Pierre Kory, Author at Brownstone Institute

Fauci’s Never-Ending Victory Tour

Pierre Kory May 5, 2023 Media 4 minute read

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Anthony Fauci’s legacy is one of narcissism and power. The glorification of his massive ego trumped any scientific or medical data. His policies were giveaways to the pharmaceutical industry, which helped burnish his image and crush dissent. He saw his opportunity for the spotlight and seized it. Now, rather than admit mistakes, Fauci is intent on revising history. Unfortunately for his legacy, we’re all living with the consequences of his hubris, and they are impossible to overlook.

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The Three Most Important Lessons from Three Years of Hell

Pierre Kory April 10, 2023 Public Health 5 minute read

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Above all, the next public health emergency should be met with more humility and less arrogance. A once-in-a century crisis requires a spirit of open-mindedness. The same so-called experts who have been sneering about “following the science” need to take a dose of their own medicine. Public trust in medical scientists has plummeted to 29% according to Pew Research.

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The Premature Use Of Mechanical Ventilation in the First Wave of the Covid Pandemic

Pierre Kory February 27, 2023 Public Health 10 minute read

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Of all the Covid “rabbit holes” I have gone down, each one then led to me entering an often public “science battle,” only some of which I have “won.” But I did win a few, none more successful than when I immediately shut down the shocking and rapidly spreading obsessive practice by ER and ICU doctors with putting Covid patients on ventilators “early.”

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The War on Doctors and Patients

Pierre Kory January 27, 2023 Media, Policy, Public Health 8 minute read

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The suppression of doctors’ freedom to advise and treat patients began early in the pandemic. Promising alternative courses of treatment, such as generic drugs like ivermectin or hydroxychloroquine, were shouted down by false news narratives. Media companies took their cues from public health agencies, which exaggerated concerns over people using medicines to treat COVID in ways that were not intended and against medical advice. Positive clinical data was ignored.

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Three Medical Policies that Need Immediate Changing

Pierre Kory November 18, 2022 Public Health 4 minute read

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One thing most people can agree on: COVID-19 won’t be the last public health emergency. There are already concerning headlines about an early spike of R.S.V. impacting children. The leaders of captured health agencies must learn from their mistake of allowing the pharmaceutical industry unimpeded control of pandemic health policy. Americans are incredibly forgiving people willing to show grace, but step one in that process is a willingness for those in charge to admit their mistakes.

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A Rebuttal to California’s Legislative War on Doctors

Pierre Kory September 29, 2022 Policy 6 minute read

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This bill will lead to even more morbidity and mortality, not only in COVID, but in other diseases as well. Pharma already controls the medical journals and Federal Health agencies. But they don’t control independent physician’s opinions and voices. Well, at least they didn’t until now.

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D.C.’s Dangerous and Divisive Vaccine Mandate

Pierre Kory August 25, 2022 Policy, Vaccines 4 minute read

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Over socially distanced glasses of chardonnay, well-to-do Beltway residents cling to their COVID-19 narrative where vaccines funded by the big pharmaceutical companies offer the only hope. In their world, no one — not even children — is safe without a vaccine. Anyone who dares deviate from the company line is dismissed as a backwater Trump-supporting conspiracist, even lifelong Democrats like me.

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Vaccines Will Not and Cannot Make this Virus Endemic

Pierre Kory August 5, 2022 Vaccines 4 minute read

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While Americans across the ideological spectrum wish the president recovery, we must take this moment to acknowledge that a strategy blindly focused on vaccinations is not getting the job done.

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The End of Political and Ideological Allegiances

Pierre Kory July 1, 2022 Policy, Public Health 4 minute read

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Tribalism and polarization have made our political and medical discourse nasty and divisive. Doctors must be kept above the partisan fray, not forced to take sides and pick a jersey. Our jobs are too important, and we need to be apolitical to maintain credibility with everyone who comes to us seeking treatment. Progress and innovative medical breakthroughs in the future depend on freedom and medical choice now.

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Revamping Our Dysfunctional Drug Approval Process

Pierre Kory April 26, 2022 Policy 4 minute read

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Ending this cycle of perpetual disinformation requires revamping our dysfunctional drug approval process. An independent board free of pharma industry conflicts must be established to oversee trials for re-purposed medicines. Recommendations should be based on trials designed by impartial experts and actual results, not the desired ones, and policymakers or prescribers who ignore the findings should be held accountable.

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Saturday Night Fights at the Pharmacy

Pierre Kory January 13, 2022 Law, Policy, Vaccines 9 minute read

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The majority of pharmacists (not all!) have simply stopped thinking critically or devoting effort to review the evidence base, instead simply believing what they are told by their Boards (a.k.a. their “Ministries of Truth”). As if the insane numbers of ill omicron patients to care for is not challenging enough.

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