A round table discussion of a chapter from the book Dissolving Illusions by Suzanne Humphries, MD, and Roman Bystrianyk. Our guest is the anonymous internet personality and blogger who writes under the pen name of Medical Nemesis. GUEST: Medical Nemesis: Twitter and Substack WATCH ON YOUTUBE: Watch the episode on our YouTube channel

Our guest is Paul Thacker, an investigative journalist who reports on science, medicine and the environment. He recently received the British Journalism Award in Specialist Journalism for a series of articles in the BMJ investigating undisclosed financial interests among medical experts advising the US and UK governments on vaccines. GUEST: Paul Thacker: Twitter and Substack WATCH ON YOUTUBE: Watch the episode on our YouTube channel

Our guest is Kelley Krohnert, a mom from Georgia who has repeatedly taken to task public health so-called experts for their shoddy analysis of pandemic statistics. In doing so, Kelley has won a large following on Twitter and on her website COVID-19 in Georgia which is well-respected for its reporting on the pandemic. One of Kelley's major fact-checking contribution was to discover that a pediatric COVID mortality statistics that was widely disseminated by the CDC, presented at the June 2021...

Our guest is Michelle-Linh Nguyen, a research fellow in the National Clinician Scholars Program at UCSF. She is the first author of a recent article published in Annals of Internal Medicine examining the history of time organization in U.S. outpatient medicine. GUEST: Michelle-Linh Nguyen: Twitter and UCSF webpage WATCH ON YOUTUBE: Watch the episode on our YouTube channel

Our guest is Tracy Høeg, MD, PhD, who returns to the show to share her perspective on the controversial study published by the Florida Department of Public Health analyzing a possible link between COVID mRNA vaccines and cardiac-related deaths. Dr. Høeg has made notable contributions to empirical research pertaining to SARS-COV2 transmission in schools and to vaccine-related myocarditis. She has published her findings in the CDC’s MMWR and has given oral testimony to Congress. GUEST: Tracy...

Drs. Anish Koka and Michel Accad discuss the controversy regarding the meaning of fetal heartbeats and Dr. Koka's latest Substack https://anishkokamd.substack.com/p/why-glenn-kessler-is-completely-wrong (article) on the subject. LINKS: Anish Koka's https://anishkokamd.substack.com/ (Newsletter) Michel Accad's https://alertandoriented.com/ (Alert and Oriented) blog WATCH ON YOUTUBE: https://youtu.be/AvZEM-V0Qa0 (Watch the episode) on our YouTube channel

Our guest is Ben Recht, Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at UC Berkeley, and co-author with Moritz Hardt of Pattern, Prediction, and Action: A Story About Machine Learning soon to be published by Princeton University Press but already freely available as a pdf format pre-print https://mlstory.org/ (here). We discuss his work and perspective on machine learning and artificial intelligence. GUEST: Ben Recht: https://twitter.com/beenwrekt (Twitter) and...

Our guest is Dr. Andrew Bostom, an academic physician also known as “https://www.golocalprov.com/news/The-Researcher-Brown-University-Doesnt-Want-You-to-Know-About (The Researcher Brown University Doesn’t Want You to Know About).” We discuss his life experience as an academic physician with politically conservative views, his opposition to the pandemic response, and his recent suspension from Twitter. GUEST: Andrew Bostom: https://twitter.com/andrewbostom (Twitter) LINKS: Andrew Bostom’s...

Our guest is Mattias Desmet, Professor of Psychology at the University and Ghent and author of Thttps://www.amazon.com/Psychology-Totalitarianism-Mattias-Desmet/dp/1645021726/ (he Psychology of Totalitarianism). He discusses with us the phenomenon of "mass formation" and its emergence from a background of a mechanistic ideology that has gripped the developed world over the last 300 years, WATCH ON YOUTUBE: https://youtu.be/1-N28m6WeSE (Watch the episode) on our YouTube channel

Our guest is Dr. Stanley Goldfarb, author of the recently-released https://www.amazon.com/Take-Two-Aspirin-Call-Pronouns/dp/1642938491 (Take Two Aspirins and Call Me By My Pronouns), a book that details the intrusion of critical race theory and identity politics into medical education and medical practice. He is a former Associate Dean for Curriculum at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine and returns to the show to discuss his book and the new organization that he is...

Our guest is Steven Calvin, a maternal-fetal medicine physician who is currently serving on the US HHS Secretary’s Advisory Committee on Infant Mortality (SACIM). Dr.Calvin has 40 years of experience in the field and is the founder and medical director of the Minnesota Birth Center. We have a wide-ranging conversation discussing trends in maternal mortality, COVID and pregnancy, and the role of midwives in the ecology of obstetric care. GUEST: Steven Calvin: Bio at the...

Our guest is Dr. Amy Doherty who was issued a restraining order from her former employer for allegedly violating a non-compete clause. She received the order a week after opening her new practice in an underserved area. GUEST: Amy Doherty: Practice https://www.klarcaredpc.com/ (website), FaceBook https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100076764023090 (page), and personal https://dramydoherty.com/ (blog) LINKS: "Divine Savior suit seeks to stop doctor from opening a Portage practice"...

