![]() ![]() But as more and more scientists warn against the dangers of lockdown – not only the Great Barrington scientists, but also representatives from the WHO and members of the UK’s SAGE – categorising dissent as ‘misinformation’ will soon become untenable. These tech firms then shield the public from anything that diverges from that view. Now we have the likes of Google deciding the correct science in advance. Science thrives in a climate of free speech and open disagreement, where testable propositions can be put forward and rebutted. But in this topsy-turvy world, it is the wild and reckless lockdown experiment has become the ‘established’ science, while questioning and opposition is shut down.Ĭensorship presents a serious problem for science. ![]() The Institute kindly offered to help with the video recording, providing a location, equipment and a camera man pro bono. What we are proposing is, therefore, nothing revolutionary’, he said. The Declaration was written and signed at the American Institute for Economic Research, located in Great Barrington, Massachusetts. On their final day together in Great Barrington, the scientists wrote a short statement of principles, calling it the Great Barrington Declaration. ![]() ‘Most countries in Europe had a pandemic-preparedness plan that did not recommend lockdowns, but instead proposed a risk-based strategy to protect those at high risk, which is actually the same as the focused protection we put forward in the Great Barrington Declaration. Lockdown, he argued, is a ‘terrible experiment’ that throws those principles ‘out of the window’ by focusing solely on one disease at the expense of all other health problems. When I spoke to Martin Kulldorff last week, he told me that the Great Barrington Declaration is merely a restatement of the principles of public health. But it didn’t take long before scientists and mainstream journalists found themselves in the firing line. His videos were removed and his YouTube channel was deleted. Its campaign of censorship began with David Icke, who was spreading conspiracy theories connecting the virus to 5G. One of the biggest offenders in this regard has been YouTube, which is owned by Google. But the main casualty of Big Tech’s war on misinformation has been disagreement over how to interpret the Covid data and how governments should respond to the virus. This might make sense in relation to scam artists selling quack Covid cures. Four days after the declarations publication, the then-Director of NIH, Dr. Because it contradicted the governments preferred response to COVID -19, the Great Barrington Declaration was immediately targeted for suppression by federal officials. And the tech giants have been all too willing to play a role in censoring anything that contradicts official advice, guidance and policy. health scientists signed on to the declaration. Ever since Covid-19 arrived, the World Health Organisation (WHO) and governments across the world have been warning about an ‘infodemic’ of Covid misinformation. The censorship of alternative approaches to the coronavirus is shocking – but it is entirely predictable. ![]()
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