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@DavidSacks - David Sacks

WSJ: Covid came from a lab https://www.wsj.com/articles/covid-origin-china-lab-leak-807b7b0a

WSJ News Exclusive | Lab Leak Most Likely Origin of Covid-19 Pandemic, Energy Department Now Says U.S. agency’s revised assessment is based on new intelligence wsj.com

@DavidSacks - David Sacks

This was not hard to figure out and we would have understood it clearly at the outset of the virus were it not for a disinformation campaign by Fauci, Collins & NIH.

@DavidSacks - David Sacks

Why would Fauci do this? He was responsible for reversing a ban on gain-of-function research, then funded gain-of-function research at the Wuhan lab via a group called EcoHealth Alliance. In other words, he was complicit.

@DavidSacks - David Sacks

The prestige media eagerly spread Fauci’s disinformation, as @AshleyRindsberg showed.

@DavidSacks - David Sacks

Even a year ago, the NYT was still publishing ridiculous studies designed to muddy the waters. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/02/26/science/covid-virus-wuhan-origins.html

New Research Points to Wuhan Market as Pandemic Origin (Published 2022) Two new studies say the virus was present in animals at the Huanan seafood market in 2019. nytimes.com

@DavidSacks - David Sacks

Of course Big Tech enforced the official narrative through censorship. https://t.co/5wvGqAHuLT

@DavidSacks - David Sacks

Why is this story so important? It shows: 1) unelected government officials have huge power to pursue dangerous agendas. 2) rather than holding them accountable, corporate media cover for them. 3) tech censorship ends up promoting rather than suppressing “disinformation.”

@WarClandestine - Clandestine

1) If you all remember the NIH emails made available via FOIA, you’d recall Dutch Virologist, Ron Fouchier, said that lab-origin was a possibility, but said we shouldn’t talk about it because it would “do unnecessary harm to science”. https://oversight.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Letter-Re.-Feb-1-Emails-011122.pdf

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@WarClandestine - Clandestine

2) 2/2/2020; Francis Collins, Director of NIH, said that we should not discuss the possibility of lab-leak origin, because “voices of conspiracy will quickly dominate, doing great potential harm to science”. The @NIH wittingly hid SARS-CoV-2’s lab origins to protect “science”. https://t.co/aT7UuG4plL

@WarClandestine - Clandestine

3) Despite the best efforts of Collins and Fauci to keep the lid on the lab origins of SARS-CoV-2, the public weren’t buying it. The theory of Wuhan Lab origin began to spread. 4/16/2020, Collins asked if the NIH could “put down this destructive conspiracy”. ie, the truth… https://t.co/lvZhCVXa2X

@WarClandestine - Clandestine

4) In which Fauci responded with “I would not do anything about this right now. It’s a shiny object that will go away with time.” Meaning Fauci thinks the masses are stupid and will quickly forget about the fact that a human-engineered pathogen just killed millions worldwide. https://t.co/Ndp1o9H1ie

@WarClandestine - Clandestine

5) So the world’s top virologists and biologists told US gov health officials that SARS-CoV-2 likely came from a lab, but they decided to cover it up, to “protect science”. Hiding the truth doesn’t sound very “scientific”. Full NIH email breakdown here. /END

@shellenberger - Michael Shellenberger

Fauci says “I can’t, as a scientist, ignore the historical perspective” that HIV came from the wild, and thus that Covid might have too. In fact, a good scientist would seek to disconfirm one’s experiences & biases. Instead, he sought to reinforce them. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/28/opinion/covid-lab-leak-theory-disinformation.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Opinion | Dr. Fauci Could Have Said a Lot More (Published 2023) If officials don’t trust the public, the public won’t trust them. nytimes.com

@shellenberger - Michael Shellenberger

Anybody who says, “I represent science,” is anti-science. Science is a collective process by individuals who disagree. It is always provisional, always changing, and never represented by a single person. Fauci is arrogant, dogmatic, & authoritarian. https://www.axios.com/2021/11/28/fauci-republican-critics

Fauci: Republican detractors are "criticizing science" "I'm just going to do my job and I'm going to be saving lives and they're going to be lying." axios.com

@shellenberger - Michael Shellenberger

This is anti-science: “Our main work over the last couple weeks has been focused on trying to disprove any type of lab theory,” said a researcher, Kristian Andersen. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/28/opinion/covid-lab-leak-theory-disinformation.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Opinion | Dr. Fauci Could Have Said a Lot More (Published 2023) If officials don’t trust the public, the public won’t trust them. nytimes.com

@shellenberger - Michael Shellenberger

Who’s peddling stereotypes?

@shellenberger - Michael Shellenberger

"Trying to clean up disinformation by quashing ideas that somebody — a government employee, an academic think tank, a social media team — deems undesirable? This creates its own dangers. I’ve spent too many years in censored countries like Egypt, Russia and China to believe that our disinformation problem can be solved by monitoring speech and sorting out acceptable from unacceptable ideas."

