518. Courage in Controversy: Medical Tyranny & Jan 6th Riots | Dr. Simone Gold
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It's very unlikely that you went to the University of Chicago Medical School. That's really hard. And to follow that up with Stanford Medical School, like, is there anyone else who's done that?
All the doctors knew hydroxychloroquine was safe until media told them otherwise. I said to the world to stop living in fear. There's no reason to live in fear. I had no idea that was going to completely upend my life. The First Amendment exists not just so you can hear what I have to say, but humans have a need to speak truth.
Well, everybody who's watching and listening should pay careful attention to that.
Living in lies, I might as well be dead. It's worse than death. I'm in my apartment working, scream, banging on the door, FBI, FBI, FBI! Battery ram, 20 guys in tactical gear, huge weapons pointed at me, as close as I am to you. And I remember thinking, oh.
Hello, everybody. I had the opportunity today to talk to Dr. Simone Gold, and she had quite a story to tell. Interweaving medicine. She's a physician, emergency room physician for 20 years, a lawyer, a graduate of Stanford Law School, and she was one of the youngest physicians physicians who ever graduated in the United States, and then also went to Stanford Law School. So those are stellar accomplishments. And I say that to establish her credentials because she has been profoundly pilloried as a quack, in her own words, because of her stance on COVID, the COVID mandates on hydroxychloroquine more particularly, but the mandates really more broadly, and has... also served time in prison in consequence of her appearance on January 6th.
And so, what did we talk about today? Well, we talked about physician training and its positive elements and its inadequacies. We talked about the stunning lack of curiosity that Dr. Gold emerged among her colleagues when COVID made itself manifest on the public scene. We talked about her experiences attempting to share her knowledge with regards to hydroxychloroquine and its effectiveness as a antiviral treatment, particularly with viruses of the sort that COVID was we talked about the consequences of her training in law. We talked about January 6th and the events there and the particulars of her so-called participation and then the details of the FBI's pursuit of her. In the aftermath of that event, 20 of them dressed in their full gear, broke down her apartment door and hauled her away. And she was imprisoned for 60 days for plea bargaining down to a misdemeanor, trespassing misdemeanor.
And so like any one of those stories is enough to occupy two hours and we managed to cover all of them. And so if you want to take a trip through the labyrinth of law and medicine and the judiciary in the United States and with a side trip into the, what would you say, the complexities of the prison system, then join us and we'll walk through all that. So Dr. Gold, when you trained as a physician, did you foresee in any way that you would be like legally entangled and politically active? I did not. Well, so let's go back to when you started your academic training. Where did you train as a physician?
I was very young when I went to medical school. I started medical school at 19. I was at Chicago Medical School, and I graduated when I was 23 and planned to be a physician. And that was my plan. My father was a doctor, and I was raised to believe being a physician was the best thing a person could do with their life. There's a law in Judaism called pikuwa nefesh, which means to save a life. And to save a life, pikuwa nefesh was the highest honor a person could do, the best thing you could do with your life. And that's what I thought I would be doing.
How did you get into medical school when you were 19? That's hard. That's a good medical school or great medical school even. So how do you manage that?
I finished high school at 16 and I did college in three years. It's interesting that paperwork is so onerous these days. I don't even think it's possible to get through school early, at least in America. But back then, if you worked really, really hard and fast, you actually could go fast. It was very uncommon. You took extra courses? I took extra courses.
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