🧵1🔍 Who is Ralph Baric, really? We all know that he's the world's expert on coronaviruses & he is implicated in the lab leak 'theory' that resulted in the C19 pandemic, but do you REALLY know Baric & how important his role in C19 is?
2🧵In previous threads I have extensively looked into the career of Ralph Baric. Along the way I discovered that Baric's wife, Antoinette 'Toni' also works at UNC Chapel Hill as the school's Grant Specialist. Convenient.
3🧵When looking into this months ago I noticed Baric's CV listed his family member, which confirmed Antoinette Baric was indeed Ralph's wife. Also listed were two daughters [Cristina & Michelle], & two son's [Michael & Thomas]
4🧵 In December of 2021, the NC regional Pulitzer-prize winning newspaper wrote a glowing article about Ralph Baric, announcing that he had just been given the highest civilian honor in the state by the governor. The article mentioned almost all aspects of Baric's life-almost..
5🧵 The article mentions his wife, Toni, their long history at UNC, their son, Michael who also works at UNC as a swim coach, their daughter, Cristina & even Baric's grandkids. No mention tho of Michelle & Thomas Baric. The other children...
6🧵 I found this very odd. Not only was Thomas Baric missing from the article, but also from Baric's CV. It took some digging but lo' & behold, Thomas Baric ALSO works at UNC, in fact he's on his way to follow his dad's footsteps; working on viruses/vaccines!
7🧵Thomas Baric is listed as a scientist and co-author of multiple papers with his father Ralph working on the same studies that Ralph had been working on leading up to the pandemic including federally funded work. However, you don't find him if you search UNC's website. 🤔
8🧵I only found out due to a March 2022 WHO consultation document by UNC Chapel Hill titled, Major challenges w/the development of Pan-Coronavirus Vaccines, where on the last page is listed "Tommy Baric" & Acknowledged is Pfizer, Merck, Zuckerberg, & NIAID.
9🧵 Seems like Thomas wasn't forgotten from the article of his father's success. He was intentionally not mentioned. The big question is why? But the curiosity doesn't end there. Why nothing more than a mention of Michelle Baric?
10.🧵 Maybe it has something to do with the fact that Michelle works at Myriad Genetics [MG] Why is this relevant. Baric wasn't alone in his honors by the state of NC, another recipient was NIH director Francis Collins, another NC native.
11🧵Here's the kicker, Collins wasn't just Fauci's boss at NIH, he also was the first director of the Human Genome Project at the Nat'l human genome Institute, of which the company leading the sequencing is none other than Myriad Genetics.
12🧵This is a developing story worth looking into. Til then, receipts as always 🧾
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eurekalert.org/news-releases/…
archive.ph/DQreQ
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myriad_Ge…
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