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Journalist, professor, malcontent. Taking my annoying tweets to BlueSky. Same handle.

Sep 23, 2020, 5 tweets

Trump's favorite COVID advisor - Scott Atlas - threatened to sue his Stanford colleagues over their criticism of his theories.

So they fired back, with 🔥🔥🔥

insidehighered.com/news/2020/09/2…

Via @Acosta, Dr. Birx views Atlas "as an unhealthy influence on Trump's thinking .. Birx believes Atlas is feeding the President misleading information about the efficacy of face masks for controlling the spread of the virus"

cnn.com/2020/09/23/pol…

CDC’s Redfield, as overheard on an airplane, speaking about Atlas: “Everything he says is false.”

nbcnews.com/politics/polit…

Atlas tells Fox that until he - a neuroradiologist with no particular background in epidemiology or immunology - arrived at the White House, “expertise” in public policy and health care “had not been present.”

foxnews.com/politics/white…

Meanwhile, the CDC says Redfield disagrees with Atlas on just these 3 issues: “the value of wearing a mask, youth COVID-19 infections, and where we are currently with herd immunity”

foxnews.com/politics/white…

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