Dr. Jay Bhattacharya is a profile in courage. He stood up to the COVID crazies. From James Samuel at The College Fix via zerohedge.com:
Dr. Jay Bhattacharya received the American Academy of Sciences and Letters’ top intellectual freedom award on Wednesday for resisting attempts to politically control his scientific work during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The academy presents its annual Robert J. Zimmer Medal for Intellectual Freedom to a scholar “who displays extraordinary courage in the exercise of intellectual freedom,” according to its website.
Bhattacharya, a professor of medicine at Stanford University, received the honor during the academy’s annual investiture ceremony at the Library of Congress in Washington D.C. Afterward, he joined Princeton University Professor Stephen Macedo for an interview on stage.
Macedo began by asking about the first time Bhattacharya pushed back against the government’s handling of the pandemic.
“I wasn’t prepared for it,” Bhattacharya said.
“I had never published an op-ed. I had never been on TV. I was a quiet scholar, and I had this idea regarding the pandemic that the disease was more widespread than people realized,” he said.
Then, after he wrote an op-ed about it, he “got death threats.” Bhattacharya said attacks came from Stanford as well.
“The university, which I loved, … investigated me for false allegations … that they knew were false,” he said.
“I got sent a very clear signal that I needed to stay quiet.”
Good!