Rightwing billionaires wanted to push herd immunity, because lockdowns to stop COVID infection and death were hurting Trump politically in 2020. So they made a political decision to find an Ivy-level professor who was willing to push herd immunity.
The rightwing also needed a villain to blame for COVID, because stories with villains always work better politically than aseptic presentations of facts.
Then, as time went on, COVID became a useful political hammer to hit Biden and blue states with.
So Bhattacharya and the rest of the billionaire-funded docs club pivoted to “end the pandemic”. And later, to “woke policies/Biden did this!”
Jay Bhattacharya is merely a corrupt instrument of political money on America’s right wing. Billionaires needed someone to say what he said, to achieve rightwing political ends.
Bhattacharya willingly complied, lapping up the bullshit and taking the money.
That makes him a grave danger to NIH and American science. He will gleefully attack and tear down NIH, strip away grants, and attack you as a scientist, if his billionaire patrons want that. And they do. Their dream is to kill NIH and universities because they can resist oligarch power.
Exactly what needs changing— and criticism. We can do that.
Every scientist can criticize the president of Stanford for this — for helping the forces that seek to tear US science down to give money and power to oligarchs.
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Rightwing billionaires wanted to push herd immunity, because lockdowns to stop COVID infection and death were hurting Trump politically in 2020. So they made a political decision to find an Ivy-level professor who was willing to push herd immunity.
So they chose Fauci to target. And NIH.
So Bhattacharya and the rest of the billionaire-funded docs club pivoted to “end the pandemic”. And later, to “woke policies/Biden did this!”
You can see all this on Bhattacharya’s CV 👇
Bhattacharya willingly complied, lapping up the bullshit and taking the money.
Every scientist can criticize the president of Stanford for this — for helping the forces that seek to tear US science down to give money and power to oligarchs.