Strange things afoot at in blog comment land. Yesterday, I posted about how @RWMaloneMD's claims that @Wikipedia is "erasing him from history" because of his attacks on #CovidVaccine are utter BS. Overnight a strange thing occurred. 1/ respectfulinsolence.com/2021/07/13/is-…
In the comments of the post, someone under the 'nym Barangolo went on a rant about Katalin Karikó, the BioNTech scientist who made major contributions to the development of the company's mRNA #CovidVaccine. 2/ respectfulinsolence.com/2021/07/13/is-…
"Barangolo" ranted about how Karikó was supposedly "one of those agents in the III/II category ('counter espionage'), recruited in 1978, before she was sent “on leave” in 1985" and how she's a sleeper agent and not to be trusted. 3/
The funny thing is, I barely mentioned Karikó in my post, mostly in passing to point out that, if Wikipedia were "erasing" Malone, it was also "erasing" Karikó, too, given that her name was removed from its mRNA vaccine article too. 4/
Curious, I checked the IP address from which "Barangolo" was posting. Surprise! Surprise! The IP address resolved to Budapest, Hungary. (I half expected it to resolve to Hungary, but was still somewhat surprised when my prediction turned out to be accurate.) 5/
So what's going on? Is Viktor Orbán running a disinformation campaign to discredit Karikó? If so, why? or is this just a Hungarian right wing crank? So many questions... 6/6
Strange things afoot AT blog comment land.🤦🏻♂️
Obviously, I was going for a movie reference an forgot to delete an "in."
Obviously, I was going for a movie reference an forgot to delete an "in."
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