Four years ago, the then-directors of the National Institutes of Health and its National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases privately plotted on how to marginalize and discredit epidemiologists who wrote the Great Barrington Declaration against COVID-19 lockdowns, school shutdowns and related policies as ineffective and harmful.
Stanford University officials tried to stop one author, its medical professor Jay Bhattacharya, from even researching the SARS-CoV-2 infection rate in its backyard, which revealed the virus was already widespread when lockdowns started and far less deadly than authorities claimed.
Faculty pushed Stanford to sanction Scott Atlas, its former radiology chief, for bringing an anti-lockdown voice to President Trump’s coronavirus task force, and the campus newspaper even claimed Atlas threatened Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer for her lockdown policies.
Observing the attempted purge of Atlas, the University of California’s National Center for Free Speech and Civic Engagement held a meeting to discuss whether the Trump adviser even enjoyed academic freedom in his views on COVID, according to Freedom of Information Act productions recently posted by Twitter Files journalist Matt Taibbi’s Racket.
Meeting notes show UC San Diego philosopher Dana Nelkin and UC San Francisco medical professor Suneil Koliwad suggesting that universities have an “obligation to deal with faculty who say and do things with significant chance to harm the public” when there are “basic and clear elements of ‘right’ and ‘wrong'” on public health, Racket‘s James Rushmore reported. […]
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