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Couldn't agree more. Well said. And Gottlieb's response now, to claim that revealing his email requests creates a "threat environment" for him and might create "menacing" responses, is beyond the pale. Likely a strategy sanctioned by Pfizer and it's multinational PR firms.

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It was odd at the very beginning I remember getting sound advice. I had the original strain. Back then the recommendation was if you’ve had it then you don’t really need a shot then it was oh maybe only the J&J because it was a one shot deal. Then they pushed both. It never sat well that everyone originally remembered natural immunity then quickly told me that I was wrong and was spreading misinformation for just stating a fact! That made me crazy! This man was to blame!

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Saying Natural SC2 Immunity is better than mRNA Vaccine is disparaging? How so? Before SC2 if you contracted Flu in September, you were advised not to get that season’s Flu Vaccine. How is SC2 different. The ball is in Gottlieb’s court to prove his statement but he has no data nor precedent!

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Not to mention the tweeter was a former acting FDA Commissioner!

Censoring a physician and FDA Commish for relaying their interpretation of science, medicine, and policy is straight up 1984.

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Just spoke to a school my son wants to attend, and they require teenagers to be vaccinated v. Covid through bivalent boosters because of CDC recommendations. So frustrating to not apply over this issue! Not worth the risk of myocarditis, though!

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Thanks for starting to call this out. Not even tip of the iceberg though.

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If Gottlieb has legitimate concerns, why doesn't he debate? Isn't that what Twitter is for anyway?

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Excellent points, Vinay. Physicians need to be educated beyond the traditional narrow confines of medical ethics. The need for openness to challenges to scientific dogmas and the definitions of conflict of interest are begging to be included in medical education, graduate and post-graduate. Case studies should include the machinations of Francis Collins and Anthony Fauci as they sought with some success to squelch talk of the Wuhan Institute of Virology as the source of SARS-CoV2. In addition, the way that the medical establishment dealt with the Great Barrington Declaration needs to be studied in detail. The modern physician must be skilled in navigating active medical controversies. Many of our fellow citizens have concluded that as a profession, physicians no longer merit respect. It is up to us to earn it back.

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ABSOLUTELY! The “science” lost me during the opiate pain med push back in the late 90’s; it solidified when the suggestion of natural immunity being inferior to a vaccine was pushed. I literally started this sentence with “how dumb can people be” and then backspaced it because it’s clear that we all can be. Critical thinking is minimal and Gottlieb is just another normal greedy human. Wrong kind of person for truly being helpful. I used to wonder what this world would be like if people weren’t in it for profit. The 12 traditions of AA are correct in answering that. Of note - I see that his email is exposed in that pic; however I won’t take my own ego’s bait to write him. He’s at a point where he CAN’T change and only criminal charges would wake him.

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The one who should be offended the most is the COVID 19 virus who has always claimed superiority over a lame RNA strand that it owns.

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“Conflict of interest” is putting it mildly.

If it can be demonstrated that Gottlieb (or others beholden to pharma) were able to influence public health messaging while suppressing alternative therapeutics and/or adverse data sets - that is pure criminality and should be treated as such.

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I am curious about your analysis of these past reports/studies that do look at and quantify athlete death. Could any of these be used as a base line rate?

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17143117/

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4969030/

https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.108.804617

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Totally agree Vinay, now can you please unblock me on Twitter (@gilbert_henry) as I want to follow you there too and I’ve never interacted with you on Twitter / see no reason to be blocked!

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What did twitter do about the request ?

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