462: Del Bigtree—An Inconvenient Study

On this eye-opening episode, Mike welcomes filmmaker and television veteran Del Bigtree of The HighWire https://thehighwire.com/ to discuss his newest documentary, An Inconvenient Study https://www.aninconvenientstudy.com/—a film that investigates what happened to the most thorough childhood vaccinated vs. unvaccinated study ever done. They discuss how Del convinced a doctor at one of the most prestigious health institutes in the nation to conduct the study, the shocking findings, and why the study has never seen the light of day… until now.

Speaker names marked ? are inferred from speaking time and the show’s known hosts — they are not voice-verified.

• 0:03Mike Rowe?

  Hey guys, it's Mike Rowe. This is The Way I Heard It. My guest today is Dell Bigtree, and the title of this episode is "An Inconvenient Study." Tell them why, Chuck.

• 0:14Speaker 01

  Well, that's the name of Dell's most recent movie, "An Inconvenient Study", which is about a study that is very inconvenient for a lot of people.

• 0:23Mike Rowe?

  Oh, man. This is, um... If you don't follow me over on socials, let me just tell you real quick what's happened, like, over the last month or so, or two, I guess. I interviewed Gavin DeBecker about his book called Forbidden Facts. Um, and it sort of went viral, I suppose. Lots and lots of conversation about this whole business of autoimmune diseases being linked to various vaccine schedules. And a lot of people were upset with me because they think that all of those theories are conspiracy theories, and they think that all of those concerns have been debunked. And I completely respect that point of view.

• 1:08Mike Rowe?

  What I don't respect, and what I wasn't persuaded by, was the type of argument that sort of evolved over there on Facebook, which basically came down to, "Shut up, Mike. The science is settled. That's been debunked. I can't believe you would hang out." Blah, blah, blah, blah, and a lot of ad hominem stuff. So, anyway, this conversation has been ongoing, and for the record, I am not anti-vaccine at all. In fact, I'm fully vaccinated, as far as I know, with every vaccine a person can get, including the COVID vaccine. But I'm, uh... I'm troubled more and more here of late,

• 1:53Mike Rowe?

  specifically by the exploding instances.

• 1:57Mike Rowe?

  Of childhood diseases that are consistent with the exploding schedule of childhood vaccines.

• 2:07Speaker 01

  I think what you're trying to say, Mike, is that the more vac-- you know, as time goes by, kids are getting more and more vaccines. And at the same time, kids are getting more and more chronic diseases. Now, is it causation?

• 2:20Mike Rowe?

  Causation does not equal correlation. I understand that. And I'm also familiar with the Dunning Kruger effect. And I also realize I'm somewhat out of my lane, as I've been reminded, to have these concerns at all. But it's not just me. I mean, millions and millions and millions of people have lost their basic trust in science, in medicine, and in journalism. And we're constantly confronted with experts who disagree. I mean, you can switch from Fox to CNN, and you can see that.

• 2:59Mike Rowe?

  But you can also see it in virtually every scientific debate that's going on today. So flashing forward, I invited my friends over on the social channels to watch the movie we're about to discuss. It's called An Inconvenient Study. I encourage you to watch it, too. You don't need to do it right now. You can do it after the conversation if you'd like. It's very powerful. And it's upset a lot of people already. But for the life of me, I don't know where it's inaccurate. I can't find anything in the movie that is fundamentally false. But it's a movie that shows a study that was never published.

• 3:44Speaker 01

  Yep.

• 3:45Mike Rowe?

  But nevertheless conducted, that offers just a massive signal that something is amiss between a group, a large group, of vaccinated kids and unvaccinated kids.

• 4:03Speaker 01

  And to be clear, we're talking about the childhood vaccination schedule, not the COVID vaccine.

• 4:09Mike Rowe?

  Correct.

• 4:10Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 4:10Mike Rowe?

  Although Del Bigtree, my guest, has a lot to say about the COVID vaccine. And you know what? I do, too. Not just the vaccine, but-- But the impact of living through the last four years, I still think a big chunk of the country is suffering a kind of post-traumatic stress. I still think we're trying to come to grips with the fact that trust has been broken. And so, a big chunk of my audience, whom I adore, are still very much of a mind that we should defer to the experts and not read books written by criminologists about-

• 4:46Speaker 01

  Childhood vaccine schedules, yes.

• 4:48Mike Rowe?

  Correct. And so, what this really is, is a conversation about experts versus people who are deeply concerned about contradictions in the data. Make of it what you will. I promised that I would watch this movie in the wake of the aforementioned conversations. And many people asked me to invite Dell on, who I've had met before, and you'll learn very, very, very soon under what circumstances.

• 5:21Speaker 01

  Right.

• 5:22Mike Rowe?

  But if your mind is open, I believe you're going to enjoy all of this. If it's not, I look forward to hearing from you over on Facebook. An inconvenient study, indeed, with Dell Bigtree, right after this.

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• 6:11Mike Rowe?

  Well, first of all, where's your security?

• 6:14Speaker 03

  I don't have any, you know? Once I left Bobby's side, there was no security to be found.

• 6:18Mike Rowe?

  Oh, my God. I really figured, I figured you'd show up with two or three guys with suspicious bulges around their ankles and-

• 6:26Speaker 03

  Yeah. I don't think, you know, I mean, you can't, you can't live in a world living like that, you know, being- And I don't think that's, it's not realistic for the way I want to live my life.

• 6:39Mike Rowe?

  Well, good.

• 6:39Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 6:40Mike Rowe?

  We've met-

• 6:42Mike Rowe?

  I guess this will be the third time.

• 6:44Speaker 03

  I think it's about the third time, like we met when I I met you at Freedom Fest once.

• 6:49Mike Rowe?

  Memphis, a year and a half ago, maybe more.

• 6:52Speaker 03

  I think it's more, but time flies. I've I've lost all track of time.

• 6:57Mike Rowe?

  I was at a thing called Freedom Fest, and it was Memphis. I'd heard your name, but I I didn't know about The High Wire, which I believe that's what I was on.

• 7:07Speaker 03

  Yeah, we saw you were there, said, would you mind dropping in, being a guest on The High Wire? And so.

• 7:12Mike Rowe?

  And I Googled it, and I'm like, holy cow, man, what is this jagged little pill all about? I mean, I was intrigued by by everything I kind of read, and I showed up early in the morning, and you guys had taken over a suite in a hotel.

• 7:28Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 7:28Mike Rowe?

  And it was like a MASH unit or something. I mean, you.

• 7:31Speaker 03

  I have a great team, and they're on it. They get it done. They make miracles out of, you know, square boxes with no windows and, you know.

• 7:40Mike Rowe?

  It's a big team.

• 7:41Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 7:41Mike Rowe?

  How many are on it now?

• 7:42Speaker 03

  I'd say, I'd say, you know, The High Wire and ICAN, our nonprofit, is probably about 25 people, maybe 30. And then, of course, half of the work we do is legal. And so our, you know, Aaron Siri is our lead attorney, but we've sort of built that out. I mean, that, his, you know, group probably got 20 or 30 people that work for us.

• 8:03Mike Rowe?

  Yeah.

• 8:03Speaker 03

  Pretty full time suing the government, trying to, you know, use this topic of medical freedom as a way to wake people up to the fact that you're about to lose freedom. You know, if you don't control your body, if you're not the one that's responsible for the bodies of your children, then we're, I don't think we're in, I don't think we're free people.

• 8:22Mike Rowe?

  Which is ICAN stand for?

• 8:24Speaker 03

  Informed Consent Action Network.

• 8:26Mike Rowe?

  And why are so many people opposed to it?

• 8:28Speaker 03

  Um, I think we are challenging what is really a dogma. We want to say it's science. I think we're transitioning to the space where people like yourself, I think, are finally asking the right questions. You know, you can't have an intelligent look at the world, be open to anything's possible. We've been lied to in so many different ways that at least I have to be open to the possibility, right? I mean, I think, isn't the definition of insanity believing you've got it right and everyone else has got it wrong, or some form of that, I think we have to have.

• 8:59Mike Rowe?

  Well, I think that's it. That's the definition of narcissism.

• 9:01Speaker 03

  Oh, maybe narcissism.

• 9:02Mike Rowe?

  Insanity is doing the same thing over and over, expecting a different result.

• 9:06Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 9:06Mike Rowe?

  But they're adjacent.

• 9:07Speaker 03

  Yeah. So, we're in a time now, and I think COVID woke a lot of people up to an issue that I've been working on for, since really 2016, which is vaccine safety.

• 9:19Mike Rowe?

  Your first film was Vaxxed.

• 9:20Speaker 03

  Vaxxed, yeah. So, we're, we've made a lot of headway. I mean, I think watching Robert Kennedy Jr. get sworn as HHS secretary, you know, I was Director of Communications, we met there too.

• 9:31Mike Rowe?

  That was the second time we met.

• 9:33Speaker 03

  Yeah, we were sitting, uh, I was, one of my favorite meetings of all times was interviewing you as the potential to be Vice President for Robert Kennedy. The way you handled that meeting was beautiful. The way you speak is phenomenal, and as a Director of Communications, I can say, I almost shed a tear when I watched you handling the press coming in on you, you know, why were you asked, what's going on there? And when I watched you handle that, I just thought, oh my God, he would have been such a dream, that would have made my job so easy. Your understanding of press, how to handle it, how to be gracious, but factual and articulate, it's something that, you obviously, I mean, you've been at this for so long, but it's

• 10:18Speaker 03

  also something you can't teach somebody, you can't bring someone in and stick them into VP into a very, you know, into a very controversial presidential campaign that we had with Robert Kennedy Jr. and, you know.

• 10:30Mike Rowe?

  Well, look.

• 10:31Speaker 03

  It would have been awesome to have someone that could handle the press as well as you do, but.

• 10:35Mike Rowe?

  Thanks. But, the country deserves, um, I'm a single-issue guy, you know, and I'm not a political animal. And I knew both of those things when Bobby called, and he encouraged me to take the meeting anyway, because he said, uh, he said, "You'll have a story." And you know what? He's so right. And life is, you know, even when you're pretty sure you're gonna do or not do a thing, it just, no one had, I was flattered. You know, I was flattered, and I don't, I don't see eye to eye on a lot of things that Bobby, at least as I understand.

• 11:14Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 11:15Mike Rowe?

  But I was just so interested in the idea that he would be that interested in me, it was just so basic, you know?

• 11:20Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 11:21Mike Rowe?

