"Four years ago, Jay Bhattacharya was ostracized by colleagues at Stanford and censored on social media platforms because the public-health establishment deemed him a 'fringe' epidemiologist, recalls City Journal's John Tierney. Yet he's far from the fringe today as Prez-elect Donald Trump just nominated him to head the National Institutes of Health."
"If he's confirmed, it will be a major victory for science and academic freedom - and a serious threat to the universities that suppressed scientific debate and promoted disastrous policies during the pandemic, causing public trust in science to plummet."
"At NIH, the world's largest funder of biomedical research, Bhattacharya will wield a potent tool to induce reform: money. Campus censors may rediscover the principles of academic freedom once they contemplate their budgets."
"A lawsuit by third-party outfit No Labels reveals details of a plan to 'shun,' 'stigmatize,' and 'destroy' the organization, showing groups aligned with the Democratic Party using dirty tricks and elaborate fakery to attack anyone in their electoral path."
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