https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/16/health/mayo-clinic-physician-suspended/index.html
Mayo gets federal funding, and certainly needs a lot of approvals from federal agencies (new drugs, new treatments, etc).In a Totalitarian State, you follow the narrative, or you are punished.
In a January CNN story, Dr. Michael Joyner, who is principal investigator on a government-funded study on convalescent plasma, said he was “frustrated” with the National Institutes of Health’s “bureaucratic rope-a-dope,” calling the agency’s Covid-19 treatment guidelines a “wet blanket” that discouraged doctors from giving what he considered a promising treatment to their patients.
Two months later, Mayo suspended Joyner for a week without pay, instructing him, in part, to “discuss approved topics only” with reporters and to “stick to prescribed messaging.” The letter warned him that a prescribed set of “behavior changes must be immediate and sustained” and that failure to comply would result in termination of his employment – as would any additional “validated complaints” from the staff, even if unrelated to the issues outlined in the letter.
The narrative is a story. "Trust the science" really means "trust the narrative" ... or else.
