From the beginning of the Covid pandemic, we were told to ‘trust the science’. When scientists and doctors began asking questions, following the standards of scrutiny and inquiry, they found themselves controversialized, rejected and attacked. Some, including Robert Kennedy Jr, have called that process medical authoritarianism. In his book The Next Wave is Brave: Standing up for Medical Freedom Dr. Richard Amerling joins with other scientists and physicians to champion evidence-based science and ethical medicine.

The following is a transcript of a report from “Full Measure with Sharyl Attkisson.”
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Sharyl: When you talk about how medicine changed what do you think drove that and is driving that?

Dr Amerling: Pharma for sure. I mean, evidence-based medicine was the, uh, means by which they then took over medicine because it, it hierarchy, it created a hierarchy of evidence. So the randomized controlled trial was up at the top, and anything under that was suspect. Right. And what was particularly suspect were physicians’ actual experience, which is absurd because that’s the basis of medical practice. So that enabled them to, uh, create these guideline panels. They would do a review of the evidence by, by an outside group. By the way, it wasn’t the doctors themselves pouring over journals. No, they were, they had preselected literature that they would review and then come up with recommendations for various clinical problems. And invariably they ended up recommending treat, uh, these treatments, you know, the pharmaceutical treatments, the people that organized the panels and the panelists were paid by industry in various ways, either as researchers, consultants, or speakers. So that’s how we got guidelines.

Sharyl: So I want you to elaborate on that a little bit. That evidence-based medicine is really a propaganda term that’s used to steer people into treatments and not looking at root causes. And to also make it where if there is stuff that’s not a profitable medicine that you bring to the table, they who are there will say, well, that’s not evidence-based medicine. So it makes it very hard for a clinician who wants to try something or sees positive benefits on a human level with a patient to then pursue that path. So I think what you’re trying, what you’re saying, and what I’m, if I’m picking it up right, is the whole notion of evidence-based medicine, which is what we hear about all the time, everything has to be evidence-based medicine may, this may be sort of a strategy on the part of pharmaceutical interests or other interests that are making money.

Dr Amerling: Sure. Or totalitarians. I mean, it, it’s a perfect vehicle to control people because whoever is controlling the evidence, they control the, uh, dialogue and, and, and the strategies. So pharma, we know controls what, what articles get published. They’re the ones that produce these randomized controlled trials. They actually hire people to write them, and then they pay various academics to get their, put their name on the paper. And the medical literature upon which the guidelines are based is corrupt. So they come up with the same answers all the time. More and more drugs.

Sharyl: Can you give us an example, a real life example of guidelines that were established that steer us to medicine and drugs when maybe there’s a better path?

Dr Amerling: Sure. Statins, you know, statins, uh, that that is an entire scam. But the whole cholesterol theory is really bogus. Cholesterol does not cause heart disease. I, I talk about how we go away from real science and we’re just looking at studies which they call evidence. The studies just look at a population that population study doesn’t prove that the drug works. Right? Even if slightly more people get a good response, well, what about the ones that didn’t? Right? It didn’t work and everybody did it. And of course it never does. Right? So these studies cannot be the basis for treatment recommendations yet, yet that’s what they do. And so statins is one example.

Sharyl: So if you could summarize it, most people, and even doctors think evidence-based medicine means what? And what does it mean to you?

Dr Amerling: Well, it sounds scientific, right? Sounds, oh, evidence-based, of course, we have to be evidence-based. Well, what is evidence? Evidence is just something that is used in a scientific process. It is not science. And the whole evidence-based medicine movement is pseudoscience. It’s just, it is arbitrary scheme to prioritize a certain type of evidence. And there is no justification for it whatsoever.

Sharyl: And prioritize the evidence that directs people toward expensive treatments. Is that what you’re saying?

Dr Amerling: And it’s become to the point, not only are you directed to pharmaceutical treatments, but you are at risk if you don’t follow them. And this is one of the things that I was pointing out in my lectures way back when, that once you create this guideline, it becomes a standard and you can’t control it. You know, it goes outside the medical profession. So now standard of care has now become standardized care, which means one size fits all. Everybody gets the same process, same thing. That’s how they justify the vaccination, vaccination policies

Sharyl (on camera): I interviewed Dr. Amerling at the Back to Basics Conference: Summit on Family, Food, and Health Care.

Watch video here.