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Dr. Jay’s Slam Dunk: Blacklisted Scientist Receives Prestigious Award for “Intellectual Freedom”
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Below is my column in the New York Post on the prestigious award given to Stanford Professor Dr. Jay Bhattacharya last week and what it has to say about those who censored, blacklisted, and vilified him for the last four years. In celebrating his fight for “intellectual freedom,” the National Academy effectively condemned those who joined the mob against him as well as the many professors who stayed silent as he and others were targeted.

Here is the column:

Few in the media seemed eager to attend a ceremony last week in Washington, D.C., where the prestigious American Academy of Sciences and Letters was awarding its top intellectual freedom award.

The problem may have been the recipient: Stanford Professor Dr. Jay Bhattacharya.

Bhattacharya has spent years being vilified by the media over his dissenting views on the pandemic. As one of the signatories of the 2020 Great Barrington Declaration, he was canceled, censored, and even received death threats.

That open letter called on government officials and public health authorities to rethink the mandatory lockdowns and other extreme measures in light of past pandemics.

All the signatories became targets of an orthodoxy enforced by an alliance of political, corporate, media, and academic groups. Most were blocked on social media despite being accomplished scientists with expertise in this area.

It did not matter that positions once denounced as “conspiracy theories” have been recognized or embraced by many.

Some argued that there was no need to shut down schools, which has led to a crisis in mental illness among the young and the loss of critical years of education. Other nations heeded such advice with more limited shutdowns (including keeping schools open) and did not experience our losses.

Others argued that the virus’s origin was likely the Chinese research lab in Wuhan. That position was denounced by the Washington Post as a “debunked” coronavirus “conspiracy theory.” The New York Times Science and Health reporter Apoorva Mandavilli called any mention of the lab theory “racist.”

Federal agencies now support the lab theory as the most likely based on the scientific evidence.

Likewise, many questioned the efficacy of those blue surgical masks and supported natural immunity to the virus — both positions were later recognized by the government.

Others questioned the six-foot rule used to shut down many businesses as unsupported by science. In congressional testimony, Dr. Anthony Fauci recently admitted that the 6-foot rule “sort of just appeared” and “wasn’t based on data.” Yet not only did the rule result in heavily enforced rules (and meltdowns) in public areas, the media further ostracized dissenting critics.

Again, Fauci and other scientists did little to stand up for these scientists or call for free speech to be protected. As I discuss in my new book, “The Indispensable Right,” the result is that we never really had a national debate on many of these issues and the result of massive social and economic costs.

I spoke at the University of Chicago with Bhattacharya and other dissenting scientists in the front row a couple of years ago. After the event, I asked them how many had been welcomed back to their faculties or associations since the recognition of some of their positions.

They all said that they were still treated as pariahs for challenging the groupthink culture.

Now the scientific community is recognizing the courage shown by Bhattacharya and others with its annual Robert J. Zimmer Medal for Intellectual Freedom.

So what about all of those in government, academia, and the media who spent years hounding these scientists?

Biden Administration officials and Democratic members targeted Bhattacharya and demanded his censorship. For example, Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-Ill.) attacked  Bhattacharya and others who challenged the official narrative during the pandemic. Krishnamoorthi expressed outrage that the scientists were even allowed to testify as “a purveyor of COVID-19 misinformation.”

Journalists and columnists also supported the censorship and blacklisting of these scientists. In the Los Angeles Times, columnist Michael Hiltzik decried how “we’re living in an upside-down world” because Stanford allowed these scientists to speak at a scientific forum. He was outraged that, while “Bhattacharya’s name doesn’t appear in the event announcement,” he was an event organizer. Hiltzik also wrote a column titled “The COVID lab leak claim isn’t just an attack on science, but a threat to public health.”

Then there are those lionized censors at Twitter who shadow-banned Bhattacharya. As former CEO Parag Agrawal generally explained, the “focus [was] less on thinking about free speech … [but[ who can be heard.”

None of this means that Bhattacharya or others were right in all of their views. Instead, many of the most influential voices in the media, government, and academia worked to prevent this discussion from occurring when it was most needed.

