We’re publishing an interview today with Martin Kulldorff, Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and one of the three original signatories of the Great Barrington Declaration. Among other things, he warns of the dangers of censoring dissenting voices during a pandemic, following his own run-in with Twitter a couple of weeks ago.
The media has been very reluctant to report reliable scientific and public health information about the pandemic. Instead they have broadcast unverified information such as the model predictions from Imperial College, they have spread unwarranted fear that undermine people’s trust in public health and they have promoted naïve and inefficient counter measures such as lockdowns, masks and contact tracing.
While I wished that neither SAGE nor anyone else would argue against long-standing principles of public health, the media should not censor such information. During a pandemic, it is more important than ever that media can report freely. There are two major reasons for this: (i) While similar to existing coronaviruses, SARS-CoV-2 is a new virus that we are constantly learning more about and because of that, it takes time to reach scientific conclusions. With censorship it takes longer and we cannot afford that during a pandemic. (ii) In order to maintain trust in public health, it is important that any thoughts and ideas about the pandemic can be voiced, debated and either confirmed or debunked.
This is a great interview done by the same journalist who interviewed Jay Bhattacharya for Lockdown Sceptics last week.
Worth reading in full.
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Sounds to me as if they know that trust in what is laughably called ‘public health’ has been well and truly undermined already.
SAGE also admitted, in a recent strategy document, that it has lost the trust of young people.That’s why any cretin of a celebrity will be roped in if the Fascists think young people will be duped by him/her.
All they needed to do to maintain public trust was to tell the truth, at all times.
Oh what a tangled web we weave
when first we practice to deceive.
Godd sentiments. But how exactly does the good Doctor suggest we reign in the new masters in silicon valley? We can’t vote them out, and twitters useage has almost doubled during the covid year. So how do we do it?
Continue to support these brave scientists by sharing their papers, articles etc with everyone you know either by social media, Facebook, Twitter, telegram.
We have all been the beneficiaries of the wisdom and intelligence of Drs. Martin Kuldorff, Jay Battacharya, and John Ioannidis among many others.
bit late now innit?
“Inducing unwarranted fear in the public goes against one of the basic principles of public health.”
So … obviously, current strategies have nothing to do with ‘public health’.
… which ineluctably leads on to the question of what the project is about ??? ….