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Today, the big chill, government's COVID crackdown on legitimate scientific discussion and debate.

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Today we're devoting the podcast to The Big Chill, Smearing Scientists in the name of Science. It's happened before. I've talked about that on previous podcasts and in original and investigative

stories on my news programs. But it's probably never happened before just so many scientists

at the same time and in such a

public and obvious way. I'll be talking to Dr. J. Badacharya, professor at the Stanford School of

Medicine, a medical doctor with a PhD in economics. Baracharia's economics background may be what

helped him recognize and emphasize right off the bat

how massive the harms of the COVID lockdowns worldwide would be.

Of course, he was far from the only one.

Thousands, actually tens of thousands of scientists signed onto a document that he co-authored on this topic,

the Great Barrington Declaration. In fact,

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