There is still a debate over Bhattacharya’s “herd immunity” theories, but there is little debate over the herd mentality used to cancel him.

The Academy was right to honor Bhattacharya. It is equally right to condemn all those who sought to silence a scientist who is now being praised for resisting their campaign to silence him and others.

Jonathan Turley is the Shapiro professor of public interest law at George Washington University and the author of “The Indispensable Right: Free Speech in an Age of Rage.”

 

287 thoughts on “Dr. Jay’s Slam Dunk: Blacklisted Scientist Receives Prestigious Award for “Intellectual Freedom””

  2. Bereft of ideas and arguments, the Left stoops to its favorite tactic — smear the source.

    Exhibit A:

    “So any “prestigiousness” attached to [the Academy] seems to be mostly window dressing.”

    The fact is that AASL’s board members hold positions at Stanford, Hopkins, Yale, Harvard, Columbia, Notre Dame, Princeton.

    A party that supposedly lionizes academia. Yet on this issue, not so much. I wonder why that is.

  3. The comments have sunk from sophomoric to kindergarten taunts. I vote that all anonymous comments be banned. This would be a disservice to some but a set of standards which are clear and applicable to all will allow for serious discussion showcasing all sides of the subjects brought before us.

    1. John, perhaps you need to reread the Bill of Rights. Stupid people are allowed to express themselves just as they are allowed to vote.
      -John Underwood
      Tyler, TX

      1. yank1621, you need to read the bill of rights too. “express” is not what you think. The 1st Amendment pertains to citizen/government interaction, not commenters/blog owners. In othetr words Turley has no obligation to let any comment stay on HIS blog. Read the Bill of Rights yank.

    2. No, this solution is insufficient. I propose that all comments be personally reviewed and approved by John Schwartz before they can be published on this blog. Only statements that personally meet with John Schwartz’s approval are fit to see the light of day. This is only reasonable because John Schwartz is the only person qualified to judge the merits of each post. This procedure will also ensure unanimity and consistency in the opinions and viewpoints expressed.

    2. Lin, Kamala and her surrogates say we’re all Nazis and fascists. Biden says we’re garbage and semi-fascists. Hillary says we’re a basket of deplorables. Obama says we’re bitter clingers.

      Trump name-calls but never about the people, the electorate, the everyday Americans including those who support his opponent. Always about powerful wealthy or political figures who he thinks are corrupt or dishonest. That’s a significant difference that is overlooked by some people who try to either distract or draw a false equivalence. The fact is Trump genuinely respects and cares about the everyday American working stiff just trying to put food on the table and support his or her family. If it were not so, he never would have run for president, which he knew would be a money loser and expose him to vicious attacks, including criticism, attempts to put him in jail, and even physical attacks on his life.

  5. There are no “emergency powers” in the Constitution; there are only rights, freedoms, privileges, and immunities of citizens in conjunction with severely limited and restricted government. 

    The government has no power to restrict personal, industrial, commercial, or any other activities.

    The sole power of government to assert control is the suspension of habeas corpus during rebellion or invasion.

    The singular American failure is the abjectly corrupt judicial branch, with emphasis on the Supreme Court, the judges and Justices of which must be impeached and convicted as an exercise of constitutional duty by Congress, the failure to impeach being, similarly, a crime of high office.

    1. “The singular American failure is the abjectly corrupt judicial branch, with emphasis on the Supreme Court”

      Cut ‘n paste weekly whine and complaint by resident retard.

  6. Kamala says we need to “turn the page” and that she represents change. But she’s the one who has been in office for the past four years, not Trump. And she says she agrees with everything Biden has done as president and wouldn’t change a thing, and that she’s even been part of every major decision he’s made. How do those two things logically go together?

    2. oldmanfromkansas has pooped his pants. He is misinformed. The vp has indicated in her speeches that she will follow her own design for the Presidency, unrelated to Mr.Biden’s approach.

    3. Kamala is an intellectual lightweight who if elected will hold title of president but others will run the government

  7. Professor Turley falsely asserts that “None of th[ese] [imposed conditions, i.e., the draconion, fascist covid mandates] means that Bhattacharya or others were right in all of their views.”

