FMI Public Speaker Series — March 27
Five Years Since ‘Two Weeks to Flatten the Curve’
Reflections on the COVID-19 Pandemic
The Free Market Institute (FMI) welcomes Martin Kulldorff, coauthor of the Great Barrington Declaration, to visit Texas Tech University for a Lunch Social at 12:15 PM and Speaker Program from 12:45-1:30 PM on Thursday, March 27, 2025 in the International Cultural Center (ICC) – Hall of Nations (601 Indiana Avenue).
With school closures, lockdowns, masking and vaccine mandates, evidence-based medicine and basic principles of public health was thrown out the window during the pandemic, while alternative views were censored. This has caused both short- and long-term collateral public health damage that we must now live with…and die with. It has also generated distrust in medicine and academia, as it should, with less public support for scientific research.
While the mess was created by a small group of scientists in medical leadership positions, like Drs. Fauci, Collins, Birx and Walensky, it falls on all of us, including rank-and-file academics in every field, to restore academic freedom and the integrity of the scientific enterprise.
The event is free and open to the TTU community and the general public.
About the Speaker
Martin Kulldorff is an epidemiologist, a biostatistician, and a founding fellow at Hillsdale College's Academy for Science and Freedom. He is a member of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's Drug Safety and Risk Management Advisory Committee and a former member of the Vaccine Safety Subgroup of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Dr. Kulldorff is Founding Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of the Academy of Public Health at RealClear Journals. He was a Professor of Medicine at Harvard University for thirteen years. His research centers on developing and applying new disease surveillance methods for post-market drug and vaccine safety surveillance and for the early detection and monitoring of infectious disease outbreaks.
In October 2020, he coauthored the Great Barrington Declaration with Jay Bhattacharya and Sunetra Gupta, advocating for a pandemic strategy of focused protection instead of lockdowns.
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