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"There's been no monthly review of new therapies. There's been no monthly review of data safety and efficacy for the vaccines. Nothing. Americans for two years have been stonewalled on any scientific information on COVID-19." In this two-part interview, we sit down with Dr. Peter McCullough, an internist, cardiologist, epidemiologist, and principal author of the first paper on early COVID-19 outpatient treatment involving multidrug regimens. We discuss the full body of evidence on COVID-19 treatment, including a preventative method that may have stamped out COVID-19 in Bangladesh. And with concerns growing about myocarditis and other effects of the vaccines, McCullough breaks down what he's seeing in the CDC's Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS). How accurate is the VAERS system and how many reports are directly attributable to the COVID-19 vaccines?

"These drugs have been suppressed… for reasons that have nothing to do with the science and the medicine." In this episode, we sit down with Dr. Harvey Risch, a professor of epidemiology at the Yale School of Public Health and Yale School of Medicine. He says therapeutics, including hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin, can be highly effective against COVID when they are deployed early on and in combination with different medications. In the interview, Dr. Risch criticized the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for warning against hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine use to treat COVID-19 and revoking the emergency use authorization (EUA) for hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine. The FDA told The Epoch Times in an email that the FDA made this decision after testing the efficacy of hydroxychloroquine for treating COVID-19, including in patients in an outpatient setting. But Dr. Harvey Risch argues that outpatient reports are exceedingly few because the medication is extremely safe and the emergency use authorization in March 2020 blocked outpatient use, and he believes the FDA has conflated heart rhythm problems from severe COVID infection with adverse effects from hydroxychloroquine use in hospitalized patients.

"Almost all [European nations], with one or two exceptions, require voter ID at the polls. … Mexico, which is our southern neighbor, has a very extensive biometric ID card and a very extensive voter registration system that's constantly updated." How prevalent is election fraud in the United States? And what explains the aversion in America to voter ID laws, restrictions on mail-in voting, and other election integrity laws that are common in much of the developed world? In this episode, we sit down with John Fund, who co-authored "Our Broken Elections: How the Left Changed the Way You Vote" with Hans von Spakovsky. "Minorities are often the biggest victims of this because they live in the areas where it can be practiced most assiduously and with the least consequence because the [political] machine often controls the levers of [prosecution] and law enforcement," Fund said.

"Since the Athenian plague in 430 B.C. ... we have known about natural immunity. So it's strange that suddenly people are questioning that," says Dr. Martin Kulldorff. Nurses and caregivers who have recovered from a COVID-19 infection have "stronger, longer-lasting immunity" than vaccinated individuals who have not been infected before, Dr. Kulldorff says, making these nurses and caregivers actually the "least likely to infect the residents." Instead of firing them if they refuse to take the vaccine, hospitals and nursing homes should do the exact opposite: They should actively hire people with natural immunity and assign these individuals to the wards with especially vulnerable patients, he argues. Dr. Kulldorff is a professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and a biostatistician and epidemiologist at the Brigham and Women's Hospital. He is also one of the co-authors of the Great Barrington Declaration. We discuss the efficacy of the COVID-19 vaccines, the politicization of science, and the Biden administration's recent push to mandate vaccines for children.

"To me, it's unconscionable that a society uses its children as shields for adults. Children do not have a significant risk from this illness… Are we [as] a society, a civilization … going to inject our children with an experimental drug that they don't have a significant benefit from, to shield ourselves?" —Dr. Scott Atlas In this episode, we sit down with public health policy expert Dr. Scott Atlas to discuss the ethics of vaccinating children, especially given that data has shown children do not significantly spread the virus compared to adults. We also discuss the underlying reasons behind the recent COVID-19 surge in Florida as well as the efficacy of natural immunity. Dr. Atlas is the author of "A Plague Upon Our House: My Fight at the Trump White House to Stop COVID from Destroying America," which is set to be released on Nov. 23.

