So What's Up With Joe Rogan And GETTR Vs. Twitter? Oh, and Who The Heck is Dr. Robert Malone and Why Was He Banned From Twitter?

So I rarely look at two things. 1. The news. I know this sounds weird for a guy who maintains a newsletter and podcast but it's true. From day to day I rarely know the headlines. 2. Twitter. I just think Twitter is a dumpster fire.

I've tried to be active on it to gain attention to the podcast and my articles, but every time I wander into the Twitter-verse I come out needing a drink (which I never have anymore) and needing a shower from all the verbal sh** being flung all over the place. I really hate the platform. That’s not fair. I love the platform. I hate what some people use it for.

Well, this week something odd happened. A headline popped up somewhere that involved Twitter, some app I'd never heard of called GETTR run by a guy I sort of know from my political past (Jason Miller), Joe Rogan and COVID. Shweew! That's a lot.

Even someone trying to stay out of the Twitter-nado and current events can get slapped upside the head everyone and then.

Then something really odd happened. Mrs. Wright got in the car and asked to listen to the Joe Rogan podcast. I was completely thrown by this.

"Universe, what the hell are you doing to me?"

Mrs. Wright has absolutely no interest in politics, Joe Rogan or anything of the like. Yet here she was wanting to listen to the king of podcasting. Wow! I thought to myself, "Good Lord there are no limits to Joe Rogan's reach if he's got Mrs. Wright interested."

She said she wanted to hear the episode with "that doctor." I immediately thought she was referring to the now infamous interview with CNN Chief Medical Correspondent Sanjay Gupta.

I was wrong. She was instead referring to Rogan’s interview with Dr. Robert Malone. Until this moment I had not heard of Dr. Malone, and I like to think I’m on top of this stuff. Thanks, Mrs. Wright.

So who is Dr. Robert Malone? Well, here’s his C/v from his website:

I am an internationally recognized scientist/physician and the original inventor of mRNA vaccination as a technology, DNA vaccination, and multiple non-viral DNA and RNA/mRNA platform delivery technologies. I hold numerous fundamental domestic and foreign patents in the fields of gene delivery, delivery formulations, and vaccines: including for fundamental DNA and RNA/mRNA vaccine technologies.

I have approximately 100 scientific publications with over 12,000 citations of my work (per Google Scholar with an “outstanding” impact factor rating). I have been an invited speaker at over 50 conferences, have chaired numerous conferences and I have sat on or served as chairperson on HHS and DoD committees.  I currently sit as a non-voting member on the NIH ACTIV committee, which is tasked with managing clinical research for a variety of drug and antibody treatments for COVID-19.

I received my medical degree from the Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine. I completed the Harvard Medical School fellowship as a global clinical research scholar in 2016 and was scientifically trained at the University of California at Davis, the University of California at San Diego, and at the Salk Institute Molecular Biology and Virology laboratories.  I have served as an assistant and associate professor of pathology and surgery at the University of California at Davis, the University of Maryland, and the Armed Forces University of the Health Sciences.  For many years, my wife and I have built and run a consultancy and analytics firm specializing in biotechnology and clinical trials development.

My partner in all of this is Jill Glasspool Malone, PhD.  She likes to stay behind the scenes, but you can be assured that in almost all of my professional endeavors, she has been and will be involved.  She also is well published and has an extensive CV.  We have been together since high school (over 45 years) and have been married for 42 of those. We live on a horse farm in Virginia, which has become our own personal “Galt’s Gulch”.  An idea that we embrace and build upon.  Having an intentional community is one of the tenets of how we live.

So, what has brought me to the point of daily podcasts, interviews, op-eds, advocacy with legislators and building a twitter feed of almost a half million people? It started with my own experiences and concerns regarding the safety and bioethics of how the COVID-19 genetic vaccines were developed and forced upon the world, and then then expanded as I discovered the many short-cuts, database issues, obfuscation and frankly, lies told in the development of the Spike protein-based genetic vaccines for SARS-CoV-2. Personal experiences involving identifying, developing, and trying to publish peer-reviewed academic papers focused on drug repurposing and the rights of physicians to practice medicine as well as what I have seen close colleagues go through have further influenced me. Finally, as unethical mandates for administering experimental vaccines to adults and children began to be pushed by governments, my research into what I believe is authoritarian control by governments that are being manipulated by large corporations (big finance, big pharmaceutical, big media and big technology) influenced my changing world view.

