Who is Peter McCullough?

Dr. Peter A. McCullough is board certified in internal medicine, cardiovascular diseases, and clinical lipidology. He cares for advanced patients with common medical problems including heart and kidney disease, lipid disorders, and diabetes.

Here’s more on McCullough from his page at Linked In:

After receiving a bachelor’s degree from Baylor University, Dr. McCullough completed his medical degree as an Alpha Omega Alpha graduate from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School. He went on to complete his internal medicine residency at the University of Washington, cardiology fellowship including service as Chief Fellow at William Beaumont Hospital, and master’s degree in public health at the University of Michigan. Dr. McCullough is a practicing internist, cardiologist, epidemiologist in Dallas Texas and the volunteer Chief Medical Advisor of the Truth for Health Foundation.

Dr. McCullough has broadly published on a range of topics in medicine with > 1000 publications and > 680 citations in the National Library of Medicine. His works include the “Interface between Renal Disease and Cardiovascular Illness” in Braunwald’s Heart Disease Textbook. Dr. McCullough is a recipient of the Simon Dack Award from the American College of Cardiology and the International Vicenza Award in Critical Care Nephrology for his scholarship and research. He served on the editorial boards of multiple specialty journals. He has served as member or chair of data safety monitoring boards of 24 randomized clinical trials.

Now consider this testimony McCullough gave to Congress.  Here is a description of the hearing:

Georgia Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Green (Representative (R–GA 14th District) since 2021) will host a second hearing on COVID-19 vaccine injuries and for the first time, the House will hear from medical subspecialists who have managed patients first hand, extensively published and presented on the topic, and have been recognized as the clinical leaders in pandemic response. Testimony will begin on January 12, 2024, at NOON ET, in the The Rayburn House Office Building, US House of Representatives, 45 Independence Ave SW, Washington, DC 20515.

Clicking on the following image will allow you to see and hear 7 minutes of McCullough’s testimony at the above-described hearing:

Peter McCullough:

I never supported these vaccines. I never told a single patient that it was safe to take a vaccine. I didn’t take a COVID 19 vaccine myself because it wasn’t safe. And I published an op-ed in The Hill in August of 2020 before they came out. The title of that op-ed is “The Great Gamble of a COVID-19 vaccine pandemic. The reason why it was a gamble is because of the vaccines. Of Americans who took the vaccine, roughly 75% of Americans took at least one shot according to COVID State’s program. Of those, 94% took a messenger RNA vaccine, so we can restrict our comments to messenger RNA vaccines provided by Pfizer and Moderna.

These vaccines are a brand new technology that installs the genetic code for the lethal part of the virus, which is the spike protein, the spine on the surface of the virus. This was an extraordinary gamble, because there was no knowledge of what was going to turn this off. Once the genetic code gets in the body, there was no knowledge of: Does the body get rid of the genetic code? What shuts it off? Will some people produce too much genetic code and have it keep moving from cell to cell and too much spike protein?

It was known then that the spike protein was lethal. And to give a genetic code for a potentially lethal protein that was devised in a Chinese biosecurity lab to Americans was the most dangerous proposition our government agencies could have ever put forward to our country. And what we’ve learned on this is extraordinary.

Kastriudah and colleagues has published that the messenger RNA is physically circulating in the blood for at least 28 days. That’s as long as they’ve looked. Cassin and colleagues from Harvard has shown the messenger RNA is stuck in the human heart 30 days after the vaccine when people die. And there’s inflammation around it presumably due to the spike protein. Vohlken and colleagues from Stanford have shown the messenger RNA is stuck in human lymph nodes for at least two months and that’s as long as they’ve looked.

Now the spike protein which is produced by the messenger RNA is widely circulatory in blood as showed by hybrid by Ogata and colleagues, Swink and recently Brogna in Germany. Now Brogna in Germany looked six months afterwards and at least half the people that took the shots had vaccines by proteins circulating in their bloodstream. That’s as long as they’ve looked and they can identify it because Pfizer and Moderna have an amino acid signature on their spike protein to let us identify it. We know that it’s Pfizer, Moderna doesn’t come from the natural virus is coming from the vaccine. That’s proven.

The spike protein now in 3400 peer reviewed papers, and growing, is proven to cause heart damage and myocarditis. Our regulatory agencies agree every regulatory agency in the world agrees–there’s actually guidelines now in the UK and Australia about how to diagnose and manage vaccine myocarditis. That’s how common this is. It accelerates atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease, causes tremendous swings in blood pressure and heart rate called Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome or POTS, causes neurologic injury, stroke, both ischemic and hemorrhagic, paralyzing syndromes, including Guillain-Barre Syndrome, small fiber neuropathy, ear ringing.

