
The Disinformation Chronicle
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Investigative journalism dedicated to helping the world understand corporate disinformation. Speculorum deserto.
Joined January 2021
@FrancescoEsp33 @past_is_future @Maestermagoo @_everythingism @TheSeeker268 @krylormaximus @stuartjdneil @breakfast_dogs @SylviaT71323726 @AtomsksSanakan @franciscodeasis @Rossana38510044 @InWuchang @evolving_string @Daoyu15 @zhihuachen @ydeigin @lab_leak @MonaRahalkar 'I am convinced that the virus came out by accident from a laboratory in Wuhan,' Says Moderna Vaccine Company Co-Founder Will the science media's favorite COVID disinformation pundits label Derrick Rossi as “anti-vax”?.#OriginsOfCovid.
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@HappyShar310 @BarbaraJoanneW4 @DrJBhattacharya @apoorva_nyc @SherylNYT @ajlamesa @nytimes @MartinKulldorff @Folkhalsomynd @gbdeclaration @bariweiss Quite telling that @rustyrockets provides better reporting on #Covid_19.vaccines than Apoorva Mandavilli at the NY Times. Apoorva, why do you think whistleblowers are reaching out to @MartyMakary.and not you and your colleagues?.
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It's unfortunately a normal day when some academic is exposed for secretly taking corporate cash, then getting upset at being exposed for taking corporate cash.
@DisInfoChron @TannisBell1 It is a sad day when educating the pubic is described as "fooling" them. You can go back through my decades of articles, blogs, podcasts,,,, all of it remains true to this day.
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Scientists pointing out fraud always get attacked by media complicit in corrupt research. @TheSeeker268 @DrNancyOlivieri @DavidBahry @pricklyresearch @MaryanneDemasi @lizctucker @ColleenFuller @ryangrim @USRightToKnow @FearLoathingBTX.
1) This hit piece by @jocelynkaiser & @sciencecohen against @BryceNickels & @R_H_Ebright was disappointing but par expected. Nickels & Ebright have been pointing out fraud and poor reporting in @sciencemagazine for years, so Science Magazine pounced.
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@DrNancyOlivieri @thackerpd @JeanneLenzer1 @sdbaral @RecheckHealth @lowninstitute @VPrasadMDMPH @AfJPHealth @AmerAcadPeds @serenatinari @paulthacker11 @bmj_latest @ShannonBrownlee Oh, you and many others have had a "Gina Kolata" experience. You and many others.
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@mtaibbi The "antivaxxers" making $2.5 million on Substack are the biggest failures on the planet. Pfizer is making BILLIONS!!!. Reporters Expose Pfizer Misinformation And Power To Demand Eye-Popping Vaccine Profits
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Why Is the Co-Founder of a Monsanto “Industry Partner” Advising the USDA Secretary? Citizens pay Anastasia Bodnar’s to inform Secretary Vilsack on public policy, yet she advocates for industry, once tweeting vinegar is more toxic than #glyphosate.
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It's become rather clear that those w/ MD or PhD after their last name and who screamed the loudest about public health during the pandemic really only care about career advancement. They never put the public first.
Dr. Peter Hotez is a national disgrace. Peter Hotez funded research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology that likely contributed to the COVID-19 pandemic. This explains why Peter Hotez continues to amplify COVID origins disinformation from the likes of Markolin & Yamey. Shameful.
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This guy attacks @mtaibbi b/c MSM journalists have normalized the practice of not reporting anything negative on vaccines. They are vaccine cheerleaders. You can report adverse events of drugs or devices, but if it's a vaccine, reporting negatives is verboten.
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Based on Buzzfeed's amazing #scicomm investigation, all credible possibilities must be reassessed. How did the pandemic happen?.
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@mbalter @thackerpd @sciencecohen @johnstravis @HansMahncke @joshrogin @Biorealism @capitolsheila @mtaibbi @hkakeya @pathogenetics @danaparish Jon has had problematic reporting throughout this pandemic, but he's at Science which has taken a cheerleading approach to virologist and the NIH. Of greater concern to the public is the government's redaction process, citing Jon as part of their delibertive process.
