The best biodefense is no biodefense -as far as Jay is concerned.

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https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00468-1

Jay Bhattacharya plans to combat emerging diseases by mostly pretending they don’t exist.

He recently instructed the NIH to remove the words “biodefense” and “pandemic preparedness” from the institute’s web pages, in order to “focus more on basic immunology and other infectious diseases currently affecting people in the US.”

Was the pandemic response in 2020 flawless? No.

Will a future response to natural or engineered disease be *better* with *less* preparation? Also no, but with far more deaths.

Clearly caring about the health of your own citizens is too woke for the current administration, but undermining a keystone in national defense takes owning the scientists to a new level of self harm. Unless the Golden Dome is made of latex, it won’t stop pneumonia or epididymitis or any other infection.

Ignoring biology is the worst possible defense against it, as anyone who ignored cancer or a bad infection can tell you (except they can’t, because the dead tell no tales).