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The Government Censored Me and Other Scientists. We Fought Back—and Won.
The Biden administration threatened social media platforms with regulation unless they censored health information that conflicted with government messaging. (Photo by Tom Brenner via Getty Images)
Last week, a federal appeals court confirmed that science cannot function without free speech. Dr. Jay Bhattacharya reflects on a victory for himself—and every American.
By Jay Bhattacharya
09.11.23 — U.S. Politics
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When I was four, my mother took her first flight and first trip out of her native India to the U.S. with me and my younger brother in tow. We were going to meet my father, an electrical engineer and rocket scientist by training, who had won the U.S. visa lottery in 1970. He had moved to New York a year earlier. By the time we arrived he was working at M…

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Jay Bhattacharya

Prof. of Health Policy, Stanford Medicine. Health policy, infectious disease epidemiology, Scientific freedom. Co-author of the Great Barrington Declaration. Proprietor of "The Illusion of Consensus" with Rav Arora on Substack.

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