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.
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?
4) Cohen's sloppy reporting got a signal boost from #scicomm doyenne @Laurie_Garrett
5) Virologist @stgoldst got it wrong several times as well, both in @theintercept & in the @TheAtlantic
Hi, @danengber
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?
7) As the Wuhan Institute's most friendly reporter reminds you, "Please be rigorous."
8) Thanks for all the fish, Kristian Andersen.
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.
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1) Biden’s Ex-Pandemic Advisor Called A Wuhan Lab Accident Plausible, But Can Writers Still Say It's “Conspiracy Theory”?
A short look back at science writers promoting a conspiracy that never was. tinyurl.com/kbr6haaj
2) By Feb 1, 2020, Fauci and virologists knew the COVID virus was possibly engineered and were concerned about dangerous research being conducted in Wuhan, a place Peter Daszak of EcoHealth was funding.
So why did these facts get labeled "conspiracy"?
3) Here's a few examples of this, looking back into history. It's important to understand what happened.
If nothing else, know who you can trust in the future.
Amy Maxmen tweeting a lab accident is a "conspiracy" then that virologists never it was important impossible.
1) Disney's CEO @RobertIger is a Biden campaign donor who is running a squeeze play on @elonmusk w/ Democratic attack dogs Media Matters & Center for Countering Digital Hate tinyurl.com/yckh8czb
2) If you think @Disney's Bob Iger is above political reproach, take a look at his bona fides.
He donated $250K to Biden's campaign and began angling for an administration job even before Biden had been sworn into office.
3) This last summer, Iger swore to stay out of America's "culture wars" before hiring a Biden press secretary to handle .... "culture war" messaging issues.
2) A month after the pandemic started, NIH created talking points for Anthony Fauci: he funded Peter Daszak's EcoHealth Alliance "for coronavirus research in China for the past five years" and researchers: Ian Lipkin at Columbia and Ralph Baric at the University of North Carolina
3) The following day, January 28, 2020, Jeremy Farrar started using a burner phone to hide his communications from subpoeanas. Farrar emailed Australian virologist Eddie Holmes to call him on his burner phone.
1) My latest piece at @tabletmag dives into the money and possible motives behind @Imi_Ahmed the Labour Party political operative behind the Center for Countering Digital Hate, now being sued by @elonmusk
BTW, I found Ahmed's hidden money.
2) In their 990s, Ahmed doesn't list funders. CCDH also fails to report funders on their website. They took in $1.47 million in their first year in the US.
Where'd the money come from?
3) CCDH is running their money through Schwab Charitable Fund, that allow anonymous donors to give without leaving a paper trail. I found someone gave Ahmed $1.1 million in 2021, meaning 75% of their funding.
Follow me to see Roth's emails discussing Stanford's Renee Diresta.
2) Emails show that Twitter rejected Renee DiResta as a "hobbyist, but Roth and other Twitter executives embraced her once Stanford University gave her an academic baptism.
3) When NY Times @sheeraf contacted Twitter, excited about doing a profile of her, a Twitter executive dismissed DiResta as a "hobbyist."
1) Yoel Roth is throwing a tantrum in the NY Times, complaining he is the victim now that everyone is pissed off at him for attacking our Constitution and censoring people.
2) ROTH COMPLAINS: "Universities are cutting back on efforts to quantify abusive and misleading information spreading online."
Oh, really!? Guess who hired Roth? UC Berkeley.
3) ROTH COMPLAINS: "All the fanfare surrounding the initial release of the Twitter Files, in the end 'there was absolutely nothing of interest' in the documents, and what little there was had significant factual errors."
FACT CHECK, WRONG! Ahem, here you are talking about it...