"Big Pharma Is Organized Crime" - Whistleblower Peter C. Gøtzsche REVEALS Pharma’s Dirty Secrets

I learned that the business model of drug companies is organized crime. >> Why do you call them organized crime? >> Every type of person that can be bribed has been bribed. FDA commissioners, the top guys at the FDA and even ministers of health. How did they get away with it? >> The corruption is huge in America. The drug industry has been convicted of more crimes than other industries. I found out that they had committed serious crimes repeatedly. >> The trust in a lot of institutions went down. The trust in the US government down. The trust in mainstream media down. The trust in doctors down. The trust in CDC down. The trust in World Health Organization down. >> Don't compare me with the CDC. It it is actually the most corrupt of all industries. >> Where are you getting that data from? 30 seconds. >> Did you ever think you were supposed [Applause] The future looks bright. >> My handshake is better than anything I ever sign. It's right here. >> You are a 101. >> My son's right. I don't think I've ever said this before. All right. So, we have Dr. Peter Gochce with us, the author of Deadly Medicines and Organized Crime, how big pharma has corrupted uh the healthc care industry. And he's also got a new book coming out called How Merc and Drug Regulators Hit Serious Harm of the HPV vaccine. Uh Dr. uh Gutch, it's great to have you on the podcast. >> Thank you. So, you know, the the more I read into you and the more interviews I watch of you, you're a whistleblower from 2000, from early days. You know, a lot of times during co we saw a lot of new doctors coming out and what they were saying and they were blowing the whistle. But you've been doing this for a minute and your background started off of, you know, a master in science and bi in biology, chemistry in 1974 and then you go work in the industry. You actually sell some of the uh products in big pharma. Then you go become a doctor and then later on you see what's going on and you kind of start blowing the whistle saying, "Wait a minute. Let's take a timeout. I don't think we're going the right direction here." So if you don't mind, what prompted me wanting to do this interview with you is a few weeks ago I was at a show called Jubilee where 20 folks are 20 kids are sitting next to me around me and they're debating me on different topics. And one of the girls said something about that she's mentally ill. And when I asked her, "Who told you you're mentally she said herself and her team of doctors and I I kind of want to go into that space. I'll show the clip here in a minute, but before we get started with that, if you don't mind taking a minute or two and just kind of share with the audience your background, that'd be great. >> As you say, I became a biologist at first and didn't know what to do. So my grandfather who was a doctor suggested I went into the drug industry and I hadn't been there for long before I realized that uh these people were cheating on the doctors so I couldn't stay there. So I took the worst way out by taking a whole new education becoming a doctor while I still worked in the drug industry. So that was pretty hard but that's that's what I did. >> Got it. And so when you got in a after how much longer after you got in, you learned uh about you know how it had become a business and what they were doing maybe wasn't a best solution. It was more of a business than an actual solution for the patient. >> Well, I have always asked questions since I was a little boy. And uh even though I was a biologist and didn't know much about drugs, it didn't take me long before I found out that uh the uh clinical trials had been manipulated and what salespeople were telling doctors were not correct. It was pretty easy to find this out actually. >> So what did you learn? Well, um, some years later, as you say, I wrote this book about organized crime. So, um, I learned that the business model of drug companies is organized crime. Uh, I wasn't allowed to use this term when I published an article in the British Medical Journal because they are so afraid that they might be sued by big farmers. So, they called it corporate crime. But it it's far worse than this. It is organized crime according to US law. That is their business model. >> Unpack that for me because that's a strong statement and I've seen you in other videos, but maybe for some people that haven't heard it, why do you call them organized crime? >> Oh, it's pretty simple really. I I went out on the internet and uh I Googled the 10 biggest drug companies in the world and I found out that they had committed serious crimes repeatedly and had been fined sometimes billions of dollars. uh but it's a tiny bit actually compared to what they earn by their crimes which is why the crime crimes just continue and according to US law the recordering act organized crime is about doing things repeatedly which can be fraud and that is all over the place both in research and marketing bribery political corruption obstruction of justice is embezzlement. So these are things that you can see the big pharma companies do all the time. >> How do they get away with it? If that's what they do, how do they get away with it? >> Well, now I'm talking to an American. I I will tell you that's pretty obvious actually. uh the big farmer companies, they bribe your politicians, both Republicans and Democrats, and it's therefore very difficult to do something effectively against the organized crime. It's very difficult to do anything with them with the organized crime. Okay. So, Dr. Gochef, if you don't mind going a little bit deeper because right now like I want the audience I've seen you speak eloquently with getting into details of what things you found. This is surface level. Would you mind getting a little bit deeper for the audience to understand what you're saying? >> Yes. For example, I wrote in my book that virtually every type of person that can be bribed has been bribed, including FDA commissioners, the top guys at the FDA, and even ministers of health. So, it is very widespread to bribe people. And of course, doctors are some of those who are bribed the most. And if you work in the industry, you start by buying the top doctors, the professors and department chairs. So when you look at how much money these people earn in the United States by being on a drug company's advisory board or whatever they do, these are obscene amounts uh according to European standards. So the corruption is huge in America. It it is actually um the most corrupt of all industries. It uh even supersedes big oil and other industries. Uh so the drug industry has been convicted of more crimes and more serious crimes than other industries. And this is absurd because they are dealing with our survival, our health. So it shouldn't be that that way. Um, okay. So how different is it the the way big pharma can get away with things? Because while you're saying this, we we know these numbers. I mean, I'll pull up this number here, Rob, if you want to pull it up. The amount of lobbying that we do in America versus by industry versus other industries is not even close. If you zoom in a little bit in 2024 leading lobby in industry by industry Rob I can't see the top industry in the US big pharma 293 in millions then it's electronics then it's insurance then it's real estate securities oil gas uh oil and gas is onethird of what we do with big farmer so that validates it but I guess maybe open it up because one thing that you'll typically hear is the