FULL CLAIM: COVID-19 vaccines “are unsafe and they don’t have any theoretical benefit"; “the spike protein is toxic for the body”, it “causes heart damage, brain injury, blood clotting, neurologic injury” and pregnancy complications; "early treatments would have saved two thirds of the lives lost”
On 22 April 2023, the website X22 Report published a 27-minute podcast interview with cardiologist Peter McCullough. During the interview, McCullough referred to the COVID-19 vaccination campaign as a “worldwide debacle” and repeated previously debunked claims conveying the message that COVID-19 vaccines are ineffective and dangerous.
This isn’t the first time McCullough made such claims, as Health Feedback documented in earlier reviews. Also, the website that published the interview, X22 Report, is described by Media Bias Fact Check as a “strong Conspiracy and pseudoscience” source that often “promotes unproven claims”. In fact, the podcast was removed from YouTube and Spotify for its alleged links with the political conspiracy movement Qanon.
McCullough’s interview received over 350,000 views on the X22 Report website and on the video platforms Rumble and Bitchute, where it was also uploaded. Posts linking to the video gathered around 10,000 additional interactions on Facebook, according to social media analytics tool CrowdTangle.
Below, we will cover some central claims made by McCullough in the interview.
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