The National Institutes of Health (NIH) emerged from the COVID-19 era as among the most disreputable of all the agencies, a partner with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. It was the home of Dr. Anthony Fauci, plus his wife, who was in charge of ethics.<\/p>\n
There is poetry in how the scholar called a \u201cfringe epidemiologist\u201d by the previous agency heads is now in charge. His name is Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, previously a quietly productive professor at Stanford University with specializations in medical services and economics.\u00a0He joined the ranks of the dissidents of lockdowns, masks and vaccine mandates, and was smeared the world over for it.\u00a0Fast forward five years, and he is now charged with fixing up the agency that smeared him and restoring trust. His actions in the first weeks and months have been an inspiration.<\/p>\n
Changing anything within a government agency always risks blowback. Sure enough, a gaggle of disgruntled workers, a few hundred at most out of 18,000, maybe 1%, while ignoring all the people who are thrilled, turned in a declaration of protest.\u00a0Called the Bethesda Declaration, in a protest-like homage to the Great Barrington Declaration, it is haughty, overwrought, packed with self-important plural pronouns, filled with inaccuracies and driven by one single purpose: to keep getting paid.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n The high-dudgeon gibberish was easy to dismiss when it was released at 8:00 a.m. EST on June 9. Surely it will have no traction at all. But then 8:01 a.m. came, and the mainstream media started an amplification campaign.\u00a0It grew and grew to a dozen, then two dozen stories, almost all identical. This crescendoed until noon when the big guns came out, namely The New York Times.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n https:\/\/childrenshealthdefense.org\/defender\/pharma-mainstream-media-pocket-bethesda-declaration\/?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A \u201cgaggle of disgruntled\u201d NIH employees recently pushed back against changes at the agency by issuing the \u201cBethesda Declaration,\u201d in a \u201cprotest-like homage to the Great Barrington Declaration.\u201d The declaration might have gone unnoticed \u2014 until mainstream media united to … Continue reading