“Dissent is the very essence of science.” Was the Great Barrington Declaration right, after all? On its fourth anniversary, one of its authors says it was Bhattacharya, President Donald Trump’s pick ...

There is little doubt that we might have handled the COVID pandemic better. However, the question of whether the approach by those writing the Barrington Declaration would have fared better remains ...

Senate Republicans seem to be cruising toward confirming as the director of the National Institutes of Health an academic who made a huge mistake about the most serious health crisis to confront the ...

A few days before, Jay Bhattacharya, a professor of health policy at Stanford University, had, with two others, put out a statement—the Great Barrington Declaration—calling for looser public-health ...

He is perhaps best known for his co-authorship of the October 2020 Great Barrington Declaration, which criticized school closures and society-wide restrictions and instead argued for a strategy of ...

Dr. Bhattacharya, a distinguished professor at Stanford University and a co-author of the Great Barrington Declaration, has been a consistent advocate for evidence-based policymaking, particularly ...

Bhattacharya gained public attention as one of three authors of the Great Barrington Declaration, an October 2020 open letter maintaining that pandemic shutdowns were causing irreparable harm and ...

Dr. Jay Bhattacharya was one of the lead authors of the “Great Barrington Declaration,” a 2020 open letter that called on public health officials to roll back Covid lockdowns.