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White nationalist pundit Stew Peters is no stranger to offensive commentary, but on a recent episode of his eponymous podcast, he openly called for the deportation of all Jews from the United States — even going so far as to echo Nazi rhetoric by calling it a “final solution.” Peters’ notable controversies in recent years include getting kicked off Spotify and Apple Podcasts after he peddled Covid-19 conspiracy theories and participated in a white nationalist conference held by Holocaust denier Nick Fuentes. He’s embraced the “Great Replacement” conspiracy theory, claimed the Titan sub disaster was “actually a ploy” to hide...

On Jan. 3, the office of Florida Surgeon General Dr. Joseph Ladapo issued a statement calling for the halt in the use of COVID-19 mRNA vaccines, citing the recent discovery of DNA contaminants in the vaccine vials.On the Jan. 12 episode of EpochTV’s “American Thought Leaders,“ Dr. Ladapo explained why he called for a halt, saying that while there are also safety concerns with the COVID mRNA vaccines linking them to a multitude of adverse events, the recent discovery is ”beyond the pale.”“DNA is a common contaminant of many biological products,” he told the show’s host, Jan Jekielek. “We can...

Governor Ron DeSantis is pledging to "clean house" at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and says he will install his current, highly controversial Surgeon General at the nation's top public health agency, should the Florida Republican win the White House. Dr. Joseph Ladapo, who DeSantis hired away from the University of California, Los Angeles, ... "The surgeon general, a well-known Covid-19 vaccine skeptic, faced a backlash from the medical community after he [went] against guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and American Academy of Pediatrics. [and] against mandatory Covid-19 vaccination." ... In its deep profile of...

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis' hand-picked surgeon general has warned against getting the new COVID-19 booster vaccine that is expected to receive approval in the coming days. The state's Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo made the claims at a press conference on Thursday, saying there was no evidence to support getting the shot and that there are 'red flags' about its safety. The updated shots, which target an Omicron subvariant named XBB.1.5, are awaiting FDA approval on standards for safety, effectiveness and quality, and must then receive CDC sign-off, which could come as early as Tuesday. 'Listen inside to what makes sense,...

Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo harshly criticized COVID-19 mask mandates and lockdowns, and urged people to consider "refusing to participate." "What do you call re-imposing mask policies that have been proven ineffective or restarting lockdowns that are known to cause harm? You don't call it sanity," Dr. Ladapo posted last week on X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter. "These terrible policies only work with your cooperation. How about refusing to participate…" Some schools and companies are implementing mask mandates amid a rise in COVID-19 hospitalizations, even though some peer-reviewed research has suggested that face coverings may cause...

Ron DeSantis refused to fire Dr. Alina Alonso, Palm Beach County’s hard-line, COVID-obsessed health director, who venerated Anthony Fauci as her “patron saint,” donated to Joe Biden during her tenure under Florida’s Governor, and even publicly gloated “I’m not being stopped [from pursuing mass vaccination],” while heckling DeSantis at the height of the pandemic, The National Pulse can reveal.The news comes as the Florida Governor lashes out at former President Donald Trump for not firing National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases chief Anthony Fauci. “Had I been president in 2020, Anthony Fauci would have been fired, and you’ve got...

Harvard graduate Dr. Joseph Ladapo has been called a “quack” and “unqualified” for his traditional, pro-science approach to healthcare; unlike a certain Supreme Court justice, he can tell you the differences between a man and a woman. Thankfully though for a man experiencing a cardiac arrest on the grounds of the Tallahassee capitol, Ladapo doesn’t specialize in “gender-affirming care” or “equity” medicine — he’s a real, and apparently very good doctor. See below: Dr. Joe is a stud. https://t.co/8OJwCZJA01News: @FLSurgeonGen Joseph Ladapo saved a man’s life at the Capitol. The man Tuesday morning suffered a cardiac event in the Capitol...

Roughly halfway through his first term, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis appointed Dr. Joseph Ladapo to be the state’s Surgeon General. It should have come as no surprise that Dr. Ladapo went to work promoting health policies that were in keeping with the Governor’s own approach to handling the pandemic. These included opposition to vaccine and mask mandates and particularly how such matters should be handled when it comes to children and pediatric healthcare. This has attracted the unfavorable attention of both the FDA and the CDC. This week they sent a letter to Ladapo, warning him that his policies are...

Last week, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis reportedly told a meeting of the Republican Party of Florida that his team would be looking for ways to hold the COVID-19 vaccine makers accountable for side effects and health problems tied to their products. Specifically, DeSantis cited a study by the Florida Department of Health (FDOH) under Surgeon General Dr. Joseph Ladapo that showed an increased risk for cardiac arrest in men 18-39. Now it appears Ladapo’s agency is conducting another study. On an episode of the We the Patriots podcast with Teryn Gregson, Ladapo was specifically asked about the information shared by...

If you are like me, you are exhausted of the lies. Every day seems to bring new revelations about how our lives came to be upended. The connections are becoming clearer between the pandemic response and the growing economic crisis, the ballooning debt, the growth of the surveillance state, the corruption and scams, chilling absence of integrity in public life, and, with the failure of FTX, the way in which an outright financial scam was integral to the calamity. While we await new revelations, depositions, coverups, pleas for amnesty, and bad economic news, whom can we trust? Is anyone telling...

