Mortality from #COVID19 differs more than a thousand-fold between the old and young. Focused protection is the compassionate approach that balances COVID risks and collateral damage to public health.
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Jay Bhattacharya
@DrJBhattacharya
Professor Stanford School of Medicine. MD, PhD. Health policy: infectious diseases, covid, health economics. Scientific freedom.
Stanford, CA, USAJoined August 2021
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In retrospect, maybe public health moralizing covid and the pandemic response wasn't such a smart idea.
OK, that was obvious prospectively, but there are still public health professionals and doctors doing just that.
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This is an excerpt from petition for writ of mandate against . and - while reviewing the Twitter files, please check to see who asked for termination of the account. I suspect it was Bret Morrow and LA County.
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I really wish would pay attention to Twitter's censorship of smaller accounts, not just the high-profile ones. The massive scale of the suspensions and shadowbannings mean these actions against smaller account have had an enormous impact on the public discourse.
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This is an excerpt from @LACountyParents petition for writ of mandate against @lapublichealth. @elonmusk and @DrJBhattacharya - while reviewing the Twitter files, please check to see who asked for termination of the @alt_lacph account. I suspect it was Bret Morrow and LA County.
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Important essay by on his "First Amendment lawsuit alleging that government officials across at least 17 different federal agencies leaned on social-media companies to suppress free speech, especially when it involves gov’s pandemic response."
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Your illnesses and infirmities are not the essence of your identity. And your capacity to avoid them does not make you virtuous.
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🗣 "He is genuinely motivated by his disgust at Twitter being an instrument of suppression"
On the latest #PlanetNormal, tells and about his meeting with Elon Musk after being blacklisted by Twitter
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Fascinating talk with Jay Bhattacharya about what a “disgusted” Elon Musk said to him about black listing Jay and others. On the instruction of White House officials!
#Censorship
Thank you
Listen here:
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"He is genuinely motivated by his disgust at Twitter being an instrument of suppression"
On the latest #PlanetNormal, @DrJBhattacharya tells @AllisonPearson and @LiamHalligan about his meeting with Elon Musk after being blacklisted by Twitter
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I saw that Jay Bhattacharya and Martin Kuldorff are on the DeSantis Public Health Integrity Committee, which is being called anti-vax by some. Both of those folks supported and promoted vaccines, they just questioned some of the lockdowns and booster mandates.
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This seems a catch-22
So I have a doppelgänger - an impersonator.
I have also asked my followers to report this account. But b/c of the “search suggestion ban” on my account, ppl tell me they are unable to report.
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I spoke with at Die Welt regarding the
, Twitter censorship, and slander / abuse of power by scientific bureaucrats. Thanks for your good questions and the opportunity to speak, Tim!
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"Es war ein systematischer Versuch, uns zu dämonisieren und zu verleumden", sagt #Lockdown-Gegner und Stanford-Professor @DrJBhattacharya im Interview mit mir – und kontert die "Pseudo-Experten"-Kritik von @c_drosten: welt.de/politik/deutsc @welt
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“Early on, tech companies agreed to de-platform people who were supposedly guilty of misinformation, demonstrating an extraordinary level of control and willingness to control." Dr Piers Robinson. (Similar inquiry needed here).
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Exellent discussion with on Twitter censorship, government involvement, & the future of institutions that have demonstrated their untrustworthiness.
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House Intel GOP: “There are indications SARS-CoV-2 may have been tied to China’s biological weapons research program & spilled over to the human population during a lab-related incident at the Wuhan lab. The IC has failed to adequately address this info.”
republicans-intelligence.house.gov/uploadedfiles/
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I loved recording this podcast with astronomer . It was a wide ranging discussion, including some discussion of my personal experiences of doing science in the midst of covid era authoritarian control of science by behemoth science bureaucrats. Thank you, Brian!
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One of the most important episodes of The @Into_Impossible Podcast so far. @DrJBhattacharya: The Scientific Inquisition
Topics:
•His horrifying treatment at the hands of science’s most powerful
•Dire warnings unheeded
•What can we do in the future?
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One of the most important episodes of The Podcast so far. : The Scientific Inquisition
Topics:
•His horrifying treatment at the hands of science’s most powerful
•Dire warnings unheeded
•What can we do in the future?