@shellenberger - Michael Shellenberger

Fauci looks down on ordinary Americans. "He had, at other times, displayed a Hamiltonian distrust of ordinary people: when he admitted to lying about the benefits of masking because he feared panicked shoppers would buy up all the masks needed by frontline workers, or when he confessed to repeatedly nudging the herd-immunity target higher according to what he thought Americans could bear, apparently applying the boiling-frog theory to our collective tolerance for restrictions.... "It’s almost impossible to sort this out for the general public to understand.”

@shellenberger - Michael Shellenberger

Called it:

@shellenberger - Michael Shellenberger

The individuals who self-selected to secretly censor the American people think they are better than you. They believe that, because they read The New York Times, they are experts in every subject. They are the most dangerous people in America. https://public.substack.com/p/the-most-dangerous-people-in-america

"The Most Dangerous People In America Right Now" Excerpts of interviews with Die Welt and Weltwoche about the censorship-industrial complex public.news

@shellenberger - Michael Shellenberger

Who are the censors? They are a familiar type. Overly confident in their ability to discern truth from falsity, good intention from bad intention, the instinct of these hall monitor-types is to complain to the teacher — and, if the teacher doesn’t comply, to go above them, to the principal. Such an approach might work in middle school and many elite universities, but it is anathema to freedom and is an abuse of power. https://public.substack.com/p/exposed-americas-secret-censorship

EXPOSED: America's Secret Censorship-Industrial Complex U.S. government officials, agencies, and contractors are violating the First Amendment public.news

@shellenberger - Michael Shellenberger

This piece by @Megankstack is one of the best things I've read on the will-to-censor by the self-appointed hall monitor class Glad to see it @nytimes https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/28/opinion/covid-lab-leak-theory-disinformation.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Opinion | Dr. Fauci Could Have Said a Lot More (Published 2023) If officials don’t trust the public, the public won’t trust them. nytimes.com

@shellenberger - Michael Shellenberger

Hopefully this is a sign that some within the mainstream media are rebelling not only against Fauci and scientism but also against the Censorship Industrial Complex.

@equal_ibrium - Vital Resistance

Something has been bothering me It is increasingly apparent that many people suspicious covid started via some kind of lab leak also pushed for what I consider to be very harmful, unjust and ineffective measures (including excluding “the unvaccinated” from society). 1/14

@equal_ibrium - Vital Resistance

At first this struck me as odd. I assumed they would share others’ skepticism about many other pandemic issues. But it makes a kind of sense: the worse covid is believed to be, the stronger is the impetus to curtail dangerous and downright reckless research. 2/14

@equal_ibrium - Vital Resistance

On the other hand, those of us against lockdowns, vax mandates, “zero covid,” masking children, and many other issues tend to emphasise that covid always posed a risk to a minority of society. Even *if* restrictions delayed some infections, they caused immense social harms. 3/14

@equal_ibrium - Vital Resistance

The GBD, which has been senselessly slandered as “libertarian” or “let it rip,” called for #FocusedProtection because it was apparent from the get-go that covid was overwhelmingly a risk to the very elderly. See Swiss data https://bfs.admin.ch/bfs/en/home/statistics/health/state-health/mortality-causes-death.html 4/14 https://www.bfs.admin.ch/bfs/en/home/statistics/health/state-health/mortality-causes-death.html 4/14

Mortality, causes of death Development of the number of deaths and the mortality rate, mortality over the year, mortality by age and gender bfs.admin.ch

@equal_ibrium - Vital Resistance

We knew this very early. Chinese CDC data showed the same age distribution, though we did not have an exact idea of the total no. of infections then. But by April 2020 @MartinKulldorff was forced to publish this basic observation on LinkedIn because no media would touch it. 5/14

@MartinKulldorff - Martin Kulldorff

"Since COVID-19 operates in a highly age specific manner, mandated counter measures must also be age specific. If not, lives will be unnecessarily lost." https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/covid-19-counter-measures-should-age-specific-martin-kulldorff/

COVID-19 Counter Measures Should be Age Specific Among COVID-19 exposed individuals, people in their 70s have roughly twice the mortality of those in their 60s, 10 times the mortality of those in their 50s, 40 times that of those in their 40s, 100 times that of those in their 30s, 300 times that of those in their 20s, and a mortality that is more linkedin.com

@equal_ibrium - Vital Resistance

Whether covid began as a natural spillover or as a laboratory related incident is irrelevant to the policy of focused protection. SARS-CoV-2 was always here to stay, whether it was begun by a pangol.. oh wait.. raccoon dog or synthesised in a lab. 6/14