    The imposed conditions absolutely means that “Bhattacharya or others” were right.

    And simple logic makes that plain and obvious. Here’s how to test it:

    Assume that “Bhattacharya or others” were truly deemed to be incorrect or wrong by the “[fascistic] orthodoxy enforced by an alliance of political, corporate, media, and academic groups[,]” as Professor Turley aptly called them. If the “orthodoxy” truly believed that “Bhattacharya or others” were wrong and they were right, then they would welcome and encourage open discussion of the issues and their differences. Now, examine the converse. Suppose that the “orthodoxy” actually knew they were wrong and that “Bhattacharya or others” were correct, why then, they would use fascistic force to compel obedience to their orders.

    Thus, we know strictly from what the fascistic “othodoxy” actually did and didn’t do, that the only conceivable explanation is that “Bhattacharya or others” were absolutely correct in every material conculsion, and the “orthodoxy” so believed as well, which is why they silenced the truth.

    1. “Professor Turley falsely asserts . . .”

      You butchered JT’s argument.

      His “this” (which you changed to “these”) refers to Bhattacharya, et al., being silenced. It does not refer to the government mandates.

  8. * Yes, the government censored scientists and that’s the biggest problem with censorship.

    This “America ” can’t find it way out of paper bag. No, your election is not free and fair.

    Off the net or should it be out of the net and the phishers of men. Truly disgusting.

  10. Oh look, gas is $3 at the pump. I thought Biden was raising prices?
    I thought Biden was going to be impeached?

    Turns out Biden did just find and trump is a racist A Hole. Who woulda thought?

    3. Oh look, I used to spend $210 on a trip to the grocery store, now I spend $320 for the same food.
      Turns out some people are partisan A Holes who would rather lie about facts than admit their side got the policy wrong.

      2. Gas where I am is $3.50, whereas it was closer to $2.00 when Trump was president. So, 75% higher now.

        1. Gas will go back up if KH becomes president. They have lifted some regulations a number of months back, anticipating the election.

    4. Amazing, diesel has been $4-5 a gallon up to a few months ahead of the election and AS ALWAYS it goes to $3.89. As soon as the election is over it will go right back up until Trump turns on America energy independence. Were you born yesterday, this happens every election cycle.

      1. “Born Yesterday”. That’s actually an appropriate tag for most of the rank and file on the left. They’re so incredibly gullible and unsophisticated. That’s why so many have been completely brainwashed. It’s why TDS exists.
        -John Underwood
        Tyler, TX

    5. “Turns out Biden did just find and trump is a racist A Hole. Who woulda thought?”

      Who’d a thought The New Hitler Youth Movement would try deflecting to protect Biden after he said he didn’t want his kids in schools full of jungle bunnies and if black Americans wouldn’t vote for him, then they couldn’t be black?

      Gonna tell us the border is secure again? Jim Crow Joe Biden STILL doesn’t know any of family’s Chicom customers names? Never met or spoke to any of them?

  11. Jonathan: DJT is in panic mode. After the disastrous performance at MSG on Sunday when invited speaker Tony Hinchcliffe, who claims to be a “comedian”, engaged in racist tropes against Puerto Ricans–the very demographic the DJT campaign is supposedly trying to attract and set off a cascade of back lash from well know PR entertainers and others. DJT realized he had committed a huge error. So what did he do?

    Instead of apologizing DJT decided desperate times call for desperate measures. So his supporters set on fire ballot drop-off boxes in Portland, Oregon and Vancouver, Wash. Untold ballots were destroyed. That’s DJT’s version of “election interference”. Burning a ballot drop off box and ballots is a federal offense. But DJT is desperate to get back into office because he knows that is his only chance of staying out of prison. So burning ballots is the least of his worries!

    1. Do you have any evidence that DJT supporters torched the ballot boxes, rather than the left wing terrorists of Antifa, considering they are responsible for 100% of all previous political arsons in the area?

    2. * wow, first you don’t know what a day is as in election DAY, then you don’t know what mail is as in MAIL-in ballots and now you don’t know what garbage is as in dirty diapers, package wrappings, bottles, waste materials. There wasn’t a reference to people in the garbage joke.

