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Hello and welcome to Marshall Matters with me, Winston Marshall, at The Spectator in London.

I explore taboo topics and speak to heterodox thinkers, as well as

exploring free speech issues. And my guest today is one of the most censored men in the West,

I believe. It's Dr. J. Batacharya. Welcome, Dr. Batacharya. Thank you for having you, Winston. Appreciate it.

So as well as being, well,

you're a professor at Stanford University Medical School, a physician, epidemiologist, health

economist, public health policy expert focusing on infectious diseases and vulnerable

populations, but famously one of the co-authors of the Great Barrington Declaration in October

2020, which, as we know, well,

we sort of knew already, but as was confirmed by Barry Weiss and the Twitter files, was censored

by Twitter and we believe other big tech companies. You've experienced censorship from

YouTube. And I learn also, by reading your latest tablet magazine article,

you've experienced censorship at Stanford University,

where you teach and work,

all of which I look forward to getting into with you

and also keen to talk about your experience,

going into Twitter post-Elon's takeover and that experience.

But I think we should perhaps start with the work that is so controversial, which is not only

the great Barrington Declaration, but the zero prevalent study of April 2020, which also got you

in trouble. So maybe you can explain to our

listeners what you set out in those two things. Sure. So when the pandemic hit, I've been writing

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