Thread by @gorskon

This pathetic “mole” did exactly what I thought it’d do and used the same technique Jake Crosby used 13 years ago,

https://twitter.com/vaccinemole/status/1636526302898388995

Specifically, he tried to ascribe undisclosed conflicts of interest to me based on funding my university got from certain corporations, even though the foolish mole can’t show a direct link (mainly because there isn’t one).

Then he just repeated the common conspiracy narrative that if you ever received NIH funding you’re hopelessly compromised because NIH promoted #CovidVaccination. I wrote extensively about this disinformation technique last year. respectfulinsolence.com/2022/05/03/nih…

Also: The names of anyone who ever received an NIH grant can easily be found on a database maintained by…the NIH. Also, the funding amount, dates, abstract, etc. This information ain’t secret. The mole wants you to think it is, but anyone with Internet access can look it up.

In any event, this technique shows how the mole does not understand even the basics of how NIH grants are funded and work, and seems to think that university funding sources obey the magical law of contagion with respect to university faculty not funded by them.

Funny how conspiracy theorists always seem to believe in “six degrees of separation”-style connections whereby pharma money is a miasma that infects everyone, no matter how distant from the actual funding.

Looking back on it, Jake Crosby actually did this better. At least he spun some mild plausibility into his conspiracy theory about me. The mole is too ignorant and stupid to manage that./end