====== Challenging the COVID-19 Narratives ======

===== Leadership and Organizations Challenging the Narratives =====
  * [[covid-19_pandemic:Challenging the Narratives:Academics Challenging the Narratives]]
  * [[covid-19_pandemic:Challenging the Narratives:Athletes Challenging the Narratives]]
  * [[covid-19_pandemic:Challenging the Narratives:Doctors and Healthcare Workers Challenging the Narratives]]
  * [[covid-19_pandemic:Challenging the Narratives:Journalists Challenging the Narratives]]
  * [[covid-19_pandemic:Challenging the Narratives:Legislators Challenging the Narratives]]
  * [[covid-19_pandemic:Challenging the Narratives:Scientists Challenging the Narratives]]
  * [[covid-19_pandemic:Challenging the Narratives:Other Leaders Challenging the Narratives]]
  * [[covid-19_pandemic:Challenging the Narratives:Citizens Challenging the Narratives]]


==== Attacks on Physicians, Scientists, and Others Not Cooperating With the Narrative ====
During the [[:COVID-19 pandemic]], there have been a disturbing number of incidents in which physicians, scientists, academics, and other professionals not cooperating with the narratives pushed by many governments, corporations, and public health agencies. Many of these incidents would ordinarily call for investigations, but many have been actively ignored. Collectively, they tell the story of authorities denying and suppressing truth.

  * [[https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/university-fires-dr-francis-christian-covid-vaccines-kids/|June 24, 2021]] [[:Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms]] via [[:The Defender]]: University Fires Surgeon Who Voiced Safety Concerns About [[:COVID Vaccines]] for kids.
    * "Dr. [[Francis Christian]], a practicing surgeon and clinical professor of general surgery at the [[:University of Saskatchewan]], was suspended effective September 2021 after he released a statement to 200 doctors expressing concerns about giving the COVID shots to children."
  * [[https://rescue.substack.com/p/the-despicable-defamation-of-a-lifesaving|Dec 8, 2021]] The Despicable Defamation of a Lifesaving Doctor
  * [[https://aaronkheriaty.substack.com/p/farewell-university-of-california?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&utm_source=direct|Dec 17, 2021]] Farewell, [[:University of California]].
    * Dr. [[:Aaron Kheriarty]] tells the story of how he was fired for refusing to take an experimental COVID-19 vaccine after challenging the UC COVID-19 vaccine mandate.
  * [[https://thecovidworld.com/israeli-ministry-of-health-responds-to-dr-robert-malones-viral-video-he-is-the-most-prominent-fake-news-distributor/|Dec 20, 2021]] [[:The COVID World]]: [[:Israeli Ministry of Health]] Responds to Dr. [[:Robert Malone]]'s Viral Video: "He is the most prominent [[:fake news]] distributor"
    * "In an unprecedented move, the Israeli Ministry of Health has issued a long-winded condemnation of Dr. Robert Malone following his warning about the use of COVID-19 vaccines in children. His video has subsequently gone viral in Israel sparking a venomous reaction by the health agency."
      * Says that Malone is not the inventor of [[:mRNA vaccine]] technology.
  * [[https://roundingtheearth.substack.com/p/the-art-of-gaslighting-argument-by|Dec 22, 2021]] [[:Rounding the Earth]]: The Art of Gaslighting: Argument by Distant Denigration.
    * Tells the story of how [[:Francis Collins]] planned an attack on the [[:Great Barrington Declaration]] along with Dr. [[:Anthony Fauci]], then denigrated its authors, Dr. [[:Jay Bhattacharya]], Dr. [[:Sunetra Gupta]], and Dr. [[:Martin Kulldorff]] without serious discussion of the points they made.
    * Tells the story of how the [[:Los Angeles Times]] belittled the stories of Dr. [[:Brian Tyson]] and Dr. [[:George Fareed]] after their presentation with the Imperial County, California City Council without even mentioning their immense track record treating patients.
    * [[https://stevekirsch.substack.com/p/how-rfk-jr-went-from-a-good-guy-to|Dec 22, 2021]] [[:Steve Kirsch]] writes: How [[:Robert F. Kennedy Jr.]] went from "a good guy" to an "anti-vaxxer"
      * Documents how RFK Jr. got involved in reading research about vaccines, and became alarmed at what he found. When he tried to stand up for people being harmed, he was villified.