Livestream tonight on the HSSCP school closure hearing

\Tonight at 8pm CST join molecular biologist Dr. Dan Wilson (Debunk the Funk), journalist Walker Bragman (Important Context, OptOut News), and suicidologist, emergency psychiatrist and pharmacologist Dr. Tyler Black for a livestreamed discussion about the GOP-led House Special Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic’s hearing on Covid school closures. This is the second such livestream on the HSSCP hearings, as Wilson and Bragman covered the Subcommittee opener with Norfolk Group Drs. Jay Bhattacharya, Martin Kulldorff, and Marty Makary last month.

Livestream tonight with Dr. Dan Wilson and Walker Bragman

As we discussed, this hearing on school closures featured fellow Norfolk Group member Dr. Tracy Beth Høeg. We discussed her history of bad science, use of children as political pawns, and extensive conflicts of interest.

Dr. Tracy Beth Høeg to testify to Covid Oversight on school closures

Høeg’s “Urgency of Normal” can be understood as a rebranding and repackaging of the pro-infection Great Barrington Declaration (signed by her Norfolk colleagues Bhattacharya and Kullforff) with a specific focus on children. Høeg was joined by GBD-tied journalist David Zweig and, as we discussed, the restored reports by the former Democrat-led House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis (HSSCC) name their GBD colleagues.

Website for the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis restored

Rounding out the GOP “expert” witnesses, Rep. Brad Wenstrup’s (R-OH) Subcommittee called Virginia Gentles, the director of the Education Freedom Center at the Koch-funded “Independent” Women’s Forum, to testify.

Think of the children

Høeg’s recent publication with “Urgency of Normal” colleague and anti-mask oncologist Dr. Vinay Prasad alleging over-counting of pediatric Covid deaths earned a rebuttal paper by Gregory Travis titled “Institutional harm caused by the deliberate misrepresentation of vital statistics in research journals by individuals ideologically opposed to collective efforts of disease mitigation”.

Gregory Travis. Make schools #DavosSafe @greg_travis

We are live papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf… @19joho @Loretta_Torrago @micah_arsham @TRyanGregory @mehdirhasan @DrEricDing @WalkerBragman @a

More “Urgency of Normal” published work has received rebuttals recently. The BMJ Journal of Medical Ethics paper “COVID-19 vaccine boosters for young adults: a risk benefit assessment and ethical analysis of mandate policies at universities” by Bardosh, Prasad, Makary, Høeg, et al. received a response paper from researcher Leo Lam PhD and emergency physician Dr. Taylor Nichols last week.

Leo Lam, Ph.D.💉⚕️🌎🇺🇸🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇭🇰 @SeattleiteLeo

My paper with @tnicholsmd on the ethics of college vaccine mandates in colleges is out at the BMJ Journal of Medical Ethics. We found that vaccine mandates at colleges are both ethical and beneficial for the students & the community at large. A thread.

jme.bmj.comEthics of college vaccine mandates, using reasonable comparisonsIn the paper ‘COVID-19 vaccine boosters for young adults: a risk–benefit assessment and ethical analysis of mandate policies at universities,’ Bardosh et al argued that college mandates of the COVID-19 booster vaccine are unethical. The authors came to this conclusion by performing three different s…

It is important that idealogues like Høeg who misuse their credentials for a deadly political movement continue to be called out by the medical community as they have been for the past three years by grassroots organizing in the absence of action from medical leadership who talk the talk but fail to walk the walk.

See you tonight.