Paul D. Thacker Profile picture
Journalist; Former Investigator U.S. Senate; Former Safra Ethics Center, Harvard. https://t.co/aD6NkYzjqM

Mar 18, 6 tweets

1) After I wrote a @bmj_latest investigation on virologists conspiring to label critics "conspiracy theorists" my reporting became a focus of NIH officials and researchers they funded.

"Really disappointed they gave space to this scheister," wrote Peter Daszak of my BMJ piece.

2) Daszak and other researchers were irritated because I exposed their game to manipulate the media.

Emails showed that Daszak and allied virologists had planted pieces in The Lancet, Emerging Microbes and Infections, and Nature Medicine to label their critics as conspiracists.

3) Daszak emailed that I had been "trolling the internet darkweb." I have no clue what this means. I only remember posting stuff here on X.

But sure sounds scary.

4) Research Gerald Keusch then suggested contacted an editor at BMJ to complain about me.

Keusch is a long-term collaborator with Daszak and House investigators exposed him for spreading false information during the pandemic.

5) Daszak emailed the group that contacted my editors was "a really good move."

I have no clue if any of these guys contacted my editors. I do know that other researchers complained. Complaints always follow when you expose corrupt scientists. Note that Fauci's employee David Morens is on the emails.

6) Read the emails and see more about what happened to these guys after much of their conspiracy fell apart. disinformationchronicle.substack.com/p/emails-find-…

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