EPOCH TV | How Universities Embraced Censorship during the Pandemic

EPOCH TV: American Thought Leaders | How Universities Embraced Censorship during the Pandemic: Jay Bhattacharya, Trump's nominee for National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Jan recently attended a Pandemic Planning conference at Stanford University. It was really the first of its kind, in that it brought together a wide range of voices on the topic in an academic setting, and it was held under the auspices of the new Stanford President Jonathan Levin.

“I think it’s expanded the range of things that are allowed to be said in polite society, if you will,” says Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, a professor of health policy and the lead organizer of the conference.

“Universities play a tremendously important role in paneling these discussions, especially in difficult times. The university mission of academic freedom inquiry aimed at finding the truth is different from the mission of public health. And it turns out, public health viewed the university mission as a danger and applied tremendous pressure to universities to make sure that those discussions didn't happen.”

“The key moral argument is, in the time of a crisis, should people be able to say public health is wrong? And the problem with the idea that people shouldn't be able to criticize public health in the time of crisis is that public health often is wrong in quite damaging ways, and criticism, if permitted, if allowed, would actually allow public health to course correct earlier and save lives right?”

This is the 30 minute TV version of Jan Jekielek’s interview with Jay Bhattacharya. The longer-form version was released on Epoch TV on November 14, 2024.

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