The Political and Medical Kayfabe: Dave Collum, Tucker Carlson, and the Illusion of Truth. Dave Collum tells Tucker Carlson politics is kayfabe. Medicine runs the same script: staged science, buried dissent, and pharma’s monopoly on truth.

When Cornell chemistry professor Dave Collum sat down with Tucker Carlson, the conversation became a whirlwind tour through America’s most taboo questions. Did COVID come from a lab? What’s the truth about January 6th? Why did the Vegas shooting disappear from headlines? Why are financial markets so distorted? For nearly two hours, Tucker ticked off the controversies, and Collum — sharp, irreverent, and unfiltered — answered with a theme that ran through them all: political kayfabe.

Borrowed from professional wrestling, kayfabe means staged drama presented as real. For Collum, American politics has become kayfabe: a scripted theater of outrage and distraction, keeping citizens fixated on the spectacle while real power operates behind the curtain.

But kayfabe is not confined to politics. There is also a medical kayfabe — an equally elaborate theater, where the rituals of science mask the absence of proof, and dissenters are silenced to preserve the illusion. Just as Collum exposes deception in politics and finance, doctors like Tom Cowan, Andrew Kaufman, Jennifer Daniels, and Stefan Lanka have spent years pulling back the curtain in medicine.

The parallel is striking: in both politics and medicine, kayfabe rules.

Collum’s Political Kayfabe

The genius of Tucker’s interview lay in the framing. Each segment opened with a question: “What’s the truth about…?” Collum’s answers were rarely neat, but the pattern was clear.

• January 6th was more theater than insurrection.
• Hunter Biden’s laptop was memory-holed because its contents clashed with the script.
• Vegas shooting vanished from media cycles, as if by decree.
• Trump’s assassination attempt raised questions more than answers.
• QAnon, whatever its origins, functioned as controlled distraction.

The point was not whether every claim could be proven, but that the public was watching kayfabe: endless drama, outrage, and scandal, while systemic rot — collapsing markets, institutional corruption, government overreach — went largely unexamined.

The Medical Kayfabe

Medicine operates on the same principle. Here, too, spectacle substitutes for proof. Consider “viral isolation.”

True isolation means filtration, centrifugation, purification, characterization, and transmission tests into healthy hosts. Yet what passes for “isolation” today is a stage trick: mucus or sputum is mixed with monkey kidney cells, bovine serum, and antibiotics. The cells break down, and this is called “proof of virus.” No filtration. No purification. No gold-standard micrographs. Just theater — science by sleight of hand.

Public rituals reinforce the drama: mass testing, case counts, masking, lockdowns. But like political kayfabe, the medical version collapses under scrutiny.

Forgotten Experiments, Forgotten Scandals

Collum points to political scandals that vanish down the memory hole: Vegas, Epstein, Hunter Biden. Medicine has its own forgotten experiments:

• Dr. Milton Rosenau (Boston, 1919): Tried to infect 100 healthy sailors with influenza via blood, mucus, and direct exposure. None became sick【DOI:10.1001/JAMA.1919.02610420060028】.
• Dr. McCoy & Dr. Richey (San Francisco, 1919): Repeated the experiment with 50 subjects. Again, no illness.
• Dr. Richard Sellards (Johns Hopkins, 1919): Attempted to transmit measles with blood and nasal secretions. Failed.
• Dr. Alfred Hess (New York, 1918–1919): Tried to spread chickenpox. Could not. In JAMA he wrote: “We are confronted with two diseases… which we are unable to transmit artificially from man to man.”

These were establishment researchers publishing in major journals. Their results undermined germ theory. But like the Vegas shooting, their findings vanished from the script.

Economics of Deception

Collum is at his strongest when mapping how economics underlies kayfabe. Central banks inflate bubbles. Markets are propped up with debt. Wealth flows upward while ordinary people are told “the system works.”

Medicine mirrors this structure. The pharmaceutical industry thrives on monopoly control, not cures.

• Cheap remedies (turpentine, bicarbonate, Strophanthus) are branded “poison.”
• Dangerous drugs with lethal side effects are normalized as “rare adverse events.”
• COVID vaccines were legally classified as “poisons” in Australia, yet authorized, mandated, and enforced by law.

In both politics and medicine, truth is less important than preserving the system.

Distraction as Strategy

Collum argues that QAnon, January 6th, and even panic over AI function as distractions — psyops to keep the public watching shadows while real power consolidates.

Medicine deploys the same playbook:

• Endless variants keep fear alive.
• PCR case counts keep attention on numbers, not health.
• Antibody levels are presented as proof, even amid an antibody reproducibility crisis documented by Nature and others.

The distraction keeps people focused on rituals, not reality.

Persecuted Truth-Tellers

Collum describes how dissenters in finance and politics are ridiculed, censored, or exiled. Medicine does the same.

• Jennifer Daniels: Patients healthy, pharma sales down, turpentine labeled poison — license revoked, forced into exile.
• Stefan Lanka: Sued in German court over measles isolation, ultimately vindicated.
• Tullio Simoncini: Claimed many cancers were fungal, treated with sodium bicarbonate — deregistered, labeled a quack.
• Royal Rife: Built microscopes and frequency devices reported in Smithsonian publications — erased by the AMA.

In each case, the pattern is the same: destroy the dissenter, preserve the kayfabe.

What Kayfabe Costs Us

The cost of political kayfabe is clear: a distracted citizenry, unable to hold power accountable. The cost of medical kayfabe is even greater: lives lost to iatrogenesis, generations dependent on pharmaceuticals, and a population too fearful to question the script.

Both kayfabes enforce compliance through fear — of terrorists, pandemics, collapse, contagion. Both punish those who walk off-script.

Breaking the Script

Collum insists the only defense against financial collapse is personal responsibility: hard assets, independent thinking, rejecting illusions of safety.

Medical dissenters say the same: health must be reclaimed outside monopoly medicine. Revive forgotten remedies. Demand true science, not theatrical tricks. Refuse fear as the price of obedience.

To break the kayfabe — political or medical — is to walk out of the theater, stop cheering the staged drama, and demand to see what lies behind the curtain.

Conclusion

Dave Collum’s interview with Tucker Carlson exposed the political kayfabe — the scripted theater of American politics. But the same principle applies to medicine, where medical kayfabe sustains the myth of viral contagion and pharmaceutical salvation.

The real question is no longer, “What’s the truth about January 6th?” or “What’s the truth about COVID?” The question is whether we will recognize kayfabe itself — and have the courage to reject it, whether in politics, finance, or medicine.

Until then, we are spectators in someone else’s play.

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