Follow Science, Not Scientists: Jay Bhattacharya (#279)

Into the Impossible With Brian Keating

Brian Keating

Science, Physics, Natural Sciences

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🗓️ 14 December 2022

⏱️ 92 minutes

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Dr. Jay Bhattacharya is a Professor of Health Policy at Stanford University and a research associate at the National Bureau of Economics Research. He directs Stanford’s Center for Demography and Economics of Health and Aging. Dr. Bhattacharya’s research focuses on the health and well-being of vulnerable populations, with a particular emphasis on the role of government programs, biomedical innovation, and economics. He has published 135 articles in top peer-reviewed scientific journals. He holds an MD and PhD in economics, both earned at Stanford University. He is a co-author of the Great Barrington Declaration, a proposal arguing for an alternative public health approach to dealing with COVID-19, through "focused protection" of the people most at risk. In it, Bhattacharya and the two other researchers called on governments to overturn their coronavirus strategies and to allow young and healthy people to return to normal life while protecting the most vulnerable. twitter.com/DrJBhattacharya https://gbdeclaration.org/ https://healthpolicy.fsi.stanford.edu/research/center-demography-and-economics-health-and-aging Connect with Professor Keating: 🏄‍♂️ Twitter: https://twitter.com/DrBrianKeating 📸 Instagram: https://instagram.com/DrBrianKeating 🔔 Subscribe https://www.youtube.com/DrBrianKeating?sub_confirmation=1 📝 Join my mailing list; just click here http://briankeating.com/list ✍️ Detailed Blog posts here: https://briankeating.com/blog.php 🎙️ Listen on audio-only platforms: https://briankeating.com/podcast Subscribe to the Jordan Harbinger Show for amazing content from Apple’s best podcast of 2018! https://www.jordanharbinger.com/podcasts Can you do me a favor? Please leave a rating and review of my Podcast: 🎧 On Apple devices, click here, https://apple.co/39UaHlB 🎙️On Spotify it’s here: https://open.spotify.com/show/2G3PRMUhxGQkyQzLiiCqlf?si=8656119458df4555 🎧 On Audible it’s here : https://www.audible.com/pd/Into-the-Impossible-With-Brian-Keating-Podcast/B08K56PXJX?action_code=ASSGB149080119000H&share_location=pdp&shareTest=TestShar Other ways to rate here: https://briankeating.com/podcast Support the podcast on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/drbriankeating or become a Member on YouTube- https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmXH_moPhfkqCk6S3b9RWuw/join Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Let's say you disagree to me, you'd say why and if it made sense we'd like
0:10.0	err our differences publicly on on the substance of it. But what happens when Tony Fauchy does this is a sense, you're absolutely right, it sends a signal to all the other scientists in biomedicine
0:18.0	that if you step out of line, you know, if Tony Fauchy says I am the science, you know, if you disagree with me, you're disagree with science itself.
0:24.8	If you step out of line, your career is at stake.
0:27.6	You don't want every crank idea, but this was not a crank idea.
0:30.5	These were prominent people in respected institutions saying, look, this is, this
0:35.8	policy is wrong.
0:39.7	Welcome to this week's episode of the Into the Impossible podcast featuring my friend Dr.
0:45.0	J. Badacharya of Stanford University, a renowned scientist, epidemiologist, economist,
0:51.0	MD PhD, Polymath, and really one of the highest quality human beings I've ever had the opportunity to meet and spend time with and now finally interview.
1:01.0	He's well known for his contribution to the so-called Great Barrington Declaration,
1:05.8	which has been signed by over a million people as at the time I'm recording this.
1:10.3	Plus that includes about 17 to 20,000 medical professionals
1:14.0	and it really presage the moment we find ourselves now in with COVID
1:18.0	that the lockdowns were counterproductive
1:20.0	and I think that's been proven to be clear
1:22.0	Jay was never against vaccines.
1:24.0	He's a huge vaccine supporter.
1:25.0	He's vaccinated, his kids, his parents.
1:27.0	But he was really against this notion
1:30.0	that we could achieve any end to the pandemic without herd immunity.
1:33.6	That's how all viruses, pandemics come to an end.
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