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Feb 27 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
1. WSJ's report on Department of Energy conclusion that lab accident started the pandemic, created a lot of Twitter threads that left out critical information. wsj.com/articles/covid…

First, this is really a second set of DOE scientists, from a different lab than in the past.
2. In June 2021, WSJ reported that DOE Lawrence Livermore's "Z Division" pointed to a lab accident, see foto wsj.com/articles/u-s-r…

I'm told yesterday's news was based on a report from another DOE lab: Los Alamos, which researches pandemic preparedness discover.lanl.gov/news/0705-blac…
3. You could argue this is a second DOE assessment, because it involves different scientists at a different lab. On top of this, we have the FBI assessment that the pandemic started from a lab accident.

Again, you could call this "three separate assessments."
4. Science writers can no longer control the narrative for the NIH and virologists.

Margaret Brennan of CBS who moderates "Face the Nation" tweeted it.

This is narrative escape from the #scicomm ghetto.
5. The assessment that the pandemic started from a lab accident was also on "Meet the Press" which is watched by many DC insiders.

Again, this is not science writer "safe space" for virologists & Fauci, but actual journalism stepping in.
The FBI won't talk to Congress and refers them to the ODNI.

Congress has now requested all materials from ODNI, which outside scientists they consulted, etc....to come up w/ their assessment.

As I reported, someone did an IC road show w/ scientists disinformationchronicle.substack.com/p/the-wuhan-ro…
The first assessment was

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Feb 26
1. EXCLUSIVE: Not hard to fathom why insiders are going to the WSJ reporters w/ fresh intel. Science writers at the NY Times, WashPost, Nature & Science have turned themselves into stenographers for the NIH--#scicomm is not journalism.

We now know FBI has an open investigation.
2. The Energy Department made its judgment with “low confidence”, FBI with “moderate confidence” and this will be ignored by #sccomm ideologues covering the NIH.

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Feb 22
1. COVID Made McDonald’s a Public Health Savior
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Obesity made COVID outcomes worse, so governments partnered on jabs with the junk food chain, because of course. Image
2. Back in 2004, the film "Super Size Me" shamed McDonald's into removing large sized options from its menu. Artist Ron English lampooned the company w/ an obese Ronald McDonald, a version of the clown who ate only McDonald's. Image
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Feb 20
1. PASTA CARBONARA:
Thin spaghetti, pancetta, parmesan, eggs, salt, pepper grinder
2. Render the fat in the pancetta
3. Mix the eggs (2 whole, 2 yolks) with grated parmesan. After this photo, I added in some pepper.
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Feb 19
1. Gerald Parker, associate dean for Global One Health at Texas A&M, will never see his name in a story by @carlzimmer @JoelAchenbach @sciencecohen or @SmritiMallapaty b/c he uses neutral language that does not promote a #scicomm agenda. theeagle.com/news/where-did…

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2. Parker describes "two plausible theories" although "neither proves direct and definitive evidence."

This language violates #scicomm which finds that a lab leak is "speculation" that "lacks direct evidence."

Maybe Parker doesn't have a NY Times subscription?

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3. Parker states that we don't know how this virus jumped into humans and began transmission.

This violates #scicomm by ignoring some shabby studies published in Science by Worobey. et. al. that were lapped up by #scicomm writers at Times, Post, Science & Nature.
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Feb 7
1. Researchers Find No Evidence (Again!) Of Mask Effectiveness, Yet Self-Styled Experts Continue Promotion disinformationchronicle.substack.com/p/researchers-…
My interview with Cochrane Review author Tom Jefferson, who says governments "don’t have the science to back up what they claim."
2. Jefferson dismisses mask promoters like @DFisman & @trishgreenhalgh as overnight experts.

"They engage in personal attacks, have all this certainty and think they can see the future. They're not scientists because uncertainty is the engine of science."
3. TOM JEFFERSON: "The WHO recently said that PCR is the gold standard for detecting if you are infectious. Anybody who works on PCR knows that's nonsense. You can detect a virus with PCR long after the infection is gone."
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Feb 4
BBQ RIBS (IN THE OVEN)

1) Get your spice rub together. Here's the ones I used. Regardless, you must make about 1/4 of the volume salt.
2) Here's the rub in a jar, spices shaken together.
3) Put your sauce together. Basically, ketchup with some sweet and some sour. I don't use anything hot, because Europeans don't eat hot.
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