How Fauci and Collins Shut Down Covid Debate - WSJ
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They worked with the media to trash the Great Barrington Declaration.
Journal Editorial Report: Paul Gigot interviews Dr. Marty Makary. Image: Spencer Platt/Getty Images By The Editorial Board Dec. 21, 2021 6:47 pm ET
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.
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Troubling to say the least.