Bhattacharya/Bardosh: RFK Will Disrupt the U.S. Medical Establishment (In a Good Way)

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I have a very high opinion of Jay Bhattacharya--though I have no expertise in the areas you'd have to have expertise in to make a genuinely informed judgment about his arguments. But his arguments are generally reasonable, and he clearly has an open mind. And he was clearly right about a lot during the pandemic. I tried to get my department to take the Great Barrington Declaration seriously back in '20. I was shut down quickly by a colleague who responded that it was out of step with mainstream opinion in public health. I'd said my piece, and that was true, so I just agreed with that particular point and let it drop. I still think we should have pushed back on the university's overreactions...but it wouldn't have done any good anyway.

   I don't really have standing to have much of an opinion on RFKj as HHS secretary...but it doesn't sound like a good idea to me. Pushing back against what seem like the excesses of the public health establishment sounds sensible...but bad pushback is, well, bad. As I've said, it does sound to me like the fluoride question should be on the table...but, again, I have no doubt that the calculations have already been done to death. We're not talking about amateurs here. The COVID response still seems to me to have been pretty suboptimal...but I'm not sure we can generalize much from that. And we basically don't pay any attention under normal conditions.

   At any rate, Bhattacharya seems to think that RFK is a plausible candidate. and he knows about 10,000 times more about it than I do.