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The Trump administration plans to nominate Jay Bhattacharya to lead the NIH. Bhattacharya has spread disinformation on COVID, fought against lifesaving measures including vaccines, masks, and social distancing, and is backed by dark money groups pushing corporate interests.
@luckytran@med-mastodon.comThe NIH is the largest funder of biomedical research on the planet. Having a discredited corporate-backed contrarian like Bhattacharya as its head will disrupt critical lifesaving research on vaccines, Long COVID, and pandemic threats etc. and undermine public health generally.
Some media outlets are already sane-washing Bhattacharya. To learn more about how he has spread disinformation that undermines public health, is widely discredited by real experts, and is funded by dark money, read this piece by Walker Bragman who has tracked him throughout the pandemic: https://www.importantcontext.news/p/everything-you-need-to-know-about
@luckytran I'd forgotten some of the terrible things he said. Some of my friends were part of that shocking death toll: older people who kept going out because they believed that it was just a little flu.
And there sits H5 flu, looking for an unwatched open door.
Yes, and maybe M-Pox (Monkey Pox) too.
Oh, and any new dangerous mutations of COVID.
Well, heck, maybe even plain old current versions of COVID if vaccine booster shots get messed with.
Bottom line, having Bhattacharya head the NIH makes American medicine worth considerably less at home and abroad. Despite the Biden Administration providing false validation to the Great Barrington Declaration at Palantir's behest, everything optimistic Bhattacharya has said about Covid has been disproven. I can think of no worse pick to head the NIH... unless, of course, your real intent was to kill scores of millions with disease.