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Paul D. Thacker

@thackerpd

Jun 20, 2023 • 10 tweets • 6 min read • Read on X

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1. WSJ: With US funding, Ben Hu with the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) was studying how coronaviruses infect humans and became ill in November 2019 with symptoms that American officials said were consistent with either Covid-19 or a seasonal illness. wsj.com/articles/u-s-f…

@WhiteCoatWaste

2. @WhiteCoatWaste got the NIAID grant with Ben Hu's name on it. This is the NIH institute that Tony Fauci ran. Ya' know, the guy who said he didn't fund this research?

Document shows Ben Hu is a subcontractor to Peter Daszak's EcoHealth Alliance.

Hu also reports a USAID grant.

3. The Journal notes that they reported back in 2021 that these three WIV researchers had fallen sick. Those names remained classified until now: Ben Hu, Yu Ping, and Yan Zhu.

So this has been known in classified documents ... for years!

4. Ben Hu works under Shi Zhengli at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.

Gain of function = "modifying coronaviruses so they can bind to human cells" meaning infect them.

5. The United States poured over $1 million into research at the WIV for researchers working under Shi Zhengli, who was a contractor to Peter Daszak EcoHealth Alliance.

FYI: It's ridiculous that people keep goading China to become transparent. Open the books at NIH & USAID!

@carlzimmer

6. The media has gaslighted us for years about WIV. Here's NY Times @carlzimmer praising Shi Zhengli: "her accomplishments and foresight are exactly what we need if we want to stop more coronaviruses...."

Zimmer went on to write years of misleading NYT articles on virus research

@paldhous

7. Here's another example of media gaslighting.

Buzzfeed's @paldhous smeared @WhiteCoatWaste last year as "right wing." Does this term even mean anything anymore? Again #scicom writers write, they don't report.

W/o @WhiteCoatWaste we wouldn't have these documents.

8. As for Ben Hu's USAID money.... as I reported last year, USAID officials illegally redirected some virus grant money to a new thing called The Global Virome Project that is headed up by a former USAID official, Peter Daszak of EcoHealth, and academics at UC Davis.

9. CBS News reported this March that much of that USAID virus money was likely contract fraud.

I have confirmed that the Inspector General of USAID has a criminal investigation into this matter.

10. You can read the WSJ piece here: wsj.com/articles/u-s-f…

FINAL: NIH didn't respond to WSJ for comments, nor did Peter Daszak.

Both NIH and Daszak only respond to friendly #scicomm writers.

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Paul D. Thacker

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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.

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.”

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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.

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

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.

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Paul D. Thacker

@thackerpd

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.

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/yckehwe8

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.

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Paul D. Thacker

@thackerpd

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.

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.

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/2s469fbd

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Paul D. Thacker

@thackerpd

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.”

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.

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Paul D. Thacker

@thackerpd

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

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

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.

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