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“No matter how difficult it may seem to speak truth against a tidal wave of hostility, character assassination, death threats, backstabbing from my employer, it was never even a remote consideration to stop. Why not? Because people were dying & I know right from wrong” 100% right
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@SenRandPaul
“I've asked directly—if you're on the committee approving a vaccine, wouldn't you have to reveal if you got royalties from
#Pfizer
or
#Moderna
who manufactures the vaccine? And they won't reveal this.”
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Atlas: “Doctors wear masks bc it blocks their saliva from going into a sterile wound when they’re doing a surgical procedure. If [your doctor] is wearing a surgical mask because he thinks it’s stopping a virus from spreading, you need to change doctors.”
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"We’ve harmed [an entire] generation [of children]; we've taught toddlers they're a vector for disease, they’re a danger to everyone & everyone's a danger to them. This is a sin. It’s going to take decades to even understand how bad the damage is.”
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VDH: “Whatever people think of Trump—the fact that four prosecutors may have 500 indictments, I mean, Charles Manson didn't earn 500 indictments. It's a use of the levers of gov't to warp elections and to be exempt from the consequences of their activity.”
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Zywicki: “The evidence was clear that people who had already recovered from COVID had a higher risk of [vaccine] adverse effects.”
Atlas: “It’s really unethical and immoral to distort or limit information by public health leaders to sway the public.”
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"Teachers who insisted—even back in the fall of 2020—that they were at higher risk than other professions were either lying or simply did not understand the facts; either way, they proved wholly unworthy of being entrusted to teach children."
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Mac Donald: “Right now, the world is absolutely biased against heterosexual white males, so your sons and grandsons are screwed unless we can get over this insane blaming of meritocratic standards for having a disparate impact.”
Watch the full interview:
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“I was told there was no place for me at [Levi Strauss] anymore … my contributions didn’t matter—I had violated this ‘tenet,’ which was lockdown, use children as shields to protect the elderly, which [isn't how] our society is supposed to work."
Watch:
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“If they're going to investigate people for pushing misinformation about COVID they better investigate Fauci, Birx and the new appointee to head the [NIAID] in the NIH. These are the people that pushed misinformation.”
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Truth is prevailing, but being proven right isn't sufficient. We have a crisis of trust that threatens the credibility of all future health guidance. Americans are about to be bound by WHO's decrees. At what point is transparency required of our leaders?
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“We knew [by Spring 2020] that the risk to healthy children from [COVID] was minuscule, proven all over the world from dozens of studies in dozens of countries—the infection fatality rate in people under 20 was something like .0003%.”
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“What we’ve seen is a lack of transparency, a lack of information, a lack of honesty with the public, compounded by grossly incompetent leaders—including Dr. Fauci and Dr. Walensky. Repeated failure of people deemed as experts.”
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“There's an emergency power that was given in the 1930s that gives the president the power to shut down & control all communications in the US. People call it the ‘Internet Kill Switch’ [thinking it gives] power to shut down the internet. Nobody should have this.”
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Atlas: “The media is a gross failure [and] the courts have been politicized. These are the real threats to democracy. [Claiming] Trump…is a threat to democracy—that’s self-contradictory, they're claiming democratic outcomes are threats to democracy.”
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Z: “We need to come to grips with the fact that [woke ideologists] are willing to use any means at their disposal to achieve their goals—to use power, to change any rule—if they think it [will] accomplish their goals.”
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Scott Atlas: “[Birx, Fauci, &] the lockdowners own the outcomes — their policies were implemented. Their policies failed, killing and harming millions.”
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“Re-looking at [COVID] data today [known by Spring 2020], the risk is so low that there are actually less deaths for children who are healthy than seasonal influenza—even though that ignites people—that's the fact, it's not arguable.”
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“Mark my words, we’ll see lockdowns again. We’ll see the same pseudo-science about masks & isolating our children. We need to stand up and dispute this publicly [to stop it from] happening again—whether it's for another virus or even influenza.”
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Etchemendy: “5 or 6 years [ago] you would never [see] a climate scientist do individual event attribution and say ‘that (hurricane) was 10-20% stronger because of climate change.’"
Atlas: “Because that’s just not good science—everybody knows that.”