@equal_ibrium - Vital Resistance

Either way, we were all destined to get it and we should have used our collective immunity to protect those at serious risk for as long as possible. That was why herd immunity was invoked - it denoted the collective nature of the problem/response. https://statnews.com/2022/03/25/how-we-got-herd-immunity-wrong/ 7/15 https://www.statnews.com/2022/03/25/how-we-got-herd-immunity-wrong/ 7/15

How we got herd immunity wrong Herd immunity was always our greatest asset for protecting vulnerable people, but public health failed to use it wisely. statnews.com

@equal_ibrium - Vital Resistance

Contrary to popular belief, @DrJBhattacharya @MartinKulldorff @SunetraGupta were very clear on the need to protect the vulnerable, not “let it rip.” For e.g. the GBD suggested using recovered workers in care homes and focusing testing there https://gbdeclaration.org 8/14 https://gbdeclaration.org 8/14

Great Barrington Declaration and Petition Great Barrington Declaration - As infectious disease epidemiologists & public health scientists we have grave concerns about the damaging physical & mental health impacts of the prevailing COVID-19 policies, & recommend an approach we call Focused Protection. gbdeclaration.org

@equal_ibrium - Vital Resistance

Soon after they wrote the GBD, they outlined possible interventions for four specific vulnerable groups: nursing home residents, elderly living at home, elderly still in workforce, elderly in multigenerational households. GBD never meant do nothing. https://newsweek.com/we-should-focus-protecting-vulnerable-covid-infection-opinion-1543225?amp=1… 9/14 https://www.newsweek.com/we-should-focus-protecting-vulnerable-covid-infection-opinion-1543225?amp=1 9/14

We Should Focus on Protecting the Vulnerable from COVID Infection Immediately replacing lockdowns with focused protection will reduce the long-run harm to the old and young alike. newsweek.com

@equal_ibrium - Vital Resistance

To return to the point of the … The divisions between those concerned by pandemic restrictions and those querying its origin threaten to divide the broad united front that will be essential to successfully having ALL of these issues properly investigated. 10/14

@equal_ibrium - Vital Resistance

Irrespective of how severe we think the virus is/was, BOTH the origin AND the authoritarian response to covid need to be ruthlessly interrogated. 11/14

@equal_ibrium - Vital Resistance

We should be united in our criticism of a certain retired immunologist who was partly responsible for much of what happened->from labelling people “fringe epidemiologists” to “conspiracy theorists.” Personally, I am sus. of anything he and other comparable figures claimed. 12/14

@equal_ibrium - Vital Resistance

So please, if you think governments overreacted but LL is a conspiracy theory, consider that it is the same officials who label LL a conspiracy theory who pushed us to shut down schools, close borders, mask two year olds, and destroy the very fabric of our societies. 13/14

@equal_ibrium - Vital Resistance

Meanwhile, if you are committed to investigating origins but think it appropriate to mock/dismiss those who you believe “downplayed” covid b/c they didn’t agree with you on the nature of the threat, please consider reassessing your opinion of, for example, @gbdeclaration 14/14

@equal_ibrium - Vital Resistance

A final caveat: everyone should feel free to respond to this thread. But I would ask that this not become a place for precisely the types of confrontations I am suggesting we avoid. Please be courteous, curious, and polite, or just observe 🙏

@ggreenwald - Glenn Greenwald

At the pandemic's start, there were 2 competing theories for COVID's origin: 1) The Chinese have such filthy, primitive food markets where the virus jumped to humans; 2) A leak from US-funded research at the Wuhan lab. Somehow: theory (2), not (1), was branded racist.

@ggreenwald - Glenn Greenwald

At the start, top virologists/epidemiologists wrote to Fauci to say COVID was likely from a lab leak, not natural. Within a week, Fauci - who funded that research - imposed a consensus that a lab leak was "debunked," and Big Tech censored any debate: https://rumble.com/v2b6gvg--system-update-47.html

Covid Origins: After Years of Crushing Dissent, Government Backtracks on Lab Leak Hypothesis | SYSTEM UPDATE #47 Livestream begins at 6:42. Now available as a podcast! Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7nIQct5mbPPYV4dFiseLWv?si=P_juIOn-RwWmn0me7W9HRg Listen on Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple rumble.com

@ggreenwald - Glenn Greenwald

It was only when the Biden Admin said it had doubts that debate was allowed. Now, the Energy Dept's most elite scientific team (and FBI) says lab leak was most likely. Fauci so clearly acted to protect himself by deceiving the public. So little interest now in finding out.

