The COVID Response: What We Got Wrong
The Government Censored Them and They Fought Back
Dr. Jay Bhattacharya
The Biden administration (along with the Justice Department, the FDA, and the FBI) has waged an all-out war against anyone – especially doctors and medical researchers – that questioned the CDC’s original claims about COVID and the measures taken to protect Americans against it.
Everyone that has not been living under a mountain of NYT and Washington Post newspapers is now aware that most of what the Biden administration and the CDC said about the danger of the virus and the effectiveness of the lockdowns and masking and vaccines was largely false. But that didn’t stop the Justice Department, the FDA, and the FBI from going after the early skeptics with every tactic they could muster.
Here’s an account (sent to me by LC) of what happened to Dr. Jay Bhattacharya (Stanford School of Medicine), one of the plaintiffs in a case presented by the New Civil Liberties Alliance against the Biden administration.
“I have been a professor researching health policy and infectious disease epidemiology at a world-class university for decades,” writes Bhattacharya. “I am not a political person; I am not registered with either party. In part that is because I want to preserve my total independence as a scientist. I have always viewed my job as telling people honestly about the data issues, regardless of whether Democrats or Republicans like the message. Yet at the height of the pandemic, I found myself smeared for my supposed political views, and my views about COVID policy and epidemiology were removed from the public square on all manner of social networks.”
The aim of the lawsuit (Missouri v. Biden) was to end the government’s role in the censorship of scientific findings. And last week, they finally won a small victory in federal appeals court.
“The decision provides some solace for scientists who had deep reservations about lockdowns but censored themselves for fear of the reputational damage that came with being falsely labeled misinformers,” says Bhattacharya. “They were not wrong in thinking science wasn’t working right; science cannot function without free speech.”
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