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Mar 14, 2023 14 tweets 4 min read Read on X
1. How Congress Can Investigate the Pandemic Origins Cover-up: I ran congressional investigations into the National Institutes of Health for several years, forcing NIH reform and new laws.

Here's my advice.
2. Do not "follow the science," because virologists and NIH officials gamed the science. Just like tobacco did!

Follow the documents, follow the money.
3. Virologists gamed 3 "peer reviewed" papers early in the pandemic to misdirect the public away from a possible lab accident.

Those papers hid contributions of authors and at least two meet criteria for ghostwriting, and potential research misconduct.

Follow the documents.
4. FIRST: RELEASE DOCUMENTS THE NIH IS HIDING FROM REPORTERS

Congress must demand that the NIH turn over unredacted versions of all documents requested by media outlets, and then publish those documents so that people can see what the NIH is hiding from the press and public.
5. Reporters are having to hire lawyers and sue the NIH to get documents. This happened to Buzzfeed, Washington Post, The Intercept, and others.

Make those documents public and show what the NIH is hiding from journalists.
6. SECOND: INVESTIGATE CRIMINAL MISUSE OF "GOVERNMENT RESOURCES AND POSITION" BY VIROLOGISTS AT USAID AND THEIR CONTRACTORS

Virologist Dennis Carroll redirected funds to the Global Virome Project, then took a job there after retirement.
7. USAID's General Counsel says this violates the law, and contractors engaged in such behavior can be held liable. web.archive.org/web/2022032221…
8. USAID's Dennis Carroll also helped fundraise using his official government email.

The Department of Justice says such soliciting of funds violates the law justice.gov/jmd/misuse-pos…
9. Carroll redirected hundreds of thousands of dollars to the Global Virome Project.

This email shows some of the people involved.
10. THIRD: DEMAND DOCUMENTS AND FINANCIAL RECORDS HELD BY UNIVERSITY VIROLOGISTS FUNDED BY THE NIH

These demand letters must be written in a specific manner if you want easy results.
11. a) Address demands to university presidents, not the researchers. Make the institution accountable for their employee’s behavior.

b) Make academic institution lawyers sign correspondence and document production. Scientists lie, but lawyers risk losing their license.
12. c) Researchers have been caught conducting official correspondence by private email. Demand that institution lawyers search scientists’ private emails for official correspondence.
13. d) Serve subpoenas, review documents, then depose researchers under oath. Too often Congress rushes straight to hearings and TV cameras.

Stay professional and strategic.
14. I've advise multiple committees over the years, this is the first time I've released such a strategy.

Read here: disinformationchronicle.substack.com/p/how-congress…

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Mar 7
1) A US Attorney's Office and the FBI are now monitoring public universities' release of #FOIA documents on sensitive science. What is going on?

The documents involve "disinformation researcher" Kate Starbird of UW & virologist Ralph Baric of UNC. pauldthacker.com/blog/#/
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2) The Justice Department's involvement became public though a state FOI.

An AUSA emailed Kate Starbird about reviewing release of public documents. Starbird is a "disinformation researcher" at UW.
3) “[W]e would ask to have an extension of time before the records are produced so that we can have time to review them and assess whether we’ll have to file suit to protect them from disclosure.”
cc: @davelevinthal
@JimLaPorta
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Mar 1
1) On January 31, 2020, Jon Cohen wrote for Science Magazine that “most researchers say” the virus could not have come from a lab.

The very next day, researchers Cohen quoted emailed concerns that the virus was actually engineered.

Let's see emails!!
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2) Cohen's awkward “most researchers say” article is classic science writing. What science writers label “reporting’ is just calling up the known experts and then quoting them as experts.

Science writers report for, not on science. #sciomm
3) Day after Cohen's "most researchers say" article appeared, Kristian Andersen sent this email to Anthony Fauci.

“[S]ome of the features (potentially) look engineered .... Eddie Bob, Mike, and myself all find the genome inconsistent with expectations from evolutionary theory. Image
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Feb 28
1) Four years ago this week, published Taylor & Francis published a commentary claiming it was a “conspiracy theory” to speculate if COVID started in a Wuhan lab.

Emails show ghostwriting and the authors worried about a lab accident. pauldthacker.com/blog/#/
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2) The purported authors of the commentary are:
Shan-Lu Liu, Ohio State University
Linda J. Saif, Ohio State University
Susan R. Weiss, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
Lishan Su, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Image
3) But ghostwriters included Ralph Baric at UNC and Shi Zhengli at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.

How do we know? LET'S SEE THOSE EMAILS!!!!
Read 11 tweets
Feb 20
1) Florida has a Grand Jury looking into the pandemic response, interviewing and assessing evidence, and hearing from scientists.

They released initial findings. Guess what?

Not much evidence for "masks work" propaganda you've been hearing from "follow the science" experts. Image
2) Some KEY POINTS: The CDC has not put out quality science on masks through their journal Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR). pauldthacker.com/blog/#/
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3) ANOTHER KEY FINDING: False assurances that “masks work” may have harmed high-risk individuals who were misled into believing masks offer more protection than they do. Image
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Feb 15
1) German newspaper reports @MichaelWorobey study in Science is "blatant nonsense" and accuses @ScienceMagazine of "careless and unprofessional handling of statistical methodology.”

Worobey study argued pandemic started in a wet market.

cc:
@NateSilver538
@mattwridley
@R_H_Ebright
@EricRWeinsteintinyurl.com/k8ax35r9Image
2) The reporters forced Science Magazine to make a minor correction to the Worobey paper. Image
3) I have gotten a translation of the article, which really paints a bad portrait of Science Magazine's peer review process, which seems focused on supporting the zoonosis claim.

This is politics, not science.

Statistics gives your correlation, not causation. Duh! Image
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Feb 12
1) Why are German but NOT American science writers covering the study finding Science Magazine’s paper advocating market Origin for COVID was has "invalid" & "flawed" statistics?

cc: @NateSilver538 @mattwridley @R_H_Ebright @EricRWeinsteintinyurl.com/bddunz3dImage
2) The paper finds @MichaelWorobey paper "statistical arguments are unconvincing and do not provide sufficient evidence to support the claim that the market was the early epicenter.” Image
3) Here's the abstract.

BTW, this is not the 1st paper calling into question this wanky paper by Worobey. Image
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