they’re doing blatant anti turd campaigns saying “he’s a PhD not a real doctor!”

meanwhile he has an PhD AND an MD

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https://www.cancercareinstitute.com/about-us/catherine-k-su-md-d-a-b-r-board-certified-radiation-oncologist/

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there were a lot of docs and scientists who early on spoke the truth about Covid but most caved in under shitlib pressure cuz they have “careers” and “families”

this guy withstood it all and came out looking like a knight in shining armor

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https://youtu.be/oIOGUYOPAsA?si=b92kcZQoqP7QTvau

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and do not forget his fellow Stanford hero, John Ioannidis.

finally, do not forget that Stanford shat on Atlas for telling the truth and Stanford never stepped forward to support Bhattcharya or Ioannidis. wtf, Stanford?

Stanford also housed a "scholar," Kate Starboard, who has championed political censorship.

wtf, Stanford?

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Jay, who holds both an MD as well as a PhD in economics, is a professor at Stanford University.

During the COVID years he had to endure the slings and arrows of mental and moral midgets who were unfit to shine his shoes.

He correctly spoke out against the useless and evil lockdown policy as well as much of the rest of the madness.

Now that it's obvious that none of those things did any good, and simply destroyed millions of lives for no good reason, some people are trying to pretend they never supported any of it.

But we remember the truth, and how those people behaved toward decent people and brilliant scientists like Jay.

Jay was smeared by Francis Collins, who was director of the very institution Jay will now direct, as a "fringe epidemiologist" because he correctly insisted that lockdowns were no part of any pandemic policy ever proposed anywhere.

Collins has since admitted that his institution had major blind spots during COVID. But Jay wasn't blind. The mild-mannered Jay Bhattacharya, who never sought the spotlight but was forced into it by events, spoke the truth from day one, and for that he has the gratitude of all thinking people everywhere.

https://x.com/thomasewoods/status/1861592650388000865

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5640630&forum_id=2).#48391461)

https://archive.ph/PAsTI

https://www.publichealth.pitt.edu/sites/default/files/styles/person_image/public/person-img/S%20Albert%20Sept%202022r.png?h=dda2df64&itok=Dhq5DuMJ

Albert's masters degree was in "Social Thought" and his PhD was in Anthropology. He works at the U. Pitt. School of Public Health where he is the Hallen Chair of Community Health and Social Justice. he has described himself as a "representative of medicine in Israel."

Albert was repeatedly wrong about how to respond to COVID and in October 2020 criticized the Great Barrington Declaration in an article that has aged like milk left on the dashboard on a hot day.

pushback against the SA article here:

https://www.theblaze.com/news/scientific-american-attacks-bhattacharya-proving-once-again-it-prioritizes-agenda-over-science

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5640630&forum_id=2).#48498923)

that Fauci and Collins worked behind the scenes to trash the lab leak theory and then tout the resulting papers as if they were independently written? we have the emails. and the infamous "Proximate Origins" paper is now being defended, if at all, as just one person's subjective opinion.

that the death rate was a fraction of 1% rather than the UN's infamous 3.5% projection? well, the numbers are in. Trump's widely decried statement -- that it would be less than 1% -- has been proven as fact.

that there was political suppression of the lab leak theory? the evidence is overwhelming and now the MSM has finally made the story legitimate.

that the better course would have been to focus on the vulnerable and not to shut down the lives of people at very low risk? are you mentally living in the early months of 2020?

so, what's the conspiracy the Dem senators will pin on Bhattacharya?

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Silence of the labs: How a censorship campaign failed to kill a COVID origin theory

by Jonathan Turley, opinion contributor - 12/28/24 10:30 AM ET

This week, the Wall Street Journal released an alarming report on how the Biden administration may have suppressed dissenting views supporting the lab theory on the origin of the COVID-19 virus. Not only were the FBI and its top experts excluded from a critical briefing of President Biden, but government scientists were reportedly warned that they were “off the reservation” in supporting the lab theory.

The chilling suggestion is that, despite the virus ultimately killing more than 1.2 million Americans and over 7 million people worldwide, there was still an overriding interest in the administration to downplay the Chinese responsibility for the pandemic.

The Journal lays out how that unfolded, but the more disturbing question is why.

The article provides many examples of how dissenting views were marginalized and discouraged within the government. After President Trump described the virus as the “China virus” and alleged that it likely came from a lab, dismissing the lab theory became an article of faith in politics and academia.

The problem was that FBI researchers had concluded that the lab theory was the most credible explanation. But their lead researcher, Dr. Jason Bannan, was kept out of the key meeting, and their opposing research was discounted or ignored.

They were not alone. The Journal reported that Defense Department experts John Hardham, Robert Cutlip and Jean-Paul Chretien conducted a genomic analysis that found evidence of human manipulation of the virus. It also concluded that it was done using a specific technique developed by the Chinese at the Wuhan lab. They suggested that the Chinese appeared to have altered the “spike protein” that enables the virus to enter the human body in a “gain of function” operation.

