An Open Letter to the TTUHSC Admin & Faculty
Regarding Your Newly Famous Student Kevin Bass
Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center student Kevin Bass on:
His habit of using poor evidence to support his conclusions post-humously
His repeating of anti-vaccine lies used against measles, HPV, etc. vaccination
Dear Administration & Faculty of Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center,
It is fair to say that most Americans have never heard of your institution. Most doctors and nurses have never heard of your proud University, either. However, one of your students has been a sudden public figure as of late: a Mr. Kevin Bass, who was recently featured across two articles on the Pandemic Accountability Index for his public statements as a student of TTUHSC:
01 - Discussing his “viral” Newsweek Op-Ed, in which he doesn’t even note which school he is a student of:
02 - Covering Kevin’s appearance on Fox News to an audience of millions:
Now, you may be unaware, but Mr. Bass has made quite a few bold claims, as well as misrepresenting himself as a “Medical Researcher” and a member of the “Medical Community,” instead of simply a student of TTUHSC that has experienced the pandemic from a Call of Duty lobby. Bass has used these public appearances to boost his following and subscribers to a Substack where he pushes unregulated supplements, that frequently have negative health effects. If this is the sort of product of your education, prospective employers would rightfully be afraid to hire graduates from your institution.
I assume that your faculty have been assisting Mr. Bass in his preparations for his upcoming debate against Dr. Eric Burnett, a licensed medical doctor from New York City who actually treated COVID patients during the worst times of the pandemic. Oddly enough, your student was confident enough to take out an OpEd in Newsweek and appear before millions on Fox News but has needed an entire month to prepare for a public debate against an actual doctor with working experience treating COVID patients. One would assume, with Mr. Bass representing TTUHSC, that you are expending all resources to prepare Mr. Bass for his debate against Dr. Burnett.
Here is what Mr. Bass has said publicly, from his Twitter account:
This was March 13th. It is nearly April 13th, and with less than a week left to prepare, are you certain of Mr. Bass’ abilities to defend his positions against an actual, licensed medical professional with hands-on experience treating COVID-19 patients? Here are just a few of Mr. Bass’ positions, many of which must be informed by his education at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center. I wonder if Mr. Bass’ many teachers are proud of the student and potential future doctor they have produced, who believes the following statements:
Kevin Bass believes he is a “competent health science expert” and is “literally at the cutting edge of a huge range of topics,” with “few people who share [his] breadth and depth.”
One would assume that humility and a willingness to have an open mind for new information, especially as a student in the medical field. Instead, Mr. Bass publicly declares himself to be a prodigal genius… this arrogance is quite concerning, especially considering the rest of his views. Let’s continue the review:
Kevin Bass is a public supporter of eugenics, a founding pillar of Nazi ideology:
This is quite concerning - that minority students at TTUHSC are forced to share space with someone who openly espouses support for eugenics - a justification for “racial hygiene” and the Holocaust, in which six million Jews were murdered for their race. Are students at TTUHSC not being taught basic medical ethics at your institution? This is incredibly concerning to the medical community, that any university could be producing healthcare professionals who are so open to continue the beliefs that led to such horrific atrocities. Perhaps you should consider a sponsorship with Summit Ice, and emphasize in your students just how important it is to Deny Nothing? Even worse, Mr. Bass openly dabbles in anti-Semitism:
Kevin Bass has frequently shown illiteracy on the topics of aerosol physics, RCT ethics, PPE engineering, and respect for civil debate from his professional seniors:
This is incredibly concerning - that Kevin Bass, who portrays himself as a “medical researcher” on Tucker Carlson, doesn’t know the basic ethics of randomized controlled trials. Of course, when Dr. Satoshi Akima, an actual doctor from Sydney, Australia publicly explained the flaws of assigning RCTs to PPE engineering & mandates, student Kevin Bass had this to say:
A very quick, one sentence response - and totally thoughtless dismissal of a solid debunking of his false claims. This is not professional or respectful conduct that should be expected from a student of TTUHSC and tarnishes the University’s public reputation. If Kevin Bass is so reckless with his dismissal of actual doctors who treat COVID patients when explaining such simple concepts, how can you know he won’t embarrass Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center in his upcoming debate with Dr. Eric Burnett, who also has hands-on experience with SARS-CoV-2 patients?
Kevin Bass frequently misrepresents scientific literature as “evidence” to his frequently disproven claims against public health:
“This is consistent with most of the scientific literature” is a statement made by TTUHSC student Kevin Bass with no evidence or any basis in reality. Mr. Bass is frequently debunked and publicly humiliated, especially by actual doctors with hands-on experience, and your student continues to double down and refuse to accept responsibility for his mistakes and misrepresentation of the facts and work of actual scientific researchers. Someone who frequently twists facts and the truth in order to justify their prior conclusions is completely unfit to treat patients as a doctor.
Kevin Bass has shown a complete lack of intellectual rigor regarding the COVID-19 vaccine, and has doubled-down on thoughtless fearmongering for a safe & effective vaccine:
This is completely false, yet again, we have Mr. Bass misrepresenting scientific research and literature. Once again, Kevin Bass’ ignorance is corrected by an actual doctor with hands-on experience actually treating COVID patients:
TTUHSC student Kevin Bass failed to respond to Dr. Jonathan Howard, much less admit his fault and ignorance on this crucial topic. If a public-facing TTUHSC student can’t appropriately engage with his seniors on such crucial topics, just how can Kevin Bass be trusted to treat patients in a hospital or work alongside other doctors, nurses, and specialists? It’s clear that Mr. Bass would be a liability to any healthcare employer and tarnishes the reputation of the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center. As a TTUHSC student, Mr. Bass is expected to adhere to your Code of Professional Conduct, and he has clearly failed in this regard - constantly misrepresenting facts to a growing public audience.
