Episode Transcript: #1671 - Bret Weinstein & Dr. Pierre Kory
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So this is the first of I've never had to do an emergency podcast before but I feel like
we do and Brett you and I have been in communication about this and this seemed like something
that we have to do quicker than later. Let's explain what's going on. You guys have had
conversations. First of all, Dr. Corey, please explain who you are and introduce yourself.
Yes, sure. So I'm a lung and ICU specialist who's part of a group of other ICU specialists.
We came together early in the pandemic to develop treatment protocols for COVID.
We first developed the hospital treatment protocol back in March and then more recently we have an
outpatient treatment protocol centered around the drug ivermectin and I'll just say through our work
I would say we are probably the foremost experts on the use of ivermectin and COVID in the world.
And how did you, Brett, how did you get involved with Dr. Corey and how did your initial conversation
get started? Well, Heather and I have been podcasting on the developing COVID story
for quite some time. We started very early and we actually, I just took the Dark Horse podcast
which had been just me talking to people and Heather and I started live streaming twice a week at
first and at first we were just simply looking at the evidence on COVID, what it is, how it transmits,
it should change your behavior. In those early days it was scary. We didn't know if it was transmitted
on surfaces or what. So Heather and I just did our analysis live or not live. I guess it was live,
but in any case the two of us just had discussions about what we thought the evidence meant and we
presented papers that we were reading in the literature. And we should explain your credentials
like what? I'm a biologist. I'm an evolutionary biologist. The importance of evolution here is
that A, all of the things that we're talking about with COVID are evolutionary. Obviously the