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Jay Bhattacharya
@DrJBhattacharya
Emeritus Professor Stanford School of Medicine. MD, PhD. NIH Director. All my posts represent my views alone.
Bethesda, MD, USA
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    Jay Bhattacharya
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    Nov 27, 2024
    I am honored and humbled by President @realDonaldTrump's nomination of me to be the next @NIH director. We will reform American scientific institutions so that they are worthy of trust again and will deploy the fruits of excellent science to make America healthy again!
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    Nov 27, 2024
    🚨 NEW: President Trump announces the nomination of @DrJBhattacharya to Director of the National Institutes of Health.
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    Jay Bhattacharya
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    Dec 9, 2022
    Still trying to process my emotions on learning that @twitter blacklisted me. The thought that will keep me up tonight: censorship of scientific discussion permitted policies like school closures & a generation of children were hurt. 1/2
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    Jay Bhattacharya
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    Mar 6, 2023
    Now that it is clear to everyone with eyes to see that Fauci organized a cover up to squash the lab leak hypothesis, here's a reminder that he tried to fool the public on the science of lockdown and covid mitigation too.
    Anthony Fauci
    How Fauci Fooled America
    From newsweek.com
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    Jay Bhattacharya
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    Jun 19, 2023
    Reminder: In April 2021, nurses filled gloves with hot water to hold the hands of dying patients, isolated from family because of hospital protocols. Every government should adopt human rights legislation to guarantee patients the right to family visits. news18.com/news/buzz/hand…
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    Jay Bhattacharya
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    Dec 11, 2022
    I spent the afternoon yesterday at Twitter HQ at the invitation of @elonmusk to find out more about the trend "blacklist" that twitter placed on me & more. A short thread on what I found out follows. 1/4
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    Jay Bhattacharya
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    Nov 26, 2024
    It is not a virtue to exaggerate an infectious disease threat at the start of a pandemic to panic the population into compliance. It's not a vice to ask for data to understand the true risk. A noble lie is a lie.
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    Jay Bhattacharya
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    Dec 13, 2022
    If you live life as if there are no respiratory viruses, you'll sometimes get sick, and you'll live your life. If you live your life to avoid all respiratory viruses, you'll sometimes get sick, and you'll have let your life pass unlived.
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    Jay Bhattacharya
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    Dec 3, 2024
    Friends, my posting on here will be light for the next few weeks as I prepare for the confirmation hearing, the cross-country move, and the new job in the new year. Lots of exciting plans coming together, but also lots of work to do!
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    Jay Bhattacharya
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    Dec 10, 2024
    I just gave my Health Economics class their final exam. I'm excited to start my new job in Bethesda next year, but it is bittersweet because I love teaching bright students so much. I hope I get to do it again someday.
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    Jay Bhattacharya
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    Oct 2, 2024
    I'm still having trouble processing the fact that an actual American presidential ticket, that might actually win office, openly embraces censorship, suppression of speech, and mass violation of the first amendment. And the old civil liberties groups are fine with it.
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    Jay Bhattacharya
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    Sep 2, 2023
    Remember when the FDA tweeted to tell people to stop taking ivermectin because "you are not a horse"? The FDA implausibly told a federal district court that those tweets did not contain medical advice. The court just told the FDA to stop practicing medicine. 1/2
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    Jay Bhattacharya
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    Aug 23, 2021
    Mortality from #COVID19 differs more than a thousand-fold between the old and young. Focused protection is the compassionate approach that balances COVID risks and collateral damage to public health.
    Great Barrington Declaration and Petition
    From gbdeclaration.org
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    Jay Bhattacharya
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    Dec 11, 2022
    Replying to @DrJBhattacharya
    It will take some time to find out more about what led Twitter 1.0 to act so imperiously, but I am grateful to @elonmusk, who has promised access to help find out. I will report the results on Twitter 2.0, where transparency and free speech rule. 4/4
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    Jay Bhattacharya
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    Dec 15, 2022
    Just applied for Twitter Blue. I am happy to give @elonmusk and @twitter 2.0 my $8 since the platform has restored free speech as a guiding principle.