@ggreenwald - Glenn Greenwald

And, of course, "disinformation experts" - the world's worst hoax - reinforced this lie by branding lab leak "debunked" and urging it to be censored. This wasn't about blaming China. It was about protecting the US and Fauci. They funded the research. https://theintercept.com/2021/09/06/new-details-emerge-about-coronavirus-research-at-chinese-lab/

New Details Emerge About Coronavirus Research at Chinese Lab More than 900 pages of materials related to U.S.-funded coronavirus research in China were released following a FOIA lawsuit by The Intercept. theintercept.com

@shellenberger - Michael Shellenberger

In Feb. 2020, after a @nypost oped said COVID-19 came from a lab leak, Facebook censored the story. Why? Because "independent fact-checkers" said it was "False information." Not only was it true information, one of the fact-checkers had worked at the lab https://nypost.com/2020/04/17/facebook-fact-checkers-foul-again-after-censoring-post-story/amp/

Facebook’s ‘fact checkers’ are the real fake news after censoring Post story Way back on Feb. 23, The Post ran an opinion piece by Steven Mosher saying that we couldn’t trust China’s story about the origins of COVID-19. He argued that the virus might — might — have jumped t… nypost.com

@shellenberger - Michael Shellenberger

Ten months later, Facebook and Twitter censored @nypost for another accurate article, this time about Hunter Biden's laptop

@shellenberger - Michael Shellenberger

As such, the @nypost , which reporters @nytimes & @washingtonpost sneer at for being a "tabloid," got two of the biggest stories of 2020 right, while the Times and the Post — which called the lab leak a racist and "debunked conspiracy theory — got it horribly wrong.

@shellenberger - Michael Shellenberger

Twitter & Facebook execs sided with media that confirmed their partisan assumptions rather than allow the debate to occur. And Facebook continues its ideologically one-sided censorship today, censoring a reasonable debate over who blew up Nordsream

@shellenberger - Michael Shellenberger

Facebook censored me in 2020 after I accurately said natural disasters were getting better, not worse, resulting in fewer deaths and causing less economic damage, when accounting for more wealth in harm's way, than they had in the past.

@shellenberger - Michael Shellenberger

Here's the data showing declining disasters as a result of fewer deaths and declining costs from extreme weather events. This data is uncontroversial and uncontested. And yet Facebook continues to censor me for sharing this accurate information.

@shellenberger - Michael Shellenberger

Nearly 5M people on Twitter have seen, and nearly 7k have shared, our bombshell exclusive yesterday. Just 5 people — 5, not 5M, nor 5k — shared our bombshell exclusive on Facebook. Facebook operates blacklists and engages in partisan, ideological censorship

@shellenberger - Michael Shellenberger

Join us in at 7 pm, June 22, at Westminster Central Hall, London, UK, where we will expose the Censorship Industrial Complex! Get your tickets now! https://www.musicglue.com/good-faith-productions/events/2023-06-22-censorship-industrial-complex-exposed-westminster-central-hall

CENSORSHIP INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX EXPOSED at Westminster Central Hall, London on 22 Jun 2023 Buy tickets for CENSORSHIP INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX EXPOSED at Westminster Central Hall, London musicglue.com

@shellenberger - Michael Shellenberger

We now know that covid started in a lab and that the US government has known for a long time that the first people to get sick were the scientists working on gain of function research, which makes viruses more infectious https://t.co/GF7JL36ijr

@KanekoaTheGreat - KanekoaTheGreat

NEW — Leaked messages from the authors of the 2020 "Proximal Origin" paper, which denied COVID-19's lab origin, expose scientific fraud and misconduct as they express disbelief in their paper's own conclusions. Dr. Anthony Fauci, an advocate of gain-of-function research, secretly commissioned the paper and later cited it at the White House podium to dismiss the lab leak theory as a "conspiracy theory." The paper, which resulted in social media companies banning accounts and censoring discussions on the lab leak, concluded, “Our analyses clearly show that SARS-CoV-2 is not a laboratory construct or a purposefully manipulated virus.” The author's private messages expose a different story. Dr. Kristian Andersen: "The lab escape version of this is so friggin likely to have happened because they were already doing this type of work & the molecular data is fully consistent with that scenario." "The main issue is that accidental escape is in fact highly likely-it's not some fringe theory." Dr. Andrew Rambaut: "Given the shit show that would happen if anyone serious accused the Chinese of even accidental release... We cannot possibly distinguish between natural evolution and escape so we are content with ascribing it to natural processes." "Lab passaging might also generate this mutation." Dr. Ian Lipkin "I am concerned that scientists at the Wuhan Institute of Virology did not take adequate precautions when growing bat viruses." "[There is still] the possibility of inadvertent release following adaptation through selection in culture at the Institute in Wuhan." Dr. Edward Holmes: "No way selection could occur in the market. Too low a density of mammals: really just small groups of 3-4 in cases." "Ian Lipkin just called - very worried about the furin cleavage site and says that high ups are too, inc intel." Dr. Robert Garry "Transmitting a bat virus-like RatG13 in HeLa cells and then asking your graduate student to insert a furin site... would get you there. It's not crackpot to suggest this could have happened given the Gain of Function research we know is happening." "I'm thinking mostly about the PRRA to generate the furin site. Relatively easy to drop 12 bases in. The proline is the hang-up - why add that? Makes me think the cell culture passage scenario [in a laboratory] is possible/probably assuming this has in fact been observed before by Farzan and Fouchier." --- Due to the authors' private statements contradicting their scientific conclusions, which led to global censorship of the lab leak possibility, Nature Medicine should retract the "Proximal Origin" paper. If COVID-19 potentially resulted from gain-of-function research, why does the United States continue to fund such research domestically and internationally? For more information on covid-19 origins: @R_H_Ebright@emilyakopp @Ayjchan @AGHuff @ydeigin @HansMahncke @themarketswork @TheSeeker268 @LawrenceSellin@DrLiMengYAN1@thackerpd @BillyBostickson @mtaibbi @shellenberger (Graphic created by @RAEMKA1

