Dr Michael Yeadon Says There Was No Pandemic

Regarding COVID-19 vaccines, LifeSite News reports that  former Pfizer vice president and chief scientist for allergy and respiratory Dr. Michael Yeadon has concluded that someone with his expertise was directed to “…design injections that will injure, kill, and reduce fertility in the people you give it to. And design it so that it won’t kill everybody, it won’t injure everybody, but if we give it to enough people over time it will lower the fertility and their health and reduce population.”

The article states that Dr Yeadon believes that putting COVID-19 patients on ventilators caused adult respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). All the ventilator patients I saw had ARDS before they were ever put on ventilators.

I have a few other bones to pick with Dr Yeadon. He says there was no pandemic. The year 2020 undoubtedly saw a high number of respiratory deaths worldwide from what seemed to be an infection by a virus, whether it was COVID-19 or some other virus. Dr Y believes ventilators were used excessively and too early in the course of illness. I didn’t see that in my hospital. We used them in patients in extreme respiratory distress with sustained high respiratory rates (e.g., 60 breaths/minute) who we thought were likely to quit breathing soon if we did nothing. Putting them on the ventilator was often the only option we had left. Dr Y also is convinced that the drug treatment called remdesivir (“run, death is near”) was worthless. If memory serves, the World Health Organization in 2020 decreed the same thing. Yet there were professional societies of infectious disease specialists who thought it was useful. Either way, I’m not sure.

—–Steve Parker, M.D.

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How Do Ozempic, Zepbound, Wegovy, and Mounjaro Work?

This alleged pathologist explains how drugs like Ozempic, Zepbound, Wegovy, and Mounjaro work to reduce appetite and lead to weight loss. Which could help if you have type 2 diabetes. These drugs are analogs of either GLP-1 (glucose-like peptide-1) or GIP (glucose-dependent insulinotropic polypeptide), or a combination of both.

The doctor gets pretty technical. Click for a simpler explanation from UCHealth.

These drugs make me think of the 1970s TV add for Chiffon margarine telling us “It’s not nice to fool Mother Nature.”

—–Steve Parker, M.D.

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Should You Worry About Microplastics?

It’s getting harder for me to ignore microplastics. They contaminate our water, food, soil, oceans, and air. The guy in this video says the average adult brain contains as much invasive plastic as a typical plastic fork (5 grams?). These plastics are said to cause medical problems although I’m not sure of the strength of the evidence. Very few physicians know about this issue. The video speaker below talks about nanoplastics but in my experience “microplastics” is more often used. Something nano would be smaller than micro, a thousand times smaller if we’re using the metric system. Colloquially, nano may just be “quite a bit smaller” than micro. YouTube posted this video on Dec 3, 2025:

The speaker refers to a scientific article published at Nature Medicine on Feb 3, 2025: Bioaccumulation of microplastics in decedent human brains. Seems to me they should have used “nanoplastics” in the title instead of “microplastics.”

Not only are the microplastics allegedly bad for us, they are linked to “forever chemicals” which may mediate the badness. E.g., BPA-like chemicals (bisphenol A).

Are you worried about microplastics in your body?

Click this link to NRDC (National Resources Defense Council) for ten tips to keep plastic out of your body.

Katie Couric interviewed Dr. Matthew J Campen, one of the authors of the study referenced above and a toxicology professor at the University of New Mexico. He impresses me with the idea that his study’s findings are very preliminary and need verification by other labs, and that the implications for how we live today are not clear by any means. He speculates that the nanoplastics he finds in human tissue samples were ingested as nanoparticles that originated in landfills years ago. Discarded plastic waste deteriorated over time, breaking down to nanoparticles that contaminated groundwater and also ended up in agricultural products. Therefore, he suggests that there is not much individuals can do about avoiding nanoplastics except perhaps limiting meat consumption. Dr Campen notes that cutting down on our use of plastics now is more likely to help those a couple generations hence than to help us. He is highly skeptical about any current remedies that purport to remove nanoplastics from our tissues. Yet he suggests that our bodies may indeed have an intrinsic mechanism to reject (eject?) the particles.

