A bizarre and abrupt reversal by scientists regarding COVID's origins, along with clear conflicts of interest, create serious doubts about their integrity. Yet major outlets keep relying on them: Peter Daszak, desperate to deny a "lab leak," but others who are highly compromised.
One of the most bizarre and still-unexplained episodes in the COVID pandemic was the group of scientists who told Fauci in late January they concluded COVID came from a lab. Within days, they publicly recanted, then received millions in grants from NIAID, controlled by Fauci.
Due to that dishonest Lancet letter omitting Daszak's gigantic conflicts, it was declared off-limits for months to question COVID's origin. People who did were banned online. Now it's recognized the debate is unresolved, yet news outlets keep pushing the same discredited sources.
One of the scientists who told Fauci early on COVID was made in a lab was Robert Garry. He then publicly recanted, receiving millions from NIAID, and is now used by the Post -- with no disclosure -- to pronounce the debate closed about COVID's origins: it was naturally occurring.
Amazing, the overwhelming scientific consensus -- and the Biden Admin's view -- is exactly that which, for the first year, was banned: we don't know if it came from a lab or was zoonotic. But news outlets keep using dubious sources to push the latter:
(It was always bizarre it was to hear -- including from NYT's own COVID reporter, @apoorva_nyc -- that it was "racist" to consider the lab leak theory. The more racist view was always that COVID came from Chinese wet markets. But either way, all that should matter is the truth.)
He apparently did not like my reporting today.
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Last night @elonmusk vowed to honor the endless, repressive and due-process-free censorship orders from Brazil's Judge Alexandre de Moraes.
The Judge has banned various journalists and members of Congress, among others, from social media.
This would be a huge deal for Brazil:
Rumble last year also announced that it would refuse to comply. The platform was expending huge resources to constantly take down videos and ban users upon the endless, lawless orders of a single job.
Amazingly, Rumble is no longer available to anyone in Brazil, getting this:
In January of last year, we obtained one of the secret orders Judge Moraes issues to platforms. This one banned Senators, Congress members and journalists, and mandated secrecy.
No due process. We reported it here. Hard to overstate how extreme it is:
UK Court hands Assange a partial victory in the Biden DOJ's attempt to extradite him.
US must provide explicit assurances that Assange 1) can raise a 1st Am defense, 2) will have the same rights as US citizens and 3) will never face the death penalty.
Biden WH doesn't want the sideshow of a trial; daily protests; discovery into CIA; Assange on the stand; Biden as the first-ever president to imprison a publisher.
They want to kill Assange through conviction-free imprisonment.
How dare the US President weigh in on a war he has caused American citizens to finance, arm and support!
Look at the mentality of these Israel fanatics: the duty of American citizens is not only to finance Israel's military and wars, but also never question what Israel does: