Two authors of the anti-lockdown Great Barrington Declaration and a former White House COVID-19 adviser have joined a new Hillsdale College educational center based in Washington, D.C.
The Academy for Science and Freedom will "educate the American people about the free exchange of scientific ideas and the proper relationship between freedom and science in the pursuit of truth," the private college that refuses taxpayer funding said in a press release.
Hillsdale President Larry Arnn said the "silencing of scientific inquiry in favor of policies absolutely hostile to freedom" is a defining feature of the response to the pandemic. His institution, founded by abolitionists and open to blacks and women from the start, turned 177 last week.
Two of the academy's three founding fellows are affiliated with Stanford University's Hoover Institution: Scott Atlas, whose new book promises "behind the scenes" details about President Trump's coronavirus task force, and Jay Bhattacharya, a medical professor who co-wrote the declaration. His co-author Martin Kulldorff, of Harvard Medical School, is the other fellow.