      ALERT Old dog, GEB, Meyer, and others. It has to be drug induced brain damage at an early age. No other explanation.

    3. I must give you credit, Dennis, you are a loyal Dunceocrat no matter what. You say the dumbest things and the write them with a straight face as though you actually believe the rubbish you write. Few people could carry that blind loyalty forward when up against the ropes.

      In fact, you play the cretinesque “authority” figure role to perfection whenever your fellow Duncecrat leaders successfully pulled off a fake lawfare scam based on pure BS. But whenever your losing big, you play the “victim” role, “collecting injustices” obsessively crying others are “Nazis,” “racists,” “zenophobes,” or other such rubbish.

      You plays these fake roles with such precision and consistency, that I don’t think you’re actually a real person. You’re simply an AI program that spouts out programmed Marxist posta created from the day’s propaganda stories produced by the Media Presstitutes.

      1. “Loyal”? Not really. It’s a simple example of “you can’t fix ‘stupid’.
        -John Underwood
        Tyler, TX

    4. “So his supporters set on fire ballot drop-off boxes in Portland…”

      I guess that would explain the “Free Gaza” graffiti on the boxes.

    5. Dennis, HingeCliffe says things like that all the time. At MSG he was booed.
      Even Left Wing nut John Stewart said offensive jokes is what comedians do.
      At almost the same moment comedian Lopez at a Walz Rally said – Trump better build the wall in one day, otherwise mexicans will steal all the construction materials overnight – the crowd laughed,.

      Do you know who else had a “Nazi Rally” in Madison Square Garden ? The DNC – Bill Clinton accepted the democratic party nomination there.
      You left wing nuts missed the fact that the MSG rally was chock full of Jews, Jewish flags – evebn a hollosaust survivor.
      Because Nothing says Nazi Rally like a bunch of Jews in Yamaka’s.

      Separately the Trump is a Nazi, Trump is a Fascist nonense is BOMBING – a major democratic superpac warned Harris to lay off if she wants to win the election as real people – no left wing nuts like you are responding negatively.

      Harris has bailed on Joe Rogan – coming to TX and sitting for 3hours like Trump did is just too difficult for her. ‘
      But that is OK – Rogan has scheduled JD Vance instead.

      Trump is now a half a point up in the popular vote and a full point up overall in swing states – that of course presumes that the polls are correct. It is increasingly likely not only that Trump will win, but that he will win on election day.
      it is unlikely that PA, AZ or NV will have results for days, Trump is ahead in enough swing states that likely will come in on election night or very shortly thereafter to end this quickly.

      You say Trump supporters are burning Ballot boxes in Portland – you will have to do much better than that.
      Are there ANY Trump supporters in Portland ?
      Sure sounds like Antifa to me.

      I know this is difficult for left wing nuts – but it is not just republicans that oppose Harris.

      Regardless, if you had CCTV on the ballot boxes you would KNOW who did this and you could arrest and prosecute them – along with Democratic Ballot Harvestors.

    6. Dennis McIntyre lied to Professor Turley again: Jonathan: DJT is in panic mode.

      BBBWWWAAAAAHAHAHAHHAAAAAAAAAA… even abusing drugs isn’t enough to explain that one!

      Dennis… were you out of sniffing your Mom’s panties and adult enough to remember the Gulf War?

      Remember Saddam Hussein’s “Baghdad Bob” telling reporters that Iraqi troops were crushing the American invaders, the desert was full of flaming and burned out Abrams tanks, American aircraft were being shot down as soon as they appeared over the horizon…

      … during the 100 hours of combat it took to roll up to within cannon shot of Saddam’s bedroom windows?

      Well Dennis, you are acting as a clone of Saddam’s Baghdad Bob – doing your version of Baghdad Bob for Kamala Harris.

      One last thing Dennis: shortly afterwards, both Saddam and his Baghdad Bob did a brief dance at the end of a short rope tied around their necks.

