Pompeo's State Dept relied on End Times extremist @adrianzenz to accuse China of genocide.
Our review of Zenz's paper shows wanton data abuse, absurd manipulation of source material & huge errors.
There's so much wrong w/ his work we ran out of room. thegrayzone.com/2021/02/18/us-…
Our review of Zenz's paper shows wanton data abuse, absurd manipulation of source material & huge errors.
There's so much wrong w/ his work we ran out of room. thegrayzone.com/2021/02/18/us-…
Throughout his paper, Zenz framed public healthcare expansion that cut maternal and infant mortality rates in half in Xinjiang as genocidal.
He also manipulated data to give readers the sense that 80% of new IUD insertions took place in Xinjiang, when the real number was 8.7%.
He also manipulated data to give readers the sense that 80% of new IUD insertions took place in Xinjiang, when the real number was 8.7%.
Zenz displayed a photo of an elderly couple receiving a free health check up at a medical clinic as evidence of "the thorough implementation of increasingly intrusive birth control methods." Not only is the couple too old to have children, Zenz omitted the photo's actual context.
Possibly the most absurd part of Zenz's fraudulent paper is where he claims 800 and 1400 IUDs are inserted *per capita* each year in Xinjiang. That means every woman would have to undergo anywhere from 4 to 8 IUD surgeries every day!
https://twitter.com/abovetheclouds/status/1308481116203036679?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1308481116203036679%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fthegrayzone.com%2F2021%2F02%2F18%2Fus-media-reports-chinese-genocide-relied-on-fraudulent-far-right-researcher%2F
Virtually every footnote or data point I reviewed in Zenz's paper revealed some kind of propagandistic manipulation. Not only was his work not peer-reviewed, it doesn't seem to have been fact-checked. Yet the State Dept, AP, BBC, CNN, and Democracy Now still take him seriously.
There is also the issue of Zenz's rapture-ready Christian fundamentalism. He is on the record denouncing homosexuality and gender equality as works of the Antichrist. I assume he sees birth control as Satanic as well. His feverish extremism has clearly tainted his work on China.
It's hard to imagine Zenz's paper making it past a real academic peer review. That's why he publishes at Jamestown, which was founded as a CIA pass-thru.
His other employer is a right-wing outfit that registered all Covid deaths as "victims of communism."
His other employer is a right-wing outfit that registered all Covid deaths as "victims of communism."
https://twitter.com/VoCommunism/status/1248984306212536322?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1248984306212536322%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fthegrayzone.com%2F2021%2F02%2F18%2Fus-media-reports-chinese-genocide-relied-on-fraudulent-far-right-researcher%2F
In their review of Pompeo's genocide designation, lawyers for the Biden State Dept must have seen Zenz's work for the sham it was.
But Blinken is ignoring their findings, likely because he sees the designation as "leverage" against China. foreignpolicy.com/2021/02/19/chi…
But Blinken is ignoring their findings, likely because he sees the designation as "leverage" against China. foreignpolicy.com/2021/02/19/chi…
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