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@goddek
Jan 5, 2021 • 24 tweets • 7 min read • Read on X
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1/ I am UNDER FIRE since I have written a post on the flawed peer-review process of @c_drosten's PCR paper. I will discuss some accusations in this thread and explain why the pure peer-review process window was even shorter than 2 days.

Yesterday's tweet:
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2/ First of all, I want to state that it was not my intention to set off an avalanche. I simply could not believe my eyes when I saw how quickly @c_drosten's publication got peer-reviewed and published. As a scientist, it is my right and duty to address this and raise questions. Image
3/ Right after the thread went viral, I was warned by several people that I needed to be prepared for "Drosten's army" to attack me. Something I could not have imagined, as I have never received any shitstorm on the internet before.
4/ I am aware that it is quite hard to describe complex issues with only 280 characters, making misunderstandings and conflicts virtually inevitable. Over time, the perceived personal view or conviction might also change due to the latest state of knowledge or varying contexts.
5/ The sad fact is that none of these attackers is actually dealing with what I have written. The lawyer and former judge @drpeternagel, for instance, is already trying to discredit me since last night, reading back my tweets from several months ago.
6/ Yes, Peter. I am a supporter of vitamin D. I even publish about it. The paper might contain mistakes, but I have written it to the best of my knowledge AND it actually got peer-reviewed, which required contentual corrections. ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…
7/ Even if you do not agree with my view on vitamin D, @drpeternagel, I am open for fruitful discussions and exchange of knowledge. Starting a "public message" with ad hominem attacks ("self-exposer", etc.) is counterproductive and reflects low-tier communication standards.
8/ I do not even consider my view on vitamin D being biased as I helped to debunk a big scientific fraud in this field (and in favour of D3), which even involved collaborations with governmental authorities in South-East Asia. researchveracity.info/alra/
9/ Other attackers such as @MackayIM (who is linked to @c_drosten btw.) address @SpringerNature directly and demand my withdrawal as an editor in the field of aquaponics, as I am "hardly a specialist in virology".
10/ However, I did not address the topic of virology in my thread but gave insights in the peer-review process. And here, I have to admit that my statement was not very accurate. The actual window for the peer-review process was 3.5-27.5 hours, which I will elaborate below.
11/ Everything goes back to a document of the WHO, which was created (!!!) the day the Corman-Drosten paper was submitted to @Eurosurveillanc. The meta-data shows that it was created on the 21st of January 2020 at 8:30pm CET (Central European Time).
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12/ Via the @waybackmachine everybody can download the first version of the paper that got published on the @Eurosurveillanc server. This paper cites the WHO document above (marked in green) Image
13/ The Drosten paper was officially submitted on 21/01/2020, accepted on 22/01/2020, and published on 23/01/2020. This means that, given the timestamp of the WHO paper, there is only a 3.5h theoretical time-window that the paper could have been submitted on 21/01/2020. Image
14/ As stated in my yesterday's thread, the peer-review process requires quite some time (due to iterations etc.). Given the official data we got, we can retrace how much.
15/ So the earliest moment, the paper could have been peer-reviewed and accepted is on 22/01/20 at midnight and the latest at 22/01/20 at 11:59pm (CET). The whole peer-review process thus had a time window of 3:30h-27:30h. Image
16/ The paper then got published on 23/01/20 at 4:45pm (CET), so the typesetter did an amazing job. Image
17/ Again, this is just my humble analysis of this process that I am willing to share, and I am also willing to discuss my findings critically.
18/ Theoretically speaking, the reference to the WHO document could have been modified during the typesetter's "query process", expanding the time-window by some hours.
19/ Nonetheless, the observed and reconstructed peer-review process shows - to put it mildly - considerable irregularities. Every peer-review process leads to anonymous review reports. I would be very interested to see what they state @Eurosurveillanc.
20/ And even a possible "extraordinary importance" (which was not a factor back in January 2020) is no reason to rush through the process that quickly. The publication could also have been made available as a pre-print document while undergoing a thorough peer-review process.
21/ All things considered, transparency is required in this critical case. And again: it is discourteous to shoot the messenger when criticism would be better addressed to the parties involved in these obvious irregularities. Image
This gentleman, for instance, provides excellent examples for destructive criticism (i.e. ad hominem only!).