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Atlas: “[Fauci] funded [gain-of-function] research with taxpayer $ to get around the rules—is that a criminally indictable activity by the NIH?”
@SenRandPaul
: “Lying to Congress is a felony—[but] the DOJ seems to only be used against certain people based on their beliefs."
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"When your health coverage is mandated to include over 2,200 coverage mandates, that balloons the cost. I [doubt most people] want to pay to cover things like wigs, IVF, acupuncture".
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Dr. Atlas interviews
@JenniferSey
, former chief marketing officer & brand president of Levi Strauss.
They discuss her courageous stand against corporate wokism, which threatens some of the most foundational values of a free-thinking, ethical society.
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“We became a culture that injected young children w/ an experimental drug, w/ known side effects, for a disease they didn’t have a significant risk from, mainly to use them as shields for adults. That is the most immoral, unethical display of anything I have seen in my life."
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VDH: “There is a threat to democracy... In my view, it's the weaponization of unelected people in the administrative state. [People within] the FBI…the CIA…the Secretary of State [getting] 'authorities' from Intelligence to lie …”
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Zywicki: “We create discretion in the executive to respond to public need—but that’s been based on the fact that they won’t abuse it. Now what we see are public officials abusing it, using it as a blank check to do all kinds of things…”
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@SenMarcoRubio
on blocking Trump speeches:
"This is exactly how state-run media is used by authoritarian gov'ts to delegitimize, to discredit, make people believe that there is no alternative but the regime."
#WakeUpAmerica
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Reilly: “The average upper middle class woman thinks that 9-10% of the population died of COVID [according to a poll]—if that were actually true there would be bodies stacked on street corners...but that is what [some] people think.”
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“This [new variant] is not the same [as the original]—not as lethal. We can’t panic—I’m not even sure we should even be monitoring COVID infections like we are obsessively doing.”
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Atlas: “What does it say about Americans when we see major protests all over Western Europe [during the lockdown], yet very little here in the U.S.? To me, that’s frightening. The people were unusually acquiescent.”
Watch the interview here:
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"When you mandate pseudoscientific things [such as masks], you create a backlash against all guidance.
Masks [should] not even be an argument anymore ... Masks do not protect people from the infection, they do not stop the spread—that’s fact, that’s not an opinion—and anybody
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Atlas: “Everything is racial now … particularly in these elite universities where the students there, to me, are the most sheltered, privileged people in the country … these people [with] very little experience are pushing this forward.”
Full interview:
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Atlas: "Even though we both worked for decades in medical science research ... we were both naive."
Kulldorff: "It's astonishing how much herd thinking, groupthink went on ... and then shutting down the scientific debate."
Full episode:
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“It’s one of the most heinous abuses in modern times that the teachers and teachers’ unions were influential in closing our schools—not just in 2020, but in 2021 and in some cases, 2022.”
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"China broke all humanitarian principles with what they did to their population in their barbaric lockdowns—that can never be repeated. If the WHO thinks that’s ok then we really have not even scraped the surface of how illegitimate the WHO is.”
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Dr. Atlas interviews world-renowned historian and scholar
@VDHanson
, Senior Fellow at the
@HooverInst
.
They dive into several critical issues exposed by the pandemic and the ideological battle in America, among other things.
Watch it here:
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Since March 2020, I've challenged lockdowns, school closures, & mandates with evidence & logic, yet I was censored & attacked—despite being 100% correct.
Join me at 'The Independent,' where we discuss today's issues using data, common sense, and courage. Follow for updates!
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"As a society, we have to restore ethics—we have broken the social contract with our kids—we don’t use kids as shields for adults. We have a long way to go to restore what I consider an ethical society.”
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“Even if it were true that the vaccine prevents transmission—it does not, by all of the world’s data—what kind of society uses children as human shields for adults? I am a shield for my children, they are not to be used as shields for me.”
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Atlas: "The effectiveness of the propaganda is twofold: first, make the 'non-believers' dangerous to incite fear in those you want to convince. Second is the cancelation, snuffing out the outside view, so when it's voiced, it's seen as a tiny minority and easily dismissed."
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“America is the beacon of freedom in the world. If America does not push for freedom, it’s over; Not just in the US, it’s over everywhere.”