  And, you know, I brought Mary, my business partner, and we were driving over, and she's like... You say yes to this and there's gonna be a hole in the wall shaped like me running. Okay, you understand that? I'm like, yeah, look, I'm not gonna say yes. But I just felt like there was a strange triangulation going on in my business and in the country where I was getting a lot of calls and I think I had been made strangely relevant by the headlines and by events, right? As Harold McMillan famously said, "Events, dear boy, events." And, you know, I remember talking to you in Memphis about this when we sat down and

• 12:03Mike Rowe?

  did your show. I just, it was like, that to me felt like the very beginning of the crumbling of our institutions and an almost primal level of trust that was suddenly feeling very wobbly.

• 12:19Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 12:20Mike Rowe?

  And really, I just wanted to see what Bobby had to say about that. I didn't know you were gonna be in the room.

• 12:26Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 12:26Mike Rowe?

  I didn't know Cheryl was gonna be in there. I didn't know any of the cats were gonna be there.

• 12:30Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 12:30Mike Rowe?

  And it wasn't fun, but boy, it was, it was, I'll never forget it. And what struck me more than anything was the fact that a simple and inevitable no, it took me a month to say. Cause you know what he said to me, man, that really stuck? He said, "Yeah, yeah, you disagree with me on this, you disagree with me on that." We were talking about energy and I'm like, "Look, man, I'm friends with Charles Koch. He supports my foundation." He said, "Ah, yeah, I sued him a couple times." And I said, "Look, I know." But he said, "Listen, I don't need to be surrounded by people who agree with me on everything. Tell me if you disagree with the idea that the middle class needs a better

• 13:13Mike Rowe?

  shake." I said, "No, I don't. Tell me if you disagree with the idea that these constant wars are a bad idea." I said, "No, I don't." And then, "Tell me if you don't think we're the sickest country on earth right now." And I said, "I do." He goes, "Well, and you agree with the things that keep me up at night."

• 13:30Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 13:31Mike Rowe?

  And that's why I couldn't just say no. And the last thing he said was, "This micro works thing, I can make it macro works."

• 13:37Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 13:39Mike Rowe?

  And that has stuck with me to this day. So when you see him again, tell him, thanks for that turn of phrase.

• 13:44Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 13:45Mike Rowe?

  Because we are now. I mean, much of what he suggested I ought to think about doing is happening.

• 13:52Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 13:53Mike Rowe?

  So it does feel like a lot of what we've discussed in the past is just like a leaf in the tide. You know, it's just, it's just, everything's being pushed forward. And there's kind of a, just an inevitability about things that's interesting times to be alive.

• 14:09Speaker 03

  I think it's, I mean, I think that's the gift we've been given. If you stop complaining about what's happening and realize, you know, what is it? The ancient proverb, may you live in interesting times. We absolutely do. And I think that that moment, you know, we were a ragtag, you know, group of people. I'd never run a campaign in my life, hadn't really been around politics. I'm just a media guy and, you know, but I love Bobby. I've loved what he stood for. And I think we all, and the reason I think I loved that meeting with you is, I think, as you said, we all feel like there's a providence to the, the life we're in at this moment. There's something really important that whether it's happening, has to happen for this dream of America to succeed or to continue. We need change.

• 14:53Speaker 03

  We need people that care and are passionate. And I think that that was what we were, you know, trying to put together to say, no matter what, this team, as it moves with Bobby, the four of us in the room was like Amarilis Kennedy, I think, Charles Eisenstein and I. And we all left our lives because we felt this calling that this, this is a ride to get somewhere. And, you know, I've thought about it. I think, I think, you know, I was standing in the Oval Office when Bobby put his hand on the Bible and got sworn in. And it was really, I just thought to myself, did I ever, first of all, this is perfect. It's perfect that he's going to be head of HHS, the most powerful position in health in the world.

• 15:36Speaker 03

  The main reason I was with him was I want medical freedom. I want people to be able to make their own medical choices. I want transparency in science, which has disappeared. Bobby stood for all those things. And so the idea was if he runs for president, if he, if he could get that job, he can put someone into HHS and start cleaning up, you know, what I think are corrupt agencies that are not out for our best interest. And now he's not going to be distracted by wars or any other problem. He gets to focus right on that. But it's interesting because I, I, I thought about it. I was thinking. Did I ever picture him being president? I mean, I passionately stood there. I put up the big shows when he went into, you know, when he announced, I, you know, decorated that stage, directed it. I put up the stage when he ran his independents.

• 16:21Speaker 03

  And now, all of a sudden, we're gonna join, you know, President Trump, and I'm running ads to move Bobby's, you know, voters over to Trump. And, but I just thought, you know, a lot of like, sort of, you know, new age thinking would be, put the vision board, you know, put Bobby at the Oval Office desk. Like, I never did anything like that.

• 16:38Mike Rowe?

  Yeah.

• 16:38Speaker 03

  And I don't think anyone on the team did. I don't think, I think what we felt was something big is happening. We're on a wave. We don't know what this wave is. We're not gonna judge it. We're just gonna keep just doing what seems like the next right move. Bobby is going somewhere in here. It may be president. Whatever it is, it feels too big to stop. And so, you know, I think that's how I see the world now, which is I don't know how this all ends. But I know that my job is to just do the next right thing, very simply.

• 17:11Mike Rowe?

  I invited you on because I had a fascinating conversation with Gavin, the Becker. I've talked, Gavin and I have become friends as a result of this, this meeting. And I really wanted to talk to him in person here. Again, he came in once, it was maybe a year ago, I guess.

• 17:29Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 17:30Mike Rowe?

  And Forbidden Facts came out.

• 17:32Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 17:33Mike Rowe?

  And I read it, and I thought, oh, God, I'm just asking for trouble, but, but I need to talk to him. And so, a couple of weeks ago, we had a chat. And, you know, this podcast gets its share. And I got, whatever, eight million people on social. But I, I wrote what I wrote, and I put it out there. And, oh, man, I, whatever this is indicative of, you tell me. But people don't share little videos and podcast posts. It's just a promotional thing. I mean, this thing is, thousands of people have shared it. Hundreds of thousands have, have read it. The people who are angry are very angry. The people who are relieved and emboldened

• 18:19Mike Rowe?

  and grateful for a book like this are tremendously so. And so, I'm like, really seeing in my ecosystem, no middle.

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• 19:03Speaker 03

  No.

• 19:03Mike Rowe?

  There's no middle. And it was the fallout of that initial post, and I sent you my rejoinder.

• 19:10Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 19:11Mike Rowe?

  Just because I wanted you to see what was going on in a tertiary way as a result of Gavin's book. And now the whole thing has just got me thinking more broadly about what in the actual hell is going to happen as a result of this colossal erosion of trust.

• 19:30Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 19:31Mike Rowe?

  Not by everyone. There's still plenty of people in the country who are quick to tell me the science has been settled and that all that nonsense has been debunked and that Bobby Kennedy is a loon and that haven't you heard... What are you talking about? You don't get your advice from a criminologist. I get my advice from a scientist. And I'm like, do you not remember what just happened over the last four years? Never mind Agent Orange, never mind Thalidomide, never mind the Tuskegee Syphilis Study.

• 20:02Speaker 03

  Right.

• 20:03Mike Rowe?

  Right? And so I'm most interested in getting your thoughts. And obviously, I want to talk about your movie, which I watched last night twice.

• 20:14Speaker 03

  Thank you.

• 20:14Mike Rowe?

  But I want to... I think the reason I took that meeting with Bobby, and I think the reason we're both kind of fumbling to articulate the strangeness of whatever it is, is happening, is because at least half the country no longer trust the experts.

• 20:30Speaker 03

  Right.

• 20:31Mike Rowe?

  And I understand why, when the experts can't agree.

• 20:37Mike Rowe?

  Then it falls to somebody somewhere to make a call. And that's an awful lot to ask when the stakes are mortal, when they're your kid. And when you're a parent who is not a scientist.

• 20:48Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 20:49Mike Rowe?

  But hoping against hope that something persuasive and rational is going to land in your lap. End of rant, but that's where I am.

• 20:57Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 20:57Mike Rowe?

  And since you've, this is your stock in trade.

• 21:01Speaker 03

  Yeah, well, I mean, it's funny because you sent me that post and your response to that post. About thirty seconds after I was sitting at lunch with my friend here in LA and I said, the fact that Mike Rowe is going to have this conversation.

• 21:18Speaker 03

  Shows you where we're at, that he is going, that he is stepping into a space I don't believe two years ago, he would have ever stepped into.

• 21:26Mike Rowe?

  Three months ago.

• 21:27Speaker 03

  You know, and I think COVID is a part of it. I think there's a lot that's happened. But also, this conversation has changed. It is, we've managed to make it a mainstream question. Maybe, as you said, I think we're at least, I think we're at fifty fifty now. Whereas it used to be three to five percent, at best ten percent of people against the ninety that just thought it's settled.

• 21:51Mike Rowe?

  Yeah.

• 21:51Speaker 03

  And so there's been a massive shift and that shift has been being driven when you talk to Gavin, when you look at the data, as they say, vaccine hesitancy tends to be higher educated individuals, lawyers, doctors that are questioning it, which is not what you would expect. And so, you know, we have got to be allowed to ask questions. And, you know, you're in media. This is what I say is, as a journalist, which is why I'm not a medical expert, just like Gavin, I'm just a journalist. So I'm not here to give anyone medical advice. I just know how to research things. I know how to read studies. I know how, and I've been suing the government, looking for information that they say is

• 22:34Speaker 03

  there, which hand it to me. I'd like to see it. But.

• 22:39Mike Rowe?

  Oh, ye of little things.

• 22:40Speaker 03

  Yes, right. I mean, you know, but ultimately.

• 22:45Speaker 03

  If we can't ask questions, which is the heart of a journalist, that's my job. My job, as far as I'm concerned, is the fourth estate. We're the fourth branch of government. Our founding fathers said, there's gonna be this other nonofficial part of our government, which is essentially media. The press has got to never shirk its duty to ask the most ridiculous questions, the most pressing questions, the most important questions. It should have no allegiance to a government that's in power or to any industry around it. It should be completely free to investigate whatever it wants to investigate.

• 23:18Mike Rowe?

  And profoundly skeptical.

• 23:20Speaker 03

  Profoundly skeptical.

• 23:21Mike Rowe?

  And deeply annoying to power.

• 23:25Speaker 03

  Yes.

• 23:26Mike Rowe?

  In every event.

• 23:27Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 23:28Mike Rowe?

  The press, the last thing the media should care about, the last thing a good journalist should care about is ratings, likability, Q scores. They should be inherently disagreeable and as free of ego as a good scientist. I mean, those two things are so close to.

• 23:50Speaker 03

  That's why I'm bringing it up, because I think it's the same foundational principle for science. It's the exact same principle. The question is the core of the value of the task. Science must be questioned. If the question ever stops being asked or is not allowed in the room, then science has just been converted into a religion. And the entire purpose of science was to get out of this faith-based, we're afraid of, you know. I remember going to the Anasaji ruins and reading that they had a ceremony. I don't know how they knew it, but they had a ceremony where they would ask the sun to come back in the winter, and I just, like, I almost had tears, the humility that these people didn't know if the sun's gonna come back, we have to have a ceremony to ask it to come back. We didn't wanna live like that. We wanna know, what is the sun doing?