only two countries in the world that they allow for big pharma to advertise is New Zealand and US. We've heard about that before. How different is big pharma managed and handled in Europe in the Middle East Asia versus the way it's handled in US? >> Uh I would say very differently. Um I know Bob Kennedy personally. I met him for the first time six years ago and Bob has many good ideas about how to improve the health of Americans and and one of his uh most important ideas is to ban commercials on prescription drugs because we know that this is very harmful for the population. And not only that, it is also very costly for our national economies to allow all these nauseiating TV ads on American television for example. Yeah. But but how different is it in Europe, Asia, Middle East, South, Central America? Have you studied how it is done? Maybe even where you are right now. You're right now in Are you in Copenhagen? Are you in uh >> are you in Denmark? Okay. How different is big pharma managed and handled in Europe and Denmark? >> Well, in one way, big pharma does business in the same way in the whole world. But as you said, it's only New Zealand and United States that allows direct advertising of prescription drugs to consumers. So this makes a huge difference and um I believe we can see the outcome of this in national statistics. Uh for example uh the last time I looked at this uh the United States uh uses 18% of his its gross national product on healthcare. This is about double as much as we do in Europe. And part of this is because you have many middlemen in healthcare that we don't have in Europe. But also uh that you use drugs to an extreme extent in United States even very expensive drugs. And yet the net outcome of all this is that Americans have a shorter life on average than Europeans even wealthy Americans. So it's not a question of some Americans being poor and not able to afford a good living. Uh it is very much because of overdiagnosis and overt treatment with drugs. Overdiagnosis and overt treatment of drugs. Yeah. Uh I can I mean that's not you know uh disputable that that is the the first thing they do when you go see a doctor. Hey, your kids got a ADHD. here's the medicine. Hey, I'm having a hard time mental illness. Hey, you know, take this medicine, take that medicine instead of maybe you have financial issues, maybe you have family, maybe you have certain things that you got to address. So, there's no question. But who's doing it right? Is there a case study of a country where you've studied to say this country does it right, we should model after XYZ? Well, um, the Nordic countries, Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Finland, and Iceland, uh, they have actually been mentioned by US politicians as something that America should live up to. Uh, for example, we have a national healthcare where we take care of everybody. We don't need insurance that many people can't even afford in America. So the public health care system is u very I believe very beneficial and I can give you one example that comes from America. Uh quite some years ago, a very famous study was published that looked at over 3,000 counties in America. And that study found that for every 20% more family doctors there were in a county total mortality dropped by 6%. These are incredible revelations and I'll try to explain how can this be. Well, one reason is that a family doctor knows the patients they have. So they are not so keen to overdiagnose and overt treat as specialists are. they might be more reluctant to follow guidelines because they know that this particular person in this case it would actually not be beneficial to follow the guidelines. So they actually don't prescribe a drug that is called for in the guidelines. So this is one reason why it is of great benefit for a country to have very many family doctors and so to speak to keep the specialists at arm length >> but you do the opposite in the United States. So this is also a problem. >> So we have more specialists than uh uh family doctors. >> Well I don't know your numbers. I just know that you focus a lot on the specialist rather than family doctors in America. >> Is that because it pays better? >> Well, I don't know what the reason is, but it would be beneficial for your population if you had more family doctors and fewer specialists. >> Okay. So if we look at these numbers here, as of 2022, there were approximately 279,000 active primary care physicians, which represents 29.9% of all active US physicians. This implies that 70% are physicians and specialists. Huh. So it's a it's roughly a 3:1 ratio. A little bit higher that 2:1 ratio. little bit higher than a 2:1 ratio, 2 and a half to one ratio when we're looking at that. And Rob, if you can go back to the other number that you had that was interesting, the 2019 study with the 3,000 counties in the US found a direct correlation between the supply of primary care physicians and improved life expectancy and lower mortality rates. While the study didn't specifically site a 20% in increase, it did establish that an increase of 10 primary care physicians per 100,000 people was associated with a 51 12 day increase in life expectancy. So if you take that to say 100 per thousand that would be 515 which is a year and a half. That's interesting. The same increase of 10 PCB was include drop in mortality rates from conditions like cardiovascular disease, cancer, respiratory illness which are often addressed in primary care. Can you go a little bit deeper with this topic of primary uh family doctor versus specialists? >> Well, um first of all, this uh study you just showed, I'm impressed about how quickly your people can find relevant information while we're talking. But the study I talked about is a lot older. Th this is not the same study. So but but actually they they tend to show about the same pattern I can see. And um when we talk about drugs there is one thing that is very important for me to tell you and the audience >> please. I have I have done uh investigations on uh how many patients our prescription drugs kill and I have concluded in a article I published recently that our prescription drugs are the most important cause of death. They even supersede heart disease and cancer. This is deeply shocking and tells you a lot about how dangerous our drugs are and how much they are overused because the main killers are opioids, arthritis medications like Motrin which you can buy over the counter. And surprisingly for many people, psychiatric drugs are a very big killer. And if you look at these drug categories, we could easily reduce the consumption of of these drugs by 90% and yet have a more healthy population that would live longer. So this reflects how terribly harmful drug marketing is. >> You said the most important was prescription drugs. Not you didn't say the worst. most important uh cause of death is prescription drugs. >> Yes, that's the main cause of death. >> No, I know. But it's it's not you didn't say it's the most. You said it's the most important one. Uh >> no, no, it is it is uh number one cause of death ahead of heart disease and cancer. >> Rob, can you ver verify that prescription drugs are the number one cause of death ahead of uh ahead of cardiovascular and cancer? Yeah, it is. And uh when Bob Kennedy uh testified in Congress uh when he ran for the U post as Secretary of Health, he mentioned my research on both hearing days. But that was an older version where I said that our drugs were the third leading cause of death. I have now concluded it is the leading cause of