On June 20, we served interrogatories on @UNC in preparation for trial, scheduled November 6, in our NC public records lawsuit mostly for Professor Ralph Baric’s records possibly related to the origins of Covid-19.

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We asked @UNC specific questions about what documents they were withholding, including Ralph Baric communications with Shi Zhengli, Peter Daszak, Linfa Wang, the DEFUSE proposal, furin cleavage sites, restriction sites and other matters.

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.”

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 new study is out: “How independent is the International Food Information Council from the food and beverage industry? A content analysis of internal industry documents” via @GHJournal with @JohnsHopkinsSPH folks @d_zaltz @conniehoe1 & Lauren Bisi. …balizationandhealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11… 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”

Our new study is out: “The corporate capture of the nutrition profession in the USA: the case of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics,” with @acarriedo, Ilana Pinsky, Eric Crosbie & @MIALONMelissa, via Public Health Nutrition #PHN @NS_Publications
cambridge.org/core/journals/… @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”.

Lab accident is "most likely but least probed" origin of COVID-19, @StateDept memo says. Via @emilyakopp @USRightToKnow
usrtk.org/biohazards-blo… 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.
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Today, we filed an FOI lawsuit against the @UofMaryland for records about the origins of #COVID19. We are litigating for records of Dr. Rita Colwell, who is a member of the board of directors of EcoHealth Alliance. #FOIA usrtk.org/wp-content/upl… UMD initially provided us with one batch of Dr. Colwell’s records. But when we asked for more, they wrote: “Though records were previously released pursuant to your earlier request…in hindsight, they should not have been."