Dr. Harvey Risch: Health establishment censors us because 'they've lost the argument'

Dr. Harvey Risch has a distinguished career as a professor of epidemiology at the Yale School of Public Health, with more than 300 original peer-reviewed publications that include advances in cancer research. He's the editor of the International Journal of Cancer, associate editor of the Journal of the National Cancer Institute and for six years was on the editorial board of the American Journal of Epidemiology.

But over the past two and a half years, establishment media have labeled him a purveyor of "misinformation" for his criticism of the public health response to the pandemic and his advocacy – including – for treating COVID-19 with drugs that have been dispensed billions of times with effectiveness and without harm for other illnesses. Further, the government and scientific establishment have suppressed and dismissed his scientific contributions to the global crisis with little or no engagement, adopting the media's "disinformation" narrative.

In a one-hour video interview with WND that includes his reaction to the FDA's new COVID booster shot, Risch was matter-of-fact about the current state of medical science.

"All of this censorship, all of these claims of misinformation, disinformation, is purely a statement of: We cannot fight on the playing field of ideas, of argument. We do not have the ability to fight back against those positions, and so we are using the tool of censorship instead," he told WND.

Risch, describing the "misinformation" tactic as "totalitarian," said the pandemic has opened the eyes of Americans to longstanding corruption in the medical establishment that has shattered trust, down to the provider level.

He wants to be part of the solution. Last month, along with Dr. Peter McCullough</a> and others, he helped launch The Wellness Company (https://www.twc.health/), a holistic, prevention-based approach to health care through telemedicine and, eventually, in-person consultation as well.

The new company aims to combat the kind of "bad science" that suppresses effective treatments and that led to the FDA's emergency use authorization of the new COVID-19 booster – essentially with no data, amid evidence of "negative efficacy" and alarming signals of severe adverse reactions – relying instead on the performance of the mRNA vaccine prior to the omicron variants.

"It’s very unclear why they would do this, except that they had a preordained motive," he said. "The fix was in, as some people have said."