Trump's new virus adviser is a frequent Fox News guest with no public health expertise

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y Associated Press -August 17, 2020 10:00 AM

Dr. Scott Atlas has called it a 'good thing' for younger, healthy people to be exposed to the virus.

Donald Trump has found a new doctor for his coronavirus task force — and this time there's no daylight between them.

Trump last week announced that Dr. Scott Atlas, a frequent guest on the Fox News Channel, has joined the White House as a pandemic adviser. Atlas, the former chief of neuroradiology at Stanford University Medical Center and a fellow at Stanford's conservative Hoover Institution, has no expertise in public health or infectious diseases.

But he has long been a critic of coronavirus lockdowns and has campaigned for kids to return to the classroom and for the return of college sports, just like Trump.

"Scott is a very famous man who's also very highly respected," Trump told reporters as he introduced the addition. "He has many great ideas and he thinks what we've done is really good."

https://americanindependent.com/scott-atlas-donald-trump-coronavirus-fox-news-pandemic-covid-19/

Why did I think of the Axis doctors in WWII when I read this article..................and the crap they did............ ..

[SheltieLover]

1. 1st thought when I saw this: Mengele

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

2. Who or what is Mengola?

Googling that word isn't at helpful.

[Borchkins]

3. Mengele?

As in Dr. Josef, as in Angel of Death, as in Nazi SS?

[SheltieLover]

9. Yes. Apologies for typo. Fixed

[SheltieLover]

5. Sorry misspelled

Mengele. Nazi "Angel of Death"

I will correct spelling.

[OAITW r.2.0]

6. Pretty sure the poster was talking about Josef Mengala - The Nazi DR. know as the Angel of Death.

[SheltieLover]

7. Yes. Apologies for typo. Fixed.

👍

[Raster]

4. Josef Mengele... the "angel of death"...

...https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josef_Mengele

Josef Mengele ([ˈjoːzɛf ˈmɛŋələ] (About this soundlisten); 16 March 1911 – 7 February 1979), also known as the Angel of Death (German: Todesengel)[1] was a German Schutzstaffel (SS) officer and physician during World War II. He is mainly remembered for his actions at the Auschwitz concentration camp, where he performed deadly experiments on prisoners, and was a member of the team of doctors who selected victims to be killed in the gas chambers[a] and was one of the doctors who administered the gas. With Red Army troops sweeping through Poland, Mengele was transferred 280 kilometres (170 mi) from Auschwitz to the Gross-Rosen concentration camp on 17 January 1945, just 10 days before the arrival of the Soviet forces at Auschwitz.

Before the war, Mengele had received doctorates in anthropology and medicine, and began a career as a researcher. He joined the Nazi Party in 1937 and the SS in 1938. He was assigned as a battalion medical officer at the start of World War II, then transferred to the Nazi concentration camps service in early 1943 and assigned to Auschwitz, where he saw the opportunity to conduct genetic research on human subjects. His experiments focused primarily on twins, with little or no regard for the health or safety of the victims.

After the war, Mengele fled to South America. He sailed to Argentina in July 1949, assisted by a network of former SS members. He initially lived in and around Buenos Aires, then fled to Paraguay in 1959 and Brazil in 1960, all the while being sought by West Germany, Israel, and Nazi hunters such as Simon Wiesenthal, who wanted to bring him to trial. Mengele eluded capture in spite of extradition requests by the West German government and clandestine operations by the Israeli intelligence agency Mossad. He drowned in 1979 after suffering a stroke while swimming off the coast of Bertioga, and was buried under the false name of Wolfgang Gerhard. His remains were disinterred and positively identified by forensic examination in 1985.

[SheltieLover]

8. Trumputin's kind of guy

Ty for info!

[Raster]

12. You are welcome

[PSPS]

10. IOW: He plays one on TV, just like all of his other unqualified "advisers."

[IcyPeas]

11. looks like Dr. Zachary Smith from Lost in Space