Our guest is Ian Miller, author of https://www.amazon.com/dp/1637583761/ (Unmasked: The Global Failure of COVID Mask Mandates), a detailed chronicle of 24 months of arbitrary, wholly inconsistent, and grossly unscientific mask mandates. GUEST: Iam Miller: https://twitter.com/ianmsc (Twitter) and https://ianmsc.substack.com/ (Substack) LINKS: Anish Koka “https://thehealthcareblog.com/blog/2020/04/11/the-covid-pandemic-who-dunnit/ (The COVID Pandemic: Who Dunnit?)” (from The Health Care...

Our guest is Ali Mortazavi, CEO of eTherapeutics, a UK-based computational biology company focused on the development of RNA technology. He shares with us his perspective on mRNA vaccines and the application of RNA technology to medicine in general. GUEST: Ali Mortazavi https://twitter.com/AAMortazavi (Twitter) and https://www.etherapeutics.co.uk/ (company website) WATCH ON YOUTUBE: https://youtu.be/BYuaNNuqJr0 (Watch the episode) on our YouTube channel

Our guests are University of Chicago Professor Harold Pollack and Robert Graboyes, Senior Fellow at the Mercatus Center discussing the place of conservatives in public health. GUESTS: Harold Pollack: https://twitter.com/haroldpollack (Twitter) and https://crownschool.uchicago.edu/crownscholars/h-pollack (W)https://crownschool.uchicago.edu/crownscholars/h-pollack (ebsite) Robert Graboyes: https://twitter.com/Robert_Graboyes (Twitter) and http://www.robertgraboyes.com/ (Website) LINKS: Harold...

David Cayley returns to the show to discuss the the social fractures and "divisions among friends" engendered by the pandemic response. Using the thought of Ivan Illich as a point of departure, we have a wide-ranging conversation on the myths and realities of the role of science in political life. GUEST: David Cayley https://www.davidcayley.com/ (Website) LINKS: David Cayley "https://www.davidcayley.com/blog/2021/6/11/concerning-life-1 (Concerning Life)" A conversation on Ivan Illich's Shadow...

Our guest is Dr. Shamez Ladhani, a pediatric infectious disease specialist with a focus on vaccine-preventable diseases. He also holds a position of epidemiologist at Public Health England and has been among the first to obtain real life data on the effects of the pandemic on children and schools. He joins us to discuss his perspective on what a public health policy based on data, rather than perception and fear, should look like. GUEST: Shamez Ladhani:...

Dr. Accad and Dr. Koka hash out their disagreements on the question of brain death. RELATED EPISODES: https://accadandkoka.com/episode35 (Ep. 35) Why Brain Dead Isn’t Dead: An Introduction to “Shewmon’s Challenge.” with Alan Shewmon, MD https://accadandkoka.com/episode45 (Ep. 45) Brain Death at the Bedside with Fred Rincon, MD https://accadandkoka.com/episode145 (Ep. 145) Diagnosing Brain Death: Clinical and Legal Quagmires with Doyen Nguyen, MD, and Alan Shewmon,...

Our guests are Drs. Paul Byrne a pioneer neonatologist and Dr. Christine Zainer, an anesthesiologist from Wisconsin. Drs. Byrne and Zainer discuss their involvement in the care of patients with severe brain injury, particularly those given a diagnosis of "brain death." GUEST: Paul Byrne: https://www.lifeguardianfoundation.org/ (Website ) LINKS: "Dr. Paul Byrne: From preemies to end-of-life issues, one man has made a difference."...

Our guests are Aiden and Emily Jo Ekanayake. Aiden had vaccine-induced myocarditis last June and he and his mother relate the experience and the consequences—physical, emotional, and financial—that they are facing to this day. GUEST: Emily Jo Ekanayake: https://twitter.com/eekymom (Twitter) WATCH ON YOUTUBE: https://youtu.be/3A_bYiIRoRw (Watch the episode) on our YouTube channel

Our guest is JD Haltigan, a developmental psychologist at the University of Toronto who joins us to discuss psychological factors that may explain the larger social phenomena in the pandemic response. GUEST: JD Haltigan, PhD: https://twitter.com/JDHaltigan (Twitter) and https://jdhaltigan.substack.com/ (Substack) LINKS: JD Haltigan. "https://jdhaltigan.substack.com/p/understanding-pandemic-induced-personality/comments (Understanding pandemic-emergent personality and behavioral...

Our guest is Tracy Høeg, MD, PhD, who has made remarkable research contributions pertaining to SARS-COV2 transmission in schools and to vaccine-related myocarditis. She has published her findings in the CDC's MMWR and has given oral testimony to Congress. GUEST: Tracy Høeg, MD, PhD: https://twitter.com/TracyBethHoeg (Twitter) WATCH ON YOUTUBE: https://youtu.be/Kk5ijSuuAJI (Watch the episode) on our YouTube channel

Our guest is the anonymous physician who provides very keen analyses of COVID-related issues on well-documented Twitter threads. GUEST: Viral Myalgia, MD, PhD: https://twitter.com/contrarian4data (Twitter) WATCH ON YOUTUBE: https://youtu.be/OeSBLHXr-E8 (Watch the episode) on our YouTube channel

Our guest is Michael Acree author of https://amzn.to/3Do4aIT (The Myth of Statistical Inference), published by Springer earlier this year. Dr. Acree is a former statistician at the University of California San Francisco. This is the second episode in a 2-part series. GUEST: Michael Acree, PhD. RELATED EPISODES: https://accadandkoka.com/episode49/ (Ep. 49) Many Statisticians, Many Answers: The Methodological Factor in the Replication Crisis (with Brian...