According to the ABIM, there is no need for a public forum between experts to determine what constitutes misinformation. That determination is made by the ABIM and its hand-selected doctors.
Executive Summary
ABIM contacted Dr. Peter McCullough in a letter dated May 26, 2022 notifying him he is accused of spreading misinformation and started an investigation to remove his board certification. See 0:24 in this Highwire episode for the ABIM letter.
Senator Ron Johnson heard about the letter and sent a letter dated June 15 to Dr. Richard Baron, President & CEO of the ABIM where he politely offered to host an expert panel of doctors in Washington DC to resolve what the science actually says, similar to the widely popular “A second opinion” panel he hosted, but this time with scientists on both sides. See 3:36 in this Highwire episode for Johnson’s offer.
Note that Johnson’s original panel invited scientists on all sides but nobody was willing to support the false narrative so it ended up being one-sided, but not for lack of trying.
ABIM refused Johnson’s offer. Dr. Baron sent Senator Johnson a “thanks but no thanks” reply saying they are perfectly capable of disciplining Dr. McCullough, without any outside assistance. Dr. Baron said that the discipline procedure is private (even though McCullough waives all privacy), ABIM doesn’t want anyone to know. ABIM and its appointed panel of doctors will make all decisions on de-certification. They do not need to hear from scientists with opposing views on what constitutes misinformation, nor do they want to.
In other words, ABIM will make scientific assessments in private, behind closed doors, using a panel they appoint. They will not be held accountable to any public scrutiny. So there!
Introduction
In an earlier article, I wrote that Peter McCullough was notified that the American Board of Internal Medicine wants to strip away his board certification because Peter said things that were true at the time he said them and some of them turned out later not to be true. Basically, because Peter cannot predict the future, he’s guilty of spreading misinformation.
However, it’s interesting that the same is true for all physicians certified by ABIM. Those physicians told people that the vaccines would protect them against getting COVID and we know now that is not true. These physicians also told people “masks work” which gave people a false sense of security and increased COVID rates, causing deaths. They also told patients that early treatments such as HCQ and ivermectin don’t work. And when the vaccines are finally generally recognized as the most dangerous vaccines ever invented, ABIM will be forced to decertify itself if it has any ethics left at that point.
So instead of going after THOSE physicians, ABIM is targeting Dr. McCullough.
Senator Ron Johnson heard about the letter and offered to host a panel of doctors in Washington DC to resolve what the science actually says.
The President of the ABIM responded saying it’s a private process, they decide on what constitutes misinformation, and there shall be no public accountability in their process. They are the judge, jury, and executioner. Peter can have a lawyer, but they appoint the jury. It’s all done behind closed doors. What constitutes “misinformation” shall be exclusively determined by a board of doctors THEY appoint. They have absolutely no interest in facilitating a public forum to hear from experts on both sides. They only want to hear from THEIR experts. And if their experts rule the wrong way, they will take away the certification of those experts, so it’s an absolute fair process designed to impartially determine truth. No pressure at all on the doctor panel of judges, see?
That’s just the way it goes.
The pathetic lack of reaction from the mainstream medical community
See any mainstream doc cheering on the ABIM? Nope.
See any mainstream doc defending Dr. McCullough against this over-reach by the ABIM? Nope.
Doctors are sheep. They follow what others do and don’t speak out. Nothing to gain by speaking out. You don’t want to lose your license too!
Summary
Since any specialty board is a private organization that is not accountable to anyone, they can technically do whatever they want.
ABIM doesn’t want a public debate on “misinformation” because it would expose the hypocrisy. Everything is being done behind closed doors and the judges are all appointed by ABIM. It’s a rigged system. Corruption at its finest. Any judge who bucks the system will have their certifications revoked.
It’s the same corrupt system with the outside panels of the CDC and FDA: if you rock the boat, you’re off the outside committee. The accountability is backwards. It should be to the people.
When there is no public accountability, bad stuff happens.
Dr. McCullough should receive an award from the ABIM for having the courage to stand for truth and science, not this awful letter and sham trial.
For more on corrupt institutions, read this excellent Brownstone Institute article entitled Elections won’t fix this.
Perhaps Dr. McCullough, Kory, and others will create a new private medical board named something like “American Board of Honest Physicians” or something like that. What do you think?
In the meantime, Peter should be able to recover damages in real court should ABIM decide to decertify him.
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Our medical system is deeply corrupt and deadly.
Interesting as the one of many outspoken MD’s regarding this deadly and disabling long and short term phony vaccine propaganda engineered and promoted by BIG PHARMA & BIG GOVERNMENT and BIG TECH & MEDIA playing CYA now this blatant attack on facts and truth from inside the medical community .
