National Institutes of Health Is Again Hiding Records About the Pandemic’s Origin disinformationchronicle.substack.com/p/national-ins…
In the latest example, the NIH gave conflicting legal reasons for blacking out emails sent by Scientist Kristian Andersen and Science Magazine Writer Jon Cohen. #FOIA /1
"The agency's behavior here indicates to me that it is trying hard to prevent these records from being made available for public scrutiny,” @JamesCTobias tells me. /2
The NIH sent Tobias a set of 24 emails--first citing #FOIA exemption 6. When Tobias sued, the NIH sent the exact same email, exact same redactions, this time citing exemption 4 & 5. Compare side to side disinformationchronicle.substack.com/p/national-ins… /3
These #FOIA redactions concern emails between Anthony Fauci and Kristian Andersen, who once thought the #COVID19 virus was engineered. After discussion with Fauci, Andersen did a 180, calling suggestions of engineering “fringe” and “crackpot” theories. /4
The NIH also redacted an email from Science Magazine's @sciencecohen citing exemptions 4 (trade secrets) & 5 (deliberative). QUESTIONS: How is Cohen's email from whistleblower a trade secret? How is Cohen part of the NIH's "deliberative process"? disinformationchronicle.substack.com/p/national-ins… /6
Cohen seems uninterested in the NIH's secretive process. /7
Last week, @RandPaul sent a letter to the NIH Acting Director asking him to explain their #FOIA redaction process. paul.senate.gov/sites/default/… In February, The U.S. Government's Chief Records asked NIH to investigate allegations that agency personnel are shredding documents /8
1) Science historian @equal_ibrium writes that Democrats laid into EcoHealth Alliance's Peter Daszak for reckless virus research.
He then asks if the bureaucracy is trying to make Daszak the fall guy, because more are responsible, especially funders. tinyurl.com/mkv4uet
2) Democratic Ranking Member, Raul Ruiz, told Daszak in his closing statement. “It is important that you and your organization be held accountable.”
3) Also, why has UNC's Ralph Baric been so slient?
Emails and a deposition show he has been privately outraged about Daszak's BP on dangerous biosafety standards at the WIV and Baric admits a lab accident might have caused the pandemic.
1) Whistleblower says "New Knowledge" cybersecurity firm run by Jonathan Morgan & Renee DiResta trafficked in election disinformation.
Documents show Center for American Progress paid to for Hamilton 68 dashboard caught spreading Russian disinformation. pauldthacker.com/blog/#/
2) New Knowledge filled w/ former NSA agents who explained the game to Betsy Depuis while out for drinks:
NSA cannot violate the Constitution, so they hire contractors to do their dirty work of spying on Americans and censoring them.
3) Betsy Depuis was tasked w/ improving the Hamilton 68 dashboard, a job paid for by the Center for American Progress. @mtaibbi later exposed the dashboard spread disinformation, and the Washington Post ran multiple corrections.
1) EcoHealth Alliance's Peter Daszak testifies before Congress tomorrow.
In yesterday's exclusive, I created a timeline of Daszak's ever-changing story about his dangerous virus research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. pauldthacker.com/blog/
2) TIMELINE
JUNE 2016: Peter Daszak of EcoHealth Alliance notifies NIH that they plan to make chimeric MERS and SARS viruses in year 3 of a bat coronavirus grant.
3) 2017: NIH lifts pause on research involving chimeric MERS and SARS viruses.
1) Medical authorities ignore past screwups, blunder onward while feigning expertise, and hope the public has the mental capacity of goldfish who forget their entire world every 15 minutes.
2) @tracybeanz, "You may want to sit this one out."
@jikkyleaks, "Misinformation you say?"
3) What makes the @thelancet ballyhooed studies on misinformation all the more comical is who authored them: CDC scientists and academic Claire Wardle.
1) WHO's leading vaccine official testified in court that she advised against #COVID passports & was ignored.
COVID vaccines didn't stop transmission; passports gave a false sense of security.
2) Dr. Hanna Nohynek is chief physician at the Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare and serves as the WHO’s chair of Strategic Group of Experts on immunization.
3) Dr. Nohynek testified that Finnish Institute for Health knew by the summer of 2021 that the COVID-19 vaccines did not stop virus transmission. The EU implemented passports around this time.
2) @FullFact even tried to bolster confidence in Pfizer’s #COVID vaccine by pointing out that—while Pfizer paid an unprecedented $2.3 billion fine for healthcare fraud—everyone needs to calm the fuck down, none of Pfizer’s fraud involved a vaccine.
3) The regulator found that Pfizer began spreading vaccine misinformation in 2020 to promote their COVID vaccine, meaning Pfizer was misleading the public about their vaccine throughout the pandemic.