Peter A. McCullough

Peter Andrew McCullough (born December 29, 1962) is an American cardiologist. He is formerly Vice Chief of Internal medicine at Baylor University Medical Center in Dallas, Texas and professor at Texas A&M University. He is editor-in-chief of the journals Reviews in Cardiovascular Medicine and Cardiorenal Medicine. During the COVID-19 pandemic, McCullough advocated for early treatment including Hydroxychloroquine, dissented from the recommendations of government public health agencies. Quotes We have to make some decisions now. The Wall Street Journal FDA Warns of Danger From Virus Treatment Burton, Thomas M; Hopkins, Jared S. April 25, 2020 A.1 This is the public health crisis of the century, and doctors should not have barriers. The Washington Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2020/07/10/peter-navarro-hydroxychloroquine-coronavirus/ Touting criticized study, White House presses FDA to authorize hydroxychloroquine — again McGinley, Laurie; Dawsey, Josh July 10, 2020 Unless we really have a compelling case, no one under age 30 should receive any one of these vaccines. July 7, 2021 on the Fox News program The Ingraham Angle (Vanity Fair https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2021/07/right-wing-vaccine-rebellion-on-campus The Right-Wing Vaccine Rebellion Has Arrived on Campus Caleb Ecarma July 8, 2021; Right-wing media is an echo chamber of anti-vaccine messaging Hargis, Cydney; Geonzon, Jasmine; Taaffe, Gideon July 20, 2021 https://www.mediamatters.org/coronavirus-covid-19/right-wing-media-echo-chamber-anti-vaccine-messaging Media Matters for America; Right-wing anti-vaccine hysteria is increasing. We’ll all pay the price. Washington Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/07/08/right-wing-anti-vaccine-hysteria-is-increasing-well-all-pay-price/ July 8, 2021 w:Paul Waldman Paul Waldman; As the Delta variant spreads, Republican reluctance will mean thousands more deaths Heather Digby Parton w:Heather Digby Parton July 9, 2021 https://www.salon.com/2021/07/09/as-the-delta-variant-spreads-republican-reluctance-will-mean-thousands-more-deaths/ Salon; The GOP’s Paranoid Streak From John Birchers to Anti-Vaxxers The Daily Beast Matt Lewis July 9, 2021 https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-gops-paranoid-streak-from-john-birchers-to-anti-vaxxers) There is no reason right now — no clinical reason to go get vaccinated. July 13, 2021 on the Fox News program The Ingraham Angle ('Ingraham Angle' on Biden's speech, CRT The Ingraham Angle Fox News https://www.foxnews.com/transcript/ingraham-angle-on-bidens-speech-critical-race-theory July 14, 2021; Holmes Jack July 8, 2021 Fox News Is Moving From 'Just Asking Questions' to Full-On Anti-Vax Crapola Esquire https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a36967699/fox-news-anti-vax-tucker-carlson-just-asking-questions/; Vaccine doubters' strange fixation with Israel The Washington Post Aaron Blake July 19, 2021 https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/07/19/vaccine-skeptics-zero-israel-again-some-reason/; Fox News hosts railed against 'vaccine passports' – the company requires one to return to work without a mask Alex Woodward https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/fox-clear-pass-vaccine-passports-b1887260.html The Independent July 20, 2021; Vaccines Remain Largely Effective Against Delta Variant, Counter to Claims From Fox News Guest Jessica McDonald July 30, 2021 FactCheck.org Annenberg Public Policy Center https://www.factcheck.org/2021/07/vaccines-remain-largely-effective-against-delta-variant-counter-to-claims-from-fox-news-guest/; Justin Baragona Meghan McCain Claims Nobody at Fox News Is Saying ‘Don’t Get the Vaccine’ The Daily Beast https://www.thedailybeast.com/meghan-mccain-claims-nobody-at-fox-news-is-saying-dont-get-the-vaccine July 19, 2021; How Vaccine Companies Have Bankrolled Fox News’ Anti-Vaxx Insanity Justin Baragona July 22, 2021 https://www.thedailybeast.com/how-vaccine-companies-have-bankrolled-fox-news-anti-vaxx-insanity The Daily Beast; Transcript: The ReidOut, 7/19/21 https://www.msnbc.com/transcripts/transcript-reidout-7-19-21-n1274460 July 19, 2021 The ReidOut MSNBC) It's clear we can't vaccinate our way out of this. July 29, 2021 on the Fox News program The Ingraham Angle (Fox's effort to undermine vaccines has only worsened Savillo, Rob; Monroe, Tyler August 19, 2021 Media Matters for America https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/foxs-effort-undermine-vaccines-has-only-worsened; Laura Ingraham guest: “It's clear we can't vaccinate our way out of this” Media Matters Staff July 29, 2021 https://www.mediamatters.org/laura-ingraham/laura-ingraham-guest-its-clear-we-cant-vaccinate-our-way-out Media Matters for America) Quotes about Peter A. McCullough By elevating witnesses who sound smart but endorse unfounded therapies, we risk jeopardizing a century’s work of medical progress. The Snake-Oil Salesmen of the Senate November 24, 2020 The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/24/opinion/hydroxychloroquine-covid.html Ashish Jha w:Ashish Jha Seriously, this is an error huge enough to make me wonder about everything else, in particular whether he got his MPH out of a cereal box. This guy has an MPH and doesn’t know (or didn’t bother to find out) how VAERS actually works and that there are other vaccine safety monitoring systems other than VAERS? ... Dr. McCullough should have stuck to cardiology and renal disease, the two areas for which he was known prior to the pandemic that led him, as he characterized it in the video, to completely reorient the focus of his academic career. I guess the opportunity for grift and conspiracy theories was too much for him to resist....someone like Dr. McCullough, who has an MPH in addition to his MD, should really, really, really know better. That he promotes antivaccine disinformation based on fear mongering about reports to VAERS of deaths and adverse events tells me one of two things. Either his MPH education failed him, or he’s lying. Take your pick. The COVID-19 “Vaccine Holocaust”: The latest antivaccine messaging w:David Gorski David Gorski May 10, 2021 Science-Based Medicine https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/the-covid-19-vaccine-holocaust-the-latest-antivaccine-messaging/ In addition to its anti-vax hosts, the network also hosts one guest after another to rail against the vaccines. “No one under age 30 should receive any one of these vaccines,” an anti-covid-vaccine doctor told Laura Ingraham on Wednesday evening’s program. Right-wing anti-vaccine hysteria is increasing. We’ll all pay the price. Washington Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/07/08/right-wing-anti-vaccine-hysteria-is-increasing-well-all-pay-price/ July 8, 2021 w:Paul Waldman Paul Waldman And then there's the relentless disinformation campaign coming from right-wing media. Here's a little taste: On Wednesday night this week, Fox News host Laura Ingraham interviewed a doctor who proclaimed that "unless we really have a compelling case, no one under age 30 should receive any one of these vaccines." That's the sort of dangerous fear-mongering conservative viewers see every day, even as thousands of them are still dying. As the Delta variant spreads, Republican reluctance will mean thousands more deaths Heather Digby Parton w:Heather Digby Parton July 9, 2021 https://www.salon.com/2021/07/09/as-the-delta-variant-spreads-republican-reluctance-will-mean-thousands-more-deaths/ Salon External links Category:Academics from the United States Category:Physicians from New York (state) Category:Activists from the United States Category:1962 births Category:Living people Category:People from Buffalo Category:COVID-19 pandemic in the United States Category:Cardiologists Category:Anti-vaccination activists Category:University of Michigan alumni