Dr. Scott Atlas resigns from Trump administration
Source: CNN
Washington (CNN)Dr. Scott Atlas, a highly controversial member of the White House's coronavirus task force, has resigned from his post in the Trump administration, according to a person who works with the task force.
The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
This story is breaking and will be updated.
Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/30/politics/scott-atlas-resigns-trump-administration-coronavirus-task-force/index.html
Good riddance!
lisa58
(5,755 posts)Cryptoad
(8,254 posts)calimary
(81,220 posts)But yeah. And sued for malpractice.
I used to know a couple of X-ray techs. Very skilled people. But neither of them would EVER presume to want to head a White House-level task force on a medical crisis that's so far outside their level of specialization or expertise.
azureblue
(2,146 posts)He got a warning from his professional org. The AMA or any of the other groups will issue a "quit it or we will call a hearing to decide if we should pull your license" .
grumpyduck
(6,232 posts)AZ8theist
(5,457 posts)With a chapter on blood letting...
grumpyduck
(6,232 posts)about leeches by now...
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BumRushDaShow
(128,895 posts)GOOD RIDDANCE!
ret5hd
(20,491 posts)Blue Owl
(50,352 posts)bullimiami
(13,086 posts)flibbitygiblets
(7,220 posts)He should be forced to work the makeshift morgues he helped create the necessity for
steve2470
(37,457 posts)2naSalit
(86,569 posts)Or on the teevee. Fucking asshole accomplice.
Judi Lynn
(160,524 posts)erronis
(15,241 posts)Is there any one actually positive?
Delarage
(2,186 posts)Seasider
(169 posts)Trump is gonna be outta there soon and theres no way Biden is going keep him on.
DesertRat
(27,995 posts)Faux pas
(14,668 posts)Too bad so many have sickened and died because of him and the hump. Another mass murderer to indict.
justgamma
(3,665 posts)You can't put the toothpaste back in the tube. His misinformation has already done it's dirty work.
Dark n Stormy Knight
(9,760 posts)replace the quack.
niyad
(113,275 posts)TheRickles
(2,058 posts)What term of service are you referring to?
TheRickles
(2,058 posts)From another DU post: "Atlas, who spoke with the president on Monday, joined the administration in August, and was considered a Special Government Employee (SGE), serving a 130-day detail. Atlas role is set to expire this week."
CottonBear
(21,596 posts)https://www.google.com/amp/s/bypass.theweek.com/speedreads-amp/861881/anthony-scaramucci-measures-time-mooches
JIM WATSON/AFP/Getty Images
Anthony Scaramucci is living in his own dimension.
In the short-lived White House communications director's world, time is measured in "Mooches:" Spans of 11 days, like the length of time he spent working for President Trump. And that's far from the only out-there idea Scaramucci shared with The Atlantic in an interview published Thursday.
A Mooch is defined as a "nonscientific term for a unit of time equal to 11 days, the length of Scaramucci's White House employment," The Atlantic writes. Its first documented use came from White House aides following Scaramucci's departure, but as he revealed in his Atlantic interview, Scaramucci uses the term too. Trump's Communications Director and Press Secretary Stephanie Grisham "has lasted way more 'Mooches' than me," Scaramucci notes, but added "I still have one over on her. I've done one more press conference than her."
TheRickles
(2,058 posts)GopherGal
(2,008 posts)give or take a tenth or two...
Evolve Dammit
(16,725 posts)JohnQFunk
(409 posts)where Beelzebub splitcha!
flibbitygiblets
(7,220 posts)"not loyal enough" or whatever?
LovingA2andMI
(7,006 posts)Scott Atlas is getting the hell out of dodge because he KNOWS by the NUMBERS of COVID cases, A LOT of PEOPLE are going to DIE and get REALLY SICK from COVID in December 2020 /January 2021 - in time for Christmas and the New Year.
Yes, he should be gone BUT we are in for a hell of a ride downwards.
stillcool
(32,626 posts)it's a CYA move. Getting out of Dodge while the getting's good. Donald will certainly put all those deaths around his neck.
not fooled
(5,801 posts)slink out of there before the numbers get much worse.
Coward--advocated for (unlikely) "herd immunity," but doesn't have the fortitude to be around to face the cameras when the predictable consequences--deaths--skyrocket.