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Pfizer's behavior is so bad it was accused "bringing discredit" on all of Big Pharma.@KLVerita @Jikkyleaks.@JanJekielek @jchilders98.@ProfTimNoakes @TheChiefNerd @RobertKennedyJr.@jordanbpeterson @FiveTimesAugust @FLSurgeonGen.
1) Pfizer has spread so much vax misinformation that a regulator accused them of "bringing discredit" on the entire industry--the entire industry!!!. And the fact checkers keep looking the other way. Let's look at the facts.
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@mtaibbi Weber Shandwick employees are embedded at the CDC, while they also provide comms for Pfizer & Moderna: the two largest COVID-19 vaccine makers
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These reporters can't help but to line up behind the government censorship machinery.
This is an absolutely extraordinary passage in a NYT article from yesterday about the court ruling against the govt's right to suppress speech on social media. It cites a correct statement as evidence of a judge referring to a "debunked claim".
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@thackerpd @ScottAdamsSays @MartinKulldorff @MartyMakary @DrJBhattacharya @akheriaty @prweekuknews @BySheilaKaplan @ryangrim @anish_koka @joshg99 @JedediahBila Summary: The PR firm for Moderna and Pfizer (Ya' know the COVID jabs?) is also embedded at the CDC's vaccine office.
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Is there any comment to this, @HeartBobH? .Here's Bhattacharya setting the record straight. "Dr. Jay Bhattacharya Reveals Stanford University's Attempts To Derail COVID Studies" cc: @avolgman @SrihariNaiduMD @EricRWeinstein @GaryEddey @mbelshazly.
This doesn't look good for Cornell's New Dean from @DrJBhattacharya. Telling faculty not to talk to the press about their research in a time of policy dispute is antithetical to the role of universities to foster debate. Uni admins failed during COVID to have debates .Sad
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Fauci constantly maintains that he has "an open mind" about whether anything bad happened in a Wuhan lab. Not true.
“I've heard these conspiracy theories,” Fauci told Newt Gingrich on Feb 9, 2020, when asked if the pandemic started in a Wuhan lab. “And like all conspiracy theories, Newt, they're just conspiracy theories.” /3.
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@VillanovistPal @mentju4 @sciencecohen @mbalter @InWuchang @thackerpd More on Jon Cohen's slippery ethics and #scicomm advocacy here:
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@aoglasser @SPAQIedu @KurtPfeifer @preopconsult @medpedshosp @Jeanna_BlitzMD @afedwardMD @KarenMauckMD @ConsultGuys @GongGasGirl @inquisitiveGyn @eeyanmiller @TomGregoryPDX @FlavioRochaMD @drymtn @DrSunilKSahai @BobbieJeanSwei1 @nrohatgi2 @AshleyGWinter @TheBlondeRN @tnicholsmd @RyanMarino "NIH has been running from telling us what has been done. They’re not telling us the truth, that they had reason to fear from the start that this came out of a lab. And that to this day, they have reason to suspect it, but they’re not talking."
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@thackerpd @zeynep @katiekings @carlheneghan @DrJBhattacharya @michaelpsenger @FatEmperor @HansMahncke @justin_hart @Princeton @boutros555 @DanielHadas2 @jeffreyatucker Science is hard. Ted Talks are easy.
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3. And an internal CNN survey leaked to @semaforben found the public trust in CNN has plummeted over their liberal bias and poor COVID coverage.
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@thackerpd @curryja @PeterGleick @AndrewDessler @Camburnclimate @RARohde @KHayhoe @ClimateOfGavin @MichaelEMann @DrKateMarvel @coralsncaves @JacquelynGill @ed_hawkins @GlobalEcoGuy @KenCaldeira @ClimateHuman "A professor of science policy at the University of Colorado, Pielke Jr. has a long track record of wildcat contrarian writing on climate change and receiving invites to promote his views at congressional hearings from Republicans denying climate science.".
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.@ggreenwald is missing a critical point. We don't have a Left & Right in America anymore. The main split is between Establishment and those who question the establishment. You've got both Left & Right in the Establishment. People labeled "disinformation" come from Left & Right.
