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by Robert W Malone MD, MS
May 25, 2023
from
RWMaloneMd Website
Drs. Richard Urso,
Robert
Malone, Pierre Kory (l to r)
Above is the youtube response to what many consider a historic and
groundbreaking June 05, 2021 podcast, "COVID, Ivermectin, and the
Crime of the Century: DarkHorse Podcast with Pierre Kory & Bret
Weinstein"
But now you can
watch it down here:
Today lets talk a bit about the history of the use of Ivermectin for
treating COVID-19, and in particular the new book which will be out
in just a few days from Dr. Pierre Kory and Jenna McCarthy titled
"The War on Ivermectin".
To kick this off, there is a fake/fabricated storyline circulating
that,
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the US DoD/DTRA-Chem-Bio defense (DOMANE) program actively
suppressed the use of Ivermectin as a COVID-19 treatment option
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that I was the leader of the
DOMANE program
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that I am
personally responsible for the advancement and licensure of Remdesivir and the suppression of Ivermectin as a treatment option...
The same self-styled "independent journalist" promoting these
obvious falsehoods also asserts that I am responsible for 9-11 and
the Anthrax attacks.
The following paragraphs are the first time I have directly
addressed aspects of my involvement in drug repurposing for COVID
involving
Ivermectin.
Historically I primarily have spoken out about the
COVID genetic
vaccines, because that is what people (and podcasters) wanted to
hear from me.
But that work is only a small subset of my efforts to
provide ways to mitigate the damages caused by SARS-CoV-2, COVID-19
and the COVIDcrisis response since January of 2020.
My work in
repurposing drugs for early COVID-19 treatment, which consumed all
of 2020 and most of 2021, is not something that I have emphasized in
my public activities for three general reasons:
First, others have
spoken at length about their work, so the topic of drug repurposing
has been fairly well covered.
Second, much of my work was performed
as a consultant/subcontractor under various non-disclosure
agreements. Nothing nefarious here, just normal business practices
for a small consulting shop.
Third, despite what some may darkly
mutter, my public activities have not been about self-promotion, but
rather have been focused on trying to educate and help the general
public deal with the upside down clown world of the COVIDcrisis
public response that they have been subjected to since January 2020.
I have a general rule of thumb to not talk to the crazies, online or
otherwise, and so have not previously felt any particular need to
address these various unfounded conspiracy theories promoted by a
self-styled "independent journalist".
Mostly seems to be obsessed
with trying to belittle, gaslight, and denigrate me without
bothering to actually do the investigative research which would
immediately refute his theories.
I have no idea who pays this person
to spread his theories and attacks on me and many others.
For the record,
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DOMANE is a DoD/DTRA program. I have never been a DTRA employee. I
have never been a member of DTRA (or DOMANE) leadership.
All lies...
In my role as CEO of my consulting business RWMaloneMD LLC I served
as a subcontractor for three DTRA-related contracts.
One contract
was issued to a small company called Allchem, which at the time was
owned by Dr. Jim Talton.
That contract was focused on discovering
inhibitors of organophosphate toxins (nerve gases and certain
pesticides) using high throughput computational and robotic
screening methods.
The other contract was with MIT Lincoln Lab,
where I served as a consultant on that DOMANE contract, which was
focused on discovering repurposed drugs for treatment of COVID-19
(including Ivermectin) and advancing sponsored clinical research to
test those agents.
The third one (also acting as a
consultant/subcontractor) was managed by Leidos, and involved
development of an advanced patient-centered outcomes research
software tool and use in supporting both outpatient (virtual)
clinical trials as well as parallel inpatient trials of the
repurposed pharmaceutical agents Ivermectin, celecoxib, and
famotidine. No Remdesivir.
Amazingly, the FDA blocked that program
(and the DoD) from testing Ivermectin, informing that clinical
trials of that agent would not be allowed to proceed until in vitro
(in the test tube) studies demonstrated the mechanism of action of
Ivermectin as an anti-viral for SARS-CoV-2...
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DOMANE is not the program which advanced and advocated Remdesivir
for COVID-19.
Another obvious lie. That would be Dr.
Anthony Fauci
and the NIAID. The historic record is clear on that.
DOMANE
leadership claims credit for funding the initial development of
Remdesivir because it funded the development of this drug as a
potential anti-Ebola agent, for which application it failed largely
due to toxicity and lack of effectiveness.
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I was an early and continued advocate for use of
Ivermectin for
treatment of COVID-19.
