Earth to Dr. McCullough – November 15, 2021:
As a result of some rather snarky public statements made by Dr. Peter McCullough (@38:20 here) insisting that:
- “the virus” has been isolated and sequenced,
- people saying otherwise are asking a “trick question”, and
- PCR tests are “legit”…
…I asked Dr. McCullough, via an email list that we were both part of, to cite the “isolation” paper that he had vaguely referenced in the video above, or any paper that he thought showed “its” existence.
Dr. McCullough’s response: “My energies are directed elsewhere.”
No one on that email list even attempted to back up Dr. McCullough’s claims, even though plenty of famous MDs, scientists, virologists and lawyers are on that list.
Here are the emails:
https://www.fluoridefreepeel.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/communication-with-Dr.-McCullough.pdf
Nevertheless, yesterday Dr. McCullough released a Declaration insisting that “Chinese Communists released SARS-CoV-2“:
https://thoughtcrimeradio.net/2021/11/a-declaration-for-refounding-america-now-peter-breggin/
Hmm. Well regardless of whether one suspects a natural virus (despite none ever having been demonstrated in the history of virology) or a man-made version, purification would still be necessary to know that such a thing was circulating.
Did Dr. C. read the 2nd study cited in his Declaration (“A SARS-like cluster of circulating bat coronaviruses shows potential for human emergence”)?
Here are some quotes from it:
“Construction of SARS-like chimeric viruses: Both wild-type and chimeric viruses were derived from either SARS-CoV Urbani or the corresponding mouse-adapted (SARS-CoV MA15) infectious clone….“
“animals were monitored daily for clinical signs of disease (hunching, ruffled fur and reduced activity)…”
Source of the “Urbani strain”:
A Novel Coronavirus Associated with Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome.
No “virus” was purified from patient samples, quite the opposite.
Quote:
“To identify viruses associated with SARS, we inoculated a variety of clinical specimens… onto a number of continuous cell lines, including Vero E6… and into suckling ICR mice…”
Did he read the 1st paper cited within the paper that he cited?
Isolation and characterization of a bat SARS-like coronavirus that uses the ACE2 receptor.
Quotes:
“we report the first recorded isolation of a live SL-CoV (bat SL-CoV-WIV1) from bat faecal samples in Vero E6 cells….“
“Despite the rapid accumulation of bat CoV sequences in the last decade, there has been no report of successful virus isolation.”
“We attempted isolation from SL-CoV PCR-positive samples. Using an optimized protocol and Vero E6 cells, we obtained one isolate which caused cytopathic effect during the second blind passage.“
I’m not attacking anyone here; just helping to bring forward the truth re the core lie behind all virology-related crime.
November 2021 Emails with Sabine Hazan
https://www.fluoridefreepeel.ca/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/exchange-with-Hazan.pdf
“Confusion” in the Freedom Movement – January 4, 2022:
Here is my recent email exchange with Dr. Peter McCullough, resulting from confusion caused by his wild, unsubstantiated claims [THAT LINK IS NOT BROKEN, DESPITE WORDPRESS INDICATING THAT IT IS] that a “scientist” named AJ Venkatakrishnan and a company called nference “have over a million of these samples of people with the virus, they’ve sequenced it, they know everything about the virus in terms of its genomic sequence” – claims that were unfortunately broadcast to millions of people via the Alex Jones show:
https://www.fluoridefreepeel.ca/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/McCullough-Venkatakrishnan-Jan-2-2022-PACKAGE.pdf
And here is the 1st paper that was discussed in the emails:
https://osf.io/f7txy/.
(The 2nd paper that was discussed, the one that Dr. McCullough sent to me in his email response, is included in the pdf above that includes with our email exchange.)
3rd strike for Dr. McCullough
James Henderson asked Dr. Peter McCullough if any lab in the world has purified samples, taken from humans, of the alleged virus/variants, and whether any experiment exists where healthy living beings were infected with purified “SARS-COV-2”.
Dr. McCullough’s January 10, 2022 response: “Contact Caldas and Patterson“.
