All posts by Allison Neitzel

Allison Neitzel MD is a physician-writer who focuses on disinformation, dark money, and politics in public health with a focus on COVID-19, inspired by her medical school experience during the pandemic in Wisconsin.

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CommentaryCOVIDCritical Thinking

Bhattacharya for the CDC?

The Stanford health economist turned right-wing pandemic star could help take down academia and scientific institutions in a second Trump administration

/ November 3, 2024
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CommentaryCOVIDPolitics and Regulation

EcoHealth Alliance Fights Back

The organization scapegoated by the lab leak-promoting GOP-led House Covid subcommittee publishes its defense

/ October 31, 2024
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CommentaryCOVIDPolitics and Regulation

Hopkins Business School to Platform COVID-19 Contrarians at Health Policy Symposium

Drs. Jay Bhattacharya, Scott Atlas, and Marty Makary are also set to speak at Stanford next month

/ September 8, 2024
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CommentaryCOVIDScience and the Media

Great Barrington Declaration Author Joins COVID-19 Lab Leak-Pushing Group

Dr. Jay Bhattacharya and the merging of political pandemic narratives

/ August 24, 2024
CommentaryPolitics and RegulationPublic Health

Heritage Covid Commission Wants China Accountable… What About Trump?

The Heritage Foundation’s COVID-19 Commission Calls for Chinese “Accountability” for US Pandemic Damage

/ July 14, 2024
New York Times
CommentaryInternet & social mediaScience and the Media

The Lab Leak Theory and the Complicit Media

How the media's need for tales of intrigue and villains fosters the political weaponization of uncertainty

/ June 27, 2024
Hydroxychloroquine
Health FraudScience and MedicineVaccines

Repurposed to Radical: How drug repurposing created a global right-wing market for COVID early treatment fraud

A condensed timeline of the events, people, and far-right global politics that repurposed science and medicine to promote fake miracle cures for COVID-19 and spread deadly disinformation with a focus on the United States, France, and Brazil.

/ May 18, 2023