Thread by @MaryanneDemasi

🚨The Nature of hypocrisy: pharma-funded journals smearing independent voices
@Nature alleges that I endanger public health, but it is the journal — steeped in pharma money — that ought to be looking inward.

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According to the email, I was being lumped into an “anti-vaccine movement,” accused of “endangering public health,” and “profiting from disseminating misinformation.”

No evidence was provided. No articles were cited. No definition of “anti-vaccine” was offered. No complainants were named. Just blanket accusations intended as a character assassination.

Conflict of interest at the heart of @Nature
This journal that publishes vaccine research while pocketing revenue from pharmaceutical advertising and sponsored content from vaccine manufacturers.

To then assign an editor to target independent journalists who scrutinise that very industry is a glaring conflict of interest.

On its own website, Nature boasts of partnerships with @JanssenUS, @Merck , @AstraZeneca and others, dressing them up as “pioneering collaborations” to “support science.” It even publishes paid advertising features.

The email’s language was revealing. Phrases like “scientific consensus” and “peer-reviewed science” are waved around like trump cards, but in practice they are red flags — appeals to authority rather than evidence.

‘Consensus’ can be manufactured. And ‘peer review’ is no shield against corruption. I have documented journal–pharma ties, the retraction of inconvenient studies, and the use of pharma-funded “fact checks” masquerading as science to discredit politically uncomfortable findings. blog.maryannedemasi.com/?utm_campaign=…

I’m clearly not the only target.
@RWMaloneMD — also a Substack publisher and now a member of the @CDCgov Advisory Committee on Immunisation Practice — received the same media request from Nature.

The journal’s smear campaign extends even to those who now sit on America’s top vaccine advisory body.

Pot calling the kettle black: the Proximal Origin scandal
Notably, while @Nature postures as a guardian against 'misinformation,' it bears responsibility for one of the pandemic’s most notorious scandals.

In March 2020, @NatureMedicine — part of the Nature portfolio — published “The proximal origin of SARS-CoV-2,” which declared the virus could not have been engineered in a lab. But private emails and Slack chats revealed authors harboured serious doubts and admitted a lab origin could not be ruled out.
Hundreds of scientists now call the paper a ‘political tract’ dressed up as science, and thousands have petitioned for its retraction. The journal refuses to retract it.

This is ‘the system’ at work. Powerful journals with financial ties to industry unleashing hatchet men to smear independent journalists and scientists, rather than engaging with evidence.

This goes to the heart of the corruption of medical publishing — a system @SecKennedy has repeatedly warned about, and one that now demands scrutiny at the highest levels.

With @NIHDirector_Jay at the helm of @NIH, there's an opportunity to investigate the conflicts of interest, selective censorship, and financial entanglements that journals like @Nature have normalised.

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These attacks often come from self-proclaimed experts who are themselves conflicted, embedded in institutions sustained by the teat of industry, and unwilling to disclose their own conflicts.

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