Russell Blaylock

Blaylock completed his general surgical internship and neurosurgical residency at the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston, SC.{{cite web |url=http://www.russellblaylockmd.com |title=Russell Blaylock's website |publisher=Russellblaylockmd.com |access-date=2010-01-13 |archive-date=2014-05-31 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140531195023/http://www.russellblaylockmd.com/ |url-status=live }} He was licensed to practice Neurological Surgery in North Carolina between May 6, 1977, and December 15, 2006.{{cite web |url=http://www.docboard.org/nc/ |title=North Carolina Medical Board |publisher=Docboard.org |access-date=2010-01-13 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100127043600/http://www.docboard.org/nc/ |archive-date=2010-01-27 }} Along with Ludwig G. Kempe, Blaylock published a novel transcallosal approach to excising intraventricular meningiomas of the trigone.{{cite journal |last1=Jun |first1=Cecil L. |last2=Nutik |first2=Stephen L. |title=Surgical Approaches to Intraventricular Meningiomas of the Trigone |journal=Neurosurgery |date=March 1985 |volume=16 |issue=3 |pages=416–420 |doi=10.1227/00006123-198503000-00025 |pmid=3982626 }}{{cite journal|title=Lateral-trigonal intraventricular tumors. A new operative approach. | pmid=998353 | volume=35 | issue=4 | author=Kempe LG, Blaylock R | journal=Acta Neurochir (Wien) | pages=233–42 | doi=10.1007/bf01406119| year=1976 | s2cid=31659187 }} He is retired as a clinical assistant professor of neurosurgery from the University of Mississippi Medical Center, and is currently a visiting professor in the biology department at Belhaven University, a Christian university in Mississippi.{{cite web |url=http://www.belhaven.edu/ |title=Belhaven University website |publisher=Belhaven.edu |access-date=2010-01-13 |archive-date=2010-01-17 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100117044834/http://www.belhaven.edu/ |url-status=live }} He is associated with the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons and was on the editorial board of their journal.{{When|date=October 2009}}{{cite web

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Blaylock claims that numerous substances are toxic and dangerous at typical use levels even though scientific studies rate them safe at customary exposure levels. He has been quoted several times in media outlets regarding his position that MSG is toxic to the brain.[http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-391098_ITM A game of hide and seek. (hidden MSG in processed foods) originally printed in Vegetarian Times, September 01, 1998] AccessMyLibrary record.{{cite web |url=http://www.sptimes.com/2005/09/25/Perspective/Want_full_disclosure_.shtml |title=Want full disclosure with that meal? St. Petersburg Times September 25, 2005 |publisher=Sptimes.com |access-date=2010-01-13 |archive-date=2010-01-06 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100106075326/http://www.sptimes.com/2005/09/25/Perspective/Want_full_disclosure_.shtml |url-status=live }}{{cite news |url=https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/chicagotribune/access/24093566.html?dids=24093566:24093566&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Jul+28%2C+1994&author=Steven+Pratt%2C+Tribune+Staff+Writer.&pub=Chicago+Tribune+(pre-1997+Fulltext)&desc=FLAVOR-ENHANCING+MSG+IS+EVERYWHERE%2C+BUT+IS+IT+HARMLESS+OR+AN+%22EXCITOTOXIN%22%3F&pqatl=google |title=FLAVOR-ENHANCING MSG IS EVERYWHERE, BUT IS IT HARMLESS OR AN "EXCITOTOXIN"? Chicago Tribune July 28, 1994 |publisher=Pqasb.pqarchiver.com |date=1994-07-28 |access-date=2010-01-13 |first=Steven |last=Pratt |archive-date=2012-10-22 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121022225211/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/chicagotribune/access/24093566.html?dids=24093566:24093566&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Jul+28,+1994&author=Steven+Pratt,+Tribune+Staff+Writer.&pub=Chicago+Tribune+(pre-1997+Fulltext)&desc=FLAVOR-ENHANCING+MSG+IS+EVERYWHERE,+BUT+IS+IT+HARMLESS+OR+AN+%22EXCITOTOXIN%22%3F&pqatl=google |url-status=dead }} He also states that the widely used artificial sweetener aspartame is toxic{{cite web |url=http://fredericksburg.com/News/FLS/2001/092001/09102001/375784 |title=Sugar substitutes aren't always so healthy The Free Lance-Star September 10, 2001 |publisher=Fredericksburg.com |date=2001-10-09 |access-date=2010-01-13 |archive-date=2012-03-07 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120307085336/http://fredericksburg.com/News/FLS/2001/092001/09102001/375784 |url-status=live }}{{cite web|url=http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-21045261_ITM |title=How sweet it isn't? Natural alternatives to sugar, minus the calories and carcinogens.(Eating Right) E Magazine November 01, 2003 |publisher=Accessmylibrary.com |date=2003-11-01 |access-date=2010-01-13}} and may be the cause of multiple sclerosis.Excitotoxins: The Taste That Kills Health Press, 1994. {{ISBN|0-929173-14-7}} He has additionally cautioned against heavy use of the artificial sweetener Splenda (sucralose).Gogoi, Pallavi, edited by Beth Belton. [http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/feb2005/tc2005022_7832_tc024.htm How Far from Sugar Is Splenda?] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100111042749/http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/feb2005/tc2005022_7832_tc024.htm |date=2010-01-11 }}, BusinessWeek Online, McGraw Hill, February 2, 2005. Retrieved 2009-10-15. These positions are not supported by scientific consensus or regulatory bodies, as extensive studies support the safety of aspartame, sucralose, and MSG.{{cite journal |vauthors=Grice HC, Goldsmith LA |title=Sucralose--an overview of the toxicity data |journal=Food Chem Toxicol |volume=38 |issue=Suppl 2 |pages=S1–6 |year=2000 |pmid=10882813 |doi=10.1016/S0278-6915(00)00023-5 }}

