The controversial professor Christian Perronne, much appreciated by conspiratorial circles for his criticisms of health policy, was sanctioned by the APHP.

Thursday evening, he was dismissed from his post as head of the infectious diseases department at Garches hospital for "remarks considered unworthy of the function he performs".

Professor Christian Perronne was dismissed Thursday evening by the APHP, from his duties as Head of the Infectious Diseases Service at Raymond-Poincaré Hospital in Garches.

The doctor has become one of the most prominent "white coats" in the conspiracy sphere, for his recurring comments against the measures taken (or not) by the authorities in the fight against Covid-19.

The press release which motivates the decision thus evokes "remarks considered unworthy of the function which he exercises".

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Comments that he has multiplied in the media and in a book, which is a hit in bookstores: more than 90,000 sales in six months, or even more than Professor Raoult's book.

Like the Marseille researcher, Christian Perronne widely defended hydroxychloroquine, judging in particular that "these deaths [from Covid] could have been avoided if we had treated everyone, immediately, with hydroxychloroquine. fear the doctors not to prescribe it. " 

These remarks, moreover invalidated by several large-scale studies, had earned Professor Perronne a first letter from the APHP Ethics Council this summer.

Since then, he has also claimed that wearing the mask lowers the level of oxygen in the blood, which is not true.

He risks disciplinary complaints

He also said that Covid-19 patients were a financial boon for doctors, on Sud Radio, explaining that a "general practitioner who declares a Covid test for one of his patients is getting money. So he better to do a lot of tests and luckily every now and then he'll get one that is positive and that's the jackpot for hospitals and wards. "

It is in particular these words that the APHP considers today "unworthy of the function which it exercises".

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But Christian Perronne has also slipped into conspiracy about vaccines.

"We want to impose all this on us so that the French crack down by saying 'we take off your mask if you accept the vaccine'. I think that there is a manipulation of science, by whom, by what, I do not know . After that it's not for me to say who it is. "

He now risks disciplinary proceedings since the APHP has filed a complaint with the Order of Physicians.