Some, although not this particular
"investigative journalist" in question, will remember that I was
specifically attacked by "independent journalist" Mr. Alex Berenson
for my advocacy of the repurposed agent as a treatment for COVID-19.
Reviewing my over 3,400 email correspondences involving
Ivermectin
since January 01, 2020 (there were many more before that date), I
find that the first in this time frame is dated January 10, 2020,
and involved internal correspondence with the Alchem team (who were
volunteering their time to try to identify repurposed drugs for
SARS-CoV-2 treatment).
Most are also not aware that further back in
time I had been an advocate for the use of Ivermectin as an agent
for treating Yellow Fever Virus infection and many other viruses,
and even filed a field of use patent (since abandoned) for Ivermectin as an antiviral.
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Searching my email accounts for the key words
"Ivermectin" and "Kory" (as in Pierre) reveals 936 email correspondences, the first
being on 11/19/2020 (almost 200 days prior to the Bret
Weinstein/Pierre Kory DarkHorse Podcast.
This first notification of
the potential efficacy of Ivermectin was part of a summary provided
by senior (since retired) DTRA/DOMANE scientist Dr. Howard Haimes.
On December 08, 2020, I wrote to the project officer for the DTRA/DOMANE
contractor Leidos concerning the following article posted on Trial
Site News, and advocating for clinical testing of Ivermectin within
the funded program:
Prominent Physician/Researchers to Present Case for
Ivermectin to
U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs
Source
The U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security & Governmental
Affairs will hold a full committee hearing on December 8, 2020, at
10:00 AM at the Senate Dirksen Building and via video conference.
Titled "Early Outpatient Treatment: An Essential Part of a COVID-19
Solution, Part II," invited witnesses to include,
Jane M. Orient, MD,
Executive Director Association of American Physicians and Surgeons,
Pierre Kory, MD, Associate Professor of Medicine, St. Luke's Aurora
Medical Center, Jean-Jacques Rajter, MD, Pulmonologist, Broward
Health Medical Center and ICON study co-author and Ramin Oskoui, MD,
Vice President of Medical Staff, Sibley Memorial Hospital and Chief
Executive Officer of Foxhall Cardiology.
Prominent among discussion
topics will be the use of Ivermectin as a treatment for early-stage,
mild to moderate COVID-19 cases.
To date, although well over $12
billion U.S. dollars have been spent by the taxpayers, there has
been no breakthrough for early-stage treatment, an incredibly
important period to get COVID-19 under control.
There is evidence
that some generic-based treatments can help accomplish this
objective.
In the same email, I further advocated for clinical trial testing of
Ivermectin by including a link to this website...
COVID-19 treatment
studies for Ivermectin
Source
On December 05, 2020, I reached out to Pierre's co-author on an
informal review of Ivermectin as a COVID-19 treatment (which had
been published informally on the internet), which lead to my being
introduced to Pierre, launching what I hope will be a lifelong
friendship.
Dear Dr Lieberman,
Alexis - Please consider preparing and submitting a report
summarizing experiences treating COVID-19 with Ivermectin!
We have
set up this special topic of Frontiers in Immunology specifically so
that there will be a forum for physicians and scientists such as
yourself to report observations that may not yet meet the criteria
for publication in high profile journals, but which are not
otherwise being reported and published.
This journal is "open
source", and so does charge for managing and formatting each
publication. Best wishes Robert Malone, MD, MS.
Frontiers in Pharmacology has launched a new Research Topic:
'Treating COVID-19 With Currently Available Drugs.'
As a leading
expert in your field, we would like you to participate by submitting
your research.
Pierre wrote back on December 11, 2020:
Alexis, Robert,
Thank you for making our acquaintance and I so appreciate your
mention of the short period to publication because:
We know many many lives are at stake with every day that this
manuscript takes through peer review. I cannot stress this enough
I am just now getting offers from other journals also emphasizing
speed. I am much more attracted to quality and speed right now than
just impact factor etc (this is also a first for me in publishing
manuscripts, i.e. journals reaching out to me
Anyway, Robert, I thank you for your interest, it is very
encouraging - do you know what kind of time-line to on-line
publication we can expect if it passes peer review and/or requires
only minor revisions.
If anything more gets required, we understand
it would take much longer.
Anyway, thanks for your interest and
please advise - thanks,
Pierre
Pierre Kory, MD, MPA
President, Front-Line Covid-19 Critical Care Alliance
Associate Professor of Medicine
Advocate Aurora Critical Care Service
St. Luke's Aurora Medical Center, Milwaukee, WI
Front Line COVID-19 Critical Care Alliance
Prophylaxis & Treatment Protocols for Covid-19
https://www.covid19criticalcare.com
https://www.flccc.net
Thus launched at initiative which unfortunately ended poorly. Pierre
submitted his manuscript to Frontiers and I was assigned as editor
for the submission.
