Trump Selects Jay Bhattacharya as NIH Chief

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Trump Selects Jay Bhattacharya as NIH Chief

The physician is a professor of health policy at Stanford University.

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“Dr. Bhattacharya will work in cooperation with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to direct the nation’s medical research, and to make important discoveries that will improve health, and save lives,” Trump said in a statement.​

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Bhattacharya, Trump’s nominee for the 18th NIH director, is known for speaking out against lockdowns during the COVID-19 pandemic. Along with Harvard University’s Martin Kulldorff and Oxford University’s Sunetra Gupta, Bhattacharya co-authored the Great Barrington Declaration, which detailed the authors’ concerns of “damaging physical and mental health impacts” from extended public lockdowns in 2020.​

 

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New Emails Reveal Evidence of Government Efforts to Suppress Free Speech

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A previously unseen Oct. 2020 email from Dr. Francis Collins, the outgoing head of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), to his colleague Dr. Anthony Fauci is raising concerns about government-sponsored suppression of free speech—a direct violation of the 1st Amendment.​

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The email, which appears in a footnote of a Dec. 17 year-end staff report from House Democrats, shows the behind-the-scenes efforts from Collins and Fauci, who were pushing a fresh round of lockdowns, to discredit the Great Barrington Declaration and disparage its authors.​

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The Great Barrington Declaration was an Oct. 2020 letter that ran counter to the efforts of Fauci and Collins by declaring a unified opposition to broad-based lockdowns, and choosing instead to focus on the protection of vulnerable groups.​

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That declaration has been signed by many notable medical and epidemiological experts, including Harvard University epidemiologist Dr. Martin Kulldorff, University of Oxford epidemiologist Dr. Sunetra Gupta, Stanford Medical School epidemiologist Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, and Nobel Prize laureate Dr. Michael Levitt.​

 

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Close the NIH. Close the CDC. Close HHS.