Category Archives: – Opinion

Senior VA cardiologist, William Boden, violates the Hatch Act, smears most VA patients as “treasonous”

September 27, 2019- by Steven E. Greer, MD Anyone watching the “news” knows that the establishment, in the form of the Democrat party,

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The “surge in new Wuhan virus cases” is great news

June 26, 2020- by Steven E. Greer, MD I called it, once again. On June 9th, I wrote, “This unprecedented communist-party-like anarchy in

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Tony Fauci is purely guessing when he estimates up to 200,000 people could die

April 1, 2020- by Steven E. Greer, MD I wrote an essay early on in this non-pandemic that Anthony Fauci, MD of the NIH shut down

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How President Steven Greer would handle the pandemic now

Update March 28, 2020- Trump is planning to quarantine the entire Tri-State area, as I advocated for below.

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Are there any medications to treat coronavirus?

(Also: How infectious and lethal is this Coronavirus COVID-19 compared to regular “flu”?) February 27, 2020- by Steven E. Greer, MD Gilead makes a not-yet-approved antiviral drug called remdisivir and it is being tested right

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The ISCHEMIA trial PI, Judith Hochman, makes egregiously unfounded statements on national TV

November 17, 2019- by Steven E. Greer, MD The big news from the 2019 American Heart Association meeting is the large trial known by the acronym ISCHEMIA.

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The problem of erroneous diagnoses never falling off the chart

February 10, 2020- by Steven E. Greer, MD I discovered a whole new category of problems in the American healthcare system. It is the problem

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60 Minutes creates another publicist-paid puff-piece for an unethical medical researcher

December 8, 2019- by Steven E. Greer, MD CBS’ 60 Minutes featured an extremely unethical PhD medical researcher at Harvard named George

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Trying Beyond Meat for the first time

November 12, 2019- by Steven E. Greer, MD

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Essay: Opioids coming through the Mexican border are a national security risk

Update January 8, 2019- President Trump quoted from this story tonight during his talk from the Ova

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Cardiology mafia egregiously obfuscates mortality differences between stents and CABG in EXCEL trial

December 10, 2019- by Steven E. Greer, MD In my recent book, The Medical Advocate, I excoriated the cardiology community, particularly

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A proposal to screen for mass shooters

August 5, 2019- by Steven E. Greer, MD President Trump today announced plans to have the Department of Justice create guidelines

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What I Did for Summer 2019

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Go Vegan?

November 3, 2019- by Steven E. Greer, MD My diet is much better than it used to be. I eat a lot more plants and almost no red meat. I snack

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I can’t get no satisfaction (from TAVR)

Update April 6, 2019- An expert source told us that Mick Jagger did have genuine aortic stenosis.

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Ken Burns series on FDR helps me discover my own history

September 21, 2014- By Steven E. Greer, MD I watched with fascination all of the episodes of the Ken Burns PBS series about the lives of Teddy, Eleanor, and Franklin Delano Roosevelt when, midway through the series

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What is Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s prognosis?

December 21, 2018- by Steven E. Greer, MD Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburd underwent surgery at Memorial Sloan Kettering

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Essay: The real villain in the New Zealand massacre is the video game industry

March 20, 2019- by Steven E. Greer, MD I normally protect my soul by not watching grotesque videos. I have never seen the films of people jumping

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Fox News’ Tucker Carlson attempts to debate gun control with Annals of Internal Medicine Editor Christine Laine, MD

March 6, 2018- by Steven E. Greer, MD The puppets of the NRA on Fox News react predictably after each mass shooting in a school or

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“You’re telling me this now?” Why the news is suddenly critical of statins and antidepressants

Opinion: February 19, 2012  By Steven Greer, MD The CBS news show “60 Minutes” made waves with a story asserting that the antidepressants

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