{"id":2359641,"date":"2024-10-25T14:31:01","date_gmt":"2024-10-25T18:31:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/vote-on-trump-covid-19-adviser-censure-delayed-over-election-politics-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2024-10-25T14:31:57","modified_gmt":"2024-10-25T18:31:57","slug":"vote-on-trump-covid-19-adviser-censure-delayed-over-election-politics-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/vote-on-trump-covid-19-adviser-censure-delayed-over-election-politics-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"Vote on Trump COVID-19 adviser censure delayed over election politics- Washington Examiner"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/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%2Fvote-on-trump-covid-19-adviser-censure-delayed-over-election-politics-washington-examiner%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=2359641&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--><p>Stanford\u2064 University&#8217;s \u2064Faculty Senate \u2063has\u200c decided to\u200d postpone the \u200bvote on \u200bwhether to \u2063rescind the censure of \u200dDr. Scott Atlas, a former adviser to Donald\u2064 Trump, until November 21, after the\u2063 2024 elections. This decision arose from concerns \u200bthat holding the vote\u200d now could be viewed\u200b as a political maneuver during the election period. Atlas was censured in 2020 for his controversial views \u2063on COVID-19, including his\u2063 criticism\u2063 of lockdowns and questioning the effectiveness of masks. \u200dSome faculty members,\u2062 including Stanford Professor \u2064Jayanta Bhattacharya, argue that rescinding the censure is not a political \u2063act but a\u200b restoration of\u2063 academic freedom. Others, like Professor Steven Goodman, have \u2063cautioned that a vote taken close to the elections might be misinterpreted and could impact the university&#8217;s reputation\u2063 regarding \u2062neutrality in political matters.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Stanford delays vote to rescind Scott Atlas censure until after Election Day<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_1845024\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>Stanford&rsquo;s Faculty Senate delayed voting on whether it should rescind its censure of a top adviser to former President <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/donald-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Donald Trump<\/a> because the timing of the vote could be interpreted as a political move.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>Dr. Scott Atlas, the Robert Wesson Senior Fellow in health policy at the Hoover Institution of Stanford University, was punished with a censure by his colleagues in 2020 due to his role in advising Trump on his COVID-19 policy. The Senate determined Thursday it should delay the vote on whether to rescind the censure until Nov. 21, more than two weeks after the <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/2024-elections\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">2024 elections<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Stanford Professor Jayanta Bhattacharya has publicly questioned this decision on the basis that &ldquo;rescinding censure is not a political act,&rdquo; but one meant to restore the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-notorious-liar-tries-to-recover-from-debate-disaster-by-telling-crowd-what-i-do-know-is-how-to-tell-the-truth\/\" title=\"Biden, Notorious Liar, Tries to Recover From Debate Disaster By Telling Crowd &#039;What I Do Know Is How To Tell The Truth&#039;\">school&#038;rsquo<\/a>;s &ldquo;commitment to the academic freedom of its faculty&rdquo; after Atlas was censured for sharing <a href=\"https:\/\/news.stanford.edu\/stories\/2020\/10\/academic-freedom-questions-arise-campus-covid-19-strategy-conflicts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">alleged<\/a> &ldquo;falsehoods and misrepresentations of science.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Atlas was censured in 2020 after he criticized COVID-19 lockdowns, questioned the efficacy of masks during the pandemic, and espoused a number of views that did not align with his peers. On Sept. 9, 2020, the Stanford School of Medicine published an <a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/130OXUjdnwHmfmbiEZWK9d354QHaRi0-r\/view\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">open letter<\/a> signed by about 100 faculty criticizing Atlas. The following day, Stanford professor Steven Goodman published an op-ed castigating his &ldquo;pseudo-expertise&rdquo; and arguing he was &ldquo;providing bad epidemiological advice to President Trump&rdquo; during the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/live-blog\/2024-election-campaign-live-updates-harris-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">2024 ELECTIONS LIVE UPDATES: LATEST NEWS ON THE TRUMP-HARRIS PRESIDENTIAL RACE<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>According to the <em>Stanford Report<\/em>, Goodman argued that the vote to rescind Atlas&rsquo;s censure should take place after the election, citing concerns that holding it this close to the election could &ldquo;lead to the action being misinterpreted or used for political purposes.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;It will be taken as a direct rebuke of our <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">medical school faculty<\/a>,&rdquo; Goodman warned. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s naive to believe anything else, so if we take exactly the same action in a month, it won&rsquo;t have any less impact on our internal processes.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The <em>Washington Examiner<\/em> reached out to Goodman for clarification on how rescinding Atlas&rsquo;s censure relates to the election.<\/p>\n<p>Bhattacharya <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/DrJBhattacharya\/status\/1849614850269548917\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">posted<\/a> about the argument to postpone the vote on X. <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Some faculty argued that rescinding the censure will send a political signal in favor of Trump in the upcoming election,&rdquo; he posted. &ldquo;This is a tacit admission that the original vote to censure in 2020 was also an act of political interference, against Trump, violating any pretense of Stanford&rsquo;s commitment to institutional neutrality.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Update: The <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Stanford?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@stanford<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/stanford-university-is-trying-to-silence-a-conservative-think-tank-because-the-liberal-community-disagrees-with-their-opinions\/\" title=\"Stanford University Is Trying To Silence A Conservative Think Tank Because The Liberal Community Disagrees With Their Opinions\">faculty senate<\/a>, by a single vote, decided to punt the vote to rescind the 2020 censure of Scott Atlas until next month. <\/p>\n<p>The reason? Some faculty argued that rescinding the censure will send a political signal in favor of Trump in the upcoming election.&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/hNeKFitX4Z\">https:\/\/t.co\/hNeKFitX4Z<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Jay Bhattacharya (@DrJBhattacharya) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DrJBhattacharya\/status\/1849614850269548917?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 25, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>    <\/p>\n<p>He also <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/DrJBhattacharya\/status\/1849678541191000146\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">argued<\/a> that the 2020 &ldquo;attack on Scott was very clearly politically motivated,&rdquo; noting the timing of the Stanford medical school open letter coming before the election. <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Or else why single him out in particular and not me? Both the minutes from the meeting and many many private conversations I had with faculty made that clear,&rdquo; Bhattacharya said.<\/p>\n<p>The <em>Washington Examiner<\/em> reached out to Bhattacharya for comment.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\"><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Stanford Faculty Senate&rsquo;s censure of Atlas was a symbolic condemnation with no direct penalties. However, it can be seen as undermining Trump&rsquo;s pandemic response, given that Atlas was one of his COVID-19 advisers.<\/p>\n<p>The <em>Washington Examiner<\/em> reached out to Atlas and Stanford for comment.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_1845024\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"1845024\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stanford postpones vote on Scott Atlas censure until after elections<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2670,"featured_media":2359642,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/scott-atlas-donald-trump.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[4205,4033,3774,35814,3634],"class_list":["post-2359641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner","tag-adviser","tag-censure","tag-covid-19","tag-election-politics","tag-trump"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/scott-atlas-donald-trump.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2359641","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\/2670"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2359641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2359641\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2359642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2359641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2359641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2359641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}