Martin Kulldorff

Martin Kulldorff is a fringe epidemiologist and biostatistician crank from Lund, Sweden who claims he was fired from his professorship of 20 years at for his co-authorship of the pseudo-scientific COVID denialist Great Barrington Declaration.Dr. Martin Kulldorff, Who Posted Pictures of Guillotines and Promised Herd Immunity Would Arrive 3-6 Months After Lockdowns Ended, Fired for “Clinging to the Truth”, by Jonathan Howard, Science-Based Medicine, March 12, 2024Swedish scientist - who compared masking children to Taliban's human rights abuses - claims he was fired from Harvard for championing his home country's anti-lockdown approach during Covid, by Stacey Libertore, Daily Mail, March 13, 2024 He has subsequently found work as senior scientific director for the declaration's "spiritual child" the Brownstone InstituteNew Institute Has Ties to the Great Barrington Declaration, by Amanda D'Ambrosio, MedPage Today, November 11, 2021 and as a founding fellow of the Academy for Science and Freedom at the Christian far-right Hillsdale College."Hillsdale College Opens New Academy for Science and Freedom", press release, Hillsdale College, December 10, 2021
==I do declare!==
In October 2020, Kulldorff co-authored the highly controversial Great Barrington Declaration, with colleagues and calling for the promotion of herd immunity through infection by lifting all restrictions on lower-risk groups whilst shielding the more vulnerable before vaccines rolled out. The declaration, which was sponsored by Koch-funded libertarian think tank the (AIER) and published as an open letter, was roundly rejected by scientific and political consensus, with one of Kulldorff's Harvard colleagues apparently equating it with exorcism to expel demons.
Kulldorff's promotional tour for the declaration included an ill-advised appearance on the October 6, 2020, episode of a radio program with links to the far right that has featured Holocaust deniers and antisemites, although Kulldorff claims to have been unaware of its reputation and does not seem to share such beliefs. Anti-lockdown advocate appears on radio show that has featured Holocaust deniers, The Guardian, Oct 19, 2020
During the pandemic Kulldorff offered sage council to such famously well-informed policy makers as President Donald Trump and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis. He entertained the Twitterverse by drawing parallels between fascism and Faucism (referring to immunologist threatening public health officials with the guillotine, and comparing the masking and lockdown of children to the treatment of women under the Taliban. And, most famously, he predicted that the enactment of his wild schemes would bring the pandemic to an end within 3–6 months.
==Institutionalized==
Shortly after its foundation by former AIER director in May 2021, Kulldorff went to work alongside Bhattacharya and Gupta, as senior scientific director for the Brownstone Institute, which was described by its founder as the "spiritual child" of the Great Barrington Declaration. And in December 2021, Kulldorff and Bhattacharya were appointed alongside fellow COVID denialists as the founding fellows of the new Academy for Science and Freedom at the Christian far-right Hillsdale College. 
Kulldorff's claim he was fired from his professorship of 20 years at , is diputed by the university's chief communications officer, who clarified that his professorship had been based on his employment by an independent Boston hospital with which the university had an affiliation agreement and that the termination of that employment was outside of their control.
In an apparent attempt to ingratiate himself with the incoming Trump 2.0 administration (which included his old comrade Bhattacharya as Director of the National Institutes of Health), Kulldorff penned an op-ed with the blatantly ludicrous central thesis that anti-vax crank Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (tapped to be US Secretary of Health and Human Services) was the ideal person restore public trust in vaccination. Specifically, he writes in support of RFK Jnr’s plan to conduct randomized placebo-controlled vaccine trials, trials which Science-Based Medicine’s Jonathan Howard classifies as “an impossible, unethical study of dubious value that’s not meant to be taken seriously.”
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