I selected four highly qualified reviewers:
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a senior pharmaceutical scientist
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the most senior FDA clinical
reviewer
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another senior FDA pharmaceutical scientist from the
office of the Chief Scientist
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a front line ICU physician
practicing at a major academic medical center in NYC/Brooklyn
These
four put the manuscript through extensive review and revisions. It
was accepted for publication.
Pierre and the FLCCC paid the required
publication fee. As was the usual practice for Frontiers in
Pharmacology, the abstract was published as a pre-print/teaser.
It
accrued a record number of views in just a few short days.
And then
all hell broke loose.
The editor in chief of Frontiers forced the paper to be withdrawn.
This set off a cascade which eventually lead to resignation of the
editors (including myself) who had created this special edition of
Frontiers in Pharmacology specifically to enable publication of
COVID-19 repurposed drug research, and closing down of that special
volume without publication.
At the time, the Editor in Chief was
warned that if he took these actions, he would be responsible for
large numbers of avoidable deaths. Time has validated that
assertion, along with so many others which were made along the way
but attacked at the time.
The resulting mess (and Frontiers' denials of culpability) were then
covered in two articles by a UK publication named "The Scientist":
Frontiers Removes Controversial
Ivermectin Paper Pre-Publication
A review article containing contested claims about the tropical
medicine drug as a COVID-19 treatment was listed as "provisionally
accepted" on the journal's website before being removed this week.
Frontiers Pulls Special COVID-19 Issue After Content Dispute
The issue's guest editors resign after falling out with the
publisher over the management of papers, including a rejected
manuscript on Ivermectin, that were submitted for a special issue on
drug repurposing for COVID-19.
You can find an interview between
Pierre Kory and Del Bigtree
concerning Pierre's recollections regarding this sorry affair at the
following link:
Dr. Pierre Kory Makes an Astounding Reveal on "The Highwire"
So, I ask you, dear reader,
based on the evidence above,
did I serve
as the leader of DOMANE, act to promote Remdesivir and block
Ivermectin...?
These are lies which are being promoted for some undisclosed
ulterior motive by someone who self-identifies as an "investigative
journalist" and has posted literally thousands of on-line attacks on
my character and integrity.
As are the assertions that I am somehow
responsible for 9-11 and the Anthrax attacks (at which time I was
actually living in Rockville MD working on developing a Breast
Cancer research facility and tissue bank in Windber, PA under a John
Murtha porkbarrel project called the Windber Research Institute,
while also starting a US-based company called Inovio).
The record clearly shows that I was an early and strong advocate for
use of Ivermectin (and celecoxib, and famotidine) as repurposed drug
agents for treating COVID-19, and a strong advocate for the work of
Dr. Pierre Kory and his colleagues at the FLCCC.
The good news to come out of this horrid chapter in the COVIDcrisis
story was that through all of this drama and trauma, and
subsequently in so much other travel (not to mention thousands of
emails!), meetings and discussions (including both "DEFEAT THE
MANDATES" rallies), I have been able to develop what I hope will be
a livelong friendship with Dr. Pierre Kory and his close colleague
Dr. Paul Marik.
Dr. Pierre Kory is the kind of guy people love to love.
A native New
Yorker with a huge heart and a knack for numbers, Kory is equal
parts affable and academic, quick to crack a joke or rattle off
complex medical statistics from memory.
He's been on the Covid front
lines from the beginning, searching for answers, testifying before
the senate, and advocating for both patient and physician rights - a
journey he eloquently and assiduously documents in his forthcoming
book, The War on Ivermectin (Skyhorse, June 2023).
Kory has been
called everything from a fringe doctor to a medical mis-informationist
- two terms that in today's upside-down world
translate into "someone you definitely want to listen to."
It's my
pleasure to share the first chapter of his book, written with author Jenna McCarthy and featuring a foreword by Del Bigtree.
Kory's is a
powerful, highly-anticipated story filled with facts, humor and
truth that will edify and enlighten readers around the world.
The War on
Ivermectin - Chapter One: Before the Beginning
Here's to the crazy ones...
The misfits. The rebels. The
troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see
things differently.
They're not fond of rules. And they have no
respect for the status quo.
