‘Predetermined’: Mainstream Scientists Blame Media, Big Tech for Squelching COVID Debate

Challenging COVID-19 conventional wisdom has given some scientists their first meaningful interactions with journalists — and left them wary of the fourth estate, they told Hillsdale College’s Academy for Science and Freedom conference in D.C. last week.

Catherine Stein, an infectious disease epidemiologist at Ohio’s Case Western Reserve University, anonymously criticized the state’s COVID policy and personally contacted state lawmakers to share her skepticism, particularly on mask efficacy. “What blew my mind was the fear-mongering in the media,” she said.

A public records request unmasked Stein, and an Ohio political journal dubbed her a ” COVID-19 truther .” At that point she decided “I’m done being shy about this,” and given her Christian faith, Stein wrote a post for a Christian website, which invited more scrutiny.

A well-published scholar who had recently been promoted to full professor, Stein said her National Institutes of Health funding was threatened, her department had secret meetings […]

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