death which should tell everybody that they should be careful if they go to their doctor also their family doctor and come home with a prescription. They should investigate themselves what are the benefits and the harms of this drug and is it really necessary? Is it too dangerous for me to use this drug? So I wrote a whole book uh helping people to find reliable information on the internet. It is called survival in an overmedicated world. Look up the evidence yourself. And people would think that this is too difficult for me. I'm not educated as a doctor. But it's actually more easy than you would think. So I have a lot of examples in that book that shows people it's not so difficult as you might think. And then you might not go to the pharmacy. And this might help you survive actually. >> So uh uh can you go back to the other source? So here Rob asked the question uh is prescription the leading cause of death uh in the US. CDC came back and said number one is heart disease, number two is cancer and then it goes into unintentional injuries which include drug overdose, you know, fentinyl, opioids, all that other stuff. But it also says on the bottom that some researchers and it quotes you and we didn't put your name in here. It quotes you and says some researchers like Peter Gochce in deadly medicine organized crime argued that adverse effects of properly prescribed medications are underestimated and could rank as the third leading cause of death if counted comprehensively. But this is debated and not reflected in CDC's official leading cause table. So, how how are you getting the source to say it's the leading cause of death? Now, if it was a third a few years ago, now it's the leading cause. Where are you getting that data from? >> Well, let me first say that the CDC is not a reliable source of information. This has become abundantly clear recently. Bob Kennedy fired the whole vaccine committee because several members uh received money from the vaccine industry. So now they have a a much better committee and uh that will also help American health no doubt. And for example I have written a book about vaccines where I document that what the CDC writes on their homepage about influenza vaccinations uh is sometimes totally wrong. They write that these vaccines can uh help people survive. This has never been documented that they can decrease hospitalizations and so on. Uh in reality the the flu shots are not very effective. So uh don't compare me with the CDC. I believe this is not a reliable organization. This has been documented many times. And now you ask me where do my data come from? Well, that's very simple. I looked at the drug groups that I was very familiar with and uh then I looked up uh systematic reviews of the randomized trials. How many deaths were there on drug? How many deaths on placebo? And then I had usage statistics. I could see how many people were on these drugs. And in in some cases there weren't good randomized trials. But then I used the best observational studies I could find where there was a comparison group that was very much alike the group that was treated but which was untreated and then you could could see what the mortality was in these two groups and uh I will give you one example that will uh be surprising for people. Uh anti-depressants are among the most used drugs at all. oneif of all Americans are on an anti-depressants anti-depressants every day. Uh but when you give drugs that affect brain functions, they become problematic when you get older because you might lose your balance and if you fall and break your hip, one fifth of the patients will be dead within the next year. So one reason why anti-depressants kill very many drugs uh very many people is that it is being used by very many elderly people and some of these fall and die. This will surprise many people but it should not be surprising because I mean if you drink alcohol you will also have balance problems. Everything that affects the brain can give you balance problems. >> Okay. So, let me be the devil's advocate and just say, you know, uh uh then why are people living longer? Cuz somebody in medicine is going to sit there and say, I totally understand what the, you know, uh the Prozac, and we're going to get into that because I'm going to show you the clip here because I want to know what you're going to say about this. But some may say, well, doc, then why are people living longer? Life expectancy, you know, 100 years ago was not what it is today. 50 years ago is not what it is today. What is the cause of us living longer? Oh, is it because of medicine? Is it because of better advancement in science? Is it because of why are we living longer? What would you say to that? >> Well, this is not really my uh area of research, but um what I have read is that there is good agreement that the increase in longevity is not due to drugs. It is due to uh social factors that people have become more wealthy. They eat better food generally. They exercise a lot. If you compare people at my age with my grandparents generation, they were generally fat. They ate far too much. And uh exercise, they had partly heard of it. doing sports, they didn't do that. Not even when they were young, most of them. So, uh, exercise is very helpful for our longevity. We know that. So, there are many factors that are not drugs that help help us live much longer today. Does that resonate with you? >> Yeah. I don't know because when you said that, you said your grandparents were much fatter than you. I just typed in right now. Are we fatter today or 100 years ago? just to kind of see what numbers it it'll bring up. And it says in the 1920s and 1930s, obesity was rare. Estimates suggest that only about one or 3% of adults were obese versus today 42% are obese today. And that number is uh uh astronomically increased since then and a wider change. Food supply, you know, shifted from uh fresh and local to processed, high sugar, high fat, you know, portion sizes. We eat a lot more physical activity. It says it's lowered a little bit because we're behind the computer more. Uh so it's interesting because I'm trying I I I read a book one time by Ken Langon. He is one of the original guys of Home Depot. He's an he's a eight billion guy, wealthy guy. He's made a lot of money for himself, successful. He wrote a book called I Love Capitalism. And in the book, I love capitalism, he talks about how his father died at 62 years old and if blood thinners were around then, his dad would have lived to 85. And he says, "I've been on blood thinners for 30 years." That's what his claim is. So to me, I I have a I'm trying to keep a balance on where did they get it right and where did the abuse come in. For example, I'm going to show you this clip. Rob, if you can pull up play this clip. This last four weeks ago, I'm in a room with 20 kids politically. They're all, you know, uh um socialists and some communists. They're making the argument of capitalism and anti- capitalism. I'm the capitalist. They're the 20 capitalist anti- capitalist. And they're debating me. One of the girls I talked to, she says she is mentally ill. And I want you to see this exchange and you tell me how we got here. Go ahead, Rob. mentally ill. So, that was something I had to deal with. But, um, I'm mainly mentally ill because I am disabled in a capitalist country. >> Tell me more about mentally ill. Who qualified you as somebody that's mentally ill? >> Um, me and my doctor team. >> Who who who convinced you that you're mentally ill? >> Um, me and my doctor team. >> What's the specific uh category of mental illness? Is there one? >> You know why I asked this question? Let me explain why I asked this question. >> I don't even like the psychological industry. I don't really stand for like sigman freudian politics or anything like that. I don't have access to even a result or a solution to my disability as someone with a connective tissue disorder. It's genetic. >> Have you been able to go to different doctors and get yourself tested and say you have? >> Yes. >> And in California? >> Yes. But not enough. I I can't find a specialist. >> You can't find a specialist. >> Can't find a specialist. >> Is there anyone in your life that's willing to find a specialist? >> Well, they could if or they would if they had money, but Yeah. >> Would you be okay if I pay for a specialist for you to go see? >> Yeah. >> Would you take money from a capitalist to help you go see specialist? >> I mean, yeah, sure. Why not? >> I'm going to have you go see two. Where do you do you live in California? >> Yeah. >> I'm going to have you go see two specialists. But would you also be open to seeing somebody else? I choose as a psychologist. 