📺:urlgeni.us/youtube/JayB
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Faucism and Fascism are not the same, but there are some similarities
- Blind belief in an all-knowing leader
- Government-corporate partnership
- Censoring and blacklisting opponents
- Disregarding scientific principles and knowledge
- Harming workers and the poor
- Scapegoating
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There's almost a medieval quality to a lot of political discourse. If you don't agree with every mainstream liberal opinion, then you're a conservative? They see the world in black and white.
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This is baldly inaccurate. @mtaibbi is not a conservative journalist, as anyone familiar with his work knows.
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The NY Times has constantly published Covid disinformation for years now.
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Reading about the despicable censorship of the great by Twitter ( version), I’m reminded that Tory MP set up a McCarthyite website in the UK to harass journalists challenging the lockdown narrative.
Shameful.
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Thanks to for funding work on this and creating content when main funding agencies are too "worried about the optics".
I am very grateful to be working with you all.
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Study February 2021
Falling living standards during the COVID-19 crisis: Quantitative evidence from nine developing countries
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Studies database available on CG Website: loom.ly/jgwUHYA
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In case you're wondering how Twitter's former employees and "disinformation reporters" feel about censorship, see below.
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Twitter Files have got people talking about 'shadow banning' - where an account can still post but their posts become harder to find. It raises some big questions, like what a tech company's role is in influencing what its users are exposed to... bbc.co.uk/news/technolog
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Persecution of those with differing views is alive, well and kicking. Energised by the Covid pandemic. trusttheevidence.substack.com/p/censorship-a discusses a study based on interviews with established scientists “who were censored for their heterodox views on COVID-19”.
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The stuff uncovered in the Twitter whistleblower report is much crazier than anything in the "Twitter files" but it's much less politically/tribally salient so it got no attention. Going to do a thread on some of the craziest things, in no particular order.
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/1 🚨🦠BREAKING: Following the #TwitterFiles, AFL has obtained new documents uncovering a secret Twitter portal U.S. Govt officials used to censor dissenting COVID-19 views and violate the First Amendment.
Follow along for disturbing findings from the 500+ page release ⤵️
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You remember when a friend could do or say something you disagree with - and still be your friend? Let’s get back to that.
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Biden said the pandemic is over. The Senate voted 62-36 to end the COVID National Emergency Declaration. Dr. Fauci feels his power slipping away, so he continues to play his greatest hits.
The American people are done Dr. Fauci.
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Science does not advance at warp speed. And you can’t make scientific research progress at warp speed, simply by throwing more money at it.
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My latest OpEd. This time in .
"We cannot afford to let the COVID era pass into history without uncovering what transpired and determining who should be held accountable. Our children deserve a maskless future."
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I agree with Prof. 's call for transparency in internal government communication regarding covid policy. Too much has been hidden from the public in redactions to legitimate FOIAs. The public deserves to know.
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In 1998, PayPal was founded to empower individuals. Today, it’s a cornerstone of an emerging social credit system, playing moral police and banning those they disagree with. My latest for wherein I speak to founders Peter Thiel
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Twitter 1.0’s blacklisting of , which was uncovered in the Twitter Files, is proof that Big Tech and the medical establishment targeted scientific dissenters to control the narrative around COVID-19.
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"Twitter Files" revelations are news to some
But many of us saw the censorship & tried to make others aware
Here's clip from our debate feat months ago
wants to enshrine Big Tech censorship w/ Online Safety Bill; so wrong
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It's impossible at this point to overcome polarization through a blue-ribbon panel or sheer will, but I do think the country would benefit from a rigorous and comprehensive after-action report on the US covid response, one that transcended the ideological/partisan lens.
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Another example of a control group debunking exaggerated claims: COVID isn't actually associated with increased diabetes in kids.
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The Wuhan Road Show: Forming a Band, Virologists Toured Washington’s Backstreets disinformationchronicle.substack.com/p/the-wuhan-ro
Scientists’ briefings to DC officials created an earworm in the intelligence community with lyrics bent against a Chinese lab accident. /1
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If anyone thought public health had become satire, this can make you think again....
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For history to be really useful, we need to fix its unhelpful realities and ensure the public can only access the corrected version.
Monetizing pandemic preparedness is a case in point.
A humble contribution to this.
brownstone.org/articles/pande
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No matter what side of the political spectrum you lean, the insidious cooperation of and Government should alarm you. Given that Google & Facebook files will never be released, the open window into state censorship at every level of Big Tech is THEE threat to Freedom.
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