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26 July 2024
Government Has Just Declared War on Free Speech
26 July 2024
by Toby Young
Has science become a threat to human health? After it was co-opted by Governments to impose disastrous interventions during the pandemic, that's the shocking possibility considered by Prof John Ioannidis and colleagues.
Collateral Global is hosting a live Q&A session tonight as it premieres a conversation between two sceptical heavyweights: Professors John Ioannidis and Jay Bhattacharya.
Early in the pandemic a narrow scientific 'groupthink' took hold, which cast those questioning draconian policies as unethical, immoral and fringe – but this smokescreen is finally starting to dissipate.
There's a terrific piece in the Tablet by John Ioannidis, Professor of Medicine at Stanford, about what has gone wrong in the scientific community in the past 18 months. Why did scepticism lose out to authoritarianism?
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