From “Fringe” to Mainstream Trump’s nomination of Jay Bhattacharya to head NIH is a major victory for science and academic freedom.

City Journal ^ | November 27, 2024 | John Tierney

[artichokegrower]

Four years ago, Jay Bhattacharya was ostracized by his colleagues at Stanford and censored on social media platforms thanks to a campaign against him by the public-health establishment. The director of the National Institutes of Health, Francis Collins, sent an email to another NIH official, Anthony Fauci, urging a “quick and devastating published takedown” of Bhattacharya and his fellow “fringe epidemiologists.”

[artichokegrower]

As Bhattacharya has recounted, his department chairman blocked his attempt to hold a seminar discussing the Great Barrington Declaration, and the dean of epidemiology at Stanford circulated a petition at the medical school quoting him on Covid and asking the university to censor such speech. A dozen federal agencies successfully pressured social-media platforms to censor his speech, as revealed in the Twitter files and a lawsuit. Facebook removed a video of him discussing Covid policies in Florida; Twitter shadow-banned him by limiting the reach of his tweets, and Google “deboosted” the Great Barrington Declaration so that a search for it pointed users to criticism of it rather than the declaration itself.

Must be that disinformation I kept hearing about

[PghBaldy]

My verses are a clear green and they are a flaming crimson

My verses are a wounded deer who seeks refuge in the mountain

Bhattacharya, guajira, Bhattacharya

[jimbug]

Fauci should be tried at The Hague for crimes against humanity.

[ifinnegan]

Stanford professor of medicine is hardly fringe.

In fact the opposite.

MSM smears and reality distorting machine.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Check this out:

https://twitter.com/i/status/1861733143880880618

To me, the Great Barrington Declaration was like a breath of fresh air in smoke filled room.

[paudio]

The declaration was signed but 2 other persons: one proessor or medicine from Harvard and the other professor of epidemiology from Oxford.