WSJ
In public, Anthony Fauci and Francis Collins urge Americans to “follow the science.” In private, the two sainted public-health officials schemed to quash dissenting views from top scientists. That’s the troubling but fair conclusion from emails obtained recently via the Freedom of Information Act by the American Institute for Economic Research.
The tale unfolded in October 2020 after the launch of the Great Barrington Declaration, a statement by Harvard’s Martin Kulldorff, Oxford’s Sunetra Gupta and Stanford’s Jay Bhattacharya against blanket pandemic lockdowns. They favored a policy of what they called “focused protection” of high-risk populations such as the elderly or those with medical conditions. Thousands of scientists signed the declaration—if they were able to learn about it. We tried to give it some elevation on these pages.
That didn’t please the lockdown consensus enforced by public-health officials and the press. Dr. Collins, the director of the National Institutes of Health until Sunday, sent an email on Oct. 8, 2020, to Dr. Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.“This proposal from the three fringe epidemiologists . . . seems to be getting a lot of attention – and even a co-signature from Nobel Prize winner Mike Leavitt at Stanford. There needs to be a quick and devastating published take down of its premises,” Dr. Collins wrote. “Is it underway?”
These researchers weren’t fringe and neither was their opposition to quarantining society. But in the panic over the virus, these two voices of science used their authority to stigmatize dissenters and crush debate. A week after his email, Dr. Collins spoke to the Washington Post about the Great Barrington Declaration. “This is a fringe component of epidemiology,” he said. “This is not mainstream science. It’s dangerous.” His message spread and the alternative strategy was dismissed in most precincts.
Dr. Fauci replied to Dr. Collins that the takedown was underway. An article in Wired, a tech-news site, denied there was any scientific divide and argued lockdowns were a straw man—they weren’t coming back. If only it were true. The next month cases rose and restrictions returned.
Dr. Fauci also emailed an article from the Nation, a left-wing magazine, and his staff sent him several more. The emails suggest a feedback loop: The media cited Dr. Fauci as an unquestionable authority, and Dr. Fauci got his talking points from the media. Facebook censored mentions of the Great Barrington Declaration. This is how groupthink works.
On CBS last month, Dr. Fauci said Republicans who criticize him are “really criticizing science, because I represent science. That’s dangerous.” He isn’t “science.” And it’s also dangerous for scientific officials to mobilize to quash dissent, without which it’s easy to make tragic mistakes. A scientific debate over pandemic policy was and still is in the public interest, especially during a once-in-a-century plague.
Focused protection of nursing homes and other high-risk populations remains the policy road not taken during the pandemic. Perhaps this strategy wouldn’t have prevailed if a debate had been allowed. But it isn’t enough to repeat, as Dr. Collins did on Fox News Sunday, that advocates are “fringe epidemiologists who really did not have the credentials,” and that “hundreds of thousands of people would have died if we had followed that strategy.”
The Great Barrington Declaration blows hole in the CCP virus propaganda. And, because they spoke out against the medical industrial complex their decades of intellectual experience and study is now blacklisted.
The men who participated in this study have been politically expelled from their recommendations because they do not agree with the propagandists.
What about the “damaging physical and mental health impacts” of 810 thousand COVID deaths over less than 2 years?
Ask your boy Biden.
The COVID deaths are his fault.
So the right now acknowledges that the COVID deaths have actually occurred? This might be progress.
You really are the village idiot. No one ever denied that some people have died of COVID. Many have commented on the huge number who died from not adequately been treated and those who died from the “vaccine”. The issue here is that an experimental drug is being forced on people which is a violation of the Nurenberg Protocol. That is against World Law. Also, there is another issue in the law suit that available and vetted treatment processes were available but were denied to patients by political and financial lobbyist. That is the criminal charges. Guess what, Biden can be charged as a criminal by the World Court since he interfered in medical treatment.
810 THOUSAND have died in the US because of COVID, and thousands more will die, because they have been convinced by crackpots not to be vaccinated and to ignore masking protocol.
Total bullshit
Donald Trump has had his two COVID vaccinations plus a booster. Do you think HE’S an idiot? Apparently he doesn’t think naturally acquired immunity from having COVID is enough.
The moon is no longer full greggie, you can cease your howling!
Sadly, science does not support your statement.
Hundreds of thousands have died from a treatable disease so rich cronies can get richer.
The vaccine has killed more children than COVID.
Specifically what pseudoscience are you referring to? And who has gotten richer by selling it?
Dr. Michael Yeadon is full of it.
actually greggie the village idiot, that is what the suit at the Hague is all about. All of those who invested in the MRNA and also made it mandatory that the MRNA is the only solution are getting rich.
