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The bogus "Horse De-Wormer" story is also recounted in the documentary. This is actually very important as this effort had to be made to discredit Ivermectin. Any existing drug that was shown to be effective might have jeopardized the all-important "Emergency Use Authorization" of the vaccines.

The documentary has some good clips of Joe Rogan talking about this and grilling the CNN doctor.

Here's my excerpt from the book:

Kennedy also tells the story of how the media played a prominent role in sabotaging efforts to get ivermectin approved as a therapeutic for Covid patients.

According to a story published by Rolling Stone magazine, people in Oklahoma “overdosing on ivermectin horse dewormer were causing emergency rooms to be ‘so backed up that gunshot victims were having hard times getting access to health facilities.’ An accompanying photo purported to depict a long line of ambulatory gun shot casualties seeking hospital admission to an Oklahoma emergency room already filled to capacity with dingbats poisoned by horse wormer.”

The story “spread like wildfire” across mainstream media, and was a prominent segment on Rachel Madow’s MSNBC program.

“The story, of course, was a fraud. Days later, the hospital posted a categorical denial on its website, dismissing the entire story as a fabrication. The Rolling Stone picture of the long lines was an Associated Press stock photo from the previous January, a photo of people waiting in line to get vaccines. As it turns out, not a single patient had been treated in Oklahoma for ivermectin overdose.

“… Instead of retracting the article, Rolling Stone simply posted an attention-dodging ‘update’ at the top of the article reporting the hospital’s denial.”

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The story of Tess Lawrie and the researcher who flipped on Ivermectin is told in condensed fashion in the documentary. Here's most of the details as reported in the book (which I excerpted in a previous dispatch):

The book details in great length the medical establishment’s “war” on HCQ and ivermectin.

It recounts in detail transcripts from a Zoom call between Dr. Tess Lawrie and Dr. Andrew Hill. According to Kennedy, Hill was in a position to sign off on a study that would have given an important seal of approval to ivermectin as a treatment and preventative medicine. (This, in turn, might have nixed the all-important “emergency use authorization” for Covid vaccines).

According to Kennedy, Dr. Hill had originally been enthusiastic about the drug. However, as soon became clear, he did a dramatic “u-turn” that effectively killed the possibility the drug would become an FDA-approved therapeutic.

Writes Kennedy: “Dr. Lawrie asked Hill to explain his U-turn on ivermectin, which his own analysis found overwhelmingly effective. ‘How can you do this?’ she inquired politely. ‘You are causing irreparable harm.’ ”

Hill (a University of Liverpool virologist who serves as an advisor to Bill Gates and the Clinton Foundation) explained that he was in a “tricky situation” because his sponsors had put pressure on him. When Dr. Lawrie asked who was trying to influence him, Hill said, “I mean, I, I think I’m in a very sensitive position here.”

Dr. Lawrie responded: “Lots of people are in sensitive positions; they’re in hospital, in ICUs, dying, and they need this medicine.”

Hill’s words and body language strongly suggest a person whose evolving scientific position had made him extremely uncomfortable. Any angst Dr. Hill might have been dealing with elicited no sympathy from Dr. Lawrie.

“… Whether you admit it or not, you have an agenda,” she told him. “And the agenda is kick this down the road as far as you can. So … we are trying to save lives. That’s what we do. I’m a doctor and I’m going to save as many lives as I can. And I’m going to do that through getting the message (out) on ivermectin …. Unfortunately, your work is going to impair that, and you seem to be able to bear the burden of many deaths, which I cannot do.” She later told Hill that “the UK and the USA and Europe are owned by the vaccine lobby.”

Dr. Hill concluded, “I guess we’ll have to agree to differ.”

“Yeah. Well, I don’t know how you sleep at night, honestly,” replied Dr. Lawrie.

Dr. Lawrie later delivered the closing address at a medical conference. Dr. Lawrie’s remarks “should be recorded among the most important speeches in the annals of medical history.”

Said Dr. Lawrie: “Had ivermectin been employed in 2020 when medical colleges around the world first alerted the authorities to its efficacy, millions of lives could have been saved, and the pandemic with all its associated suffering and loss brought to a rapid and timely end.”

Later she offered even more strident remarks, ignored by the mainstream press but highlighted in Kennedy’s book: “At this fateful juncture, we must therefore choose: will we continue to be held ransom by corrupt organizations, health authorities, Big Pharma, and billionaire sociopaths, or will we do our moral and professional duty to do no harm and always do the best for those in our care? …. Never before has our role as doctors been so important, because never before have we become complicit in causing so much harm.”

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