On March 16th, we filed a motion to compel @NIH to expedite production of records from nine #FOIA requests about the origins of Covid-19 and high risk virological research.
NIH has finally replied -- with more foot-dragging. NIH’s excuses and stonewalling are a window into why — 3 years after Covid began — we still don’t have answers to basic questions about covid origins and risky research on viruses. usrtk.org/wp-content/upl… usrtk.org/wp-content/upl…
It's long past time for the Biden administration to stand up for transparency, and tell its agencies to quit the stonewalling and cough up the documents about covid origins and high risk virological research.
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Today, the University of Sydney denied our appeal (application for internal review) for documents of Prof. Edward Holmes about the scientific work for an influential paper he co-authored, “The proximal origin of SARS-CoV-2”. usrtk.org/wp-content/upl…
The University of Sydney’s decision states, “there is an overriding public interest against its disclosure.”
The @Sydney_Uni decision also states: “Your timeline does not provide substantiated facts in relation to misconduct by any University employee and therefore it is appropriate that I give this public interest consideration in favour of disclosure little weight.”
On November 15, @Sydney_Uni denied our GIPA Act request to disclose documents of Prof. Edward Holmes about the scientific work for an influential paper he co-authored, “The proximal origin of SARS-CoV-2”. usrtk.org/wp-content/upl…
.@Sydney_Uni denied our request to disclose this information about this paper on the origins of SARS-CoV-2 because they see an “overriding public interest against its disclosure.”
Did the @StateDept predict something like the Covid-19 pandemic in 2018?
Yes, according to a @StateDept official, in a batch of new documents we obtained just before Thanksgiving via #FOIA litigation.
In one of the emails, a @StateDept official writes, “Looks like the media is starting to report on this [the origin of the pandemic] more factually....If they get my cables they’ll also know it was essentially predicted in 2018.”
Our study, based on nearly 30k pages of FOI docs, found that @FoodInsight “promotes food and beverage company interests and undermines the accurate dissemination of scientific evidence related to diet and health”
@acarriedo@MIALONMelissa@NS_Publications The Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics is “the world's largest organization of nutrition and dietetics practitioners”. Their mission is to “Accelerate improvements in global health and well-being through food and nutrition”.
@acarriedo@MIALONMelissa@NS_Publications Our study is the result of a five-year investigation of thousands of internal Academy documents @USRightToKnow obtained via public records requests. It reveals the Academy accepted more than $15 million from corporations and organizations in the years 2011 and 2013-2017. #FOIA
Here is the U.S. State Department memo, titled “An Analysis of Circumstantial Evidence for Wuhan Labs as the Source of the Coronavirus.” We obtained the memo through #FOIA litigation. usrtk.org/wp-content/upl…
This is the top of the U.S. State Department analysis of the source of the coronavirus. usrtk.org/wp-content/upl…