Dr. Francis Collins Doubles Down on Calling Other Epidemiologists 'Fringe'

From the story: National Institutes of Health Director Dr. Francis Collins stood by his email referring to the authors of The Great Barrington Declaration as “fringe epidemiologists,” despite credentials from Oxford, Harvard, and Stanford. The Oct. 4, 2020 declaration called for Focused Protection instead of lockdown policies, which the authors argued lead to “devastating effects on short and long-term public health.” In an email to Dr. Anthony Fauci and others at NIH, Collins said “there needs to be a quick and devastating published take down of its premises.” On “Fox News Sunday,” Bret Baier asked him about that email and if he stood by it. Not only did he double down on calling the authors “fringe epidemiologists who really did not have the credentials to be making such a grand sweeping statement,” he said “hundreds of thousands of people would have died if we followed that strategy” (Townhall). 

From Dr. Jay Bhattacharya: On TV today Francis Collins doubled down on his lies and propaganda attack and on the Great Barrington Declaration (Twitter). 

From the Wall Street Journal: In public, Anthony Fauci and Francis Collins urge Americans to “follow the science.” In private, the two sainted public-health officials schemed to quash dissenting views from top scientists. That’s the troubling but fair conclusion from emails obtained recently via the Freedom of Information Act by the American Institute for Economic Research (WSJ).