An open letter to MIT President L. Rafael Reif
Shouldn't MIT be the country's leading defender of science? Today, MIT isn't asking any tough questions about the COVID vaccines and refuses to let people with dissenting views talk on campus.
Dear President Reif,
Nearly 24 years ago, I made a $2.5 million gift to MIT to aid in the construction of the Stata Center and in return, MIT named the Kirsch Auditorium in my honor.
Since that gift, I have never once requested to speak in the auditorium named after me.
Recently, however, I made such a request to speak about vaccine safety.
I was denied.
See Is science dead? and MIT does not want to entertain the possibility that they may have made a huge mistake for details.
Quite frankly, I was appalled that MIT is actively suppressing views that challenge mainstream thinking.
Science is supposed to embrace differing viewpoints from qualified individuals.
I am clearly qualified to represent the alternative viewpoint on COVID vaccine safety and efficacy. I’ve written over 300 articles on my Substack solely dedicated to the pandemic response and have been recognized by the Center for Countering Digital Hate as one of the top three authors in the US who challenge mainstream thinking. I am an MIT alumnus. I am a major donor to MIT. Or at least was a major donor.
Not allowing me to challenge the status quo thinking on the COVID vaccines is anti-science
MIT will not let me speak.
It seems that MIT will only allow students, staff, and faculty to hear only one side of the story on a topic that affects every member of the MIT community.
Is that wise? If there is a possibility that these mandated vaccines are unsafe, wouldn’t you want to know so that you can protect the members of the MIT community?
Who is defending science today?
Clearly it is not Harvard, MIT, or Stanford.
I texted Dr. Robert Malone recently to see which college campuses have invited him to speak. After all, Malone’s Joe Rogan podcast was the most listened to podcast of all time with well over 50M listeners. So clearly a lot of people are interested in his point of view.
Here’s how my conversation with Dr. Malone went:
It appears that Hillsdale College with their new Academy for Science & Freedom is taking the lead in this area.
Their web page shows that they understand exactly what is going on:
Instead of open and free discourse to seek the scientific truths underlying urgently needed solutions, the opposite way of thinking has taken hold. Scientists whose research and data interpretation differ from the desired narrative have been silenced, censored, and slandered. Academia and the research community, dominated by a single viewpoint, now actively engage in intimidation and false declarations of consensus, and they abuse the peer-review system for publishing findings. This intolerance has fostered a climate of fear and has inhibited other scientists and experts from contributing to the public discussion, effectively inducing self-censorship. This has severely damaged the environment for civil discourse, and consequently, it has become extremely difficult for the public to arrive at any objective understanding of facts.
I couldn’t agree more with this statement.
President Reif, we’d like to know whether you agree as well?
If you do agree, then why would I not be permitted to speak in my auditorium? Will you speak out publicly against this injustice?
An example
There are many examples of the corruption of science during the COVID pandemic.
The most stunning one to me is the silencing of Professor Peter Schirmacher.
Dr. Schirmacher is one of the top 100 pathologist in the world (he’s #67 on this list).
Dr. Schirmacher did a study of 40 people who died within 2 weeks after COVID vaccination and determined that at least 30% to 40% of those deaths were caused by the vaccine (see also Chief pathologist insists on more autopsies of vaccinated people). That’s a minimum. It could be far more than that, but he wasn’t able to conclusively prove that.
Other German researchers have independently replicated his findings (they found an even higher percentage of deaths that were highly likely caused by the vaccine):
When I tried to reach out to Dr. Schirmacher for more details, I was met with silence. Indeed, nothing has been heard from him since the news broken on his study.
How could that possibly be that to this day Schirmacher remains silent about his remarkable findings?
The answer to that question should be obvious. It is because he was silenced; they threatened his family if he spoke out about what he found. So he shut up like he was told.
This is not how science is supposed to work, is it? Fear and intimidation techniques should never be used to muzzle scientists, especially those scientists with information that could save hundreds of thousands of lives by revealing that the vaccines are unsafe and should be immediately stopped.
How did the scientific community react to the silencing of Dr. Schirmacher?
They ignored it of course.
Not a single member of the mainstream scientific community came to the aid of Dr. Schirmacher to condemn the fear and intimidation tactics that were used.
To this day, Dr. Schirmacher remains silent to protect his own life and the life of his family.
Is that how science is supposed to work?
Does the MIT faculty support fear and intimidation tactics against other scientists?
Did a single MIT faculty member speak out about this abuse?
Will any MIT faculty member come to his aid and say this is wrong, that no scientist should be intimidated in this manner?
Or is it my job, as a former MIT student, to denounce such abuse since MIT will not?
I have a proposal I’d like you to consider
It’s time to up the stakes.
