre-med drop out – taking on such a complex and specialized topic, I was able to seek guidance from some very smart, knowledgeable and experienced medical professionals. With their help and five straight days of pulling my hair out as I digested a...
Pictured above is an “anti-treaty” unit of the Irish Republican Army patrolling Dublin’s Grafton Street in 1922. The treaty in question was the proposed Anglo-Irish Treaty between the self-declared Irish Republic and Great Britain that would end the Irish war of independence and establish 26 of Ireland’s 32 counties as the Irish Free State, a semi-autonomous dominion of Great Britain. The remaining 6 counties in the north of Ireland would remain under direct British rule. In early 1922, the treaty was being bitterly debated by the Dail Eireann, Ireland’s equivalent of our Congress. The large Sinn Fein minority in the Dail and...