• 24:35Speaker 03

  What is, you know, science is gonna explain everything. And, you know, finding that balance with religion and science, but... Now, when we're in a culture where you're a heret, I mean, it's a religion. It's you're a heretic if you question the vaccine program. You're a heretic if you question, you know, the regulatory agencies and why are they making decisions? You're a heretic, wait a minute, how much funding is coming in from pharma into government? You know, why can't we ask these questions? And, you know, just and we're gonna get deeper into it, but I would just say, I said to Bobby just the other day, when I watched the last hearing with Bernie Sanders railing into him. I said, Bobby, you know, the next time Bernie rails, you know, lays into you,

• 25:17Speaker 03

  I would point out, Bernie, we agree that pharma lies all the time. We agree that pharma puts out products that are dangerous. We agree that there's too much funding coming from pharma into the government. If you and I sat down, we would be in total agreement that the drug companies are out of control, that they're pushing products on kid, that we're over diagnosing things. You would agree, agree, agree. But if I take this word drug and convert it and suddenly call it a vaccine, Bernie's out. I'm out, you're out. Now, now suddenly you're out, there's no questions, there's this is this is made by angels. It's not the same industry. It's gotta be a different part of the building, a different wing, beautiful people, only there to help people. Doesn't need to be tested, doesn't, you know, I mean, what the hell happened?

• 26:00Speaker 03

  We just, we just took some letters, same thing, some sort of witches brew of something that affects your body. And why can't we question it?

• 26:08Mike Rowe?

  I look, dogma is such a great word. You used it before. You know, the book, uh, morals and dogma?

• 26:15Speaker 03

  No.

• 26:15Mike Rowe?

  Alfred Pike, it was for years, it was the book that came out that revealed all the secrets of Freemasonry. And so for many, many, many years, there was a standing order among the Scottish rites to, you find that book in a library, you take it and you don't bring it back. You just get that book out of them, out of the space. But I just always loved the combination of those two things, morality and dogma.

• 26:44Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 26:44Mike Rowe?

  And how one does not necessarily lead to the other. And how the religiosity that you're talking about has.

• 26:55Mike Rowe?

  I think in the minds of a lot of people infected both the Fourth Estate and the scientific community because, look, science and journalism have so much in common, but the first is real curiosity, right? Like, you've got to be genuinely interested

• 27:12Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 27:13Mike Rowe?

  in getting, getting at the enlightenment of a thing. But you can't possibly be curious without being humble, which is another word you just used, humility. Because to be curious is to be fundamentally ignorant. You can't know the answer and be curious.

• 27:34Speaker 03

  Right.

• 27:35Mike Rowe?

  So then, how, how did both institutions wind up abdicating on humility, replacing it with arrogance, but still claiming curiosity? We're curious now, but we act as if we know, and we become offended if we're questioned. I Googled a bunch of stuff. I asked AI when you were on your way up here.

• 27:59Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 28:00Mike Rowe?

  And I said the same thing to Gavin. It's, the AI can't talk about either one of you without every sentence being filled with these parentheticals, right? Who's since debunked and not proven.

• 28:13Speaker 03

  Right.

• 28:14Mike Rowe?

  And, I mean, it's to the point where it's almost impossible to read the sentence without all the qualifiers in it.

• 28:22Speaker 03

  Right.

• 28:23Mike Rowe?

  Right. So I guess if there's a question in this, it does feel like it's, we're just running into a place. So if journalism and science have both lost the trust of the American people, what is the future of your film, An Inconvenient Study? And how will that land? Because it just came out, right?

• 28:47Speaker 03

  It came out, I guess, like, three, just over three weeks ago, November 11th. We won the Malibu Film Festival here in town, and then we put it out that night for free for everyone to watch, An Inconvenient Study. It's put out by my nonprofit, and I'm really excited about what I'm seeing worldwide. I mean, the response is worldwide right now.

• 29:07Mike Rowe?

  What is it? What is the response? You know what? What is the movie?

• 29:11Speaker 03

  Okay, yeah, let's just be clear. All right. At the heart of this conversation of vaccine safety is how would we, how do we determine it? How do we know if vaccines are making us healthier or if they're making us sicker? Or if there's a balance? Or is it just some people? If there's, maybe there's just a small group of people that are really having a bad outcome and we should figure that out. None of those questions are currently allowed to be asked. You know, as soon as you question it all, we've broken into "safe and effective, safe and effective" this monogram that we've been living by. So, I had the opportunity, when I put out Vaxxed in 2016, I was traveling the country and we had a big bus that said "Vaxxed" on the side of it.

• 29:53Speaker 03

  And it was, of course, that was about really autism and the MMR vaccine. It was a very specific story about a whistleblower inside of the CDC named Dr. William Thompson that said, "We're committing scientific fraud in our vaccine safety study", especially this MMR autism story. But people were signing the names of their injured children, their dead children after vaccines. And I'll say this, you know, as a filmmaker, I made that film, I was the executive producer on it. I knew there was an issue, but when we got kicked out of Tribeca Film Festival, that created the, you know, a tidal wave of negative press like you've never seen, calling us baby killers, everything else. It was fantastic. It was like Passion of the Christ. Suddenly, I opened up in an arthouse theater and there's a line down the block like it's the first Star Wars.

• 30:38Speaker 03

  It was amazing. And in the second screening, I asked, you know, I want to know who that audience was. And so, we were doing Q and As after every screening. And so, I got up and I just said, "Would everyone with a vaccine-injured child just please stand up?" And three-quarters of the room stood up. And it felt like the oxygen had been sucked out of the room. It was shocking. I knew, I mean, I'm thinking this is a small problem, autism's a small problem, and, you know, obviously, they're being drawn to this film, but you should have seen the other, you know, 30 people looking at all of these people around them that are going through this really horrific experience. I ended up asking that question for three or four shows a day, for five days a week, an entire year, and the whole time, three-quarters of the audience stood up. This thing is so much bigger.

• 31:23Speaker 03

  And you had no idea. And I really did have no idea.

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• 31:57Speaker 03

  They had been silenced. We don't know how many are out there. No doctor knows how many, you know, how many people actually have autism? What is this thing? All of it. So, anyway, I was on tour with that film, and we were pulling up through Michigan, and someone said to me, "I know the head of infectious disease at Henry Ford Health." I'm like, "Wow, that's like one of the greatest research institutes in the world." And I'm always up for a conversation, as you are. You know, I'm a journalist. I'm fascinated. I don't know where this conversation is gonna go. You're curious. So, yeah, I am. And he sat down with me at dinner, and he started the conversation. Nice guy, Dr. Marcus Ervos, tiny little guy. And he said, "You know, I watched your film back, it's very compelling, but you've been

• 32:42Speaker 03

  saying something as you're traveling the country, been watching your YouTube videos, and I found it very disturbing. You keep saying that we've never done the proper science to establish that vaccines are safe." And he's like, "Obviously, I take offense to that. I'm, you know, I'm head of virology. I do, I mean, I'm a huge proponent for vaccines, and I sit on the biggest databases in the world, so I went to do the research on that so I could bring it to you and show you you're wrong." And he said, "But I'm shocked that I actually have to tell you you're right." I mean, you could tell. He's like, "I cannot believe I have to admit this to you." And he said, "Now, that doesn't mean that vaccines aren't safe. It just means we can't say that they're safe." And I said, "That's all I've been saying."

• 33:25Speaker 03

  And he's like, "And he even said, 'I've been watching, you're actually very careful about it.'" And I am, Mike. I'm not some, you know, of course, if you look at my Wikipedia or anything like that, it looks like you're some crazy lunatic, as Gavin DeBecker. Yep. But, you know, we're, I'm just asking really honest questions and looking for decent answers. Anyway, he said, "I don't know what we're doing here. I don't know where this is gonna go. I'm still pro-vaccine." And I said, "Well, hold on a second."

• 33:50Speaker 03

  If vaccines are really making our children healthier, I think there'd be a way we can prove there's a study we keep wanting to see done, which is, why don't you compare the health outcomes of a completely vaccinated group of children to a completely unvaccinated group of children? And just ask obvious questions, who's got more ADD, ADHD? Who has more autism? All these things that are skyrocketing in this country. And he said to me, I'll do that study. I said, really? Because CDC won't do it? No government in the world has ever done it, shockingly, don't know why, but you know?

• 34:24Mike Rowe?

  There must be reasons.

• 34:24Speaker 03

  I'm sure there's reasons. I speculate to those reasons in the film.

• 34:28Mike Rowe?

  Well, you do, and they're logical and nefarious in equal parts. But are there other, like, is there an ethical concern about double blinds and placebos? And using a vaccine that has already been deemed safe and effective? And deliberately not giving it, like, is there that?

• 34:51Speaker 03

  Yes, well, that's the, that's the argument that's being made. The argument is we can't do a double blind. So, you know, there's two things to talk about. What is the study? What establishes safety for a pharmaceutical product? It's very simple. The gold standard is a double-blind placebo-based trial. One group gets the drug, the other group gets a sugar pill painted to look just like the drug. They're double-blinded, meaning the scientists don't know who got what, the people taking it don't know. And then we just track them for five, 10 years sometimes.

• 35:22Mike Rowe?

  Triple-blind, really. Scientists don't know, that group doesn't know, and that group doesn't know.

• 35:27Speaker 03

  Right, no one, right, correct.

• 35:28Mike Rowe?

  No one knows.

• 35:29Speaker 03

  The drug group doesn't know, the placebo group doesn't know, the scientist doesn't know. So definitely. And then after the end of a long period of time, we look at health outcomes. And then we unblind them and say, okay, who had more cancer? Who had more diabetes? Who, did anyone have a mutagenic effect? Something like that. I mean, it's obvious, we learned this in high school. And what was so shocking is, once I started investigating this, when I was, I was working at CBS as a producer on the daytime talks to the doctors, I won an Emmy Award, making science and medicine into entertainment.

• 36:00Mike Rowe?

  Your hair was long.

• 36:00Speaker 03

  You know, it was longer, it was darker.

• 36:04Speaker 03

  I remember.

• 36:04Mike Rowe?

  I remember. I'm right with you.