Sure, or we could just read the papers that Dr. McCullough attached (see here).
In the 2020 Caldas paper, the authors don’t claim to have isolated/purified anything. Instead, “SARS-CoV-2 isolate (HIAE-02: SARS-CoV-2/SP02/human/2020/BRA (GenBank accession number MT126808.1) was used in this work.”
“SARS-CoV-2/SP02/human/2020/BRA” originates from another study, SARS-CoV-2 isolation from the first reported patients in Brazil and establishment of a coordinated task network.
Quote: “We used Vero E6 cells for isolation …We cultured Vero E6 …. with 10% of heat-inactivated foetal bovine serum …”
I think we can safely rule out Caldas et al.
In the Patterson paper, the authors don’t claim to have isolated/purified any virus, or to have studied any virus.
Quote: “we report … the presence of SARS-CoV-2 PROTEIN“ (my emphasis), which they note was “unaccompanied by corresponding viral RNA“.
So, once again Dr. McCullough has failed to provide a shred of evidence to back up his wild claims of virus/variants.
Emails and the publications cited by Dr. McCullough:
https://www.fluoridefreepeel.ca/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Peter-McCullough-with-James-Henderson-PACKAGE.pdf
Why not send Dr. McCullough (or Dr. Robert Malone, or Del Bigtree, or Robert F. Kennedy Jr., or Reiner Fuellmich, etc etc) an email and ask him for scientific evidence that “the virus” has been isolated/purified, and sequenced, characterized and shown to cause disease?
Dr. Mike Yeadon’s email address (yeadon_m@yahoo.co.uk) is publicly available here: https://www.future-science.com/doi/10.4155/fmc.11.97
Dr. McCullough’s email address (peteramccullough@gmail.com) is publicly available here:
https://imrpress.com/journal/RCM/19/2/10.31083/j.rcm.2018.02.021
Below are screenshots showing how to copy Dr. McCullough’s email address onto a clipboard, by right-clicking on the email icon provided at the above URL.
Back in May 2020, Dr. Sherri Tenpenny (info@tenpennyimc.com) already realized that the “virus isolation” studies were bogus, and openly acknowledged this during the discussion with Dr. Andrew Kaufman and Marcy Cravat, below, but unlike Dr. Kaufman she continued discussing imaginary “viruses” anyways.
Many prominent people in the “freedom movement”, including scientists, MDs and even lawyers, have been well aware of the bogus nature of the “virus isolation” studies, but refuse to acknowledge or speak out about it publicly.
If experts such as Dr. Tenpenny would simply speak the truth on this most fundamental aspect of the lie, rather than reinforce the 100% unsubstantiated “virus” dogma, we could end this nightmare a whole lot faster. Thank goodness for the few such as Dr. Thomas Cowan, Dr. Kaufman, Dr. Stefan Lanka and Dr. Sam Bailey who have consistently steered the public towards the truth.
I’m not accusing anyone of anything nefarious here, I’m just really tired and fed up, like a lot of other people, with all the unnecessary confusion that is being promoted from within the freedom/sanity movement.
As long as the general public believes in imaginary disease-causing “viruses”, the anti-science of virology (and it’s all anti-science) will continue to be used as a weapon against humanity.
Emails with Jeremy Hammond, Oct 25 – Nov 14 2020
https://www.fluoridefreepeel.ca/6055-2/
The real reason I now refuse to debate Steve Kirsch (hint: it’s not what Steve tells his readers) (as Steve jolly-well knows)
Posted July 24, 2022:
Update January 17, 2022
Look at what someone sent me, a website with handy summaries of the $$funding$$ received by various MDs from pharma, etc.
