Partial interview between Dr.Mercola & Dr.Kory:
COVID Really Revealed the Level of Corruption in Science
During our conversation, the issue of medical journals came up, and their role in the corruption of science. Kory notes:
“That's the other transformation that Paul [Marik] and I have undergone. We really looked to those journals thinking they were the most sophisticated and that was the top levels of science. But seeing what was published in those journals throughout COVID uncovered the absolute control by the pharmaceutical industry.
I mean, what appears in those journals is what they allow to appear in those journals. Period. I know of many positive studies of repurposed drugs rejected. We've seen them pull the following — JAMA and The New England Journal both — where instead of rejecting [the paper] they hold onto it as if they're considering it, and then the rejection comes months later.
I've never heard of that in my career. Usually, when I've tried to submit manuscripts, they either say, ‘This is interesting. We're sending it out for peer review,’ or they say, ‘This is not of sufficient interest to our readership at this time.’
They rejected positive trials of ivermectin. And then, probably the greatest and most saddening corruption that they pulled, is that they published the Together trial on ivermectin, which is so brazenly fraudulent and corrupt.
There are so many documented actions those investigators took in order to ensure they did not have a statistically significant benefit for ivermectin. Yet the New England Journal of Medicine published it. When you look at the design and the conduct of the trial, it should never be published. It was brazenly corrupt.
The investigators were all working for either their own companies or other companies whose sole job was to do research contracts for pharmaceutical companies. I mean, what would happen in their careers had they published a positive trial on ivermectin? That's it. Bye. No more contracts.”
The War on Ivermectin
According to Kory, the idea for “The War on Ivermectin” was birthed after reading an article titled “The Disinformation Playbook,”1 published by the Union for Concerned Scientists. He explains:
“What happened is that after my ivermectin testimony2 [December 8, 2020, before Sen. Ron Johnson], which went viral and brought a lot of attention to the FLCCC ... our protocols were looked in to. Doctors started prescribing ivermectin.
And I thought — this is how naive I was — I literally thought that we were providing a major intervention that would alter the trajectory of the pandemic, without question. It would reduce cases, hospitalizations and deaths, and now you have an effective early outpatient treatment. And I thought that news would be welcomed.
I thought the FLCCC would come out as heroes. It was really Paul who identified the data signal first. He said, ‘Wow. You got to see what these studies are starting to show.’ I jumped in right behind him. I was the first author of that comprehensive review paper.
I worked a lot and I got deeply expert on ivermectin. But what happened in the next few months is that everything started going sideways, and I could not figure it out. I saw hit pieces. To you, this is not news. You're probably like, ‘Yep. I've seen that before.’
The thing is, I didn't know. I didn't know that what I was really doing — bringing forth data supporting the efficacy of a generic drug — that is poking the bear. And when I say poking the bear, what is anathema to the pharmaceutical industry and their whole business model is they cannot have generic off-patent drugs become standard of care. It obliterates the market for their pricing new pills.
I didn't know I was stepping into a war. In the history of pharma, I don't think any single medicine threatened as many [drug] markets and campaigns. The only other medicine that did that was hydroxychloroquine, but they already killed hydroxychloroquine in 2020.
I was coming out now with ivermectin, and it threatened hundreds of billions of dollars in perpetuity for these insanely lethal vaccines, monoclonal antibodies, remdesivir, paxlovid, molnupiravir — all of the markets for their novel new pills to enter. I mean, I don't think any medicine has ever threatened that much of a market.
So, we were getting attacked. I did an interview with the Associated Press and the article that came out, I mean, I almost had a heart attack [reading it]. I saw unending attacks on ivermectin and it was coming in different directions. I saw academia getting all hot and bothered.
‘It's a fringe medicine. It's unproven. The trials are small.’ I saw all these narratives and I didn't know they were narratives at the time. I thought people were being stupid ... Now, I see everything. I see everything they do now, even before they do it, because they're really predictable.”
The Disinformation Playbook
The turning point came when Kory received a two-line email from Dr. William B. Grant (who also co-wrote my review paper3 on vitamin D for COVID prevention). The email said, "Dr. Kory, what they're doing to ivermectin is what they've done to vitamin D for decades." Attached was a link to The Disinformation Playbook article.4
“It’s a short article. It's very well-designed. They have little diagrams and then they have examples of disinformation campaigns. They describe the five plays, which they name after American football plays. And these are the tactics that pharma used. I read the article and I was like, ‘Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes.’
Suddenly, the world made sense — and not in a good way. It was very ugly, because I was like, ‘That's what's going on. There's a massive disinformation campaign directed at ivermectin.’ From that moment on, everything that happened, every day, it was almost like I got tied to a front row seat for a horror movie. I’ve had to watch a horror movie unfold ever since.
Millions dying, hospitals overflowing. And there’s a drug that could prevent that. It could avert catastrophe. It would've definitely either put the brakes on or stopped the vaccine campaign obsession, which is in my mind, is one of history's greatest humanitarian catastrophes.
It's a holocaust out there with these vaccines. That's easily proven from immense sources of data now, from life insurance data, disability data, excess mortality data. Now we’re even seeing birth rates dropping.
So, the theme of the book is centered around that. It's my experiences and knowledge of what they do ... It's almost like a teacher's manual, because I saw everything they pulled, how they did it and how successful they were — the fire plays, the blitz, harass the scientists that come out with inconvenient science, the diversion, inject doubt where there is none.”
