Johns Hopkins Professor Marty Makary won't debate me; not even on his own terms!
I said I would give him ONE paper in advance and we'd stick to that paper. I said he can review it for as long as he wants and he could bring as many people he wanted on his side. Response: silence.
Let’s be clear: they don’t want a debate.
I sent Marty Makary an email saying I would give him ONE paper in advance and we'd stick to that paper. I said he can review it for as long as he wants and he could bring as many people he wanted on his side to the debate.
No answer.
Stunning, but not unexpected.
I also emailed Peter Attia (who I met years ago). He ignored me as well.
Perhaps I should have offered to do the debate blindfolded and with both hands tied behind my back to make it more fair? Or perhaps I should offer that I only get to speak for one minute for the whole debate? Would that make them more comfortable?
The whole point is to expose the truth. I fail to see why Professor Makary wants to keep the truth hidden.
He needs to explain why he won’t debate me after I agreed to all his terms.
I guess because the truth is too embarrassing to him and his institution. Is there another reason?
My email to Kaitlyn Schallhorn of the Santa Barbara News-Press
I also emailed the following note to the author of this news article that falsely claimed that were spreading misinformation at the StandUp Santa Barbara rally:
Subject: why doesn't your paper sponsor a debate on COVID misinformation
Kaitlyn,
Is your newspaper interested in exposing the truth?
If so, why not host a debate between the speakers at the rally and your local health officials?
If not, then putting a disclaimer on your article that the paper is focused on promoting a particular point of view would be more honest journalism.
She did not reply. Heck, I was just trying to be helpful.
Summary
It’s hard to get a debate on COVID nowadays. I’m lonelier than the Maytag repairman.
Hey Steve, thanks for the headline, it made me laugh. I needed to badly. Today I witnessed an elderly gentleman (wealthy, well-dressed, UC Berkeley educated according to info from wallet) just... fall while walking out of a restaurant. The sound of it was terrible. His eyes were open and he was breathing as he lay there, but he did not respond to questions. After maybe five minutes of me comforting him and the rest of the people calling 911, he began bleeding a great deal from his head. This scared me so much.
An ambulance showed up, ten minutes later. The fire department was 1/4 mile from this restaurant.
We were unable to unlock his phone and call his family. His wallet contained zero phone numbers to call in case of an emergency. His arms were covered with those liver spot/scars/skin lesions.
I wanted to scream that he was being murdered, and I was watching it.
I wrote down his address and called the PD to ask for a house visit to make sure that he was not the caregiver for a bedridden wife, or a dog owner. The inhumane treatment I received from both their dispatch and the officer shocked me.
The gentleman fell outside of Gepetto's in Orinda, CA. He is a resident of Moraga, CA.
If my fellow readers are curious, look up the median income of these towns.
Steve, you know exactly where they are.
One of the EMT's said, over his shoulder, as they were loading this poor man up, "this is not an isolated incident."
I don't know what to say to that.
I just have a primordial scream building inside of me.
I can't believe this happened. I literally can't believe this happened. And this poor man is just a statistic now.
I do not know this man, but he matters to me.
Just sent the following email:
Kaityln,
Steve Kirsch provided a link to your article. While it may be easiest to cut and paste CDC info and get a quote from the local health official, I honestly think the public is served by an open and honest debate. I noticed you put "self described" in front of Mr. Malone's info, and put several qualifications behind your local official's name, in what appears to be an effort to further skew the reader's impressions.
The whole vaccine issue is very complicated, and there are a whole lot of unsavory players involved. When anything other than the official viewpoint is buried as deep and as quickly as can be, the public is deprived of important information. The average media outlet and the average person likely will dismiss any opposing view as "anti-vax", "tinhat wearers", and "spreaders of misinformation". Who benefits from all of that? Well, the vaccine makers are laughing all the way to the bank. The average person, many of whom have lost jobs, lost businesses, lost homes, and in other cases lost lives, is not coming out of this pandemic in as good a shape.
There are numerous scientific studies, government statistics, and private company statistics that point a picture of a pandemic that is not following the official narrative. Your readers would benefit from any efforts you make to look around a bit more, and bring a bit more of a balanced perspective to this narrative. The first step could be a debate between the official you cited, who is not providing truly correct information, and Mr. Kirsch. I find it telling that there are so many articles on "misinformation" yet no one willing to let a public debate take place to further examine the facts. If I was a public health official convinced the vaccines were great, I would be leaping at the chance to talk publically to any and all groups, to convince them that I was right. Yet no public health official in the entire country has done this, to my knowledge. You can correct me if I'm wrong. That fact alone is a huge red flag that not is all as it seems.