• 36:07Speaker 03

  But, um, so when I started looking into it and what Dr. Mark Zerbo said is true. We have never, ever done that study on any of the vaccines. Now, that's a problem. What they'll say now is they obfuscate this, the answer. And when you see it on the news, you know, a Dr. Paul Offit will say, of course, we're not doing placebo studies now, as you said, because there's already products for measles. Why would we deny, if we were to deny, if we wanted to study the measles vaccine, what you're saying to us is now you want to do a placebo trial where one group's going to get the already available vaccine, but we're going to deny access to a life-saving health

• 36:48Speaker 03

  measure to a group, you know, in the placebo group to test if the measles vaccine's safe? We can't do that. Now that would be unethical. And that's true. I mean, I think there's an argument to be made there, unless you had some perspective that what if, and the question is what this measles vaccine is actually shortening your lifespan? We don't know. You would only, you're gonna have to do some form of a study to find out. And I mentioned in the film, there have been studies that have found very alarming things like the DTP vaccine.

• 37:17Mike Rowe?

  Right.

• 37:18Speaker 03

  You know what I mean?

• 37:19Mike Rowe?

  Because to merely conduct a study to gauge the efficacy of the vaccine is different than gauging the unintended consequence.

• 37:30Speaker 03

  Correct.

• 37:31Mike Rowe?

  Of the same drug.

• 37:32Speaker 03

  Right.

• 37:33Mike Rowe?

  And you can't test for those two things at the same time or in the same way, which means you have to do what you call a retrospective.

• 37:41Speaker 03

  Retrospective study.

• 37:42Mike Rowe?

  Okay. So the retrospective study is flawed.

• 37:46Speaker 03

  Right.

• 37:47Mike Rowe?

  The way they all are, but the double-blind placebo is unethical because now we know too much.

• 37:54Speaker 03

  Right.

• 37:55Mike Rowe?

  And/or maybe because simply separating vaccinated from unvaccinated, maybe there are other... I don't know, mitigating factors.

• 38:07Speaker 03

  Confounding.

• 38:08Mike Rowe?

  Confounding factors, right, right, right.

• 38:09Speaker 03

  Yes.

• 38:10Mike Rowe?

  So I, I'm just trying to make the point that there are certain.

• 38:14Speaker 03

  Arguments.

• 38:15Mike Rowe?

  Yes.

• 38:16Speaker 03

  Yes, limitations, difficulties.

• 38:18Mike Rowe?

  What are the limitations of the study?

• 38:19Speaker 03

  We should not find ourselves in this position, and that's what's still alarming. What is alarming is that we find ourselves in a position where we're hogtied by the ethics of science and we tied ourselves up. We never did the proper safety study to see are these vaccines having some deleterious effect that we do not see. What we only, the only thing we look at in our studies is, does it create antibodies? Is there antibodies being produced? And by the way, that's not even a true understanding of its ability to stop disease, stop transmission. We learned that during COVID, but it's all that they do. All you have to do is prove this vaccine created antibodies in this group of people. It works, eureka, and we know it's safe because we just know it's safe.

• 39:05Speaker 03

  And so these things have been pouring onto the market. And so now when, you know, and, and I would say this, Mike, there's no question that I'm not here. Why would I be in this investigation if we had the healthiest kids in the world? I mean, if everyone's running around shiny, happy and healthy, then who cares? Who cares, you know, if they did a safety study on vaccines or not?

• 39:27Mike Rowe?

  Is there a sicker country in the world right now?

• 39:29Speaker 03

  There is not that I know of.

• 39:30Mike Rowe?

  Like in the industrialized West?

• 39:31Speaker 03

  Certainly in the modern world, we are the sickest nation in that world. I think you could argue, I mean, I don't know, I suppose children are dying in Africa of starvation, so you can't really make that comparison. But in anywhere where they have running water, cars and elevators, we are the sickest.

• 39:47Mike Rowe?

  But we have a cure for starvation. It is food.

• 39:51Speaker 03

  Food.

• 39:51Mike Rowe?

  Right. I mean, what we're talking about now is what happens if the food you use to cure starvation turns out to be tainted?

• 40:00Speaker 03

  Right.

• 40:00Mike Rowe?

  Now, what have you done? It's like gangrene in your foot? Oh, I can fix it. We'll just take it off below the knee.

• 40:06Speaker 03

  You know, it's funny, you're moving towards a sort of analogy that I want to make. I was planning on making it someday, which is. Here's how I think the vaccine program, you could describe it. I could go to Texas and say, I'm gonna eradicate athlete's foot from Texas. I'm gonna eradicate it from the planet. I'm just gonna chop everybody's feet off. And then say, see, not a single person in Texas has athlete's foot. But you say, but hold on, there's all these people that are dying. There's people that are bleeding out. There are people that, you can't prove that that happened. You know what I mean? And that's not my problem. I was here, and what science has done is, I was just here to make antibodies. I made the antibodies, I'm walking away. Job done. No, hold on a second. What is the process of making those antibodies doing to this body? Is it causing other problems?

• 40:51Speaker 03

  As I said, the DTP study in Africa, Guinea-Bissau, Africa, a very pro-vaccine scientist, finally, just a few years ago, it was about like 2017, I think he did it, looked back 30 years and said, I had a DTP program. We were giving it to all the kids in Guinea-Bissau, Africa, and I realized we only got to like half of them.

• 41:11Mike Rowe?

  What's it stand for?

• 41:12Speaker 03

  Huh?

• 41:12Mike Rowe?

  DDP?

• 41:13Speaker 03

  Um, Diphtheria, Tetanus, and Protusis.

• 41:15Mike Rowe?

  Okay. That protusis is whooping cough?

• 41:18Speaker 03

  Whooping cough, correct. And so he would look back 30 years at the health outcomes. They track all the data, had really good data, and lo and behold, the kids who got his DTP vaccine program died at 2.5 to 5 times the rate as those that didn't receive it. No one had ever looked. No one, as you pointed out, no one ever looked at all-cause mortality. No one ever looked at, is there, I mean, and here's the deal. They didn't die of protusis. They didn't die of tetanus. The vaccine did its job, but it obviously did something to the immune system that made them more vulnerable to other issues in their environment, and they didn't survive. No one would ever know if he hadn't done that study.

• 42:01Speaker 03

  They're still, by the way, I've sued UNICEF because they still give that vaccine. Now that we know this, you are killing, I think, girls, it's much worse. And there's some instances where it's 10 times the rate of death. Given, you know, what other vaccines they got at the same time, some of the vaccines are protective. You know, keep that event from happening. So, there's a lot to be studied, and we've never done that in America. You've never asked the question, okay, let's say measles vaccine does stop measles. It keeps you from getting measles, great. But does it have down the road consequences that actually cost us in the long run? And, you know, like, we could get into details, but there's, there's studies that show that a man who gets measles and mumps naturally as a child not vaccinated

• 42:46Speaker 03

  has, you know, a 50% reduction in heart attacks and heart disease from those that don't have that infection. So if we look at, you know, 900,000 people dying every year, um, let's say just, let's just limit it to the most like conservative number they would imagine. 25%. 25% of them wouldn't have died of heart disease if they'd had measles as a kid. Well, measles only killed 400 people prior to the, a year in America prior to the vaccine being, getting here, but, you know, 250,000 people would have been saved had I let you get the measles? We gotta do some new math here. We need to ask these questions now. We're too smart to not ask these questions. You know, why is that? Why would it be?

• 43:31Speaker 03

  Why did these studies? I'm not saying these studies are perfect, but these studies exist. They show, you know, reductions in ovarian cancer if a woman gets mumps and measles as a young child. So there's gonna save you thousands and thousands of lives. And yet, the virus itself that we were going after was only hundreds of people, probably weak people that would die from the virus every year. So we have to be open now. We've got to ask ourselves, and look, maybe the vaccine program was brilliant when we had horse drawn carriages and sewage running in our streets and our water systems weren't perfect and we didn't have refrigeration. All of these things have to be looked at. When we look at why, why did we get healthier?

• 44:16Speaker 03

  Why did we go like this? And then why are we suddenly crashing now? Was there a point where 10 vaccines like you got in your generation or I would have gotten? Was that the better amount of vaccines than the 54 that our kids are getting now? And by the way, there's three or four elements in every vaccine. So 72. Seventy-two, moving towards, they predict a hundred within a year or two vaccines by the time you're eighteen. So, did we make a mistake? Is there, is there too much?

• 44:44Mike Rowe?

  Where, where?

• 44:44Speaker 03

  You know?

• 44:45Mike Rowe?

  Where might it end if it doesn't stop?

• 44:48Speaker 03

  Right.

• 44:48Mike Rowe?

  When would we go, two-hundred-and-fifty seems like a lot?

• 44:51Speaker 03

  Right, two-hundred-and-fifty, a thousand vaccines by the time you're eighteen, I mean, is there a threshold? Is there a limit? And when are we going to be allowed to ask that question? When are we going to be allowed, and what would that science look like to determine that?

• 45:05Mike Rowe?

  Well, to be fair, we're allowed to ask it. But, as I've just learned, there will be a consequence.

• 45:12Speaker 03

  Yes.

• 45:13Speaker 04

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• 45:43Mike Rowe?

  It's not the consequence you would expect from a curious population. And this is, again, I was talking to Chuck about it earlier, you know, it's, it's not about me or you, it's not even about the institutions. It really is about three-hundred-and-forty-some million people.

• 46:01Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 46:01Mike Rowe?

  Who are living here, who are suddenly riven by this. And I think, you tell me if this tracks, but, six, seven years ago, people who thought the earth was flat were looked at in much the same way as anti-vaxers. And you could get away by saying, "Look, I'm not going to engage with you."

• 46:27Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 46:27Mike Rowe?

  Because, no offense, but you're off your nut, okay?

• 46:31Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 46:31Mike Rowe?

  Peter Hotez, who famously declined to debate your friend, Bobby Kennedy, on Rogan's show, did so because he, he said, and many, many people agreed, Bobby's a loon, and Joe is not an impartial moderator.

• 46:49Speaker 03

  Right.

• 46:50Mike Rowe?

  And you're a scientist, man. You got the white coat and everything. The stuff, you got it all. Don't lower yourself. Now, I think he could have gotten away with that argument.

• 47:04Mike Rowe?

  Uh, 2018. Because there was still, it still felt like the bulk of the people in this country. You know, don't waste your breath trying to tell some lunatic that the world is round. Don't waste your breath. But I feel like we, we went through a hell of a time. And, you know, whether you call it gaslit or whatever it is, our faith, our fundamental faith in the dogmas of journalism and the tenets of science has been shook. So the thing that happened with Hotez is the reason that I sat with you in Memphis. And we talked, and it just happened.

• 47:49Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 47:49Mike Rowe?

  And I was like, wait a minute, man. This guy, Peter Hotez, he's, he really is a scientist and he has an opportunity to talk to 12 million people.

• 47:59Speaker 03

  Yes.

• 47:59Mike Rowe?

  Now that-

• 48:00Speaker 03

  And prove his point.

• 48:02Mike Rowe?

