Scientists Reveal: If Trump Was ‘For’ a COVID Response, ‘Science’ Was Biased Against It
By: Kyle Becker
Trump was right. Science and media took sides to oppose him every step of the way no matter how many Americans lives it cost. Defeating and damaging Trump was more important than the lives of the American people and success in fighting the Chinese caused virus.
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During one of the deadliest pandemics in recent times, the scientific community was forming health policy responses based in part on political bias against former President Trump. Such was the striking testimony from a recent House committee’s interview of scientists.
House Republicans on the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis interviewed scientists on Tuesday regarding the origins of COVID-19 and on lessons from the pandemic response during a forum on Capitol Hill.
One of the scientists was Dr. Brett Giroir, who served under President Trump as the Assistant Health & Human Services Secretary for Health. He also led the administration’s COVID-19 testing efforts. Dr. Giroir and the other experts spoke about the need for government transparency and a full investigation into the Wuhan lab leak theory. Several Republican lawmakers, not on the special subcommittee, also voiced support for such a review.
During the hearing, Dr. Giroir pointed out that there were a number of ‘controversies’ regarding the COVID response that arose because ‘Trump was a controversial figure.’
“But there was such bias against the president,” Dr. Giroir said, “That even thinking you were helping the president, you were excommunicated from the scientific community.”
“And I think that is a really important factor,” he added.
“I just want to dig in on that a little bit,” Dr. Mark Green, a congressman from Tennessee, interjected. Green pointed out that in residency doctors would often critically examine medical journal articles for signs of bias.
“There is a new bias in our scientific community,” Green concluded. “And it is — Trump.”
“And if you are going to reseaerch anything that could, you know, prove the president’s statement is true,” Rep. Green went on, “Then that is absolutely rejected out-of-hand. And therefore, a form of bias. Is that what I’m hearing?”
“You are hearing that and I’m going to tell you, and I am not going to go into specifics,” Dr. Giroir responded. “But physicians who were on the task force, or who were around the task force, were under tremendous pressure from their scientific colleagues to not even show up with the president on stage, advise in the Oval Office. Tremendous pressure and they felt it.”
“This was real,” Dr. Giroir added. “And… I’m not going to read into her, but I will just say Dr. Birx said, ‘she knew her career was over the moment she came to the task force.’ because she would be prejudicially…”
“Yeah, excommunicated,” Dr. Green remarked, drawing again on a term with religious connotations. “Excommunicated from the scientific community… because she may have supported some thesis that was scientifically true and we all know to be true, but Trump supported.”
“It’s not even the thesis,” Dr. Giroir commented. “It’s being on the same place with the president.”
Whether it came to treatments like hydroxychloroquine , remdesivir , or even the vaccine s themselves, the biased media sowed doubt in every potential medical treatment that Donald Trump endorsed as a possibility of COVID-19 treatment.
No, this is not “science.” This is a nearly religious obsession to corrupt every field in American life with political bias, even if it ends up costing thousands of human lives.
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Sweeping Generalization [Vic Eldred]
Oh please, do digress Vic.
Said a former Trump lackey without providing any evidence or examples thereof.
Mark Green was more interested in listening to himself.
Which, if you look into his history, was cited as the reason for him being fired in 2015.
Truth
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Did Trump lie when he said he won last election?
I listened to the entire hearing, there was a lot of conjecture based on snippets of reality.
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Anyone who, at this point in time, still thinks Trump won the election 8 months ago will not change their minds no matter how many audits fail to deliver their desired results.
Who do you think believes you; who do you think you are kidding?
This kind of nonsense just further degrades the image of the modern conservative / R.
What difference will CyberNinja partisan audits make? The counts have been in for months, and they have all been certified by the states.
When all the audits are completed and they show Trump did lose, then will you agree Biden won legitimately? Yes or no?
LOL You know the answer to that. Hell, this election has already been scrutinized more than any in my lifetime so nothing will ever lead die-hard Trump sycophants to acknowledge the reality that Trump legitimately lost (except, possibly, Trump coming clean ... but that will never happen).
