This is a great read
Censorship and Suppression of Covid-19 Heterodoxy: Tactics and Counter-Tacticshttps://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11024-022-09479-4a few snips...
"Subsequently, e-mails released from legal proceedings have documented the ways in which government officials directly coordinated with tech companies like Twitter and Facebook to censor doctors, scientists and journalists (Lungariello and Chamberlain
2022; Ramaswamy and Rubenfeld
2022). In December 2021, an e-mail from the fall of 2020 was released via a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request. It revealed a behind-the-scenes effort by Francis Collins, then head of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), to his colleague, Anthony Fauci, head of NIAID, to discredit the Great Barrington Declaration and disparage its authors. In the email, Collins told Fauci that "this proposal from the three fringe epidemiologists … seems to be getting a lot of attention," adding that "there needs to be a quick and devastating published takedown of its premises. I don't see anything like that online yetis it underway?"
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Furthermore, the denial or silencing of contrary views can elicit public mistrust (Gesser-Edelsburg and Shir-Raz
2016; Wynne
2001). Studies have indicated that in situations of risk, especially risk that involves uncertainty, the public prefers full transparency of information, including different views, and that providing it does not raise negative reactions in terms of behaviour, but rather, helps reduce negative feelings and increases the public's respect for the risk-assessing agency (De Vocht et al.
2014; Lofstedt
2006; Slovic
1994). As Wynne (
2001) warns, institutional science's attempts to exaggerate its intellectual control and use knowledge as justification for policy commitments, while ignoring its limits, only alienates the public and increases mistrust.
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The present study is designed to explore the subjective perceptions of well-credentialed, highly accomplished mainstream doctors and scientists who have experienced censorship and/or suppression after expressing non-orthodox positions regarding the handling of the COVID-19 pandemic, and how they dealt with it. "