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Derek Barris
Foreign 3 contrarian medical professionals published the Great Barrington Declaration to great applause by the pro business anti closing business crowd. This makes sense as it was sponsored by the American Institute for Economic Research, which is a libertarian free market think tank with deep ties to the Koch Network. The document was an ode to herd immunity with one basic principle in place. Let COVID 19 rip and call the weaker members of the herd, provided that Americans can get back to shopping and working. Sure, yes, the authors made some concessions about protecting the most vulnerable, but that's not how it was received or how it's been treated since. The WHO and other public health bodies immediately came out and noted the dangers of this prescription. Today, however, the three authors continue to claim that they've been vindicated, though they never really explain why. They cite declining vaccination rates, which is ironic given that they were part of the misinformation gang that helped push push anti vaxx narratives into the public's eye. What they're really celebrating is the ascension of the anti science Trump administration and its elevation of RFK Jr to the highest public health office in the nation. Tagging along with Bobby is one of those authors, NIH director Jay Bhattacharya. We've covered Jay often over the years, most recently Julian and I breaking down his latest appearance on Barry Weiss's softball podcast. I'm talking about him again because just last week a new document was pushed into the public consciousness and it is known as the Bethetic Bethesda Declaration. For those unfamiliar, Bethesda sits just northwest of Washington, D.C. and is where the NIH headquarters are located. The declaration is so named because 92 NIH researchers and 250 of their colleagues endorsed the document, though this last tranche did so anonymously due to fear of retaliation. Which really sucks because the whole point of the transparency of all of the agencies under HHS should mean that people within it should not fear losing their jobs if they speak up when they see a problem. But I don't blame them. Bobby Kennedy Jr. And his HHS cronies promised transparency, but they also promised gold standard science and they have not delivered anything of the sort of On June 7, Bobby accused Wall Street Journal journalist you know that liberal rag Liz White of quote faithfully reciting Big Pharma's talking points and quote parroting defamation against David Gere, the man that Bobby put in charge of researching a connection between vaccines and autism. He's leading the study that is about the cause of autism. But we know where this is going to lead gear was discip by Maryland regulators over a decade ago for practicing medicine without a license. Along with his now late father, the two men treated autistic children with Lupron, which is a drug that's normally used to chemically castrate people. In Kennedy's eyes, the gears were really part of a medical vendetta. His words. Then you have Marty Macary and Vinay Prasad. Julian and I also recently covered their new FDA podcast, which they promise opens the black box at the agency. Meanwhile, comments are turned off of their YouTube channel, which is where their podcast lives. And then there's the focus of today's episode. Once again, Jay Bhattacharya, who is another free speech warrior who, according to the signers of the Bethesda Declaration, has been ignoring their protestations to the actions that he's taken thus far, citing his dedication to protecting political interests over human safety and the stewardship of public resources. On the same day that the Bethesda Declaration was published. This was last Monday, a week ago, and I wish I was making this up. Andrew Huberman published a four and a half hour podcast with Bhattacharya entitled Improving Science and Restoring Trust in Public Health. This is pretty ironic given that Kennedy also fired 17 members of the CDC vaccine advisory panel that day. Known as ASIP, or way to Restore Trust. We can be pretty sure that at least one of those researchers will be replaced with David Gere or the many David Gears of the anti vax world. There's just so much shit going on. I'm Derek Barris and you're listening to a conspirituality bonus episode, the Bethesda Declaration. If you're able to support us financially as independent media creators, we really appreciate your support to unlock this full episode. If you're listening on Patreon or Apple Podcasts, we thank you for your support. I want to do two things with this episode. I want to contextualize the Bethesda Declaration and its meaning in the broader public health space. And then I'll briefly play a few clips of Bhattachary responding in front of Congress. He was hauled in last week because he's calling for $18 billion in NIH cuts and some Congress people were not happy about that. If you came for an analysis of the Huberman conversation, sorry, you are on your own. I did watch some of it. My God, I'm not doing four and a half hours. Although I might have to depending on how all this goes. All right, let's get into it. You've been listening to a conspirituality Bonus Episode Sample to continue listening, please head over to patreon.com conspirituality where you can access all of our main feed episodes ad free, as well as four years of bonus content that we've been producing. You can also subscribe to our bonus episodes via Apple subscriptions. As independent media creators, we really appreciate your support.