One of the most significant changes in US politics is that the left-liberal faction of the Dem Party has completely renounced distrust of and concern over CIA, FBI, NSA, etc. They - correctly - perceive those agencies as their allies and thus benign, even benevolent. Meanwhile:.
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@MarshallW73 @Shopdogg2 @Denny__Rossi @srasberry1 @BSHerrle @Flattielover @najjar_richard @NatForTrump2024 @gmartinharp @Klee34036780 @NothingLessAll @misshellca @izmks16 @EdBlackEsq @Jetson77 @jay_sker @jimaw63 @LanyJennifer @dogsdontliket @Annie20554592 @CoxeAnne @Ronnie__Lacy @LifeNyc2 @anniecherokee @1Quetzalcoatl1 @theProgEqualist @lee_whiten @waywardmegan15 @Meanoldman9 @chrisg409ubc @2tall2fall4it @Kellyring @WebGuyTV @DesnoyerRobert @ThereseOSulliv2 @JDW714 @VinceGottalotta @FactCheckItAll @Steve32540993 @hrt6017 @RMaioris @ConsueIoArroyo @Jaynitess @LadyOfTheOcean1 @armybike @murphtoday @TruthisnotT @_RespectedAgain @SaltyBezerker @MarkBatin Anthony Fauci Lied Before Congress and the American People, But Will President Biden Do Anything? Evidence finds that Fauci has not been truthful about his role in funding research tied to the pandemic’s origin.
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Cutting off the money is not enough. Those who stole USAID funds to set up the Global Virome Project still need to be prosecuted.
BMJ Editor Kamran Abbasi: "The world can't afford another pandemic, and questions remain about the origins of SARS-COV-2. [C]ollecting, transporting and performing research on exotic wildlife viruses carries unacceptable risks to all of humanity.".
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@HappyShar310 @BarbaraJoanneW4 @DrJBhattacharya @apoorva_nyc @SherylNYT @ajlamesa @nytimes @MartinKulldorff @Folkhalsomynd @gbdeclaration @bariweiss Hard to place trust in Apoorva. She accidentally told the truth that the NY Times was pushing racism to dismiss a lab accident in Wuhan--Oops!. Instead of admitting she spoke "outside w/ her inside voice" & gave away the game, she lied w/ "badly phrased."
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@jbkinney @WendyOrent @K_G_Andersen @AtomsksSanakan @WashburneAlex @MichaelWorobey Wendy Orent has written a series of same article over and over denying any possibility of a lab leak. For her last one, she actually quoted someone at the PR firm APCO as her "expert.".
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A Continued Candid Conversation with Richard Ebright on the History of U.S. Research Funding for Biological Agents in America and Abroad that Lack Critical Safety Overview #originsofcovid @ProfTimNoakes @NicoPanagio @Oubollie.
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@WokeLifeMatters @thackerpd @elonmusk @JudiciaryGOP @MikeBenzCyber @mtaibbi @davidzweig @DrJBhattacharya @ChiefMI6 @CCDHate @DavidSacks @TuckerCarlson @joerogan @ggreenwald @RNCResearch @GenFlynn @shellenberger @lhfang @profstonge @JackPosobiec @LauraLoomer @stevebannon_1 @catturd2 @kimguilfoyle Why doesn't the media report that the CEO for Center for Countering Digital Hate has ties to British intelligence? Why don't they report that they took in a $1.1 million donation in dark money?
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@leila_darabi @picardonhealth @apoorva_nyc @sarahboseley @boosulyn @rkhamsi @SipokaziF @sciencecohen National Institutes of Health Is Again Hiding Records About the Pandemic’s Origin In the latest example, the NIH gave conflicting legal reasons for blacking out emails sent by Scientist Kristian Andersen and Science Magazine Writer Jon Cohen.
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The New Denial Is Delay at the Breakthrough Institute How ecomodernism’s attempt to revolutionize environmentalism became a tragic slide into techno-hype lobbying and endless bickering with "Big Green" @DeigninSpain @e_flanagan @shannonosaka.
