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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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Feb 19
1) New study find COVID spike protein in blood years after vaccination. NIH spends $1.6B on Long COVID but millions are likely vaccine injured. Image
2) YALE SCIENTISTS: There is considerable overlap in self-reported symptoms between long COVID and post-vaccination syndrome (PVS). Both share exposure to SARS-CoV-2 spike protein with inflammatory responses during infection or vaccination tinyurl.com/4jz4pct6
3) Long COVID patients such as Dawson’s Creek writer Heide Ferrer are hiding vaccine injury. Ferrer took her own life, w/ media reporting it was Long COVID.

Her husband later admitted in a private video that after COVID vax “that’s when things turned.” Image
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Feb 12
1) Congressman @Jim_Jordan on @Weaponization holds hearing today at 10 am on "Censorship Industrial Complex."

Latest updates on two critical censorship groups to be discussed: Center for Countering Digital Hate, and Big Fact Check. Image
2) I exposed Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) for Tablet, uncovering some of their dark money. I also noted they were started by British political operative Imran Ahmed who began working with the Biden administration to censor Biden critics, such as @RobertKennedyJr Image
3) Working w/ @mtaibbi, we reported on internal documents from a whistleblower that CCDH's mission was "Kill Musk's Twitter." CCDH's founder is Prime Minister @Keir_Starmer political operative, Morgan McSweeney.

After we released this report, McSweeney disappeared his LinkedIn. Image
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Feb 11
1) I had to dismember @WIRED's @emilylmullin for her misleading piece on the journal @RCJAPH.

Her hit piece contains factual errors, serves as an interesting case study in science writing, a journalism adjacent media profession. Image
2) Seems clear @WIRED is writing for liberals based on how little play Emily Mullin's piece got on X. CNN reported back in Nov that X is now less partisan and more ideologically balanced.

Pieces that target liberal pieties are now mostly ignored on X. tinyurl.com/yckehwe8Image
3) You can see here that Mullin's got way more attention on Bluesky than on X. It's where left-leaning reporters w/ TDS send articles when they want to churn liberal activism. Image
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Feb 3
USAID employees engaged in criminal activity, a federal official told me. USAID's Dennis Carroll ran the PREDICT program and misdirected funds to start the Global Virome Project nonprofit.

Carroll retired and joined GVP. Basically, he used fed money to create a retirement job. Image
2) “It would appear that Dennis Carrol violated federal law that prohibits the use of official resources for private gain or for that of persons or organizations with which he is associated personally,” Craig Holman of Public Citizen. Image
3) Besides misdirecting federal funds to start GVP, Carrol also began fundraising for the nonprofit while in his government position. Here's emails

Here's Carroll's USAID gov email where he's discussing fundraising. tinyurl.com/2s469fbdImage
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Jan 23
1) Trump transition team is moving to control political games and partisan manoeuvres by NIH career staff, who NIH official says are trying to "tar the new administration."

"There’s a continued lack of transparency.” Image
2) Trump officials are replacing Lawrence Tabak with NIH researcher Matthew J. Memoli to control the agency until the Senate confirms Stanford’s Jay Bhattacharya to run the NIH. tinyurl.com/mr2p735r
3) NIH official shut down private study sections that review scientific grant approvals "to scare everyone into believing [research] studies will shut down and labs will shutter,” said an NIH official in the Director’s office. Image
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Jan 23
1) This @WSJ article by @NidhiSubs & @l_e_whyte is a bit of a mess. Here's why
A. Frames concern of dangerous research as partisan
B. Falsely states "Republicans" think pandemic started in a lab.
C. Quotes researcher w/ COI
D. Misleading reporting on COVID origins Image
2) "The gain-of-function studies had been a staple of research into viruses, but became an object of controversy and criticism during the pandemic crisis. Republicans in Congress criticized the studies."

FALSE: Scientists have long criticised this research. This is from 2018 Image
3) @NidhiSubs & @l_e_whyte: "Some Republicans have blamed the Covid-19 pandemic on gain-of-function research."

FALSE: A majority of Americans believe the pandemic started in a lab, including 53% of Democrats. Image
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