Hallo @deVSNU - ik hoor graag wat jullie van deze thread vinden (vooral ivm Mevr. Koopmans). Alle 5 principes (Eerlijkheid, Zorgvuldigheid, Transparantie, Onafhankelijkheid en Verantwoordelijkheid) werden geschonden. Graag DM naar mij.
@pjvanerp @deVSNU En 2 keer “accept” is best zeldzaam. Nog nooit (!!!) meegemaakt. Het argument dat de paper “perfect” is geldt ook niet. Drosten heeft later toegegeven dat zijn eigen paper gebrekkig is en "replaced" moet worden.

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Apr 17
💰 DEVELOPING STORY – If you’re wondering why the accounts @Doomerzoomer and @higgsfield got banned, here is the whole story:

I was invited into a private Telegram group. I’m usually very hesitant with paid promotions and I rarely trust setups like this, but I joined anyway to understand what was going on.

What I found was not organic support or independent creators sharing tools they liked. It was a coordinated system.

Inside the group that was run by @Doomerzoomer, creators were given exact instructions. What to post, which words to use, what to retweet and when. There were external briefs that linked directly to the companies’ websites, basically telling people how to frame their opinions.

The process was as follows: You filled out a Google form with your X handle, the link to the post, and the agreed payment. Then you submitted it and were promised of being paid within a week.

I never got to the payment part and here is why: After a few days of collecting evidence, I stopped. Because it became clear this was not just aggressive marketing. It was literally a scam.

Two examples:
– Perplexity AI was pushing influencers to avoid disclosing that posts were paid.
– Higgsfield told people disclosure was optional.

That’s deliberate platform manipulation.

This had been running for months. There were around 150 large creators in that group, all being directed on what to post. In private chats, @Doomerzoomer would tell people what to say and not to say publicly. He told me, for instance, to stop talking about Israel. A huge red flag imho.

Benjamin’s mistake was that he contacted me via his private phone number. As a white-hat hacker, I was able to identify the person behind it. His name is Benjamin S., a Chinese individual living in New Zealand. From there, more pieces came together. Old data traces, profiles, behavior patterns. Even things like him cheating on chess dot com, which says a lot about character. The arrogance in his messages matched exactly what I found. It painted a very clear picture of the kind of person operating this system.

In the middle of it all (between companies and the creators), Ben acted as a single coordinator and gatekeeper. He recruited creators, controlled the flow of information, and based on everything I could verify, positioned himself to take a significant cut (7 digits per month) while keeping the creator side unclear about how the money actually moved.

– Payment rates were inconsistent.
– Stories did not match.
– Nothing about it was transparent.

Many of the creators involved were making between $15,000 and $50,000 PER MONTH from these campaigns alone.

Doomer most likely made 50% of each payment on top as a “one person agency.” Do the math.

I understand why some of the creators are upset with me now. And I’m sorry.

I could have stayed quiet.
I could have played along.
I could have taken the money.

BUT I DIDN’T.

Because if platforms like this are going to mean anything, they cannot turn into pay to play schemes disguised as real opinion.

And it did not stop there.

Ben kept pushing for more. More creators. More reach. More volume. There were even incentives to recruit additional people into the system to expand it further.

The screenshots below show how that recruitment worked.

At some point, you have to ask yourself how no one in that group felt like cattle. Because that is exactly what it felt like. Controlled messaging, controlled behavior, scaled and monetized.

I want to be clear about one thing.

There is nothing wrong with getting paid to post. But if you are getting paid, be honest about it. Say it openly. Do not disguise it as organic belief.

Yesterday I contacted @higgsfield via email and asked them about their relationship with Benjamin S., the structure behind these campaigns, and the briefing material being distributed. They did not respond to my questions. Today, they got suspended. I also have their full briefing texts saved.

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This was the Google Form he had everyone fill out (archive link: ).

