Jay Bhattacharya: 'I Sued the Biden Administration for COVID Censorship'

The Reason Interview With Nick Gillespie

Today's guest is Jay Bhattacharya, a co-author of the Great Barrington Declaration and one of the plaintiffs in Murthy v. Missouri, the Supreme Court case charging that the Biden administration and other parts of the federal government illegally colluded "with social media companies to suppress disfavored speakers, viewpoints, and content." A decision in that case is imminent, and a victory for Bhattacharya's side would make it impossible for the government to pressure X (formerly Twitter), Facebook, and other platforms to ban or squelch legal speech. A professor of medicine at Stanford University and a Ph.D. economist, Bhattacharya talks about his experience being blacklisted online because of his criticisms of lockdowns and other COVID policies, the ways in which both Donald Trump and Joe Biden fumbled their responses to the pandemic, and what the public health establishment must do to regain the trust and confidence of the American public.

00:00— Introduction
01:12— Murthy vs. Missouri
17:05— Politicization of the National Institutes of Health (NIH)
20:45— Loss of trust in public health
25:45— Biden vs. Trump on COVID
27:49— What Bhattacharya got wrong
29:35— COVID-19 vaccines mistakes
34:53— RFK Jr. and other vaccine skeptics
39:44— What would Bhattacharya revise?
42:17— How Bhattacharya's politics changed
44:20— How do we restore trust in public health?

Previous appearance:

• Facing Fauci's Fury: Q&A With Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, April 22, 2022

• Video Editor: Ian Keyser

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