They were reportedly told to stop sharing their work and warned that they had to effectively get with the team. Later, the three wrote an unclassified May 2020 paper that was prevented from being shown outside the medical intelligence center.

At the same time, letters and articles that dismissed the lab theory were organized for public consumption. The government worked with social media companies to censor those with opposing views.

Much of the media showed the same confirmation bias and intolerance. During the Trump presidency, many journalists used the rejection of the lab theory to paint Trump as a bigot. By the time Biden became president, not only were certain government officials heavily invested in the zoonotic or natural origin theory, but so were many in the media.

Reporters used opposition to the lab theory as another opportunity to pound their chests and signal their virtue.

MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace mocked Trump and others for spreading one of his favorite “conspiracy theories.” MSNBC’s Kasie Hunt insisted that “we know it’s been debunked that this virus was manmade or modified,”

MSNBC’s Joy Reid also called the lab leak theory “debunked bunkum,” while CNN reporter Drew Griffin criticized spreading the “widely debunked” theory. CNN host Fareed Zakaria told viewers that “the far right has now found its own virus conspiracy theory” in the lab leak.

NBC News’s Janis Mackey Frayer described it as the “heart of conspiracy theories.”

The Washington Post was particularly dogmatic. When Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark) raised the theory, he was chastised for “repeat[ing] a fringe theory suggesting that the ongoing spread of a coronavirus is connected to research in the disease-ravaged epicenter of Wuhan, China.”

Likewise, after Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) mentioned the lab theory, Post Fact Checker Glenn Kessler mocked him: “I fear @tedcruz missed the scientific animation in the video that shows how it is virtually impossible for this virus jump from the lab. Or the many interviews with actual scientists. We deal in facts, and viewers can judge for themselves.”

As these efforts failed and more information emerged supporting the lab theory, many media figures just looked at their shoes and shrugged. Others became more ardent. In 2021, New York Times science and health reporter Apoorva Mandavilli was still calling on reporters not to mention the “racist” lab theory.

In Kessler’s case, he wrote that the lab theory was “suddenly credible” as if it had sprung from the head of Zeus rather than having been supported for years by scientists, many of whom had been canceled and banned.

One fact, however, is already well established. The suppression of the lab theory and the targeting of dissenting scientists show the true cost of censorship and viewpoint intolerance.

The very figures claiming to battle “disinformation” were suppressing opposing views that have now been vindicated as credible. It was not only the lab theory. In my recent book, I discuss how signatories of the Great Barrington Declaration were fired or disciplined by their schools or associations for questioning COVID-19 policies.

Some experts questioned the efficacy of surgical masks, the scientific support for the six-foot rule and the necessity of shutting down schools. The government has now admitted that many of these objections were valid and that it did not have hard science to support some of the policies. While other allies in the West did not shut down their schools, we never had any substantive debate due to the efforts of this alliance of academic, media and government figures.

Not only did millions die from the pandemic, but the United States is still struggling with the educational and mental health consequences of shutting down all our public schools. That is the true cost of censorship when the government works with the media to stifle scientific debate and public disclosures.

Many still hope that Congress and the incoming Trump administration will conduct a long-needed investigation into the origins to allow for a more credible and open debate. That hope was increased by the nomination of Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, one of the organizers of the Great Barrington Declaration, to be the next head of the National Institutes of Health.

The suppression of the lab theory proves the ultimate fallacy of censorship. Throughout history, censorship has never succeeded. It has never stopped a single idea or a movement. It has a perfect failure rate. Ideas, like water, have a way of finding their way out in time.

Yet, as the last few years have shown, it does succeed in imposing costs on those with dissenting views. For years, figures like Bhattacharya (who was recently awarded the prestigious Intellectual Freedom Award by the American Academy of Sciences and Letters) were hounded and marginalized.

Others opposed Bhattacharya’s right to offer his scientific views, even under oath. For example, in one hearing, Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-Ill.) expressed disgust that Bhattacharya was even allowed to testify as “a purveyor of COVID-19 misinformation.”

Los Angeles Times columnist Michael Hiltzik decried an event associated with Bhattacharya, writing that “we’re living in an upside-down world” because Stanford University allowed dissenting scientists to speak at a scientific forum. Hiltzik also wrote a column titled “The COVID lab leak claim isn’t just an attack on science, but a threat to public health.”

One of the saddest aspects of this story is that many of these figures in government, academia and the media were not necessarily trying to shield China. Some were motivated by their investment in the narrative while others were drawn by the political and personal benefits that came from joining the mob against a minority of scientists.

We have paid too high a cost to simply shrug with the media and walk away. It is a question not only of whether China is responsible for millions of deaths but of whether our own government effectively helped conceal its culpability.

Jonathan Turley is the Shapiro professor of public interest law at George Washington University and the author of “The Indispensable Right: Free Speech in an Age of Rage.”

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