Our 1st Amendment: Removing the 1st Amendment, means removing information... like this Substack.
Eyes Wide Open! May Freedom Ring!
I wrote the other day about the reason my podcast, Dr. Berkson’s Best Health Radio was stopped. It kept getting banned.
My YouTubes continue to be banned.
Several weeks ago they took down an older interview between myself and Dr. Brownstein. We were discussing thyroid care and iodine.
Their reasoning in the cryptic note sent to me was: we discussed abortion.
First, we never discussed abortion.
Second, what if we had? Can we not talk about abortion?
Free speech is the rock foundation of a free democracy.
And even of a free medical culture.
Without free speech we move through every-day life as a banana republic.
The phrase banana republic was first coined in 1904 by American writer O. Henry.
A banana republic is a country with an economy of state capitalism, whereby the country is operated as a private commercial enterprise for the exclusive profit of the ruling class.
I’m very worried. Much of what is termed misinformation these days, is health information.
Health is very political. Like it or not.
As I put together slide decks to teach, surf and research through Pubmed.gov and of course Google, it’s become apparent to me that forces, I imagine to be Big Pharma, Big Agra or don’t know what, are “buying”, “altering” “erasing” information I know to been “there”.
When I wrote Safe Hormones, Smart Women there were many citations, peer review research, I used to make certain health points.
Now, many of these articles, even in peer review, are either “hidden” or “erased”.
Much of this is information that supports the use of functional medicine.
Replaced by research supporting Big pharma alternatives.
For example, pre-operative levels of natural progesterone (mid luteal levels) have been repeatedly shown to be protective to breast cancer patient’s future. Many articles supported this.
Now there are mostly articles supporting the use of progestins (natural progesterone synthetic alternatives sold by pharmaceutical companies and even “pushed” recently at the yearly Menopause Society Meeting in Chicago in September 2024.
We saw this with Covid. This was right in our faces.
Dr. Jackie Stone was a primary care medical doctor, biologist, and innovator in Zimbabwe.
When Covid hit her patients were dying in droves.
Dr. Stone, in trying to help, added in the repurposed inexpensive safe drug, Ivermectin.
Dr. Stone has clearly stated that as soon as she added in Ivermectin, her patients stopped dying.
Dr. Stone said:
“The use of ivermectin for prophylaxis and treatment of covid-19 in Zimbabwe has resulted in a 10-fold reduction in mortality.”
She was taken to court 27 times.
Harassed. For using drugs like Ivermectin. And nutrients like zinc.
Her license was taken away.
Her work was considered “disinformation”.
Dr. Stone committed suicide last week.
All of our community is still hurting.
Dr Stone in an older interview said, (it’s cut shorter):
“It was just pandemonium. We had patients that we couldn’t transfer out. We had people piling up in the car park dying and it was actually terrible.
Ivermectin administration started on 8th August.
“From 8th August until 24th December I didn’t lose a patient…. Even with low saturation rates of oxygen.
The death rate had risen sharply in January and peaked on 25th at 70 deaths per day.
Just one month later, on 26th February, after adding in Ivermectin, the covid death rate had fallen to zero.
Dr Jackie Stone holds degrees in medicine and medical biochemistry from the University of Cape Town, South Africa. She has worked in London, Dubai and Australia and holds a Diploma in Aviation Medicine. She was working full force to try to help, in a family practice in Zimbabwe.
Her loss is enormous. Shocking.
But it highlights what can happen when we have censorship of disinformation.
Even in medicine.
From abortions to what a doctor chooses to prescribe for specific conditions.
Here we have - in the last several weeks - someone who ran as a presidential candidate, John Kerry, asking for the possible removal of the 1st amendment!!!
SHOULD THIS NOT MAKE YOU SHUDDER IN YOUR SHOES?
Kerry is saying disinformation should be stopped.
And it’s the government who should decide what we should hear. Or not. (His video on this is below).
Then we have Tulsi Gabbard, a few days ago, speaking about “censorship” directly to a full house in Congress (Jim Jordan's committee) quoting George Washington.
She discusses how the government (dis-information/mal-information team) is moving/wanting to decide what is “real” information and what “is not”. Including medical information. Even parental information.
This would topple our foundation.
Tulsi even addresses Big companies manipulating our “search” results, too!
Congress members “erupted”. In support of her comments.
Did you hear this? It’s worth an American listen.
These concerns about our rights to free speech, free medicine, free on and on, is bipartisan.
We must all be vigilant to keep all of our rights.
I am going to share some media videos here for you to listen and decide for yourself.
No matter how much we disagree with what is being said, FREE SPEECH is the shoulders that democracy stands on.
Our doctors need to have open, respectful discussions for medicine to unfold in an open honest way. For patients to stay safe. Our kids, to stay safe.
Our medical journals and rights to prescribe as providers see fit, is all about freedom.
We saw our medical journals, historically considered prestigious, instead, now, many being captured!
Early on research on Ivermectin was continually erased! Withdrawn.
Medicine is politics.
Hope this is not making you grind your teeth to powder. As you sip your AM coffee.
Free speech means a free Pubmed.gov and on and on.
It’s what keeps us honest. Not autocrats.
Take a listen.
Comment if you will.
Did you know there is a movement within our own government to remove not only medical misinformation, but even widespread “outside” the box opinions of many?
“Anti-authoritarian” views, in a committee formed inside our government, even includes parents protesting at Board of Education Meetings. Yikes! Listen to what Tulsi said to Congress.
Here is a link of John Kerry, who ran as a presidential candidate, OMG, I even voted for him, and now he is my FREEDOM enemy in actuality. As he is calling for the removal of the first amendment.
Here again is a great clip of him and yet a great atypical BALANCED media coverage about this.
Did YOU know all this was going on?
I will end with sharing a tribute to the amazing and courageous Dr. Jackie Stone, who just got too weary from this ongoing battle of dark and light.
Listen to what she says about doctors. Governments.
VIDEO - Dr.Jackie Stone, family medicine doctor in Zimbabwe, took her own life on Oct.3, 2024. She was persecuted for developing a successful protocol for treating COVID-19.
This is her last video ever recorded.
Vote on policies.
My number one policy is to keep our rights of free speech. Of free medical information and medical speech.
To keep sharing how to keep us and our children well.
To do as little harm as possible.
To protect fragile life. And even more fragile freedom.
May freedom ring.
Dr. B.
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