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Trump’s New Coronavirus Adviser is a Dangerous Quack Who Must Be Fired
Urge Congress to declare that Trump’s new Coronavirus adviser, Dr. Scott Atlas, is a dangerous quack who must be fired immediately.
As reported in The New York Times:
- Scott Atlas has questioned the science for wearing masks.
- He has pushed against testing people who don't show COVID-19 symptoms, even though we know that people without symptoms can be the biggest spreaders of this pandemic.
- He has called for the kind of conservative approach to the pandemic that Sweden has already tried -- to disastrous effect.
Scott Atlas is not an epidemiologist nor an infectious disease expert. But he does appear a lot on Fox News. And that’s why Donald Trump likes him.
This kind of bogus analysis is killing thousands of people across the United States. Urge Congress to declare that Scott Atlas is a dangerous quack who should not be advising the U.S. response to the pandemic.
Why is this important?
America is failing in our fight to stop the Coronavirus pandemic. That’s because Donald Trump is a dangerous and narcissistic president who surrounds himself with people who tell him what he wants to hear.
As a consequence, the U.S. Coronavirus death toll is far higher than it could have been. Many thousands of people have died because of Trump’s bogus claims and war against science.
Scott Atlas is not an epidemiologist nor an infectious disease expert. But he does appear a lot on Fox News. Atlas even told notorious Fox News host Tucker Carlson, “There's no real good science on [the] general population, widespread in all circumstances, wearing masks.” This kind of bogus analysis is killing thousands of people across the United States.
Atlas is a fellow at the conservative Hoover Institution at Stanford. The Hoover Institution is funded by right-wing foundations and donors who have an anti-government agenda. The Hoover Institute's director is former Bush adviser Condoleeza Rice.
We must stop right-wing fringe voices like Scott Atlas and push for a rational public health strategy that stops the pandemic and protects the lives of people across our country.
SOURCES:
"A New Coronavirus Adviser Roils the White House With Unorthodox Ideas,” The New York Times, Sept. 2, 2020, authors Noah Weiland, Sheryl Gay Stolberg, Michael D. Shear and Jim Tankersley.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/02/us/politics/trump-scott-atlas-coronavirus.html
"Dr. Atlas on COVID mask message: 'Massive amount of fear, bordering on hysteria,'" Fox News, August 12, 2020.
“Condoleezza Rice Begins Work As Hoover Institution Director,” Hoover Institution, Stanford University, September 1, 2020. https://www.hoover.org/news/condoleezza-rice-begins-work-hoover-institution-director
Screenshot of Dr. Scott Atlas from Fox “News” used under Fair Use Doctrine.