Doubting mainstream medicine, COVID patients find dangerous advice and pills online featuring Dr. David Gorski
July 29, 2022
When Laurie’s mother, Stephanie, fell sick with COVID-19 last fall, she refused to get tested. Instead, Stephanie got swept up in a world of conspiracy theories online that touted alternatives to proven treatments. “I don’t believe she was supposed to die,” Laurie says. “I blame the misinformation.”
“The non-fraudulent non-messed up clinical trials are all pretty uniformly negative,” says David Gorski, M.D., a cancer surgeon and researcher at the Wayne State University School of Medicine in Michigan.
For years before COVID, Gorski tracked doctors who offered alternative cures for cancers. And he sees plenty of parallels between those physicians and doctors like Pierre Kory.
“A lot of these doctors fit the mold of what I used to call back in the day ‘the brave maverick doctor,'” he says.
Gorski says that they play up their persecution by the system, offer scant evidence for their treatments, and deride effective therapies while promoting their own cures. In Kory’s case, he offers personal consultations to sick COVID patients — for $400.
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