Posted on 06/21/2023 4:22:28 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Dozens of professors from Harvard, Yale, Columbia and other universities wrote a letter to the Mayo Clinic on Thursday protesting the suspension of a physician after he publicly criticized a federal agency.
“Placing academic freedom in jeopardy is certain to tarnish Mayo’s reputation among the many who have always thought of Mayo as a beacon of scientific integrity,” the professors wrote.
In a January CNN story, Dr. Michael Joyner, who is principal investigator on a government-funded study on convalescent plasma, said he was “frustrated” with the National Institutes of Health’s “bureaucratic rope-a-dope,” calling the agency’s Covid-19 treatment guidelines a “wet blanket” that discouraged doctors from giving what he considered a promising treatment to their patients. Two months later, Mayo suspended Joyner for a week without pay, instructing him, in part, to “discuss approved topics only” with reporters and to “stick to prescribed messaging.” The letter warned him that a prescribed set of “behavior changes must be immediate and sustained” and that failure to comply would result in termination of his employment – as would any additional “validated complaints” from the staff, even if unrelated to the issues outlined in the letter.
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This is textbook fascism on the part of the Mayo clinic.
“...any additional “validated complaints” from the staff”
“He didn’t use my preferred pronouns!”
“You’re fired!!”
Finding a cure for the wuhan flu vaccination should be a top priority for such an esteemed organization especially since we the tax payers fund it.
I was planning to have work done at the Mayo clinic, but tomorrow I plan to cancel that appointment.
Meanwhile, another unexpected unattended from the world of football...
https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/22/sport/clark-haggans-dies-aged-46-spt-intl/index.html
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