Posted on 11/28/2024 4:20:25 AM PST by george76
Bhattacharya is a champion of the people and real science, who vows to “reform American scientific institutions so that they are worthy of trust again.”
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Great Barrington Declaration, an open letter published in October 2020 that challenged the response to the covid pandemic lockdowns.
The declaration proposed an approach called “Focused Protection,” which advocated for allowing those at lower risk to resume normal life, implementing strong measures to protect high-risk populations, and reliance on widespread immunity through reliance on natural infection. If this guidance had been followed, our society’s massive and expensive damage could have been avoided.
It was authored and signed by three prominent epidemiologists: Jay Bhattacharya (Stanford University), Sunetra Gupta (University of Oxford), Jay Bhattacharya (Stanford University), and Martin Kulldorff (Harvard University).
Now, President-Elect Donald Trump has tapped Bhattacharya to head the National Institutes of Health.
President-elect Donald J. Trump said on Tuesday evening that he had selected Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, a Stanford physician and economist whose authorship of an anti-lockdown treatise during the coronavirus pandemic made him a central figure in a bitter public health debate, to be the director of the National Institutes of Health.
“Together, Jay and RFK Jr. will restore the NIH to a Gold Standard of Medical Research as they examine the underlying causes of, and solutions to, America’s biggest health challenges, including our Crisis of Chronic Illness and Disease,” Mr. Trump wrote on social media, referring to Robert F. Kennedy Jr., his choice to lead the N.I.H.’s parent agency, the Department of Health and Human Services.
If confirmed by the Senate, Dr. Bhattacharya would lead the world’s premier medical research agency, with a $48 billion budget and 27 separate institutes and centers, each with its own research agenda, focusing on different diseases like cancer and heart disease.
Of all the appointments Trump has made, this one brings me the most personal joy. To begin with, I consider this to be Trump’s way of making amends for relying on Dr. Anthony Fauci and Dr. Deborah Birx as “experts” during the pandemic.
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While the mainstream media derides Bhattacharya as a “COVID critic,” millions of Americans are celebrating him for his bravery in confronting the pseudoscience being foisted on the country.
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Bhattacharya’s stance was a brave one. After the declaration was published, he encountered an extremely hostile work environment. He received death threats and hate mail and dealt with needless and tedious scrutiny about his funding sources (despite most of his funding coming from the NIH). Furthermore, Stanford University’s leaders failed to support Bhattacharya and permitted the hostile work environment to continue.
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They banned and smeared him and now he is their boss. Congratulations NIH Director.. Jay Bhattacharya
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Bhattacharya was also a victim of the collusion between Big Pharma/Big Government and Twitter. The Twitter Files, spearheaded by Elon Musk and a group of independent journalists after Musk purchased the site, revealed that he was placed on Twitter’s “blacklist” and subjected to “visibility filtering”.
Bhattacharya was secretly blacklisted because he “argued that Covid lockdowns would harm children,” and was thus unable to trend on the platform, Weiss reported in a Twitter thread.
The medical professional spoke with Laura Ingraham about the revelation Thursday night.
On “The Ingraham Angle,” Bhattacharya said the suppression of his voice, which questioned much of Dr. Anthony Fauci’s guidance and the COVID-19 policies, ultimately harmed data, children and the American public.
He believes he was essentially silenced because the opposing “arguments were not strong enough to survive the light of day.”
“If we had an open discussion, Laura, the schools would not have closed in the fall of 2020. If we had an open discussion, the lockdowns would have been lifted much earlier because the data and evidence behind them was so bad,” he said on the show.
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Stanford’s Dr. Jay Bhattacharya who argued that Covid lockdowns would harm children. ( OLD ) Twitter secretly placed him on a “Trends Blacklist,” which prevented his tweets from trending.
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Bhattacharya has published over 150 articles in peer-reviewed scientific journals across various fields, including medicine, economics, health policy, and epidemiology. He is also the author of a widely used textbook on health economics.
Bhattacharya is a champion of the people and real science who is well-qualified to contain and control a mammoth agency.
The National Institutes of Health falls under HHS, which Trump has nominated Kennedy to oversee. The NIH’s $48 billion budget funds medical research on vaccines, cancer and other diseases through competitive grants to researchers at institutions across the nation. The agency also conducts its own research with thousands of scientists working at NIH labs in Bethesda, Maryland
This thanksgiving I am feeling the “JOY”
She will kill the livelihoods of independent contractors nationwide just like A.B. 5 did in California.
Battacharya argued that the Covid infection fatality rate was .2%, but in 2020 .5% of New York City died of Covid. He was a Chicken Little in reverse.
I don't trust much in the way of Covid statistics. We all know the hospitals went into gouge mode because of the boatloads of cash for anything Covid so people dying in a hospital with Covid but not by Covid was counted as a Covid death.
How many times have we all heard friends say, I didn’t know I had COVID till they told me. What utter horse crap.
How better to convince people that it's so widespread everything and everyone is a danger? That even if you aren't sick and have no symptoms YOU'RE STILL A THREAT?
Subtract the ones who "died with Covid" and all the ones who died unnecessarily on ventilators, in nursing homes and without early treatment medicines.
A perfect Conservative example of “speaking truth to power”.
There’s a huge disconnect between this sane doctor and the vax- and mask-loving Surgeon General. She has to be kicked to the curb.
Forcing people to take a shot and lock down is what fascists do.
Have you gotten all your boosters yet? You can have all of mine!
Fauxi——
Nuremberg 2.0
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