Peter A. McCullough

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Peter A. McCullough
Born
Peter Andrew McCullough

(1962-12-29) December 29, 1962 (age 61)
MPH)
Academic work
DisciplineMedicine
Sub-disciplineCardiology
Internal medicine

Peter Andrew McCullough (

mRNA vaccines.[4][5][6]

Early life and education

Peter Andrew McCullough was born in

Master of Public Health (MPH) degree in 1994.[7][9]

Career

After receiving his MPH, McCullough was a cardiovascular fellow at

misinformation about COVID-19, Baylor sued McCullough to prevent him falsely claiming any current association with Baylor Health.[10][11][5] On January 17, 2023, the 191st Judicial District Court of Dallas County, Texas dismissed the case. While details were not disclosed, according to The Texan, "[v]oluntary dismissal of claims with prejudice are usually entered after a settlement agreement has been reached."[12]

McCullough is a founder and (as of 2021) president of the (now defunct[13]) Cardio Renal Society of America[9][14] and co-editor-in-chief of Cardiorenal Medicine, the society's journal,[citation needed] and also editor of Reviews in Cardiovascular Medicine.[15][16] He has conducted several studies on running and heart disease,[17] and co-described the term Phidippides cardiomyopathy, a heart condition found in some high endurance athletes.[18][19][20] McCullough's other research projects have included the relationship between heart disease and kidney disease and risk factors for heart disease.[21][22] He is a member of the conservative advocacy group Association of American Physicians and Surgeons and has advocated for conspiracy theories promoted by the group.[23][3][24]

COVID-19

During the COVID-19 pandemic, McCullough advocated for early treatment using the discredited treatments hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin,[25][26][24] criticized the response of the National Institutes of Health and the Food and Drug Administration,[25] dissented from public health recommendations,[27][24][28] and contributed to COVID-19 misinformation.[29][30][31]

Early advocacy for hydroxychloroquine

In April 2020, McCullough led a study of the medication

emergency use authorization (EUA), McCullough supported a second EUA.[25]

In August 2020, McCullough, Harvey Risch of the

American Journal of Medicine.[34] Based on previous evidence, the article made recommendations for treating ambulatory COVID-19 patients, but presented no new evidence. The article was shared on social media, mainly by groups which had previously published COVID-19 misinformation, in posts falsely interpreting the publication as an official endorsement by the journal itself of hydroxychloroquine as a treatment for COVID-19.[35][36][37] The Ministry of Health of Brazil endorsed the article on its website, contributing to a severe COVID-19 misinformation problem in Brazil.[35][38][39] The article was criticized in letters to the editors;[40][41][42][43][44] the editors responded that the article included some "hopeful speculations ... What seemed reasonable last summer based on laboratory experiments has subsequently been shown to be untrue".[36][39]

McCullough and Risch were two of three witnesses called by committee chair Senator Ron Johnson to testify before a United States Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs hearing on COVID-19 treatments held in November 2020. McCullough testified in support of social distancing, vaccination, and controversial treatments, including hydroxychloroquine. Ashish Jha, dean of the Brown University School of Public Health, called to testify by the ranking member, said the "clear consensus in the medical and scientific community, based on overwhelming evidence" is that hydroxychloroquine is ineffective as a treatment for COVID-19. McCullough said Jha was promoting misinformation and Jha's opposition to the drug was "reckless and dangerous for the nation".[26][45][46][47] Jha responded on The New York Times opinion page, "By elevating witnesses who sound smart but endorse unfounded therapies, we risk jeopardizing a century's work of medical progress."[48]

COVID-19 misinformation

Some of McCullough's public statements contributed to the spread of COVID-19 misinformation.[4][5]

McCullough testified before a committee of the

asymptomatic spread of COVID-19.[29]

Posted on the Canadian online video sharing platform

Rumble, McCullough gave an interview in April 2021 to The New American, the magazine of the right-wing John Birch Society, in which he advanced anti-vaccination messaging, including falsely claiming huge numbers of fatalities attributed to the COVID-19 vaccines.[24] In May 2021, McCullough gave an interview in which he made claims about COVID-19 and COVID-19 vaccines which were "inaccurate, misleading and/or unsupported by evidence", including that survivors cannot be re-infected and so do not require vaccination and that the vaccines are dangerous.[30]

