Elon Musk has met with a Stanford professor who was “blacklisted” by Twitter’s old management for questioning lockdowns.
Musk invited Dr. Jay Bhattacharya for a meeting at Twitter’s headquarters where the two apparently discussed the platform’s censorship practices and pandemic-related science.
Bhattacharya is an infectious diseases expert and the author of the Great Barrington Declaration.
In the declaration, thousands of scientists joined Bhattacharya in calling for a policy of herd immunity over lockdowns.
He was just one of the many experts who Twitter censored during the pandemic.
Bhattacharya explained that he visited Twitter HQ at Musk’s invitation.
He said he attended the meeting to learn more about the “blacklist” that he was placed on after he came out against shutting down society:
I spent the afternoon yesterday at Twitter HQ at the invitation of @elonmusk to find out more about the trend "blacklist" that twitter placed on me & more. A short thread on what I found out follows.
1/4— Jay Bhattacharya (@DrJBhattacharya) December 11, 2022
Twitter 1.0 rejected requests for verification by me and @MartinKulldorff. Each time the reasoning (never conveyed to us) was that we were not notable enough. They should have asked Francis Collins — he would have vouched for our standing as "fringe epidemiologists."
3/4— Jay Bhattacharya (@DrJBhattacharya) December 11, 2022
The renowned professor expressed gratitude to Musk for allowing him to investigate what went on.
Musk responded in kind, thanking Bhattacharya for his “adherence to science.”
Thank you for your rigorous adherence to science
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 11, 2022
Last month, the professor was one of the leading voices who encouraged Musk to expose Twitter’s previous censorship practices.
The single most important step that twitter could take to promote free speech is to release all the correspondence between twitter censors and government officials these past 3 years. Expose the government censorship regime, @elonmusk! https://t.co/HI33P6vtYx
— Jay Bhattacharya (@DrJBhattacharya) November 24, 2022
Musk has promised that details of how Twitter suppressed Covid information will be “coming bigtime.”
Oh it is coming bigtime …
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 11, 2022
As Slay News previously reported, Musk has been hinting that he may have information regarding Dr. Anthony Fauci, who led the push for lockdowns in the U.S.
In a Sunday morning post on Twitter, Musk declared: “My pronouns are Prosecute/Fauci.”
My pronouns are Prosecute/Fauci
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 11, 2022
Musk has continued to take shots at Fauci, the Chief Medical Advisor to President Joe Biden and director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID).
It’s unclear if Musk is referring to the GOP’s planned investigations or whether Fauci may be implicated in yet-to-be-published installments of the Twitter Files.
Bhattacharya has previously warned, “When you take a position that is at odds with the scientific clerisy, your life becomes a living hell.”
Speaking at the recent Academic Freedom Conference at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business, Bhattacharya, who previously described lockdowns as the most catastrophically harmful policy in “all of history,” and “the single worst public health mistake in the last 100 years,” noted “we have a high clerisy that declares from on high what is true and what is not true.”
He added that he has come to a conclusion that “academic freedom is dead.”