Dr Campen does not impress me as a hair-on-fire bomb-thrower. Couric did and impressive job interviewing him.

I may start referring to freshly discarded plastics as macroplastics.

—–Steve Parker, M.D.

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Is War a Racket, Scam, Grift, Swindle, Con, or Cozenage?

U.S. Army AH-64 Apache” by Sergeant Matt Hecht/ CC0 1.0

Excerpt from a speech delivered in 1933, by Major General Smedley Butler, USMC:

War is just a racket. A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of people. Only a small inside group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few at the expense of the masses.

I believe in adequate defense at the coastline and nothing else. If a nation comes over here to fight, then we’ll fight. The trouble with America is that when the dollar only earns 6 percent over here, then it gets restless and goes overseas to get 100 percent. Then the flag follows the dollar and the soldiers follow the flag.

I wouldn’t go to war again as I have done to protect some lousy investment of the bankers. There are only two things we should fight for. One is the defense of our homes and the other is the Bill of Rights. War for any other reason is simply a racket.

There isn’t a trick in the racketeering bag that the military gang is blind to. It has its “finger men” to point out enemies, its “muscle men” to destroy enemies, its “brain men” to plan war preparations, and a “Big Boss” Super-Nationalistic-Capitalism.

It may seem odd for me, a military man to adopt such a comparison. Truthfulness compels me to. I spent thirty- three years and four months in active military service as a member of this country’s most agile military force, the Marine Corps. I served in all commissioned ranks from Second Lieutenant to Major-General. And during that period, I spent most of my time being a high class muscle- man for Big Business, for Wall Street and for the Bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism.

I suspected I was just part of a racket at the time. Now I am sure of it. Like all the members of the military profession, I never had a thought of my own until I left the service. My mental faculties remained in suspended animation while I obeyed the orders of higher-ups. This is typical with everyone in the military service.

I helped make Mexico, especially Tampico, safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefits of Wall Street. The record of racketeering is long. I helped purify Nicaragua for the international banking house of Brown Brothers in 1909-1912 (where have I heard that name before?). I brought light to the Dominican Republic for American sugar interests in 1916. In China I helped to see to it that Standard Oil went its way unmolested.

During those years, I had, as the boys in the back room would say, a swell racket. Looking back on it, I feel that I could have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do was to operate his racket in three districts. I operated on three continents.

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U.S. Healthcare: Does It Make Sense to Go Without Health Insurance?

You may learn something from this video by a bike repair shop owner.

If he foregoes health insurance, I recommend a Health Savings Account.

Steve Parker, M.D.

PS: Most of my books will help you safely avoid the medical-industrial complex.

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When His Lips Are Moving…

How can you tell when a politician is lying?

And yet we think politicians can reform U.S. healthcare in a beneficial direction…

Steve Parker, M.D.

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This Is No Way to Treat People

Don’t watch the video if you’re not ready for a sad, sad, story about a cancer patient. Non-U.S. citizens may not understand this story.

Steve Parker, M.D.

PS: I can neither defend nor criticize the specific cancer treatment discussed in the video. I don’t know enough about the case and, compared with an oncologist, I know very little about cancer treatment.

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RIP: Dr Richard Bernstein, Diabetes Treatment Pioneer

Dr Bernstein passed on to his reward last April. He was a major influence on my own approach to diabetes treatment. We see very few “great men” in our times: He was one.

Dr Bernstein practiced what he preached, which explains how he lived to the age of 90. That is exceedingly rare for a type 1 diabetic.

Thanks to Jan at The Low Carb Diabetic for bringing this to my attention. She published an account of what it was like to be one of Dr Bernstein’s patients.

Steve Parker, M.D.

