Hello there, you awakening wonder, wherever you are in this world, amidst the Omni crisis that

will not yield.

Well done for continuing to transcend fear in a darkening space at a time of deep complexity.

It's more important that we come together now than ever before.

We must transcend this complex time by looking within and finding deep power, deep power that

some would regard as holy, is present with you now. Don't be afraid. We're going to keep going

together. Joining me now is Dr. J. Batacharya, Professor of Medicine at Stanford University, co-founder

of illusion of consensus on Subststack. He's recently won

in the federal court against the Biden administration for coercing social media companies to

censor content, plainly, as well as a scientist and a doctor. This man is a conspiracy theorist.

Dr. J. Batacharya, it's a great joy to meet you, sir. Thank you for coming

on, stay free. Thank you, Russell. Thank you for having me. I wonder, can you tell us, sir,

what exactly did you express that it was initially subject to censure? It was the Great

Barrington Declaration. So it was an article, censure? It was the Great Barrington Declaration.

So it was an article, you know, basically a proposal that I wrote with Sinatra Gupta of Oxford

and Martin Kuldorf of Harvard in October 2020.

I'm sure your audience has heard of this. I've seen you telling your audience this,

so they don't need to be told so much. But basically the idea was that we knew it was older people that were really vulnerable to COVID,

and that young people, especially children, were not particularly vulnerable.

The argument was to lift the lockdowns and do focus protection of vulnerable older people.

That led to a tremendous, you know, like propaganda campaign, a campaign that essentially

villainized me and Martin and Sinatra as if we wanted to kill a vast numbers of people.

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