Posted on 12/24/2021 1:57:49 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) and its top officials are doubling down on criticism of the Great Barrington Declaration after emails showed they quickly moved last year to oppose it.
The declaration, penned last year, said lockdowns were producing negative short- and long-term effects on public health, such as lower childhood vaccination rates, fewer cancer screenings, and worsening mental health. The experts who signed on called for focusing COVID-19 prevention efforts on the most vulnerable, particularly the elderly, while loosening restrictions on the young and healthy, who are at little risk of developing severe COVID-19.
Dr. Martin Kulldorff, at the time a professor of medicine at Harvard University, Dr. Sunetra Gupta, an epidemiologist at Oxford University, and Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, an epidemiologist at Stanford University Medical School, signed the declaration, as did hundreds of other medical experts.
But top officials in the United States government were displeased with the declaration, which they felt wasn’t based on sound science. New emails obtained and published by the American Institute for Economic Research (AIER) and a congressional panel (pdf) show Dr. Francis Collins, who just stepped down as head of the NIH, directed a top subordinate, Dr. Anthony Fauci, to publish “a quick and devastating published takedown” of the declaration’s premises.
Fauci ended up going on television to criticize the declaration while Collins spoke publicly about his opposition to the Washington Post. Fauci also sent links to two op-eds he said “debunked” and served as a “refutation” of the approach promoted by the declaration, the 2020 emails show.
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Dr. Martin Kulldorff, at the time a professor of medicine at Harvard University, Dr. Sunetra Gupta, an epidemiologist at Oxford University, and Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, an epidemiologist at Stanford University Medical School,
Just a bunch of no-account, unaccomplished, uneducated Neanderthal hacks.
wikepedia....right
“Fauci also sent links to two op-eds he said ‘debunked’ and served as a ‘refutation’ of the approach promoted by the declaration, the 2020 emails show.”
Medical professionals argue that lockdowns had negative effects, and their reasonable arguments can be “debunked”?
Wikipedia? A source of unbiased political analysis? Ya,sure!
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