COL Mustard
(5,897 posts)Apologies to any medical people on here!
Hip2bSquare
(291 posts)Even a broken clock is right twice a day... thanks for the phrase drumpf!
Now the real swamp drain begins.
Orrex
(63,203 posts)mdbl
(4,973 posts)What is his problem. He fit in so well with Dump.
Renew Deal
(81,856 posts)samsingh
(17,595 posts)splano
(10 posts)He's bailing now, knowing in a post-trump world he's going to need a job. He's only concerned with trying to hold on to what little reputation he has left at Stanford.
steve2470
(37,457 posts)It will be a travesty if he keeps his medical license.
samsingh
(17,595 posts)bronxiteforever
(9,287 posts)NCjack
(10,279 posts)Atlas Fugged got it exactly backwards. All of those victims dead to give Atlas and Trump their shot at being heroes and winners of the Nobel Prize.
NNadir
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NNadir
(33,514 posts)I don't, but no one with a sense of ethics can be unaware of the pernicious nature of the "Hoover Institution" - a cancer on the intelligentsia if ever there was one.
Of course, some great science has come out of the institution, but well, some very dubious behavior - as you rightly point out - has come out of there as well.
My personal disgust with the place is connected with this guy: Mark Z. Jacobson who wrote a rather idiotic paper in PNAS, of all places, claiming that the entire world could be 100% powered by so called "renewable energy."
A consortium of other scientists published a somewhat scathing criticism of that paper in the same journal, PNAS, (Evaluation of a proposal for reliable low-cost grid power with 100% wind, water, and solar Clack et al., PNAS, 2017 114 (26) 6722-6727) whereupon this tenured asshole filed a ten million dollar defamation suit against the journal and all of the authors, as detailed in the link above. (To the credit of Stanford, some of the critics were at that institution, and Stanford Nobel Laureate Burton Richter gently criticized another of this idiot anti-nuke's papers, too gently in my opinion.)
Stupid dogma of the type Jacobson writes actually kills people, and Jacobson, who has modeled deaths from air pollution early in his career is surprisingly unable to do simple math, including the obvious math of lives saved by the use of nuclear energy. (It involves nothing more sophisticated than addition and subtraction.) Either that or he believes that anyone who dies from exposure to radiation is more worthy of consideration than millions of people who die from inhaling dangerous fossil fuel waste. This is the moral attitude of an ethical Lilliputian, and it unsurprising that Stanford, which has a whole institute named for a former President which is sort of a breeding ground for moral Lilliputians, has a fool like this in its civil engineering department.
(I hope I don't get sued for saying this.)
I advised my son to stay away from "Ivy League" universities as an undergraduate, but to consider them for graduate school but I offered the caveat that among Ivy's, Stanford should be excluded. We'll see. He earned a free extra year of post graduate study at the institution he's at now, and I don't know what he'll decide to do thereafter. I don't think that Stanford has anything in which he's interested, which is a good thing.
A school of engineering with a person like Jacobson in it is worthless, clearly.
It looks and sounds like a very ugly place to me, and your comments further that impression.
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superheadshot19997
(16 posts)another incompetent gone
NBachers
(17,107 posts)bringthePaine
(1,728 posts)FormerDittoHead
(5,155 posts)Atlas should burn in hell.
Why step away now Scott, just before the climax of your greatest achievement?
Thanks to you, your dream of herd immunity is coming true. In a way.
With our hospitals filling up beyond their capacity, they'll be forced to turn patients away. (it's actually already happening)
People will literally be dying on the street from the virus that Atlas helped spread.
What a great epitaph to a distinguished career of personally helping tens of thousands of Americans die unnecessarily.
But for all his efforts, he won't be there to bask in his glory.
So sad to see him jump into a lifeboat to then pretend that he had nothing to do with steering this Titanic of medical malpractice right into an iceberg at full speed.
SunSeeker
(51,550 posts)His idiotic hurd immunity preachings have no doubt caused much death and misery.
Lasher
(27,575 posts)Paladin
(28,254 posts)You know what you can do with your herd immunity bullshit and all the deaths you've caused.
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DeminPennswoods
(15,284 posts)the fact is he was only a temp hire who's contract was up and wasn't going to be renewed for another 50 day gig. So he resigned instead.