'There needs to be a quick and devastating takedown': How Fauci and head of NIH colluded to smear three experts who penned the Great Barrington Declaration which called for an end to lockdowns

Daily Mail ^ | 12/18/21 | STEPHEN M. LEPORE

[conservative98]

• The emails show Fauci and NIH Director Francis Collins attempting to coordinate a 'devastating takedown' of the Great Barrington Declaration (GBD)
• AIER, a libertarian think tank, sponsored the GBD, which largely abandons lockdowns in favor of herd immunity strategy that allows life to return to normal 
• In an October 8 email from Collins to Fauci, the head of the NIH calls the GBD the work of 'three fringe epidemiologists' that 'seems to be getting a lot of attention' 
• Collins adds that 'there needs to be a quick and devastating published takedown of its premises. I don't see anything like that online yet - is it underway?'
• Fauci later sends Collins multiple op-eds trashing the GBD in Wired and The Nation Magazine
• Dr. Jay Bhattacharya - one of the authors and a DailyMail.com contributor - tweeted that he was the subject of a propaganda attack by his own government

[conservative98]

So now I know what it feels like to be the subject of a propaganda attack by my own government. Discussion and engagement would have been a better path. pic.twitter.com/p5tqigdRgg— Jay Bhattacharya (@DrJBhattacharya) December 17, 2021

Bureaucrats who fund the careers of scientists should play no role whatsoever in setting pandemic policy. The conflict of interest created by this dual role has forced countless scientists to stay silent or risk losing their careers.— Jay Bhattacharya (@DrJBhattacharya) December 18, 2021

[livius]

Not even trying to hide it, are they.

[Paladin2]

“...there needs to be a quick and devastating ... takedown...”

Ain’t that the truth?

[BenLurkin]

[OKSooner]

Collins is even creepier than Fauci, if that’s possible, with his acoustic guitar...

[digger48]

Yet, both of them will be dominating all the Sunday shows tomorrow

[frnewsjunkie]

There should have been a fast and resounding NO.... to the dems and else... who put an illegal unelected senile who can’t speak truth ... in the seat of power saved for the President!

I’m tired and weary of people like hayes and goldberg who spout off about lies.. about Trump... about Tucker and lies.
look!!! the lies are coming from hayes and goldberg et al... who can’t stand to see a regular smart able man be President.

Hayes and goldberg.. get this straight.. you are not elite.. you are not smart... you are not fooling anyone but yourselves. You are the liars... !!!

[Peter ODonnell]

Same m.o. as used in climate science against anyone who offers a different perspective (even if just somewhat different). These are signs of quasi-scientific theories that are very unsure of themselves and very nervous about any criticism. The big scandal is that more established sciences look the other way and don’t say what they should say, as more trusted scientific groups — and the reason is all politics.

[JennysCool]

"...there needs to be a quick and devastating published takedown."

... Before the rubes get wise to us.

[metmom]

When all else fails, engage in character assassination.

[frank ballenger]

I want so badly for the little twerp Fauci to be brought to justice.

[Paladin2]

“I want so badly for the little twerp Fauci to be brought to justice.”

You, me, Robert Kennedy, Peter Navarro and the MAGA Multitudes....

[frank ballenger]

This is like the David Brock plan on ruining President Trump every day of his presidency with media help in propaganda, undermining his honesty, blackening his reputation, opposing his objectives and getting him in legal trouble for impeachment. “Each day will have negative stories run all day on the media.”

Fauci is Italian like Pelosi and we all saw the Godfather and Untouchables movies and tv shows again and again.

[LibertyWoman]

In an October 8 email from Collins to Fauci, the head of the NIH calls the GBD the work of 'three fringe epidemiologists'...

Yes of course: three fringe epidemiologists.. Ridicule, isolate, ridicule some more. Yes by all means ridicule:
Jay Bhattacharya of Stanford University
Sunetra Gupta of the University of Oxford
Martin Kulldorff of Harvard University

I think Fauci is concerned that the jig is just about up. When doctors/scientists of this caliber are speaking out, and when what a little nazi wannabe's tactics have not and will not work, people are apt to 'listen'.

[LibertyWoman]

exactly

[vetvetdoug]

Real epidemiologists are getting vilified while the quacks have the ear of the MSM. SMH...Most credible epidemiologists have been censored or findings and opinions smothered this entire debacle. A veterinary student could tell the CDC, NIH and Fauci’s acolytes how to manage an epidemic better than they have.

[MinorityRepublican]

[the_Watchman]

Why is it so hard to label pictures? Did you just want to post a picture, or did you wish to inform?

[Jim Noble]

I signed the GBD in October 2020.