Just The News: Stanford medical professor Jay Bhattacharya faces his first confirmation hearing to lead the National Institutes of Health next week, but his predecessor – who once dismissed Bhattacharya as a “fringe epidemiologist” for opposing COVID-19 lockdowns – is still a lightning rod for controversy and could even find himself in legal trouble.
Lawyers for Francis Collins, the longest-serving director in NIH history, protested the “material misrepresentations” about COVID mitigations and himself in the final report of the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic, which said the feds lacked evidence for “broadly requiring masking,” before it shuttered last year.
Yet Collins himself made material representations to the subcommittee in a Dec. 3 Arnold & Porter law firm letter, according to Paul Thacker, a former Senate investigator of drug industry bribery, who published the letter Thursday. read more
Wasn’t there a published study about 35 years ago that basically said more people died from bacteria in the masks during WW1 than died of the flue?
That fact that they all accepted my porous, useless cloth mask is plenty of proof that their concern was not for health safety but for control.
Liars gonna lawyer, (pron. lie-yer.)
Have his crimes reached “Crimes Against Humanity” status yet??
Collins really had me fooled, but he was also was an important object lesson in discernment for me. In the course of listening and learning from well-known scientists about their views on the historicity of Biblical subjects, physics of Biblical phenomena, and so on, I discovered a series of lectures given by Collins to various groups, including churches on his conversion testimony and his own scientific take on the Bible. At the time I was relieved to know that a fellow Christian held such an important and influential position within government, in an area in dire need of an honest, Christian, worldview. Someone who answered to a higher authority.
In the intervening months, however, it became clear that Collins was not adhering to his proclaimed faith. Quite disappointing, to say the least.
There were peer reviewed studies on the NIH website that refuted the efficacy of paper and cloth ear-loop masks. I was censored and banned from several websites for pointing them out. Later the studies were removed because “they didn’t meet their peer review standards”. IIRC one of the studies was from John Hopkins University.
“could even find himself in legal trouble.”
That’s the punch line to a joke, right? How many have gone to jail? Oh, that’s right. ZERO!!!!!
That boy Collins is a nutball. I read a book he wrote and published about 10 years ago where he tries, really tries, to convince God Believers to believe in Darwinism. He claims he does without any conflict between them.
Failure. Big Failure.