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That was 30 years ago when kids were going to school. I don't remember a lot of mentally ill statements being said by kids. We were fairly normal. What's happened the last 30 year 30 years to have so many kids saying they're mentally ill? This is my concern where big pharma is targeting kids and they're easy candidates. What do you have to say about this girl right here that you just watched in the clip as well as what's happening with young kids that are saying they're mentally ill? >> Oh, I have a lot to say about this because now we are into psychiatry. But before I go there, >> I just want to tell you that you're absolutely right about uh people have become more obese and therefore it is surprising that we live longer. It's the same in Denmark. People are fatter today than earlier and yet life expectancy goes up. But if we had not become fatter, I'm sure it would have gone up even more. But let's leave that um and and talk about psychiatry. Uh this is a very tragic chapter of medicine. It is the only medical specialty I know of that definitely does more harm than good to its patients. And uh one reason is that uh when psychiatrists were battling with psychologist who were more popular in the 50s and 60s than psychiatrist then the psychiatrist invented a new idea. We are doctors so we can prescribe drugs which psych psychologists cannot. So we have to focus on drugs. And then they invented this uh uh disease manual DSM, the American Psychiatric Association, and it just became worse and worse over the years. And what I mean by this is that virtually everything in life, normal conditions, can now be defined as a psychiatric disorder. For example, you are not even allowed to grieve more than two weeks if you have lost your wife or husband because then you might get a diagnosis of depression. This is insane. You must have had a very bad marriage if you are only unhappy for two weeks after your spouse suddenly died. But but this this is how it is now that you get a diagnosis so easily. And I can give you an example. One evening we had dinner in my home and our youngest daughter was there with her very laidback boyfriend and we talked about psychiatry and then I said, "Hey, wait a minute. I will go and get the u diagnostic chart for adult ADHD. So I came in with it. We were four people. We all tested positive for ADHD. Even the very laidback boyfriend. It is so totally ridiculous because ADHD is not something that exists in nature. You can find a giraffe or a lion. They exist. But ADHD doesn't exist. It's just a name. You have a normal distribution of behavior. Most of us are in the middle. And some of us are more energetic and perhaps irritating and gets annoyed if we listen to a boring lecture. So we move our feet and uh maybe we walk up, stand up and walk around a little to signalize to the lecturer, I'm tired of you. Please stop this. And uh these are some of the features that identify what you call ADHD. So uh when I lecture I often find that one quarter up to one half of the audience test positive for adult ADHD. I try this test on them and then I tell them afterwards don't be unhappy. I I I also got this uh foolish name and uh some of the most interesting and dynamic people I've ever met in the whole world, they all test positive for ADHD because they are energetic and sometimes irritating. And and for for some years I joked about we also need a diagnosis for all those who are too quiet. And then it came ADD, attention deficit disorder without hyperactivity. And then I started joking now we need a diagnosis for people in the middle so that we can medicate everybody. What did they come up with for the middle? I'm curious. I'm waiting. >> I don't know. But it is so ridiculous that it takes so little to get a psychiatric diagnosis. it is very very very harmful and that's why I agree with uh American psychiatrist Peter Ban who is now approaching 90 years of age uh he once said I think it was on an Oprah Winfrey show that the worst mistake you can make in your life could be to look up a psychiatrist if you have a mental health problem because you are virtually certain to get one or more diagnosis and one or more drugs and this is not the solution. Peter almost did not use psychiatric drugs at all in his clinical practice. He used psychotherapy even for people who are psychotic and schizophrenic and there are now randomized trials that show that psychotherapy even works in these serious conditions. >> Okay. So uh uh when you're talking about when you saw that lady who's saying she's mentally ill, what do you think is causing an increase in that? Is it education? Is it big pharma? Is it victimhood mentality? Is it society? What do you think is causing an increase in that? I can give you one example. My wife and I became very angry when a so-called ADHD bus visited our children's school. So the idea with this bus which came from the Danish ADHD association was to inform children about that they might have ADHD. So perhaps it would be a good idea to become tested and and the material that was given to the children had been worked out in collaboration with the drug company. My goodness, I call this corruption. So um and there was a school teacher somewhere who had sent most of her pupils to being investigated for ADHD and a lot of them came back positive. So my conclusion was that the school teacher was the problem not the children because she couldn't keep order and discipline in her classroom. So then it must be the children's fault. So uh just follow the money in psychiatry. It will tell you what you want to know. And a lot of the patient organizations like the Danish ADHD association have been corrupted by industry money. >> Got it. Yeah. you know, as you as you go through this and you see this and you you see how it's becoming normal uh with the medication that they're handing out, what's specific when you hear about these SSRI medicines, what can you say about them? What's the research you've done and what side effects they have specific to SSRIs? >> Yes. Uh what is most important perhaps about uh these anti-depressants is that when you study how good the effect is on depression compared to a placebo then you get a result that is so small that it is far below what you call the least clinical significant difference. I mean in order to make a difference for people you need more than just what you can barely detect in a