My missive to Mother Jones
Mother Jones magazine - like most of the left-liberal media - is more interested in trashing critics of the bungled war on covid than questioning the cozy link between Big Pharma and the FDA & CDC.
Mother Jones used to be a magazine that, despite its open leftwing tilt, idolizing of unions and hatred of the private sector, often practiced decent journalism. It used to be important and relevant, but like most magazines, that is no longer true.
It recently ran this biased and factually flawed article.
https://www.motherjones.com/.../the-truth-about-those.../
I wrote this comment, which MJ's moderators, as I predicted, did not share with its readers:
Here’s a comment I posted on Mother Jones’ web site in reaction to the article “The Truth About Those Viral Tweets Questioning the Omicron Boosters’ Safety — Contrarian physicians aren’t neutral sources of information.”
It unlikely that it will get past their moderators, so I’m putting it here. (It has not run as of Sept.17)
Was it so hard to google up the Great Barrington Declaration and give your readers a fair-minded and accurate summation of what it said and what it worried/warned about? Or that more than 900,000 doctors, scientists and regular people have signed it?
The Declaration made the perfectly sensible and now vindicated argument -- in October of 2020 -- that the government's highly politicized and clumsily fought war on covid 19 should focus its policies on the vulnerable people scientists knew (back then and now) were truly in serious danger from the virus: the very old, the already very sick, the very obese.
The GBD also warned, as did many reputable scientists and public health experts around the world, that "lockdowns are producing devastating effects on short and long-term public health. The results (to name a few) include lower childhood vaccination rates, worsening cardiovascular disease outcomes, fewer cancer screenings and deteriorating mental health – leading to greater excess mortality in years to come, with the working class and younger members of society carrying the heaviest burden. Keeping students out of school is a grave injustice."
Kind of prescient, kind of correct, I'd say.
Mother Jones is on the wrong side of this issue. It should devote its renowned journalism and anti-corporate animus to investigating the cozy and subservient relationship the FDA and CDC have with Big Pharma.
Instead of misrepresenting and demeaning the GBD and one of its authors, it ought to direct its ire at the near-totalitarian, often irrational and frequently harmful laws and rules that so many federal/state/local officials and power-hungry politicians passed in a hysterical effort to stop a virus that was never a threat to everyone everywhere and never justified closing schools, throwing the economy into a coma or destroying our social lives.
And please correct the mistake that the GBD was a product of the libertarian think tank American Institute for Economic Research. It wasn't.