@KanekoaTheGreat - KanekoaTheGreat

NEW — Leaked messages from the authors of the 2020 "Proximal Origin" paper, which denied COVID-19's lab origin, expose scientific fraud and misconduct as they express disbelief in their paper's own conclusions. Dr. Anthony Fauci, an advocate of gain-of-function research,…

@DrLiMengYAN1 - Dr. Li-Meng YAN

@KanekoaTheGreat The genetic modification done on #COVID19 virus is more than just the insertion of the furin cleavage site (FCS). The receptor-binding motif (RBM) was also engineered. Importantly, this RBM modification is what determines that the virus can infect human cells. • The smoking gun…

@DrLiMengYAN1 - Dr. Li-Meng YAN

@KanekoaTheGreat Basically, we described the Receptor Binding Motif (RBM, which is more specific than RBD - Receptor Binding Domain) engineering of Spike protein, and the related smoking gun evidence in the First Yan Report (page 5-14). https://zenodo.org/record/4028830 #COVID19Engineering…

Unusual Features of the SARS-CoV-2 Genome Suggesting Sophisticated Laboratory Modification Rather Than Natural Evolution and Delineation of Its Probable Synthetic Route The COVID-19 pandemic caused by the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 has led to over 910,000 deaths worldwide and unprecedented decimation of the global economy. Despite its tremendous impact, the origin of SARS-CoV-2 has remained mysterious and controversial. The natural origin theory, although widely accepted, lacks substantial support. The alternative theory that the virus may have come from a research laboratory is, however, strictly censored on peer-reviewed scientific journals. Nonetheless, SARS-CoV-2 shows biological characteristics that are inconsistent with a naturally occurring, zoonotic virus. In this report, we describe the genomic, structural, medical, and literature evidence, which, when considered together, strongly contradicts the natural origin theory. The evidence shows that SARS-CoV-2 should be a laboratory product created by using bat coronaviruses ZC45 and/or ZXC21 as a template and/or backbone. Building upon the evidence, we further postulate a synthetic route for SARS-CoV-2, demonstrating that the laboratory-creation of this coronavirus is convenient and can be accomplished in approximately six months. Our work emphasizes the need for an independent investigation into the relevant research laboratories. It also argues for a critical look into certain recently published data, which, albeit problematic, was used to support and claim a natural origin of SARS-CoV-2. From a public health perspective, these actions are necessary as knowledge of the origin of SARS-CoV-2 and of how the virus entered the human population are of pivotal importance in the fundamental control of the COVID-19 pandemic as well as in preventing similar, future pandemics.   Publication Note (July 17th, 2021): The three Yan reports used scientific evidence and analyses to prove that SARS-CoV-2 is an Unrestricted Bioweaponcreated by military scientists of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) regime. These reports have played a pivotal role in revealing the true identity of the ongoing Unrestricted Biowarfare. For this reason, the CCP and its allies have been constantly launching attacks at the Yan Reports. Very recently, the Rule of Law Foundation (ROLF) and Rule of Law Society (ROLS), which we have listed as our honorary affiliation in our reports, requested Zenodo to have the original uploads of our reports closed. This was done by the ROLF & ROLS without informing us authors or seeking our agreement. This is unacceptable because the work was done by us authors independently with no financial assistance provided by the ROLF & ROLS or any other organization. Their action here has no scientific basis and is against the rules of scientific publications. To restore the availability of our reports to the world, we have therefore re-uploaded the three Yan reports. Our affiliation has been changed to Yan Research – An Independent Research Team. The current report was originally published on September 14th, 2020. As of July 16th, 2021, the original Zenodoupload of it has been viewed 1,339,786 times and downloaded 797,325 times. Upon mutual agreement, Dr. Jie Guan opted out of this publication and his contributions have instead been specified in the acknowledgements. zenodo.org

@Sunductivity - Sonny

@DrLiMengYAN1 @KanekoaTheGreat You go girl

@Robert0Devlin - Robert Devlin

@DrLiMengYAN1 @KanekoaTheGreat Well done & you're presentation is spot on. Thank you Dr. Yan.

