Are Viruses Real? Dr. Tom Cowan Gives His Views on Viruses

Hey, I'd like to welcome you to another episode of Mission Matters. My name is Adam Torres. And if you'd like to apply to be a guest in the show, just head on over to missionmatters. com and click on be our guest to apply. All right. So today's guest is Dr. Tom Cowan, and he's an author, speaker and influencer over at Dr. Tom Cowan, LLC. Tom, welcome to the show. Thanks, Adam. Good to meet you. All right. So we got a lot to talk about today. I want to get into your work. I want to get into, you know, how you got started and a whole lot more, but just to get us kicked off, we'll start this episode the way that we start them all with what we like to call our mission matters minute. So Tom at mission matters, our aim and our goal is to amplify stories for entrepreneurs, executives, and experts. That's our mission. Tom, what mission matters to you? It's a good question. I think right now my mission is I. See that we're living in a culture where people are basically scientifically illiterate, including the doctors and scientists or so called scientists. And my mission is to try to help them understand how to think logically, rationally, and scientifically. It's great. It's great having you on the show. And before we get into your work, maybe talk a little bit more about your background and how you got started, maybe in medicine. So, you know, sort of usual upbringing with the idea that I should be a doctor. A lot of people, my family knew my father and grandfather were dentists. I didn't really like it. So I tried to join the, I joined the Peace Corps and taught gardening. I learned there that there was another way to be a doctor than what I had learned. So that allowed me to go into medicine. And then I did that, did some family medicine and worked in emergency room. And basically my whole career, I tried to figure out what in what I learned and in medicine was actually true. And what was just a story that is not true. I wrote a bunch of books on that. The heart doesn't pump the blood blocked. Arteries don't cause heart attacks. Cancer has nothing to do with genetics. Vaccines are. Neither safe nor effective and then viruses aren't real and on and on Did you always have that curiosity from like a younger age? I'm always like did you have that curiosity in you would you say about how the world works or otherwise? Yep, I never believed in what I was told. I don't know why Yeah, my mother used to remark on that. And I don't know where that came from. I actually think it's an interesting thing. I've heard this from Mr. Rogers once because I actually had a difficult time with my father, which means that I didn't believe in authority, right? He's the authority figure in my life. And I had all these doctors in my life who were authority figures and I didn't believe what they were saying. And so I learned at an early age. That authority isn't what it was cracked up to be. Yeah. So when you were going through like your, your studies and like things like that at school, especially in your advanced education, that had to be a little tricky, right? Like you're reading things and do you, do you have like that extra layer on your, in your mind or something? That's like, okay, I hear this, but is this true? Like, do you have that? I did. And I went through medical school, essentially telling them the right answers, but not so they would say, so what's the treatment for strep throat. And I would say, pen VK two 50 QID for 10 days. That's it. And they would say, you don't seem very enthusiastic about that. And I would say, that's the right answer. You asked me a question. I gave you the answer. That's all I needed to do. So it was obviously that's the recall memory and all the other things that you're able to do to figure out what they had there. When did that? I was good in school. Yeah, well, obviously to do the work and to crank out the books and to do everything else you're doing. I didn't think that you had any problem with that. I was just curious about the way that you think, because especially as we go further into like the topic and what you propose in your work. I feel like that had to have been a thing. theme throughout. And so I'm curious if it was kind of a build up or was there a moment when, when you decided, you know, I have to do something about this. I have to, because you're really, and I'm using these words, not you. So correct me if you would, if you would propose it differently. But from my vantage point, it's like you're on a crusade to really educate people about a lot of maybe miseducation or thing or things or concepts that they feel are true that may not be true. Like, was there, so was there a moment or was that like a progression? Like, like, how did that, was there a tipping point? Like, help me there. Yeah. I don't know that there was a tipping point. It was always something I was interested in, but the real turning point for me came when I started to understand. That, and this, I actually heard a

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