  It's on the same kind of microphone, in the same kind of setting.

• 48:06Speaker 03

  Right.

• 48:07Mike Rowe?

  And so suddenly to me, it's like, wait, I don't think you have permission to take the high ground and say, no, I'm not going to sully my credentials by mixing it up with the likes of Bobby Kennedy or Joe Rogan. Because it's not about either of those guys. It's about 12 million people like me in that audience.

• 48:27Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 48:29Mike Rowe?

  Who are genuinely wondering what you're gonna do as a representative of science. How are you gonna win my trust back? So here's my point. Half the country in my last dust up on Facebook, they're saying, no, no, no, the institution doesn't have to win your trust back. You simply have to put your trust back in it.

• 48:52Speaker 03

  That's called faith.

• 48:53Mike Rowe?

  That's exactly right. And that's why my real problem, and if you really want to peel back this thing, I think as a country, we've entered an age where skepticism has never been more important on every single level.

• 49:09Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 49:10Mike Rowe?

  And that is an affront to a lot of people who are fundamentally faithful. So a lot of worlds start to collide from religion to science to journalism to politics.

• 49:23Speaker 03

  Mm-hmm.

• 49:24Mike Rowe?

  And in the end, it feels to me like people are being forced to choose between the benefit of the doubt and all the faith that comes with that, and the cold calculus of skepticism, upon which science and journalism both rely.

• 49:45Speaker 03

  Right.

• 49:46Mike Rowe?

  So, for the average guy who's trying to raise his family and not his kids with a dumb decision, he slash she is now being forced to assume the mantle of skepticism that is supposed to be worn by the super curious, humble people in search of the truth. But they've abdicated.

• 50:14Speaker 03

  Yes.

• 50:14Mike Rowe?

  And so now, we're left with this, this malaise, this hot bullia base of bullshit.

• 50:22Speaker 03

  A major task. Most of us didn't go to med school because we didn't want to do the eight years of education. I don't want to have to think about this stuff. I don't want to have to understand it. I don't want to have to look at trials, what the trials mean to me. I don't know, why is this my problem? And you said earlier, you know, it's like one side against the other, you know, and how are they going to win us back? Evidence, Mike, evidence, right? Documentation. We are now told that this is a group of physicists, and we're going to have to have the faith, but show us your math. All we're asking is just show us the math. Where is the evidence that this is this great product? Where is the evidence of this mountain of studies I keep hearing about? I'm telling you, they're not there. Because, you know, I've had people under oath.

• 51:06Speaker 03

  I've had, you know, the head of our entire vaccine program under oath in a courtroom, and what he says there, we have videos all over our website. What he says there will blow your mind. There's not, this isn't, this conversation is not what people think it is.

• 51:21Mike Rowe?

  What you have in your movie blew my mind.

• 51:24Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 51:25Mike Rowe?

  I mean, my listeners are sick of me referencing this title, but it just has come back to haunt me. I read a book years ago. It was actually a Christian book, Apologetics, by Josh McDowell, called

• 51:40Mike Rowe?

  The evidence demands a verdict. And it feels like you've got evidence in this movie. So I don't know how you feel about spoiler alerts, but I-

• 51:49Speaker 03

  I don't care.

• 51:50Mike Rowe?

  All right.

• 51:50Speaker 03

  Let's lay it out.

• 51:51Mike Rowe?

  Yeah, why would you? You're giving it away for free.

• 51:53Speaker 03

  That's it.

• 51:55Mike Rowe?

  Inconveniencedstudy.com.

• 51:56Speaker 03

  And inconveniencedstudy.com.

• 51:58Mike Rowe?

  Yeah, so the guy you mentioned.

• 52:00Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 52:01Mike Rowe?

  The small-

• 52:02Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 52:03Mike Rowe?

  Scientist at Henry Ford agrees to conduct this study.

• 52:09Speaker 03

  Vaccinated versus unvaccinated.

• 52:11Mike Rowe?

  How many, how many in the group?

• 52:12Speaker 03

  It's roughly 18,500-ish in the entire group. 16,500 are vaccinated, 2,000 unvaccinated.

• 52:24Mike Rowe?

  Why so lopsided?

• 52:25Speaker 03

  Well, if you look at the population, I mean, it's, it happens to be the population in their Henry Ford Health system. In some ways, I think it's even bigger than what we might imagine in that our population is 90, 95% vaccinated. So you only have, you know, in any, any given spot in America, you're going to have a group that's far smaller that are unvaccinated. It's just always going to be the case. But science has looked at this many, many times and said, you can have a fully robust, you know, statistically significant study. These don't have to be the same size because what you're not, you're not saying, look, there's two here that have and two here, therefore they're even.

• 53:07Speaker 03

  You recognize it's the, it's the ratios, it's the, you know, what proportion of this group had an issue, what proportion inside of this, inside of their own microcosm, inside of the unvaccinated, what percentage of them have ADHD? What percentage of them have a neurodevelopmental disorder? We're doing the same thing in the 16,500. And what you see in the conclusion of this study done by Dr. Marcus Ervos, and by the way, unpublished, I want to make that clear. I received a cease and desist letter from Henry Ford Health.

• 53:38Mike Rowe?

  You read it at the end of the movie.

• 53:39Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 53:40Mike Rowe?

  It's amazing.

• 53:40Speaker 03

  Yeah, and so, but just want to make that clear, they didn't publish this study. But what you see in the conclusion is 2.5 times the- Rate of um chronic disease if you've been vaccinated compared to those that are not vaccinated. And I want to make it clear, we hear numbers and I know when we hear numbers, it kind of just goes over, you know, it's like, oh, that sounds, it's like two or five. This isn't 20% more, which would be bad. It's not 50 or 80% increased risk of something. It's 250%. Percent increased risk to have a chronic disease, which to my point, we wouldn't be here if we had healthy kids, but

• 54:21Speaker 03

  depending on how you look at it, if you include obesity, 54% of our nation, children have a chronic disease. Without obesity, it's about 40%. Um, and so we're talking about a coin toss now in and the question would be, what's doing it, right? What's doing it? Is it vaccines? Is it fluoride in our water? Is it, you know, pesticides, herbicides, glyphosate sprayed on 80, 90% of our crops? Is it plastics, PFAS chemicals? All of those things, as Robert Kennedy Jr. points out, all kind of hit our world, our environment right in the early 90s, late 80s, early 90s. That's where all this autoimmune disease, autism just starts taking off. Something is affecting us.

• 55:03Speaker 03

  And so this study is just looking at vaccines and incredibly, what it finds, it does a graph over 10 years, what is the likelihood that you will have a chronic disease? If you've been vaccinated, the likelihood is 57%. 57% of these children will end up with chronic disease if they were vaccinated. In the unvaccinated group, it's only 17%. That is a, that's Mount Everest, man. It's gigantic signal. And as I point out, I mean, it's, you know, also four, five times rate of um ADHD. Six times the rate of neurodevelopmental disorders in the vaccinated compared to the unvaccinated. Just.

• 55:45Speaker 03

  Horrifying numbers. And if this study stood alone, it is a retrospective study. It has weaknesses. It didn't have a control. It's not a placebo group. We didn't perfectly match this many African Americans and this many African Americans. I mean, it's just the best that taking all the data Henry Ford Health had, all the kids that were born into the system so they had all of their records they could track, take out all the kids that would have had a predisposed, you know, birth issue, and we're left with this 18,500 kids. And these horrific numbers. I point out in the film, if this, if this study stood alone, you know, maybe take it with a grain of salt. We should definitely do more studies. It's showing you a signal. More studies need to be done.

• 56:28Speaker 03

  This is now the fifth, in my mind, the fifth study like it. Some people are saying there's 10 studies out there, but I talk about five that compared vaccinated to unvaccinated. There were smaller, 600 kids in a homeschool study, but same results. You know, nearly 10,000 kids in pediatrician's practice named Dr. Paul Thomas. Same thing, the vaccinated are sicker. And here's what's-

• 56:51Mike Rowe?

  Wait a minute, no retrospective study has ever indicated that the vaccinated are healthier?

• 56:58Speaker 03

  Not one. Anywhere in the world, by any institution in the world, any government, any health agency, no one in this world has been able to compare through the simple comparison of these two groups of kids and shown us, the vaccinated are healthier. And wasn't that the whole point of this program?

• 57:20Mike Rowe?

  Now, your guy, why doesn't his last name stick with me? Dr.?

• 57:24Speaker 03

  Zervos.

• 57:25Mike Rowe?

  Zervos, that's why. Zervos. I'm making a mental note of all the Zervos's I know. Not a lot.

• 57:31Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 57:32Mike Rowe?

  Zervos, at the outset, agrees to publish the study irrespective of its results. The results come in, he goes dark.

• 57:43Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 57:44Mike Rowe?

  You, being a curious journalist, pick up the phone and ask for a meeting.

• 57:49Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 57:50Mike Rowe?

  You eventually get one. And then you do something that just purely from a cinematic standpoint, made me so-

• 58:02Mike Rowe?

  Uncomfortable and engaged. I, I, I literally watched it with my head turned because you videotape him without his knowledge.

• 58:15Speaker 03

  Bring in hidden cameras.

• 58:16Mike Rowe?

  From a hidden pen.

• 58:17Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 58:18Mike Rowe?

  And you, and you record the conversation in a restaurant.

• 58:21Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 58:23Mike Rowe?

  So, I, I don't know how to dive into it.

• 58:29Mike Rowe?

  But cinematically, it's an extraordinary moment. It's like Candid Camera without the funny part.

• 58:37Speaker 03

  Yeah, it's not funny.

• 58:38Mike Rowe?

  It's not funny.

• 58:40Speaker 03

  No.

• 58:41Mike Rowe?

  And I'm, I can't decide if I'm watching humanity at its most poignant or cowardice, at its keenest, or tragedy, because the guy is sitting there agreeing that the study is solid and that he would publish it as is.

• 59:05Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 59:06Mike Rowe?

  And he doesn't know he's being recorded.

• 59:09Speaker 03

  Right.

• 59:10Mike Rowe?

  When he says, but I'm not that guy. I don't want to lose my job, so I'm not doing it.

• 59:17Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 59:19Mike Rowe?

  What, just walk me through what that was like as a journalist and a communicator, a professional communicator.

• 59:26Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 59:27Mike Rowe?

  To be on the receiving end of that.

• 59:29Speaker 03

  You know, I keep getting asked that question and, you know, to be honest, I'm there with an agenda to get this guy to publish his damn study. And so every time, I mean, he goes through that multiple times. You can see I bring, let me try and inspire the guy. Let me threaten the guy. Let me, like, I try everything at this dinner to get him to just publish the study like you promised he would.

• 59:53Mike Rowe?

  Galileo moment.