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Scientists fear that Karla Soares-Weiser has destroyed Cochrane. Concerns over how much she is paying the consulting firm Envoy.
Cochrane editor-in-chief, Karla Soares-Weiser undermined last March with a statement Cochrane scientists’ assessment that masks provide little help in stopping community transmission of viruses. @DisInfoChron
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$88 billion can buy you a lot of science.
I wrote about a Senate Committee report that stripped mention of NIH funding for gain-of-function research and was parroted by @propublica. .We are spending $88 billion on biodefense now. Oh, Senator Burr has turned lobbyist and is hosting a private
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So the fact checker who's supposed to stop SMOKING . er, I mean stop DISINFORMATION, is supported by TOBACCO . er, I mean is supported by FACEBOOK(Meta).
ICYMI: With support from Meta, France just became the fourth country to join our efforts to combat global information disorder alongside Spain, Turkey and Brazil! 🌎 . #factchecking #medialiteracy #misinformation #disinformation #désinformation #français.
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@danwalker9999 @mbalter @zeynep You don’t need an advanced degree in epidemiology to be alarmed that the CDC sets pandemic policy because of tweets and a Times essay, but Tufekci also tweeted that she promoted masks in two meetings with the World Health Organization. Do better, @CDCgov.
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@biosteward @mem_somerville @thackerpd @JoeCurtatone @CallaWalsh @JonathanCohn @VoteJivan @qzondervan @SomervilleCity Mary Mangan is an annoying #Monsanto troll who had to be escorted out of a book talk in Cambridge. Who gets bounced from a book talk? A Conversation w/ Author Carey Gillam on Spotlighting Agriculture and Pesticide Disinformation, & Sometimes Paying a Price
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@BUSPH @KellanEBaker @DrSeanCahill @BUCEID @ElleLettMDPhD @angie_rasmussen @DrCraigAndrade “A Toxic Milieu Dominated by Opportunists, Dilettantes, Racist/Misogynist Assholes, and Trolls” How Media Darling Angela Rasmussen Tweeted Her Way Past Post-Doc Mediocrity to COVID-19 Fame and Glory
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@inashmdn @zeynep Zeynep Tufekci bullies scientists from her NY Times pedestal. Enough is enough. @1stacyphillips @MonicaGandhi9 @michaelpsenger.
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Whoops!. Is this bad? Because I think this is bad. .
One of the most-read science journal articles of 2020 dismissed a lab accident #OriginOfCovid as a conspiracy theory. They didn't disclose that it had been "secretly edited by two scientists whose research involves genetically engineering coronaviruses."
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Facebook’s “Fact-Check” Website Called @LeadStoriesCom Punches Itself in the Face, Again—Twice! When you’re funded by Facebook and a Chinese company cited for national security concerns, is it any surprise you can’t get your facts straight?
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@TheWrap @karaswisher This Yoel Roth? Why won't Roth explain what happened between him and Renee DiResta?
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Harvard science historian Naomi Oreskes on consensus disinformation: "[O]ne of the things that industry tries to do, in a way that's quite nefarious, is to conflate all the different concerns about GMOs with the question of food safety." #GMO
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Great discusson with @ianbirrell on problems with #Covid19 discussion. @FilippaLentzos, @Ayjchan & @alisonannyoung get it right, but science writers mostly ignore them. Ian Birrell Explains the Science Media's Misreporting of Chinese Research /1.
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Welcome to The DisInformation Chronicle and our interview with @NaomiOreskes, author of Merchants of Doubt. Thanks to all who helped get this off the ground! . @MaryanneDemasi @BenFranta @JohnStauber @bobhasathought.
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@ItoIian @ShaiCorfas @shellenberger @antonioguterres @FoodSystems @ISDglobal @CCDHate The public should ask why the media don't report on Imran Ahmed's ties to British intelligence and the Center for Countering Digital Hate's dark money
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@mvwoensel @snopes @PolitiFact @AFPFactCheck @ScienceFeedback @Thms_Pointer @JerryVermanen @JPeterBurger @brechtcastel The President of Facebook’s @ScienceFeedback Is Hiding in Paris, Terrified of Appearing in Court Do fact checkers provide Facebook’s muscle to rob us of free speech?
