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“New Dark Age Cometh”: Nobel Prize Biochemist Cancelled for Covid-19 Wrongthink

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2013 Nobel Prize Winner and Stanford Professor Michael Levitt. By Bengt Nyman from Vaxholm, Sweden – Flickr: IMG_7539, CC BY 2.0, Link

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h/t James Delingpole / Brietbart; 2013 Nobel Prize winning Stanford Biophysicist Michael Levitt has been disinvited from bio-design conference, because other speakers threatened to quit rather than share a stage with a Covid-19 heretic.

Delingpole: Nobel Winner Michael Levitt Cancelled for Coronavirus Wrongthink

JAMES DELINGPOLE
20 Oct 2020

A Nobel Prize-winning chemist and Stanford professor has been cancelled for wrongthink on coronavirus.

Professor Michael Levitt, who won the Nobel prize for Chemistry in 2013, was due to be the keynote speaker in December at a virtual conference on his areas of special expertise – computational biology and biodesign.

But the First International Biodesign Research Conference withdrew his invitation – according to Levitt because they had received ‘too many calls’ from other speakers ‘threatening to quit’ because of his views on Chinese coronavirus. He has long maintained that the threat is overblown and that ‘we’re going to be fine.’

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Read more: https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/10/20/delingpole-nobel-winner-michael-levitt-cancelled-for-coronavirus-wrongthink/

Remember a few decades ago when it was OK to disagree with someone? How can science possibly progress if nobody is allowed to disagree, if any dissent from group think is punished by social exclusion and bullying?

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October 21, 2020 at 08:24AM