randomized trial. So the psychiatrists have themselves shown that these drugs their effect is way below what is clinically relevant. So you might wonder why they have become so popular. But that's all about money. And then let's what are their main effects? It's not to make depression better because very few can feel any difference. No, half of those who are treated get sexual problems and in half of those who get problems the problems are severe. For example, males who become impotent or cannot get uh ejaculation and females who cannot get orgasm and and uh these effects can actually become permanent. So that when people have stopped the anti-depressants, they might uh be incapac incapacitated for life and in some cases this has caused people to commit suicide. So uh this is one of the very bad effects of uh depression pills but there is another one and that is that um they double not only the risk of suicide they actually double suicides and not only in children but also in adults. This has been shown for example by researchers who had access to FDA data which are much more reliable than what the drug companies and their paid allies among psychiatrists have published in journals like the New England Journal of Medicine and JAMA and JAMA psychiatry and Lancet and so on. So uh and suicide prevention programs all over the world. They recommend anti-depressants if you are uh uh suicidal. I was invited to Washington DC in June by a veterans group. So we had a meeting in capital and also a press conference and what has happened was that when the veterans administration introduced a suicide prevention program it of course involved anti-depressants because such programs always recommend anti-depressants and in the following years usage of anti-depressants in war veterans went up and what happened with suicides they also went up because this This is what the drugs do to people. It is so totally insane. And I I actually become very sad whenever I think about it. Particularly when children are driven to suicide with something that on top of this is even called happy pills. >> Yeah. It's interesting because just I think this is a week ago or maybe is Rob is this a week ago or two weeks ago? Something like that. >> I believe last week. >> Yeah, last week. Here's what Bobby Kennedy had to say about SSR rights. Go ahead, >> Rob. One of the worst mass shootings in history. The CDC has previously been responsible for studying gun violence. A lot of those programs have been cut now. Would you still consider gun violence a public health crisis? And who's going to be >> I I certainly consider mass shootings a health crisis. And we are doing for the first time real studies to find out what the ideology of that is. And we're looking for the first time at psychiatric drugs. You know these kind of matter shooting people have have had guns in this country forever. When I was a kid we had shooting clubs at our school and people kids my classmates other people would bring a 22 rifle with their guns to school and park it in the parking lot. Nobody was shooting said there's never been a time in America in the history of humanity when people walked into a crowd into a church or a movie theater or a school or crowd of standards and just started randomly shooting. It's happening in our country. It's not happening around the world. And there are many other countries that have comparable levels of guns that we have in this country. We had comparable levels in the 40s, 50s, and 60s. And people weren't doing that. Something changed and it dramatically changed human behavior. And one of the culprits we need to examine is whether the fact that we are the most overmed nation in the world and at a lot of those are psychiatric drugs that have blackbox warnings on them that warn of suicidal and homicidal ideiation. So we are doing those studies right now for the first time and we will have an answer. >> So that kind of val, you know, validates what you were saying. But uh uh what are your thoughts about what Bobby just said right there? >> I believe Kennedy is absolutely right. Uh it has been debated a lot whether anti-depressants can cause homicide, but we know also from animal experiments that these drugs can make people hostile and aggressive. And uh when my research group got access to clinical study reports uh from the European drug regulator, we could see in these voluminous reports that there were uh cases where people have become belligerent and hostile and homicidal when they came on these drugs. This is not what the drug companies publish in their clinical trials. They delete such information. They even delete suicide attempts. We have also shown this by having access to confidential study reports that uh two suicide attempts on fuoxitin in children. Fluoxitin that's Prozac. They didn't appear in the published report but only in the internal Eli Liy company report. This is fraud and it kills people. The fraud kills people there. When Proac was marketed, it became the most complained about drug in America. There were an enormous amount of reports on suicidality and homicidality and so on. And of course, you can't know in every single case whether that person would have become homicidal anyhow. But but there are other uh research that uh shows that not only anti-depressants but also uh ADHD drugs can make people hostile for example. >> Yeah. Uh you know as you as you're going through this I just think about my four kids and you know when you're around schools different schools not all schools but different schools. We lived in California for a while. So a couple of our kids went to California. We have two kids born in California, one born in Texas and one born in Florida. And as you're going through the the different approaches they take medicine for kids, I remember one day we're in California. We can't have, you know, religious exemptions and not have our kids take the vaccines. They have to take the vaccines. Whatever the mandates they had, we had to take them. We're in Texas. We're in Texas and, you know, our kids went to a private school, Christian private school. But one day I get a call. My wife's like, "The kids are the school's asking for vaccine card." I said, "Yeah, but this is Texas and it's religious exemption." No, we have to give it to him. I said, "There's no way. Let's call Bobby real quick." We call Bobby at 11:00 at night. He calls me back. We get on the phone for 45 minutes to an hour. He's getting all these other people on the call. And it's right. Texas demands it. Then we come to Florida. At least Florida allowed for religious exemption. But as of yesterday, I don't know if you heard the news or not. The surgeon general of Florida ends all vaccine mandates for kids. It was announced yesterday. Joseph Lapo, here's what he had to say. Go ahead, Rob. What I'm most excited about is is an announcement that we're going to make that we're making now, which is that the Florida Department of Health in partnership with the governors is going to be working to end all vaccine mandates in Florida law. All of them. All of them. All of them. [Applause] Every last >> amazing applause. >> Yes. >> That's unbelievable. How many people does it sound like it's in their ride? >> Couple hundred. >> Couple hundred. Yeah. >> Every last one of them. All of them. >> Is he saying anything else? This They've been clapping for about a minute already. So you can pause it. Th this was a big deal, doc, because during COVID, everybody was like, I don't want to have my kids take it. And I don't know what the number is today. 