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Jan 7 • 18 tweets • 10 min read
🧵Malhotra and Bridgen are now getting support from the @Telegraph for their antivax claims

It's worth noting @sarahknapton wrote the article as she is mentioned in the #HARTleaks
2/ #HARTleaks shows they see Knapton as a good route to getting disinformation mainstreamed, for instance when they wanted to get attention to some junk stats put together by the UK Medical Freedom Alliance
3/ An example of Knaptons work, Dingwall, Heneghan, Jefferson, nearly all her quotes have likely come out of a single message group
4/ Or what about this article from Knapton describing AZ vax as a "Trojan horse delivery system" making claims about it causing neurological conditions

5/ Other previous examples include "don't test kids" quotes Pollard and Heneghan
telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/06/1…
6/ Last Year Knapton promoted a paper that claimed that the covid death toll was considerably less, most deaths were actually "lockdown harms" because the authors claimed covid on it own couldn't kill care home residents
7/ Who wrote the paper? Collateral Global, who does she quote in the article? Heneghan and Jefferson, any other voices for balance? Of course not

The paper has been widely debunked, its basically trying to claim there wasn't really a pandemic
8/ What about this one, claiming there was no need for the Winter 2020 lockdown
Quotes CRG Baker, Cates, oh and its Heneghan again
7/ Jan 2022 Knapton makes the claim Johnson was bounced unnecessary into the winter 2020 lockdown
Quotes Baker and Cates from CRG, Cates also Vice Chair of the CRG APPG, oh and its Heneghan again

telegraph.co.uk/politics/2022/…
9/ Heneghan ignores the fact he claimed we could actually reduce measures and ride out the Alpha wave with 500 deaths a day at the peak, actually peak was nearly 4 times that with measures so the modelling he's complaining about was a closer prediction than his own
10/ …terdisinformationproject.substack.com/p/expose-the-e…
11/ Could keep going but think I've shown enough examples regarding why Knapton is a laughable science editor, it also demonstrates just how silenced Heneghan, GBD etc have been, as they like to claim

Just look at how little attention their BS gets
12/ Lots of people focus on the Internet for driving disinformation, but in the UK the mainstream press have to take a hell of a lot of responsibility

Telegraph in particular has a stable of activists posing as journalists

Pearson⬇️
13/ Camilla Turner has also been working with UsForThem since pretty much their inception, in many ways UsForThem are a creation of the Telegraph

Just look at Turner's role in getting that Hoeg VAER dumpster dive into the headlines
14/ Look at UsForThem's press mentions archive at how many articles Camilla Turner has written promoting them and their disinformation
usforthem.co.uk/press/
15/ There's a lot of wrong going on with that VAER paper, probably one of the most harmful papers in regards to confidence in child vax, complete BS, Turner wasn't reprimanded by Telegraph, she was promoted
16/ There's also Camilla Tominey at the Telegraph, thankfully her time at LBC was short, but she also attended the private HART launch meeting

17/ Telegraph is like a gateway drug to denial and conspiracy theories

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Citing more than 30 child deaths the UKHSA has finally recommended that parents don't send sick kids into school, problem is the DfE is still pushing its 100% attendance agenda, children off sick for more than a few days will still be marked unauthorised

…terdisinformationproject.substack.com/p/strep-a-in-t…
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Going to assume this is another Tufton/LM crowd linked group
One for BBC, one for National Trust, several for schools, all about anti decolonisation, same way they produced a cluster of CRT fearmongering groups and anti trans groups
Its GOP, Orban in style, which isn't a surprise seeing as UK culture warriors were present at the Hungarian CPAC
Covid and BLM in 2020, and creation of the free speech union have seen an acceleration in the increase of these astroturf groups
…terdisinformationproject.substack.com/p/peter-thiel-…
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Dec 28, 2022
Bridgen and the rest of the CRG have been getting briefed by HART since January 2021,I think likes of Baker and Harper found them useful to undermine public health for libertarian ideology but Bridgen seems to have become a truth believer
1/
2/They have been using APPGs to add a veneer of credibility to disinformation created by HART, Collateral Global and now Malhotra who seems intent on becoming the new Wakefield

…terdisinformationproject.substack.com/p/uk-parliamen…
3/ #HARTleaks even has the emails between CRG and HART showing how they built their relationship, also shows how a relatively small group have created a cluster of astroturfs
…terdisinformationproject.substack.com/p/the-emails-t…
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Dec 27, 2022
🧵Unfortunately anti-abortion protestors are being supported by the usual US culture war creeps, just the same as with debating trans rights, CRT scare stories, covid disinformation, "they want to erase our history" nonsense

UK press are happy to push the culture war agenda
2/ Follow the money, there's a lot coming from the US
3/ The APPG system is regularly abuser by these opaque lobby groups, there's an anti abortion APPG and no surprise the usual culture war characters from Living Marxism/Spiked and Turning Point are involved in platforming them
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The problem is the UKs clinical lead for covid in children is still claiming over 90% of infections in children occur outside of school and that children aren't index cases
Also claim vast majority of long covid is psychological and refuse to acknowledge biomarkers
BMJ Inquiry paper questioned this, and the ppl who create the UK govs evidence base had a hissy fit they weren't included to mark their own homework, resulting in attack articles in the Telegraph
…terdisinformationproject.substack.com/p/bmj-study-qu…
The response to the BMJ article that was lauded by other minimisers and shut down debate on the paper was a absolute junk, for instance claiming authors didn't consider a specific paper when the BMJ paper had a whole table analysing the paper in question
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