Trump NIH Pick Pushed Ivermectin Conspiracy Theory in Documentary Linked to Chinese Cult Jay Bhattacharya made remarks supportive of the discredited COVID treatment in a film released this year. Walker Bragman Dec 19, 2024 Stanford University health economist Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, who was announced last month as the president-elect’s choice to head up the NIH, appeared in a pseudo documentary that received funding from a company linked to the Chinese Falun Gong cult called Covid Collateral: Where Do We Go For Truth? In it, he appeared to endorse not only the use of ivermectin as a therapeutic for COVID, but an anti-vaccine conspiracy theory that its rejection by public health authorities was driven not by science, but instead by a desire to fast-track vaccine authorization.
My letter to U.S. Senators who need to confirm this jackass for him to get the job:
Jay Bhattacharya is unqualified to lead the NIH in too many ways. This person must not be installed in a position where he will jeopardize the health of Americans with his fringe pseudoscience ideas.
I realize it took almost 5 years for a debunked flawed scientific paper to be withdrawn, and that the state of Ohio wants to force doctors to prescribe a dangerous drug for bogus reasons, and that some doctors have reportedly been prescribing a debunked cure now for long covid, but this this is so bizarre that after all these years these people are still pushing long discredited stuff. It’s like they just won’t let it go.