Billions to install Biden has already paid back about a Trillion to the pharma industry, as a whole.
It’s a fact.
You have no investment on truthful statements, just state-sanctioned talking points.
Omicron is nothing and there is no pandemic.
Vax and mask mandates are illegal and not permitted under our Constitution.
The vax hasn’t stopped the spread and masks don’t do enough to legitimize use.
Actual treatment is what people need,and hundreds of thousands have died so Merck, Pfizer, and others can get rich making less safe, less effective versions of Ivermectin and Hydroxycloriquin.
Nathan the new variant has killed less than CNN has Pedos and perverts.
810 THOUSAND have died in the US because of COVID, and thousands more will die, because they have been convinced by crackpots not to be vaccinated and to ignore masking protocol. You sound just like brainless Brandon.
Looks like you wont get your Christmas wish with the new variant being nearly harmless. NY also stopped the bill for imprisoning those that are not fully jabbed (another constantly moving goal post)
I dont imagine I have to wear a diaper so you dont shit your pants, you got a useless jab or 3 and still waiting to fill your covid rewards punch card while big pharma coffers fill to overflowing. If get sick they can use their lousy pill for a suppository as well.
It just kills you to see people who are immune to the propaganda and living lives normally.
We acknowledge the Lefts need to deflect now that Biden and Fauci are certified genocidal idiots.
Cool “trap”, bro. Thanks for admitting hundreds of thousands of Americans were killed so Biden could pay back his donors.
“So the right now acknowledges that the COVID deaths have actually occurred?” Who has ever denied they did?
“810 THOUSAND have died in the US because of COVID, and thousands more will die, because they have been convinced by crackpots not to be vaccinated and to ignore masking protocol.” Thousands more will die because idiot Biden is an incompetent liar. He lied about “shutting down the virus”, he lied when he stupidly said if he had been President when COVID hit, NO ONE would have died.
Now we learn they haven’t even signed contracts to order the 500,000,000 tests he himself says we need. They don’t know WHAT in the hell to do. Stupid, ideological and incompetent.
“Donald Trump has had his two COVID vaccinations plus a booster. Do you think HE’S an idiot? ” Trump is doing what he has consistently done from the beginning: support and promote vaccinations. The same can’t be said of YOUR idiots, who denounced the vaccines and then wonder why some have hesitation. Their answer is to twist their arms and threaten to ruin their lives if they don’t accept the vaccine. Conclusion, Trump is a leader, idiot Biden is a moron.
There is ample evidence that the number of deaths has been excessively inflated. Some reports suggest by a factor of roughly between 40and 42 percent.
We have known that since the inception of the CCP virus, many death certificates identified the cause as the virus simply because the deceased had the virus but actually died from another non virus elated cause, ie heart attack, lung cancer etc.
The effort has been to try and dupe the populace but significant numbers have not taken the bait.
There is no plausible reason at this point in time to be vaccinated and that has the pro-vax junta apoplectic
Only George Floyd died WITH COVID but was not deemed to have died FROM COVID. His death required a different assessment.
Comrade Greggie, what about the “damaging physical and mental health impacts” of a disease that took twice as many lives in 2020 than the Chinese created Kung flu did?
Or are those deaths not important to you left wingers pushing your pandemic porn for no other reason than to reduce the freedom Americans have and to steal elections like you have been doing since 1948?
Americans are beginning to wake up and it is not beneficial to your side.
fauci going to be thrown under the bus in the near future. America is waking up to the crap he is peddling. ever wonder what his bank account looks like in Beijing? the POS has collected monies from both sides. just another bootlicking commie.
Donald Trump has had his two COVID vaccinations, plus the booster shot. Apparently he didn’t think immunity from his previous COVID infection was sufficient. Why don’t his followers follow his example?
The myth that “Trump supporters” don’t get vaxed is absurd.
I’m vaxed, and will vote again for Trump in 2024.
Joe Biden and his admin have killed hundreds of thousands by suppressing and withholding treatments for COVID 19 just so he could line the pockets of Big Pharma.
Trump got a vac and promoted proven and safe drugs.
He’s the clear leader of our country.
Why don’t his followers follow his example?
Because we are not pathetic sheep following the herd. Most cases do not end up in the hospital, In NY the hot bed of cases the hospitals have 1/2 the patients as last year under 500 total. Do you actually believe every democrat or indie is vaxxed? Damn you only latch on to the pandemic porn and puke it all over and blame Trump voters.
The crisis in hospitals is caused by idiot Biden’s mandates forcing thousands of health care workers out of a job. Democrats are as bad as COVID. Maybe worse.