• 59:54Speaker 03

  The Galileo moment, you could, I, I, look, I'm gonna make you a hero. Well, we're going to change the world with this. We're gonna fix the vaccine program. It needs fixing. He's like, I agree, it needs fixing, it needs change, something needs to change. But, I mean, at one point he says, I'm not a good person.

• 1:00:09Mike Rowe?

  I'm not a good guy.

• 1:00:10Speaker 03

  You know, it was like, and, and, and it's, it's, it's an amazing, you know, even, and, and, and you've done a lot of films and things. There's those moments when you're making something, when it takes on a life of its own, that you didn't really see. The truth is, as I was sitting there, I'm just thinking, damn it, I am failing. That's all, I'm not thinking about what he's saying. Frankly, I got back and said, what did we get? I don't know, did the cameras work? Did we get, what have, did I get him to say it? I didn't, all I was thinking is, I am failing to get this guy to publish a study that could save millions of children's lives. That's what I was thinking about. Is there one other way? Is there something I haven't thought, you know, to tell him?

• 1:00:54Speaker 03

  So, as I reflect on it now and watch it, I have tears in my, for many, and I don't know, it is, it's, it's an amazing study of, of a human being.

• 1:01:04Mike Rowe?

  It has nothing to do with vaccines, though.

• 1:01:06Speaker 03

  Yeah.

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• 1:01:37Mike Rowe?

  That moment in your movie is transcendent in so many way, it's just so, I'm gonna say it again, it's tragic.

• 1:01:46Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 1:01:47Mike Rowe?

  Because, in the same way that I, I think curiosity and humility are two of the three legs on the stool that hold up journalism and science, the third is courage.

• 1:02:05Mike Rowe?

  Because there are times in both of those institutions when you have to endure the slings and arrows of that's been debunked, you sellout, you traitor, you're going to be, he's not wrong to not volunteer to be burned at the stake.

• 1:02:22Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 1:02:23Mike Rowe?

  Who wants to be Joan of Arc? Who wants to be Galileo? They arrested him, they threw him in jail. They took everything he had. So my heart breaks for the guy.

• 1:02:33Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 1:02:34Mike Rowe?

  Because you did, you offered him a branch to greatness.

• 1:02:40Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 1:02:41Mike Rowe?

  And he didn't want it. But you also filmed him and didn't tell him.

• 1:02:45Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 1:02:46Mike Rowe?

  I don't know how I feel about you either.

• 1:02:47Speaker 03

  I don't either.

• 1:02:50Speaker 03

  To be honest, I'm conflicted about it.

• 1:02:52Mike Rowe?

  I.

• 1:02:53Speaker 03

  I am conflicted. It's not, to be clear, that is the only, you can look at my last 15 years in media, there's not a single other instance where I've ever, that I can think of, that I remember ever wearing, you know, a hidden camera, actually once for Dr. Phil, which was one of the first jobs I ever had a long time ago. He sent me as a homeless guy to Las Vegas to be a panhandling to see how many people would give me money. So you will find that one. It's just incredible. Let's make it up there.

• 1:03:21Mike Rowe?

  When you were doing that, I was selling the health team infrared pain reliever at 3 a.m. on the QVC cable shopping channel. So look, we all do what we do.

• 1:03:28Speaker 03

  But it's really not my journalistic style and I don't like it. I don't like it because I have a lot, in the work that I do, I work with a lot of whistleblowers. I need them to know that they're safe, that I never out of source. So in many ways, I didn't see myself in a journalistic position here. This is more a man on man, I had a bet with this guy. I challenged him. Prove me wrong. Do a study and no matter how it turns out, publish it. That is not a journalist. I'm not like doing a story. I'm asking you to do science. I'm in a different space here. So you're not living up to this challenge. And so I'm there trying to gather some evidence for something I don't know where it's going to lead to. I don't know if I'm ever going to show the world, but I know this is the last time we're ever going to have this conversation. And by the way, I hadn't seen the study yet.

• 1:04:13Speaker 03

  You see him hand me the study for the first time at that table where I actually get to look at these numbers and see these numbers and they're mind blowing. So again, I'm blown away at what I'm seeing. This is worse than you can ever imagine.

• 1:04:27Mike Rowe?

  Smoking gun you knew was out there and you were trying to get.

• 1:04:31Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 1:04:32Mike Rowe?

  And now you've got it.

• 1:04:33Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 1:04:34Mike Rowe?

  And, I mean, so even though he's not publishing it, and even though Henry Ford, it should be said, has specifically disavowed it.

• 1:04:42Speaker 03

  Yep.

• 1:04:43Mike Rowe?

  For all the reasons, you read their cease and desist on camera.

• 1:04:47Speaker 03

  Yeah. So, because that's science, right? Transparency, people like, there's people attacking the study. I'm like, good.

• 1:04:55Mike Rowe?

  Attack it.

• 1:04:56Speaker 03

  Attack it, that's what science is. I want the questions, I want to debate you on it, I want to push back. On our website, we have all the attacks that Henry Ford and other professional, you know, virologists have weighed in, the ones that have issues, there's some on our side. But we lay out what we think are the defenses to the attacks on this study. And this is, I would say, if there's one thing I'm proud of right now with this film, and you ask what it's doing, I think we've just jump-started the scientific method. I think we've just put some paddles on this thing, and there's an international debate that is now happening because of this study. There are scientists from, Peter Gutcher, one of the founders of Cochrane Collaboration, has weighed in saying, "I've seen Henry Ford's complaint,

• 1:05:40Speaker 03

  but these numbers are so astronomical, they can't be explained away by confounding issues," which you brought up, and we can get into those details if people want to know what that is. We should be questioning all of this. We should question this study, we should question the size of it, the quality of it. That's what we do in science. But then, and we should hear the rebuttals, and we should get more scientists in the room. We should have this debate. But mostly, we should do bigger studies. What we need to say now is poking holes in the issues of a retrospective study done at Henry Ford is not going to get us to figure out why our children are so sick. And if this study is correct, and if the other five studies just like it are correct, we have a serious problem, we are poisoning our children.

• 1:06:25Speaker 03

  And so, there needs to be a come to Jesus moment, a come to science moment, is what is needed right now, which is every major institution in the world says, "We're hunkering down, we're finding all of our unvaccinated kids, we're finding the vaccinated kids, we're figuring out how to balance that as best..." As we can in retrospective study and we're gonna do this study too. We are gonna see how this turns out because if we've turned a corner and for some reason, something that was totally well-intentioned was delivered by impassioned, beautiful doctors that went to school to save lives and believed they're saving lives. But if they made a mistake, don't they wanna know too? Don't we all wanna know? Because as I've said, our children are suffering.

• 1:07:08Speaker 03

  There is something drastically wrong. You know, you do work, a lot of the work you do is with animals and things. This is the, we're the only mammal on this planet that is starting to devolve. We're, we're losing the ability to live our environment. We're allergic to everything around us. We are starting, our, our immune systems are somehow, are they evolving? So they're attacking our own organs, attacking the myelin sheath on our muscles. We've got multiple sclerosis, lupus, gut and bowel diseases in children. Crohn's disease used to be Ashkenazi Jews that were over the age of 75. It's in 16-month-old infants. How? Why? And if you're like, what would be causing that? I don't know. But, but.

• 1:07:51Mike Rowe?

  I'm keen to find out.

• 1:07:52Speaker 03

  I'm keen to find out and shouldn't we? Shouldn't we, when we look at this 1990, early 90s, the, all these chemicals come into our environment, all probably be, you know, it's a toxic soup that is clearly causing a lot of this. But fluoride, PFAS, plastics, shouldn't we, when we're looking at an autoimmune disease crisis, let's call it immune dysregulation. Our immune systems have gone haywire in our children. That doesn't, there's no genetic way to explain that. We don't suddenly, our genes just start changing and suddenly our bodies, our immune systems don't work. Something's messing up our immune systems.

• 1:08:35Speaker 03

  And I'm just gonna say from a lay position, a layperson's position, of all the things we see that are toxic right now in our environment, shouldn't we look closest at the one product that we've described that is designed to alter your immune system for life? That's what a vaccine is attempting to do. It's attempting to mimic something in nature where you get an infection for five or six days, like measles. It's a Brady Bunch episode in the, you know, early 1960s with laugh tracks. Everyone in the family gets it. So I'm not of this school is deadly. I'd like to know why, you know, they put a laugh track to it back when everyone was watching TV. Nobody went crazy. Oh, my God, how did they make this deadly disease so funny? That it didn't happen.

• 1:09:17Speaker 03

  But to stick to the point, we are trying to mimic nature. And if you stop someone on the street and say, how does a vaccine work? Most people say, I don't know. They like kill a virus or they they make it less dangerous. And then they inject it into our bodies and it tricks our immune system into thinking it's had the disease. So we don't have to get sick and then we're protected for life. Okay, great, let's go with that version. So we're not just tricking our immune system one time or five times or 10 times or 20 times or 50 times or 70 times. You know, 72, going towards 100 times. We are tricking the immune systems of our children. Sometimes 10 different diseases all tricked on the same day.

• 1:09:58Speaker 03

  You know, 11 month old, 11 month old baby that just won a court case of dying from SIDS. They finally have said this baby was killed by getting 10 vaccines, 11 vaccines, I think, at the same time in 11 months. So if we're tricking that immune system 72 times, is it that shocking that our immune systems are confused and are now attacking proteins that are our own body? Not no longer not self? Remember, all it is is not self, self, not self. That's what your immune system is doing. Is this self? Is it not self? Is it self? Not self, attack it. Self, don't go near it. Now it's attacking self, self, self. Attack my pancreas, diabetes, attack my muscles, multiple sclerosis, attacking.

• 1:10:41Speaker 03

  So is it possible? Is it? Is it in the realm of possibility? Can we just? Are we allowed to ask the question? Did we do something wrong?

• 1:10:56Mike Rowe?

  If the humility, the aforementioned humility and curiosity are still guiding the ship, then yeah, we're allowed to ask. In fact, you know, it's incumbent.

• 1:11:10Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 1:11:12Mike Rowe?

  But without the courage to answer it,

• 1:11:16Mike Rowe?

  trees are falling in the forest and no one's hearing it.

• 1:11:19Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 1:11:20Mike Rowe?

  So what is your hope with this movie realistically? And given the impact it's already had, the response you've already received, what do you think it could do? And what, what looks like success to you?

