{"id":1273744,"date":"2022-02-05T11:53:47","date_gmt":"2022-02-05T16:53:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1273744"},"modified":"2022-02-05T11:54:12","modified_gmt":"2022-02-05T16:54:12","slug":"maher-a-lot-of-covid-misinformation-was-from-the-medical-establishment-they-havent-earned-monopoly-status-on-information","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/maher-a-lot-of-covid-misinformation-was-from-the-medical-establishment-they-havent-earned-monopoly-status-on-information\/","title":{"rendered":"Maher: &#039;A Lot of&#039; COVID Misinformation Was from the Medical Establishment, They Haven&#039;t Earned &#039;Monopoly Status on Information&#039;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">36<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmaher-a-lot-of-covid-misinformation-was-from-the-medical-establishment-they-havent-earned-monopoly-status-on-information%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1273744&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Maher68b-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>On Friday\u2019s broadcast of HBO\u2019s \u201cReal Time,\u201d host Bill Maher discussed things about the coronavirus that the medical establishment has gotten wrong before wondering, \u201chow much wrong do you get to be while still holding the default setting for people who represent the science?\u201d And said that \u201cfree speech has allowed people to hear misinformation sometimes. And a lot of it\u201d was from the medical establishment.<\/p>\n<p>Maher said, \u201cWhen people ask me, why are you so skeptical of what the medical establishment tells us? I say, because I\u2019ve seen them react to a virus before. By 1987, CDC officials pretty much knew how HIV was spreading and who was in danger. Now, of course, there\u2019s no moral dimension to this. \u2026 But science can be arbitrary, and instead of being precise and focusing on who should be protected, we launched a fear campaign about how AIDS was going to explode into the heterosexual community. Oprah Winfrey summed up what people were hearing when she <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/news\/ct-xpm-1998-02-13-9802130015-story.html\">said<\/a>, \u2018Research studies now project\u2026one in five heterosexuals could be dead from AIDS\u2026by 1990.\u2019 But that didn\u2019t happen, and the upshot of bad information was that in the late 1980s, low-risk Americans were swamping testing facilities and diverting our attention and energy away from the truly at-risk. New York in 2020 learned the hard way how much better precision would have been in prioritizing protecting the nursing homes. Contrary to popular lore, COVID is not Russian roulette. Of course, any virus, any thing, can kill anyone at any time. But we know who COVID kills. \u2026 If you\u2019re obese and unvaccinated, or 85 and still crowd-surfing at music festivals, yes, this will likely go badly for you. But at some point, that has to stop being my responsibility. Doesn\u2019t it make more sense to focus on helping the vulnerable stay safe and let the rest of us go back to living normal lives?\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>After criticizing school mask policies, Maher stated, \u201cA <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox5dc.com\/news\/johns-hopkins-study-shows-lockdowns-only-reduced-covid-19-death-rate-by-2\">study<\/a> this week from a professor at Johns Hopkins concluded that the lockdowns we all suffered through had little impact in reducing COVID deaths. Okay, that\u2019s kind of a big one to get wrong. Last July, President Biden <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politifact.com\/factchecks\/2021\/jul\/22\/joe-biden\/biden-exaggerates-efficacy-covid-19-vaccines\/\">said<\/a>, \u2018You\u2019re not going to get COVID if you have these vaccinations.\u2019 Well, I already knew that was wrong then, and now we all do. The former Director of the CDC, Robert Redfield, believes COVID originated in a lab, and now our intelligence agencies agree, it might have. But for months on social media, it was banned to even discuss it. Look, I\u2019m not saying the medical establishment isn\u2019t trying to figure shit out, or that they\u2019re corrupt \u2014 although there is some of that. But how about just wrong? Wrong a lot. Wrong about HIV, wrong about lockdowns, wrong about kids, wrong about how you couldn\u2019t get it if you were vaccinated. Remember washing our packages? And there\u2019s never been any research showing that outdoor transmission is likely or common, yet L.A. County says we\u2019re still supposed to mask up for big outdoor events, like we\u2019ll be at the Super Bowl. \u2026 I\u2019m just asking, how much wrong do you get to be while still holding the default setting for people who represent the science? Eat eggs, then don\u2019t, then do. Take aspirin, then don\u2019t, then do. The food pyramid, really? Bread and milk every day? Okay, you do you. Fifteen years ago, they were recommending trans fats. Now, they\u2019re illegal, just like almost a hundred prescription drugs which were once called safe and effective and then yanked off the market because they were not.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>He concluded, \u201cIt reminds me of how the Republicans are constantly doing traitorous things like trying to steal elections and inviting the Russians into the Oval Office and somehow, are still known as the party of patriotism. We\u2019ve had this problem in medicine for a long time. The same people who, in private care, always say, get a second opinion, want to allow only one in the public debate. But plainly, the medical-industrial complex has not earned the right to claim monopoly status on information about this virus or medicine in general. Yes, free speech has allowed people to hear misinformation sometimes. And a lot of it was yours.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Follow Ian&nbsp;Hanchett on Twitter&nbsp;<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IanHanchett\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">@IanHanchett<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday\u2019s broadcast of HBO\u2019s \u201cReal Time,\u201d host Bill Maher discussed things about the coronavirus that the medical establishment has gotten wrong before wondering, \u201chow much wrong do you get &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1273744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1273744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1273744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1273744\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1273744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1273744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1273744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}