Given that Bhattacharya is now a position where he wields coercive authority, it seems fair to stop relating to him as any sort of victim. (I'm for the most part happy that the pendulum has swung away from Fauci and co. But it doesn't change the fact that there's no longer any risk of Bhattacharya being silenced.)
"Let’s skip ahead to what Mr. Thacker wrote about me, first:
Gorski is a self-described “misinformation debunker” and runs a website called Science Based Medicine. It doesn’t always get its facts straight. After the European Medicines Agency concluded in April 2021, for example, that unusual blood clots should be listed as a very rare side effect for AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine, Gorski decried the decision on his X account claiming, “Reported blood clots appear to be no higher than background and very likely unrelated to the vaccine.” The UK government eventually stopped offering AstraZeneca’s jab, and the company finally admitted that its COVID vaccine causes harm in what The Telegraph reported could result in millions of dollars in legal claims.
This is very typical of Mr. Thacker’s tactics. For example, he cherry picked a single Tweet, without actually linking to the Tweet, and neglected what I later wrote about the AstraZeneca vaccine. Instead, he linked to an Substack article by him attacking Steve Novella and me, whose deceptive spin and misinformation both Steve and I debunked right after the Substack was published. Here’s the Tweet referenced:
It looks like @stevennovella got to the issue of the AstraZeneca #CovidVaccine before I did, and I agree completely. Reported blood clots after vaccination appear to be no higher than background and very likely unrelated to the vaccine. https://t.co/e6sdik3PC7
— David Gorski, MD, PhD (@gorskon) March 17, 2021
One month later, I wrote about the AstraZeneca vaccines and blood clots, where I conceded that the evidence looked more and more consistent with an association. I even noted that the detection of rare blood clots associated with the vaccine was evidence that our vaccine safety monitoring systems were working! Steve Novella wrote about the same issue and noted the same thing: The association appeared real, although such clots were rare. You wouldn’t know that if all you knew about our writings on the Johnson & Johnson and AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines came from Mr. Thacker’s biased writings. Basically, he’s just regurgitating an old attack he’d made on us in 2021 that Steve and I had refuted…in 2021! This also demonstrates another difference between SBM writers and Dr. Bhattacharya. We change our views when the evidence demands it—and say so.
Amusingly, apparently to Mr. Thacker I was also doing either Dr. Collins’ or Dr. Fauci’s bidding, because it never occurs to him that Dr. Bhattacharya’s critics might have minds of their own:"
Small correction in 5th paragraph. ‘Kellyn’ Phelps should be Kerryn.
Fixed. Thanks.
Will you be responding to this?
https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/paul-thacker-relitigates-criticism-of-dr-jay-bhattacharya/
Given that Bhattacharya is now a position where he wields coercive authority, it seems fair to stop relating to him as any sort of victim. (I'm for the most part happy that the pendulum has swung away from Fauci and co. But it doesn't change the fact that there's no longer any risk of Bhattacharya being silenced.)
I already responded to David Gorski's years of harassment. https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2025/03/04/the_covid-era_smearing_and_resurrection_of_trump_nih_appointee_dr_jay_bhattacharya_1095151.html
No, his article is a response to your piece.
He links to it https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/paul-thacker-relitigates-criticism-of-dr-jay-bhattacharya/#:~:text=Let%E2%80%99s%20dig%20into%20the%20final%20product%2C%20The%20COVID%2DEra%20Smearing%20%E2%80%93%20and%20Resurrection%20%E2%80%93%20of%20Trump%20NIH%20Appointee%20Dr.%20Jay%20Bhattacharya. and quotes from it, along with his response:
"Let’s skip ahead to what Mr. Thacker wrote about me, first:
Gorski is a self-described “misinformation debunker” and runs a website called Science Based Medicine. It doesn’t always get its facts straight. After the European Medicines Agency concluded in April 2021, for example, that unusual blood clots should be listed as a very rare side effect for AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine, Gorski decried the decision on his X account claiming, “Reported blood clots appear to be no higher than background and very likely unrelated to the vaccine.” The UK government eventually stopped offering AstraZeneca’s jab, and the company finally admitted that its COVID vaccine causes harm in what The Telegraph reported could result in millions of dollars in legal claims.
This is very typical of Mr. Thacker’s tactics. For example, he cherry picked a single Tweet, without actually linking to the Tweet, and neglected what I later wrote about the AstraZeneca vaccine. Instead, he linked to an Substack article by him attacking Steve Novella and me, whose deceptive spin and misinformation both Steve and I debunked right after the Substack was published. Here’s the Tweet referenced:
It looks like @stevennovella got to the issue of the AstraZeneca #CovidVaccine before I did, and I agree completely. Reported blood clots after vaccination appear to be no higher than background and very likely unrelated to the vaccine. https://t.co/e6sdik3PC7
— David Gorski, MD, PhD (@gorskon) March 17, 2021
One month later, I wrote about the AstraZeneca vaccines and blood clots, where I conceded that the evidence looked more and more consistent with an association. I even noted that the detection of rare blood clots associated with the vaccine was evidence that our vaccine safety monitoring systems were working! Steve Novella wrote about the same issue and noted the same thing: The association appeared real, although such clots were rare. You wouldn’t know that if all you knew about our writings on the Johnson & Johnson and AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines came from Mr. Thacker’s biased writings. Basically, he’s just regurgitating an old attack he’d made on us in 2021 that Steve and I had refuted…in 2021! This also demonstrates another difference between SBM writers and Dr. Bhattacharya. We change our views when the evidence demands it—and say so.
Amusingly, apparently to Mr. Thacker I was also doing either Dr. Collins’ or Dr. Fauci’s bidding, because it never occurs to him that Dr. Bhattacharya’s critics might have minds of their own:"