You can quote them, disagree with them,
glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can't do is ignore
them. Because they change things.
They push the human race forward.
And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius.
Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the
world are the ones who do.
- Steve Jobs
I do quite a bit of public speaking these days, and part of my
shtick has become somewhat of an "ode to the old Pierre."
When I
say old, of course, I mean pre-Covid.
Old Pierre believed that the elite, esteemed medical journals
represented the best of scientific thought and study. The Lancet or
the New England Journal of Medicine said so?
It was settled then.
Old Pierre religiously read the New York Times from cover to cover,
because it was the paper of record; the arbiter of truth. If you
wanted to know what was really going on, you read the Times. Period.
He voted for Biden (although in his defense, he wasn't exactly a fan
and never put a BIDEN-HARRIS ring around any of his social media
profile photos), trusted the government (I know!), and actually
believed that public health agencies were committed to safeguarding
and improving... wait for it... public health.
He knew - knew, I
tell you! - that vitamins were a scam and that hospitals were
life-saving centers of care, compassion, and excellence.
Old Pierre
dutifully lined up for his own annual flu shot and followed the
childhood immunization schedule to the letter with his three
daughters.
He was a clueless sonofabitch...
Nobody, least of all me, could have predicted the insane series of
events, discoveries, and decisions that would transform him (me)
into the wildly different doctor - and man - that I am today.
But here we are. So this is my story...
What started as a daily brain dump, a place to
record the happenings and heartbreaks occurring at work and at home,
slowly morphed into this crazy peek into a decidedly broken medical
system. I set out to understand and expose what was happening with
repurposed drugs, Ivermectin specifically.
By October of 2020, we
had identified an inexpensive, safe, widely available medication
that was showing tremendous potential not just as a treatment for Covid but also as a preventative.
As the weeks and months wore on,
the data supporting its safety and efficacy were astounding.
And
yet the backlash against it was swift and furious. Positive studies
were overturned and retracted. Negative studies appeared out of thin
air.
Around the world it was quietly being used to tremendous,
almost impossible success, and yet doctors were punished for
prescribing it, pharmacies refused to fill valid prescriptions for
it, and the media would only touch it to call it "the horse dewormer."
To a physician fighting on the front lines of this battle, this
systematic smear campaign was unfathomable.
I soon discovered that the corruption and deceit were hardly limited
to the pharmaceutical space. The entire medical industrial
complex - including our governmental and international regulatory
agencies, Big Pharma, public and private health care systems and
hospital networks, medical schools and their journals, and at least
one centibillionaire "philanthropath" - had been collectively
captured.
According to Wikipedia (which I don't often use as a
reference source, incidentally, but their explanation was most
succinct),
"When regulatory capture occurs, a special interest is
prioritized over the general interests of the public, leading to a
net loss for society." 1
You can say that again.
At the risk of sounding arrogant or self-congratulatory, when it
came to Covid, I got a lot of things right from the beginning.
So
often and so overwhelmingly, in fact, that I was dubbed "Lucky
Pierre," first by the editor of the New England Journal of Medicine
in a magazine interview, and then by my colleagues and friends.
I
want to acknowledge here, up front, that I ascribe much of that
consistent, almost implausible "rightness" to this:
practically from
day one, I was part of a group of highly credible, extensively
experienced professors, scientists, and clinicians who were deeply
studied on nearly every aspect of medicine even remotely related to Covid.
We shared a spirit and a purpose well before we had a name
(the Front Line Covid Critical Care Alliance, or FLCCC), a website,
or a nonprofit designation.
The whole is always greater than the sum of its parts, and that is
exponentially true with the FLCCC. After all, we're the misfits,
the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes.
We're the
ones standing up to the system; the child watching the bare-assed
Emperor parade down the street who just can't hold his tongue.
"But he hasn't got anything on," we've been shouting.
At first,
people pointed and laughed at us and called us names, but we didn't
care.
That fat bastard was naked, and nothing could make us see or
think otherwise! And do you know what? People are starting to catch
on.
More and more, some might say in droves, they're seeing what we
see and have seen for a few years now. That is the power and spirit of the collaboration and camaraderie
behind the FLCCC.
From the beginning, we were bound by mutual
passion and respect, and committed to uncovering and speaking the
truth - no matter how difficult or isolating that proved to be.
So yeah, we've gotten a lot right.
It turns out, that's actually not
so hard to do when you're surrounded by greatness and your hearts
are in the right place...
Excerpted from The War on
Ivermectin by Dr. Pierre Kory with Jenna
McCarthy...
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