• 1:11:35Speaker 03

  Success is, I live in a nation that is of, for and by the people. It's one of the, it's the greatest charter for civilization, I think, that was ever designed. It demands that we get involved with our government, that we ask for what we want. We vote for the things we believe in, we focus on the things we care about. My goal is always, because I'm in media, I'm not a politician, I'm not a lawyer. My job is to try and get as many people to recognize that their voice matters. And they need to get really loud right now with every doctor, with everyone they meet. They need to share films like this, books like Gavin's, as many out there. My attorney's got a great book, Vaccines Amen, that gets into all the work he's done suing

• 1:12:19Speaker 03

  manufacturers and the government for us. But we can only change things that we care about. And when we get to that sort of fulcrum point, that, that, that body of people that are loud enough and large enough, we still have a nation that changes course. I mean, and, and I can give the definition, you know, gay marriage. No matter what position you take on it was nowhere. It's nowhere when it's just some people complaining somewhere. But when you hit that point where enough of the population thinks, I don't think this is fair, courts start acting differently, laws start changing, things start moving. I believe we are at that fulcrum point now.

• 1:12:59Speaker 03

  I will say, Mike, I think, the position I now hold on vaccines, and this is going to be upsetting to a lot of people after I've been investigating. I don't think any journalist has investigated. This topic, certainly more than I have. I have international bodies of scientists that weigh in every week with me. I have sued government agencies. I won back the religious exemption for Mississippi so that you can go to school without being vaccinated, claiming I have a religious right. They hadn't had that since the 1970s. I'm funding the lawsuit to win that freedom back for West Virginia. I don't care about, I'm not here to eradicate vaccines from the planet. I'm here to make sure that you always have a choice.

• 1:13:40Speaker 03

  But, right now, my statement is, if you are pro-vaccine, from my perspective, you're anti-science. Because they've never done the science. They never did the placebo trials. They won't do a safety trial now telling it's unethical. And the only gold standard study that's left is a retrospective study, and every single one of them is showing us the same signal. And they're trying to deny that. That is science denial. And until someone produces science, a come-to-science moment, I just thought of that today, I love it, a come-to-science moment is demanded. And it's gotta be demanded by everyone that walks this earth right now. We are close.

• 1:14:20Speaker 03

  And, I think, deep down, I hope that this primes this conversation, because this is the study I wanted Robert Kennedy Jr. to do, once he finally got into HHS. I pray that he's able to do it. I pray that he's able to get the databases together, and get the, you know, and we talked about this when we were running. Bobby, you cannot just put people on that study that have, you know, are skeptical about vaccines. You've got to have both sides. We've got to get totally pro-vaccine scientists to sit down with those that are starting to question it, and come up with a study that would make both of them happy. That studies the vaccinated and the unvaccinated. And it has to be massive. It should be the biggest study ever done by HHS. It's the only thing I care that he achieves.

• 1:15:04Speaker 03

  I mean, the rest of it, great, you're getting chemicals out of food, you're cleaning up baby food, all of it, great, great, great. But this, we will not, I don't believe that we will get to the bottom of the chronic disease epidemic of our times if we don't take a look at this study. At least, I won't sleep, and neither will every parent of a vaccine-injured child.

• 1:15:23Mike Rowe?

  That's my point, too, in a way. And that's what I would say to the people who are so disappointed in me right now, for having you on, and for not having somebody of equal passion on the other side to smack you down. I don't do that show, really. And it's not because I think the other side's opinion hasn't been expressed. I think it's still the status quo. I think a lot of reasonable people say, don't you remember polio? Don't you remember pertosis? Don't you remember, don't, haven't you read about the iron lungs? And the, the, the, one of the, like, are you still open to the possibility that the vaccines could truly be one of the greatest breakthroughs

• 1:16:08Mike Rowe?

  and miracles in the history of modern medicine?

• 1:16:10Speaker 03

  Yes.

• 1:16:11Mike Rowe?

  Okay. Square that, then.

• 1:16:13Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 1:16:13Mike Rowe?

  How can the, I know two things can be true at the same time. But how can Doug Delbigtree, how the hell did you get that name, by the way?

• 1:16:20Speaker 03

  That's a whole other long story.

• 1:16:22Mike Rowe?

  Well, I'll land the plane there in a minute. But how, how can you say to people that you are still open to the idea that vaccines could be one of the greatest breakthroughs in the history of medicine? And at the same time, so deeply skeptical of their unintended consequences?

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• 1:17:10Speaker 03

  Because, and, and people say this, Del, why don't you say you're anti-vaccine? You know, why, and why won't Bobby make that statement? People in, in our movement, medical free, whatever, there's a lot that, you know, Del, why don't you say you're, you're anti-vaccine? Because I don't believe science has ever settled. I haven't, if I settle my science, if my science says that there is no such thing as a good vaccine, there's no way vaccines can ever work, then I am in the same, you know, entrenched position as the people I'm trying to talk to. I think most doctors and scientists have not looked closely enough at this. And I've proven that. By the Dr. Peter McCulloughs that have come on to my show. First, they thought it was just the COVID vaccine. They would say things like, but the childhood, I don't want this to hurt the childhood vaccine.

• 1:17:54Speaker 03

  And I would hand them all of my work and say, please read this. And now Dr. Peter McCullough, Dr. Pierre Corey, these are all, you know, Dr. McCullough is the most published heart doctor in the world. He is absolutely saying, he just said on my show last week. I believe the entire childhood vaccine program needs to be stopped immediately. We need to evaluate it. We, it appears we're doing more damage than we're alleviating. Dr. Paul Merrick, the most published ICU doctor in the world, same position. These aren't, these are people that, once they looked, once they finally looked at it, they're really having an issue with the same thing. There is no science. Brett Weinstein said that to me when he finally came around. He, it was one of the most chilling moments. We'd had an argument about a year earlier on, you know.

• 1:18:39Mike Rowe?

  He changed his.

• 1:18:40Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 1:18:40Mike Rowe?

  Wow.

• 1:18:41Speaker 03

  Yeah, because he said, obviously, like you, COVID was like, that's a bad vaccine. We watched, we all watched it rushed onto the market. And, you know, in this debate I had at a dinner with Brett, I said, Brett, that is the best tested vaccine we've ever seen. There's not a childhood vaccine that went up against a placebo, first of all, ever, and as long as the COVID vaccine did. So that officially, that one you think was rushed onto the market? There's no childhood vaccine that was ever tested that long, ever. He's like, that cannot possibly be true. I said, Brett, he's like, I think you're doing a disservice to this conversation by moving it into the childhood vaccine program. I said, it just happens to be the investigation I've been on for like six years, Brett, and you're way too smart now. You're going to look into this and I'm telling you, you're going to see what we've all seen.

• 1:19:25Speaker 03

  And a year later, he came up and he's already said this on my show, I'm allowed to tell this story now. He came up and said, I have to apologize. And I said, about what? I mean, I'd totally forgotten about the conversation. He's like, you were right. And what he said to me about the vaccine program, and he said something that, like, he said. Look, I wasn't a fool. I know that every product has side effects. I wasn't one of these like, there's no way vaccine injury isn't, you know, happening. And it's probably a small group and we should probably study that group. I've always been there. He says, but what I was shocked to find is that there is no science. That was, I mean, I hadn't even put it like that.

• 1:20:10Speaker 03

  I'd been at it for seven or eight years and that is the position we find ourselves in now.

• 1:20:18Mike Rowe?

  Whatever else science should ask of us.

• 1:20:22Mike Rowe?

  It's.

• 1:20:25Mike Rowe?

  It's not permitted to ask me to take a leap of faith. I'll take my leaps of faith in romance.

• 1:20:36Mike Rowe?

  You know, with the God thing. That's between me and really nobody else.

• 1:20:40Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 1:20:40Mike Rowe?

  Science is between me and everybody. And yeah, I think that, you know, I try and pay close attention to the language and the way it impacts me today versus five years ago. And just the, the way I feel now, when I hear somebody tell me the science is settled. And when I hear them cluck. And when I hear them say, oh, that's, that's been debunked. It's been debunked. Like it's been, like, there are so many ways to pat someone on the head. And there's so many ways to discourage curiosity and skepticism. Which is very different, by the way, than cynicism.

• 1:21:22Speaker 03

  Correct. And we should be careful about that.

• 1:21:25Mike Rowe?

  Yes.

• 1:21:25Speaker 03

  Yes.

• 1:21:26Mike Rowe?

  Because cynicism, nothing good comes from cynicism. But nothing bad comes from being skeptical. I don't think. It might make you somewhat disagreeable and not always fun to be around, but we just. I just feel so strongly that at the root of all of this is a willful abdication of skepticism. On the part of the institutions we rely upon most. And that is the gap into which everything has fallen. And most regular people are simply trying to figure out how skeptical they need to become.

• 1:22:02Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 1:22:02Mike Rowe?

  And in my own little ecosystem with my little nine million study that I've been conducting. Like, like for like 14 years now. They're split.

• 1:22:14Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 1:22:14Mike Rowe?

  There are a lot of people who claim to like me and pay attention to the stuff I do are disappointed in me. Because I guess they, they have come to equate the skepticism you're talking about with something conspiratorial.

• 1:22:30Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 1:22:30Mike Rowe?

  Or mystical. And that's why I'm with Gavin on this one. He's saying, look, they're pre-bunking you. It's not just debunking anymore. They're getting ahead of it and they're still making arguments based on authority and based on hierarchy. And it works in the military to a point. It works in life to a point, but you know, we are living in an unprecedented moment. At least in my life, it's unprecedented. Where we're still trying to get our heads around the fact that the white coat. And you know, all the harbingers of, of trust are tarnished. And here's the point I really wanted to make. Sorry, I was just talking until I remembered what I wanted to say.

• 1:23:14Mike Rowe?

  I want to trust the institutions again.

• 1:23:16Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 1:23:17Mike Rowe?

  I'm desperate to. I just don't think you're going to get there by going, oh, okay, so I trust them. Something like giant has to happen. They have to earn it back.

• 1:23:30Speaker 03

  I'm still waiting for an apology.

• 1:23:34Speaker 03

  Right?

• 1:23:34Mike Rowe?

  From?

• 1:23:35Speaker 03

  From every news agency that told us that, you know, the science showed that masks could stop a particle as small as coronavirus. That six-foot distancing, which is why they locked us in our homes and destroyed our children's education and kept them going from schools. And how we, standing somehow, couldn't, you know, where as dangerous had to wear a mask, but sitting in a restaurant. I mean, the whole charade is comical. If it wasn't so terrifying that we all put up with it, we all did it.

• 1:24:06Mike Rowe?

  Wash the pizza box, eat the pizza.

• 1:24:08Speaker 03

  Right. Where is the apology? We know you got that wrong. We know what you got wrong now. The science has shown it. Tony Fauci has admitted in front of the Congress. We just made this stuff up, okay? Then, every news anchor that, you know, that intimidated us, that played on our empathy. I mean, that was what was so dark about it, you know, was that it used this, if you care about your neighbor, it used biblical Christ teachings as the way we're going to force this product into you and take your freedom away from you because this is the right thing to do for you. Do you love your neighbor?