Blaylock has called the American medical system 'collectivist' and has suggested that health-care reform efforts under President Obama were masterminded by extragovernmental groups that wish to impose euthanasia.{{cite news|url=http://www2.canada.com/montrealgazette/columnists/story.html?id=09b61c39-7287-4c58-a041-86c9c24799af&p=1|title=it's all a plot to anti-vaccination conspiracy nuts|newspaper=Montreal Gazette|date=8 November 2009|first=Joe|last=Schwarcz|access-date=12 June 2013|archive-date=16 January 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140116100429/http://www2.canada.com/montrealgazette/columnists/story.html?id=09b61c39-7287-4c58-a041-86c9c24799af&p=1|url-status=live}} He blamed the purported collectivism of American medicine for the retirement of his friend Miguel Faria. According to Blaylock, the former Soviet Union tried to spread collectivism by covertly introducing illegal drugs and various sexually transmitted diseases into the United States. Schwarcz characterized these positions as "conspiracy theories."

Blaylock supports various COVID-19 conspiracy theories, writing that, "The COVID-19 pandemic is one of the most manipulated infectious disease events in history, characterized by official lies in an unending stream led by government bureaucracies, medical associations, medical boards, the media, and international agencies" and that the COVID-19 vaccine is a "Dangerous, essentially untested experimental vaccine." He also refers in his writing to "The designers of this pandemic..."{{cite journal |last1=Blaylock |first1=Russell |title=COVID UPDATE: What is the truth? |journal=Surgical Neurology International |date=22 April 2022 |volume=13 |page=167 |doi=10.25259/SNI_150_2022 |pmid=35509555 |pmc=9062939 }} In 2020, Blaylock baselessly claimed that wearing face masks helps SARS-CoV-2 enter the brain.{{Cite web |last=Teoh |first=Flora |date=2020-05-19 |title=No evidence that using a face mask helps coronavirus enter the brain, contrary to claim by Russell Blaylock |url=https://science.feedback.org/review/no-evidence-that-using-a-face-mask-helps-coronavirus-enter-the-brain-contrary-to-claim-by-russell-blaylock/ |access-date=2024-09-11 |website=Science Feedback |language=en-GB}}

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