{"id":43385,"date":"2021-10-07T11:53:27","date_gmt":"2021-10-07T15:53:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=43385"},"modified":"2021-10-07T11:53:27","modified_gmt":"2021-10-07T15:53:27","slug":"blocking-the-truth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=43385","title":{"rendered":"Blocking The Truth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday <a href=\"https:\/\/justthenews.com\/politics-policy\/coronavirus\/governments-put-financial-squeeze-doctors-who-stray-covid-19-orthodoxy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Just the News<\/a> posted an article about some of the politics in the medical profession regarding the coronavirus.<\/p>\n<p>The article reports:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Medical professionals are facing threats to their careers and livelihoods for challenging COVID-19 orthodoxy, while an oft-censored Harvard Medical School professor is facing his latest Big Tech kerfuffle.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>The University of California put psychiatrist and bioethics professor Aaron Kheriaty on &#8220;investigatory leave&#8221; after he sued the university system for <a href=\"https:\/\/justthenews.com\/nation\/science\/university-california-doctors-challenge-its-covid-vaccine-mandate-irrational\">refusing to recognize natural immunity<\/a> such as his among exemptions to its COVID vaccine mandate.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Writing in the <a href=\"https:\/\/justthenews.com\/politics-policy\/coronavirus\/heart-problems-vaccinated-students-trigger-medical-legal-scrutiny\">Wall Street Journal<\/a>,\u00a0Kheriaty had previously invoked the post-Nazi Nuremberg code in urging universities to abandon their mandates.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>In his <a href=\"https:\/\/aaronkheriaty.substack.com\/p\/legal-update-10521?r=76kom&amp;utm_campaign=post&amp;utm_medium=web&amp;utm_source=\">personal newsletter<\/a> Wednesday, Kheriaty said he&#8217;ll lose half his income while on so-called paid leave, because he&#8217;s banned from &#8220;seeing my patients, supervising resident clinics, and engaging in weekend and holiday on-call duties.&#8221;\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>His contract also bans him from working as a physician outside the UC system to recoup his revenue loss. &#8220;The University may be hoping this pressure will lead me to resign &#8216;voluntarily,&#8217; which would remove grounds for my lawsuit,&#8221; Kheriaty wrote.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>UC&#8217;s action came a day after a court refused to issue a preliminary injunction, functionally declaring a draw between each party&#8217;s scientific arguments about different forms of immunity and what risk vaccination poses for the recovered.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The article concludes:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Harvard Med&#8217;s Martin Kulldorff, a pioneer in vaccine safety and coauthor of the <a href=\"https:\/\/brownstone.org\/articles\/great-barrington-declaration-one-year-later\/\">year-old Great Barrington Declaration,<\/a> had his second tangle with LinkedIn over an article he wrote.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>The Microsoft-owned professional social network <a href=\"https:\/\/justthenews.com\/accountability\/cancel-culture\/first-twitter-now-linkedin-harvard-med-school-professor-censored\">removed two of his posts<\/a> this summer as misinformation. He had said mandates feed vaccine hesitancy and noted Iceland&#8217;s top epidemiologist recommended natural immunity to complement vaccination.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>This time LinkedIn removed posts that shared Kulldorff&#8217;s most recent article on why hospitals should <a href=\"https:\/\/brownstone.org\/articles\/hospitals-should-hire-not-fire-nurses-with-natural-immunity\/\">welcome nurses with natural immunity<\/a> rather than firing them, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/brownstone.org\/articles\/harvard-epidemiologist-censored-by-linkedin-for-defending-healthcare-jobs\/\">Brownstone Institute<\/a>, which published the article. Kulldorff&#8217;s own posts also disappeared.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>After a few hours, the network allegedly shifted to removing the preview image, headline and description of the Oct. 1 article, so that only the URL remained, likely reducing reader engagement.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Just the News confirmed Wednesday the link is still bare when shared on LinkedIn, with the disclaimer: &#8220;Cannot display preview. You can post as is, or try another link.&#8221; LinkedIn didn&#8217;t respond when asked why it continues throttling Kulldorff&#8217;s new article.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>&#8230;Kulldorff initially moved over to LinkedIn because of a <a href=\"https:\/\/justthenews.com\/accountability\/cancel-culture\/sunmask-skeptic-harvard-epidemiologist-takes-gab-twitter-lockout\">monthlong Twitter suspension<\/a> for questioning the protective power of masks. He previously told Just the News he is more guarded on Twitter for that reason.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>At one point you have to wonder who has the power to silence these doctors and why they are doing this. I am sure money plays a role in this, but I suspect there is a deeper root cause.<\/p>\n<article class=\"align-center\">\n<div class=\"field__label visually-hidden\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"field field--name-field-media-image field--type-image field--label-visually_hidden\">\n<div class=\"field__item\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday Just the News posted an article about some of the politics in the medical profession regarding the coronavirus. 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