A Plague Upon Our House: My Fight at the Trump White House to Stop COVID from Destroying America by Scott W. Atlas, M.D. 352 pages, hardcover $23.49, Kindle $14.99, paperback $9.00
ISBN-13: 9781637582206 Bombardier Books, distributed by Simon and Schuster, 2021)
Scott W. Atlas, M.D. is a fifteen-year fellow in health care policy studies at the Hoover Institution of Stanford after an illustrious career as a neuroradiologist, with his last posting as chief of neuroradiology at Stanford Medical School. He is the editor of Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Brain and Spine — the leading textbook in the field, which has been translated into several languages, now in its fifth edition. He has written prolifically as an essayist and author on health care policy during his last fifteen-plus years at Hoover.
I first was impressed by Dr. Atlas when I read his April 2011 Commentary takedown of the United Nations comparative study of two hundred health care systems around the world that ranked the U.S. at 32nd, behind some real losers. Dr. Atlas's article, "Worst Study Ever," made his case for the socialist bias of the U.N. and World Health Organization with insight and eloquence, compelling me to send it to all my physician and non-physician colleagues. ...........
Dr. Atlas tells a first-person story in his own way: direct, plain, scholarly, a good man in a bureaucratic sausage-grinder, with Fauci the chief sausage-maker. Fauci, Birx, and Redfield are exposed as too incompetent, lazy, mendacious, or malevolent to do good research as compared to Dr. Atlas, so the contrast is vivid. For the reader, Dr. Atlas is our proxy and guide, a reasonable and blunt man trapped with dissemblers and self-serving narcissist bureaucrats in a realm where back-stabbing and betrayals abound.
Atlas repeatedly went to meetings as the only person prepared to talk the scientific studies to determine appropriate COVID mitigation and intervention. Fauci, Birx, and Redfield are exposed as marching in lockstep, covering for each other, and not serious scientists, unaware of the studies that show the lack of benefit of some of their pet mitigation actions, the negative impacts of lockdowns, school closings, mask mandates, and the inappropriate censorship and suppression of ambulatory early treatments.
"Fauci did not present scientific
research. ... I never heard him speak about his own critical analysis of
any published research studies." When Atlas argued against proposals
and statements from Fauci and Birx, he was never supported except after
the meetings. By the time Atlas was in D.C., it was too late to replace
the junk science, and Trump didn't have the nerve to stop the
Fauci-Birx-Media juggernaut........To Read More....
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