COVID Really Revealed the Level of Corruption in Science
During our conversation, the issue of medical journals came up, and their role in the corruption of science. Kory notes:
“That's the other transformation that Paul [Marik] and I have undergone. We really looked to those journals thinking they were the most sophisticated and that was the top levels of science. But seeing what was published in those journals throughout COVID uncovered the absolute control by the pharmaceutical industry.
I mean, what appears in those journals is what they allow to appear in those journals. Period. I know of many positive studies of repurposed drugs rejected. We've seen them pull the following — JAMA and The New England Journal both — where instead of rejecting [the paper] they hold onto it as if they're considering it, and then the rejection comes months later.
I've never heard of that in my career. Usually, when I've tried to submit manuscripts, they either say, ‘This is interesting. We're sending it out for peer review,’ or they say, ‘This is not of sufficient interest to our readership at this time.’
They rejected positive trials of ivermectin. And then, probably the greatest and most saddening corruption that they pulled, is that they published the Together trial on ivermectin, which is so brazenly fraudulent and corrupt.
There are so many documented actions those investigators took in order to ensure they did not have a statistically significant benefit for ivermectin. Yet the New England Journal of Medicine published it. When you look at the design and the conduct of the trial, it should never be published. It was brazenly corrupt.
The investigators were all working for either their own companies or other companies whose sole job was to do research contracts for pharmaceutical companies. I mean, what would happen in their careers had they published a positive trial on ivermectin? That's it. Bye. No more contracts.”
The War on Ivermectin
According to Kory, the idea for “The War on Ivermectin” was birthed after reading an article titled “The Disinformation Playbook,”1 published by the Union for Concerned Scientists. He explains:
“What happened is that after my ivermectin testimony2 [December 8, 2020, before Sen. Ron Johnson], which went viral and brought a lot of attention to the FLCCC ... our protocols were looked in to. Doctors started prescribing ivermectin.
And I thought — this is how naive I was — I literally thought that we were providing a major intervention that would alter the trajectory of the pandemic, without question. It would reduce cases, hospitalizations and deaths, and now you have an effective early outpatient treatment. And I thought that news would be welcomed.
I thought the FLCCC would come out as heroes. It was really Paul who identified the data signal first. He said, ‘Wow. You got to see what these studies are starting to show.’ I jumped in right behind him. I was the first author of that comprehensive review paper.
I worked a lot and I got deeply expert on ivermectin. But what happened in the next few months is that everything started going sideways, and I could not figure it out. I saw hit pieces. To you, this is not news. You're probably like, ‘Yep. I've seen that before.’
The thing is, I didn't know. I didn't know that what I was really doing — bringing forth data supporting the efficacy of a generic drug — that is poking the bear. And when I say poking the bear, what is anathema to the pharmaceutical industry and their whole business model is they cannot have generic off-patent drugs become standard of care. It obliterates the market for their pricing new pills.
I didn't know I was stepping into a war. In the history of pharma, I don't think any single medicine threatened as many [drug] markets and campaigns. The only other medicine that did that was hydroxychloroquine, but they already killed hydroxychloroquine in 2020.
I was coming out now with ivermectin, and it threatened hundreds of billions of dollars in perpetuity for these insanely lethal vaccines, monoclonal antibodies, remdesivir, paxlovid, molnupiravir — all of the markets for their novel new pills to enter. I mean, I don't think any medicine has ever threatened that much of a market.
So, we were getting attacked. I did an interview with the Associated Press and the article that came out, I mean, I almost had a heart attack [reading it]. I saw unending attacks on ivermectin and it was coming in different directions. I saw academia getting all hot and bothered.
‘It's a fringe medicine. It's unproven. The trials are small.’ I saw all these narratives and I didn't know they were narratives at the time. I thought people were being stupid ... Now, I see everything. I see everything they do now, even before they do it, because they're really predictable.”
The Disinformation Playbook
The turning point came when Kory received a two-line email from Dr. William B. Grant (who also co-wrote my review paper3 on vitamin D for COVID prevention). The email said, "Dr. Kory, what they're doing to ivermectin is what they've done to vitamin D for decades." Attached was a link to The Disinformation Playbook article.4
“It’s a short article. It's very well-designed. They have little diagrams and then they have examples of disinformation campaigns. They describe the five plays, which they name after American football plays. And these are the tactics that pharma used. I read the article and I was like, ‘Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes.’
Suddenly, the world made sense — and not in a good way. It was very ugly, because I was like, ‘That's what's going on. There's a massive disinformation campaign directed at ivermectin.’ From that moment on, everything that happened, every day, it was almost like I got tied to a front row seat for a horror movie. I’ve had to watch a horror movie unfold ever since.
Millions dying, hospitals overflowing. And there’s a drug that could prevent that. It could avert catastrophe. It would've definitely either put the brakes on or stopped the vaccine campaign obsession, which is in my mind, is one of history's greatest humanitarian catastrophes.
It's a holocaust out there with these vaccines. That's easily proven from immense sources of data now, from life insurance data, disability data, excess mortality data. Now we’re even seeing birth rates dropping.
So, the theme of the book is centered around that. It's my experiences and knowledge of what they do ... It's almost like a teacher's manual, because I saw everything they pulled, how they did it and how successful they were — the fire plays, the blitz, harass the scientists that come out with inconvenient science, the diversion, inject doubt where there is none.”