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Epstein: “If you look at the facts... the rate of disaster death from climate—storms, floods, heat—it's declined by 98% over the last century... [because] our ability to master climate danger, which fossil fuels make possible, has far outpaced any increase in climate challenges.”
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Atlas: “Is it even credible to say the current president isn't involved in the oversight of the DOJ who is investigating [his] opponent?”
Yoo: “That's constitutionally impossible. Everyone at the DOJ is an assistant to the president, helping him carry out laws & investigations."
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Zywicki: “You have to constrain these emergencies. Courts...have to protect individual liberties in these times of crisis—[by constraining] censorship, closing churches, forcing vaccines…all the terrible things that they did over the past 3 years.”
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"Masks, for Fun" - here are the facts in 6+min.
Ethical societies require truth. Evil people are still in power. They will censor & defame to hide their shameful errors & retain power.
Confront them with fact.
And vote them out, or it will never end.
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“Statements from [public health] advisors [such as] 'we’re never going to learn about how safe this vaccine is [in children] unless we start giving it. That’s just the way it goes,' must be widely visible to the public.”
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New Episode: "A Pandemic of Failed Leadership: Will Trust Return?"
Dr. Atlas covers in great detail the pandemic data on mortality rates, lockdowns, school closures, vaccines, natural immunity, and much more, and how to restore trust going forward.
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Etchemendy: “If you read the IPCC reports—they are much more cautious [about climate change]...But then when it gets to the summary stage and the policy stage and to what then gets picked up in the press, all of that subtlety goes away.”
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@Riley_Gaines_
“Make no mistake, this is a lot bigger than just fairness in women's sports—that should be really chilling to people: the silencing, the [denial] of objective truth or biological reality, the changing of language that we use—there's a lot of pieces."
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@DrJBhattacharya
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@Stanford
de facto repudiated its commitment to academic freedom. Free exchange of ideas, even disagreement, was impossible without the politics of personal destruction coming to professors & scientists who had different ideas."
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Archbishop: “There's a secular belief system that is its own religion—it has infallible dogmas it’s forcing on the populace, it punishes dissenters, it has its rituals & its saints and martyrs—so it has these markings of a religion and it's allowing no space for other beliefs.”
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"There's a sinful legacy of the academic and public health leadership in the United States – the damage to our younger generation."
Where is their apology? Where is the accountability?
Full episode:
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“There will be another pandemic—that is a certainty. Not only that, there will be other reasons to invoke health or danger as a cause for a lockdown. We won't get an apology but we must [publicly demand admission of the mistakes that were made]”
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Atlas: "I'm not sure [the pandemic management] was a grand plan. It was a confluence of interests—from the Klaus Schwab
#WEF
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Dr. Atlas talks with economist and social scientist Dr. Glenn Loury of Brown University. They discuss the impact of affirmative action, black patriotism in the United States, race, cancel culture, and where the country goes from here.
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@MartinKulldorff
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@RWalensky
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Yoo: “The founders designed this on purpose. There's no way for Biden to say, ‘I have nothing to do w/ this investigation into Trump.’ They're done in his name, constitutionally. If he doesn’t want them to happen he just needs to make one phone call & they’ll stop immediately.”
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Steven Koonin
@NYU
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@UN
says, ‘We can’t detect a trend, let alone attribute it to human influences.’"
#climate
#TruthMatters
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Dr. Atlas interviews
@ManhattanInst
fellow and author Heather Mac Donald. Her new book "When Race Trumps Merit" argues that lowering standards in an attempt to achieve racially equal outcomes is harmful to society.
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"When we ask – Do Americans prioritize freedom? – we look at how they voted. They re-elected governors – the main people responsible for harming their children, destroying their employment, and causing massive hardship, increases in suicide, etc."
Watch:
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@ScottAtlas_IT
: “The country is becoming more and more aware that an entire generation of young people have been influenced greatly, not just by their parents, but by those educating them.”
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Atlas: “Once things are printed—particularly in what are deemed reputable organizations—they become accepted as fact, & that’s shocking. We've undervalued the role of the media—[it’s] even more influential than I ever thought. We need to fix it.”