The Florida Department of Health urged the state’s board of medicine to establish standards of care in accordance with guidance strongly advising against child sex treatments in a Thursday letter. Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo pointed to a lack of evidence on the safety and efficacy of the procedures and urged the Florida Board of Medicine to consider the department’s guidance that advised against child sex changes, according to the letter. The move is the latest effort from Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ administration to restrict sex-change treatments, particularly for children. “The Department thinks that the evidence speaks for itself,” Florida...

TALLAHASSEE — A panel of Florida senators on Wednesday advanced the confirmation of Joseph Ladapo, Gov. Ron DeSantis’ pick to be Florida’s surgeon general. After an hour of grilling Ladapo on COVID-19 vaccines, his resume and other Department of Health initiatives, Democrats refused to participate in the vote. TALLAHASSEE — A panel of Florida senators on Wednesday advanced the confirmation of Joseph Ladapo, Gov. Ron DeSantis’ pick to be Florida’s surgeon general. After an hour of grilling Ladapo on COVID-19 vaccines, his resume and other Department of Health initiatives, Democrats refused to participate in the vote. “We don’t feel that...

Florida’s Surgeon General Dr. Joseph Ladapo issued new guidance for COVID-19 tests on Jan. 4 in a bid to reduce the strain on the state’s testing centers.So many people are using the centers the availability of tests is under pressure.“We are going to scale back,” Ladapo told reporters at a press conference.“We’re coming back to something sensible.”People have been flooding Florida testing sites, leading to long lines, he said.Instead of restricting testing, however, Ladapo said he would place a new emphasis on “high-value” testing against those of “low-value” in order to give priority to tests that would “likely change outcomes”...

The actions that the Biden administration just took to restrict monoclonal antibody treatments are going to get people killed, says a medical director in Maryland.As we noted yesterday, the CDC made a rather large mistake when they claimed that more than 73 percent of the cases of COVID in the nation were Omicron cases in the week ending Dec. 18. The number was only 22.5 percent of the cases at that point.Why was that important? Because then the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response halted the allocation of two antibody treatments made by Regeneron and Eli Lilly...

STORY AT-A-GLANCEDr. Joseph Ladapo was appointed Florida surgeon general and secretary of the Florida Department of Health by Gov. Ron DeSantis September 21, 2021Ladapo has now issued a statewide public service announcement in support of commonsense COVID prevention strategies such as optimizing your vitamin D, staying active, eating nutrient-dense foods and boosting your immune system with supplements such as vitamin C, quercetin and zincFlorida Health even highlights emerging treatments such as fluvoxamine and inhaled budesonide. Importantly, Florida Health now states that “Physicians should use their clinical judgment when recommending treatment options for patients’ individualized health care needs. This may include...

Florida’s Surgeon General, Joseph A. Ladapo, MD, PhD, went off on an epic rant against the “climate of dishonesty” that has surrounded the mainstream media’s Covid pandemic coverage since the very beginning. Ladapo shred the media’s myths and misrepresentations about how the coronavirus behaves and the most prudent public health policies to limit its damage. Watch: CLICK ABOVE LINK FOR THE VIDEO “You remember when people were telling you that these vaccines would stop transmission and the rates of protection were greater than 90%?” he asked. “Well, you know, guess what, here we are about 10 months afterward and we’re...

Florida’s top health official was asked to leave a meeting after refusing to wear a mask at the office of a state senator who told him she had a serious medical condition, officials have confirmed. […] … (Democratic state Sen. Tina) Polsky told The Associated Press about the tense exchange with state Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo that was first reported by the news site Florida Politics. She said Ladapo and two aides were offered masks and asked to wear them when they arrived for the Wednesday meeting. She did not tell him she had breast cancer, but said she had...

Florida Surgeon General Dr. Joseph Ladapo is blasting mask mandates for children in schools and argues the data to "support" the measures is "very weak.""In terms of the data that supports mask use in kids and mandates for masking kids, it is very weak and that's a fact," Ladapo told reporters this week. "There is a substantial gap between the quality of data out there supporting masking kids yielding any benefit for kids, whatsoever. Factual.""In Florida we are going to stay close to the data and we're going to let you know how we feel about the data. The data...

On Tuesday, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis announced that Dr. Joseph Ladapo will be the state's new surgeon general and secretary of the state's health department. "Joe has had a remarkable academic and medical career," DeSantis said at a news conference. "We feel that Joe is just the right guy for the job." But Ladapo quickly came under fire from critics for downplaying COVID-19 vaccines and for his association with the controversial group America's Frontline Doctors, which has promoted bogus "cures." At a press conference announcing his new role, Ladapo said he is going to advocate for a "public health" approach...

Dr. Joseph Ladapo, the new Surgeon General and Secretary of the Department of Health for the state of Florida, denounced coronavirus hysteria on Tuesday, alleging it uses fear to rob people of their personal autonomy. [cut] After stepping up to the podium, Ladopo declared that the Sunshine State is “done with fear.” “We’re done with fear. It’s been something that’s been, unfortunately, a centerpiece of health policy in the United States ever since the beginning of the pandemic, and it’s over here — expiration date is done,” he said. In the same speech, Ladopo touted the importance of vaccines while...