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Feb 11 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
It's funny how the self-appointed "fact checker" websites that big tech uses and funds have never run a fact check on Neil Ferguson.

Quite the contrary, they often appeal to Ferguson's authority to "fact check" other articles.
Case in point is an outfit called the @smc_london. Whenever there's a news story suggesting that lockdowns don't work, they assemble a cherrypicked list of lockdowner scientists like Ferguson & send them to fake "fact checkers" to use as quotes.

sciencemediacentre.org/expert-reactio…
@SMC_London The aforementioned Science Media Centre is heavily funded by the @WellcomeTrust, which is directed by Jeremy Farrar - aka Britain's Fauci, and the guy who called for a government propaganda campaign to discredit anti-lockdown scientists.
@SMC_London @wellcometrust Here is the Science Media Centre hit-piece on the Great Barrington Declaration from October 2020.

sciencemediacentre.org/expert-reactio…
@SMC_London @wellcometrust If you search their website's press releases, you will quickly find that Neil Ferguson is one of their favorite go-to quotes to promote lockdowner pseudoscience.

sciencemediacentre.org/?s=Neil%20ferg…

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Feb 13
Let's take a closer look at the @HealthFeedback "fact check" of the JHU study on lockdowns.

This article is going around on social media as a way to discredit the JHU study. But it isn't the impartial analysis that it claims to be.

healthfeedback.org/claimreview/cl…
For starters, @HealthFeedback's article relies almost entirely on something called the @SMC_London, which aggregated hostile quotes from pro-lockdown scientists to attack the JHU study. Image
The @SMC_London is a nonprofit with heavy funding from the Wellcome Trust - the medical financier headed by the UK's lockdowner-in-chief Jeremy Farrar. It regularly publishes hit pieces on research that questions lockdowns, as happened here:

sciencemediacentre.org/expert-reactio…
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Feb 13
This is a particularly strange meme, considering that the Pan-Africanism movement originated with Alexander Crummell...who was also a leading proponent of Liberian emigration. Image
Crummell even met with Abraham Lincoln at the White House in 1862 as a representative of the Liberian government. His purpose? To negotiate a deal that would allow them to access colonization money for the transport of freedmen from Baltimore to Monrovia. civilwarmonitor.com/commentary/wit…
Du Bois, of course, was deeply influenced by Crummell...which @D_Kuehn would know if he bothered to read Du Bois's works, as opposed to simply name-dropping him to signal political affiliation with the 1619 Project crowd. Image
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Feb 12
This line is one of the odder falsehoods in the 1619 Project book. Not only is it wrong - there's no evidence that Lincoln abandoned colonization - but Nikole Hannah-Jones once knew as much.

She changed her position though because it previously rested on my scholarship. Image
In the months after the 1619 Project came out, NHJ repeatedly cited my work to show that Lincoln never abandoned colonization.

Then she realized I was the author, despite being a 1619 Project critic. Image
A passage on the next page unintentionally reveals the historical ignorance of the 1619 Project writers. It is true that most African-Americans rejected colonization, but NHJ uses two very odd choices to make that case: W.E.B. Du Bois and Martin Delany Image
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Feb 10
1. She's been tweeting obsessively about the NRO issue for the better part of a week.

2. Note that she does not engage so much as a word of my argument. Instead she just reverts to her standard tactic: ad hominem insults and personal abuse.
The icing on the cake: a few days ago, @baseballcrank predicted that this is exactly how she would respond.
@baseballcrank Longer essay where I document @nhannahjones's pattern of abusive personal behavior, as well as its imprint upon her journalism in the 1619 Project.

aier.org/article/the-16…
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Feb 7
🧵Thread:

John Maynard Keynes is well known for his advisory role in the British government on economic matters, including during WWII.

Far less known is that Keynes - like many British intellectuals - had a decade-long political flirtation with fascism prior to the war.
Our story starts in 1926 when Keynes wrote one of his most famous essays, 'The End of Laissez Faire.' Close readers of this essay are also familiar with a notorious passage where Keynes endorses eugenics as a basis for population management.
Much less known though - the origin of 'The End of Laissez Faire' was actually a lecture that Keynes delivered in 1926 at the University of Berlin.
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Feb 7
Now do Keynes.
Keynes's early draw to fascism was more than superficial. Here is Harold Nicolson's diary recording how Keynes was at the meeting where they crafted the economic planks of Mosley's New Party in 1931.

The New Party was the precursor organization to the British Union of Fascists.
Another Nicolson diary entry recording a meeting between Keynes and Mosley. For context, "Tom" was a nickname for Mosley among his friends.
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