Mon Dec 13, 2021 – 4:24 pm EST
WASHINGTON, D.C. (LifeSiteNews) — Leading COVID contrarians have joined conservative Hillsdale College in creating the Academy for Science and Freedom (AFS).
The center, based at the Michigan college’s D.C. campus, will “promote and facilitate the free exchange of scientific ideas.”
The Christian college, famous for its conservative curriculum and rejection of government aid, founded the AFS to fight the “recent and widespread abuses of individual and academic freedom made in the name of science.”
Its three initial fellows are Stanford University’s Dr. Scott Atlas, former COVID adviser to President Donald Trump, Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, also of Stanford University, and Dr. Martin Kulldorff of Harvard University and the Brownstone University.
The three are known for being part of a group of scientists and public health officials who challenged the mainstream narrative on COVID, lockdowns and other measures taken by politicians.
Atlas and Bhattacharya drafted the “Great Barrington Declaration” that urged an end to broad lockdowns in favor of “focused protection.”
“The pandemic exposed grave problems with the essential functioning of science, research and debate,” Atlas said in the news release. “Instead of open and free discourse to seek the scientific truths underlying urgently needed solutions, we have seen silencing, censoring, and intimidation of those whose interpretations differed
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