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. 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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1) People still don't fully grasp how much the expert class lied to us during #COVID_19.

Science historian David Robertson details how the WHO and esteemed professors redefined "herd immunity" to push lockdowns and vaccine mandates. 2) Early in the pandemic, Channel 4 hosted epidemiologist and UK advisor John Edmunds to explain the importance of herd immunity.

Facing off against him: marketing exec and social media influencer @ThomasPueyo. This was a 1st sign of the coming insanity. tinyurl.com/mt3d22fx

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

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

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

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.

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

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

1) EXCLUSIVE DOCUMENTS: Working w/ @mtaibbi we report on @CCDHate documents showing the Labour Party's political front's objective is "Kill Musk's Twitter" thru "Advertising focus" meaning harass his advertisers.

See internal documents provided by a whistleblower. 2) Internal Center for Countering Digital Hate document shows their annual objective is "Kill Musk's Twitter"

This is their internal monthly planner. Their goal is to also trigger regulatory action, although they are a tax-exempt nonprofit.

1) I got a "missing context" fact check by @meta's Italian fact checker who said I shared a video that other people got wrong.

First, why are Italians involved in US free speech?

Second, what do other people's actions have to do with me?
substack-proxy.glitch.me/articles/disin… 2) A Kamala Harris video circulated with her calling free speech a "privilege." So I posted this on @Meta

“The Democrat who wants to run the country argues free speech is a ‘privilege.’”

See the "missing context"?

CHICKEN ESCABECHE

1) Get all your ingredients in place: chicken, oil, vinegar, wine, vegetables (carrots, peppers, onion, garlic, tomatoes), pepper corns, thyme. 2) Brown the chicken, especially the skin. (salt as you go)

1) Twitter Files: Democrats & media claimed Twitter 1.0 was a “private company” that made its own decisions, despite Biden Administration pressure to censor.

But new emails show Twitter hired a lobby shop staffed w/ Biden loyalists & then coordinated w/ Biden State Dept. 2) “This is John Hughes from Albright Stonebridge Group, the commercial diplomacy firm founded by former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright,” wrote Twitter’s lobbyist to a senior official at State.

Twitter was seeking “advice” and help.

1) Emails show that social media influencer Zeynep Tufekci pressured @cochranecollab to put out a statement attacking their own review;

Twisted words of a Cochrane editor;

And misstates her academic bona fides.
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2) Cochrane's Karla Soares-Weiser put out a statement attacking Cochrane's own mask review due to pressure from Zeynep Tufekci:

“Lisa, I have been back and forth with NYT about the mask review. CAN I GET YOUR VIEWS ON THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS?”

1) Going through hundreds of emails, it's clear @zeynep bullied Cochrane into publishing a statement against their own review and twisted the words of Cochrane editor Michael Brown.

She pretends to be an academic, but is she?

unherd.com/2024/08/how-th… 2) After Cochrane published their 2023 mask review update, Bret Stephens wrote a NYT column ridiculing mask mandate activists--people like Zeynep Tufekci.

3 days later on Feb 24, Zeynep contacted Cochrane, but not the scientists. She went around them to the editors.

1) The NIH is a rogue agency that lies to Congress and is not accountable to the public.

NIH Email Reveals Plan to Fool Congress With Response “That Doesn’t Actually Answer the Questions”

Francis Collins: “Sounds like a good plan.” 2) Email shows Leg Affairs Adrienne Hallett explains how NIH will not answer questions from Congress and then "run out the clock"

Francis Collins: “Sounds like a good plan.”

On the email is current NIH Director Lawrence Tabak.

1) Last week, people went a little nuts with an interview by Peter Hotez, where he called for deploying DHS and United Nations agencies—NATO, to deal with his favourite boogeyman: "anti-vaccine aggression."

But it was not the first time he's done this. 2) Hotez also called for deploying DHS last year in this nutty interview in @sciam. He also said we need to alert the U.N. General Council.

The "reporter" at Scientific American played along like this is just another day of normal in life.

1) Announcing a Winner for the Dorit Reiss Vaccine Photo Contest!!!

I challenged readers to find anyone posting more photos of themselves getting jabbed than vaccine fanatic, Dorit Reiss. They found one. 2) I tripped across five photos @doritmi had posted of herself getting a vaccine and speculated she has likely posted more photos of herself getting vaccinated than anyone in the history of the Internet.

Well, I was wrong. Fanatics are everywhere.

1) A week Fauci was caught lying to NY Times, House investigators catch NIH lying to @statnews' @HelenBranswell & @ScienceMagazine's @jocelynkaiser about virus research.

Will #scicomm writers finally stop protecting NIH?


Let's see the documents!!! pauldthacker.com/blog/#/
2) @sciencemagazine first reported that NIH researcher Bernie Moss planned gain-of-function monkeypox experiments—swapping out genes from various variants—to understand why some are more dangerous or transmissible than others.

1) After @cochranecollab Karla Soares-Weiser threw scientists under the bus, she has backtracked on her mask review statement.

Soares-Weiser has still not explained her unprofessional collusion w/ @zeynep
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2) On Friday, Soares Weiser quietly released a statement explaining that she would not be editing the Cochrane review on masks. Her prior March 2023 statement created a maelstrom of misinformation, including a spurious NY Times essay by social media influencer Zeynep Tufekci.

1) WOW!

Tony Fauci's deputy, David Morens, admitted in a hearing he deleted government records and conspired with EcoHealth Alliance's Peter Daszak to restore Daszak's grant.

At the hearing's end, Morens' lawyer whispered to him, "Tie your shoe." pauldthacker.com/blog/ 2) Morens admitted that he edited a compliance letter Daszak sent to the NIH, edited an EcoHealth Alliance press release after NIH terminated Daszak’s grant, and “put in a word” to the EcoHealth Alliance board when Daszak was worried about being fired.

1) History has stopped. Nothing exists except the #COVID narrative—which is always right.

Tulane's John M. Barry printed "Masks Work" nonsense in the @nytopinion that contradicts history and his own book "The Great Influenza." pauldthacker.com/blog/#/
2) John Barry is author of the NY Times bestseller "The Great Influenza" in which he wrote masks were "useless" against influenza.