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Why Does the Wuhan Institute of Virology's Shi Zhengli Keep Changing Her #COVID19 Story? @Smackenziekerr @BarbaraGoggin4 @franciscodeasis.
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@DrJBhattacharya @JamesSurowiecki @thackerpd @MartinKulldorff @gbdeclaration .@JamesSurowiecki is also a Pfizer apologist, who rushed to defend the company when they were called out for misleading people about transmssion.
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@dissident_the @ianbirrell @DrTedros @MarionKoopmans I'm guessing Tedros didn't let Koopmans immediately dismiss the lab leak as a "conspiracy".
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@KatherineEban @nytimes @zeynep @VanityFair That piece in the NY Times did a great job of resetting the discussion without fully explaining how the NY Times' own reporting got the discussion headed in the wrong direction in the first place.
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Who behaves like this, prancing around like a lion who caught a mouse, and posing as brave journalist? @HansMahncke @davidmackau @rkhamsi @KenWahl1 @PhaedraXTeddy.
Anthony Fauci funds millions of $$ in dangerous virus research & advises the President of the United States. So Buzzfeed investigated. a tiny animal rights group??? LIKE BAD COMEDIANS, SCIENCE WRITERS PUNCH DOWN #scicomm
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I'm very excited to see Kevin Folta on a Genetic Literacy Project podcast with Bayer lobbyist Trish Jordan. They've dropped all pretense and are finally doing a very public agchem group hug.
In this week’s @talkingbiotech, @Kevinfolta and @AggieCoolChick analyze the film Percy vs. Goliath, a film that attempts to tell the anti-GMO activist, Schmeiser’s, story.
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What is going on at MIT Technology Review? @kkakaes .@DavidRotman @Dsqporter @Ideoprax @ch_zimmer @SharriMarkson.
China’s Bat Lady Puts West on Alert: She’s Tired of Questions About Her Secret Military Research Beijing has disappeared seven media members for reporting on COVID-19, but allow Jane Qiu access to government researchers for celebrity interview on hair? /1
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Graphika is part of the censorship machinery that is accelerating this erosion of trust.
Tune in today to @Infonex at 1pm EST for a special presentation by Jack Stubbs (@jc_stubbs), VP of Intelligence at Graphika: “AI and Influence Operations - The Accelerating Erosion of Trust”. Register here:
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@BillyBostickson @CharlesRixey @Daoyu15 @thackerpd @PrometheusAM @R_H_Ebright @Maestermagoo @stuartjdneil @RadCentrism @Ayjchan @lab_leak @ydeigin @joshrogin ‘We can speak about this as censorship.’ Researcher Says The Lancet Silences Open Discussion on COVID-19 Origins .Professor questions why a top medical journal denies #PeterDaszak financial conflicts of interests. #OriginsOfCovid.
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FIXED: "Great article by my colleague @sciencecohen.".
Great article by @sciencecohen. Hits on how these 3 year old data could still clarify events upstream of the pandemic's epicenter at the Huanan market. And how the current revelations support already strong evidence of Huanan epicenter/wildlife origin.
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Hello, @elonmusk,. One account engaging in repeated, egregious weaponization of DMCA is @mem_somerville. She takes readily available photos posted online and has complained against @vixenvalentino.
Accounts engaging in repeated, egregious weaponization of DMCA on Twitter or encouraging weaponization of DMCA will receive temporary suspensions. That said, reasonable media takedown requests are, of course, appropriate and will always be supported.
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@Florin_Uncovers @mattwridley @JamieMetzl @thackerpd @ianbirrell @Ofcom @TDTV_Gaming @bbcpress @RobbieGibb @Tanni_GT @MorrisonCSIS @franunsworth @Dharmash @Jacqui_wak Court documents find NIH heavily redacts records in a haphazard fashion before making them public.
