Coronavirus
Nick Gillespie | From the August/September 2024 issue
Jay Bhattacharya is a professor of health policy and economics at Stanford University and a co-author of the Great Barrington Declaration, which rejected COVID-19 lockdowns in favor of focused protection of older Americans and other high-risk groups. Bhattacharya is now involved in a high-profile lawsuit before the Supreme Court, alleging that the government improperly pressured social media platforms to censor scientific opinions that deviated from official narratives. Reason's Nick Gillespie sat down with him in May at Reason Weekend in Boston.
Q: You're originally from India, but you grew up here. What did it feel like when you first read that you were on a blacklist at the government's behest?
A: It was surreal. The American civic religion is free speech. Blacklists are a thing of the past. That could never happen in modern America. To see my........