During television appearances, McCullough has contradicted public health recommendations, including when asked about the aggressive spread of COVID-19 among children, by suggesting that healthy persons under 30 had no need for a vaccine,

Joe Rogan Experience promoting debunked conspiracy theories and misinformation (e.g. the COVID-19 pandemic was planned, the spike protein causes cell death, medical authorities are conspiring to illegitimately suppress hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin).[27][28][52]

McCullough has served as Chief Scientific Officer for The Wellness Company, a Florida-based dietary supplement and telehealth company, since its founding in June 2022.[53][54]

In October 2022, the

misinformation about COVID-19 vaccines.[55]

Selected publications

References

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  3. ^ a b Rutherford, Fiona (April 1, 2021). "Trump-Touted Drug Lives On as Covid Therapy Despite Trial Flops". Bloomberg News.
  4. ^ a b c McDonald, Jessica (July 30, 2021). "Vaccines Remain Largely Effective Against Delta Variant, Counter to Claims From Fox News Guest". FactCheck.org. Annenberg Public Policy Center. But that's not the message Fox News guest Dr. Peter McCullough has been spreading. In a July 13 interview on "The Ingraham Angle," the private practice internist played down the risks of the delta variant and falsely said there was "no clinical reason to go get vaccinated."...McCullough, who has previously been a source of COVID-19 misinformation, including about vaccines...
  5. ^ a b c D'Ambrosio, Amanda (August 6, 2021). "Lawsuit: Doc Using Old Baylor Affiliation While Dishing COVID Vax Falsehoods". MedPage Today. In several media interviews, McCullough has spread misinformation about COVID-19 vaccines and treatments.
  6. ^ "US cardiologist makes misleading claims about Malaysia's Covid-19 vaccine drive". AFP. November 15, 2021. Retrieved December 14, 2021.
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  10. ^ "Baylor health sues COVID-19 vaccine skeptic and demands Dallas doctor stop using its name". The Dallas Morning News. July 30, 2021.
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  12. ^ Roberts, Kim (February 2, 2023). "Lawsuit Against Dr. Peter McCullough by Baylor Scott & White Dismissed". The Texan. Retrieved March 21, 2023.
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  14. ^ "Board of Directors". Cardio Renal Society of America. Archived from the original on July 25, 2021. Retrieved July 25, 2021.
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  26. ^ a b Iati, Marisa (November 20, 2020). "Senate holds hearing on hydroxychloroquine, despite no evidence it works against covid-19". The Washington Post.
  27. ^ a b "Joe Rogan interview with Peter McCullough contains multiple false and unsubstantiated claims about the COVID-19 pandemic and vaccines". Health Feedback. December 23, 2021. Retrieved November 26, 2022.
  28. ^ a b Sharp, Rachel (December 17, 2021). "Joe Rogan podcast hosts doctor known for pushing debunked claims about Covid-19". The Independent. Retrieved November 26, 2022.
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  30. ^ a b Teoh, Flora, ed. (June 4, 2021). "Vaccines are a safer alternative for acquiring immunity compared to natural infection and COVID-19 survivors benefit from getting vaccinated, contrary to claims by Peter McCullough". Health Feedback.
  31. ^ a b Ecarma, Caleb (July 8, 2021). "The Right-Wing Vaccine Rebellion Has Arrived on Campus". Vanity Fair. One Fox News medical expert, Peter McCullough, M.D., went so far as to steal the Joe Rogan argument, asserting on Wednesday that no college-age person in America should receive the COVID-19 vaccine. "Overall, the equation is very unfavorable for vaccination of anyone below age 30," he said during an appearance on Laura Ingraham's program Wednesday night. "Unless we really have a compelling case, no one under age 30 should receive any one of these vaccines."
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    . Retrieved January 2, 2022. Preliminary research justifies deploying the drugs to treat mild coronavirus patients, before they require hospitalization, said Peter McCullough, a cardiologist at Baylor Scott & White Health in Dallas, which is studying hydroxychloroquine as a prophylactic in health-care workers. "We have to make some decisions now," he said.
  33. ISSN 0099-9660
