{"id":12647,"date":"2020-10-04T18:00:24","date_gmt":"2020-10-05T01:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=12647"},"modified":"2020-10-03T13:16:03","modified_gmt":"2020-10-03T20:16:03","slug":"the-unscientific-attacks-on-the-science-of-dr-scott-atlas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/the-unscientific-attacks-on-the-science-of-dr-scott-atlas\/","title":{"rendered":"The Unscientific Attacks on the Science of Dr. Scott Atlas"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The&nbsp;news media until recently had rarely criticized the medical advice of experts \u2014 especially those who worked for federal bureaucracies, international organizations, or elite universities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yet the much-praised Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director-general of the World Health Organization, has demonstrably weakened the effort to fight COVID-19.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During the critical initial weeks of the virus\u2019s spread, Tedros parroted Chinese propaganda. He falsely assured a complacent world that the virus was probably not transmissible between humans and did not warrant travel bans. The fact that Tedros was the first WHO director not to have a medical degree was seldom cited by the media.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2020\/10\/scott-atlas-white-house-coronavirus-adviser-critics-ignore-science\/\">Read the full article here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review The&nbsp;news media until recently had rarely criticized the medical advice of experts \u2014 especially those who worked for federal bureaucracies, international organizations, or elite universities. Yet the much-praised Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director-general of the World Health Organization, has demonstrably weakened the effort to fight COVID-19. 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Politics and biases explain the lack of public confidence in organizations and institutions such as the World Health Organization, the Commission on Presidential Debates, the Nobel Peace Prize,\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":12112,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/former-intelligence-chiefs-fit-perfectly-into-media-advocacy-culture\/","url_meta":{"origin":12647,"position":2},"title":"Former intelligence chiefs fit perfectly into media advocacy culture","author":"victorhanson","date":"December 20, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ Fox News Former FBI Director\u00a0James Comey\u00a0and Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, former CIA Director John Brennan and former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper have lots of things in common. 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