A group of four medical experts wrote a letter to The New York Times Thursday demanding corrections on several claims made about President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to lead the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Jay Bhattacharya.
Drs. Martin Kulldorff, Bryce E. Nickels, Anish Koka and Kevin Bass pointed out five alleged errors made by opinion columnist Zeynep Tufekci’s op-ed titled, “Trump’s Pick to Lead the N.I.H Gets Some Things Right,” urging the Times to correct their “false and misleading claims.” The piece accused Bhattacharya of wrongly estimating the death toll caused by the coronavirus, of overestimating how many people had recovered from the virus and claiming that vaccinating the entire population can cause harm.
“Dr. Zeynep Tufekci’s November 27, 2024, editorial, ‘Trump’s Pick to Lead the N.I.H Gets Some Things Right’ (Tufekci 2024),…
