Dr. Jay Bhattacharya: The Deadly Consequences of Censorship and the Need for COVID Commissions
American Thought Leaders
The Epoch Times
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🗓️ 28 February 2023
⏱️ 64 minutes
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I sit down with Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, professor of health policy at Stanford University’s School of Medicine and one of the co-authors of the Great Barrington Declaration that argued for focused protection of the vulnerable—instead of large-scale lockdowns.
“Many people that are dead today would be alive, had we been allowed to make that argument,” Bhattacharya says.
We discuss how Big Tech, his university, and the highest levels of the federal bureaucracy worked to silence him and other scientists.
Last December, he was invited by Elon Musk to visit Twitter headquarters and see how he was censored. “I was actually placed on the blacklist the very day I joined Twitter,” he says.
After years of destructive pandemic policies, what is the path forward? How do we prevent the same policies from being adopted the next time there’s a respiratory virus pandemic?
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| 0:00.0 | I was actually placed on the black list the very day I joined Twitter. |
| 0:03.4 | Today I sit down with Dr. J. Betecheria, professor of health policy at Stanford University School |
| 0:08.6 | of Medicine, and one of the co-authors of the great Barrington Declaration that argued |
| 0:13.2 | for focused protection of the vulnerable instead of large scale lockdowns. |
| 0:17.5 | Many people that are dead today would be alive had we been allowed to make their argument. |
| 0:22.3 | We discuss how big tech is university, and the highest levels of the federal bureaucracy |
| 0:27.4 | work to silence him into other scientists. |
| 0:30.4 | After years of destructive pandemic policies, what is the path forward? |
| 0:35.0 | And where we are now, when there's another respiratory rise pandemic, we will lock down |
| 0:39.6 | again. |
| 0:40.6 | And we will use the vaccine only strategy. |
| 0:43.1 | This is American Thought Leaders, and I'm Janja Kellek. |
| 0:45.8 | J. Betecheria, it's such a pleasure to have you back on American Thought Leaders. |
| 0:52.0 | Thank you, you're so good to be with you. |
| 0:54.7 | Janja, it's been a while since we've spoken on camera. |
| 0:59.4 | And since all sorts of evidence has come to light that the work you did around the great |
| 1:07.3 | Barrington Declaration, trying to talk about focused protection and this gradient and |
| 1:12.7 | harms across age, that there was all sorts of elements of society. |
| 1:20.1 | We had big tech, we had government, we had your own institution, Stanford, all kind of |
| 1:25.8 | working to suppress some incredibly important information. |
| 1:31.1 | Now after having seen all this, and of course the Missouri versus Biden piece, which revealed |
| 1:36.6 | all further information, what's your reaction at this point having seen all of this now? |
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