Brownstone Institute & COVID Contrarians

Adrian Egli & Allison Neitzel MD - The network of disinformation doctor groups are amplified by the Koch funded anti-science outlet

The Brownstone Institute’s ties to the Great Barrington Declaration and Koch money were laid out by the team at ExposedByCMD. Other issues with the GBD and its authors and affiliates have been discussed extensively by David Gorski in a BMJ blog piece and on his blogs Science Based Medicine and Respectful Insolence.

Brownstone Institute and its contributing authors have ties to organizations promoting COVID disinformation campaigns including:

• Collateral Global UK

• Free Speech Union UK

• American Institute for Economic Research

  -Associated with the Great Barrington Declaration and Koch money

• Rational Ground

• Urgency of Normal

  -The physician group calling for a return to normal for American children

  • Vinay Prasad MD, MPH is a member, vocal against masking for Covid-19

  • Tracy Beth Hoeg MD, PhD is a member, testified against AB2098

• Front Line COVID-19 Critical Care Alliance

  -The pro ivermectin for Covid physician group that sponsors Defeat the Mandates

  -Based clinical recommendations for ivermectin off of debunked small-scale studies found to have plagiarism and data-forging issues

  -Per NEJM, ABC, and others there is no use for ivermectin use in Covid prevention or treatment

  -Founded by:

  • Pierre Kory MD, MPA

    The Wisconsin critical care physician and most vocal pro-ivermectin for Covid doctor

    • Testified in December 2020 on behalf of the FLCCC calling ivermectin a “wonder drug” to protect against Covid infection, caught Covid in November 2021, and has since pivoted to long-Covid concierge medicine treatments with ivermectin

    • Participated in Johnson’s ‘2nd Opinion’ panel Jan 2022

  • Paul E Marik MD (Global Covid Summit)

  • Flavio Cadegiani MD, MSc, PhD (Global Covid Summit)

  • Joseph Varon MD

  • Jose Iglesias DO (Global Covid Summit)

  • Keith Berkowitz MD, MBA (Unity Project)

  • Fred Wagshul MD

  -The FLCCC provider database lists 2,697 providers worldwide including clinical advisors:

  • Scott Mitchell MBChB

  • Eivind H. Vinjevoll MD (Global Covid Summit)

  • Elizabeth Mumper MD

  • Robin Forman Rose DO

  • Mary Talley Bowden MD

    The Houston-based ENT physician and owner of BreatheMD

    • Houston Methodist has suspended her privileged and reported her to the Texas medical boards

    • Has referred to the physician group No License for Disinformation as the ‘Gestapo’

    • Has harassed pharmacists who won’t fill her ivermectin prescriptions, going as far as to post the home address of a pharmacist online

    • Posted SurveyMonkey and Qualtrics survey links to the ‘PROVES’ study endorsed by Kirsch (IRB Aditi Bhargava, Unity Project) on anti-vaccine political Twitter threads to recruit anti-vax participants and get an intentionally biased sample

    • Is suing her former hospital

    • Participated in the Global Covid Summit with Dr. Robert Malone

• Unity Project

  -The physician group that opposes Covid mandates for ‘healthy children’ lists and sponsors Defeat the Mandates lists the following physicians and scientists on their ‘Strategic Advisory Council’:

  -Members include:

  • Robert Malone MD

    The physician, biochemist, and contributor to only early stages of mRNA vaccine development who appeared on the Joe Rogan Experience

    • Overstated his role in mRNA vaccine development

    • Active on Substack with increasingly violent imagery like the GBD authors Bhattacharya and Kulldorff

    • Participated in Ron Johnson’s ‘2nd Opinion’ panel, states that “Senator Ron Johnson is a Truth Warrior and COVID hero” and supports his reelection

    • Partnered with anti-vax tech millionaire Steve Kirsch for the Vaccine Safety Research Fund

    • Has appeared on Steve Bannon’s War Room podcast

  • Peter McCullough MD, MPH

    The former Baylor cardiologist who appeared on the Joe Rogan Experience

    • Baylor has filed a restraining order against their controversial former employee

    • Has taken $2.1million from pharmaceutical companies (non-research) since 2014 including from AstraZeneca per OpenPayments, despite calling pro-vaccine doctors grifters

    • Has a long history of failing to disclose financial ties, dating back to 2012

    • Participated in Johnson’s ‘2nd Opinion’ panel

    • Has appeared on the Chinese Falun-Gong cult affiliated pro-Trump Epoch Times with Roman Balmakov

    • Has appeared with Hillsdale College, the politically active Christian school

    • Has amplified claims of pro-vaccine public health efforts being linked to antisemitism despite having appeared on Steve Bannon’s War Room podcast

    • Participated in the Global Covid Summit with Dr. Robert Malone

  • Aditi Bhargava PhD

    The UCSF hormone researcher with stated goal to “understand the sex-specific molecular and cellular actions of the stress hormones and their receptors that operate in health and disease”

    • Holds the IRB for the Steve Kirsch-endorsed ‘PROVES’ study to do survey research on vaccine safety (already proven) - the survey contains many questions on hormones and gender and sneaks in questions on the vaccine, raising concerns for study ethics and informed consent of participants

      • Dr. Mary Bowden has recruited for this study on antivax Twitter threads

  • Pierre Kory MD, MPA (FLCCC, Global Covid Summit)

  • Keith Berkowitz MD, MBA (FLCCC)

  • Paul Alexander MSc, MHSc, PhD

  • Aaron Kheriaty MD (Global Covid Summit)

  • Tess Lawrie MD, PhD (World Council for Health, Global Covid Summit)

  • Chris Martenson PhD

  • Charles Penick MD

  • Harvey Risch MD

5/24/22 UPDATE: Adrian Elgi has continued to update the mapping work here.

Adrian Egli @Adrian7745

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