"Hundreds of millions of doses of these vaccines have been [administered], (and yet) we don't yet have a complete set of data on complications. Why? What is the scientific process?"
"Restrictive policies in response to the covid-19 disease pandemic have been largely unsuccessful, and we need to be held accountable for these 'destructive' measures," said Dr. Scott Atlas, former special advisor to former President Donald Trump on the coronavirus pandemic.
"What I heard and saw was the behavior of people who had no scientific papers with them at these meetings, no practical knowledge of the published literature," Atlas said. "It was the sort of behavior of a bureaucrat who was interested in covering for other bureaucrats and manipulating or working with the media to criticize people who had a different opinion - which was me."
"We need accountability for people who got what they wanted. They put in place the policies they wanted. Those policies have failed," Atlas said, referring to restrictive measures such as lockdowns, quarantines, school and business closures and mandatory vaccinations for young people...
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Dr. Scott Atlas: A powerful, unelected "cabal" controls science funding and health policy in the U.S.
"So when I joined, I was very naive at the time. I was coming from an academic and research background where I had been working full-time for more than a decade as a health policy expert at the Hoover Institution, dealing with complex health policy issues..."
"They failed miserably. And it wasn't just that they failed because they were incompetent. Although that was part of it too. They failed because of their own pride. They didn't want to admit they were wrong. The data is very clear. Lockdowns were wrong. They failed, they destroyed people. We sacrificed our children in a very heinous way. We need to restore trust in science."
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