Now, I have always been taught and believed that vaccines must be developed in conjunction with life saving treatments for an emerging infectious disease or a pandemic.  I am a vaccinologist.  I invented the core mRNA vaccine technology platform.  I have spent much of my career working on vaccine development.  I have also had extensive experience in drug repurposing for infectious disease outbreaks. I am not an antivaxxer in any way, shape or form.  But I do believe that the short cuts that the USG have taken in bringing the mRNA and the adenovirus vaccines to market for this pandemic have been detrimental and contrary to globally accepted standards for developing and regulating safe and effective licensed products.

I have now done hundreds of podcasts and interviews. I am a regular guest on many shows and have written many editorials that have been published in mainstream newspapers.  Along with many other physicians and scientists advocating early treatment, I have toured globally to help educate physicians and the public about early treatment options while also opposing the unethical mandates.

I used to believe that the FDA, NIH, and CDC were working for the people, not big pharma. I thought that if we could just re-purpose already known, safe drugs for emerging infectious diseases, we could quickly find ways to reduce the death rate.  I thought that drug and vaccine development were regulated by the Federal government for the common good.  What I have learned over the last two years is that regulatory capture of the federal government has warped and shaped the work of Congress and Federal agencies to such an extent that they no longer represent what is in the best interests of the nation, the world, and humanity.  The more I have expressed data-based concerns about what is happening with the vaccines, the US Federal and WHO responses, the more I have been censored, defamed, and subjected to various forms of character assassination by big tech and legacy media. I am not alone in being targeted. Mainstream media has attacked and censored me and other prominent physicians/scientists who do not recite the governmental narrative.  This has been developed into a standard process and deployed worldwide as a technique for suppressing physician dissent – quite literally hunting physicians deemed guilty of thoughtcrimes (such as questioning vaccine safety and effectiveness) or of the “sin” of treating patients with lifesaving drugs in an outpatient setting.

What is happening is not right, it is not proper and it is not fair.
So, let get down to fixing it.

So there you have it. He’s not exactly some whack job. Yet, his opinion is no longer allowed on Twitter? Why? Why is this happening?

I’m not here to give some sort of conspiracy theories of why this is going on although I could let my mind run pretty wild. Having a relatively solid knowledge of world history will do that.

The reason I’m brining this up is because I don’t like the way this topic is affecting me. I don’t mean “affecting me” like it is so many others. I’m not fearful. I’m also not naive. I know the risks to all our health. I understand why people are taking the positions they are.

I’m just wondering why for the first time in my adult life people are hating each other for having differing opinions. I’m also wondering why data is being so ignored. All of this has compounded into me getting pissed. I don’t like that. I want to be better than someone who gets pissed.

I think the thing that finally woke me from my self induced coma on some of this is they way children are being treated, impacted and frankly-used. There are some studies showing kids under the age of 12 who have endured the COVID era are showing a 20 percent gap in IQ scores. That is bananas.

Next, I don’t like to see my family or anyone be judged as an immoral or unclean person because they make certain choices in managing their health. I hate seeing people automatically cast into a certain tribe simply because they ask questions.

Science used to be based on asking big, hard, sometimes controversial questions. Now the mere asking can get you cast amungst the lepers. This is scary as hell.

I’m reading a book called “How to Have Impossible Conversations” right now, and it is excellent. I recommend it to anyone wanting to be a part of the solution for getting us back to a place of civil discourse and understanding.

Until we get there, I urge you to support me in my effort to be better. The best way you can do this is to be bold enough to ask questions yourself and don’t judge others by the questions they ask. If I myself veer from this feel free to call me out.

Here is a link to Rogan’s interview with Malone. I think it is extremely telling about what’s happening in our scientific community and frankly it should worry any thinking person.

Finally, remember what Voltaire said,

“One should judge a man by his questions rather than his answers. In science, the questions we ask can be more important than the answers we obtain, and often pave the way for the answers we need.”

Please help foster a society where these questions can still be asked.