Twitter Silences Top Trump COVID Task Force Expert
Social media companies and mainstream media outlets are on a crusade, censoring anyone who challenges the “official” science and narrative behind the COVID-19 virus. It was only last week when Twitter removed New York Post’s bombshell stories about Hunter Biden.
Then later in the week, Amazon purged political writer James Perloff’s latest book, “Covid-19 and the Agendas to Come: Red-Pilled,” from its platform for “violating content guidelines.”
[PSI editor: James Perloff’s book is still available here: jamesperloff.com ]
With America descending deeper into an Orwellian state – Twitter has yet again banned another tweet, this time on Saturday, from Stanford professor and now White House advisor Scott Atlas.
Atlas tweeted Saturday morning that masks do not work to prevent the spread of the virus:
“Masks work? NO: LA, Miami, Hawaii, Alabama, France, Philippines, UK, Spain, Israel. WHO: “widespread use not supported” + many harms; Heneghan/Oxf CEBM: “despite decades, considerable uncertainty revalue”; CDC rvw May: “no sig red’n in inflnz transm’n”; learn why.”
Hours later, in a follow-up tweet, Atlas wrote:
“That means the right policy is @realDonaldTrump guideline: use masks for their intended purpose — when close to others, especially hi risk. Otherwise, social distance. No widespread mandates.”
As per a CNN report, Atlas’ tweet violated Twitter’s policy that “prohibits sharing false or misleading content related to Covid-19 that could lead to harm.”
The Federalist points out, in an emailed response via Atlas, an array of scientific data to back up his claim:
In the deleted tweet, I cited the following evidence against general population masks:
1) Cases exploded even with mandates: Los Angeles County, Miami-Dade County, Hawaii, Alabama, the Philippines, Japan, the United Kingdom, Spain, France, Israel.
2) Dr. Carl Heneghan, University of Oxford, director of the Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine and editor in chief of British Medical Journal Evidence-Based Medicine: ‘It would appear that despite two decades of pandemic preparedness, there is considerable uncertainty as to the value of wearing masks.’
(https://www.cebm.net/covid-19/masking-lack-of-evidence-with-politics/)
3) The WHO: ‘The widespread use of masks by healthy people in the community setting is not yet supported by high quality or direct scientific evidence and there are potential benefits and harms to consider’ (http://bitly.ws/afUm)
4) The CDC: ‘Our systematic review found no significant effect of face masks on transmission of laboratory-confirmed influenza.’ (https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/26/5/19-0994_article).
I also cited an article giving a detailed explanation of the reasons why masks might not prevent spread: https://t.co/1hRFHsxe59
The tweet and surrounding removal from Twitter come as US COVID-19 cases in the US surged above 70,000 on Friday, the highest daily reading since July 24. Atlas’ tweet was also linked to an article in the American Institute for Economic Research that argues masks are not effective against the virus.
By trade, Atlas is a distinguished neuroradiologist, though he is not an expert in infectious diseases. He’s gained a lot of attention on Fox News for his aggressive reopening strategies. He’s also in favor of the herd immunity strategy, in which elderly and vulnerable populations need to be protected. In contrast, he says, younger segments of the population are allowed to keep working and consuming.
Atlas’ former Stanford colleagues recently attacked him in a letter. Here’s what they said:
“To prevent harm to the public’s health, we also have both a moral and ethical responsibility to call attention to the falsehoods and misrepresentations of science recently fostered by Dr. Scott Atlas, a former Stanford Medical School colleague and current senior fellow at the Hoover Institute at Stanford University. Many of his opinions and statements run counter to established science and, by doing so, undermine public-health authorities and the credible science that guides effective public health policy.”
Atlas has seen his fair share of bans; not too long ago, the Hoover Institution released Atlas’s interview on YouTube, where the social media platform took down the video.
Alex Berenson, a former New York Times reporter who has been skeptical about the dangers surrounding the virus pandemic – recently tweeted:
“My (non-N95) mask protects me… 1 percent of the time.”
Berenson appears to back up the tweet with CDC data…
Banning of alternative views, or maybe, even ones backed by science, if it goes against the official narrative, the leftist thought police will be out in force to censor.
This is a genuinely Orwellian culture. And if social media and mainstream media can silence a top government expert – they can silence anyone…
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Pierre D. Bernier
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I have the weird feeling of coming back to the 1950s when the catholic church and the governments where in bed together ! Censorship was king back then !
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Tom O
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Not sure “where” you were in the 1950s, I lived in the US, and I don’t recall a whole helluva lot of censorship. There were things that weren’t talked about, but that was by choice, not censorship. We were aware of them, just didn’t discuss them. The only period of time that what is happening now might be able to equate to is the “Inquisition” and its censorship, and unless you are a reincarationist and lived during that period as well and are confusing the two, I don’t follow your comment.
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Carl
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Kevin Spacey’s character in the movie “The Usual Suspects” made this iconic statement “The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn’t exist.” The greatest trick that censors and propagandists who work for information outlets like Google, Twitter and Facebook have and are pulling on a great number of of their users is convincing them that they don’t exist and that Google, Twitter and Facebook are sources of unbiased and uncensored information. We are not going back to censorship; there has never not been censorship of the “news” in the United States. Every “news” outlet has an editor. What do you think the editor’s job is???
Perhaps an even greater “trick” that has been played on the American people is convincing them that Google, Twitter and Facebook are not “news” outlets:
https://news.google.com/
https://twitter.com/twitternews?lang=en
https://www.facebook.com/news
I was ten years old when JFK was killed and all information that contradicted the narrative that he was shot by a lone gunman who was behind him six stories up in a Book Depository was either outright nixed or discredited as a “conspiracy theory.”
Since then there has been a long list of “official narratives” that have been promoted and defended in those sources of information that people trust. Certainly you have heard of “Operation Mockingbird” in which the CIA engaged (engages) in manipulating the news media for propaganda purposes to promote “official narratives”.
Today people turn to Google, Twitter and Facebook for information rather than to TV “news” broadcasts; so that is where the propagandists (censorship specialists) go to continue their work, which has never stopped. Surely you are aware that there are an unknown number of people working at all of those outlets whose entire life and only job is to control what you see and read on those platforms. The recent censorship of Scott Atlas’ statements about masks is just a more blatant example than most.
We hear people lament that Google, Twitter and Facebook are starting to employing “Chinese style” censorship. No, they are simply continuing to employ (as has been done for a very long time within the United States) “American Style” censorship, which is admittedly a less overt style of censorship than what we see in China from the outside, but never the less is just as pervasive and long-standing.
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John V
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Carl, the mainstream media in 1964 actually supported the Warren Commission report before it was even published! I have read dozens of books on the JFK assassination and about the assets that the government had in all the major news bureaus in magazines and newspapers to control the media. It’s been going on since I was a little kid and even before I’m sure. It’s just so obvious today all the censorship and disinformation coming from the supposed bastions of Journalism. They’re supposed to be watching out for us.
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MattH
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“Monday wasn’t the first time the president hit Fauci for his pitching abilities. Last week, the president said Fauci’s “pitching arm” is “far more accurate than his prognostications,” as the World Health Organization shifted its stance and began warning against lockdowns to combat the coronavirus pandemic.”
President Trump quote on todays Fox News.
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