Scott W. Atlas has served as professor and chief of neuroradiology at Stanford University Medical Center. He has been a “health policy scholar for over 15 years” and a “professor at elite universities for 30 years.” He serves as an ad hoc member of the Nominating Committee for the Nobel Prize in Medicine and Physiology.
He writes, “…I am shocked and dismayed that so many faculty members at these universities are now dangerously intolerant of opinions contrary to their favored narrative.”
He writes, “I also fear that the idea of science as a search for truth—a search utilizing the empirical scientific method—has been seriously damaged. Even the world’s leading scientific journals—‘The Lancet,’ ‘New England Journal of Medicine,’ ‘Science,’ and ‘Nature’—have been contaminated by politics. What is more concerning, many in the public and in the scientific community have become fatigued by the arguments—and fatigue will allow fallacy to triumph over truth.”
What Dr. Atlas has expressed ought to concern all people who love and value the free pursuit of academic and scientific truth, as well as, all those who value freedom of speech. This is not about an allegiance to the right or the left, politically, this is about a commitment to genuine freedom and truth. It is serious and it is important.
