DisInformation Chronicle Podcast with NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya
Happy New Year's Eve!
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Happy New Year’s Eve, everybody.
After much cajoling from friends and readers, I decided to start a podcast to interview interesting and smart thinkers. It takes time to read up on people, do a pre-interview and plan on questions, so expect to roll out new interviews around twice a month at first.
My first podcast is with NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya, who I brought on to talk about his transition from Stanford professor to the government official managing the largest bucket of money on the planet to fund biomedical research.
In the future, I will announce guests ahead of time to let paid subscribers suggest questions. Also, please let me know who you’d like me to have on.
Have a great night and hope you enjoy our discussion.
Dr Bhattacharya is a man of tremendous courage and intelligence. I have long been skeptical of his new role in government, however, as I'm sure he is more valuable to us as a scientist than a bureaucrat.
I don't know anything about Dr Bhattacharya's Great Barrington co-authors, but it might be interesting to interview them about how they came to their own heroic decisions to take the stand they did.
According to Wikipedia, Dr Aseem Malhotra's "COVID-19 vaccine and anti-statin views have been criticized as misinformation by experts," which doubtless makes him a highly reliable commentator on these subjects. I already know he is an interesting and articulate speaker.
Also, I understand talking about vaccine injuries is so taboo. I do wonder how many long covid people are actually vaccine injured. I remember reading Rosie Damano and Heather Malik of the Toronto Star complaining in their columns that they had long covid despite being fully vaccinated. Is this subject going to get buried forever?