  12. BTW, you’ve recovered your positions is DJT; it’s time to sell if you can’t stand the heat.

  13. I don’t know if there is a Galileo Award for scientists who told the truth which was counter to what many of their peers and government officials were saying, but I would nominate him for that award also.

  14. What I love about Turley’s blog is I can post white supremacist comments and not a single Trump supporter on this board denounces it.

    1. Why is it “White Supremacist?”

      Is there such a thing as a black, yellow, red, or brown supremacist? 

      Apparently not.  

      What if you went to Peking and called Xi Jinping a “Yellow Supremacist?”  

      Doesn’t have quite the same ring to it, does it?

      Maybe the Constitution and Bill of Rights of White British Men actually created “Freedom Supremacists”

      …and the whole world coveted and followed.

    2. Nowadays showing up to work on time, mathematics, and standardized tests are considered by the Left to be “white supremacist,” as is anything else that suggests standards have any meaning. So . . . if a Trump supporter doesn’t denounce those things, you will likely shed some tears over that, despite disingenuously claiming to “love” it.

  16. Meanwhile, James Carville is busy writing the script for Kamala’s epic blood bath and Democrats losing the US Senate with further losses in the US House. Let’s read what he has written thus far:

    Kamala wins the Booby Prize

    Scene: A dimly lit stage at the local community center, where the election results are being announced. A crowd of supporters, some looking hopeful, others skeptical, gathers around. The defeated politician, Kamala Harris, stands at the podium, a forced smile plastered on her face.

    Announcer: (cheerfully) Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for joining us tonight! As we all know, the results are in, and it seems our beloved coup d’état candidate, Kamala Harris, has not won the election.

    (The crowd murmurs, some gasp, while others chuckle.)

    kamala harris:(leaning into the microphone) Well, folks, I may not have won the election, but I’m here to tell you that I’m still a winner in my heart! We still have abortion!

    (A few supporters clap half-heartedly.)

    Announcer: (interrupting) And as a token of our appreciation for your… losing campaign style, not taking questions, using teleprompters, bringing out ol’ war hag Hillary Clinton, her rapist spouse Bill Clinton, race baitor and fraud extraordinarie Barack Obama, and his beard, Michelle, we have a special consolation prize for you, our beloved coup d’état candidate!

    (The crowd perks up, curious.)

    kamala harris: (cackling) A consolation prize? I knew my Hitler tropisms would win over the voters eventually!

    (The announcer presents a giant, glittery trophy shaped like an aborted baby.)

    Announcer: (with a flourish) We present to you the “Booby Prize” for your outstanding ability to… well, let’s just say, “burn it all down” during your campaign!

    (Laughter erupts from the crowd. kamala harris’s smile falters.)

    kamala harris: (trying to regain composure) An aborted baby? This is just a… a symbol of my death wish for America!

    (He holds the trophy up awkwardly, trying to look proud.)

    Announcer: (grinning) Yes, candidate coup d’état! A perfect representation of your campaign promises—death to America!

    (The crowd roars with laughter, some even chanting “Abort! Abort! Abort! ”)

    kamala harris: (defensive) I’ll have you know that I was just trying to “assassinate” the competition!

    (More laughter. A supporter in the front row shouts.)

    Supporter: You really “pulled a Hitler” this time, Kamala!

    kamala harris: (sweating) Well, I may have lost the election, but I still have my pro-abortion cultists. You do the Aztecs and Incas proud!

    (A few supporters nod, but many are now chuckling at the absurdity of the situation.)

    Announcer: (smirking) And now, candidate coup d’état, you can take this aborted baby home as a reminder of your “Fascist” approach to politics!

    kamala harris: (cackling) I guess it’s better than being Vice President to the Demented One and his plagisrist wife with her plagiarized doctorate degree in eggjucayshun

    (He turns to the crowd, trying to rally them.)

    kamala harris: (enthusiastically) Remember, folks, it’s not about winning or losing; it’s about how you divide and conquer Americans!

    (A voice from the back shouts.)

    Voice: And how you “slash and burn” your way through it!

