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New article 📄:
Wrong Side of the Yangtze River: Did a Map Mistake by the World Health Organization Contribute to Premature Conclusions About SARS2's Origin?
zenodo.org/record/5153950#.Y…📄
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"The documents released by Paul corroborate allegations from whistleblower James Erdman, a career operations officer at the CIA who told the Senate committee on May 13 that Fauci was intimately involved in steering the intelligence community’s assessment of the origins of COVID-19 in 2021."
washingtonexaminer.com/news/…
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NEW PERJURY EVIDENCE? Fauci briefed Biden’s top intel and national security staff on the conclusions of his handpicked virologists.
Fauci had been working with a his pet virologists since Feb. 1, 2020, when he met via teleconference with the authors of the infamous “Proximal Origin” paper.
“Proximal Origin” insisted the virus was natural, even as its authors privately joked about a lab leak.
New docs include an email in which Francis Collins says that he and Fauci helped with the paper, contradicting Fauci’s sworn testimony before a congressional committee in 2024.
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NEW docs declassified by Tulsi Gabbard and released by Rand Paul on Fauci, COVID, and the Biodefense Blob. 🧵
Why did the U.S. work with a military lab in Wuhan?
A CIA report sets the stage: Bioweapons are harder to detect than nuclear weapons. Virologists should collect intel through conferences and labs.
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In this newly released email, Francis Collins explicitly states that he (then Director of NIH), Anthony Fauci (then Director of NIAID), Jeremy Farrar (then head of the Wellcome Trust), and "Larry" helped draft Proximal Origin--and that their involvement was "appropriately" hidden.
Failing to disclose their involvement at the time was unethical. More troubling, however, is that for years these individuals have continued to deny or minimize their roles rather than acknowledge them and accept responsibility...all while presenting themselves as champions of scientific integrity, honesty, and victims of unjust public attacks.
Nature Medicine, which published Proximal Origin, has been aware of these concerns for years. Yet rather than issuing an editorial expression of concern and initiating a formal investigation into whether this and other alleged ethical violations associated with the paper warrant retraction, the journal has done nothing.
But until the broader scientific community rejects rather than protects this type of behavior, and holds those that engage in it accountable, expect this unethical behavior to continue to be the norm.
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"Fauci wasn’t merely wrong about key aspects of his supposed field of expertise — from the effectiveness of masks to those completely arbitrary and nonscientific social distancing rules. It also seems clear that he outright lied about many things, including the extent to which the U.S. was funding gain-of-function virus research in the Chinese city where the first COVID cases were identified."
thehill.com/opinion/technolo…
Well argued
People sometimes claim that I am motivated to champion the lab leak theory of Covid origin by financial interest because I co-wrote a book about it.
But in the book we covered both sides of the debate.
And publishers paid me less for that book than any other I have written in decades.
I then halved that by sharing the authorship with @Ayjchan.
And I gave half of the remaining proceeds away to charity.
If money was my motivation I would never have written that book.
But if they really think money is such a motivator perhaps they could look into the far larger grants that those opposing the lab leak have received, and reflect on how those would have been at risk if they had gone against Anthony Fauci's insistence that the lab leak is a conspiracy theory.
WhatsInWuchang retweeted
In our analysis of the origin of Covid, @Ayjchan and I are often urged to speculate about exactly what happened but we resist going too far beyond the known facts.
Expertise and funds went from America to Wuhan a lot: that much is a fact. Sequence information was sometimes shared. It is possible that synthesised viruses and sequences were whizzing back and forth too but we have no evidence of this for SARS-CoV-2.
For several years before the pandemic, the Wuhan team had been successfully genetically engineering sarbecoviruses and experimenting with these in the lab.
They had surpassed Baric in the quantity of these experiments and, most importantly, had access to a still-secret trove of bat sarbecoviruses from the regions where SARS-CoV-2's closest relatives have been found.
Baric was the sorcerer, certainly, but it is far more likely that the accident happened to the apprentice.
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Outstanding documentation here.
Did Ralph Baric at UNC Create SARS-CoV-2? brownstone.org/articles/did-… via @brownstoneinst
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Tucker Carlson asked Joe Kent why the Thomas Crooks surveillance tapes haven’t been released.
Kent’s answer blew him away.
He explained the government deliberately withholds information to create noise with conspiracy theories, so the “actual question never gets answered.”
TUCKER: “The current president was the subject of a near-successful assassination attempt.”
“And we’re just not going to look into very obviously or divulge information that everyone knows they have.”
“For example, the surveillance tape from the shooting range at which Thomas Crooks trained, because it would answer the question, was he training with somebody?”
“And if so, who? They have that footage, and they won’t release it. What could possibly be the explanation for that?”
KENT: “I know what the result is. The result is people come to their own conclusions. And this is where crazy conspiracy theories come from.”
“And then those conspiracy theories usually are easy to ‘debunk’ or make the people saying them sound crazy. So then the actual question never gets answered.”
[Tucker laughs in awe]
TUCKER: “Sorry. Can you say that for people who haven’t lived in Washington?”
“I try to explain this to people all the time because this has been ongoing since at least the Kennedy assassination.”
“But this is a very serious and recurring thing. It’s a tactic. And you just explained it better than anyone I’ve ever heard. Can you just do that again?”
KENT: “So basically, you give no information whatsoever on something that’s obvious, that there should be information.”
“You outlined there’s potentially footage of Crooks at the shooting range. Again, police, 101, go get the tapes. Let’s figure it out.”
