Welcome back to the Ten Blocks podcast. This is John Tierney, a contributing editor to City Journal.

Joining me on the show today is Dr. Martin Koldorf, a former professor at Harvard Medical School.

He's also a plaintiff in a case that's being heard by the Supreme Court this month involving censorship of his ideas about COVID.

Today we're going to discuss yet another scandal at Harvard. And this one

doesn't involve plagiarism or anti-Semitism. It involves Harvard's notorious hostility to free speech

and scientific inquiry. Back in October, I wrote in City Journal about Harvard's double

standard on free speech, that it's fine on campus

to support Hamas, but don't dare say anything that offends progressives.

I didn't mention Martin's case because at that time, he hadn't gone public.

But now he has in a City Journal article revealing how he lost his job at Harvard after he

criticized the disastrous and

non-scientific policies during the COVID pandemic that were being pushed by government officials

with a lot of help from Harvard scientists. Now, when the pandemic began, Martin was recognized as

one of the world's leading experts on vaccines and their side effects. During his career, which

began in his native Sweden, he was instrumental in designing systems used by the CDC and other

health agencies for monitoring vaccine safety and adverse effects. He was a professor at the

Harvard Medical School and also a member of the CDC's COVID vaccine safety working group.

But he soon discovered that his expertise would get him in trouble if it contradicted the version of, quote, the science, unquote, being enforced by the CDC and Harvard scientists, one of whom became the CDC's director.

Martin, thanks very much for joining us today.

Now, your troubles began early in the pandemic when you saw the contrast between U.S.

policy and the policy back in your native country, Sweden.

Tell us about that.

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