Twitter Removes Tweet From Trump's COVID Adviser Scott Atlas

Twitter is really pushing the envelope in its new censorship campaign.

Twitter removed a tweet from White House coronavirus task force member Dr. Scott Atlas who questioned the general use of face masks.

This is the removed Tweet:

Please understand, what Twitter is doing with this action is saying that the science has been determined and it understands the subject better than Scott Atlas M.D., who is the Robert Wesson Senior Fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution and was the Chief of Neuroradiology at Stanford University Medical Center from 1998 until 2012.

In an email to The Federalist, Atlas outlined the evidence behind his tweet.

In the deleted tweet, I cited the following evidence against general population masks:

1) Cases exploded even with mandates: Los Angeles County, Miami-Dade County, Hawaii, Alabama, the Philippines, Japan, the United Kingdom, Spain, France, Israel.

2)  Dr. Carl Heneghan, University of Oxford, director of the Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine and editor in chief of British Medical Journal Evidence-Based Medicine: ‘It would appear that despite two decades of pandemic preparedness, there is considerable uncertainty as to the value of wearing masks.’

(https://www.cebm.net/covid-19/masking-lack-of-evidence-with-politics/)

3) The WHO:  ‘The widespread use of masks by healthy people in the community setting is not yet supported by high quality or direct scientific evidence and there are potential benefits and harms to consider’  (http://bitly.ws/afUm)

4) The CDC: ‘Our systematic review found no significant effect of face masks on transmission of laboratory-confirmed influenza.’ (https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/26/5/19-0994_article).

I also cited an article giving detailed explanation of the reasons why masks might not prevent spread:  https://t.co/1hRFHsxe59

Meanwhile, while Twitter was removing Atlas tweets, the Federalist points out that Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey recently partied in the Hamptons maskless with Jay Z and Beyonce.

-RW