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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Bhattacharya seems eminently reasonable.     Just listened to his whole interview with Bari Weiss.[/quote]

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:roll:   Did you listen to the interview?  Guy has a good plan to restore public trust damage done after covid.

It's ridiculous to assume your neighbors are bots because they have different opinions.   I've been posting on here for decades. Feel free to ask Jeff.[/quote]

NP. You don’t seem to understand how incredibly tone deaf your comment sounds when thousands of researchers are being fired and long standing research programs are being dismantled. WHO is going to implement his “good plan”? There are many of us who don’t think anyone with substance or integrity would work for this administration. It’s also unclear how dismantling our public health infrastructure restores public faith… I guess maybe with the “ivermectin crowd,” which is a small, extremely vocal minority in this country but I guess the rest of us who value research are just f***ed.[/quote]

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Also while firing thousands of medical researchers and closing medical programs, RK has authorized major study over debunked theory that vaccinations cause autism. There have already been extensive international research disproving this allegation.

This definitely does restore public confidence especially at a time when the anti vax movement has led to resurgence of diseases that had been contained (measles/ pertussis/ Haemophilus influenzae disease (H flu)/ varicella (chicken pox)/ pneumococcal disease (strep)/ TB/ and even polio).

It is terrifying that we will have access to less not more medical research and recommendations at this time of ever increasing international travel. [/quote]

^^^ does not restore public confidence [/quote]

My apologies. I did come off tone deaf and I didn't mean to be unsympathetic for the good scientists being laid off right now.

I think, despite best intentions, a lot of damage to institutional trust in public health organizations was done during covid.  Bhattacharya's approach is to be transparent, humble, open-minded and willing to support research that isn't usually able to be funded by pharmaceutical companies.  [b]If our public dollars can support research that replicates findings and tries to keep politics out of public health,[/b] ultimately I think it'll be better for the country as a whole.

An authoritative appeal to experts has prompted an enormous backlash[/quote]

We are now so far from that goal, and it will be decades before we can achieve it again. MAHA must go, asap. [/quote]

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