The American Board of Obstetrics & Gynecology (ABOG)
An Open Letter Sent to the Executive Director, Dr. George Wendel and My Other Esteemed ABOG Colleagues from January 13, 2022. Part 2
This Substack is Part 2 of the letter sent to ABOG. See Part 1 linked here. I sent this letter on January 13, 2022 and it is available on line here Thorp Letter to ABOG January 12, 2022.
This Substack series will encompass multiple consecutive Substacks so as not to make each of them too wordy and too dense with data. ABOG has never responded to me except with fascist threats.
Euphemisms, Intimidation, and Gaslighting, Oh My!
Since ABOG itself has declined to define “misinformation about the COVID-19 vaccine,” deferring instead to other medical agencies, I will kindly attempt to offer one for ABOG’s consideration. Following the lead of Robert J. Kennedy, Jr., the phrase “misinformation about the COVID-19 vaccine” seems to be “a euphemism” for any statement or scientific evidence that differs from the prevailing narrative of stakeholders who most stand to profit from the COVID-19 vaccines. [1] In this case, these stakeholders appear to include Big Tech, Government, the Pharmaceutical Companies, Big Media, and various Corporate and Medical Stakeholders. These are the stakeholders who drive the “consensus” referred to by the FSMB.[2] Perhaps not coincidentally, these are the very stakeholders that are attempting to drive the false narrative that vaccines are safe, effective, and necessary for all persons, including pregnant persons.[3] As it turns out, there is no real definition for “COVID-19 vaccine misinformation” – or real answer to my first question. The phrase “COVID-19 vaccine misinformation” constitutes a euphemism. Euphemisms don’t create meaning, they disguise it, and have thus been referred to “the language of evasion, hypocrisy, prudery, and deceit (Holder 2008)”.[4]
Gaslighting has been described as “an insidious form of manipulation and psychological control” where victims are “deliberately and systematically fed false information that leads them to question what they know to be true.”[5] Gaslighting occurs when “an abuser tries to control a victim by twisting their sense of reality.”[6] The abuser or bully misleads their target, creating a false narrative and making them question their judgments, reality, and perception.[7] When the victim calls out the gaslighting, the abuse will frequently try to discredit their victim. When dealing with someone who is gaslighting, it is advised to pay close attention to what the abuser actually does, instead of the words they use.[8]
ABOG’s Statement Regarding Dissemination of COVID-19 Misinformation is nothing short of gaslighting. ABOG’s statement professes to encourage constituents to “practice evidence-based medicine based on facts and scientific data.”[9] ABOG’s statement also adopts the FSMB’s position that its physicians “have an ethical and professional responsibility to practice medicine in the best interests of their patients and must share information that is factual, scientifically grounded and consensus-driven for the betterment of public health.”[10] ABOG has expressed a concern for protecting patients from harm. While ABOG’s words express concerns about patient safety and stress the importance of scientific data, ABOG turns a blind eye to applying the best available scientific evidence and protecting patients from the dangers of experimental vaccines, all while threatening the medical license of constituents who challenge the prevailing narrative. The foregoing is a classic example of gaslighting. Despite its words, ABOG’s threatening conduct tells a different story.
