When you have, let's say, a paper that has 20 authors, and out of those 20 authors, more than 90% of them are in the payroll of a specific pharmaceutical company that makes a product that you are studying, that's a conflict.

Dr. Joseph Varen is a critical care physician, medical professor, and president of the Independent Medical Alliance, formerly the

FLCCC. Their mission is to provide and advocate for patient rights, informed consent, and medical

transparency, and they've played a major role in supporting Secretary Kennedy. Hopefully, with the

new NIH director, we'll be able to fund some of these studies for these

repurpose drugs that are really going to cut on cost of healthcare expenses.

Varen has contributed to more than 950 peer-reviewed journal articles and is the editor-in-chief

of multiple medical journals, including the newly launched Journal of Independent Medicine.

If we don't do something about the current state of medicine

in our country, we are really doomed.

This is American Thought Leaders, and I'm Yanya Kellick.

Dr. Joe Veron, such a pleasure to have you on American Thought Leaders.

Thank you for having me again.

Well, there is a crisis in research and reproducibility of research as we speak,

and some people would even say corruption of research.

And you're trying to tackle this

head on what is it that's happening well there is no question that you know unfortunately most

of the research is being taken hostage by a variety of interest pharmaceutical industry

political interest there are so many things and what we're trying to do is just to get true science out there

without any outside influence.

That's very difficult, because if you think about it,

conflicts of interest are present everywhere.

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