*The journalist who wrote this piece goes out of his way to assure us that he* *buys none of the "conspiracy theories" around COVID-19; and yet his mind is* *open just enough to see that this move by the Guardian is appalling, and an* *indication that they have no evidence or arguments against the scientists' case.*
*MCM* Is The Guardian planning an attack on the Great Barrington scientists? <https://unherd.com/thepost/is-the-guardian-planning-an-attack-on-the-great-barrington-scientists/> Profs Martin Kuldorff (L), Sunetra Gupta (C) and Jay Bhattacharya (R) met at Great Barrington, Massachusetts ------------------------------ BY FREDDIE SAYERS Friday, 9 October 2020 *https://unherd.com/thepost/is-the-guardian-planning-an-attack-on-the-great-barrington-scientists <https://unherd.com/thepost/is-the-guardian-planning-an-attack-on-the-great-barrington-scientists>* Last night *The Guardian* sent the following email to Professor Martin Kulldorff of Harvard, one of the three initial signatories of the ‘Great Barrington Declaration <https://unherd.com/2020/10/covid-experts-there-is-another-way/>’ calling for a different approach to the Covid-19 pandemic. The article is yet to be published, but it looks very much like a move to delegitimise the ideas of these eminent scientists by smearing them by association. As Professor Kulldorff told *The Guardian*, he had never heard of the ‘Richie Allen show’ before he was invited on, and as a public health expert, he thinks it’s his duty to talk to all audiences in any case, whatever their beliefs. I hadn’t heard of the show either (the website looks like lots of conspiracy theories), but is the fact that Kulldorff appeared on it really the big story? Surely the right thing for a newspaper to do is to engage in good faith with the arguments being presented, rather than to impugn integrity using Facebook shares as some sort of hard evidence. *Click on the link for the rest.* --- Support News from Underground: http://bit.ly/NFUSupport You received this email because you are subscribed to News from Underground. To unsubscribe from this email list, please go to: http://www.simplelists.com/confirm.php?u=pIdjNUgiG2h8yxbhC54SSy4SEskAoEMs For archives, please go to: http://archives.simplelists.com/nfu