71% of Americans took the COVID vaccine. This is not even the COVID vaccine. This is just vaccines, period, that are mandated where parents don't have an option. And Florida's the first state that's done this. What are your thoughts on this? >> It's great. I did see the news already and I have been against vaccine mandates all the time. There are some vaccines that are just unbelievable. For example, the measles vaccine has saved the lives of countless number of people. So I get sad when when some fundamentalists they don't want to get the measles vaccine and you had this outbreak in Texas not so long ago and uh but uh when you consider vaccine mandates you have to balance benefits and harms and in Europe politicians were generally against vaccine mandates because they were afraid that this would only increase uh the numbers who would be vaccine hesitant in the population. And I agree, it's better with good arguments to try to convince people that we have some vaccines that every one of us should take, but we also have vaccines that are doubtful and and one concrete example is the COVID 19 vaccines. To me, it was a horrible decision in the United States to re recommend these vaccines from age 6 months and upwards because they are harmful for young children. Uh the risk that they get a bad infection is extremely small. Whereas uh one to two children out of 200 get inflammation in the heart when they get an mRNA vaccine from Fiser or Mona and when you get myocarditis which is called some of these children die. These vaccines have killed some children. So to me it has always been insane to in the United States recommend COVID vaccines down to 6 months of age. And not only that, but to recommend boosters when you are already vaccinated twice and you already had the COVID infection despite being vaccinated. So you have a good natural immunity. Why on earth should you take booster after booster? It is nonsensical. And the European medicines agency even at one time warned against all these boosters because we know that too many vaccinations can actually weaken the immune system. So also on this I support Bob Kennedy fully but he has received a lot of flak for this in mainstream media in the US. This is simply not fair and it's not correct. >> Yeah. I mean, and by the way, if if you go back to that number, Rob, the the CHAGBT report that you had pulled up. So, right now, if you look at the vaccine coverage, kindergarten students, 92 to 93% for the MMR, the DTAP, the polio, and the Vicella full vaccine series by age three, 70 73% complete the recommended seven series. And then on the bottom uh you see what this means is vaccination rates remain relatively high in the states but many key vaccines are slipping below 95% threshold which is considered necessary to maintain her immunity especially for measles. Rob if you can go a little bit lower. Uh the drop in full vaccination series completion 73% signals that while many children receive individual vaccines a notable portion are not fully up to date and the rising exemption rate now 3.6% 6% further underscores challenges of maintaining widespread immunization coverage. So you know some of them you know and forget about the the co one out of all the vaccines uh if you don't mind going through it I know you said measles where some of the parents the fundamentalists are not really are going a little too far and you're seeing a little bit of the growth in Texas. What other vaccines do you yourself feel a little bit more comfortable with and which ones do you not? Forget the vac uh covid all the other ones. >> I I have taken virtually any recommended vaccine and so has my wife who is a clinical microbiologist. So you can name them uh polio, dtera, tetanus and so on. But there is one thing about vaccines that people usually don't know about. Uh Danish vaccine researchers have found out and uh this has been uh called a milestone in an article in nature about vaccines. They have found out that live attenuated vaccines like the measles vaccine they actually decrease mortality more than you would expect from its specific effect on measles. So even if there is no measel measles epidemic in a country in Africa and the children get vaccinated with the measles vaccine their mortality drops. This is incredibly important to know and we also have the opposite result that uh dead vaccines they tend to increase total mortality. So if you use these vaccines in an area where the risk of getting infected is very low you might actually increase mortality. So vaccines are much more complicated than people think and therefore it was horribly disturbing that the coid9 pandemic aggravated scientific censorship and lack of freedom of speech to an unbelievable extent that I never thought I should see in my lifetime. We need to debate science. We need to debate vaccines. They are much more complicated than you think. We cannot have censorship. This is detrimental for our democracies. And look what we had during COVID 19. It is so disgraceful. >> Yeah. I mean, hopefully the the next time something like that happens, we're ready for it in ways where people will remember how many doctors were silenced and got strikes on you. I mean, I I I got a couple strikes just for having Bobby Kennedy on the podcast and videos were taken down during that time, the peak of co where they didn't want you to talk about any of that stuff. So hopefully that won't be the case in the future. Let's continue with the next part. Rob, can you do me a favor? Show the clip. Do you remember when um when uh Tom Cruz was uh on MSNBC talking to Matt Lowauour and they were talking about psychiatric medicine and as a Scientologist he pushed back and at the time he was criticized for it heavily and later on a lot of people came back and gave him credit for standing up but it was pretty heated. I don't know if you've seen this clip or not Rob if you don't mind playing the clip. There's >> no such thing as a chemical imbalance. So postpartum depression to you is is kind of a little psychological goo godly goop. >> No, no, I did not say that. >> I'm just asking what you what would you call it? >> Abs that is that post now now you're talking about two different things. >> But that's what she went on the anti-depressant for. >> But what happens the anti-depressant all it does is mask the problem. There's ways of vitamins and through exercise and various things. I'm not saying that that isn't real. >> But but aren't there examples where it works? >> Matt, you don't even you're glib. You don't even know what Rland is. If you start talking about chemical imbalance, you have to evaluate and read the research papers on how they came up with these theories. Matt, >> do you remember that clip between Matt Lowour and Tom Cruz back in the days with Matt Lowour? >> Well, I'm not sure I remember the clip, but uh the lie about a chemical imbalance making you depressed is one of the worst in psychiatry. This is simply wrong and it is extremely harmful this lie because if you're a patient and you are told you have a chemical imbalance and here is a drug that will fix your imbalance, why would you ever stop taking this drug? Because if you have a deficit to begin with, shouldn't you take it for the last of your life? So this this has been incredibly incredibly harmful and it has never been shown in scientific research that any psychiatric disorder is caused by a chemical imbalance perhaps with some extremely rare exceptions. But now we are talking about major conditions like depression and psychosis and so on. And u I have illustrated this with