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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWho Are the Scientists Behind the Great Barrington Declaration?
https://www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdisease/covid19/89204Long story short, Koch and libertarians prop up scientists to try and kill safety measures, surprise, surprise. Note how they talk about their version of "herd immunity", which is fancy for "kill the weak people we don;t like anyway."
The Great Barrington Declaration, a statement written by three public health experts from Harvard, Stanford, and Oxford, encourages governments to lift lockdown restrictions on young and healthy people while focusing protection measures on the elderly. This would allow COVID-19 to spread in a population where it is less likely to be deadly, the authors state, encouraging widespread immunity that is not dependent on a vaccine.
Restrictions have caused other harms, including lower childhood vaccination rates, worsening cardiovascular disease outcomes, fewer cancer screenings, and deteriorating mental health, they argue.
After gaining some publicity, this strategy was strongly denounced by many in the scientific community. While it supposedly received 8,000 signatures from public health experts and doctors, news outlets later revealed that some of those signatures were fake.
The declaration was sponsored by the American Institute for Economic Research, a libertarian, free-market think tank headquartered in western Massachusetts. The Institute is in a network of organizations funded by Charles Koch -- a right-wing billionaire known for promoting climate change denial and opposing regulations on business.
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Who Are the Scientists Behind the Great Barrington Declaration? (Original Post)
DonCoquixote
Mar 2021
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VMA131Marine
(4,123 posts)1. The American Institute for Economic Research is to COVID19 as
the Heartland Institute is to climate change. Whatever they say, there is no real science behind it.
abqtommy
(14,118 posts)2. My experience has informed me that not all "scientists" are to be equally respected or
trusted. Just like many other professional groups.
Voltaire2
(12,512 posts)3. It's rightwing libertarian horseshit.
Isnt that obvious?
Yoyoyo77
(267 posts)4. Whoever said too much Koch is bad for you, got it right!!