Do you suppose Palin should initiate a recount as well?
Yep, anti-science, ignorant fascists are all we worry about.
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Why do you hate science so much?
Yes, I do. But watch, I will probably not receive an answer. Which in itself is an answer.
In other words, only if it shows Trump won, right?
You didn't have to. It's rather obvious.
If anything is obvious it is that you will go to extreme measures to cling to the notion that Trump actually won reelection.
Yeah... he was a Trump appointee and considering the type of people Trump appointed I cannot really take this guy's word at face value.
Well, I would hope that scientists would be biased against injecting people with disinfectant.
Trump's response to covid was all but non-existent. Recall the woodward tapes and trump admitting that covid was like the plague, 5 times more deadly than the flu, very communicable, etc.. Yet just days later, on national TV he said that there was no reason to worry and that it was, "just the flu".
Then there was the endless golf trips while 500k people died. And why?
Because trump said he never wanted anything bad to happen while he was in office because it would, "make him look bad". Wouldn't it have been easier to just do the right thing with regards to the pandemic instead of lying his fat ass off about it? If you want to look good, you do the work to solve the problem, that's how I was raised. But not trump, just lie and golf.. What a worthless POS.
Literally the only reason the right wing hates Fauci is because Fauci refused to back up trump's lies. That's it, that is the only reason.
Oh man, thats a good one.
And yet there are still millions of Trump supporters who bash Fauci and praise Trump.
"We won with poorly educated, I love the poorly educated!” - Donald Trump
I think the facts show that to be overwhelmingly true, and he's still 'winning' with the poorly educated and wouldn't even have anyone showing up to support him without them. It was one of those moments where Trump unwittingly spoke the truth among his tens of thousands of lies. I think it's now abundantly clear that Trump loves people like himself, idiots, fucking morons, dopes, adults with kindergarten educations, the 'dumb as shit's, and the dumbest students teachers ever had. Like minds stick together.
That's an odd choice of words considering the shit that comes out of some of their mouths.
So if we have another serious outbreak of a virus for which the population has no immunity, you will refuse to wear a mask?
An amazing level of irresponsibility.
( You are an individual; you have no authority to speak for others. )
Not just stupid, but also immature and irresponsible.
You do realize that every time a state went into a level of lockdown, covid cases decreased, right?
They are in a cult, that's the only explanation..
C - Completely
U - Useless
L - Little
T - Trumpturds.
Such ~~drama~~ .
We are talking about wearing a mask XX. You take the wearing of a mask to be ruling class dictatorship.
Yet another over-the-top stupid comment.
That is yet another over-the-top stupid comment. Why would any public official want to impose unpopular restrictions on their constituents? It is net negative on them. Your hypothesis is that they do it because they love the power. That is a childish / conspiracy-theorist distortion of reality.
Buy a vowel.
Watch how fast they would be appalled if they were to come out of a surgery and found out that the surgeon and the surgical staff had no masks on during the procedure.
Then don't bring it up.
Why would any public official want to impose unpopular restrictions on their constituents? It is net negative on them. Your hypothesis is that they do it because they love the power. That is a childish / conspiracy-theorist distortion of reality.
Think. Your conspiracy theory makes no sense ... it is a stupid belief. Political operatives try to avoid taking public actions that harm their ability to be reelected by the public. Putting restrictions on the public that harm the economy and cause hardships in the lives of their constituents is net bad for a politician. Get it?
So, social distancing and wearing masks spread covid faster than doing nothing at all?
Seriously? You actually believe that? Tell ya what. Next time you have surgery, tell the doctors to not wear masks, not wash their hands, used unsanitary instruments and perform the surgery in a dirty parking lot because according to your argument, that's a much better way to avoid infections.
Trump's response was to declare that he wasn't responsible, to suggest ingesting bleach, hold superspreader events, and turned the WH into a petri dish.