1. “Attacks on me, quite frankly, are attacks on science,” Anthony Fauci said, blasting his critics during a 2021 interview about his advice on the pandemic.
So the NY Times confronted Fauci w/ an unimpeachable source: Anthony Fauci.
Fauci has long stated he has an "open mind" about the pandemic's beginning, but the New York Times pointed out that Fauci dismissed a Wuhan lab accident as a "conspiracy theory" on a podcast in early 2020. nytimes.com/2023/03/28/opi…
3. If this sounds familiar to readers of @DisInfoChron, that’s because I uncovered this podcast and reported on it back in December.
Nonetheless, it’s great to see the New York Times catching up.
4. The Times also caught Fauci helping to orchestrate a March 2020 study published in Nature Medicine that downplayed the possibility of a lab accident. After helping orchestrate this paper, Fauci then promoted it during a White House press conference.
1) WHO's leading vaccine official testified in court that she advised against #COVID passports & was ignored.
COVID vaccines didn't stop transmission; passports gave a false sense of security.
2) Dr. Hanna Nohynek is chief physician at the Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare and serves as the WHO’s chair of Strategic Group of Experts on immunization.
3) Dr. Nohynek testified that Finnish Institute for Health knew by the summer of 2021 that the COVID-19 vaccines did not stop virus transmission. The EU implemented passports around this time.
2) @FullFact even tried to bolster confidence in Pfizer’s #COVID vaccine by pointing out that—while Pfizer paid an unprecedented $2.3 billion fine for healthcare fraud—everyone needs to calm the fuck down, none of Pfizer’s fraud involved a vaccine.
3) The regulator found that Pfizer began spreading vaccine misinformation in 2020 to promote their COVID vaccine, meaning Pfizer was misleading the public about their vaccine throughout the pandemic.
1) Allison Neitzel served as physician-expert on misinformation stories at NBC, Mother Jones, MedPage Today, & others, but was forced to apologise last week for spreading misinformation and defaming physicians.
2) In one incident, @AliNeitzelMD attacked physician @TracyBethHoeg as "Hoeg hag."
HOEG: “The fact [Neitzel] has not nearly completed her training but has appointed herself as an expert physician in pointing out misinformation strikes me as both odd and ironic.”
3) Here's a posting of Allison Neitzel's "Sorry if you were hurt" apology, where she explained spreading misinformation about multiple physicians.
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/#/
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.”
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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.
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.
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
3) But ghostwriters included Ralph Baric at UNC and Shi Zhengli at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.