He's a smug contrarian whose covid predictions were off by 2 orders of magnitude, and yes, he wants revenge for that humiliation.
Thread on Jay Bhattacharya's weak scientific bona fides. Let's look at his CV.

Too many scientists are saying "Bhattacharya has NIH funding, he can't be that bad."

No. He wants revenge. He hasn't gotten an NIH grant since 2017, and the two grants then were only as a stats/econ consultant.

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