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Feb 15 • 8 tweets • 5 min read

China’s Bat Lady Puts West on Alert: She’s Tired of Questions About Her Secret Military Research disinformationchronicle.substack.com/p/chinas-bat-l… Beijing has disappeared seven media members for reporting on COVID-19, but allow Jane Qiu access to government researchers for celebrity interview on hair? /1

@SonnyBunch

WashPost columnist @SonnyBunch has noted China's Hollywood playbook parallels that of Nazi Germany washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/… Reporter @melissakchan says the country has gone fascist and plays the victim card. washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/… /2

Yet Beijing officials give Jane Qiu purportedly "unfettered" access to write a puff piece about scientists' hair? disinformationchronicle.substack.com/p/chinas-bat-l… /4

@keverington

When Qiu claimed the CCP had no control over the interview of its government scientist collaborating with the military, @keverington called "bullshit". /5 disinformationchronicle.substack.com/p/chinas-bat-l…

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) reports that China has disappeared 7 journalists reporting on the pandemic started in Wuhan. rsf.org/en/news/china-… #OriginOfCovid What did Qiu leave out to keep Beijing happy? /6

Qiu never bothers to ask Wuhan's Shi Zhengli about her secret virus research with the Chinese military. This has been reported by NBC News & The Times of London. Why was Qiu more interested in Shi Zhengli's hair, not her military collaboration? disinformationchronicle.substack.com/p/chinas-bat-l… /7

Qiu also messes up the date when Chinese officials took down their virus databases so nobody could compare their study specimens to COVID-19. Yet, the date was already reported in the Washington Post & Wall Street Journal disinformationchronicle.substack.com/p/chinas-bat-l… /8

@pulitzercenter

When questioned about errors & misleading phrases, Qiu compares her critics to Holocaust deniers. How is that normal? And why doesn't @pulitzercenter support journalists locked up in China, instead of CCP approved messaging on scientists' hair? /END disinformationchronicle.substack.com/p/chinas-bat-l…

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Feb 8

Matt Taibbi’s TK News Joins the List of Media Outlets Alarmed at Facebook Censorship disinformationchronicle.substack.com/p/matt-taibbis…
Fact checkers don’t check facts, they check inconvenient narratives. Former FDA criminal investigator says FDA "complicit in fraud" by Pfizer. /1

@MaryanneDemasi

FORMER FDA CRIMINAL INVESTIGATOR: My point here is that instead of the regulators protecting the public, in our case, they were complicit in a fraud....they may soon have some explaining to do. disinformationchronicle.substack.com/p/matt-taibbis… @MaryanneDemasi @VPrasadMDMPH @ianbirrell /2

In a secret recording, One executive described the problems conducting Pfizer’s clinical trial as a “cleanup on aisle five. And we know that it’s significant.” /3

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Feb 2

Scientists-For-Hire Synthesize Artificial Research to Protect Astroturf disinformationchronicle.substack.com/p/scientists-f…
When parents question if children should roll around in dirty old tires and chemical grass, astroturf scientists have real fake answers. /1

As concerns have grown about harmful chemicals in fake grass, industry has synthesized a crop of AstroTurf scientists to protect artificial turf—researchers who resemble scientists just as nonflammable, UV-stabilized, TrafficMASTER (with a ten-year warranty!) mimics real fescue/2

One astroturf expert defending fake grass is Julie C. Lemay, with the consulting firm Gradient, where she works w/ Michael K. Peterson, who disclosed at a study’s bottom that he “was retained as a scientific advisor by the Recycled Rubber Council from 2015 to May 2017.” /3

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Jan 11

Latest emails show--surprise!--researchers orchestrated an article to denigrate a Wuhan lab leak as a "conspiracy" disinformationchronicle.substack.com/p/why-do-peopl… Will science publisher Taylor and Francis retract an unethical, secretly edited article that appears to have skated past peer review? /1

The article “No credible evidence supporting claims of the laboratory engineering of SARS-CoV-2" was secretly edited by Ralph Baric of UNC & Shi Zhengli of Wuhan.

Surprise! Both do genetic engineering of coronaviruses! disinformationchronicle.substack.com/p/why-do-peopl… /2

When asked to submit his edits, Ralph Baric emailed, “Sure, but don’t want to be cited in as having commented prior to submission.”

Baric wasn't acknowledged.

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Jan 4

@newrepublic

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

@newrepublic

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

@newrepublic

@newrepublic Right out of the gate, Helen Branswell caught an error in Beyerstein's essay. That error has still not been corrected. /3

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Dec 7, 2021

Physicist David Robert Grimes Finds Conspiracies Everywhere disinformationchronicle.substack.com/p/physicist-da…
If you questions vaccine side effects? Conspiracy theorist

Pesticides & radiation? Conspiracy theorist....

Clinical trials? Conspiracy!

#OriginsOfCovd Conspiracy theorist, of course! /1

@BBCJohnBeattie

Grimes excels at is wading into controversial scientific topics, for which he has little experience or publication record, and “debunking” contrary evidence and real experts as “conspiracy theorists.” @BBCJohnBeattie /2

@IrishTimesOpEd

We now better understand the rare side effects of blood clotting w/ AstraZeneca's vaccine.

But when agencies first reported these side effects, David Grimes rushed to dismiss them in an @IrishTimesOpEd in the @IrishTimes @ScienceNelson disinformationchronicle.substack.com/p/physicist-da… /3

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Nov 30, 2021

Pfizer #COVID19 Vaccine Clinical Trial Whistleblower's Documents Released disinformationchronicle.substack.com/p/pfizer-covid… The FDA never bothered to inspect Ventavia & Pfizer's clinical trial, but internal documents find Ventavia was terrified of an FDA inspection.

"THE FDA IS COMING....SOON" /1

@pfizer

Ventavia also created a warning to staff to stop unblinding during Pfizer's clinical trial.

C4591001 is the protocol for Pfizer's #COVID19 vaccine clinical trial.

QUESTION: Why has @pfizer continued to hire Ventavia for more vaccine clinical trials? /2

@DisInfoChron

Some of the problems, Jackson discovered, were that Ventavia discovered that some of their staff were "falsifying data." via @DisInfoChron disinformationchronicle.substack.com/p/pfizer-covid… /3

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