um an allegory. If you come out to a house that has burned down and you find ashes, it was not the ashes that set the house on fire. So, some of this research looks into people who are depressed. And if they can find any change in their chemistry, they cannot conclude that those changes started it all. It could be like the ashes in the house. And we know for example that uh anti-depressants they create a chemical imbalance. Other psychiatric drugs create a chemical imbalance because that's the whole reason for using them. So anti-depressants SSRI they increase serotonin and this creates various issues like sexual problems and uh suicidality and so on. So um >> interesting >> Scientology it's strange because uh if you get associated with Scientology people stop listening to you. Uh but uh we should not look at who people are. It's a bit like uh Bob Kennedy. We should look at what they say. Is it correct or not? >> Yeah. Are are you a Scientologist yourself? Because I've worked with many of them and and they're extremely hardwork. Uh, of course I'm not a psych scientologist. I'm a scientist. I don't believe in any kind of religion. And I see Scientology as a terrible sect that I would never become a member of. >> Well, I was just going to send you a book if you were interested to as a form of invitation if you wanted to read Dynetics because I have a lot of them on my house. >> No thanks, please. >> Okay. Well, it was just an offer, you know, nothing more than that. I'm not a Scientologist, but I just have a lot of them in my house that that has been given to me over the years. So, by the way, last thing I want to talk about, you you've spoken about mammograms, if I'm not mistaken. Uh, you've you've said some things about mammograms. You said mamograph uh mammograms screening for breast cancer screening does more harm than good by leading to false positive, overdiagnosis, and overt treatment. What did you mean by that? Well, I I made uh with a collaborator the Cochran review on breast screening which we published in 2001. So we collected the randomized trials where half of the women had been screened and the other half had not and we have updated this review over the years. Now uh mamography screening has been sold to the public with two statements. It saves lives and it saves breasts because by uh coming earlier you can spare women's breasts to a greater extent. >> And now the sad truth is that both these statements are totally wrong. Women don't live longer because they go to mamography screening. Total cancer mortality including breast cancer mortality is exactly the same. Total mortality all causes is the same. Then what about breast cancer mortality? We have documented that this is a biased outcome. And this is a long story I won't give you here. But you can't trust when doctors decide did this woman die from breast cancer or another cancer or from a third reason. This decision is has been proven to be biased. So we should not look at breast cancer mortality. After all people go to mamography screening to live longer and they don't live longer. And then when you when you screen for cancer and I can give prostate cancer as an example. People of my age, most of us have prostate cancer, but we should not get screened because uh most of these cancers are harmless. They will not bother us for the rest of our lifetime. But if you screen for breast cancer, for example, you find a lot of cancers and cell changes that you would never have found if you had not gone to screening for the rest of your life. Now, when you have found this, you treat it. And how the irony is that the earliest cell changes, those we call carcinoma incitu, it's not even cancer, it's just cell changes, they are often diffusely spread in not only one breast but sometimes both breasts. So when you find this very early cell change, sometimes a woman loses both breasts and um the net result of all this is that more women lose a breast if they go to screening than if they don't go to screening. So I have argued for quite some years that mimography screening should be stopped but that hasn't made me the most popular man in the world. Yeah. Um, I can I can see that. Uh, I can see that. I can see how some people are not going to be happy with you. I I don't think you're trying to make friends. I don't think you're in the business of trying to make friends specifically in the in the medical field or the pharmaceutical field. I don't think you're trying to, you know, have these lobbies calling you and asking you to go to dinner with them. I don't see that as a top 10 list, bucket list type of things that you want to do. Uh, last thing, you have a new book coming out. This book is called um, how Merc and Drug Regulators Hit Serious Harms of the HPV vaccine. What can you say about Merc? I think it's Merc and uh, yeah. What can you say about this book and specific to Merc? Well, Merc as so many other companies is widely known as committing fraud again and again. And I start the book by recalling the Vio affair. This arthritis drug called Vio that killed people because they got heart attacks. And Merc hit this for many years and they committed fraud several times by omitting cases of heart attacks in their clinical trials when they submitted their manuscripts to New England Journal of Medicine and Annals of Internal Medicine. This was revealed later and also by studying FDA data it became obvious that Merc was committing fraud. So we have a company that is used to committing fraud and uh I documented my book that Merc also committed fraud in relation to Gardil its HPV vaccine. There were some clear cases of very serious neurological adverse events from Denmark, for example, I know about them that Danish investigators tried to report to Merc during a clinical trial. And Merc refused that. They they just blankly refused and uh they did not appear in Merc's reports. So this is outright fraud and I read 112,000 pages of internal merc reports. Not every single page because some of them were laboratory values but but when I had read all that I realized that there were very many ways where merc cheated with their safety data. It was just unbelievable what Merc had done. So um uh >> can you give some examples of it? >> In my in my mind there is absolutely no doubt that the HPV vaccines cause serious neurological harms in rare cases but when you look at the benefits they are very modest. For example, if people attend cervical cancer screening regularly, you can treat cell changes before they become cancer. >> So in in that case, the vaccine will have no effect. So the and actually the vaccines have also killed some people. So you need to factor this in when you decide whether you want your young girls to get vaccinated. Yeah, I'm looking up this scandal with Vio. In 2004, they had to pay $4.85 billion in settlements to patients and families. And the case exposed challenges with drug safety monitoring, FDA oversight, and Merc's internal handling of safety data. It's pretty wild when you think about what types of fines some of these pharmaceutical companies have had to pay. and HPV. When you look at that, the challenge, the criticism they get is how aggressively they leverage lobbying and marketing to make it a widespread adoption. Um, what what numbers do we have with what HPV did compared to Vio? Do we know? No, it will be difficult to uh exceed the vio scandal because I have estimated that Merc killed over 100,000 patients with vio and and uh the the risks with the HPV vaccines uh are not at all in this league. They are far far smaller. So this is