Me and My Shadow (Banned)

They say you are the company you keep. Dr. Jay Bhattacharya learned that the hard way after he started cavorting with a bunch of fringe lunatics bent on killing grandmas — Or no, wait… the other thing. It was time spent with fellow reputable, highly credentialed scientists that got him into trouble. With the released Twitter files that show he was placed on an actual blacklist, he returns to discuss the scientists who want to rule the world and his challenge to their authority.

Plus: Charles (filling in for Rob) gives his take on Kyrsten Sinema’s independence and the Griner trade, and Peter tells us about his meeting with Bibi Netanyahu.

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  1. Duane Oyen Member
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    I really like the new de facto practice of impressing Charlie Cooke as the designated permanent substitute co-host.

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  2. Mark Alexander Inactive
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    @MarkAlexander

    Always good to hear Dr. Jay.

    And we now know that experts are willing to lie in order to maintain funding, reputation, and power.

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  3. Mark Alexander Inactive
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    @MarkAlexander

    Sadly, the lockdowns did not fail. They succeeded, and at an alarming rate.

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  4. The Cynthonian Inactive
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    Dr Jay was and is a calm, rational voice of reason in a sea of hype and panic.  He was done a great injustice by the public health establishment and the media (especially social media).  I admire his refusal to be bitter, and his resolve to keep telling the truth.

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  5. kedavis Coolidge
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    The Cynthonian (View Comment):

    Dr Jay was and is a calm, rational voice of reason in a sea of hype and panic. He was done a great injustice by the public health establishment and the media (especially social media). I admire his refusal to be bitter, and his resolve to keep telling the truth.

    Well, he has less to be bitter about than some.

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  6. kedavis Coolidge
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    You may think being Shadow-Banned is bad, but you REALLY don’t want to be SHADO-Banned!

     

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  7. kedavis Coolidge
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    Anyone else get the feeling that Charlie Cooke is still hearing what the media claims Trump says, and not what Trump actually says?

     

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  8. kedavis Coolidge
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    The problem with eggs isn’t just inflation, it’s also the destruction of many chicken “herds” due to supposed disease problems.

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  9. RufusRJones Member
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    “Public health structure that is fundamentally sound.”

    That’s the thing that gets me. I never, ever saw this coming. They are all fascistic psychos that don’t look at data and don’t care about people. Wolinsky has already admitted under oath to Jim Jordan that she never saw any data that the vaccine lowered transmission. They lied and lied and lied and lied and lied. Fauci just admitted in a deposition that he never saw any data that masks would change anything. Shame on any Republican that tolerates this crap. Public health run properly is an actual public good that can be only done by government. I’m not talking about when they make stuff up about food deserts and all of that. I’m talking about organizing things with government forced to solve problems because the private sector can’t do it. Shame on all of these people. All of these years to get ready for a pandemic and all we get is fascism. Then they lied about Wuhan. 

    I was thinking about something. If you study the FTX situation, the whole thing is just unbelievable. The head of the SEC and the CFTC had to do so little to theoretically and plausibility keep their hands clean before that thing blew up and they didn’t do any of it. I’m not talking about the competence to protect everybody, I’m talking about just not looking like a fool and a criminal in the press and in committee hearings. Anybody with average intelligence could understand it. The point is, anybody that thinks we need more government or that tolerates anything beyond basic public goods is an idiot. We don’t need more government we need less. 

    “The money may dry up.” —->

    Government Is How We Steal From Each Other™

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  10. RufusRJones Member
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    Seriously. Look at her lie about how it reduces the spread. 

     

     

     

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  11. Bishop Wash Member
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    kedavis (View Comment):

    Anyone else get the feeling that Charlie Cooke is still hearing what the media claims Trump says, and not what Trump actually says?

     

    That and he laughingly said that Trump lost fair and square in 2020. It was anything but fair and square. 

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  12. Rightfromthestart Coolidge
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    I wonder if Charles would concede that a Trump administration would have made a better deal on the prisoner swap. 

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  13. DonG (CAGW is a Scam) Coolidge
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    Mark Alexander (View Comment):
    And we now know that experts are willing to lie in order to maintain funding, reputation, and power.

    Just as Eisenhower warned us.   I wonder if Dr. Jay trusts the “experts” on climate change or if he is willing to apply his new knowledge to other areas of science.  

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  14. DonG (CAGW is a Scam) Coolidge
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    FYI, they might have “butter parties” in Minnesota, but we don’t have those in Texas.   I assume that “butter party” is not a euphemism for something else , because we don’t have those either.

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  15. James Lileks Contributor
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    kedavis (View Comment):

    You may think being Shadow-Banned is bad, but you REALLY don’t want to be SHADO-Banned!

    Supreme Headquarters of the Alien Defence Organization, for the curious. 

     

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  16. OwnedByDogs Lincoln
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    The CDC pretty much admitted that lockdowns don’t work when they said go out and protest.

