Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One app.

Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles. One news app.

The Latest Breaking News from Jay Bhattacharya

Trump Pick for Public Health Chief Opposed COVID Lockdown, Wanted People to Get Infected on Purpose

Donald Trump has appointed a health economist who published an open letter slamming the COVID-19 lockdown while promoting "herd immunity" to lead the NIH.

Latin Times

Dr. Jay in the House

Plus: the search for COVID's origins, a Middle East ceasefire, and yet another cute, offensive turkey pardon.

Reason

Who is Jay Bhattacharya, Trump’s anti-lockdown pick to head the NIH?

Bhattacharya would lead the National Institutes of Health, the primary agency in the US for public health research.

Al Jazeera

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

First Thing: Israel-Hezbollah ceasefire in Lebanon takes effect

Reports of cars heading south inside Lebanon despite Israeli army warning. Plus, record South Korea snowfall

The Guardian - UK

Trump pick for US health agency proposed ‘herd immunity’ during Covid

Choosing Jay Bhattacharya to lead NIH signals return to controversial and scientifically questionable health policies

The Guardian - US

Trump announces more picks including US trade chief and health deputy

Attorney Jamieson Greer to play key role in trade team and John O’Neill picked to be RFK Jr’s health department deputy

The Guardian - US

Trump picks Covid lockdown skeptic as head of key national health agency

Dr. Jay Bhattacharya is a Stanford-educated physician who gained prominence after questioning the efficacy of social distancing at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic

The Independent UK

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Dr. Jay Bhattacharya To Lead National Institutes Of Health

President-elect Trump appoints Dr. Jay Bhattacharya to lead NIH, emphasizing medical research and healthcare advancements.

Top News

Trump names pick for NIH director - Roll Call

Trump says he has picked Stanford physician Jay Bhattacharya to lead NIH and Jim O’Neill to serve as the deputy secretary of HHS.

Roll Call

Trump's post-COVID brain drain

Donald Trump is out for COVID revenge

Salon

Jay Bhattacharya on COVID, Social Media Censorship, and Trump vs. Biden

"It’s not like public health is infallible," the Stanford professor and Great Barrington Declaration author tells Reason's Nick Gillespie.

Reason

Jay Bhattacharya: 'I Sued the Biden Administration for COVID Censorship'

Bhattacharya explains the stakes of Murthy v. Missouri, the politicization of medical research, and his RFK Jr. endorsement.

Reason

Social Media Censorship and The First Amendment

Stanford's Jay Bhattacharya debates St. John University's Kate Klonick on the federal government's role in social media censorship.

Reason

Social Media Censorship: Jay Bhattacharya vs. Kate Klonick

Stanford's Jay Bhattacharya debates St. John University's Kate Klonick on the federal government's role in social media censorship.

Reason

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

Reason

'The Science' Suffers from Self-Inflicted Political Wounds

A separation of science and politics might be called for.

The Guardian - UK

What makes Elon Musk tick? I spent months following the same people as him to find out who fuels his curious worldview

Tucker Carlson, Greta Thunberg, Covid sceptics, military historians, the royal family … What would my time immersed in the Twitter/X owner’s feed reveal about the richest man in the world?

Reason

Gavin Newsom Spins Revisionist History of His COVID Record

Plus: internet censorship, outdoor dining land grabs, and more...

Reason

The University of Michigan Will Force Students With COVID To Leave Campus

A likely consequence: Sick students will avoid going to the university hospital.

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

Reason

Jay Bhattacharya & John Vecchione: Biden's Social Media Meddling Was Illegal

Plaintiffs in Missouri v. Biden allege that federal pressure to remove and suppress COVID-19 material on Facebook and Twitter violates the First Amendment.

Reason

Was Biden's Social Media Meddling Illegal?

Join Reason on YouTube and Facebook on Thursday at 1:30 p.m. Eastern for a live discussion with Jay Bhattacharya and John Vecchione about their legal case against the Biden administration.

Los Angeles Times

Michael Hiltzik: These 'experts' sold the U.S. on a disastrous COVID plan, and never paid a professional price

They've held credentials from some of the world's most elite universities — Harvard, Stanford, Johns Hopkins, Oxford. They've been welcomed into the highest government policy councils. They became fixtures on television news shows and were quoted incessantly by some of the nation's leading newspapers.

Chicago Tribune

Commentary: Suppressing debate on COVID-19 policies leads to mistrust in public health

China has abandoned its "COVID-zero" campaign, and with the loosening of social restrictions, the country has shifted its focus from preventing COVID-19 infections to managing them. As part of that program, Li Guangxi, with China’s State Council Joint Prevention and Control Mechanism, gave an interview last month encouraging people to…

Reason

Did 'Every Conspiracy Theory' About Twitter Turn Out To Be True?

The internal company documents offer a behind-the-scenes glimpse at how the federal agencies distorted the public debate on one of the world's largest social media platforms.

Tribune News Service

Internet goes berserk over Stanford ‘language guide’ that discourages use of ‘American’ and ‘survivor’

STANFORD, Calif. — From the internet to the national media to the holiday dinner table, much of the country has seemed to be up in arms in recent weeks over a newly discovered Stanford University “language guide” that discourages the use of words like “American,” “survivor” and “freshman” — steps…

Salon

Meet Elon Musk's favorite new doctor

The right's new darling is a Stanford doctor who is mistrustful of mRNA vaccines and lockdowns

1 2 3 4 5

People

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Organisations

Health and Human Services

277 stories

the Food and Drug Administration

213 stories

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Topics

Places

Fourteen days free

Download the app

One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.