Journalist; Former Investigator U.S. Senate; Former Safra Ethics Center, Harvard. https://t.co/aD6NkYzjqM
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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.
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.
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. 
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.
2) John Barry is author of the NY Times bestseller "The Great Influenza" in which he wrote masks were "useless" against influenza. 
2) Democratic Ranking Member, Raul Ruiz, told Daszak in his closing statement. “It is important that you and your organization be held accountable.”
2) New Knowledge filled w/ former NSA agents who explained the game to Betsy Depuis while out for drinks: 
2) TIMELINE
2) @tracybeanz, "You may want to sit this one out."
2) Dr. Hanna Nohynek is chief physician at the Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare and serves as the WHO’s chair of Strategic Group of Experts on immunization.
2) @FullFact even tried to bolster confidence in Pfizer’s #COVID vaccine by pointing out that—while Pfizer paid an unprecedented $2.3 billion fine for healthcare fraud—everyone needs to calm the fuck down, none of Pfizer’s fraud involved a vaccine. 
2) In one incident, @AliNeitzelMD attacked physician @TracyBethHoeg as "Hoeg hag."
2) The Justice Department's involvement became public though a state FOI. 
2) Cohen's awkward “most researchers say” article is classic science writing. What science writers label “reporting’ is just calling up the known experts and then quoting them as experts.
2) The purported authors of the commentary are:
2) Some KEY POINTS: The CDC has not put out quality science on masks through their journal Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR). pauldthacker.com/blog/#/
2) The reporters forced Science Magazine to make a minor correction to the Worobey paper. 
2) The paper finds @MichaelWorobey paper "statistical arguments are unconvincing and do not provide sufficient evidence to support the claim that the market was the early epicenter.” 
2) CDC Director Mandy Cohen is all in on masks. During congressional testimony last November, she would not explain whether she would bring back mask mandates for toddlers.
2) CDC's outside experts began to update CDC advice on infection control 2 years ago. When they turned in their draft guidelines, CDC sent them a letter telling them to rewrite the guidelines.
2) WOOLHOUSE: No formal assessment, despite lockdowns likely to cause severe harms to the economy, education, mental health, health care access and societal well-being … exacerbating inequalities. 