Jay Bhattacharya (professor of epidemiology and health policy at Stanford Medical School) has a scathing analysis (on Bari Weiss’s substack) of a new California Assembly Bill 2098, which would threaten doctors with losing their medical licensure if they deviate from state-sanctioned medical positions: (Full article: A Warning from Shanghai)
“For the past two years I have been the target of a smear campaign aimed at demonizing those who dare to question official policy. Now, a proposed California law threatens to make such dissent career-ending …”
“Four days after we published the Great Barrington Declaration, Francis Collins, then director of the National Institutes of Health, wrote an email to Anthony Fauci calling the three of us ‘fringe epidemiologists.’ He called for a press ‘takedown’ of us … Big tech outlets like Facebook and Google followed suit, suppressing our ideas, falsely deeming them ‘misinformation.’ “
“Doctors, fearing loss of their livelihoods, will need to hew closely to the government line on Covid science and policy, even if that line does not track the scientific evidence.”
“The false medical consensus enforced by AB 2098 will lead doctors to censor themselves to avoid government sanction. And it will be their patients, above all, who will be harmed by their silence.”
I myself am increasingly of the opinion that California is a lost cause, and that, like a drug addict, it will have to hit rock bottom in tyrrany and social dysfunction before it realizes the need to dig itself out of its mess.