    . Retrieved January 2, 2022. Companies and researchers are also wrestling with how to balance testing experimental medicines as quickly as possible without sacrificing scientific rigor in clinical trials. For some studies, that means departing from the best standard for assessing a drug's safety and efficacy: measuring how one group of patients getting the drug fares against a control group receiving either the standard therapy or a placebo. A seven-week trial evaluating hydroxychloroquine as a prophylactic didn't wait the typical two months to manufacture a placebo in order to investigate as quickly as possible the antimalarial's safety and efficacy, said Peter McCullough, a cardiologist who is leading the trial at the Baylor Scott & White Health in Dallas. Instead, subjects who get the drug aren't randomly selected, and the normal control group will receive standard treatment, Dr. McCullough said.
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  35. ^ a b "Fact Check: The American Journal of Medicine has not endorsed hydroxychloroquine to treat COVID-19". Reuters. March 2, 2021.
  36. ^ a b Carballo-Carbajal, Iria, ed. (February 3, 2021). "The American Journal of Medicine didn't recommend hydroxychloroquine as a treatment for COVID-19; scientific evidence doesn't show hydroxychloroquine is effective against COVID-19". Health Feedback.
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    . McCullough et al propose a treatment algorithm for early outpatient treatment of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), which is not supported by evidence.
  41. PMID 33888223
    . We suggest caution in relying on low-dose aspirin as chemoprophylaxis or treatment for immunothrombosis in COVID-19, especially in patients who are obese or elderly.
  42. PMID 33962707
    . Studies based only on pathophysiology are not adequate to prove the benefit of drug intervention...it is essential to follow the best scientific evidence and the principles of bioethics.
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    . ...the article ... has many important drawbacks.
  44. Wikidata Q107652835
    . ...we disagree with both the specific assertion that hydroxychloroquine should be used for early outpatient treatment based on its biological plausibility, and the broader philosophical point that in the absence of trials for a specific population, we should defer to mechanistic reasoning rather than extrapolating from the results of existing trials.
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  46. ^ Johnson, Ron R.; Peters, Gary C.; McCullough, Peter A.; Risch, Harvey; Fareed, George C.; Jha, Ashish K. (November 19, 2020). Early Outpatient Treatment: An Essential Part of a COVID-19 Solution (meeting and video conference) (video). Dirksen Senate Office Building, Washington, D.C.: United States Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
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  50. ^ Blake, Aaron (July 19, 2021). "Vaccine doubters' strange fixation with Israel". The Washington Post. A cardiologist on Fox News pointed to Israel's data while claiming "the delta variant really is not ... protected at all by the vaccines," and said, "There is no reason right now — no clinical reason to go get vaccinated."
  51. ^ Woodward, Alex (July 20, 2021). "Fox News hosts railed against 'vaccine passports' – the company requires one to return to work without a mask". The Independent. Archived from the original on May 25, 2022. A programme hosted by Laura Ingraham – who recently hosted a guest who falsely claimed that there is "no clinical reason to go get vaccinated"
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  53. ^ Butler, Kiera (March 7, 2023). "The company offering free health care to East Palestine? It's a right-wing, anti-vax project". Mother Jones. Archived from the original on September 14, 2023. Retrieved September 14, 2023.
  54. ^ Jarry, Jonathan (March 10, 2023). "Dr. Peter McCullough's Libertarian Medical Train Makes a Pit Stop in East Palestine". McGill University Office for Science and Society. Archived from the original on September 14, 2023. Retrieved September 14, 2023.
  55. ^ Carballo-Carbajal, Iria (July 31, 2023). "Flawed preprint based on autopsies inadequate to demonstrate that COVID-19 vaccines caused 74% of those deaths". Health Feedback. Retrieved August 11, 2023.

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