@spudflyer - Grave New World

@DrLiMengYAN1 @KanekoaTheGreat @reSeeIt save thread

@KiayuSun - Kiayu Sun

@DrLiMengYAN1 @KanekoaTheGreat Thank you

@kiki30919347 - kiki

@DrLiMengYAN1 @KanekoaTheGreat love ur work

@iplaypokerbro - Bro

@DrLiMengYAN1 @KanekoaTheGreat Yep. Exactly 💯

@shellenberger - Michael Shellenberger

Anthony Fauci, who oversaw America's response to the Covid pandemic, famously said, "I represent the science." But new evidence suggests that Fauci was behind a disinformation campaign to dismiss evidence that the virus escaped from a Chinese lab. @galexybrane

@shellenberger - Michael Shellenberger

Anthony Fauci Behind Covid Origins Disinformation, Evidence Suggests Communications between scientists show pressure from “higher ups” to dismiss the lab leak theory of Covid origins by @galexybrane Last week Public and Racket revealed that top researchers privately believed a lab leak was plausible despite claiming to rule it out in a hugely influential March 2020 paper, “The Proximal Origin of SARS-CoV-2.” These revelations have led to growing calls by neutral observers for Nature Medicine to retract the paper. “I’m not a big petition guy,” said statistician Nate Silver, “but if Nature isn't ready to retract this paper on their own that's a big L for their credibility and about as clear a sign as you can get that they're elevating politics above science.” Roger Pielke, Jr., a leading science policy expert, wrote, “The case for retracting Proximal Origins is overwhelming because we now know, undeniably, that it was seriously flawed and misleading.” Yet on July 22, Nature Medicine’s editor-in-chief, Joao Monteiro, told The Telegraph that a retraction was “not warranted” because the paper was a “point of view” and not a research study. In 2020, however, Nature Medicine and the paper’s authors presented “Proximal Origin” as a peer-reviewed analysis, not as an opinion piece. Then-director of the National Institute of Allergies and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), Anthony Fauci, upheld the paper as definitive scientific research, and the World Health Organization (WHO) used it as a basis for ruling out “deliberate bioengineering” in its own origins investigation. It appears that Nature Medicine is framing this paper as a “point of view” because the authors’ private Slack messages show that they had major misgivings about their own evidence and findings. The question now turns to why the scientists decided to rule out “any laboratory-based scenario” despite privately recognizing that such a scenario was, indeed, highly plausible. As Public documented, the process of writing “Proximal Origin” was a scramble for intermediate species — first, ferrets, and then pangolins — to explain how the virus could have jumped from bats to humans. And even then, the scientists did not fully believe their own explanation. In April 2020, two months after the pre-print of “Proximal Origin,” Andersen and the other authors still had doubts about the zoonotic spillover hypothesis. The authors now claim that their decision to mislead the public and conceal information was simply “scientists doing science,” but the discrepancy between their public and private statements is simply too large to justify. Good scientists frequently make painstaking observations before they can come to conclusions. Data must be collected, often multiple times. Analyses must be conducted and re-conducted to ensure that the findings are sound. There are good reasons for such patience. Science has for years been in what is known as a “replication crisis.” Efforts to replicate the findings of even famous studies have repeatedly failed, in multiple disciplines. And the cost to scientists’ reputations and careers of rushing to judgment is high, as the recent demands for the retraction of “Proximal Origin” show. So why, then, did the “Proximal Origin” scientists risk their reputations by pushing forward with a poorly-reasoned paper? For their three months of discussion, the authors were keenly aware of the political implications of a lab leak. If anyone accused China of releasing the virus, it would be a “shit show,” Andrew Rambaut of the University of Edinburgh said. But political concerns alone do not explain the authors’ decision to publish. They knew that completely discounting a “laboratory-based scenario” was unwise and that they lacked sufficient evidence to do so. “As to publishing this document in a journal, I am currently not in favor of doing so. I believe publishing something that is open-ended could backfire at this state,” Andersen wrote on February 8, 2020. “I think it’s important that we try to gather additional evidence — including waiting on the pangolin viral sequences and further scrutinize the furin cleave site and O-linked glycans — before publishing.” We know though, that the group never did find conclusive pangolin sequences. “Unfortunately the pangolins don’t help clarify the story,” Andersen wrote on February 20, three days after the authors published their pre-print. If Andersen didn’t get the evidence he said was needed, why did he publish? The authors were also aware of the fact that misrepresenting the data would be unethical. On February 9, Robert Garry of Tulane University argued that not addressing accidental infection in a lab would look “like a cover up.” And again, on February 17, Garry asserted that ruling out accidental release would lead to “cries of COVER-UP.” So why did the “Proximal Origin” scientists end up jeopardizing their status and esteem by rushing to publish a paper they knew was misleading? And who ultimately pushed them to engage in this cover-up?