This while bodies keep piling up and devastating injuries keep showing up !
Our deaths and disabling must be what their plan is brought to you by the WEF & NWO
Testing? We don’t need no stinkin’ testing….
The FDA’s proposed “Future Framework” is the worst idea in the history of public health
The purpose of the “Future Framework” is to rig the Covid-19 vaccine regulatory process in perpetuity in favor of the pharmaceutical industry. If this “Future Framework” is approved all future Covid-19 shots, regardless of the formulation, will automatically be deemed “safe and effective” without additional clinical trials because they are considered “biologically similar” to existing shots.
https://tobyrogers.substack.com/p/the-fdas-proposed-future-framework
As a general rule of thumb. Don’t take any vaccine for anything period. Natural immunity is clearly the way to go. The human immune system does not need artificial enhancement in anyway. In those who are truly healthy the immune system is a thing of real beauty. We need to have contact with the outside environment for it to function properly first and foremost we need sunlight and fresh air. Furthermore most people do not know about the central role of the ‘microbiome.’ If they did understand what it is and what it truly is capable of doing then they would change their life style to support it and they would stop doing the things that damage it. No vaccines would ever be required. Note: Vaccine science is far far from being settled in any way shape or form. Where is the widespread diffusion of this kind of medical information?
Purposeful deployment of chimeric bio-weapons makes assessment difficult. TPTB will exploit that. My guess is the Dr. Evils will have most mutagenic issues solved so that lethal infectivity does not breed out as was seen shortly after an initial high fatality rate when exposing Italy and Iran in 2020 (those old Talmud foes).
Of course all health institutions have proven irredeemably corrupt so, as you observe, we are solidly on our own.
well, it won’t be too long before, one way or another, the whole monopoly of ‘board certification’ or ‘licensing’ will become meaningless, and those nimrods in all these various ‘certification’ bureacracies will find themselves wandering around their mansions wondering where there’s any food to eat and why the lights are off.. until some antifa types bust in the door also looking for food, and failing to find any, kill the occupants out of spite. they will not be missed.
This is why the pharmaceutical industry charges so much for drugs. They need to make lots of extra money so they can payoff medical boards, government agencies and bureaucrats, politicians, etc., etc.
Did you see this?
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0895435622001007#!
Most healthcare interventions tested in Cochrane Reviews are not effective according to high quality evidence: a systematic review and meta-analysis
In this large sample of 1567 interventions studied within Cochrane reviews, effects of most interventions (94%) interventions were not supported by high quality evidence.
Potential harms of healthcare interventions were measured more rarely than benefits.
…and more. I love sending it to those who “follow the science”.
FFS.
Does anyone still believe society has advanced at all from the days of Galileo being locked up for begin correct about heliocentrism in public?
Officials and their captured “experts” are now the new Holy Roman Inquisition.
Dogma is the death of thinking. Official dogma, enforced by blackmail, extortion and force, is the death of freedom.
ABIM should be sued by millions of damaged individuals. They should be sued out of existence. Thanks for raising your hand as the “medical authorities” so you can be sued accordingly.
Board Certification is portrayed to the public as a means to show this is a competent physician and up to date on the latest medical knowledge.
It has become a sham. It is a manner for the Boards to make money off the physicians. They pay high fees, go through special classes – often outside of their specialty – and the benefits to the consumer are slim.
In one case the Board, awash with physician’s cash, purchased real estate, boats, a plane, and lived a very high lifestyle. What does any of this have to do with physician excellence.
Just as colleges may have overplayed their hand, the Boards may have also. Many physicians are opting to drop Board Certification, where their State will allow them to do so. The key is many State Boards have required Board Certification. Just as many professions have required a college degree when the colleges rake in the money and deliver little knowledge or competence.
Maybe the time has come to ignore Board Certification.
I think Board Certification originally was well intended, but it is LONG past its value.
I hope Dr McCullough does NOT try to save his board certification, but instead does a 180 and PUBLICLY renounces it and condemns the ABIM as a hopelessly and openly corrupt, despotic, and anti-science institution.
Thank you Dr. Baron, for pointing out that you need to be added to the list of those complicit in genocide. We’re going to get you before this is all over.
A courageous Dr. speaks the facts.
Of course they want him silenced.
Ultimately, the truth and preponderance of evidence is on his side.
The ABIM has started eating itself.
Congrats to the idiots in charge.
Dr. McCullough has saved more lives than the other members combined.
The medical establishment in America has no credibility. It needs to be abolished, along with most of the government.
All we really need is a good immune system and a shot or two of Granny Clampett’s “Rhumatiz Medicine” for occasional fortification.