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compared Anthony Fauci's denial of natural immunity to "the nations lead astronomer questioning whether the earth was flat."
Anthony Fauci systematically denied the fundamentals of medical science, but Dr. Kulldorff was the one who was censored.
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21. Internal emails show an “intent to action” by a moderator, saying Kulldorff’s tweet violated the company’s Covid-19 misinformation policy and claimed he shared “false information.”
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From the #TwitterFiles: I was not only blacklisted and temporarily suspended by Twitter. When I gave accurate #CovidVaccines information, some Twitter dude labelled it misleading and suppressed it by prevented comments and likes.
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Today's #TwitterFiles by are the best argument censorship always has a cost, even if its practitioners say what they do is for a good cause.
How many lives would have been saved with an actual, scientific debate about lockdowns?
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What would 2020 to 2022 have looked like for America’s schoolchildren if Twitter hadn’t elevated and deplatformed and ?
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This US Congressman, who favors 's gov't induced censorship, does not understand risk-benefit analyses for covid vaccines or recovered-immunity. I mean, smallpox is still lethal, yet the vaccine is not recommended. Why not? 's tweet was and is accurate.
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Lockdowns were the most classist public health intervention imaginable.
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“We should be embarrassed that ‘our side’ was wrong. Our fellow progressives were so nakedly partisan and openly ignorant that they were unable to read the literature on school closure or masking kids." - talking to a liberal colleague
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Today is a good day to co-sign the Great Barrington Declaration, arguing for focused protection of older high-risk people instead of school closures and other lockdown measures.
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"Lockdowners ignored these costs & harms from public health policies.. The correctly anticipated these and other harms, correctly registered them as "costs" in a cost/benefit analysis, and recalled doctors' Hippocratic oaths to "Do No Harm"
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Focused protection always made sense.
The failure of people from limited (read: upper-middle class, white-collar) circumstances to appreciate the existence of tradeoffs in public health policy has undermined public health policy.
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The Great Barrington Declaration was never properly debated during the pandemic. And now, thanks to , we discover that people at Twitter suppressed the debate. This is serious stuff in so many ways. youtu.be/tUBJjK_rKZY.
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"The censorship was used to create an illusion of consensus."
, on government leveraging the 'misinformation' label, with social media platforms, to censor the and other experts, and a path forward.
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How Twitter tried to silenece - a world known professor of medicine and economy, co-initiator of the
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The most fascinating aspect of the first 2 years was the fact that "working class" people demonstrated a much better grasp and even keel over basic logic and rational behavior than most professionals did. Which should cause professionals to pause and reconsider, but it won't
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BOLOGNA, ITALY: The conscience of a country's population standing against their politicians speaks through this woman who says her life has been destroyed by lockdowns & has nothing to eat or to feed her 3 year old child:
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, and those signing the GBD have stood the test of time. Most critical thinkers knew the real situation back in 2021 despite official misinformation.
The truth is being won point by point against diehard Covid catastrophists.
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Governments have been the most important and most damaging source of covid misinformation during the pandemic. With the Indiana AG's office & @MartinKulldorff, we prepared a list of particulars, including recovered immunity, school closures, etc.
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Politicians, lawyers, and leaders who advocated for covid vax mandates, enforced them mercilessly, and caused the firing of countless people broke the trust endowed upon them by working class people.
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Governments have been the most important and most damaging source of covid misinformation during the pandemic. With the Indiana AG's office & , we prepared a list of particulars, including recovered immunity, school closures, etc.
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The debate here for three years was between those who admired Sweden and favored a “focused protection” approach to Covid, and those who admired China and favored a zero-Covid or indefinite suppression approach. Which group has been vindicated?
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Censorship is the refuge of powerful people who have lost the argument.
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There is much evil in the world, but the world is not evil. It's beautiful, wonderful, amazing. Head out and enjoy it.
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Professor tells me
- how invited him into Twitter HQ
- what he learned about how he was censored
- how was also put on the "trends blacklist"
- what he and Musk discussed for an hour
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Florida is setting up an evidence based Public Health Integrity Committee as we can no longer trust CDC. I am honored to serve as one of its members together with , , , , , et al.
