Dr. Scott Atlas, onetime member of former President Donald Trump’s COVID-19 task force, said that Dr. Anthony Fauci worked hard to undermine the Republican president and greatly misled the American public over the coronavirus pandemic. What are the details?
During a recent interview with the Daily Signal podcast, Atlas — a radiologist and senior fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University — said that Fauci, former White House coronavirus response coordinator Dr. Deborah Birx, and former director of the CDC Dr. Robert Redfield were to blame for the woeful response to the pandemic.
In his latest book, “A Plague Upon Our House: My Fight at the Trump White House to Stop COVID from Destroying America,” Atlas wrote, “The American people need to know the level of incompetence, the lack of rigor, the lack of critical thinking. I was stunned at what I saw. We had bureaucrats in charge of the policy and that policy was the restrictions and lockdowns. And it failed.” “From your vantage point, both in the White House, when you were working on the task force, and since then, what is the most egregious example of where individual and academic freedom came under attack?” the Daily Signal’s Rob Bluey asked Atlas during the interview.
Atlas said that he experienced the suppression of academic and individual freedom firsthand — and that he experienced an inherent bias against him simply for helping Trump in an advisory capacity.
“I was asked to help the president in the biggest health care crisis in the century, and as a health policy at expert and a medical scientist for 25 years, and more in the decade of full-time work in health policy, I said yes,” he told Bluey. “It had nothing to do with politics. There’s something wrong with you, frankly, if you […]
Still says the same thing I knew in March of 2020. Not sure how many others were picking up on this but it seems like a lot.
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