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Zeynep Tufekci is having an epistemic tresspassing crisis. @mikeydoubled @sarahkendzior @Princeton @MonicaGandhi9 @rbganatra @BitPaine @DrJudyStone @rajoyceUCB .@masknerd @rusty0216.
1) Partisans and social media influencers are attacking the science on masks, because they want. NEED masks to stop COVID. It's like a religion--an unseemly religion. And it needs to stop. But even Fauci had to admit on CNN the obvious.
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Alina Chan at Broad Institute of Harvard/MIT on Peter Daszak labeling her a conspiracy theorist for questioning if #COVID leaked from a lab, and why we need to find out how the #COVID19 pandemic began @jennbick1 @wils_yonan @deus_zu @MonaRahalkar.
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@canadianslovetv @sassy_girl1000 @PeterHotez Patrolling scientific discourse, Hotez has a knack for discovering "antiscience" in anyone who disagrees with him.
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@GalG____ That misleading statement on masks by Cochrane's Karla Soares-Weiser is now blowing up in her face. She's been forced to hire a pricey consulting firm to deal with the blowback from scientists.
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@C4Marchitecture @MichaelEMann @followlori @nemoid321 @thackerpd @curryja @PeterGleick @AndrewDessler @Camburnclimate @RARohde @KHayhoe @ClimateOfGavin @DrKateMarvel @coralsncaves @JacquelynGill @ed_hawkins @GlobalEcoGuy @KenCaldeira @ClimateHuman @debidanowski @hausfath @TedNordhaus @atrembath Michael Shellenberger constantley protests that he has no ties to industry. But for when he held protests against NRDC and the Sierra Club, half a dozen Exelon workers flew in from nuke plants across the country to collaborate with him.
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@thackerpd @curryja @PeterGleick @AndrewDessler @Camburnclimate @RARohde @KHayhoe @ClimateOfGavin @MichaelEMann @DrKateMarvel @coralsncaves @JacquelynGill @ed_hawkins @GlobalEcoGuy @KenCaldeira @ClimateHuman Kieran Suckling on Breakthrough Institute: “Those guys cannot take a shit without denouncing environmentalists as part of their message. At this point, it’s become an obsessive-compulsive disorder.” .
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Is this bad? Vraag voor een vriend. Marion Koopmans "debunks" lab hyphothesis for #originsofcovid
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@kevinpmiller @IamBrookJackson @KristinaMFiore @CherClarHealth Kristina Fiore & Cherly Clark should be ashamed. Pfizer COVID-19 Vaccine Clinical Trial Whistleblower's Documents Released Why can't MedPage Today do some reporting on vaccine clinical trials instead of resorting to silly "debunking" articles?
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Follow this thread to learn how FTI Consulting does #disinformation work for both the #GMO and #fossilfuel industries. @nongmoreport @DrNancyOlivieri @thomscotch @Jack_Heinemann @AgroecologyNow @therockyfiles @sejorg.
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@vixenvalentino @moodindi @mbalter @janeqiuchina @thackerpd @HL3133 @jhouse678 @HansMahncke @techreview @antonioregalado @pulitzercenter @sciam @nytimes @pfairley @EricLiptonNYT @dannyhakim More problems w/ Jane Qiu's attempt to dismiss facts on Chinese researcher Shi Zhengli
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Scientific American exposes the Bill Gates-funded "Cornell Alliance for Science". Bill Gates: Stop Telling Africans What Kind of Agriculture Africans Need @XRRichmondUK.@xryouthcambs @brunolanevik.@AlistairChisho4 @radfax.@neill_pippa @sarapeach /1.
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@followlori @nemoid321 @MichaelEMann @thackerpd @curryja @PeterGleick @AndrewDessler @Camburnclimate @RARohde @KHayhoe @ClimateOfGavin @DrKateMarvel @coralsncaves @JacquelynGill @ed_hawkins @GlobalEcoGuy @KenCaldeira @ClimateHuman @debidanowski Last January, @hausfath @TedNordhaus & @atrembath sent a letter to @MichaelEMann that assertions Breakthrough has ties to industry were "demonstrably false" Yet, they have ties to the natural gas industry /1.
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