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Oct 18

Weber Shandwick Embedded at CDC While Helping Royal Caribbean With a Public Relations Plan Like No Other disinformationchronicle.substack.com/p/weber-shandw…
CDC not answering questions: “Please feel free to request the information through our FOIA office.” /1

Weber Shandwick got a potentially $50 million contract to embed their employees at the CDC’s National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases (NCIRD), the CDC group that works to control respiratory viruses and viral outbreaks. /2 disinformationchronicle.substack.com/p/weber-shandw…

Month later CDC announced return to cruising. Embedded in CDC’s press statement: quote from former Utah Gov. Mike Leavitt, co-chair of a PR campaign put together by Royal Caribbean and Norwegian Cruise Line called the Healthy Sail Panel. cdc.gov/media/releases… /3

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Oct 11

Weber Shandwick Provides PR for Moderna and Pfizer, While Staffing the CDC’s Vaccine Office disinformationchronicle.substack.com/p/weber-shandw…
$50 million contract allows PR firm to be “embedded at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta as part of the Division of Viral Diseases team.” /1

In a Weber Shandwick blog, one employee wrote about addressing the #COVID19 pandemic and identified Weber Shandwick clients working in COVID-19 vaccines: GSK, Sanofi, and Pfizer impact.webershandwick.com/the-chronic-ch… /2

Here's the LinkedIn account of one Weber Shandwick employee "Embedded at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta as part of the Division of Viral Diseases team." disinformationchronicle.substack.com/p/weber-shandw… /3

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Paul D. Thacker

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Sep 20

Funding Documents Expose Virologist Danielle Anderson, Once Feted as a "Conspiracy Buster" disinformationchronicle.substack.com/p/funding-docu…
For over two years, the virologist posed as a fact checker and biosafety expert on China, without disclosure of grants involving risky gain of function studies /1

Yes, people. Another financially conflicted virologist who was feted as an expert by sloppy reporters who never bothered to do a proper background check.

Shocking, I know. Let's take a look. /2

@HealthFeedback

In early 2020, Danielle Anderson worked w/ @HealthFeedback to knock down a piece by Steven Mosher in the Post.

FACT CHECK: no coronavirus research in Wuhan

FAUCI EMAIL: We support coronavirus research at the WIV. /3

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Paul D. Thacker

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Sep 15

@DisInfoChron

My interview with former CDC Director Robert Redfield on battles with Anthony Fauci, and why classified information will point to a lab accident in Wuhan @DisInfoChron disinformationchronicle.substack.com/p/former-cdc-d… /1

REDFIELD: “Tony and I are friends, but we don't agree on this at all,” Redfield told me. “The potential for conspiracy is really on the other side. The conspiracy is Collins, Fauci, and the established scientific community that has acted in an antithetical way to science.” /2

REDFIELD: "The COVID epidemic obviously didn't start in December; it actually started way back in August, or maybe September in Wuhan." /3

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Paul D. Thacker

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Sep 15

@bmj_latest

My latest investigation for @bmj_latest "Stealing from the tobacco playbook, fossil fuel companies pour money into elite American universities" bmj.com/content/378/bm… /1

In at least one instance, fossil fuel funded academics shifted national policy. A paper on fracking published by MIT set off a fracking boom in the US. MIT tells BMJ that they stand behind the paper, which was funded by fossil fuel interests. bmj.com/content/378/bm… /2

@BenFranta

Thanks to everyone who spoke to me, including @BenFranta & @mzjacobson /3

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Sep 14

@TaylorLorenz

Just ran across this piece w/ @TaylorLorenz trying to clear up #COVID19 misinformation. washingtonpost.com/technology/202… You may be shocked to learn she screwed it up by ... promoting a well-known #Monsanto & tobacco shill.

Not joking. cc: @AshleyRindsberg @libsoftiktok @burackbobby_ /1

As an example of Twitter "labelling facts as misinformation" Lorenz cites Henry I. Miller who was forced to take down a tweet on vaccines.

But who is Henry I. Miller, you might ask?

Excellent question. Have you heard of #Monsanto? How about Big Tobacco? /2

@dannyhakim

The NY Times @dannyhakim exposed Miller for running an article at Forbes that was ghostwritten for Miller by #Monsanto. nytimes.com/2017/08/01/bus… When Monsanto pitched Miller about what they had written, Miller responded that he wanted "a high-quality draft" from Monsanto. /3

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