"If you make your graph tall enough and you cherry-pick a particular period of time, you can make anything look scary. It's really what they don't show you," says longtime environmental activist Michael Shellenberger. U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres recently said a new U.N. climate change report was a "code red for humanity." How should people understand the findings of the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's report? When it comes to heat waves, forest fires, and sea-level rise, what are journalists today often not telling us? Shellenberger is the founder and president of the nonprofit Environmental Progress and the author of "Apocalypse Never: Why Environmental Alarmism Hurts Us All."

"Those who are pushing these vaccine mandates and vaccine passports … they're doing so much more damage to vaccine confidence than anybody else," says Dr. Martin Kulldorff, one of the world's leading epidemiologists. In this episode, we sit down with Dr. Kulldorff for a deep dive on COVID-19 immunity, vaccines, the Delta variant, and why he believes the global COVID response has been the "biggest public health fiasco in history." Dr. Martin Kulldorff is a professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and a biostatistician and epidemiologist at the Brigham and Women's Hospital. He helped develop the CDC's current system for monitoring potential vaccine risks, and he is also one of the co-authors of the Great Barrington Declaration, which argued for "focused protection" of the most vulnerable, instead of lockdowns.

In part one of this American Thought Leaders episode, mRNA vaccine inventor Dr. Robert Malone explained the latest research on COVID-19 vaccines, booster shots, and natural immunity. Now in part two, we take a closer look at repurposed drugs like ivermectin and how a universal vaccination policy could actually backfire—and bring about the emergence of vaccine-resistant escape mutants. At their core, vaccine mandates are not just unethical and divisive, but also "impractical and unnecessary," says Dr. Malone.

"We need to confront the data [and] not try to cover stuff up or hide risks," says mRNA vaccine pioneer Dr. Robert Malone. What does the most recent research say about the efficacy of COVID-19 vaccines? In this two-part episode, we sit down again with Dr. Malone for a comprehensive look at the vaccines, booster shots, repurposed drugs like ivermectin, and the ethics of vaccine mandates.

"What would happen to the entire vaccine enterprise—I'm talking about pediatric vaccines, the fundamental bedrocks of public health—if we basically validate the criticisms of those that have been labeled anti-vaxxers?" In this episode, we sit down with mRNA vaccine pioneer Dr. Robert Malone to discuss questions surrounding the COVID-19 vaccines and repurposed drugs, as well as the bioethics of experimental vaccines.

How robust is the data behind COVID-19 policies such as mask-wearing? Are we really getting the full picture from the experts? And how did the science surrounding COVID-19 become so politicized? In an interview with Steve Deace, co-author of "Faucian Bargain," he makes the case that the coronavirus pandemic put unprecedented power in the hands of an unelected bureaucrat, which is symptomatic of broader problems facing the U.S. Republic. "If the average American knew that almost half of the deaths in America occurred in a nursing home where less than 1% of Americans live, we would have never ever gone along with this level of subjugation," said Deace.

Afghanistan was a "20-year-lesson in how corrupt our leadership has become," says journalist and Epoch Times columnist Lee Smith. In 2011, he authored "The Strong Horse: Power, Politics, and the Clash of Arab Civilizations." "Did the United States go to [Afghanistan to] impose gender studies throughout Central Asia? Or did it go to give gender studies professors a job?" Smith asks. Smith breaks down why he believes the U.S. mission in Afghanistan spiraled into "an enormous offshore laundering operation." And now, "the counterterrorism mission has been turned on American citizens," he says.

Dr. Scott Atlas: Lockdowns Not Only a 'Heinous Abuse' of Power, They Also Failed to Protect the Elderly "Stay-at-home." "Distance learning." "Essential travel only." In the fight against COVID-19, widespread restrictions on human activity became a norm in 2020. But now it's clear from the data that lockdowns not only had devastating effects on much of society, but they also failed to protect the most vulnerable, says former White House COVID advisor Dr. Scott Atlas. "There's a big reason why lockdowns were never recommended in prior pandemics."