Trump Names COVID Contrarian to Head NIH, Restore Faith in Science

Rick Moran : Mar 6, 2025
PJ Media

Bhattacharya was one of the primary endorsers of the "Great Barrington Declaration." Signed by nearly a million academics and health professionals, it called out Fauci and the rest of the public health establishment for gravely miscalculating the effects of lockdowns...

[PJMedia.com] Dr. Jay Bhattacharya is feeling pretty good these days. In 2020, almost the entire scientific community lined up against his critique of the response to the COVID-19 pandemic. (Screengrab image: via The Hill)

The Stanford health economist turned COVID contrarian was savaged by the medical establishment for daring to question Dr. Antony Fauci and the gurus at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) whose policy prescriptions led to massive deaths in nursing homes, a "lost generation" of kids whose education was needlessly short-circuited, and an economic blow from useless "lockdowns" that we're still trying to recover from five years later.

Bhattacharya was one of the primary endorsers of the "Great Barrington Declaration." Signed by nearly a million academics and health professionals, it called out Fauci and the rest of the public health establishment for gravely miscalculating the effects of lockdowns. It warned that closing schools and shuttering factories would produce "devastating effects on short and long-term public health," including "lower childhood vaccination rates, worsening cardiovascular disease outcomes, fewer cancer screenings, and deteriorating mental health."

Then-NIH Director Francis Collins called Bhattacharya a "fringe epidemiologist" whose views deserved a "quick and devastating published takedown." Now, Bhattacharya will succeed Collins as NIH director in what has to be one of the most satisfying cases of schadenfreude in recent memory... Subscribe for free to Breaking Christian News here

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