@shellenberger - Michael Shellenberger

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@shellenberger - Michael Shellenberger

First they said it was a "debunked conspiracy theory." Then they said Covid lab leak was a minority view. Now, it appears that FBI, DOE, and CIA all believe it came from a lab, and that CIA analysts were paid to reverse their assessment. US intel is dangerously corrupted. https://t.co/GSBT4eQsbX

@shellenberger - Michael Shellenberger

US Intelligence Dangerously Compromised, Warn CIA And FBI Whistleblowers New CIA whistleblower alleges that agency used monetary incentives to undermine search for Covid origins, echoing allegations by FBI whistleblowers last May by @galexybrane & @shellenberger There is no expert consensus on whether Covid originated in nature or leaked from a lab, we’ve been told. According to a report from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), released in June, the American intelligence community is divided: two intelligence agencies believed the virus had a lab origin, five agencies concluded that the origin was natural, and two were unable to reach conclusions. But intelligence analysts may be more united behind the lab leak hypothesis than we’ve been led to believe. According to a new whistleblower, six of seven CIA analysts assigned to determine the virus’ origin believed Covid came from a lab in China, but reversed their assessments after they were given “a significant monetary incentive to change their position.” If true, the CIA may have engaged in a coverup. Neither the Office of the Inspector General of the CIA nor of the Intelligence Community has confirmed the whistleblower’s allegations. One or both offices may contest the whistleblower’s account. And the CIA is just one of 18 US intelligence agencies. But the CIA remains the “first among equals” among intelligence agencies, and the whistleblower is a multi-decade senior-level officer, said the chairman of the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic, who revealed the new information in a letter yesterday. The CIA whistleblower’s allegations add to suspicions that ODNI misrepresented US intelligence on COVID-19’s origins. In its June report, ODNI did not reveal the names of the Wuhan Institute of Virology scientists who fell ill in the fall of 2019, as the Covid Origins Act required, even though, according to reporting by both Public and The Wall Street Journal, the intelligence community knew their names. The whistleblower’s allegations fit into a pattern of obfuscation and deception that have distorted not only the Covid origins debate, but other major intelligence assessments, as well. The government has become extremely comfortable with lying to us.

@shellenberger - Michael Shellenberger

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@howertonjosh - Josh Howerton

🧵Christians & Conspiracy Theories🧵 There’s a growing trend of characterizing Christians who question a public narrative as unhinged “conspiracy theorists” guilty of “theological paranoia” But this is to ignore what’s obviously happening (admittedly incendiary examples below)

@howertonjosh - Josh Howerton

2 thoughts, then examples: A) Xians are to be “sober-minded” and SHOULDN’T childishly rush to believe (w/o evidence) theories bc they don’t like a narrative B) But, the list of things once labeled “conspiracy theories” that ended up having truth in them is long. Random order:

@howertonjosh - Josh Howerton

1A: Pre-2013, rumblings of the NSA spying on the American populace was a “conspiracy theory” https://t.co/36LvidDzw0

@howertonjosh - Josh Howerton

1B: But then… https://t.co/LQsLhFfW8C

@howertonjosh - Josh Howerton

2A: Originally, President Trump’s claim that he was spied on during his administration / campaign was a “conspiracy theory” https://t.co/Na7YnbfrU5

@howertonjosh - Josh Howerton

2B: However eventually… https://t.co/TIW5Hdasz6

@howertonjosh - Josh Howerton

3A: Famously, the Hunter Biden laptop story was originally a “conspiracy theory” that was “Russian disinformation” https://t.co/SnhUtUJc2f

@howertonjosh - Josh Howerton

3B: But then… https://t.co/Ne7aMW1HV1

@howertonjosh - Josh Howerton

4A: Originally, suggestions COVID leaked from a Wuhan lab were characterized as a “fringe conspiracy theory” https://t.co/lncXzYAw1W

@howertonjosh - Josh Howerton

4B: Eventually… https://t.co/M2kWtCMTWD

@howertonjosh - Josh Howerton

5: Original speculation the FBI may have been involved in a 2020 plot to kidnap Governor Whitmer was characterized as a “far-right conspiracy theory” However, the accused men were eventually acquitted upon discovery of FBI agents’ involvement https://t.co/xNdddP7KsD

@howertonjosh - Josh Howerton

6: That President Trump colluded with Russia during the 2016 election was originally presented as a fact, and assertions contrary were “conspiracy theories” However… https://t.co/EMlOijpfA8

@howertonjosh - Josh Howerton

7: Originally, questions about the efficacy of mask mandates were censored as “misinformation” But then… https://t.co/wu3RkFl4GH