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  17. kedavis Coolidge
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    OwnedByDogs (View Comment):

    The CDC pretty much admitted that lockdowns don’t work when they said go out and protest.

    You’re allowed to protest anything except for the lockdowns.

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  18. kedavis Coolidge
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    James Lileks (View Comment):

    kedavis (View Comment):

    You may think being Shadow-Banned is bad, but you REALLY don’t want to be SHADO-Banned!

    Supreme Headquarters of the Alien Defence Organization, for the curious.

    It’s in the video, but it might go by rather quickly.  :-)

    Some time ago, I got some window stickers for putting on cars etc.

     

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  19. Taras Coolidge
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    Bishop Wash (View Comment):

    kedavis (View Comment):

    Anyone else get the feeling that Charlie Cooke is still hearing what the media claims Trump says, and not what Trump actually says?

     

    That and he laughingly said that Trump lost fair and square in 2020. It was anything but fair and square.

    Some of these conservative pundits have been down so long, it looks like up to them.

    When a conservative candidate narrowly loses an election, they never even mention the opponent’s huge advantage in money and media support.  Under those circumstances, a narrow loss is something to be praised — but no, it’s all the candidate’s fault.  He ran his campaign twice as well as his opponent, when he needed to be three times better.

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  20. BillJackson Inactive
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    kedavis (View Comment):

    OwnedByDogs (View Comment):

    The CDC pretty much admitted that lockdowns don’t work when they said go out and protest.

    You’re allowed to protest anything except for the lockdowns.

    Funny because it’s true. In early lockdown 2020, there was a protest around Buckingham Fountain (I believe) about the lockdowns and the Chicago cops were on it super-quick to shut it down.

    Not so much later that year when, over the summer, over a few days, the “correct” protests spread all across the city. 

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  21. Samuel Block Support
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    kedavis (View Comment):

    Anyone else get the feeling that Charlie Cooke is still hearing what the media claims Trump says, and not what Trump actually says?

     

    It was a Tweet, though. I wouldn’t call Charlie an illiterate, and I tend to doubt Anderson Cooper or others at CNN helped him come to any conclusions.

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  22. kedavis Coolidge
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    Samuel Block (View Comment):

    kedavis (View Comment):

    Anyone else get the feeling that Charlie Cooke is still hearing what the media claims Trump says, and not what Trump actually says?

     

    It was a Tweet, though. I wouldn’t call Charlie an illiterate, and I tend to doubt Anderson Cooper or others at CNN helped him come to any conclusions.

    And yet he repeats so many of what we know are media fabrications as if they were true.

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  23. RufusRJones Member
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    This is really good.

     

     

     

     

     

     

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  24. RufusRJones Member
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    RufusRJones (View Comment):
    The point is, anybody that thinks we need more government or that tolerates anything beyond basic public goods is an idiot. We don’t need more government we need less. 

    Duh….

     

     

     

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  25. RufusRJones Member
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  26. OwnedByDogs Lincoln
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    Bishop Wash (View Comment):

    kedavis (View Comment):

    Anyone else get the feeling that Charlie Cooke is still hearing what the media claims Trump says, and not what Trump actually says?

     

    That and he laughingly said that Trump lost fair and square in 2020. It was anything but fair and square.

    I like something I heard Glenn Loury say. Paraphrasing as I heard it on his podcast a while ago: Trump lost. They cheated, but they cheated fair and square and got away with it and it is not going to change.

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  27. RufusRJones Member
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    Everything is about litigation, lawfare, and controlling the media. 

    Democrats don’t care about Marquis of Queensberry rules or anything like that. 

    Ballot harvesting is sickening.

    This country doesn’t care that it has Third World ballot controls. 

    If Trump had a second term he could have crushed the deep state and the bureaucracy. Very hard to do now.

    All of this is made worse by some structural things that force centralization and bad behavior. This is why Republicans need to quit being so idealistic.

     

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  28. Bishop Wash Member
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    OwnedByDogs (View Comment):

    Bishop Wash (View Comment):

    kedavis (View Comment):

    Anyone else get the feeling that Charlie Cooke is still hearing what the media claims Trump says, and not what Trump actually says?

     

    That and he laughingly said that Trump lost fair and square in 2020. It was anything but fair and square.

    I like something I heard Glenn Loury say. Paraphrasing as I heard it on his podcast a while ago: Trump lost. They cheated, but they cheated fair and square and got away with it and it is not going to change.

    Maybe the places with ballot harvesting and other things were cheating fair and square. However, from what I understand Pennsylvania was a mess. The courts did things contrary to the state constitution, none of it was legit. 

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  29. RufusRJones Member
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    Collecting ballots from the disinterested and the infirmed. It’s disgusting. 

    There are certain dimensions of initiative and interest you need to have or it’s not American to do this.

    Why should any ballots be collected before 10 days out? 

    I think in most countries 90% are just SOL if they aren’t in town on the election day. Very little latitude about this.

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  30. Mark Alexander Inactive
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