a very different situation. >> Got it. You said something about Motrin earlier. So, so what could you say about the day-to-day basic stuff that a lot of people take? Advil, Motrin, aspirin, you know, Tylenol. What do you have to say about those basic things that to us it's like that's not a big deal. It's just over the counter. >> The fact that you can buy some of these drugs over the counter make people believe that they are safe. >> That's exactly right. But there is no drug in the world that is safe because if a drug has a benefit, it will also harm some people. This is unavoidable. And if you look at the uh benefits of uh arthritis drugs, then doctors typically tell you if you have pain somewhere, take Tylenol and then an arthritis drug as well. Take two drugs. But the research actually shows that it is enough to take Tylenol. You don't really get any better pain relieving effect by taking two drugs. But what you do is that you increase your risk of dying because uh arthritis drugs kill very many people through heart attacks and bleeding stomach ulcers. So I I would never in my life take any of these arthritis drugs and these were the drugs that I did research on when I worked in the drug industry. So I know a lot about them and I I u defended a doctoral thesis about them many years ago. >> Yeah. Very uh uh concerning when you when you are not in this space. He said something earlier when he said, "You don't have to be a doctor to be able to research some of this stuff and find out for yourself, which is kind of a challenge to the average person to say do a little bit more research on your own before you take any medicine that a doctor prescribes to you." And I think that's very good counsel uh to be giving specifically when it's coming down to kids. You know, sometimes we care more about our kids health than we do of ours, which is noble, but uh it's important to go through and not just take it just because somebody's a doctor. Wow. They know what they're doing. take anything they give you. I think what happened postcoid, believe it or not, and I don't know if this is a good thing or a bad thing, the trust in a lot of institutions uh uh went down. The trust in, you know, the US government down. The trust in mainstream media down, the trust in doctors down, the trust in CDC down, the trust in World Health Organization down, the trust in a lot of these things that we used to uphold as the highest level of credibility was lost and in many ways exposed during COVID, which some say it's a good thing, but to the average person's like, who the hell do I now trust? Who do I trust? >> That's correct. But America has a unique chance right now. Uh and I know several of the people. I interviewed Jay Paracharia in June when I was in Washington, the new director of the NIH. >> And it was like meeting an old school friend uh for both of us. It was fantastic and we agreed on virtually everything. So to have Jay at the top of the NIH is a huge step in the right direction of uh uh regaining people's trust in science and in the NIH and Bob Kennedy's firing of the whole CDC vaccine committee was a good step in the right direction. Yeah, we haven't put up the interview with Jay Paracharia yet on our website because we have too much work to do. So we have a big uh backlog. I also know Martin Kulf whom I have also interviewed on our broken medical science channel. Actually the first one I ever interviewed. Uh he now has a central role in the CDC's new vaccine committee and Martin was one of the three people who wrote the great Barington declaration >> and Jay Baracharia was another one of them and they have been proven right. Sweden was the only country in the world. Martin is Swedish even though he was professor at Harvard. Sweden was the only country in the world that did not lock down because they followed the science and not the politics. And Sweden has had the lowest excess mortality practically in the whole western world because they did not lock down. Because what happens when you lock down? Well, if you sit at home and you have pain in your chest, you are not allowed to go out because your society is locked down. You're afraid of going to hospital because my goodness, I might get COVID if I go there. And then you stay at home and then what? You might die from your heart attack. So, mortality from other races go up when we lock down our societies. And what I mean it was so insane what we were exposed to. Not to mention face masks. They don't work. There have been big randomized trials of face masks. And why should we dress whole nations as bank robbers if they don't work. That's another big scandal in healthcare recently. But with the people you now have uh in the US in leading positions, I am um I'm quite optimistic that America has a better chance as I said in the introduction in this program than in my whole lifetime of doing better in healthcare. >> Well, I feel the same way. I'm I'm glad you know these folks who have common sense, logic, and actual science and are not trying to be politicians are in there. I just hope they do the right they do what they said pre getting into politics, which they are now. I hope they complete it because we're not this is not going to be the last pandemic we're going to be dealing with. This is not going to be the last time politicians are going to try to control the world. This is not going to be the last time, you know, lobbyists are going to try to push a vaccine or product through that's going to make them hundred billion dollars over a couple years. This is this won't be the last time. But we need better, stronger guidelines in place where the average individual who doesn't have access to resources and money can protect themselves. Uh doctor, uh it's been great speaking with you. We're going to put the link to your both books below for the average person if they want to order it. How merc and drug regulators hit serious harm of the HPV vaccine as well as deadly medicines and organized crime. How big pharma has corrupted healthc care. Any final thoughts before we wrap up the interview. >> Don't forget deadly psychiatry. This is also an important book. >> Oh, you have another book called the Okay. Can you go to that as well, Rob? The deadly. Just go on Amazon where you were at. Rob, go on his name. Yeah. Two years after my book about organized crime, I published a book called Deadly Psychiatry and Organized Denial because psychiatrists lie about what they can achieve with their drugs all the time. If they didn't lie, their specialty could not survive. So, I have published several books about psychiatry and some of them are freely available on my website. So, I hope people will just go there and get them. We're going to put the link to your website as well. Thank you doc. Appreciate your time. >> Thank you. >> Take care everybody. Bye-bye. Bye-bye. Nowadays, more than ever, the brand you wear reflects and represent who you are. So for us, if you wear a future looks bright hat or a value taming gear, you're telling the world, I'm optimistic. I'm excited about what's going to be happening. But you're a freethinker. You question things. You like debate. And by the way, last year 120,000 people got a piece of future looks bright gear with value tamement. We have so many new things. The cuff links are here. New future looks bright. This is my favorite, the green one. Just yesterday, somebody placed an order for a hundred of these. If you watch the PBD podcast, you got a bunch to choose from. White ones, black ones. 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