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Conspirituality

Bonus Sample: The Bethesda Declaration

Conspirituality

Derek Beres, Matthew Remski, Julian Walker

Spirituality, Social Sciences, Religion & Spirituality, Science, Philosophy, Society & Culture

4.22K Ratings

🗓️ 16 June 2025

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

In October 2020, three contrarian medical professionals published The Great Barrington Declaration to great applause by the pro-business, anti-closure crowd. One of them, Jay Bhattacharya, now runs the NIH. Things are not going well under his watch. Last week, he was grilled in front of Congress about the $18B in proposed cuts to NIH funding. This happened a day after over 300 people under his guard published The Bethesda Declaration, a document filled with issues occurring under Bhattacharya's leadership. Derek discusses this new declaration and listens in on the Congressional hearing. The Bethesda Declaration An Uproar at the NIH The Disappearing Funds for Chronic Diseases Show Notes Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

In October 2020, three contrarian medical professionals published the Great Barrington Declaration to great applause by the pro-business anti-closing business crowd.

0:17.0

This makes sense as it was sponsored by the American Institute for Economic Research, which is a libertarian free market think tank with deep ties to the Coke network.

0:27.4

The document was an ode to herd immunity with one basic principle in place. Let COVID-19 rip and call the weaker members of the herd provided that Americans can get

0:42.3

back to shopping and working. Sure, yes, the authors made some concessions about protecting the

0:49.8

most vulnerable, but that's not how it was received or how it's been treated since.

0:55.6

The WHO and other public health bodies immediately came out and noted the dangers of this

1:00.9

prescription. Today, however, the three authors continue to claim that they've been vindicated,

1:07.7

though they never really explain why. They cite declining vaccination rates,

1:13.6

which is ironic given that they were part of the misinformation gang that helped push

1:19.1

anti-vaccs narratives into the public's eye. What they're really celebrating is the ascension

1:25.3

of the anti-science Trump administration and its elevation

1:28.6

of RFK Jr. to the highest public health office in the nation. Tagging along with Bobby is one of

1:36.1

those authors, NIH director, Jay Batacharya. We've covered Jay often over the years. Most recently,

1:49.8

Julian and I breaking down his latest appearance on Barry Weiss's softball podcast.

2:00.5

I'm talking about him again because just last week, a new document was pushed into the public consciousness, and it is known as the Bethesda Declaration.

2:08.9

For those unfamiliar, Bethesda sits just northwest of Washington, D.C., and is where the NIH headquarters are located.

2:20.7

The declaration is so named because 92 NIH researchers and 250 of their colleagues endorsed the document, though this last tranche did so anonymously due to fear of retaliation, which really sucks, because the whole point of the

2:27.9

transparency of all of the agencies under HHS should mean that people within it should not fear losing their jobs if they speak

2:37.8

up when they see a problem. But I don't blame them. Bobby Kennedy Jr. and his HHS cronies promised

2:45.8

transparency, but they also promised gold standard science, and they have not delivered anything of the sort.

2:54.0

On June 7th, Bobby accused Wall Street Journal journalist, you know that liberal rag,

3:00.4

Liz White of, quote, faithfully reciting Big Pharma's talking points and quote,

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