Don't know what's going on at @newrepublic but seems obvious they no longer use fact checkers.
Helen Branswell caught 1 error in @beyerstein review of @Ayjchan & @mattwridley book "Viral" and I caught 2
disinformationchronicle.substack.com/p/get-the-hell…
cc: @heathershorn @lmlauramarsh @emilyecooke /1
Helen Branswell caught 1 error in @beyerstein review of @Ayjchan & @mattwridley book "Viral" and I caught 2
disinformationchronicle.substack.com/p/get-the-hell…
cc: @heathershorn @lmlauramarsh @emilyecooke /1
Just to be clear, when I wrote this piece on tobacco lobbyist & Fox News Columnist Steve Milloy, @newrepublic required me to turn in half a banker's box of notes and documents.
Smoked Out
Steven Milloy, pundit for hire.
newrepublic.com/article/104858… /2
Smoked Out
Steven Milloy, pundit for hire.
newrepublic.com/article/104858… /2
@newrepublic Right out of the gate, Helen Branswell caught an error in Beyerstein's essay. That error has still not been corrected. /3 
Beyerstein has also failed to inform readers that Wuhan researchers were studying bat viruses from Laos, since at least 2015/2016, according to documents filed with the NIH, and a recently published study by Wuhan scientists. disinformationchronicle.substack.com/p/get-the-hell… /4
Beyerstein also makes a whole lot of hay out of an essay published in Science by Michael Worobey, although it seems she never bothered to read it. Worobey never makes any claims that he "confirmed" the pandemic started in a market. science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… /5
I'm not surprised that Beyerstein's essay was so sloppy, because she wrote a similarly sloppy essay on the opioid epidemic that attacked former FDA Commish David Kessler that also had factual errors. disinformationchronicle.substack.com/p/get-the-hell… tnx @andrewkolodny /6
My question to @newrepublic editors @heathershorn @lmlauramarsh & @emilyecooke: Are you going to correct these errors in Beyerstein's book review? /END
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