“If you don’t want to address that question, then you just go silent. You say, ‘you can’t ask that question,’ which then creates people who come out of kind of nowhere, and they start drawing their own conclusions.”
“Knowing the way the internet works, half of them, if not more, are probably going to be so far off in left field... that then you can just be like, Oh, these people asking these questions about that tape at the video range. Crazy conspiracy theorists.’”
“And so then you’ve just diverted all attention away from the thing that you’re trying to conceal. And now everyone’s focused on the crazies.”
TUCKER: “Man.”
KENT: “And then the second someone asks a legitimate question, they’re ‘crazy.’”
WhatsInWuchang retweeted
" The COVID response was a symptom of replacing the culture of questioning in science and medicine with a culture of authority
It didn't matter what was actually true... what mattered was whether you were aligned with authority. "
- Jay Bhattacharya, NIH Director.
WhatsInWuchang retweeted
In terms of predicting whether those involved in the COVID origins cover up will ever be held accountable--The decision by new NIH leadership to publish the new vision for NIAID in the same journal (Nat Med) led by the same chief editor (Joao Monteiro) that published 'Proximal Origin' six years earlier sends a clear signal that accountability is off the table & the public should move on.
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🥂Happy 6-Year Anniversary to the Big Lie!🥂
6 yrs ago today, Kristian Andersen, Andrew Rambaut, Ian Lipkin, Eddie Holmes, and Robert Garry published the fraudulent “Proximal Origin” paper, which claimed to “clearly show” that SARS-CoV-2 was not a product of intentional manipulation.
The now-notorious paper played a central role in spreading the false -- and pervasive -- narrative that the weight of scientific evidence ruled out a lab origin for COVID-19—a claim that Andersen and his colleagues continue to promote today.
In the years since, the misconduct surrounding its creation has been publicly exposed. A taxpayer-funded congressional investigation even concluded that Proximal Origin was the product of scientific misconduct.
And yet, the paper—and its authors—remain largely unaccountable.
If the scientific community cannot muster enough courage to retract such an egregious fraud, they are clearly not worthy of public trust.
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New FOIAs by @USRTK show US virologists proposed putting furin cleavage sites into viruses closely related to SARS-CoV-2 (Covid) AFTER the pandemic began.
There's still no gov oversight of privately funded work on pathogens that aren't select agents.
Two new stories:
NIH files reveal broader coronavirus engineering research before COVID-19
usrtk.org/covid-19-origins/n…
Emails show Wuhan scientist suggested hand-carrying research antibodies to China
usrtk.org/covid-19-origins/w…
Both stories via @lewiskamb @USRightToKnow
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Rep. Thomas Massie says Trump called him on the House floor after he pushed to release the Epstein files.
Trump told him three times: "I'm coming at you like you've never seen in your life."
It's defense if you bomb them first.
.@SecRubio: "The president made the very wise decision—we knew that there was going to be an Israeli action, we knew that that would precipitate an attack against American forces, and we knew that if we didn’t preemptively go after them before they launched those attacks, we would suffer higher casualties."
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Twenty years ago we invaded Iraq. The war killed many innocent Iraqis and Americans. It destroyed the oldest Christian populations in the world. It cost over $1 trillion, and turned Iraq into a satellite of Iran. It was an unforced disaster, and I pray that we learn its lessons.
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TITLE: Eight Years After Deposing Dr. Plotkin, the “Godfather of Vaccines,” He Sends Me a Letter
BYLINE: Plotkin writes he will be “credited for protecting millions of children” and I will be “responsible for dead and sick unvaccinated children”
After my book Vaccines, Amen was published, I received a letter from Dr. Stanley Plotkin, the “Godfather of Vaccines.” This is the first time in the eight years since I deposed him that he has contacted me, despite his endless public and private complaints and tirade related to that deposition.
His efforts in the months and years post-deposition included:
- having the WHO declare those hesitant to receive vaccines a global threat;
- demanding FDA amend vaccine package inserts to include more trial information (which never occurred because it does not exist);
- demanding CDC remove harms listed on vaccine information statements (such as removing “brain damage” from MMR’s vaccine information statement);
- holding a closed-door meeting in London with leading vaccinologists (his disciples) to produce studies to validate, not study, vaccine safety; and
- numerous other unfortunate acts designed to support his a priori beliefs regarding vaccines, hide their harms, and dehumanize anyone who questions his orthodoxy or declines to vaccinate.
Despite his best efforts, he was not able to put the truths he was forced to admit in that deposition back in the bottle; nor have his efforts succeeded in bullying everyone into injecting without thinking.
While the deposition, as he once wrote, was “traumatic” and “exhausted” him, my book has clearly pushed him far over the edge. Yet, again, and unsurprisingly, his only response, as you will see in his letter, is not about the substance of the book, but rather about how he (the world’s leading vaccinologist) needed more time to prepare for the deposition and that it went too long.
He does, again in usual vaccinologist style, end his letter with a conclusory unsupported claim, that he will be “credited for protecting millions of children” and I will be “responsible for dead and sick unvaccinated children.”
As you will see from his letter and my response, I made offers to give him a redo on the deposition as well as offered constructive steps towards protecting all children, including those injured by vaccines. He never responded to those overtures.
Given the lack of response, the best potential for these letters to do good is to make them public. I trust you will find that these letters provide sharp insight into the overall issue with vaccinology, vaccines, and the religion that Dr. Plotkin and his disciples have developed around these products.
Plotkin's letter: vaccinesamen.com/wp-content/…
My response letter: vaccinesamen.com/wp-content/…