Here is the entry for PETER A MCCULLOUGH (335114), and below you can see a partial (just partial) summary of the funding he’s received since 2014:
https://openpaymentsdata.cms.gov/physician/335114
Open Letter to Dr. Mercola January 17, 2022
McCullough, Hodkinson, Kirsch… complain publicly that no one will debate them, then RUN and make excuses the instant we take them up on their offers
See how they run – February 3, 2022 email exchange:
https://www.fluoridefreepeel.ca/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Hodkinson-wont-debate.pdf
May 28, 2022
My “open exchange” with Michael Yeadon
Prompted by his suggestion, I am publishing the recent email exchange that I had with Michael Yeadon. This is not a personal attack on Dr. Yeadon, or an attack at all. It’s simply a respectful discussion between a grown man and a grown woman.
https://www.fluoridefreepeel.ca/my-open-exchange-with-michael-yeadon-may-8-2022
May 31, 2022 emails with Dr. Jane Ruby
On May 31, 2022, Dr. Jane Ruby (who has been on my FOI email list for quite some time) responded to my email re the Monkeypox Mania Summit that I participated in with some of my heroes.
June 2022: Dr. McCullough is STILL citing Caldas et al. and Mike Yeadon needs help
Dr. McCullough is still citing Caldas et al… and he only does so after the man questioning him is off the air, @11:30 at the link below.
https://www.bitchute.com/video/pLQuqzWnOakJ/
Here’s my note of June 8, 2022 to Dr. McCullough:
https://www.fluoridefreepeel.ca/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/June-2022-your-recent-comments-re-Caldas-et-al.-paper.pdf
Dr. Mike Yeadon still clings to the belief that people catch colds/convid from each other and that there must be some transmissible agent, based on zero proof of disease transmission or said agent, glosses over the fact that the burden of proof is on those claiming such, panders to propaganda-driven biases, and apparently cannot see the problem with widespread belief in purely theoretical/imaginary causes of disease distracting from known/real causes of disease. Emails between a colleague and Dr. Yeadon:
https://www.fluoridefreepeel.ca/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Yeadon-w-colleague-PACKAGE.pdf
Dr. Yeadon says he keeps asking people to explain how colds (allegedly) get passed from person to person and only gets “crickets”. (He never asked me this question, only mentioned the topic, which I thought was too lame to respond to.)
Maybe someone out there can help him out… perhaps send him all the failed attempts to prove transmission (here is a partial list of resources on that topic).
June 10 update, 2022:
April 24, 2022:
Long-time investigative journalist Eric F. Coppolino asked Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to comment on the worldwide FOI collection wherein 182 institutions have uniformly indicated that they have no pure sample of the alleged “SARS-COV-2” and know of no one on Earth who does, during a public meeting in Greenwich,CT.
Eric Coppolino: …182 responses under various Freedom of Information law requests… which all say no one has a sample of SARS-COV-2 taken from a human. Would you please comment on that?
RFK Jr.: Yeah, I really am not qualified to comment on it. But I.. my inclination is.. there are people who say that viruses don’t exist and there is no virus. And I don’t, you know.. my inclination is that um.. that that simply is not… you know… that that’s not true. I can’t argue it with you and I can’t um… you know, I actually… on our listserv there’s a number of people who make those kind of arguments. Other people on the listserv… these are all very brilliant people… ridicule them and dismiss them and ha… produce a lot of evidence. I am kind of amused reading the exchanges.
My inclination is that viruses do exist and they do make people sick. I could be wrong, it could all be a big hoax, but to me it seems like viruses are real. And I… so I.. look.. I should have just shut up from the beginning and say I can’t answer that question.
(laughter/applause)
Eric Coppolino: The governments have said they don’t have a sample.
RFK Jr.: Oh… oh.. you know what, actually I saw an exchange yesterday where somebody made exactly that statement and then 10 people jumped on with examples of where that’s not true.
The other thing is… I do know this… when you make Freedom of Information requests… you… the Freedom of Information laws do not require the government agency to do science or to answer questions, specific questions. What they do is they um the Freedom of Information laws make it obligatory for the government to give you existing documents. If you’re telling the government “I want you to verify this” they look through their documents and they say “there’s nothing here to verify it”. It doesn’t mean it’s not true. It means they got nothing.
