By The Washington Examiner | Commentary
Senators may still have some real substantive concerns about President-elect Donald Trump’s decision to nominate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as head of Health and Human Services, but his decision to tap Dr. Jay Bhattacharya as director of the National Institutes of Health is the right choice.
A Stanford University professor of economic and health policy, Bhattacharya rose to national prominence when he co-authored the Great Barrington Declaration, an open letter published in October 2020 that questioned the lockdown policies promoted by National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director Anthony Fauci and then-NIH Director Francis Collins.
While thousands of scientists ended up signing the declaration, or maybe because he inspired so many scientists to speak up, Bhattacharya was attacked personally by Fauci and Collins as a “fringe epidemiologist” whose supposedly misguided thoughts threatened to kill millions of people in the United States. Fauci and Collins then coordinated to silence Bhattacharya, whose social media posts were censored by Big Tech companies.
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