Just look at it. A clean little intake funnel collecting your name, handle, follower count, rate, and plugging the influencers straight into his cash cow. archive.is/n5fMbImage
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Here you can see him dictating what people are allowed to say and what they’re not, because once he pays them, they’re no longer creators, they’re controlled mouthpieces. Image
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🚨🧵 DEVELOPING BOMBSHELL FROM THE EPSTEIN FILES – Back in 2019, right after Epstein’s arrest, a witness called the FBI and dropped a massive allegation about the Israeli twin brothers Alon and Oren Alexander (and their brother Tal).

She said these guys were at Epstein’s New York parties, luring girls upstairs, locking doors, and straight-up RAPING them.

Oren allegedly raped her best friend. Tal allegedly raped a 14-year-old who then TRIED TO KILL HERSELF by slitting her wrists.

This was YEARS before anyone charged these MONSTERS with anything.

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2/6 But wait, it gets crazier. The same witness told the FBI Epstein threw “big orgy parties” with young girls, Victoria’s Secret models… and big names like BILL CLINTON and DONALD TRUMP.

She said Epstein liked super young, clean-shaven girls with small breasts, had a “British socialite” recruiting, and even tried to pay her off through a lawyer to stay quiet.
She was terrified they might put a hit on her.

If this tip was total nonsense, why name-drop Clinton and Trump in an official FBI report?Image
3/6 Fast forward to now, these same brothers (Alon, Oren, Tal Alexander) are in federal court in Manhattan on sex trafficking charges.

FBI put out a full poster: They allegedly drugged, assaulted, and raped dozens of women from 2010 to 2021, working as a team.

Arrested in Miami Dec 2024, no bail. Trial ongoing.Image
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🇺🇳🇩🇪 This man was by far the worst fascist in Europe during COVID. This mentally ill person belongs in a maximum-security facility, not in consideration for WHO leadership.

🧵 a thread. Image
#1 Unredacted protocols revealed that former German Health Minister @Karl_Lauterbach intended to restrict access to gastronomy and supermarkets exclusively to those who are boosted.

This criminal shockingly still remained in office instead of facing solitary confinement. Image
#2 Lauterbach also justified the rigorous redaction of the above-mentioned documents. He seriously claimed that almost exclusively the names of the RKI employees were redacted to protect them from hate and agitation.

It seems the RKI has many employees. Image
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Feb 4
Notice how huge pro-Israel accounts, such as @EndWokeness, @libsoftiktok, and @benshapiro suddenly lost their voice when the Epstein files came out.

Thankfully, others stepped up to fight against pedophilia.

Follow these 23 accounts for doing what the silent ones wouldn’t 🧵👇 Image
Follow @ShadowofEzra. Image
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🧵THREAD: There’s something deeply off about those infamous photos of Jeffrey Epstein being wheeled out of the ambulance after he allegedly killed himself. The entire scene looks staged. The truth is: Jeffrey Epstein most likely is not even dead.

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#2 The timestamps on the photos tell the whole story. The first shot was taken at 7:24:12 a.m. Epstein has no tube in his mouth. Eight seconds later, a new photo, suddenly there is a tube. Then the edited version hits the media by 9:49 a.m. Image
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#3 This means that the 'jew york post' (@nypost) reversed the photo order. The image with the breathing tube came after the one without it. That alone proves the narrative was scripted. The media didn’t document what happened. They helped stage what didn’t. Image
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🧵THREAD: Happy New Year.

Dear followers,
I thought the COVID years were fucked up, but somehow every year since has tried its best to be worse.

Anyway.
Let’s make 2026 a much better year.

Let’s keep pushing for a global awakening, keep questioning the woke nonsense, keep opposing global censorship and tyranny, and most importantly, let’s actually live well.

I wish all of you a Happy New Year, especially the 20 people in the thread below who helped keep me sane over the last 12 months. You know who you are. Please give them a follow.

So, enjoy New Year’s Eve with your loved ones. Take care of each other. And don’t forget: your life is still yours to make.

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Dear @NickHudsonCT,
thank you for refusing to “move on” from the COVID years just because it’s become socially convenient. Forgetting is exactly what allowed it to happen in the first place. Your persistence matters.
Dear @BuenoForMiami,
thank you for being a real friend; one who puts logic and justice above political ideology. In a time when most people choose teams over truth, that actually matters.
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