• 1:24:51Speaker 03

  Those people need to apologize.

• 1:24:54Mike Rowe?

  I don't know that it's enough, Dell. Maybe it is, maybe it's a start. But I'm thinking more like the scene in Game of Thrones. You know, the Walk of Shame?

• 1:25:03Speaker 03

  Shame, shame, shame. Because, look, you're right. It was a colossal manipulation. And they didn't do it by begging you to take care of yourself. They did it by begging you to take care of your loved ones or your neighbor or a stranger. It's the right thing to do. So, again, a lot of people listening, they're going, we didn't know. We erred on the side of this.

• 1:25:36Mike Rowe?

  Okay. You erred on the side of that. What do you do when you err? What do you do when you accidentally keep kids out of school for two years? What do you do? Do you say, "Sorry, moving on"?

• 1:25:49Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 1:25:49Mike Rowe?

  You can try it. But what I'm saying is, I don't think we're moving on.

• 1:25:54Speaker 03

  No. No, this is, and, you know, for, for the issue I've been on, COVID was, it was a horror experience. But, you know, I was charging Gates. I, you know, I've been looking at this. There is no science. I've sued the government. They can't give me the science. I've had top scientists under oath, you know, with Aaron Seri admitting, "I have no, I have no evidence that D-TAP vaccine doesn't cause autism, even though the CDC website says it doesn't." How? We've sued. Hand us that evidence. Just like we say, I say this to every New York Times, you know, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, they, every, they're at these events I go to. They write horrible articles about me that looks even worse than my Wikipedia. But I say to them, "Look, you're still here.

• 1:26:38Speaker 03

  You'll still come to my speeches, and I appreciate that. You're listening." I'm amazed at how stalwart you are, though, in your position, because I keep seeing you write that the experts say Robert Kennedy Jr.'s wrong when he says there's never been a placebo-based trial of any of the childhood vaccines. And I keep saying to you, "Why do you keep writing what experts say?" I thought we were past that after COVID. We now know experts can lie or can be wrong, certainly. It looks a lot like lying, but let's just call it wrong. And I've said to you, "Hand me a placebo-based trial of any of the childhood vaccines." You're the New York Times, the Washington Post. When did your job become quoting experts? I feel like Woodward and Bernstein, you know, in the modern day, would just call Richard Nixon, "Hey, did you tap the phones at Watergate?" "No, I didn't. I would never do something." "Well, the experts have said it didn't happen.

• 1:27:23Speaker 03

  We're moving on." Is that what reporting's become? You know? It's outrageous.

• 1:27:30Mike Rowe?

  Oh my god.

• 1:27:31Speaker 03

  Where's your evidence? And this is what I'm demanding people, of the 50% right now of your audience that are really upset, we just want to see the evidence. Ask your doctor to show you a placebo-based trial. In fact, I'll make it easier for them. I'll show you what they rely upon. You can type in FDA-licensed vaccines right now on your computer, and it'll bring up all the vaccines you're about to give your kid, or yourself. And then you can click on it, and it'll say "package insert" will be one of the options. Open up that package insert. That's the warning label, just like your drugs get, that you never see that your vaccines are getting. Read the ingredients. Ask yourself if you want hamster kidney proteins injected in your body, or how about aborted fetal DNA? Of dead babies being injected into your children. Some people have a problem with that.

• 1:28:15Speaker 03

  They should be allowed to opt out of injecting dead baby protein into their own children. Mercury, formaldehyde, polysorbitate 80. As Gavin so brilliantly put, it's like Macbeth. You know, eye of newt and, you know...

• 1:28:29Mike Rowe?

  Bubble bubble.

• 1:28:29Speaker 03

  You know, toe of frog. Like, wow, that's... Vaccines are just as disgusting.

• 1:28:34Mike Rowe?

  So many people have said, "It's not mercury, Mike, it's ethyl mercury." Totally different thing.

• 1:28:38Speaker 03

  Right.

• 1:28:39Mike Rowe?

  Is it totally different?

• 1:28:40Speaker 03

  Right. It's not plutonium, it's ethyl plutonium. You know, like, as though that would matter. It's the second most toxic substance on earth. Why would I want it in my babies? Why would we want it? We can't think of any other ingredient to put there, it makes no sense, but...

• 1:28:54Mike Rowe?

  Adjunct? Adjunct, what do they call it?

• 1:28:56Speaker 03

  Adjuvant.

• 1:28:56Mike Rowe?

  Adjuvant.

• 1:28:57Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 1:28:57Mike Rowe?

  Is that the answer? Is that the...

• 1:29:00Speaker 03

  I think, look, I've talked to so many experts that have,

• 1:29:06Speaker 03

  you know, dove deep into this. And, you know, mercury, they say it's a preservative. They say it's not an adjuvant. Aluminum, an adjuvant. So people know what that means, just very quickly. A vaccine, let's say you have a virus or a bacteria you're injecting in the arm. In our infinite wisdom, your entire alarm system for your immune system is in your nasal passages, your mucosal, your throat, and then into your lungs. This is where you have to breathe in a bacteria or a virus for your immune system to act. You don't have, like, if you believe in God, you weren't designed this way, or if you believe in evolution... We've never gotten a virus through our arm. So it doesn't know to react. It doesn't know how to inspire the immune system. So you're gonna inject something and it's just gonna go through your body, start running rampant. Your body's not gonna fight it. So I don't know why we started here, but we did.

• 1:29:50Speaker 03

  So what we've done is say, you know what? If we add a neurotoxin, we've been bit by snakes. You know, our body does know to fight off a neurotoxin. So let's add a neurotoxin like aluminum to the vaccine. Create a massive allergic reaction here. Then our immune system goes, holy cow, there's a virus in my arm. Let's go get it.

• 1:30:10Mike Rowe?

  Not self.

• 1:30:11Speaker 03

  Not self. And go and attack it. And, and so that's, you know, that aluminum. I mean, and I think one of the hypotheses that we're carrying on the peanut allergies and the food allergies is this aluminum is inciting your body to see the protein inside of the vaccine as the enemy. It's inciting an allergic reaction. Aluminum, you know that when they wanna test allergies? They give rats aluminum. They put egg in them. They want them to have an egg allergy. They put egg into the, the rat and then they give them aluminum and it turns that egg into an allergy. That's aluminum's brilliant at it. So where in science did we not think? Forget about the protein that's just in it. What about every other protein that's in your body at the moment you took that vaccine?

• 1:30:55Speaker 03

  What if your kid just ate some peanuts? What if they had peanut butter? What if they still have eggs in their stomach? And now you just injected aluminum and told the body, all proteins are your enemy. Is that why we have allergies? It's a hypothesis. It needs to be challenged, but it's an important question and it's a study. Never been done. Why? No study ever gave one group aluminum and another group a placebo. Cause I mean, first of all, that'd be illegal to do that study. You cannot inject people with a neurotoxin on purpose. That is no benefit.

• 1:31:26Mike Rowe?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah. Lawyers would love it.

• 1:31:28Speaker 03

  We could go on and on. It's absurd, but to the 50% of your audience, we should see evidence, not big loud statements by medicine. This is ridiculous, Bobby's crazy, Dell's crazy. They're wrong. We've done the studies. We've done the studies. Show us the studies. Show them now. We know how to read them. Put them on the front page of the New York Times. Hey, Robert Kennedy Jr., here are the 16 placebo trials that were done over the years. Maybe it wasn't the current one, but the original version of the vaccine before there ever was one, when we could have done a placebo study and it would have been ethical. We did it. Here it is. Front page of New York Times. We're waiting. We've been waiting.

• 1:32:10Mike Rowe?

  I don't want you to miss your plane. Two quick things.

• 1:32:12Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 1:32:13Mike Rowe?

  Gavin said, when somebody tells you it's been debunked,

• 1:32:19Mike Rowe?

  ask them by whom.

• 1:32:22Mike Rowe?

  And wait. And say, look, if it's been debunked, I apologize, I didn't know it was debunked. But since you've told me it's debunked, show me by whom and when.

• 1:32:32Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 1:32:32Mike Rowe?

  And oftentimes that will, that will end it. The second thing is just a passing comment on your film. An Inconvenient Study, which you can see for free at aninconveniencedstudy.com. There's such a small passing poignant moment. You mentioned Peter McCullough.

• 1:32:51Mike Rowe?

  And we meet him in the movie and we hear from him throughout. And then you're back to Zarb. And he just says, look, man, I don't, I don't, I don't want to lose my job. I don't want to lose my reputation. I don't want to wind up like Peter McCullough. And then you cut to Peter McCullough.

• 1:33:07Speaker 03

  Watching that video.

• 1:33:08Mike Rowe?

  Watching the video. And the look on his face. It's just back to the, to the Grecian part of this thing, man. You're, you know what? I wasn't going to say this because it only occurred to me now, but this is where we land the plane. Your film is a Greek tragedy.

• 1:33:26Mike Rowe?

  It's filled with the hero's journey. It's filled with pathos. It's filled with peripetia. It's filled with hubris and cowardice and courage and curiosity and hope. And it's making people angry. So I guess, Bell.

• 1:33:49Speaker 03

  Mission accomplished.

• 1:33:50Mike Rowe?

  I guess, I guess if you're taking flak, you know you're over the target.

• 1:33:55Speaker 03

  That's it.

• 1:33:55Mike Rowe?

  Next time, would you explain Big Tree?

• 1:33:59Speaker 03

  Sure. Mom, my mom's Mohawk from upstate New York.

• 1:34:03Mike Rowe?

  Oh.

• 1:34:03Speaker 03

  Parents still married. I was gonna be in theater. I like Big Tree as a last name. I think it actually suits me because I think, deep down, I feel like I'm a warrior. I wish Zervos was. I wish there was people in science, the McCullivs, those are our real warriors. They're standing up against the most powerful industry in the world is pharma. It owns everything. It owns, it owns the governments of the world. It owns the WHO. It owns our television sets. Seventy percent of our advertising is pharma. It's paying for your show. It's paying for, you know, anyone that's on television.

• 1:34:36Mike Rowe?

  Not this episode.

• 1:34:37Speaker 03

  It's paying for the news anchors. Not this episode. And we'll see how this does online.

• 1:34:41Mike Rowe?

  Yeah, yeah.

• 1:34:42Speaker 03

  And you'll find out it's paying for the internet too.

• 1:34:44Mike Rowe?

  I'll find out. Oh, God, Bell, well, look, who knows what mischief you've put in motion? But I truly appreciate your time. And again, to the people who see it another way, the podcast is called The Way I Heard It. It's the way he heard it.

• 1:34:58Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 1:34:58Mike Rowe?

  Maybe you heard it different, but in the end, the evidence will demand a verdict. Thanks.

• 1:35:04Speaker 03

  Thank you.

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