Anti-Vax Commencement Speaker Heckled By Students

CNN reports:

Dr. Scott Atlas, a former adviser to President Donald Trump, was met with a flurry of boos, jeers and chants as he delivered a keynote speech during the graduation ceremony for the New College of Florida Friday night, amid a contentious conservative government takeover of the college.

The commencement comes just months after Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis replaced nearly half of the liberal arts college’s board of trustees with conservative allies as part of a larger effort to suppress educational programs focused on diversity, inclusion and gender exploration and expression.

Atlas was a highly controversial member of Trump’s White House’s coronavirus task force until his resignation in December 2020. He repeatedly renounced pandemic lockdown measures and widespread face mask use and resisted CDC guidance.

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Scott Atlas has appeared on JMG multiple times, including when he was denounced by Stanford University (where he was a senior fellow), when he called for “rising up” against Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, and when he dismissed calls for COVID testing and masks and called for mass infections to create herd immunity.

As I reported earlier this week, students raised $100,000 for a private alternative graduation ceremony where the speaker was progressive leader Maya Wiley. Author Neil Gaiman also addressed the students by video.