I’d like you to invite my colleagues and me to come to MIT to challenge the mainstream narrative on the “safe and effective” vaccine and the science behind masks. We will also show that MIT’s COVID-19 policies are not supported by science.
We are happy to be challenged by members of the MIT community. That would be a refreshing change since all our attempts to have an open scientific debate on these topics have all been declined by those supporting the mainstream narrative. That’s not surprising to us since the facts don’t align with their narrative and nobody likes to be shown they are wrong in front of a live audience. Even a $1M offer just to come to the debate table was declined by members of the CDC and FDA outside committee members. Truly stunning. It shows that none of them want to be held accountable. They don’t want to answer any hard questions.
We’ll show up regardless of whether you are able to find anyone to challenge us. It’s fine if you reach out to Harvard as well.
The event should be held in Kresge Auditorium since it has nearly 4,000 seats (much larger than the 250-seat Kirsch Auditorium).
So the only question is: do you believe in open scientific debate or censorship?
I look forward to hearing your response to my proposal.
Sent via email to President Reif, Professor Robert Langer, and others. I will update this article with their response.
We now have an MIT faculty sponsor. It will be hard to stop this. Malone and others will join me. Calling RFK now.
Steve, I would like to help you. If president Reif wants someone he deems academically-qualified to speak who is also an M.I.T. graduate, I would like to join your team. I graduated in 1978 with a physics degree. I went on to medical school in Florida . I am now a surgeon. As for Covid chops, I have them in spades. I corrected the experts on 15 major misunderstandings they had during the two years. The biggest one was the 40x too high Infection Fatality Rate that got this whole thing started. If you watch my discussion with Dr. Jay Bhattacharya here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jM-ROTLKos8&t=9054s , you will see how I derived the correct IFR of .12% back on March 15, 2020 when the world believed it to be about 4%, particularly, the CDC, WHO, Imperial College epidemiologists, etc.. Upon realizing that governments were going to use their crazy numbers to instill enough fear into the population to accept destructive policies, I wrote two hosts at Fox (Carlson and Hannity) and two hosts at CNN (Cooper and Cuomo), asking for three minutes of their time to explain that the IFR is grossly exaggerated and that lockdowns not only wouldn't work, but that they would cause death and destruction on a biblical scale. This was only two days after President Trump announced that the government was considering putting us into lockdowns "but it will be over by Easter", if you remember that phrase. I never heard back from the TV hosts.
I also made a post on Facebook, on February 20, 2020, showing my statistical proof that the virus came from a lab. I showed this proof to Dr. Bhattacharya in the podcast above if you care to look at it. There are aspects of it that his molecular genetics colleagues have not heard about still, even though I have been presenting it in live lectures since October 2021. In other words, I was the first with the definitive proof on this topic of great importance. Several months ago, a molecular geneticist named Alina Chan of MIT's own Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, co-authored a book, VIRAL, in which she explored the origin of the virus, concluding that we may never know the origin. This book was published over a year after I proved, statistically, and later with evidence, that the virus came from a lab. The reason she didn't know this is because Facebook took down my post in under two hours way back in February of 2020. Youtube would later follow suit and remove a number of my videos, which were without a single error. In fact, I still cannot find a single error in my roughly 50 hours of videos covering the subject. Sometimes I can't believe it myself.
But as you say, being correct is not the criterion these First Amendment deniers are using to remove posts and videos.
I won't go over my other corrections but you can see a partial list here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iiWO1_RMZps&t=262s. Just think mask effectiveness, school closures, the vaccines conferring better immunity than getting the disease and recovering from it, the need to get the vaccine even if you've recovered from the disease, What the "95% efficient" claim made by the "Narrativists" really means- Boy, did I get a lot of flak for that one until six months later, when I was vindicated once again by an article in the LANCET confirming my reasoning and calculations exactly-, the issue of vaccines traveling to distant sites in the body (before the vaccines were distributed to the public), etc. etc. Aall of these are common knowledge now but at the time they were claimed, I was the only one who posted proof that the experts were wrong.
Incidentally, on the bona fides page of those videos, you'll see that I scored above 99% of my fellow surgeons on one of the Inservice exams administered by the American Board of Surgery (that is, if you or MIT want more proof of my command of this subject matter) and they should have no trouble looking up my transcripts as a physics '78 major there .
I, too, am disappointed in MIT's stance on the science censorship that has taken hold of my freedom to correct the Narrativists when their misunderstandings or ulterior motives is causing illness and death from this easily-treatable viral infection. I support what you are doing and strongly suggest you add me to your team. Ask the other team members if you are not familiar with my work or, again, watch this video in which I derive the correct NNTs of 119 and 84 for the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines, respectively, entitled "Don't Get the Vaccines Until You See This, Part 1" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RG7n1ZbDTww Thank you and there is no need to wish you good luck. You have science on your side.