It causes blood clots. The spike protein is physically found in blood clots. The largest blood clots that we’ve ever seen in clinical medicine–typically, a blood clot that someone would get after a hip surgery or on an airplane would be a centimeter or so. It’s common in my practice–yesterday, I saw patients with 15, 17 two-foot blood clots in their legs after the vaccine. We see blood clots both on the arterial side and on the venous side. This is distinctly unusual. The body is set up after the vaccine to form blood clots. And this is particularly harmful in people with a predilection to blood clots, or other provocateurs: hip surgery, smoking, supplemental estrogens, prolonged immobility, etc.

The fourth major category where the vaccines clearly cause injury and damage is auto–immunity. The human body recognizes the spike protein as non human,and so the body attacks its own cells in an attempt to try to fight this and because of this, the body then expresses markers of auto-immunity that now I routinely test in my practice, the antinuclear antibody, the DNA test, which is a test we do for systemic lupus, the anti citrullinated peptide test for rheumatoid arthritis, and then the ANCA test the antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibody test. These are now all proven in the peer reviewed literature. These blood tests turn positive in response to the vaccine and people develop a variety of autoimmune syndromes.

This is what we’re seeing clinically. So my observations are based in terms of what I’m seeing clinically, what I’m reading in the peer-reviewed literature. And in the peer reviewed literature, large numbers of cases are being reported. I want to cite one paper from the peer reviewed literature Lane and colleagues. That’s assembled now a series of 18,204 patients with mild pericarditis. 18,000. Now I can tell you my whole career, I saw two cases before COVID 19. Now I am seeing myocarditis on a daily basis. The number of myocarditis cases in the United States before the pandemic was roughly 200 to 400 cases in the whole country per year. Now we’re seeing this in the 1000s. And these are limited sets. Now of those 18,204 spontaneous and reported cases, the death rate in these patients is .22. So fortunately, majority people survived, but sadly, some died. In the published papers that people describing the cases, the death rate has ranged from 0.41 for my pericarditis to 45.9%. 45.9%,

Hoelscher in colleagues, of which I am a senior author on this paper, has a paper in the preprint server and now it’s been fully accepted to the European Society of Cardiology Journal, has proven that myocarditis is fatal when autopsies are confirmed. When the doctors suspect myocarditis, there’s a 100% rate of confirmation, that it’s fatal myocarditis. When there’s general death that’s occurred in the vaccinated patient. Our data suggests that it’s roughly 74%. If an autopsy would be done, it would be confirmed that the vaccine was the cause of death.

Today, a Rasmussen poll is out. And the Rasmussen poll has shown that 53% of Americans think the COVID-19 vaccines are causing serious injuries leading to large numbers of, quote, unexplained deaths. So the word is out. I’ve made the call on the floor with Senator Johnson in a panel in the US Senate, multiple states senates, the European Parliament. I’m making the call today, the COVID 19 vaccines should be removed from the market. They’re not safe for human use. Those are my comments. Thank you.

[Note: the names of the authors from the above transcript I created were spelled phonetically].

Here is the link to the entire hearing.

It is now January 13, 2024 @ 11:30 pm CT.  I notice that none of the following “news” sources–New York Times, Washington Post, MSNBC, CNN and NPR–has mentioned that there was testimony critical of the COVID vaccines before a committee of Congress, much less mention that a prominent cardiologist/internist of the caliber of Dr. McCullough urged the Congressional Committee that the COVID vaccines are so dangerous that they should be taken off the market.

I am not a doctor. I don’t claim any ability to know how to evaluate the medical evidence in this case. However, I do know that corporate media often withhold critically important information from Americans to concoct a false consensus and a prevailing narrative (I’ve documented hundreds of examples here). I’ve also seen that high ranking public health officials, who have a deplorable track record for lying to and misleading Americans throughout the pandemic, have coordinated with the federal security state and corporate media.

My question: How is it possible that such scathing criticism of the COVID mRNA vaccines from a prominent doctor (along with Dr. Ryan Cole, and Dr. Kirk Milhoan), based on numerous peer-reviewed medical journal articles, can be completely ignored by every major left leaning corporate “news” outlet?

One more thing: In keeping with the continuing demise of Wikipedia (and see this article, “Beware, Wikipedia“), here is what Wikipedia has to say about McCullough, despite the fact that virtually every position he has taken through the pandemic has been proven accurate:

Peter Andrew McCullough (/məˈkʌlə/;^[1] born December 29, 1962) is an American cardiologist.^[2] He was vice chief of internal medicine at Baylor University Medical Center and a professor at Texas A&M University.^[3] During the COVID-19 pandemic, McCullough promoted misinformation about COVID-19, its treatments, and mRNA vaccines.^[4][5][6]