World’s Leading Scientist and White House Expert Scott Atlas Censored By Twitter

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White House Expert Scott Atlas Censored By Twitter

Twitter has capped off a week of censorship by silencing a top White House scientist.
18, 2020:

Social media company Twitter finished its week of apparently politically motivated censorship on its platform by banning tweets regarding the efficacy of masks from Scott Atlas, a member of the White House scientific team battling the coronavirus.

Atlas, a senior fellow at Stanford’s Hoover Institute, not only had his tweets removed, he was banned from tweeting until he deleted the tweets that Twitter for unclear reasons objects to. Here are the tweets in question:

In an email to The Federalist, Atlas outlined the evidence behind his tweet.

In the deleted tweet, I cited the following evidence against general population masks:

1) Cases exploded even with mandates: Los Angeles County, Miami-Dade County, Hawaii, Alabama, the Philippines, Japan, the United Kingdom, Spain, France, Israel.

2)  Dr. Carl Heneghan, University of Oxford, director of the Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine and editor in chief of British Medical Journal Evidence-Based Medicine: ‘It would appear that despite two decades of pandemic preparedness, there is considerable uncertainty as to the value of wearing masks.’

(https://www.cebm.net/covid-19/masking-lack-of-evidence-with-politics/)

3) The WHO:  ‘The widespread use of masks by healthy people in the community setting is not yet supported by high quality or direct scientific evidence and there are potential benefits and harms to consider’  (http://bitly.ws/afUm)

4) The CDC: ‘Our systematic review found no significant effect of face masks on transmission of laboratory-confirmed influenza.’ (https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/26/5/19-0994_article).

I also cited an article giving detailed explanation of the reasons why masks might not prevent spread:  https://t.co/1hRFHsxe59

Notwithstanding this evidence regarding arguably the most important and contentious debate raging in American society — the constant mandate of masks — it appears some 20-something with his pronouns in his Twitter bio just pushed a button and erased scientifically accurate information. For some reason, which hopefully Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey can explain when he is dragged before the Senate, Atlas was silenced by the tech giant.

This comes the same week that Twitter blocked New York Post articles alleging improprieties involving presidential candidate Joe Biden, his son Hunter, and the Ukrainian energy company Burisma revealed by a laptop now held by the FBI. For good measure, Twitter also banned the New York Post’s official Twitter account from the platform.

Universal masking is a subject of scientific dispute, and just happens to be a contentious political argument in the midst of the 2020 presidential election. Under the dubious policy of stopping the spread of disinformation, Twitter has silenced an expert on the matter for what seems to be politically motivated purposes.

Twitter, which claims to be a neutral platform and enjoys legal protection as such, has once again proven that not only does it have an editorial agenda, it has a political one. You see, the information overlords at Twitter dot com will decide what information and what facts the masses like you and me are allowed to consume on their platform.

That would be fine if they were a publisher and treated as such legally, but for now they are not. Section 230 of the 1996 Communications Decency Act gives Twitter special protection to engage in censorship, but after this week of obviously politically motivated silencing, many in Congress are looking to stripping the company of that protection.

Twitter’s reasoning behind banning information that questions the efficacy of masks is as opaque as a smile behind one. Like much of the traditional media, it seems to believe that the American people are too stupid to confront and analyze actual information, and instead must be spoon-fed instructions like toddlers. You don’t have to know why you must cover your face everywhere you go, you just have to do it!

This is enough; it was well past enough already, frankly. Twitter is now censoring important and much-needed scientific information that the American people need to make informed decisions about their health. If Dorsey wants to be a mask busybody while he parties maskless with Beyonce and Jay Z on a yacht, so be it. The mask rules don’t apply to him. But the laws of the United States should and must.

Twitter is no neutral platform. This fact is as obvious as a punch in the mouth, which is exactly what Congress needs to give it. Free speech is as central to the American experiment as any concept is, and as foreign to Twitter as could be.

It would be a shame if screen captures of Atlas’s tweets somehow found their way onto Twitter, I know @Jack would be dismayed — if he’s not in Indonesia engaging in fasting and spiritual development.

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Halal Bacon
Halal Bacon
3 years ago

mask? we don’t need no stinking mask

Michael Goldman
Michael Goldman
3 years ago

No surprise here. They only want what their golden demoscum traitor boy, Fauchi, has to say out there. I don’t want to see any government agency investigating if something horrendous happens to Twitter or their employees. They are on their own and not part of this country anymore. Treason is what they are all about.

AlgorithmicAnalyst
AlgorithmicAnalyst
3 years ago

They claim to follow the science, but in actuality, are anti-science.

santashandler
santashandler
3 years ago

Is it any surprise Twitter is behaving this way. They have a long history of doing this BS! Anyone who goes on to Twitter and who is not a raging leftist, should expect Twitter to censor them. Its what they do.

1PierreMontagne1
1PierreMontagne1
3 years ago

Twitter’s Dorsey is saying; “Twitter decides what science is and is not, no real scientists , like what do real scientist know?

CreoleGumbo
CreoleGumbo
3 years ago

Does anyone have the authority to do anything about any of this? Is it William Barr’s job? It is hard for me to believe that no one can do a damn thing about the censorship, the mask orders, the social distancing orders.

turkeychoker
turkeychoker
3 years ago

i got kicked off twitter and it had just been devastating. my llife had been a series of drunkin binges,wild parties,waking up in strange wimins apt.s, then when i got kicked off, since then, My life has been GREAT ! Found great new job,got a new car. Life is good. Thanks Twitter

StevenRobert
StevenRobert
3 years ago

I came across a box of surgical grade cone style face masks in my medicine cabinet, which are pre-pandemic, ten masks, latex free.
They are from one of the leading pharmacy companies in the USA.
On the back of the box, under the heading “WARNING”
“This mask does not remove the risk of contracting any disease or infection”.
They are cone type, surgical masks, not M95 grade, paper masks, commonly used in surgery prior to the pandemic.
I just wanted to document the warning about masks, not removing the risk of infection.
They were “MADE IN CHINA”, 100% satisfaction guaranteed, 2012.
That doesn’t mean you shouldn’t wear a face mask of some sort.
They may reduce transmission.
It likely depends on the environment, whether in a crowd, inside or outside.
It’s just that the pre-pandemic information stated that masks don’t remove the risk of infection.

Bikinis not Burkas
Bikinis not Burkas
3 years ago

Thailand 69 million people small land area & only 59 deaths from COVID-19.
Thai culture includes social distancing.
Don’t touch and the virus dies as it can’t get a new host, simple!

david james
david james
3 years ago

Following the science means following that which is proven by/ demonstrated by SCIENCE. It does NOT mean following everything that is merely CLAIMED to be “science” simply by use of the word! Liars do this as a matter of course! Even a “scientist’s claim” does NOT equate to “proven science”. It’s common for scientists to disagree on a claim that has NOT been established ACCORDING TO SCIENCE!

Don39
Don39
3 years ago
Reply to  david james

Science is not science if it includes politics and disregards the factors of mass human error!

Don39
Don39
3 years ago

Though it might be considered an honor to be blocked by TWITTER, it is a crime against humanity and the Constitution for them to do it and they should be shut down or relegated to the third world! They are damned and should be damned!

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