In truth, Kevin Bass has frequently been corrected by actual working doctors with hands-on experience treating COVID patients, and he has refused to admit fault on every single occasion. This is evidence that Mr. Bass would be a professional liability in any hospital environment, and endanger the health of patients under his care. Not a single malpractice insurance company could risk covering Mr. Bass if he obtained a medical license, and he has sadly wasted the time and resources of TTUHSC.
Kevin Bass alleges that COVID deaths have been massively overcounted, when a mountain of peer-reviewed evidence shows the opposite is true:
Kevin Bass is a vocal supporter of the popular “with/from COVID death” myth, which shows a complete illiterate on the SARS-CoV-2 airborne virus and the COVID-19 vascular disease it causes, which attacks every organ in the body, including the heart & brain. Instead, Mr. Bass insists that it’s just another cold or flu virus that remains in the lungs, and is essentially harmless, when it has been known since long before early 2022 that deaths in the US are frequently undercounted. Here is a visual representation demonstrating Kevin’s illiteracy on a disease he portrays himself as a TTUHSC educated expert in:
I would be quite embarrassed to be part of the faculty or administration of a university that produces doctors and students this frequently and publicly illiterate on the latest scientific research regarding a global pandemic, and constantly doubles down on their public displays of illiteracy when corrected by actual working doctors with hands-on COVID experience. In fact, here is Dr. Jonathan Laxton from Canada correcting Mr. Bass on a level of basic reading comprehension:
How embarrassing - are other TTUHSC students as completely illiterate as Mr. Bass?
Kevin Bass declared that “the death rate from flu is much higher in children than from COVID” - when in fact, COVID is the leading disease killer of children:
This is a common lie spread by radical anti-vaccine activists, and Kevin is repeating it publicly. When corrected by Dr. Jonathan Howard, Mr. Bass failed to indicate whether or not the number 150 is greater than 2000. A failure to understand basic arithmetic is evidence that Kevin Bass cannot serve as a doctor and would be a liability to any medical employer or malpractice insurance provider.
Kevin Bass declared he was superior to Dr. Anthony Fauci and CDC Director Rochelle Walensky and publicly accused them of incompetency and dishonesty:
Kevin has never treated a COVID patient or has any working experience. He has experienced the pandemic from his couch with a videogame controller in his hand, and he believes that “virus gonna virus,” saying we should do nothing but let disease, death, and disability rip through the nation, spreading anti-vaccine lies, and his refusal to listen to actual working doctors with hands-on experience would put him in a far superior “league” to Walensky and Fauci. An incredible declaration of hubris from this pro-viral advocate produced by TTUHSC.
Kevin Bass boosted a self-published paper with no peer review from pro-viral influencers which accused the CDC of inflating pediatric COVID deaths due to allegations of typos
A full breakdown of this embarrassment of a scientific paper can be found here, but the crux is this:
In fact, many of their claims of “exaggerated” are thus: “Very likely a dramatic multi-week increase was due to imputation error” appears on multiple occasions. “Likely” is not grounds for accusations of “unacceptable incompetence” and does not pass any scientific standard. In fact, many of these bold claims are made without evidence, and come from authors who clearly have a heavy ideological bias, a complete lack of relevant expertise, and are not legitimate sources of information on the COVID-19 pandemic.
Much like Mr. Bass, the only “evidence” this paper can present is found by stay-at-home pro-viral influencers with zero working experience hunting for typos. This is, yet again, Kevin Bass using poor-quality “evidence” generated after he came to a conclusion to desperately try and prove said conclusion. Yet again, the precise opposite of his statement is true. How does this keep happening?
Kevin Bass frequently decries COVID vaccination, against the overwhelming majority of actual peer-reviewed scientific literature:
These are all the same tired anti-vaccine lies that have been trotted out again and again against the HPV vaccine, measles vaccine, and many others. Incredible how in Kevin’s many years as a student of TTUHSC, he apparently never learned how these same lies were used to rally against childhood vaccination time and time again.
In Closing
The Pandemic Accountability Index asks that Dean Steve Lee Berk, M.D. and the rest of the administration & faculty of the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center take Mr. Bass’ frequent unprofessional misconduct, and inability to acknowledge regular mistakes pointed out to him by actual working doctors with hands-on experience treating COVID-19 patients.
It is clear that Mr. Bass has become a professional liability for Texas Tech University, and must carry out disciplinary action against this student, possibly including expulsion from the institution and stripping Mr. Bass of alumni status - this is someone who has clearly never shown an interest in improving health outcomes, and instead seeks little more than personal profit via dishonesty and taking advantage of a poorly educated & radicalized audience that is frequently driven to abuse and even fatal violence against working doctors & nurses.
There is a clear pattern of misconduct that indicates Mr. Kevin Bass would be wholly inadequate to work professionally in any medical setting, especially as a doctor treating patients - which is his present goal. His inability to grasp fundamentals such as basic literacy and arithmetic would result in disastrous outcomes for any potential patient under his care. We at the PAI hope that Texas Tech University is willing to take decisive disciplinary action and set an important example for the rest of your students.
Thank you for this article, which demonstrates how shredded Mr. Bass’ credibility is. That individual demonstrates characteristics of a cruel, self absorbed, unprincipled scumbag, arrogant beyond belief, unwilling to learn from mistakes and would be a disgrace to Texas Tech University and medicine. In addition to all scientific endeavour. This is a very harsh assessment but pretty accurate, sadly