Thread by @DrEricDing

📍Beware a new Koch-aligned pseudo science group. The “Great Barrington Declaration” pushing ‘herd immunity’ to #COVID19–sponsored by a Koch-funded network that denies climate science while investing in polluting fossil fuel industries. Don’t fall for it! bylinetimes.com/2020/10/09/cli…

2) “Corporate records filed with the US Internal Revenue Service (IRS) confirm that the AIER operates as part of a Koch-funded network of climate science deniers who see environmental regulation as a threat to its vision of unfettered, deregulated markets.”

3) “The latest available IRS documents reveal that in 2018, the AIER received $68,100 for “General Operating Support” from the Charles Koch Foundation, which acts on behalf of right-wing billionaire Charles Koch.”

4) “The vast majority of infectious disease physicians, virologists, and epidemiologists don’t support it—and in fact, most of the scientific community believes that this approach will actively hurt vulnerable people rather than protecting them. motherjones.com/politics/2020/…

5) “The authors are well known people in public health, but they don’t represent anything like a consensus view about how to approach COVID,” Yale University epidemiologist Gregg Gonsalves told me. “The rest of the people in their field are looking at them aghast.””

6) also “An open letter demanding governments pursue “herd immunity” in regards to COVID-19 has been found to contain fake names among the “experts” as well as the general public”.
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