🔥 Dr. Jay Bhattacharya held NOTHING back in his Senate confirmation hearing.
Covid vaccine-injured Americans will finally have a champion at NIH.
The truth about skyrocketing rates of autism will be EXPOSED.
Dissident scientists will finally be heard.
🧵THREAD
Dr. Bhattacharya pledged “five concrete goals” for NIH in his opening statement.
“Dissent is the very essence of science.”
1. “NIH research should focus on research that solves the American chronic disease crisis. American health is going backwards.”
“Life expectancy flatlined between 2012 and 2019, plummeted during the pandemic, and still has not bounced back.”
“The chronic disease crisis is severe, with hundreds of millions of Americans, children and adults, suffering from obesity, heart disease, cancer and more.”
2. “NIH-supported science should be replicable, reproducible, and generalizable. Unfortunately, much bought modern biomedical science fails this basic test.”
“The NIH itself just last year faced a research integrity scandal involving research on Alzheimer's disease that throws into question hundreds of research papers.”
“It is no stretch to think that the slow progress on Alzheimer's disease is linked to this problem. The NIH can and must solve the crisis of scientific data reliability.”
3. “If confirmed, I will establish a culture of respect for free speech in science and scientific dissent at the NIH.”
“Over the last few years, top NIH officials oversaw a culture of cover up, obfuscation, and a lack of tolerance for ideas that differ from theirs.”
4. “The NIH must recommit to its mission to fund the most innovative biomedical research agenda possible to improve American health.”
5. “The NIH must embrace, and vigorously regulate, risky research that has the possibility of causing a pandemic.”
“We must regulate risky research that has the possibility of causing a pandemic. It should embrace transparency in all its operations.”
“If confirmed, I'll carry out President Trump's agenda of making the public science institutions of this country worthy of trust and serve to Make America Healthy Again.”
Dr. Bhattacharya pledged to expose the truth about skyrocketing rates of autism.
“We have had a sharp rise in autism rates in this country.”
“I would support a broad scientific agenda to get an answer to that.”
“If I’m confirmed as NIH Director, the one level I will have is to give people good data.”
In response to Dr. Bhattacharya’s pledge to find the truth about the prevalence of autism …
Senator Bill Cassidy compared the belief that there is a link between vaccines and autism the belief that the world is flat and Elvis is still alive.
“There's people who disagree that the world is round—and I say that not to minimize these people’s concerns—but people still think Elvis is alive.”
“Just because somebody is upset about something, do we have the opportunity cost of devoting resources at something which has already been pretty well examined?”
President Trump, RFK Jr. and Dr. Bhattacharya will lead the most transparent Administration in American history.
Dr. Bhattacharya: “You can't have trust unless you are transparent.”
“If I'm confirmed as NIH Director, I fully commit to making sure that the American people can see all of the activities of the NIH openly.”
Dr. Bhattacharya called out NIH funding for dangerous gain-of-function research.
“I don’t think the NIH should be doing any research that has the potential to cause a pandemic.”
Senator Rand Paul SLAMMED the insanity of funding bioweapons labs in Ukraine despite the war and conflict that has plagued the country since 2014.
“I was personally subject to censorship by the Biden Administration during the pandemic.”
Dr. Bhattacharya pledged his support to free speech and dissident scientists as NIH Director.
“It was so refreshing to be able to speak my scientific views in Florida during the pandemic.”
“The root problem was that people who had alternative ideas were suppressed.”
RFK Jr. pledged the same transparency for HHS.
“Nothing is gonna be off-limits.”
“The childhood vaccine schedule, electromagnetic radiation, glyphosate, other pesticides, ultra processed foods, artificial food additives, SSRI and other psychiatric drugs, PFAS, PFOAs, microplastics.”
“Some of the possible factors we will investigate were formally taboo or insufficiently scrutinized.”
“That is gonna be our template: unbiased science.”
“Let's all depoliticize these issues and reestablish a common ground or action and renew the search for existential truth with no political impediments and no preconceptions.”
Americans injured by Covid-19 vaccines will FINALLY have a champion at NIH in Dr. Bhattacharya.
Senator Andy Kim: “Are there any vaccines that you are concerned about?”
Dr. Bhattacharya: “I was concerned about the Covid vaccines for young men causing myocarditis in 2021.”
Dr. Bhattacharya SLAMMED the totalitarian approach to science during the pandemic.
“Science should be an engine for knowledge and freedom, not something that stands on top of society and says you must do this or else.”
“It shouldn’t be pushing Covid vaccines.”
“The proper role of scientists in a pandemic is to answer basic questions that policy makers have about what the right policy should be.”
“The role of scientists shouldn’t be to say you can’t send your kids to school for two years.”
“If science is a force for freedom and knowledge, it will have universal support.”
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