But listen, again, I’m not a good per…. I’m not a scientist, I don’t pretend to be. I find those arguments interesting and there’s a guy um in California who I deeply respect Tom Cowling (sic) who makes those arguments and it… [unintelligible].. is not taken seriously.. [unintelligible].. I can’t answer the question.
So according to RFK Jr., who for years has said that he’s very comfortable reading scientific studies, he is no longer “qualified” to weigh in on the simplest of issues. And even though this super-simple issue is at the core of the entire quackcine industry, he can’t comment on it… except to say he just saw 10 people prove that viruses do exist. Hmm. Here is Eric’s great article that includes the audio recording and transcript of his exchange with RFK Jr.:
Hopefully people will now challenge RFK Jr. to make those 10 alleged “virus” proofs public, read some “SARS-COV-2 isolation” papers, and read my actual FOI request wording. It’s not rocket science!
Dr. Meryl Nass doesn’t know if monkeypox virus or SARS-COV-2 really exist, but writes about them (and “vaccines”) anyways
August 8/9 2022: My email exchange with Meryl Nass: https://www.fluoridefreepeel.ca/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Meryl-Nass-Aug-2022-PACKAGE-redacted.pdf
August 10, 2022: Meryl’s “monkeypox virus”/”vaccine” blog: https://merylnass.substack.com/p/how-the-monkeypox-scam-mirrors-the
Dr. Daniel Nagase suggests that a “bio-weaponized coronavirus” is proven to exist via drug treatment
July 2022 email exchange:
https://www.fluoridefreepeel.ca/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Daniel-Nagase-July-2022-PACKAGE-redacted.pdf
More “virus” emails between Daniel Nagase and I, August 2022:
https://www.fluoridefreepeel.ca/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Daniel-Nagase-Aug-2022-round-2.pdf
July 11, 2022:
Paul Alexander told me to “ask WHO senior officials” for scientific evidence of the “deliberately manufactured virus” that HE wrote about.
My response to Jeff Green’s “Challenge”
https://christinemasseyfois.substack.com/p/response-to-jeff-greens-challenge
My response to Dr. Lynn Flynn, February 28, 2022
August 2022: John H. Abeles MD
John H. Abeles MD, who in 2017 enthused about “the $34 billion and growing immunology market” and was expected to spearhead an aggressive expansion strategy across Africa involving treatment of nonexistent “HIV”, failed to provide/cite any scientific evidence that any alleged virus actually exists and asked that the topic be banned from the Doctors for Covid (coronavirus disease) Ethics group:
https://www.fluoridefreepeel.ca/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/John-Abeles-Immune-Therapeutics.pdf
Sept./Oct. 2022:
“World Council for Health” practices even less transparency than criminal government agencies?
or Compliance with Viral Anti-Science: “The Better Way“
Dr. Mark Trozzi and Dr. Tess Lawrie (a former W.H.O. consultant) make up one half of the Steering Committee of the pompously-named “World Council for Health“. Past slogans of this so-called “world council” have been:
“Science Belongs to the People”
“Reclaiming Science Together”
Instead of responding to polite, valid queries for scientific evidence to back up their “virus” claims, Mark and Tess chose to ignore/deflect/distract/gaslight/accuse. Trozzi ignored all 3 of my emails. Lawrie’s entire (non)response was:
Your approach suggests you are more interested in picking a fight than helping humanity at this time.
Mark responded indirectly by publishing a video wherein he played the victim of a “Strange Accusation” from no-virus people.
Thus “World Council for Health” demonstrated even less willingness to practice transparency than the criminal government agencies.
But hey, Lawrie was also “sending love” so I guess that makes it OK.