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A Modern History of the Diet-Heart Hypothesis

Heart attacks and chest pains are linked to blocked arteries in the heart

It was around 2009 when I was finally ready to abandon the time-honored diet-heart hypothesis. I remember wondering if I’d be excommunicated from the medical community, i.e., lose my medical license due to heresy. In a nutshell, the diet-heart hypothesis to which I refer was the idea that dietary saturated fat was the clear-cut cause of coronary artery disease and associated heart attacks, angina pectoris (reversible heart pains), and cardiac deaths. (Also strokes and peripheral arterial disease.)

My re-evaluation of the evidence lead me to create the world’s first ketogenic Mediterranean diet, which is included in the 2nd edition of my Advanced Mediterranean diet and Conquer Diabetes and Prediabetes. Search Amazon.com and you’ll find several other subsequent ketogenic Mediterranean diet books; I wonder if any of them cited my work.

Dr. Axel Sigurdsson recently wrote an updated history of the diet-heart hypothesis, focusing on the downfall of the hypothesis and the role of George Mann, whom I’d swear I never heard of. An excerpt:

Ancel Keys changed the world. He was right about many things—that lifestyle matters, that food affects disease, that public health can’t afford to wait forever. But in boiling heart disease down to a single nutrient, he oversimplified a complex truth. His hypothesis became policy before it was fully proven. And once policy hardens, it resists correction.

George Mann was no savior. His critiques were often bombastic, his tone combative. But beneath the fire was a warning science should have heeded: that premature consensus can blind, that evidence must lead—not politics, not personalities, not the noise of institutional momentum.

I recommend the entire article to you. I suspect AI (artificial intelligence) was utilized, mainly judging from the three pictures. Dr. Sigurdsson has been publishing some great articles recently, and I believe credited AI in some of them, which is OK by me.

Steve Parker, M.D.

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Shocking Study Reveals mRNA Vaccine Risks: Higher Rates of Brain Disorders

Alleged attorney Jeff Childers reports an alleged link between the covid-19 vaccine(s) and neuropsychiatric disorders. The item starts a third of the way down the web page. I haven’t read the source article and probably won’t. You’ll see mention below of cerebral venous sinus thrombosis. One of the neurologists I work with has started ordering more brain scans looking for that. Coincidence?

All that follows is from Childers. To facilitate readability, I won’t put it in italics like I usually do quotations:

For years, scientists who questioned mRNA safety were told to put up or shut up (“publish or perish”). Well— now they’ve published. And I’ll give you one guess whether or not the conclusions support our long-standing concerns. Today, a new peer-reviewed study published in the International Journal of Innovative Research in Medical Science, blandly titled “View of Association Between COVID-19 Vaccination and Neuropsychiatric Conditions.

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The results, however, were not bland.

In the just-published peer-reviewed study, researchers analyzed over three decades of vaccine injury reports in the U.S. government’s own VAERS database, comparing covid mRNA vaccines to both flu shots and all other vaccines (combined). Using the CDC’s and FDA’s own method for detecting safety problems —called “Proportional Reporting Ratios” or PRRs— they found that reports of serious neuropsychiatric issues like brain fog, psychosis, dementia, and even suicidal behavior were not just higher, but dozens to hundreds of times more frequent after the covid shots.

If you thought people were crazy to take the jab, you might have been onto something.

The safety signal thresholds weren’t just crossed; they were blown out of the water, with some categories showing PRRs over four hundred, far above the FDA’s red-flag threshold of two. The study concluded these signals were sufficiently alarming to warrant immediate attention and further investigation— an understatement as big as the Statue of Liberty.

Among the most alarming findings, the study flagged massive spikes in reports of serious brain-related problems after covid vaccination. Compared to flu shots, reports of brain fog were up over 100-fold, psychosis nearly 80 times higher, and Alzheimer’s-type dementia more than 40 times more frequent. Even more chilling, reports related to suicidal thoughts or behaviors, including suicide attempts and self-harm, showed increases as high as 80-fold. One rare but deadly condition —cerebral venous sinus thrombosis, a type of brain clot— was reported at rates over 400 times higher than with flu vaccines.

These numbers weren’t small deviations— they were sky-high red flags by the FDA’s own data and safety standards.


Steve Parker, M.D.

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