The End of Free Speech Is the End of Science

Dr. Jay Battacharya — President-Elect Donald Trump’s choice to lead the National Institutes of Health during his second term — appeared at James Madison University earlier this year to discuss how our personal freedoms are intertwined with public health. Battacharya was an outspoken critic of the COVID-19 lockdowns and other protocols that stripped Americans of their constitutional freedoms in 2020 in the name of public health, pointing out all the ways science was distorted to achieve a political goal during that period.