Kevin McKernan, November 29, 2022:
My not-so-convincing email exchange with PCR and genomics millionaire, Kevin McKernan (wherein he cited his stealth-marketing emails of June 2022):
https://www.fluoridefreepeel.ca/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Kevin-McKernan-November-2022.pdf
McKernan bragging that he has made hundreds of million$$$ from genomics and PCR:
https://www.fluoridefreepeel.ca/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Kevin-McKernan-49-patents.jpg
Igor Chudov, November 2022:
When challenged to back up his “SARS-COV-2” claim, Igor Chudov came up empty, repeatedly:
https://www.fluoridefreepeel.ca/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Igor-PACKAGE-redacted.pdf
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Mary Holland, December 15, 2022:
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Mary Holland of Children’s Health Defense “weren’t able to” say whether they had read the methods used in so-called “SARS-COV-2 isolation and sequencing” papers… or whether they know of any study where an alleged virus was scientifically shown to exist… or whether they know of any study where an alleged virus was sequenced in a valid fashion.
They weren’t able to say whether they actually know of a controlled experiment that they imply exists. They weren’t able to say why alleged viruses are unfindable in the human body. They weren’t able to say whether they’d stop promoting pseudoscience and support to the Settling the Virus Debate statement.
As for why they defend weaponized dogma and let perpetrators off the hook for having to prove the existence of “viruses”, Mary provided the following explanation written by CHD consultant Jay Couey:
“the “no virus” stance lacks sufficient nuance to be the most viable position“.
Pretending that imaginary viruses cause everything is soooo much more nuanced… and viable.
This pdf also contains my allegedly “aggressive and terrifying” email exchange with Jay (who also cited zero science to back up his “virus” claims), which then led to Jay’s video critique of this FOI project and the no-virus movement – which I cannot bother to watch any further having suffered through the first 25 minutes and then skipped through finding nothing but ad hominen distractions and Jay waving a book in the air as though that proves something. If anyone watches it and finds that Jay actually cited any papers, I’d be interested to know, thank you:
https://www.fluoridefreepeel.ca/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/RFK-Jr-Holland-Dec-2022-PACKAGE-redacted.pdf
Via a colleague, (the following link is not broken, despite the strikethrough that WordPress added for some reason):
The US Internal Revenue Service (tax collectors) require a form from entities registered as a charity in some state, and taking in more than $XXX/yr … in “contributions and grants” must file a form called the 990.
After a delay of 1-2 years, these are released to the public.
You can search for these here: https://apps.irs.gov/app/eos/
True timeline and emails with CHD consultant, Jay Couey
Posted January 20, 2023
Jay has told some pretty silly tales about “viruses”, and about my no-virus colleagues and I, so I created the page below to set the record straight.
My March 2023 email exchange with Dan Willson of “Dr. Wilson’s Debunk the Funk Videos”
I emailed Dan, and he cited 6 studies that he “confirmed” (3 times!) resulted in purification of “SARS-COV-2”, and that the particles are “the virus”. Dan then invited me onto to his show, which I agreed to. But he then refused to discuss any of the 6 papers he had cited, lol. Instead he insisted that we focus on other papers, where authors presumed the existence of the imaginary virus and used a pre-existing “isolate”/”strain” that they obtained from elsewhere. It seems that Dan is not willing to stand by his own multiple “confirmations” that “SARS-COV-2” was purified in these 6 papers.
https://www.fluoridefreepeel.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Dan-Wilson-Thomas-Baldwin-PACKAGE-redacted.pdf
(In 2021, Dan and Thomas Baldwin made a failed attempt to debunk the claims of Tom Cowan and Andy Kaufman. Here are some notes re the fake “isolate”/”strain” that was used in the study cited by Dan and Thomas:
MUC-1 aka MUC-IMB1: Corman/Drosten monkey business:
https://www.fluoridefreepeel.ca/muc-1-aka-muc-imb1-just-more-corman-drosten-monkey-business-fraud/)
Emails with Del Bigtree resulted in zero “virus” science
March 10, 2023:
I first contacted Del Bigtree on January 21, 2023 asking whether he’d read the Methods in “SARS-COV-2 isolation” papers, and whether he had any science showing the existence of any alleged virus.
Today I contacted him again, for the 3rd and final time. If he responds, I will update this post, but I’m not holding my breath.
