I was fortunate to have been invited to a lunch with Dr Malhotra, after the Sydney events, before he took off to Canberra.
Also at the lunch were two of our esteemed Professors, Robert Clancy and Thomas Borody. I had seen Professor Clancy on Dr John Campbell’s youtube videos, so I knew who he was straight away. He is just as friendly in person as he appears to be on the Dr John interviews.
Professor Robert Clancy is a leading Australian clinical immunologist and a pioneer in the field of mucosal immunology. He is known for his research and development of therapies for Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD), commonly known as emphysema.
Professor Clancy and his team’s ground-breaking research into Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease concentrated on the link between the gut and the lung and was able to provide evidence that the best way to create immunity against infection in the respiratory tract was to stimulate the gut immune system, whereby these activated cells migrate to the lung and make antibodies against organisms responsible for the infection. Professor Clancy developed the vaccine Broncostat at the University of Newcastle in 1985. The Broncostat vaccine reduces attacks of acute bronchitis to a degree of 90%.
Dr Thomas Borody is most famous for his ground-breaking work developing the triple therapy cure for peptic ulcers in 1987, which has saved hundreds of thousands of lives, and the Australian health system more than $10 billion in medical care and operations. Dr Borody founded the Centre for Digestive Diseases (CDD) in 1984 after a distinguished career with leading hospitals including St Vincent’s in Sydney and the Mayo Clinic in the USA.
He is a world-renowned leader in the clinical microbiota field dating back to 1988 when he started performing what is now called Fecal Microbiota Transplantation (FMT).
I was interested to find out more on the work these gentlemen have done. I am quite familiar with who’s who in the field of cardiology (or to be precise a sub-specialty called electrophysiology) through working with clinicians in that area, but it’s easy to not be across the whole of the vast medical field. Both of these doctors have made significant contributions to the health of the population.
So, I did a search on Robert and Tom … on Google.
Of course, the Wikipedia pages come up at least second from the top.
One has to be skeptical of anything that appears on Wikipedia. I am always reminded of an early episode of the comedy series The Big Bang Theory centred around four science “geeks”. The characters Howard and Raj find entertainment in the evenings by maliciously changing Wikipedia pages.
Both Professors Clancy and Borody have been tagged as “controversial” because of their views on the response to COVID.
On the Wikipedia page for Professor Borody it has one line on the fact he was involved in a cure for peptic ulcers. And it has to make the point that the therapy has now been superseded. The page goes into detail on irrelevant issues.
On Professor Clancy it has to mention “controversy”. It says Newcastle University issued a statement in which it distanced itself from Clancy's views, mentioning also that the vice-chancellor had said the university did "not consider Robert Clancy a subject matter expert on COVID-19”.
So, we have an esteemed Professor who is an immunologist, has developed therapies for a lung disease, emphysema, has developed vaccines and he is not a subject matter expert?
So, I wonder who were these “subject matter experts” on COVID-19, that suddenly appeared in 2020, to save the world? They already knew all about COVID-19! Was it our health bureaucrats? Was it the academics, with an appropriate title, who happily came out on mainstream media to parrot the narrative?
BTW the more I think about it, “subject matter expert” is, dare I say it, a bullshit term.
I think we should look for opinions of Emeritus Professors, those who don’t have to toe the corporate line anymore, who are not afraid of losing their job.
Perhaps the subject matter experts are the undergraduate “fact checkers” working for legacy media. Another example is the Australian sarcastically called “Chi-Squared Kyle”. Those who follow Arkmedic/jikky on Telegram or Twitter will know about this sorry case. “Chi-Squared” cried fraud on a paper by Dr Paul Marik on Vitamin C treatment for sepsis. This was a ploy to discredit Dr Marik because of his advocacy for COVID treatment with Ivermectin. Of course, the subject matter expert had completely misunderstood the statistics. He didn’t write to the authors first to gain clarification. He trumpeted his conclusions and accusations on social media. He has had to withdraw his claims in this last week and apologise.
This Telegram link has a clip from an interview with Paul Marik by Jan Jekielek summarising what happened. It’s 5 minutes and really worth watching. It is typical of what has happened in this last few years. Norman Fenton (Emeritus Professor) has recently done an update on the sorry episode, on his Where are the Numbers? substack.
Readers will know of my disdain for some of these “experts” as we have trawled through the nonsense that has been put out during the pandemic. However, it’s reassuring to know that we have some Australians we can be proud of.
Dr Malhotra’s visit
We are in the middle of Dr Malhotra’s visit to Australia. So far, he has been to Sydney, Canberra and Melbourne. We went to the opening public event in Sydney last Saturday. You can see the rousing reception Dr Aseem Malhotra received in Sydney in a tweet from Dr Malhotra here.
Details on the rest of the tour are found on the Australian Medical Professionals’ Society (AMPS) site.
To find out what is going on with AMPS, follow former nurse and now AMPS secretary Kara Thomas on twitter. Gold Coast and Brisbane events are next week. There are also events Adelaide and Perth. It’s a hectic schedule.
The events have a line-up of Australian Doctors speaking as well and their contributions are just as important as Dr Malhotra’s. We understand the challenges they have had to endure, working in the Australian system. Anaesthetist Dr Paul Oosterhuis and Pharmacologist Dr Philip Altman spoke at the Sydney event. There are also vaccine injured people relating their stories.
The Queensland events next week include talks from great doctors I have been fortunate to meet through the pandemic journey: Dr Andrew McIntyre, Dr Luke McLindon and Professor Wendy Hoy.
Dr Malhotra’s message is really about understanding the reality of modern medicine. Many drugs provide little new value. Many are minor modifications of existing drugs such that they can be newly marketed. Many medical journal papers are later found to be incorrect. We really have to understand this in our decision making. Surprisingly many in the medical community don’t know this. I had a chance to ask Dr Malhotra about work I am doing at the moment and the “unknown” cause of excess mortality being seen in Australia. One of reasons put forward is that people missed taking medical treatments during the harsh lockdown times. He made an interesting suggestion that, while in certain cases missing medical treatment could be catastrophic, in many cases the treatments provided for many conditions provide marginal benefits. They are not magically extending life such that if not taken people will die imminently. We know this once we look into the supporting evidence for these treatments. So there is an argument against missed medical treatments being a majority cause for excess mortality. In fact during the harshest lockdown period mortality went down.
Paul Oosterhuis uses the term “Clown World”. It seems very apt. This is where we don’t listen to views of people who have had celebrated careers, who are under no duress to say what their masters want, who have been involved in cures for debilitating diseases and developed vaccines. We do the opposite of what makes sense.
The legacy media looked instead to self-proclaimed “subject matter experts” who magically appeared as the panic arose and knew all about COVID-19.