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Two-thirds of the Great Barrington Declaration aren’t even hiding that they are antivax anymore

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You saw right! That's Jay Bhattacharya on the far left, with Martin Kulldorff sitting next to him, and Steve Kirsch next to him pontificating how COVID-19 vaccines have supposedly killed a half a million people. How can Bhattacharya and Kulldorff deny that they are antivaccine now?

Two of the authors of the Great Barrington Declaration appeared on a panel with antivaxxer Steve Kirsch, who thinks COVID vaccines have killed 500K. And they keep denying that they are antivax!

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Martin Kulldorff promotes an old antivax narrative about “natural immunity”

Martin Kulldorff
Martin Kulldorff strenuously denies being antivaccine while spouting antivaccine talking points.

Great Barrington Declaration author Martin Kulldorff, who is also the “scientific director” of the Brownstone Institute, a public health science denialist right wing “think tank,” is promoting an antivax narrative about “natural immunity” against COVID-19, because of course he is.

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NIH funding lies weaponized as disinformation

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It’s depressing to see formerly respected academics spread lies about the NIH funding process in order to undermine trust in COVID-19 public health science.

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The Great Barrington Declaration never would have worked

Great Barrington Declaration authors Martin Kulldorff, Sunetra Gupta, and Jay Bhattacharya
Authors of the Great Barrington Declaration, which advocated a "natural herd immunity" approach to the pandemic in front of the American Institute for Economic Research in Great Barrington. (Left to right: Martin Kulldorff, Sunetra Gupta, and Jay Bhattarcharya.)

A new paper provides yet more evidence that the “let COVID-19 rip” strategy behind the Great Barrington Declaration would have made the pandemic even more disastrous than it has already been.

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The “spiritual child” of the Great Barrington Declaration goes antivax

Brownstone Institute, "spiritual child" of the Great Barrington Declaration
Brownstone Institute, "spiritual child" of the Great Barrington Declaration.

The Brownstone Institute, “spiritual child of the Great Barrington Declaration,” just went full on hard core antivax (and fascist), just as Orac has been predicting.