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Dec 22, 2023 9 tweets 3 min read Read on X
1) It’s become a pandemic truism that academic researchers and their pet science writers eventually get caught dissembling

Let's look at that #scicomm! tinyurl.com/2hw85f3s
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2) @USRightToKnow released documents showing virologists & Wuhan researchers attempted to mislead on a DARPA grant--they hid that they would do some dangerous virus research in Wuhan.

Right where the pandemic started. Image
3) Science Magazine's @sciencecohen tried to knock down speculation about Wuhan research when veteran reporter Nicholas Wade testified in Congress.

Who did Cohen quote? The authors of the proposal--Peter Daszak!

Q: Is this journalism? Image
4) Cohen's sloppy reporting got a signal boost from #scicomm doyenne @Laurie_Garrett Image
5) Virologist @stgoldst got it wrong several times as well, both in @theintercept & in the @TheAtlantic

Hi, @danengber Image
6) And lest, we forget (why would we?!) here's @ScienceMagazine magazine's Holden Thorpe--the editor-in-chief.

BTW, Thorpe used to run UNC where Ralph Baric works, but was run out b/c of widespread academic fraud.

Looked like scientists were hiding something?Image
7) As the Wuhan Institute's most friendly reporter reminds you, "Please be rigorous." Image
8) Thanks for all the fish, Kristian Andersen. Image
9) Virologists planned dangerous virus studies in Wuhan, and lied about it to funders. And then they lied to us about their intentions, after the pandemic started in Wuhan.

And science writers amplified these lies to you.

HAPPY HOLIDAYS!Image

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Jul 3
Max Koslov and the #sciomm writers at @Nature continue putting out fake news and propaganda. Koslov's publisher Springer Nature won't say if they got a DOJ letter from @EagleEdMartin, but I published that letter to Springer Nature a month ago.

Koslov just can't do journalism. Image
2) Here's the letter DOJ sent to Springer Nature's journal Nature Medicine, which published the corrupt "Proximal Origin" paper.

The problem w/ #scicomm writers is that they never do any real reporting. And this isn't Max Koslov's first screw up. disinformationchronicle.substack.com/p/exclusive-tr…Image
3) Max Koslov keeps up a blistering pace of BS posts on Bluecry, where he and other Democratic Party partisan hang out.

And why is Springer Nature hiding the letter they got? Because they're in bag for China and don't want that coming out. disinformationchronicle.substack.com/p/nature-magaz…Image
Read 4 tweets
Jun 12
1) @latimes Michael Hiltzik has a long history of unethical journalism: spying on his reporter colleagues & creating sock puppet accounts.

I'm releasing recording by 2 women Hiltzik interviewed who were harmed by vaccines and Hiltzik then smeared as anti-vax. Image
2) LA Times editors caught Hiltzik in "sting operation" in 1993 spying on his own LA Times colleagues. The paper then ordered him back from Moscow. disinformationchronicle.substack.com/p/new-recordin…Image
3) Hiltzik graced the pages of the NY Times 13 years later when LA Times editors caught him making up shit and creating fake accounts.

"[Y]ou really expect your staff to maintain their integrity,” an editor for a North Carolina paper. Image
Read 8 tweets
May 13
1) Trump administration has pivoted to investigate the much ballyhooed "Proximal Origin" paper by @scrippsresearch Kristian Andersen.

Read DOJ's letter to @NatureMedicine. Trump officials believe the paper was a quid pro quo for a Fauci grant. tinyurl.com/ykr7vxpvImage
2) Suspicions have long dogged this study, as emails have found the authors ran it past funders Tony Fauci and Francis Collins at the NIH, as well as @JeremyFarrar when he was at the Wellcome Trust.

In one email, Kristian Andersen praised them for "advice and leadership." Image
3) When Nature Medicine published the paper, editor in chief Joaa Monteiro claimed the paper “put conspiracy theories” about the pandemic’s possible lab origin to rest.

Is labelling an alternative hypothesis a "conspiracy theory" normal in science? Image
Read 8 tweets
May 9
1) @ScienceMagazine interviewed @NIHDirector_Jay and then pretended he lied to them in the interview, kicking of a storm on #Bluesky.

I'm releasing the entire interview and a transcript.

The behavior is appalling, not the first time Science has been caught in unethical acts. Image
2) @AshleyRindsberg released a story for @tabletmag w/ emails catching @sciencemagazine Jon Cohen in salacious behavior. tinyurl.com/yrtjp5dwImage
3) In this case, Science Magazine claimed in two stories that Bhattacharya dismissed a Nature article "that NIH planned to suspend subawards for foreign collaborators"

This is false, and not what Nature reported. Image
Read 8 tweets
May 4
1) Guest essay by NIH Infectious Disease Researcher names former boss Tony Fauci for misleading the nation; calls for end to dangerous gain-of-function virus studies that likely caused #COVID pandemic.

"For too many years, scientists have sold the public on a lie." Image
2) Fauci promoted paper by @scrippsresearch's Kristian Andersen to downplay lab accident. This paper was fake b/c it did not examine a common lab process called "serial passaging".

Fauci promoted this paper to the public, right under Trump's nose tinyurl.com/4wwbj69mImage
3) Andersend and authors of “Proximal Origin” paper ignored serial passaging, so they didn’t “disprove” a lab origin for COVID.

I have no idea how ignoring something so obvious could make it pass peer review and get published in a prestigious journal like @NatureMedicine.
Read 9 tweets
Apr 9
1) Dr. Gretchen Lefever Watson & other scientists applaud @RobertKennedyJr for acting on the need to research links between antidepressants and teen violence.

Calls out @SenTinaSmith for spreading false information about these drug's benefits that aligns w/ industry marketing. Image
2) Lefever's research into the overprescription and harms of these drugs to teens was shut down by Big Pharma.

So why is @SenTinaSmith promoting Big Pharma propaganda? @GrageDustin @LauraDelano @DrJaclynnMoskow
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3) For almost two decades, researchers have called for further research into the links between violence and psychotropic drugs (antidepressants, stimulants, antipsychotics and mood stabilizers). Image
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