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"We should enforce stronger, more visible rules on conflicts of interest, including full visibility of multimillion-dollar revenue-sharing partnerships between pharmaceutical companies and NIH principals like Drs. Fauci and Collins…"
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Dr. Atlas interviews George Mason University Professor of Law Todd J. Zywicki. They discuss how pandemic policies relate to the law and Constitution, how the public health establishment pushed anti-science policies such as the denial of natural immunity, and more.
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New episode: Dr. Atlas interviews epidemiologist
@MartinKulldorff
on the dangers of groupthink and herd mentality in science and the solutions to preventing such thinking for future crises.
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Atlas: “If you use competition [in health care], prices come down & quality goes up. Existing regulations block competition, whether it's the monopolies by doctors, certificates-of-need requirements... or this obscuring of prices by very [LOW] deductible healthcare plans."
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“Pence asked about risk to children. I had 15-20 manuscripts of current data & gave 10 min on the low risk to kids & the hi harms of closing schools. Pence asked Birx & Fauci. Silence - they had no data. Never a single TF meeting, not one, where any of the other doctors had a
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@MartinKulldorff
Brilliant scientist, critical thinker, hero, courageous leader. And I'm proud to add, colleague and friend.
Read his story ⤵️
I am no longer a professor of medicine at
@Harvard
. Here is the story of my Harvard experience until I was fired for clinging to the truth.
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“Academics pushed two lies on the public—if you’re against lockdowns, you’re choosing the economy over lives—that was a lie—and you are also for allowing the infection to spread without any mitigation. That is not what targeted protection meant.”
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"I'm not sure how it's legal that NIH, CDC, FDA ppl share royalties for drugs they approve.
It's not about how much they make. Ppl in gov't don't understand—they work for us, we employ them, they owe us complete disclosure, there must be accountability."
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"Even if it were true that the vaccine prevented spread - which it does not, by all the world's data - what kind of society uses its children as human shields? I am a father; I am a shield for my children. They are not to be used as shields for me."
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Atlas: "You can't have a coherent country, you can't have a peaceful country, you can't have a successful country if everyone views everyone else in a tribalistic way.”
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Reilly: “It's great that people started to ‘do their own research’ but the statistical majority of people are not. You frequently find when you look at the literature and stats that people believe crazy things because of media panic campaigns.”
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Some truths are actually quite simple.
Sadly, our country is filled with cowards, with rare exceptions like
@Riley_Gaines_
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Significant correction - the pandemic *management* did that, not the pandemic. You lockdowners - you did that.
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It was dangerous to pretend masks worked. If people vulnerable to dying from COVID are told masks are protective, they're more likely to engage in risky behavior. All the data -100% of good studies- prove masks don’t protect or stop the spread of SARS-2.
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Dr. Atlas interviews Dr.
@naomirwolf
about the corporate media's abandonment of journalistic ethics, the public's loss of faith in the media, the danger of ideological echo chambers, and their experiences with social media deplatforming.
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Atlas: "We're witnessing an attack on all traditional values that defined this country [& led to] the success of Western civilization. The effect is to make people dependent on...a centralized government—[by eliminating] other anchors of morality."
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(Intvw w/
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Atlas: "if you don't expose what these people did & said, put on record how completely inept & unscientific they were, then you won’t have a chance to stop them from doing it again. "
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"The
#WHOAccord
not only oversees the intellectual property, including patent limits and drug prices but also authorizes the WHO to define “public health emergency” in signer nations — the fundamental basis to justify restrictions on the public."
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"Academic freedom"?
How about stopping the university's direct defamation & censures of their own faculty members (who were 100% right, btw 😉, and they have to eat that) - harassment led by university leaders at their own faculty senate?
If universities want to use the defense of free speech and academic freedom as the reason they permit and (often) promote atrocious speech, they actually have to consistently defend free speech and academic freedom.
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“Kerpen’s April 2022 study showed the states that did the best included states that opened early. States that did the worst were the most stringent lockdown states. The lockdowns failed and destroyed people.”
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Atlas: "Very few elected officials showed leadership. One who did was
@GovRonDeSantis
... You don't back down, you never give up, or the country is finished."
