Bhattacharya is a right-wing academic hack, associated with Stanford's right-wing Hoover Institution. This is what happens when you substitute ideological bias for academic rigor in higher ed and every academic needs to fight that, whether the bias comes from the right, left, or center.
BHATTACHARYA: We have to reestablish trust in public health. If you just double down on the same, we're not gonna change it
CASSIDY: Now we have a measles outbreak among those who did not trust. To further cast doubt upon the vaccines for no scientific reason - that's not gonna increase trust
Feb 3, 2026 16:54dude....we are consumers of healthcare...not patients.