Thread by @Lidsville

Remember I mentioned this doc after his bizarre performance in the aerosols debate? "Top Canadian WHO adviser under fire after downplaying airborne threat of #COVID19: Dr. Conly says N95 masks cause 'harms,' focus should be on physical distancing" cbc.ca/news/health/ca… #cdnpoli

..Well, there is an interesting exclusive out today that also mentions Dr. Conly, links him to the Great Barrington Declaration (a herd immunity strategy), and describes WHO cronyism & anti-lockdown funding bylinetimes.com/2021/04/21/sci… #abpoli #covid19bc

I like the criticism of Conly and his ilk for their 'narrow medical approach,' since the pandemic has exposed that certain elements of the medical profession do not have a grasp of aerosol physics

“The apparent ‘external’ ‘independent’ reviews are just this internal [WHO] bunch paying themselves for looking at the literature through the narrow, ‘medical’ lens and overlooking all the key methodologies for building the evidence base on airborne.” bylinetimes.com/2021/04/21/sci…

.."Heneghan [one of Dr. Conly's co-authors], who commentators accuse of promoting misinformation on masks and ‘herd immunity’, sits on the scientific advisory board of Collateral Global – a non-profit anti-lockdown venture"

.."The deeper problem is that the main beneficiary of the WHO contract is linked to COVID-19 disinformation networks whose recommendations have been criticised by the WHO."

.."All three of Heneghan’s colleagues are founders and named authors of the Great Barrington Declaration (GBD), a pseudoscientific document whose proposed strategy of letting the virus run has been widely criticised by public health scientists." #covid19BC

..!!! The anti-lockdown "Collateral Global is founded & directed by Sunetra Gupta & her partner Alexander Caccia, a UK Ministry of Defence contractor with ties to Canadian government fossil fuel investments, who had secretly drafted the GBD document." #cdnpoli #COVID19BC

.."the Great Barrington Declaration was sponsored by a right-wing libertarian think tank plugged into the Koch-backed climate science denial network, with a history of spreading misinformation on behalf of private health and tobacco lobbies."

..Via @openDemocracy: "Tory billionaire bankrolled ‘herd immunity’ scientist who advised PM against lockdown" opendemocracy.net/en/dark-money-…

@openDemocracy ..PLEASE NOTE: "Although we know that measles & tuberculosis are primarily airborne diseases, to this day they “have never been cultivated from room air”, The Lancet authors note.." "diseases once considered to be spread by droplets [such as measles or tuberculosis] are airborne"