Thread by @covidiotsavant

A very poignant and timely question from Alan Cantwell Jr, MD.

"Is the point to cure the disease—or to keep the research in the hands of a few men who can command huge amounts of Congressional funding?"

#LongCovid #PACS

"..in order to assure research dollars, scientists have to keep a proper face on their efforts. They can't admit weakness, uncertainty. They have to forge ahead with their virus and their plans for a vaccine, a magic bullet that will wipe the problem off the face of the earth."

"Ask ten scientists about the chances of AIDS originating by accident in a lab. ..and ten will scoff at you. 'Why, how perfectly crude of you to suggest such a thing. How absurd. Only an uneducated non-Ph.D. without a credential to his name would suggest such tripe.'"

"Worldwide laboratory accidents and safety violations occur frequently. When a new disease pops up the Lab is one of the first places one ought to look. Scientists don't want to open the door to the possibility that they could have contributed to illness and death."

"..when scientists are confronted with their own sloppiness, botched experiments, wasted time and money—see how they refuse to admit the truth, watch how they try to lie and discredit the accusations, watch how they act like a bunch of hustlers whose shell-game has been burned."

"It is clear to anyone who has studied the matter that the medical "establishment," along with its intimate connections to the pharmaceutical industry and federal agencies such as the FDA, is opposed to any "break- through" or "cure" for serious chronic diseases."

"The AIDS virus enabled the virologists to become the new shamans of medical science. As a result, national and local policies on testing, surveillance, research, treatment, and prevention are greatly influenced by the scientific opinions of these award-winning AIDS virologists."

"Closely allied to these virologists are the high-ranking epidemiologists, who are primarily employed by the U.S. Public Health Service, or by the country's most prestigious medical institutions. Working hand-in-hand with this coterie are the pharmaceutical companies."