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Lucy's avatar

Remarkable.

What a difference an election makes.

Restoring the brilliant and brave Dr. Jay Bhattacharya's reputation is one thing. It honors him greatly to confirm his now-proven stance that he stood by under intense fire . And it allows him to do the good work that we need to clean up the NIH cesspool.

But I'd also like to see a Stanford apology. They tortured the man.

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Epaminondas's avatar

Unlike the people who cosplay about "speaking truth to power", Jay actually did it and paid the price. He's exactly the type of leader you want in public health: data-driven, principled, and open-minded. It's just too bad that he wasn't head of NIH during the actual pandemic.

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Slippery Richard's avatar

Stanford owes more than an apology. The Stanford Internet Observatory was criminal.

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Rudy P Briner,MD's avatar

amen

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tracy's avatar

You're sooooo lucky to be in the US. In Canada, there's not been a single inch of budging from the healthScare industry or the bureaucracy or elected officials.

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Lizanne's avatar

I’m a Canadian as well and sadly you are so right. When the Alberta review of their pandemic response was released which stated a number of mistakes were made, the authors were vilified by MSM….

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Pairodocs's avatar

Jay was the keynote speaker at our First Annual Free Speech in Medicine Conference in 2022.(https://www.freespeechinmedicine.com/) We offered to pay him for his services, but he refused to take any money. (Meanwhile, Anthony Fauci was demanding $100k per speech.) I've never met a more principled, brave--and just all around wonderful--human being. This really is poetic justice.

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Regina's avatar

I am so glad to see this. And as long as "Government" is righting wrongs, how about all the folks who were fired and had their careers destroyed for declining a vaccine that was shown to NOT halt transmission?

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Sam's avatar

I’d like to see Trump go after hospitals that still require a mRNA jab for transplant patients.

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KaiKai's avatar

Finally some sensible, evidence based and intelligent principals are going to be at NIH and FDA.

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Andrew Heard's avatar

There’s something ironic about his confirmation hearing being on the 5 year anniversary of when so many of the lockdowns were first implemented across the world.

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Pawletto's avatar

The good news keep coming. I had the pleasure of meeting Jay (and Scott Atlas and Jennifer Sey and others) at a Team Reality event hosted by Justin Hart in San Diego (ages ago, it seems). Although he would never wish it so, nor perhaps even want to see it, there is a very large roster of his fellow academics at Stanford who are wearing the proverbial "egg on their faces."

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Red-Pilled ER Nurse's avatar

I haven’t seen anything about Francis Collins having been arrested yet. It it under way?

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JeaniRN's avatar

Exactly- as great as it is to see all this happening- it is no consolation for the murders, maiming, suffering, destruction of lives, families & relationships. And the nerve of them @Stanford/everywhere to continue act as if nothing ever happened- after they profited from it all. Smug & holier than thou, condescending to patients & public as ever. Justice must be served.

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Juliah's avatar

Shielded by Fauci’s pardon?

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Laura Keres's avatar

Why isn't this email exchange and other important info collected by FOIA during the Senate Covid hearing on all the news and media?......Its about time.....

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Glory's avatar

The MSM (mainstream media) is captured.

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Rudy P Briner,MD's avatar

SWAMP!!

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Gary Edwards's avatar

Jay is a good man with his priorities straight and is just what the NIH needs. He could help greatly to improve things, most particularly public trust.

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WHS Jr's avatar

Polite golf clap for Dr. Bhattacharya. Handled everything with dignity and class. Well said Vinay; the irony of him succeeding Collins is not lost on many of us who just wanted to have open dialogue on how to handle COVID.

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webstersmill's avatar

Congratulations, and good for Dr. B. As a man who has been disparaged and harassed for taking a principled stand, he has first hand experience with the high-handedness of whose in authority.

Maybe he can also make some recommendations on the rogue medical boards, and bring about some ‘correction’. These boards may also be ripe for audits, as their power has been without oversight.

How can the harassment, restrictions, punishments and revocations of the medical boards be overturned? Their unchecked mandates need investigated for their authoritarian overreaching punishment of doctors who declined to follow the party line. Those are the doctors who were speaking truth to the bullying power bought by government program funds, paying bounties and bonuses for compliance. Those doctors need protection and restoration of their credentials, a complete exoneration of the unfounded and illegal charges and retributions.

Who wants to go to a doctor who looks at a government beancounter list to determine what you can receive as medication, or which procedure on the list, when even you as a patient know better (yes, the patient often knows better). Who does not fear an event which would put one in a hospital for a treatment or procedure, only to be unnecessarily tested with a ridiculous fake pcr test, to be involuntarily vaccinated or given remdesivir or the ‘quiet cocktail’ to prevent the patient struggling against the unwanted ventilator. Who wants to go to a hospital where the wishes of the patient outlined in a legal document are completely disregarded and the named representative is prevented from representing the patient’s wishes, even to the point of being physically ejected from the hospital. Who does not question the words ‘safe and effective’, and fear the actual, though hidden from the public, risk/benefit. Who does not now understand the fallacy of testing a new product against the prior version of a product. Who in their right mind would ever want an mRNA product.

Trust in the ‘health care’ system is broken. Change is needed.

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Vivien C Buckley's avatar

The Tony and Cliff email says it all. Nuff said.

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Susan DaSilva's avatar

That email is so telling. Outrageous.

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Todd Davis's avatar

So glad to see this come to fruition! How beautiful, poetic, just and productive an outcome from such a bewildering, menacing and confusing betrayal of principles!

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Charlene Shaver's avatar

Congratulations to Jay and thank him for keeping the faith!

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Lucy's avatar

Im loving every second of this and Im canadian! 🙏🏻

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tracy's avatar

If only Canada's VIPs gave a shit, our officials have not budged a single inch. It's demoralising, and now fukin Trudeau is up again in the polls cuz of Trump's tarifs, enough to drive one bonkers.

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Lucy's avatar

It’s the covid playbook, 2.0. I dont know why cdns keep falling for it. They will decimate what’s left of this country.

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