WorldNetDaily’s Bob Unruh wrote in an Oct. 19 article:
A new video has surfaced revealing Dr. Drew, the popular media personality and medical commentator who runs his own show, being interviewed on the Megyn Kelly Show on SiriusXm.
And he’s warning of the “emergency” myocarditis danger to young men from the COVID-19 shots, actually genetic treatments that were described by government officials as “vaccines.”
“It’s more common than we thought,” he said. Sarcastically, he states: “It’s mild … it’s mild … it’s no big deal.”
However, it is, he said.
“Look, in my world, throughout my entire career, 40-year career, myocarditis is a medical emergency,” he charged. “It’s a dire problem.”
And then he reveals what’s troubling.
“A publication just came out five days in circulation,” he said. “A major cardiology journal, … excellent study and it showed, it took my breath away. I don’t know why it wasn’t headline news. Large study and it showed that about approximately half of the young males that got myocarditis had permanent heart damage.”
“Permanent.”
He said, “That means that a we don’t what percentage are going to be disabled by this [or] are going to develop heart failure. Or [are] going to need cardiac transplants.”
He called the study, which he did not identify, “breathtaking.”
Of course Drew Pinsky didn’t identify the study — that would have made it easier for someone to fact-check him (not that Unruh fact-checks anything that advances employer’s right-wing agenda).Based on a retweet on Dr. Drew’s Twitter feed, we can deduce that he appears to be referring to this study from the journal Circulation, which was actually published in August, not “five days” before his interview with Kelly. And, yes, he’s grossly misrepresenting the study results.
First, the study was comprised of just 39 young people in Hong Kong, but as many as six of them were female, contrary to Pinsky’s claim that it involved only “young males.” Second, the study made no claim about “permanent heart damage,” as Pinsky asserted; it merely stated that such conditions persisted in that subset of study subject and that “there exists a potential long-term effect on exercise capacity and cardiac functional reserve during stress.” The study authors also admitted that there is a “lack of a trajectory that depicts changes in myocardial deformation over time.”
Unruh inserted his own lie as well — mRNA vaccines are vaccines, not “genetic treatments.”
Pinsky, bythe way, is an anti-vaxx activist. His twitter (well, X) account promoting and appearing with fellow anti-vaxxers like Robert Kennedy Jr. as well as a host of other right-wingers, and he has touted the “Zelenko protocol,” a dubious regimen of medications that purportedly fight COVID invented by dubious, deceased and WND-hyped doc Vladimir Zelenko. He also promoted the bogus conspiracy theory that actor Jamie Foxx’s recent hospitalization was caused by a COVID vaccine. He can’t be trusted as a source of reliable medical information — but he’s a reliable anti-vaxxer, and that’s good enough for Unruh and WND.