justification? transparency? on all of these things? and get at every turn, when we ask, when you ask for the data, the transparency, the justification, you are dismissed as antiscience mccourt you just are going to be responsible for the deaths of millions of people. it was immediate castigation. was that shocking to you, coming from jeff zucker s cnn? dr. bhattacharya: i was absolutely stunned. the idea that we have a novel virus, scientific consensus on what the right thing to do is get so much that we can suppress and sensor people who disagreed with us, the consensus, the idea of dr. fauci, that is absolutely amazing to me. what should have happen, a good deep conversation between scientists who agree to disagree. we could come to some conclusion. instead, we had media outlets like cnn essentially demonizing
internal e-mails so that the duo of francis collins and tony fauci were scrambling for a plan to smear the few doctors brave enough to stand up to them at the entire medical steps when. and one e-mail, collins wrote about the work of three french epidemiologists that seems to be getting a lot of attention. he then called for a quick and devastating publish takedown of its premises. fauci s network, covidians they gave them airtime. we should be implementing the public health measures. that we have been talk about for so long. laura: at a time of crisis when everyone needed the opportunity for a full and fair airing of the options, all of them that were available to us? zucker s cnn took opportunity to call for extreme lockdown measures that hurt american families and direct our economy.
in fact said who s talked about vaccine? you see, it s me. who s that girl talking about vaccine? it s me. oh oh. now that the dehydrator that you can take, laura , we have to ban all of these vaccineci jingles pawns minor theatrics, health careom professionals should warn us about something other than vaccines. we rene i think we re all fed up with it. you ve heard of poetry slam slam poetry poetry slam.because this is a poetry jab p. i mean, come on , this is silly. it s a sober it s a super bowl halftime show. maybe they can try out. raymond, thank you . . you ve heard about cnn s head honcho jeff zucker s a sudden departureff z fromu the cable laggard. but you haven t heard the stories from the inside
they trashed scientists and doctors who wanted americans to hear the other side of the story. they launched ugly attacks against potential and his team who eventually helped obtain the very vaccines that cnn now celebrate. from beginning to the end for the zucker covidians saw the pandemic not as a tragedy to be management as an opportunity to be exploited. it is one of the most shameful periods in the history of american journalism. maybe just maybe post zucker cnn will begin to escape the cult it built. and that is the angle. join me now is dr. jay bhattacharya. i keep looking at those clips. i m like, is that really octobe?
and justification, transparencyy on all these things? and yet at every turn when we asked when asked for the data, the transparency, the justificationio you re dismissed is antiscience or you just you re going to be responsible for the deaths of millions of people, thousands of people. it was an immediate castigate. wass that shocking to you coming from jeffs zucker, cnn? i was absolutely stunned. i mean, i think the idea of that but we have s a novel virus worked through society that there s a scientific consensus on exactlyup what the right thing to do is so much that we can suppress and censor people who disagree with the consensus. the the ideas of dr. fauci . that is absolutely amazing to me. what should have happened was a a a good deep conversationho between scientists who agree and disagree. we have come to some conclusion that would have been far better that we had insteadco we had media outlets like cnn