How Data Compelled a Columbia U Researcher to Fight Mandates: A Conversation with Dr. Spiro Pantazatos

The tide is turning.

This story is about Dr. Spiro Pantazatos, Assistant Professor of Clinical Neurobiology at Columbia University, who has been previously featured in my Honest People Series and also in a longer article I wrote for Dr. Mercola (republished by the Epoch Times). I recently had the joy of interviewing Dr. Pantazatos, and he has an important update that I want to share.

Background story

When COVID hit, Dr. Pantazatos did not see any reasons to doubt the establishment narrative. In fact, early on, he felt very scared of the pandemic and planned to stay home until there were vaccines.

When Dr. Herve Seligmann, who later co-authored a paper with Dr. Pantazatos, analyzed European data and showed that vaccination campaigns seemed to be accompanied by an increase in all-cause mortality during the following month, Dr. Pantazatos found the findings alarming and wanted to see for himself.

So he looked at the U.S. CDC data—and was able to verify the trend. In October 2021, he co-authored a paper on risk…