Episode 40: The Corruption of Academic Medicine

Steve speaks with Investigative Filmmaker Phil Harper & Dr. Meryl Nass, M.D., ABIM. Harper is a BAFTA award-winning immersive documentary producer and director with the compelling investigative Substack, "The Digger". He is currently producing "The Research Cartel," a documentary on the pharmaceutical industry's profiteering throughout the pandemic and its capture of academic scientific research, casting doubt on many research findings.

Dr. Nass is an internist with special interests in vaccine-induced illnesses, chronic fatigue syndrome, Gulf War illness, fibromyalgia, and toxicology. As a biological warfare epidemiologist, she investigated world's largest anthrax epizootic in Zimbabwe, and developed a model for analyzing epidemics to assess whether they are natural or man-made. An anthrax expert, Nass has reviewed government-sponsored anthrax research in the context of the Biological Weapons Convention, used anthrax as a model for discussion of how to prevent biological warfare, reviewed anthrax vaccines and their role in biological warfare prophylaxis and played a central role in educating service members, Congress and the public about anthrax and the science underlying anthrax vaccine use, as well as other methods of responding to the anthrax threat.