After refusing the COVID vaccine because he had infection-acquired resistance, world-renowned infectious disease epidemiologist and biostatistician Martin Kulldorff is no longer a doctor at Harvard Medical School.
Refusing the vaccination led to his dismissal from the Ivy League school this month, and his visit at a Harvard-affiliated hospital at the time several years ago.
The Harvard Medical School “has associations partnerships with a number of Boston hospitals,” it says. Hospital- based university, quite as Dr. Kulldorff, are employed by one of the affiliates, never by HMS, and require an effective hospital appointment to maintain an intellectual appointment at Harvard Medical School”, a Harvard spokesperson told The College Fix via email Thursday.
Kulldorff claimed to The Wall Street Journal on Thursday that the school had just ended that purgatory with an established termination after Mass General Brigham fired him. He was then placed on left from his university place. He claimed that Harvard and Harvard-affiliated hospitals do not accept his requests for exemptions because they do not support the development of infection-acquired immunity.
Since the COVID lockdowns started four years ago this month, Kulldorff argued that severe measures like social distancing, masking children, vaccinations after infection, and other extreme actions were not the best course of action to combat the virus. He is co-author of the Great Barrington Declaration, which advocated for ethical strategies that would let the world to achieve “herd immunity,” and has since received the signatures of nearly 1 million researchers worldwide.
More than 2,600 people signed a petition calling for Kulldorff’s restoration claim that retaining him did “uphold the norms of academic freedom and admiration for personal autonomy in health choices that Harvard stands for.”
But Kulldorff, writing in City Journal this week, said Harvard turned its back on him, open debate, and medical freedom.
The beauty of our immune system is that those who recover from an infection are protected if and when they are re-exposed, according to the statement. This has been known since the Athenian Plague of 430 BC—but it is no longer known at Harvard”, he wrote. The now infamous” consensus” memorandum in The Lancet was co-authored by three renowned Harvard faculty members, who question the existence of Covid-acquired immunity. By continuing to mandate the vaccine for students with a prior Covid infection, Harvard is de facto denying 2, 500 years of science”.
Harvard only recently removed the requirement for incoming students to receive a COVID vaccine.
” For scientific, ethical, public health, and medical reasons, I objected both publicly and privately to the Covid vaccine mandates. Without conducting proper efficacy and safety studies on patients with my type of immune deficiency, it was risky to vaccinate me because I already had superior infection-acquired immunity. According to Kulldorff,” This stance resulted in me being fired by Mass General Brigham, and also in my Harvard faculty position,” adding that both his medical and religious exemption requests were denied.
Veritas has not been the guiding principle of Harvard leaders, but the majority of Harvard faculty diligently pursue truth in a wide variety of fields. Nor have academic freedom, intellectual curiosity, independence from external forces, or concern for ordinary people guided their decisions”, he wrote.
” Harvard and the wider scientific community have a lot of work to do to deserve and regain public trust. The first two things are the restoration of academic freedom and the end of cancel culture. Universities should organize open and civilized debates to advance the truth when scientists have differing opinions on subjects of public importance.
When asked to comment on the Kulldorff case, George Mason University Professor of Law Todd Zywicki argued that it best exemplifies the “fascist approach” that academic leaders and the medical establishment adopted during the pandemic.
In a telephone interview with The College Fix on Thursday, Zywicki said,” It just shows that all this business about” trust the science” and” trust the experts” is garbage. Kulldorff was the only person who was an expert on this.
Kulldorff’s advice has been validated as correct, yet the bureaucratic class has learned nothing and still refuses to acknowledge its missteps, he said, adding” they are not amenable to reason, they do n’t have a shred of decency in their souls, and they want conformity and they want to crush people”.
Zywicki, who like Kulldorff has infection-acquired immunity, had filed a lawsuit against his employers over the mandate for the COVID vaccine in a case that was ultimately settled in his favor when GMU granted his exemption request in 2021.
The burdensome laws passed during COVID represent” the greatest threat to freedom in at least a generation,” the law professor said, and it’s not over yet because another crisis of any kind is certain to arise.
” It’s a war”, Zywicki said, “because these people are not going to back down”.
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