The WSJ Editorial Board: How Fauci and Collins Shut Down Covid Debate

[Weatherman2020]

Because we all know good science stifles all scientists who are not anointed in power. Just ask Galileo.


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. […]

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.

Opinion | How Fauci and Collins Shut Down Covid Debate

They worked with the media to trash the Great Barrington Declaration.

www.wsj.com

 

[sparky]

Because we all know good science stifles all scientists who are not anointed in power. Just ask Galileo.


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. […]

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.

Opinion | How Fauci and Collins Shut Down Covid Debate

They worked with the media to trash the Great Barrington Declaration.

www.wsj.com

luv to read it, but really don't wish to subscribe to do so Weather dude....~S~

 

[Penelope]

Herd immunity doesn't work in Oct 2020, but Omicron virus it just might work.

 

[wamose]

Fauci doesn't care how many people have to die as long as he gets to be salesman of the month at Pfizer.

 

[dudmuck]

Fauci doesn't care how many people have to die as long as he gets to be salesman of the month at Pfizer.

 

[Darkwind]

Isn't it interesting how the left have been taken a subset of America and have been given permission to root for their deaths?

 

[Oddball]

luv to read it, but really don't wish to subscribe to do so Weather dude....~S~

Long and the short of it is that Collins and Fauxi sought to smear and silence opposing voices, rather than disprove them with the "science".

The both of them are tyrants, not medical scientists.

 

[Oddball]

 

[Darkwind]

Long and the short of it is that Collins and Fauxi sought to smear and silence opposing voices, rather than disprove them with the "science".

The both of them are tyrants, not medical scientists.

You should read Dr. Scott's book on those two and the entire mishandling of the pandemic by Fauci.

 

[Oddball]

You should read Dr. Scott's book on those two and the entire mishandling of the pandemic by Fauci.

I've heard enough reviews and thumbnails of the book to know what total frauds those two despots are.

 

[colfax_m]

Because we all know good science stifles all scientists who are not anointed in power. Just ask Galileo.


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. […]

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.

Opinion | How Fauci and Collins Shut Down Covid Debate

They worked with the media to trash the Great Barrington Declaration.

www.wsj.com

So the WSJ wants Collins and Fauci to shut their mouths and not speak to their scientific opinions?

Seems like the demand exactly what they claim to hate.

 

[Darkwind]

So the WSJ wants Collins and Fauci to shut their mouths and not speak to their scientific opinions?

Seems like the demand exactly what they claim to hate.

It seems that it is the other way round. It appears that Collins and Fauci want everyone else to keep their mouths shut and not offer scientific options.

 

[colfax_m]

It seems that it is the other way round. It appears that Collins and Fauci want everyone else to keep their mouths shut and not offer scientific options.

And the WSJ wants Fauci and Collins to keep their mouths shut.

Difference is that Fauci and Collins were trying to save lives. The WSJ wants to protect people’s feelings.

 

[Weatherman2020]

So the WSJ wants Collins and Fauci to shut their mouths and not speak to their scientific opinions?

Seems like the demand exactly what they claim to hate.

Pathetic spinning for such a good fascist.

 

[colfax_m]

Pathetic spinning for such a good fascist.

Go ahead and provide a rebuttal.

The WSJ is saying that Collins and Fauci were wrong to speak out against a very dangerous proposal. They wanted them to be silent.

That’s a fact.

 

[sparky]

silencing dissent is fascism

anyone who holds hand over heart and pledges to what we stand for that does so doesn't deserve to be here

~S~

 

[dudmuck]

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[jknowgood]

You make Fauci proud!

 

[jknowgood]

So the WSJ wants Collins and Fauci to shut their mouths and not speak to their scientific opinions?

Seems like the demand exactly what they claim to hate.

Is that why Fauci says if you disagree with him, you are anti science?

 

[Oddball]