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Cardiologist

Sep 6, 2021, 10 tweets

Increasingly difficult to break through to many patients skeptical of recommendations seen coming from the medical establishment or through the mainstream media 🧵

Why is there a growing segment of the population that doesn’t believe experts/media ? Let’s start with a tragic non-med story of the last week.

Here’s the @AP account on a drone attack & what comes to light after someone actually investigates.

Everyone now knows about the fake ivermectin overdoses flooding ER story.

Journalists clearly know the headlines their audience will lap up — almost anything that will paint the half of the country that didn’t vote with them in a bad light will do

Imagine the fact checking that would take place if someone reported vaccine adverse events were flooding phone lines / ERs.

Yet the @AP rushes out an alarming

Amazing thread here on the massive # of outlets and truth warriors that ran with the ivermectin story

Sturgis, anti-lockdown protestors, college football crowds are super spreaders, but riots for social justice, lollapalooza never are

(Read about the ‘data’ on Sturgis here : thehealthcareblog.com/blog/2020/10/2… )

‘Experts’ almost canceled college football for Fall 2020 mostly driven by hyperventilating media outlets. Thanks to @MJAckermanMDPhD & other ‘contrarians’ CFB went on. There was no tsunami of COVID myocarditis and it was always incredibly unlikely : medscape.com/viewarticle/93…

In 2020, you couldn’t trust the federal govt. If they rolled out a vaccine.

A who’s who of medical elite wrote a letter to Pfizer demanding a delay Of the vaccine until after the election..

In March 2020, the theory a virus may have leaked from a Chinese lab funded by the United States was called a conspiracy.. a lancet letter attested to it.. and if you mentioned the possibility At the time.. you were probably a bigot..

There is precious little trust in the ‘accomplished’ class or the politically aligned journalist class that regurgitates whatever confirms their biases.

The intellectual class has only themselves to blame for their growing irrelevance.

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