Exposing the Wizard: "I'm really a very good man; but I'm a very bad Wizard, I must admit"[11]
ABOG is not alone. Gaslighting has never before occurred as widely as it has during the COVID pandemic, with the pushing of experimental gene injections as the only effective, safe, and necessary option for all persons, even pregnant persons. ABOG, you have a golden opportunity to reverse course, taking a stance that is factual and scientifically grounded, and true to your words purporting to protect patients from harm – by retracting and revising your Statement Regarding Dissemination of COVID-19 Misinformation. Will you have the courage to do it? As an organization that professes to care about patients’ interests and safety, you may want to peruse the many testimonies of the vaccine injured on Real, Not Rare.[12] If you do, you will find the stories of many who have suffered serious, life-altering adverse effects from the experimental injections, almost all of which share remarkably similar characteristics and symptoms. These vaccine injuries appear to be vastly under-reported. Those who have the courage to come forward are frequently called crazy and accused of mental illness, thus enduring gaslighting by doctors, who often refuse to believe them. ABOG, instead of hiding behind euphemisms, false narratives, and other medical organization’s euphemistic verbiage, you can choose to take a bold stand for your patients and constituents and lead the way to exposing what is really going on. Will you do it? The EU in recent days has taken a bold step in this direction – warning that boosters risk adverse effects to the immune system and may not be warranted.[13] And a top Israel immunologist has recently followed suit, calling on its leaders at the Israeli Ministry of Heath to admit that the mass vaccination campaign has failed in Israel.[14]
There is an undeniable and growing body of peer-reviewed scientific evidence that these experimental gene therapy injections are unsafe and dangerous to both mothers, fetuses, newborns and infants. Indeed, since the publication and dissemination of ABOG’s Statement Regarding Dissemination of COVID-19 Misinformation, the Johnson & Johnson injection is no longer recommended for use after life-threatening blood clots and deaths have been linked to the injection.[15] This growing body of evidence credibly and scientifically calls into question the efficacy of these experimental gene therapeutic injections. As unprecedented numbers of new infections now make painfully clear, the experimental injections are proving to be wholly ineffective at preventing infection of the Omicron strain, the current dominant strain in the US. Multiple recent studies indicate that the vaccinated are more likely to be infected with Omicron than the unvaccinated. For example, numbers in a recent study from Denmark now show persons who received the experimental injections are up to 8 times more likely to develop Omicron that those persons who did not.[16] Multiple independent studies indicate that the more one vaccinates, the more one becomes susceptible to COVID-19 infection.[17] Recent studies also suggest that the COVID-19 gene therapy injections cause more COVID cases per million and more deaths per million associated with COVID.[18] Studies which show the experimental injections to be neither safe nor effective, but outright dangerous, are almost too numerous to count. Patient’s own brave testimonies on such sites as on Real, Not Rare, are heartbreaking. Continuing to require your constituents to push experimental COVID-19 gene therapy injections on patients in light of mounting evidence that they are neither safe nor effective is ignoring science and placing patients in grave danger. ABOG’s pushing the narrative that the experimental injections are safe and effective in the face of such evidence amounts to an egregious false misrepresentation and an intentional failure to disclose the truth to patients.
If ABOG truly cared about encouraging the practice of “evidence-based medicine based on facts and scientific data” and “acting in your patients’ bests interests” – as it claims in its Statement Regarding Dissemination of COVID-19 Misinformation – then it would retract its statement and the threats issued to its constituents. ABOG would welcome and consider independent, unbiased scientific data which seek to challenge the safety and efficacy of the gene therapy injections. ABOG would be willing to challenge the prevailing stakeholder consensus/orthodoxy/narrative that the experimental injections are safe, effective, and necessary. For ABOG to do less than the foregoing, while at the same time professing to care about science and patient safety, is nothing short of gaslighting.
We will continue to the Thorp Letter to ABOG in Part 3 (Substack #9) to be published here in 2-3 days.
James A. Thorp, MD
[1] In an open letter to Dr. Sanjay Gupta published on April 16, 2020, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., cogently defines COVID-19 vaccine misinformation as “a euphemism for any statement that departs from the Government / Pharma orthodoxy that all vaccines are safe necessary and effective for all people.” © May 9, 2020, Children’s Health Defense, Inc. “Flu Misinformation and Coronavirus Fears: My Letter to Dr. Sanjay Gupta,” Robert J. Kennedy, Jr., https://childrenshealthdefense.org/news/flu-misinformation-and-coronavirus-fears-my-letter-to-dr-sanjay-gupta/ . It should be noted that Robert J. Kennedy, Jr.’s letter was recently brought to my attention by Steve Kirsch’s Newsletter, “Who is the real misinformation spreader: RFK Jr of Sanjay Gupta?” Steve Kirsch, Jan. 11, 2021.