    (The crowd bursts into laughter again, and kamala harris, realizing she’s the butt of their jokes, finally joins in, albeit reluctantly.)

    kamala harris: (chuckling) Alright, alright! I’ll take my Booby Prize and carry a dead baby with me where ever I go with pride, but only if my husband beats the snot out of me when I look away

    Announcer: (winking) Here’s to the next election, candidate coup d’état! May it be filled with successful “assassination” attempts!

    (The curtain falls as the crowd continues to laugh and cheer, leaving kamala harris to ponder his next move—perhaps a career in aborting live babies after birth?)

    Fin

    /s

    1. Tim Walz can hand out tampons to help stop the Kamala’s bleeding! Of course there will be strings attached…

      2. Traveler: The vicious disrespect you just spewed at the Democratic presidential nominee and her running mate reflects badly on you. There’s a word for this: “slut-shaming”. Look it up.

    2. * macabre was a fine setting, too.

      Ripping off people and places is there vocation, profession. It’s so much better than working at Walmart in their minds and so much more lucrative. They’re swimming fast looking for chum, rich people are so tasty. Fascinating had stock in medical supplies and drug companies.

      Via mcreated mass hysteria and Trump being the requisite witch for the witch hunt made it perfect. The covid creation is most like

      Salem Massachusetts and the witch trials. It’s for money. Few hundred thousand ripped off will do for a year of free living. Then back to the hunt. They only like each other. No one else likes them of course.

      Have a great day, Estovir.

        1. * These are retroviruses. A few beauties are HIV, SARS , CORONAVIRUSES ETC. These can become part of the human genome. They change genetics andthere’s s HERV a part of the endogenous genome sleeping. Covid wakes up the little van Winkle and its expression is thought to include syndromes like brain lesions, MS , heart syndromes etc. Just what mankind needed.

          Big brains are working on it. Corticosteroids work on the initial inflammation. Whether or not you’ll develop a syndrome , is unkn.

          Have a fabulous day! Where did it originate? Same place that stuff always comes from.

  17. Jonathan: There is another problem with Dr. Bhattacharya and his “Great Barrington Declaration”. The Declaration was paid for and sponsored by the American Institute of Economic Research, a right-wing think tank based in Great Barrington, Mass. The AIER is funded by the Koch network that promotes climate change denial and the benefits of sweat shops. I always say look at the source when judging the validity of the views of those funded by those on the right.

    Now we do know that the cumulative data from Covid-19 shows Black, Hispanic and native Americans experienced higher rates of infection than White people. So what would been the effect had minorities followed the advice of the Declaration–refusing to get vaccinated and going back to their normal activities? Well, the probability that infections and deaths among Black, Hispanic and native Americans would have been much, much higher. An unintended consequence from the Declaration. Or maybe something intended? No, that can’t be possible?

    1. “CLIMATE CHANGE DENIAL?”

      Is there really climate change?

      What a surprise.

      13.8 billion years ago there was no universe, no galaxy, no earth, and no climate.

      It may be safe to assume that change is a fundamental aspect of any climate.

      1. There has always been climate change. The modern term for it is “the weather.”

        1. So what you’re saying is if you farm your field in such a way that all the top soil runs off it, it’s all okay cuz it’s natural. Look at the Grand Canyon. Smart.

          1. I say climate change is another name for weather, and you say some weird shit about topsoil and farming? Cookoo!

            1. How ’bout we build a town named Pompei under Vesuvius? Let’s go, men! Oops! That “climate” changed.

      2. Climate change is not new.

        Fraudulent communist propaganda and indoctrination are. 

        Let’s all join up with the Marxist collective—to heck with natural and constitutional American freedom. 

        You don’t care in the least about climate change; you care about the dominion of the “intelligentsia” and the irrevocable imposition of the “dictatorship of the proletariat (i.e. the hired help).”

          1. Rich people who promote climate alarmism, like Obama, sure do buy a lot of expensive beach front property.

    2. And what have you concluded regarding the validity of the views of those who were funded by entrenched, leftist-leaning Soros entities both within our government and beyond our shores? I will presume that you infer no vested interest in their obvious desire to prolong the pandemic, nor in their joyful reset of capitalism in favor of socialist dependence.
      Any intelligent observer must know, at this stage of our history, that the goal of socialist leaders is not really to help the downtrodden, but rather to sabotage in myriad ways the latter’s attempts at participating in the free enterprise system, the better to make the cancerous socialist policies more relevnant and attractive. And, as the cancer spreads, the free enterprise system will collapse, which is, of course, the goal and purpose of socialism itself.

