⚡️🇺🇸 NEW - NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya says…

⚡️🇺🇸 NEW - NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya says CENSORSHIP was a huge problem during COVID and that we will have free speech in science moving forward.

"One of the main problems during the pandemic was censorship. Free speech is absolutely essential for scientific progress. Free speech, if we had had it during the pandemic, we would have had much better outcomes."

"So when Secretary Kennedy says that we're going to have gold standard science, what holds that up is free speech."

"And when Secretary Kennedy talks about the taboos in science, he's absolutely right. I, as a scientist, I don't know what causes autism to rise. I read the scientific literature and it just looks like people haven't really asked the question in a deep and honest way."

"What we're going to do is we're going to shatter that taboo so that people can ask the question honestly so I could look at the scientific literature and give an answer that's grounded in truth."

"You saw during the pandemic it was taboo to say certain things. You couldn't say that if you had COVID and recovered you'd have some immunity, for instance."

"Those kind of taboos are anathema to scientific progress. And in this administration, under Secretary Kennedy's leadership and President Trump's leadership, we are not going to have those taboos. We're going to have free speech in science and free speech in medicine."