Your YouTube channel has now been terminated
A core goal of my work has been to preserve the words of our current Medical Establishment. While accurately remembering the past is valuable in its own right, we need to remember their prior pronouncements to judge their current credibility, even if they don’t want us to do that. A doctor who fluffed RFK Jr. or spread blatant disinformation about a deadly virus is unlikely to be trustworthy about anything.
To that end, I started a YouTube channel last year, which served as a repository of what our current Medical Establishment said. I had accumulated about 350 videos, almost all of which were short clips of famous doctors saying absurd things- that herd immunity had arrived in the spring of 2021 and that RFK Jr. was an honest broker about vaccines, for example. I appeared in just a handful of the videos, as a small face offering commentary in the corner, though I hadn’t made a new video all year. I never promoted the channel and made no money from it.
Although I was a YouTube nobody, my collection was extremely valuable, at least to me. I shared videos in almost all my articles here and I played them often on my podcast. I used them to make important points, and as much as possible, I want people to speak for themselves. It’s the best way to be fair to the doctors I critique, and no one could argue with my videos. They were the definition of indisputable evidence. Collectively they revealed how credentialed, but sheltered doctors spread misinformation to emotionally manipulate people and numb them to grave risks.
And now, they are all gone.
I recently received the following email.
Censorship is bad, especially when the censor is WRONG
Have I been censored and silenced by a powerful government official? It sure feels that way to me, and censorship is bad, especially when the censor is WRONG.
To be clear, the loss of my YouTube channel is a trivial thing, and I promise not to make it the center of my identify. I won’t make a Supreme Court case out of it or record lengthy videos about it- Prasad’s Lecture is Cancelled from ACCP Conference b/c Online Haters. I won’t sit down for self-pitying interviews with Bari Weiss, the Wall Street Journal, and Reason Magazine. I’ve been censored before, and I am not dramatic about such things. After all, my YouTube channel had 256 subscribers and its videos were typically seen by dozens of people, DOZENS! Its loss is a speck of dust compared to what RFK Jr. is destroying, and on one level, it both really funny and pathetic that Dr. Prasad would care so much about it.
On another level, it’s not funny at all. It’s no secret that the administration in which Dr. Prasad proudly serves- Vinay was not anti-Trump– is censoring scientists and dissident voices. The termination of my channel is a small part of that process, and so it’s OK to be clear about what seems to have happened here. From his podcast Gmail account, Dr. Prasad filed a formal complaint that video clips he had posted to Twitter had been uploaded to YouTube. YouTube agreed and killed my channel. Dr. Prasad was not bothered by someone sharing his videos on principle. For years, he’s been happy to let anti-vaxx disinformation accounts share countless clips of his vulgar revenge fantasies. Dr. Prasad only objected when I, someone who exposed his disinformation, sought to preserve and share these exact same videos. Dr. Prasad wanted his own words hidden from you, SBM readers.
As a reminder, Dr. Prasad is a key leader of the FDA. He is the Medical Establishment. It’s his job to be open and transparent with the citizens he serves. And though he refuses to answer questions from journalists and skip meetings with the industry he regulates, he has enough free time to seek out and erase his videos from a barely visible YouTube channel.
I believe that Dr. Prasad’s past words are a vital guide to his current credibility. It’s important for the public to know that he treated mere abnormal lab values after vaccination as a fate worse than death from COVID, for example. That is one of the reasons he is banning COVID vaccines today. We have every right to remember what key members of our Medical Establishment said when COVID raged and RFK Jr. loomed.
Dr. Prasad rejects this, however, and now, hundreds of such examples have been erased from my channel, including multiple videos of him and others speaking in their official government capacity. I put many hours of effort into the videos I narrated. Those are gone forever. Many of the links/references in my writing are now duds, and instead of informative videos, my prior articles are now filled with this ugly image.
Dr. Prasad’s is to blame for this. Rather than engage in professional “dialogue between scientists“, as he demanded of his predecessors, Dr. Prasad was so desperate to silence his own voice, he chose to vandalize my work.
However, where there is loss there is opportunity. Already Dr. Prasad’s attempt to silence me has brought more attention to my YouTube channel than it ever received previously- see Stephanie Kirchgaessner’s article Top FDA Official Demands Removal of YouTube Videos of Himself That Criticized Covid Vaccines. I am happy use the Streisand effect to try to draw some attention to some of my writing, past and present. Who wouldn’t want to read the work of a censored, dissident like me?
Unlike Dr. Prasad, I have no problem with anyone sharing my work. Feel free! Much of it merely collects and curates what Dr. Prasad said the past 5 years, including in the erased videos. None of this is lost, and I think it’s very important that we don’t forget it. And even though my YouTube channel (RIP, 2024-2025) was assassinated by my own government, there are many ways to remind the world of what he said. I’ve already created another YouTube channel, and this time every video will come with my commentary. It will be much better than the one that got erased, and hopefully it will be more widely viewed.
Americans do not need our government’s permission to remember their words and inform the world about what our public officials said. I refuse to let Dr. Prasad be silenced or censored. He should extend me the same courtesy. He is a powerful government official. I am just a private citizen seeking to hold my government accountable.