    3. You do not have the DATA to conclude that Blacks and Hispanics would have been adversely affected. In fact, Blacks and Hispanics in Africa, and South America Benefited greatly from the the Horse De-Wormer Ivermection………You are intellectually fraudulent.

    4. LOL. Dennis, your BS cracks me up. Okay, let’s look to the source, as you say. And you say the Koch network is the “source.” Let’s assume that to be true. The Koch brothers are heavily backing illegal migrants crossing the borders, exactly the same as you are. Your motives may be somewhat different. The Koch brothers want cheap labor and want to make more money at the expense of American workers and American taxpayers. You want to see the introduction of chaos, crime, and social strife into the system to support your Marxist agenda and to create artificial Dunceocrat voters. But the result is the same, and the result is one sought by both you and the Koch brothers. You and the Koch brothers have identical philosophies. So, you might as well say that YOU are the “source.”

    5. The Koch’s are libertarians.

      Antartica is still there.
      The Arctic still freezes over each winter,
      Greenland is still there.

      None of the cult of warmism’s predictions have come true.

      If AEI is fighting against the high preists of warmendom – where do I give money ?

      And why is it that people have to contribute money just to thwart idiots like you from doing stupid things ?

      You posted a long rant about Covid – 4 years after Covid you STILL can not get ANYTHING right.
      You can not even keep your lies about Bhattacharya correct.

      1. One of the Koch brothers is dead, so now technically a Democrat voter. Anyway, to be correct it is Koch “brother”.

    6. Dennis – what do we have to do to trade you in for a less moronic left wing nut ?

      I am absolutely all for free speech. I actually want to hear from the “other side”.
      But please please please go find a friend who is not 100% wrong all the time to post for you ?

    7. Dennis McIntyre, in a psychiatric frenzy: The AIER is funded by the Koch network that promotes climate change denial

      Dennis, here’s what Global Warming Denial looks like: ready?

      The Guru of Global Warming, The Magical Marxist Mulatto Clown, spends eight years in the White House lecturing Americans and the world Global Warming will cause the seas to rise and flood inland American cities. We’re all gonna die unless he spends trillions of dollars of other peoples’ money to stop it!

      Days after his last day in the White House, suddenly a multimillionaire after eight years on the president’s salary, Bolshevik Barry and his husband Moochelle spend $13 MILLION buying a mansion in Rich White Privilege Martha’s Graveyard – with the front door just a few feet above mean sea level and a few hundred feet from the seashore.

      Suddenly, Bolshevik Barry, The Guru Of Global Warming, is no longer worried about rising seas due to Global Warming resulting in the ocean pouring through the front door of that new mansion.

      That’s what Global Warming Denial looks like when on display from the Soviet Democrats party theocrate.

      It isn’t what you mad psycho clowns claim and post, Dennis: it’s what you actually do.

  18. Copernicus, Galileo, Newton and Einstein all faced various degrees of opposition or oppression in their days, and would likely be censored or cancelled today.

    1. OT; “To keep it simple for the State of Florida: it’s the First Amendment, stupid.”

      I wonder if Turley will address Florida’s attempt to censor TV stations for airing misleading ads. Being that Turley is a big fan of the anti-censorship of speech by the government, even misleading speech this should make a great example for Turley’s collection of free-speech criticisms.

      1. ‘George’
        Go start your own blog/site… While there, write whatever you feel to.

        It could be said about EVERY journalist, etc.
        that they didn’t write about certain subjects, topics, details…

        Who’s ever on your side here? Gigi? Both of you are clowns.
        Are you paid to speak against Mr. Turley, or is it a mental health issue?

    2. The only “oppression” Isaac Newton faced was not believing in the Trinity. Galileo faced death threats from religious nuts. Einstein faced the possibility of being sent to a concentration camp from right wingers.

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