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.
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.
1) Trump administration has pivoted to investigate the much ballyhooed "Proximal Origin" paper by @scrippsresearch Kristian Andersen.
Read DOJ's letter to @NatureMedicine. Trump officials believe the paper was a quid pro quo for a Fauci grant. tinyurl.com/ykr7vxpv
2) Suspicions have long dogged this study, as emails have found the authors ran it past funders Tony Fauci and Francis Collins at the NIH, as well as @JeremyFarrar when he was at the Wellcome Trust.
In one email, Kristian Andersen praised them for "advice and leadership."
3) When Nature Medicine published the paper, editor in chief Joaa Monteiro claimed the paper “put conspiracy theories” about the pandemic’s possible lab origin to rest.
Is labelling an alternative hypothesis a "conspiracy theory" normal in science?
1) @ScienceMagazine interviewed @NIHDirector_Jay and then pretended he lied to them in the interview, kicking of a storm on #Bluesky.
I'm releasing the entire interview and a transcript.
The behavior is appalling, not the first time Science has been caught in unethical acts.
2) @AshleyRindsberg released a story for @tabletmag w/ emails catching @sciencemagazine Jon Cohen in salacious behavior. tinyurl.com/yrtjp5dw
3) In this case, Science Magazine claimed in two stories that Bhattacharya dismissed a Nature article "that NIH planned to suspend subawards for foreign collaborators"
1) Guest essay by NIH Infectious Disease Researcher names former boss Tony Fauci for misleading the nation; calls for end to dangerous gain-of-function virus studies that likely caused #COVID pandemic.
"For too many years, scientists have sold the public on a lie."
2) Fauci promoted paper by @scrippsresearch's Kristian Andersen to downplay lab accident. This paper was fake b/c it did not examine a common lab process called "serial passaging".
Fauci promoted this paper to the public, right under Trump's nose tinyurl.com/4wwbj69m
3) Andersend and authors of “Proximal Origin” paper ignored serial passaging, so they didn’t “disprove” a lab origin for COVID.
I have no idea how ignoring something so obvious could make it pass peer review and get published in a prestigious journal like @NatureMedicine.
1) Dr. Gretchen Lefever Watson & other scientists applaud @RobertKennedyJr for acting on the need to research links between antidepressants and teen violence.
Calls out @SenTinaSmith for spreading false information about these drug's benefits that aligns w/ industry marketing.
2) Lefever's research into the overprescription and harms of these drugs to teens was shut down by Big Pharma.
So why is @SenTinaSmith promoting Big Pharma propaganda? @GrageDustin @LauraDelano @DrJaclynnMoskow tinyurl.com/42fmn8pu
3) For almost two decades, researchers have called for further research into the links between violence and psychotropic drugs (antidepressants, stimulants, antipsychotics and mood stabilizers).