Emails:
https://www.fluoridefreepeel.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Del-Bigtree-PACKAGE-redacted.pdf
James O’Keefe and Project Veritas
January – February 28, 2023:
Based on their failure to respond, it seems fair to conclude that James O’Keefe and his colleagues at Project Veritas also have no science showing the existence of any alleged “virus”:
https://www.fluoridefreepeel.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Project-Veritas-PACKAGE.pdf
Mary Holland, who acts as president of Children’s Health Defense Defense
William Huston and I recently had a chance to question Mary Holland, who acts as president of Children’s Health Defense Defense, about CHD’s position on the existence/nonexistence of the imaginary SARS-COV-2. Mary didn’t answer my simple yes/no question; she cited no science to back up the continue stream of “virus” stories that emanate from CHD, and said that they are “still exploring” this simple issue that millions of people have already figured out.
Video clip:
https://www.bitchute.com/video/MSjDMbgafwN0/
James Lyons-Weiler
October 2022:
James Lyons-Weiler confused review articles, children’s blogs, entries in taxonomy databases and fake-sequencing of wildly complex biological soups with scientific method and proof of “the virus”, and insisted there is no onus on him to prove his claims of “viruses”:https://www.fluoridefreepeel.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/James-Lyons-Weiler-2022-10-PACKAGE.pdf
March 2023:
James Lyons-Weiler passes off the existence of internet search results for “virology text book” as science + proof of “viruses”
https://www.fluoridefreepeel.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/James-Lyons-Weiler-2023-03-19-PACKAGE.pdf
https://popularrationalism.substack.com/p/restoring-science-how-we-can-reclaim/comment/13762049
Sasha Latypova, March 24/25, 2023:
In a new blog post a couple of days ago, Sasha Latypova presented herself as quite an expert on “viruses” based on her own alleged “reading of literature, both old (~100 years) and more recent“, and having interviewed “scientist” Sabine Hazan.
So in the comments I asked Sasha some questions. Our exchange was interesting, to say the least…
Janssen / J&J agent Dan Wilson of “Dr. Wilson’s Debunk the Funk Videos”
A response to Dr Vernon Coleman about “germs”
Respectfully, cite some valid scientific evidence
https://christinemasseyfois.substack.com/
A response to Robin Monotti’s “NOTICE” to no-virus “theorists”
No-virus is not a theory, it’s refutation of virus “theory”.
https://christinemasseyfois.substack.com/p/a-response-to-robin-monottis-notice
Plandemic film producer never had any sound scientific evidence for the existence of “SARS-COV-2” — emails, June 2023
In his super-coherent response to a query for scientific evidence of “SARS-COV-2”, Mikki Willis explained that “the virus crap is used to advance the complete takeover of our liberties and lives“. But more importantly he felt that the issue of whether or not “the virus” actually exists isn’t big-picture enough for him. Besides, trusted scientists had assured him that they aren’t really sure what they’re talking about.
The Plandemic producer has since removed the “COVID-19” protocol from his website and replaced it with the infinitely more legit REBELLION IN A BOTTLE inspired by Mikki’s “passion for truth”.
https://www.fluoridefreepeel.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Mikki-Willis-no-records-2023-06.pdf
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My allegedly “aggressive attack” on Derrick Broze, March 2023:
https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=258797006955901&set=a.107538792081724
Update re Dr. Jane Ruby
1.5 years later, but still no studies cite by Jane. Jane now refers to no-virus people as “rabid ankle-biters” and says she “stands with Chris” Sky.
No studies cited by Chris either, despite the many challenges issued to my by myself and others the last few days. Chris now says that he would like to see all no-virus people dead.
From Mike Stone (included a video response from him and Alec Zeck to Chris Sky):
https://mikestone.substack.com/p/skyfall
From Mike Stone:
Broze’s Blunder
https://mikestone.substack.com/p/brozes-blunder
Poisoned Cell-Culture “Art”, The McCullough Method
by Proton Magic
https://protonmagic.substack.com/p/poisoned-cell-culture-art-the-mccullough
