Category Archives: Congress

Violent video games and aggressive behavior

March 30, 2014- Interviewed by Steven E. Greer, MD A recent JAMA paper connects the dots between violent video games and aggressive behavior.

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Why Indian Point nuclear power plant needs to be shut down

April 29, 2017- by Steven E. Greer, MD I have long been a critic of the overuse of CT-scans due to the radiation risks and costs. I’m not sure why,

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Have state health commissioners dropped the ball?

With Obamacare exchange premiums increasing 7.5% year-over-year, this 2013 video is still relevant….

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Will the “public option” pass?

Many in the media are writing the obituary for the public option because key Senators have

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Senator Ron Johnson explains why he got an antibody test before considering a vaccine (i.e., The Greer Protocol)

May 11, 2021- by Steven E. Greer, MD Senator Johnson is describing the Greer Protocol for deciding whether or not to get the SARS-CoV-2

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What you need to know about the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus vaccines

Update March 22, 2021- by Steven E. Greer, MD Tucker Carlson interviewed a surgeon who stated what I have known for many months. The signal

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The New York virus death rates are too high. Why?

March 29, 2020- by Steven E. Greer, MD I have been following closely the death rates from this SARS-CoV-2 virus, also known as COVID-19,

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Sen. Ron Johnson on the need for early treatment of the Wuhan coronavirus

December 13, 2020- by Steven E. Greer, MD This is straight from my book, Tony’s Virus, chapters 8 and chapter 10.

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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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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 best hospitals in the country are losing money. Why?

August 12, 2019- by Steven E. Greer, MD In the course of working on a medical book for the patient population, I just discovered this 2017 Forbes article that explains

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President Trump adopts plan by The Healthcare Channel to bring back drug manufacturing jobs

Update February 26, 2020 By Steven E Greer, MD It is happening for real. Politico reports that the Trump administration is planning on using various

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How infectious and lethal is this Coronavirus COVID-19 compared to regular “flu”?

February 28, 2020- by Steven E. Greer, MD Just published online in the NEJM is a report with the death rates in China

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Anthony Fauci unjustifiably caused a mass panic

March 13, 2020- by Steven E. Greer, MD With one sentence in response to a question from a congressional hearing, an obscure medical

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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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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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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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Don Berwick, MD: Waste in the American Healthcare System

Dr. Berwick, former Director of CMS and former President and CEO of IHI, discusses the percentage

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