This is how Doug describes it on his Facebook Page:
A brave group of doctors and experts have dared to challenge the status quo on COVID. Their studies and findings are often ignored by the corporate media, big pharma, and our leaders in Washington and Harrisburg. I'm honored to have some of these experts join us in Harrisburg
And here's the poster:
Let's take a look at his Covid-19 experts, shall we?
Dr Peter McCullough
This is how Dr McCullough shows up on Healthfeedback:
The Joe Rogan Experience, a podcast hosted by actor and comedian Joe Rogan, interviewed cardiologist Peter McCullough in December 2021. During the interview, which spanned about two hours and 45 minutes, McCullough made multiple inaccurate, misleading and/or unsubstantiated claims about the COVID-19 pandemic and the COVID-19 vaccines.
Among McCullough's inaccuracies and then the actual expert information:
“Masks only filter out about three microns. The virus is one micron.”:
The claim that masks don’t work because the pore size is larger than the virus was a popular one in 2020. It was previously reviewed by Health Feedback and found to be misleading. The claim shows a lack of understanding about how virus transmission works. While it is true that a virus particle is smaller than one micron (a millionth of a meter) and thus smaller than the pore size of a mask, virus particles cannot travel in the air on their own. Instead, they need to be carried by liquid droplets, and these are larger than the pore sizes of masks. By blocking the liquid droplets, masks also block the spread of the virus contained within.
“But in the case where it’s well-documented and you’re sick, you’re done. You basically have permanent immunity.”:
It’s false to claim that people who have had COVID-19 develop “permanent immunity”. We know this because reinfections occur[3-6]. Researchers at Imperial College London also obtained data suggesting that the risk of reinfection posed by Omicron is higher than for Delta. This indicates that infection-induced immunity isn’t permanent and the protection it provides will vary depending on the variants in circulation. However, Clive Dix, the former chair of the U.K. Vaccine Taskforce, told Reuters that “we still don’t have sufficient data” and that certain variables, like cellular immune response, weren’t accounted for in the study.
“The vaccines are research. They are all investigational research. And so nobody can encourage somebody to take a vaccine. By the way, that violates the Nuremberg Code.”
At this point in time, the COVID-19 vaccines are no longer investigational. Their safety and efficacy were established in clinical trials involving tens of thousands of people before EUAs were granted[7,8]. Furthermore, the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine now has full FDA approval.
COVID-19 vaccination campaigns don’t violate the Nuremberg Code either, as Health Feedback explained previously. The Nuremberg Code specifically addresses experimentation on human subjects and was created in 1947 during a trial of Nazi doctors that conducted experiments on concentration camp prisoners. But COVID-19 vaccines aren’t experimental, therefore the Nuremberg Code doesn’t apply.
There's more in Healthfeedback's debunking but you get the gist. Here's their summary of just how inaccurate Dr Peter McCullough was:
Inaccurate: The COVID-19 vaccines aren’t experimental. Their safety and efficacy were demonstrated in clinical trials that involved tens of thousands of people. Previously infected people don’t have “permanent immunity”, given that reinfections can and have occurred.
Unsupported: No evidence was presented for the assertions that the pandemic was planned or that scientists and/or public health authorities are conspiring to prevent people from getting early treatment. There’s also no evidence for the claim that the spike protein generated by mRNA vaccination is dangerous.
Then there's Mastriano's other "expert" Dr Bryan Ardis.
Dr Bryan Ardis is not a medical doctor. He's not an MD or a DO. His training is as a Chiropractor.
That alone invalidates him as any sort of expert on Covid-19.
However he's done some pretty nasty stuff regarding Covid.
Take a look at this from the AP:
CLAIM: Lungs filling with fluid and kidney failure are actually side effects of remdesivir, a treatment approved for COVID-19, not symptoms of the disease itself.
AP’S ASSESSMENT: False. Critical COVID-19, not the drug remdesivir, has been known to cause fluid in the lungs and renal failure.
THE FACTS: Remarks made by a former chiropractor are circulating online, spreading false information about an antiviral medicine used to treat COVID-19.
Bryan Ardis falsely claims that COVID-19 is not killing millions of Americans, and that the deaths are actually being caused by the use of remdesivir to treat hospitalized patients. His inaccuracies about the drug have been widely shared in text and video posts on Twitter and Facebook.
Ardis has heavily criticized remdesivir on talk shows where he spreads falsehoods about the drug. Medical professionals who have studied the drug have dismissed Ardis’s claims, saying that the symptoms described are clear signs of critical COVID-19 and are not caused by remdesivir. Ardis could not immediately be reached for comment.[Emphasis added.]
These are the "experts" PA State Senator Doug Mastriano is using on his Covid-19 misinformation panel; A non-epidemiologist who spreads medical misinformation and a non-medical doctor who spreads medical misinformation.
Shouldn't Pennsylvania State Senator Doug Mastriano be concentrating, instead, on the Congressional subpoena he was sent a few weeks ago?
He was subpoenaed to appear before Congress to testify about what he knows about Donald Trump's possible criminal conspiracy to defraud the American people.
Also, the more he pushes his followers away from actual medical science (the vaccines are safe and they work, for example) the more he's putting those very same followers' health at risk.
Shame on him for that.
