Thread by @EmpireinWinter

The Pharma disinformation playbook:
1) The “Fake”: Conduct counterfeit science and try to pass it off as legitimate research (Dr. Andrew Hill)
2) The “Blitz”: Harass scientists who speak out with results or views inconvenient for industry (attacks on FLCCC founders) 1/n

https://twitter.com/mikezimmer_gmz/status/1480416101875937281

3) The “Diversion”: Manufacture uncertainty about science where little or none exists (Dr. Andrew Hill/captured high-impact journals)
4) The “Screen”: Buy credibility through alliances with academia or professional societies (i.e. high impact medical journal influences)

5) The “Fix”: Manipulate government officials or processes to inappropriately influence policy (i.e. capture the health agencies by creating “revolving doors” between Pharma and government to ensure total synchrony in objectives amongst their leaders)

Master's level: (since 2018)
'just 3 multi-trillion dollar investment funds (Black Rock, State Street, & Vanguard)...have now acquired influential or outright controlling investment stakes in nearly every major corporation in nearly every industry.'

'These investment managers' power, particularly the power held synchronously over media companies, social media companies, and the near entirety of the pharmaceutical industry has allowed even more fearsome tactics to be used ... as they now'

i) CENSOR any mentions of supportive evidence in corporate, (a.k.a. “legacy”) media. Note that, besides the influence of these investment manager overlords, the global censoring ability of media was greatly helped by the “Trusted News Initiative (TNI)”

ii) CENSOR any mentions or discussions of efficacy on almost all social media

iii) RETRACT positive papers from impactful medical journals (3 fully peer-reviewed & highly supportive scientific reviews of ivermectin have been retracted either immediately prior to or post-publication (I was the lead author on the first one with my FLCCC colleagues)

iv) BLOCK review and publication of positive trials of ivermectin in major medical journals (in my now global network of ivermectin-expert and/or ivermectin study investigator colleagues, all lament how their positive clinical trials or papers were rejected for review...

'from all the high-impact (captured) journals, with Dr. Eli Schwartz’s highly sophisticated, expertly conducted, and immensely positive study from Israel being one of the most illustrative examples'

v) PUBLISH numerous “hit pieces” within high profile print media outlets discrediting the science and/or the scientists who support the medicine'

'for every planted hit piece article discrediting the mountain of evidence supporting ivermectin as a therapeutic, the FLCCC is actually rarely mentioned....I think it is because the FLCCC is a sizeable group of highly published physicians & researchers'

'(Professor Paul Marik is actually the most published practicing ICU physician in the history of the specialty). Thus, it’s hard (but not impossible) to call us “fringe.”'

vi) employ a coordinated media-government agency PROPAGANDA campaign;

August 26th, 2021: Pharma used their CDC to send out a “health advisory” to all 50 state Departments of Health, which they then sent to all the physicians licensed in their respective states... The bulletin:

1) depicted ivermectin as a dangerous drug by deliberately exaggerating reports of calls to poison control centers

2) cited meaningless fact that it “is not FDA approved for COVID”...hoping MDs may not realize that “off-label” prescribing is both legal & encouraged...by the FDA.

'Next, a quickly debunked (not quickly enough) planted media article in Rolling Stone appeared with an impressively click-bait-able headline describing emergency rooms so overflowing with ivermectin overdoses that our nation’s gunshot victims couldn’t get (obviously) needed care'

'(even I clicked on it). The article then went viral across the world (thousands of media mentions) before the hospital could put out a statement saying it was 100% false.'

'Then, in another terrifying example of the control of major corporate media.. for week after week every news broadcaster, pundit, and late-night talk show host prefaced the word ivermectin with the descriptor “horse de-wormer.”'

'Then finally, in a coup de grace, in comes Pharma’s FDA proudly using twitter to associate ivermectin with, you guessed it, horses. Janet Woodcock, the acting Commissioner of the FDA, even sent out a congratulatory email to her team about the success of the tweet.'

A reminder (after CDC & FDA smear this as horse paste):

The development of ivermectin (for human use) was awarded the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

On WHO list of 15 essential medicines (for humans)

4.7 billion (human) doses administered--exemplary safety profile

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