Andrew G. Bostom

Andrew Gould Bostom (born 1955 or 1956)[2] is an American author, physician and critic of Islam, who is a former associate professor of medicine and researcher at Brown University Medical School.

[6][7] Bostom grew up in New York City, lived in Queens most of his early life and went to medical school in Brooklyn,[8] receiving his MD from SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University College of Medicine in 1990.

[9] In 2007, it was reported that Bostom had been awarded a $19.6 million federal grant to fund five more years of research at Rhode Island Hospital into ways to reduce heart attack and stroke in kidney transplant patients.

[6] The one tweet still considered to be in violation reportedly cited data that was found to be "legitimate but inconvenient to the public health establishment's narrative about the risks of flu versus Covid in children.

[33] In 2021, citing his connections to Brown University and his experience with clinical trials, Bostom testified as an expert witness in epidemiology for litigants who sought to overturn mask requirements for Rhode Island schoolchildren in Superior Court.