[2] FSMB, https://www.fsmb.org/advocacy/news-releases/fsmb-spreading-covid-19-vaccine-misinformation-may-put-medical-license-at-risk/ . The FSMB expressly notes that constituents must only share information that is both “scientifically grounded and consensus-driven for the betterment of public health.” (Emphasis supplied.)
[3] © May 9, 2020, Children’s Health Defense, Inc. “Flu Misinformation and Coronavirus Fears: MY Letter to Dr. Sanjay Gupta,” Robert J. Kennedy, Jr., https://childrenshealthdefense.org/news/flu-misinformation-and-coronavirus-fears-my-letter-to-dr-sanjay-gupta/. In his open letter to Dr. Sanjay Gupta published on April 16, 2020, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., defines COVID-19 vaccine misinformation as “a euphemism for any statement that departs from the Government / Pharma orthodoxy that all vaccines are safe necessary and effective for all people.” Robert J. Kennedy, Jr.’s letter was brought to my attention by Steve Kirsch, “Who is the real misinformation spreader: RFK Jr or Sanjay Gupta, , published Jan. 11, 2022.
[4] “Why Do We Use Euphemisms? Words of Comfort and Words of Deceit,” ThoughtCo., https://www.thoughtco.com/why-do-we-use-euphemisms-1692701 .
[5] “Gaslighting,” Psychology Today, https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/basics/gaslighting.
[6] Ashley Laderer, “How to Spot Gaslighting: 6 Things that Gaslighters Say to Manipulate You,” Insider: Health, July 23, 2021, https://www.insider.com/gaslighting-examples.
[7] Sherri Gordon, “What is Gaslighting?” VeryWellMind, Jan. 5, 2022. https://www.verywellmind.com/is-someone-gaslighting-you-4147470 .
[8] Sherri Gordon, “What is Gaslighting?” https://www.verywellmind.com/is-someone-gaslighting-you-4147470 .
[9] ABOG, https://www.abog.org/about-abog/news-announcements/2021/09/27/statement-regarding-dissemination-of-covid-19-misinformation .
[10] ABOG, https://www.abog.org/about-abog/news-announcements/2021/09/27/statement-regarding-dissemination-of-covid-19-misinformation , linking to FSMB, https://www.fsmb.org/advocacy/news-releases/fsmb-spreading-covid-19-vaccine-misinformation-may-put-medical-license-at-risk/.
[11] Quote from “The Wizard of Oz.”
[12] realnotrate.com.
[13] Reuters, “EU Drug Regulator Expresses Doubt on Need for Fourth Booster Dose,” Jan. 11, 2022, https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/eu-drug-regulator-says-more-data-needed-impact-omicron-vaccines-2022-01-11/ .
[14] Steve Kirsch, “Top Israeli Immunologist Criticizes Pandemic Response in Open Letter,” Jan 13, 2022, Steve Kirsch’s Newsletter.
[15] Berkeley Lovelace Jr. and Sara G. Miller, “CDC Recommends People not get J&J vaccine if Pfizer, Moderna are Available,” NBC News, Dec. 16, 2021, https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/cdc-panel-recommends-people-not-get-jj-vaccine-pfizer-moderna-availabl-rcna8987
[16] Steve Kirsch, “New Studies Show that the COVID Vaccines Damage your Immune System, Likely Permanently,” Steve Kirsch’s Newsletter, Dec. 24, 2021,
[17] Steve Kirsch, “Pfizer CEO says Two Covid Vaccine Doses Aren’t Enough for Omicron,” Steve Kirsch’s Newsletter, Jan. 10, 2022,
[18] Hannah Ritchie, Lucas Rodes-Guirao, Edouard Mathieu, et al, “Worldwide Bayesian Causal Impact Analysis of Vaccine Administration on Deaths and Cases Associated with COVID-19: A Big Data Analysis of 145 Countries,” Nov. 15, 2021, https://vector-news.github.io/editorials/CausalAnalysisReport_html.html