Education
First, let’s look at his education from his LinkedIn profile.
North Lake College is a community college in the Dallas area. I find it odd that someone pursuing a biology degree would choose BYU for that program across the country unless they were going there for their religious studies as well.
Ardis only has a “doctor” of chiropractic, i.e., not a real medical doctor, which is why he makes so many false claims. The entire chiropractic profession started by Daniel David Palmer, who was a “magnetic healer” (maybe Sherry Tenpenny should have been a chiropractor). He claimed that “95 percent of diseases are caused by displaced vertebrae; the remainder by luxations of other joints.” Even those with a basic education can see how big of a lie that claim is. It’s not at all surprising that it arose in parallel with the interest in spiritualism (think Ouija boards and seances) at the time.
While some may find some small benefit from chiropractic maneuvers from a musculoskeletal perspective, it is largely alternative “medicine” that overlaps with quackery and lacks rigorous evidence for its claims.
His Lies
- July 21, 2020 (Thrivetime Show) – “Dr. Bryan Ardis explains how the COVID-19 protocols that hospitals are required to follow are literally killing patients including his own father-in-law.” He makes far more conspiracy claims here to mention and also stated that he got belligerent with the actual physicians there and was telling them how to treat his relative. Security removed him. One of the things he was blaming was Remdesivir, but of course had nothing to back his claims.
- April 11, 2022 (Stew Peters Network) – He claimed that COVID was due to snake venom poisoning. He then exhibits his complete inability to understand scientific literature and tries to link the claims of inefficacy of hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin to trying not to treat snake venom poisoning. He’s nothing more than a conspiracy theorist at this point. He then continues down the Sherry Tenpenny magnetic particles in vaccines lies. Worse, he tries to claim that the wastewater testing is evidence that they are putting the venom in the water. Later in the video, he blames the Catholic Church. The level of conspiracy theory just in this video should be sufficient evidence that he’s not at all worth listening to about science and medicine.
- July 22, 2022 (Doug Mastriano “expert panel”) – The other three “experts” on this panel were Peter McCullough, Steve Kirsch, and Thomas Renz, which says plenty on its own. The page for the panel describes Ardis as a “medical researcher,” but he has ZERO training to be listed as such, so his research falls under what I have previously written about people who say “Do your own research.”
On the panel, he claimed “remdesivir is killing people… remdesivir is proven to kill lives.” The Atlanta Voice called him out on that, but of course he didn’t respond.
- April 10, 2024 (The Dr. Ardis Show) – The description of the show states he “presents evidence suggesting that nicotine may have therapeutic effects, particularly in treating diseases like Parkinson’s and multiple sclerosis.” It’s ironic, because he never presents evidence. If there were, he would provide links to studies backing his claims. The evidence is clear again him.
That’s just a sampling of his lies. There are many more. If you want to see other articles about his nonsense, see the page about him on Science Feedback.
This is a more accurate profile picture for him.