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It seemed clear from the beginning that seen in the light of history, when the cost of "one-size-fits-all" approaches like long lockdowns and school closures became evident, the Great Barrington Declaration (gbdeclaration.org) would make a lot of sense.
Great thread.
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Focused protection always made sense.
The failure of people from limited (read: upper-middle class, white-collar) circumstances to appreciate the existence of tradeoffs in public health policy has undermined public health policy.
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After trying to monopolize the megaphone for almost three years, the Covid Faucists will soon find themselves lonely and frustrated in a small, ridiculed minority.
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If you live life as if there are no respiratory viruses, you'll sometimes get sick, and you'll live your life.
If you live your life to avoid all respiratory viruses, you'll sometimes get sick, and you'll have let your life pass unlived.
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The Twitter 1.0, flush with its success in banning Pres. Trump, decided that it would deploy its near omniscient knowledge and wisdom to the simpler problem of distinguishing scientific and medical truth from untruth on its platform. The Ministry of Truth was born that day.
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35. By the next day, employees expressed eagerness to tackle “medical misinformation” as soon as possible:
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What Fauci got wrong: natural immunity, not protecting the elderly, school closures, masks, useless and wasteful contact tracing, collateral public health damage, ...
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“During the pandemic in the US it’s been associated with a right-wing position, .. in Sweden it would have been associated with a left-wing position. It’s just my thoughts .. to minimize harms to children, the poor and the working class.” -
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"Stanford professor was “blacklisted” for raising questions about how school lockdowns might affect the nation’s children." - & in
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"The righteous didn’t suddenly become righteous. They just refused to go over the cliff with everybody else" - Corrie ten Boom. Thank you for not going off the cliff with the others
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Twitter 1.0 placed me on the blacklist on the first day I joined in August 2021. I think it was my pinned tweet linking to the @gbdeclaration that triggered the blacklist based on unspecified complaints Twitter received.
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🇺🇸🇩🇪Twitter 1.0 setzte mich gleich am ersten Tag meines Beitritts im Aug.2021 auf die schwarze Liste. Ich glaube, es war mein angehefteter Tweet mit einem Link zur der die schwarze Liste auslöste-nach nicht näher bezeichneten Beschwerden an Twitter.
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Twitter 1.0 placed me on the blacklist on the first day I joined in August 2021. I think it was my pinned tweet linking to the @gbdeclaration that triggered the blacklist based on unspecified complaints Twitter received.
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Twitter 1.0 placed me on the blacklist on the first day I joined in August 2021. I think it was my pinned tweet linking to the that triggered the blacklist based on unspecified complaints Twitter received.
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Imagine there hadn't been an -led "devastating takedown" of the in Oct 2020. Imagine no media/social media suppression. We would have won the policy argument. Schools would have opened. We would have prioritized protection of the vulnerable. Instead, lockdowns.
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To counter the blacklisting of , you can sign the 2020 Great Barrington Declaration () that he authored with and .
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3. Take, for example, Stanford’s Dr. Jay Bhattacharya (@DrJBhattacharya) who argued that Covid lockdowns would harm children. Twitter secretly placed him on a “Trends Blacklist,” which prevented his tweets from trending.
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A broken mathematical formula for child support condemns many divorced parents to poverty or jail, depriving kids of moms and dads who love them during those crucial childhood years.
I wrote with to propose a simple fix.
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Still trying to process my emotions on learning that blacklisted me. The thought that will keep me up tonight: censorship of scientific discussion permitted policies like school closures & a generation of children were hurt.
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Stanford epidemiologist , who advocated focused protection instead of school closures and lockdowns, was on a blacklist.
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3. Take, for example, Stanford’s Dr. Jay Bhattacharya (@DrJBhattacharya) who argued that Covid lockdowns would harm children. Twitter secretly placed him on a “Trends Blacklist,” which prevented his tweets from trending.
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