Lex Fridman Podcast #254 — Jay Bhattacharya, 'The Case Against Lockdowns'

The Stanford professor and Great Barrington co-author made an extended case against lockdowns and for 'focused protection' on one of the largest long-form podcasts, also discussing the Collins 'quick and devastating takedown' email. It exemplifies how long-form podcasting became the main distribution channel for credentialed COVID-policy dissent; public-health bodies assessed the Great Barrington approach as epidemiologically unworkable pre-vaccine, and critics saw the format as offering no real-time scrutiny of contested claims.