Rick Bright’s Whistleblower Complaint Put the Hydroxychloroquine Chaos on the Record
On May 5, a whistleblower complaint from Rick Bright, the former BARDA director, made the administration’s pandemic infighting look a lot uglier. Bright said he was pushed aside after resisting pressure to funnel attention toward hydroxychloroquine and other politically favored moves instead of evidence-based planning. The complaint turned a long-rumored mess into a documented one: science got shoved around, and the people trying to keep it upright got sidelined. That is a bad look in any administration; during a pandemic, it is worse than a bad look.
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Rick Bright’s Whistleblower Complaint Put the Hydroxychloroquine Chaos on the Record
On May 5, a whistleblower complaint from Rick Bright, the former BARDA director, made the administration’s pandemic infighting look a lot uglier. Bright said he was pushed aside after resisting pressure to funnel attention toward hydroxychloroquine and other politically favored moves instead of evidence-based planning. The complaint turned a long-rumored mess into a documented one: science got shoved around, and the people trying to keep it upright got sidelined. That is a bad look in any admin…
On May 5, a whistleblower complaint from Rick Bright, the former BARDA director, made the administration’s pandemic infighting look a lot uglier. Bright said he was pushed aside after resisting pressure to funnel attention toward hydroxychloroquine and other politically favored moves instead of evidence-based planning. The complaint turned a long-rumored mess into a documented one: science got shoved around, and the…
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