Watch the full episode here:
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Epstein: “We're failing to consider the enormous benefits [of fossil fuels]. [Like] with COVID… Everyone only talked about benefits of restricting human activity but not the costs. It turns out limiting the freedom of human beings to interact has an apocalyptically high cost.”
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Great evening with
@Yale
students on "COVID Lessons: Restoring Trust in Science and Leadership" for
@BuckleyInst
... close friends & colleagues
@ScottAtlas_IT
@DrJBhattacharya
and the surprise dinner guest
@MartinKulldorff
See
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ALL relevant COVID data was known by spring 2020. ALL advice to
@realDonaldTrump
was exactly correct.
Explicit apologies accepted.
#StillWaiting
In May of '21,
@ScottAtlas_IT
rocked my world: "We have been uniquely willing to sacrifice our children out of fear for adults, when we know that children have… no significant risk. It's a national disgrace that our schools have been closed," he told me. My perspective on
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Florida and
@GovRonDeSantis
boldly opened 100% of schools and state in Aug 2020. He rejected Birx-Fauci destruction; he saved lives, saved kids, & was among best performing states.
I know. I was there.
#FactsMatter
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Atlas: “We have a tremendous absence of courage. It’s true that the cancel culture that we’ve all experienced on campus and elsewhere is powerful, but we need people to step up … you must do that or the freedoms disappear.”
Full interview:
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Atlas: “During a time of panic, crisis, and fear about death—to me, just looking at it in a logical way, that’s the time when people need their faith, and yet, there was a clear move to stop the practice of religion.”
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Atlas: "We’ve seen [fashion ads] that make obese women something to celebrate rather than saying the honest truth—that ‘it’s bad to be fat.’ Not that we shouldn’t accept people for who they are—but the goal should be to avoid obesity for health reasons.”
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Lockdowns? Here are the facts ...
Confront them with facts. And then embrace the hate. It's all they have. It's a sign of weakness.
Plato: "no one is more hated than he who speaks the truth"
(knowledge requires patience, it's 11+ minutes ;) )
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“We have a crisis of not just competence, we have people who refuse to admit they were wrong. The earth is round, 2 + 2 = 4, masks do not work, and those lockdowners will literally never admit they were wrong.”
Former Trump WH Coronavirus Advisor Dr. Scott Atlas last night:
“The era of trusting people because of their title should have been over years ago and to listen to Birx and Fauci offer advice…it’s outrageous. These people are responsible for massive destruction in this country”
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.
@TuckerCarlson
stating what (shockingly) still must be stated in the USA:
"I would never go to a doctor who's still lying about COVID. That's a dangerous person - that's an immoral person and a dangerous person."
@StanfordMed
@AmerMedicalAssn
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Atlas: "Truth may be slowly prevailing, but being proven right is not sufficient."
GK Chesterton: "Right is right, even if nobody does it. Wrong is wrong, even if everybody is wrong about it."
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"The medical community was a disgrace during COVID - it's embarrassing ... Doctors were sheep, not looking at the studies, not questioning, not fluent in the data... I'm not afraid to question what I'm told. The medical community failed."
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@richardcorcoran
: “We've forced upon these kids massive costs, massive
#debt
and then given them a degree that oftentimes is not worth the paper it is written on.”
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Massive damage from the pseudoscience of Fauci & his sidekick Birx. Their legacy:
- the biggest public health fiasco in history
- sinful, longlasting damage to a gen of children
- destroyed trust in public health & science
Now what? See
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Thanks
@WSJ
. Occasionally, facts get published, even in print journalism. Full report ↪️
And yes, it's good to be right 😉
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Not just an award, but an award for "Ethics"? Serious question - what kind of a country are we living in? What kind of a society is the United States?
As an alum of the University of Illinois
@UofIllinois
- this is worse than embarrassing, it is a total disgrace.
U of I System President Tim Killeen and U.S. Sen. Richard J. Durbin presented Dr. Anthony Fauci with IGPA's 2024 Paul H. Douglas Award for Ethics in Government at an event in Washington, D.C. Learn more about the award and past recipients here:
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Atlas: "Our culture seems very antagonistic to religion. How harmful is that to our society?"
D’Souza: "Many don't realize that the world before Christianity was a very dark place with regard to many of the core moral values that even secular people share in our society today."
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