Jaya Bhattacharya -

It is a stunning reversal. The man who was treated as a plague rat is now being asked to run the zoo.

He doesn't say "I told you so." He doesn't have to. The silence does it for him.

Alongside Sunetra Gupta and Martin Kulldorff, he drafted a radical alternative to the "Zero COVID" orthodoxy. The plan was simple in theory, explosive in practice: let the healthy, low-risk population live normally to build natural immunity, while focusing protection on the elderly and vulnerable. jaya bhattacharya

The response was not a debate. It was a detonation.

Critics panned the methodology. Supporters called it vindication. Years later, the CDC would admit that the infection fatality rate was indeed an order of magnitude lower than initial hysterical projections. It is a stunning reversal

Within 48 hours, three dozen scientists published a rebuttal in The Lancet . Twitter banned links to the Declaration. Bhattacharya’s Stanford colleague, John Ioannidis, was accused of "dangerous misinformation."

In 2021, internal emails revealed that Fauci’s team had actively strategized to sideline Bhattacharya and the other "Barrington" signatories. The scientific establishment had not just disagreed with him; it had excommunicated him. The silence does it for him

Now, the wheel has turned. With a new administration in Washington, Bhattacharya is rumored to be on the shortlist to lead the National Institutes of Health (NIH).