08Apr 2025 by Post

At NIH, Bhattacharya Wants to Restore Open Inquiry

academic freedom, Anthony Fauci, bioethics, COVID-19, epidemiologists, Francis Collins, free speech, health policy, Honestly, Jay Bhattacharya, Khaleda Rahman, Lawrence D. Bobo, lockdowns, Maya Sulkin, Medicine, National Institutes of Health, National Institutes of Heath, Newsweek, Real Clear Politics, Scott Atlas, The Free Press, The New England Journal of Medicine, Washington Post, Wesley J. Smith
Restoring open discussion is certainly worth a try. Science advances more from doubt than from certainty. Source
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31Mar 2025 by Post

Hysteria in the Science Sector Over DOGE

Bethesda (magazine), bioethics, censorship, COVID-19, DOGE, Donald Trump, Francis Collins, free speech, hormone injections, hysteria, ideology, innovation, Jay Bhattacharya, layoffs, Medicine, National Institutes of Health, PhD students, Reform, research funding, respondents, scientific debate, scientists, Trump Administration
Whatever problems now exist for the public medical research funding sector, the disappointing Francis Collins helped create them. Source
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29Mar 2025 by Post

Congratulations to Jay Bhattacharya, Replacing Francis Collins at NIH!

academia, beliefs, belonging, bioethics, Center for Science and Culture, COVID-19, Donald Trump, epidemiologists, Evangelical Christians, Faith & Science, faith and science, fear, Francis Collins, free speech, Jay Bhattacharya, John Mac Ghlionn, John West, media, ministry, National Institutes of Health, Politico, Praise, promotions, Stockholm Syndrome Christianity, Stockholm Syndrome Christianity: Why America’s Christian Leaders Are Failing — and What We Can Do About It
How can our country get more Bhattacharyas and fewer Collinses? That is one way of phrasing the question that Dr. West sets out to answer. Source
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12Mar 2025 by Post

Stand Up for Science or… for Naked Ideology?

1. End Censorship and Political Interference in Science, accessibility, Culture & Ethics, Diversity Equity and Inclusion, federal employees, free speech, government, Great Barrington Declaration, ideology, Jay Bhattacharya, lockdowns, Martin Kulldorrff, minoritized, misinformation, National Institutes of Health, Politics, protestors, protests, research funding, Stand Up for Science, Sunetra Gupta, universities
“Stand Up for Science 2025” protests were clearly aimed at reaffirming control by the now discredited science establishment. Source
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06Mar 2025 by Post

Let’s Not Forget About That Covid Commission

9/11 Commission, accountability, bureaucrats, Children, Congress, Covid commission, COVID-19, Culture & Ethics, deaths, Declaration of Independence, Democrats, English, ethics, experts, Hoover Institution, Humanize, Jay Bhattacharya, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, leadership, liberty, lockdowns, Medicine, National Institutes of Health, pandemic, Republicans, Scott Atlas, Stanford University, vaccine, vaccine mandates, virus, Wall Street Journal, Washington DC, Washington State, Wesley J. Smith
When speaking of the disaster that began to unfold in 2020, do you refer to it as the Covid “pandemic” or the Covid “lockdowns and vaccine mandates”? Source
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14Feb 2025 by Post

Who’s Afraid of This New Science Journal?

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Skeptics worry that the new journal "will be used to sow doubt about scientific consensus." Source
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23May 2024 by Post

How the Public Health Establishment Squandered Our Trust

Anthony Fauci, COVID-19, Culture & Ethics, Francis Collins, Great Barrington Declaration, Human Genome Project, Jay Bhattacharya, lockdowns, Martin Kulldorff, media, Medicine, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, National Review, pandemic, public health, Sunetra Gupta, vaccination, Wuhan Institute of Virology
The Covid pandemic was devastating, not only for society generally, but also to the reputations of our once-trusted health agencies. Source
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08Oct 2023 by Post

How Media Helped to Corrupt Science

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Traditional popular media, science media, and science journalists have all helped create a situation where we can’t afford to Trust the Science! Source
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16Aug 2023 by Post

For Science and Free Speech, Lessons from Oppenheimer

Albert Einstein, Anthony Fauci, Artificial Intelligence, atomic bomb, biotechnology, cancel culture, cinematography, climate change, Cold War, Culture & Ethics, dairy cows, Edward Teller, Francis Collins, free speech, gender-affirming care, Great Barrington Declaration, Harry Truman, Hiroshima, ideological medicine, Ireland, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Jay Bhattacharya, Joe McCarthy, lockdowns, Martin Kulldorff, McCarthyism, movies, Nagasaki, National Institutes of Health, nuclear proliferation, Oppenheimer, Physics, Earth & Space, Soviet Union, Sunetra Gupta, The Godfather, United States, wrongthink
Like all great art, the movie evokes reactions in the viewer beyond what the filmmaker might have intended. Source
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07Jan 2023 by Post

Listen: Dr. Jay Bhattacharya on COVID-19 as One of the Most Divisive Events in American History

Big Tech, Center for Disease Control, COVID-19, Culture & Ethics, factionalism, free speech, heterodoxy, Humanize, Jay Bhattacharya, lockdown, Medicine, National Bureau of Economics Research, pandemic, Podcast, Politics, public health, science, Stanford University, Wesley Smith, World Health Organization
Action was taken to suppress heterodox voices. Wesley Smith’s guest is one of those caught in this cultural oppression. Source
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