@howertonjosh - Josh Howerton

8A: Suggestions of inflated COVID death-rates were initially a “far-right meme” conspiracy theory https://t.co/3zqDfVkjoy

@howertonjosh - Josh Howerton

8B: But then… https://t.co/wxmfpdTuNj

@howertonjosh - Josh Howerton

9: Questions about NIH funds contributing to gain-of-function research for COVID were initially “conspiracy theories” Eventually… https://t.co/M4ydByIyrm

@howertonjosh - Josh Howerton

10A: Originally, questions about US Navy involvement in the destruction of the Nord Stream pipeline were conspiracy theories you only believed if you “consumed too much propaganda” https://t.co/qqbHqA7Cce

@howertonjosh - Josh Howerton

10B: Eventually published by Pulitzer Prize winning journalist, Seymour Hersh https://t.co/bBJHXD7x5A

@howertonjosh - Josh Howerton

11: Honestly, too gross to publicly discuss for me, but… https://t.co/NgASVhham6

@howertonjosh - Josh Howerton

12A: Initially, questions about hydroxychloroquine as an effective treatment for COVID were “conspiracies” https://t.co/sLI67FwJ5I

@howertonjosh - Josh Howerton

12B: CNN https://t.co/r7Dw09UceB

@howertonjosh - Josh Howerton

13: Original concerns that government agencies collaborated with social media companies to censor political voices leading up to the 2020 election were "conspiracy theories" However... https://t.co/RJDWJ3KDW3

@howertonjosh - Josh Howerton

14: Initial assertions about the sufficiency of natural immunity from COVID were censored as "disinformation" However... https://t.co/3qn52Km3Rq

@howertonjosh - Josh Howerton

SUMMARY: The above should NOT be foolishly taken as a reason to believe wild, unfounded (and often deranged) theories that don’t comport with reality or have serious evidence (flat-earth, lizard people… some of y’all are WEIRD!”)…

@howertonjosh - Josh Howerton

But, there are 2 ways to be gullible: 1) Rushing to, without evidence, believe conspiracy theories bc it’s what you want to believe (a sin) 2) Failing to understand it’s now a control-tactic to stigmatize any counter-narrative by labeling it a “conspiracy theory”

@EndWokeness - End Wokeness

UPDATE: We bullied Snopes into changing their fact-check. They now admit that Joe Biden wore his hard hat backwards. https://t.co/xvMgQ0e9LC

@EndWokeness - End Wokeness

Snopes fact-check: "Biden wore a hard hat backwards" is misinformation Who are you going to believe: Snopes or your lying eyes? https://t.co/p30Qu0uWlY

@AGHuff - Andrew G. Huff, PhD, MS 🇺🇸

🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨 EcoHealth Alliance claimed that they didn’t make COVID in a lab because “they had not received the DARPA funding.” These FOIA documents prove that EcoHealth Alliance lied and they engineered COVID in a lab even though they had not received the DARPA funding. https://t.co/Ps2nzloPRT

@thackerpd - Paul D. Thacker

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. https://www.pauldthacker.com/blog/#/ Let's look at the facts.

The DisInformation Chronicle - Paul D. Thacker I'm an American investigative journalist based in Spain and former Fellow at the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard. I've written on scientific ethics for outlets including the New York Times, BMJ Investigations, JAMA, Washington Post, NEJM, Los Angeles Times, The New Republic, Slate, and Mother Jones. I also spent several years in the U.S. Senate investigating corruption and conflicts of interest in science and medicine.  pauldthacker.com

@thackerpd - Paul D. Thacker

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.

@thackerpd - Paul D. Thacker

3) The regulator found that Pfizer began spreading vaccine misinformation in 2020 to promote their COVID vaccine, meaning Pfizer was misleading the public about their vaccine throughout the pandemic. Even before they had completed clinical trials!

@thackerpd - Paul D. Thacker

4) The ruling came from the PMCPA which the pharma trade organization ABPI set up in 1993. Oh, and ABPI is now led by a Pfizer person. It's that bad. Pfizer got rapped by a group set up by the pharma org now run by Pfizer. It's like Pfizer is appalled by Pfizer.

@thackerpd - Paul D. Thacker

5) This is the 6th finding against Pfizer by the Pfizer-friendly watchdog. Another example was reported back in 2022 when CEO Albert Bourla spread vaccine misinformation on the BBC. Why didn't the BBC catch this, @rachelschraer?

@thackerpd - Paul D. Thacker

6) When I looked back over the pandemic, I found a host of fake fact checks, like this one, coming out to "support" Pfizer, not question it. Big Fact Check always dances to Big Pharma's tune.

@thackerpd - Paul D. Thacker

7) Here's my fave: One fact checker knocks down critic's stats on Pfizer's vaccine in favour of Pfizer 95% efficacy claim, while another questions if Pfizer ever made a 95% efficacy claim, months later. It's always fact checks in favour of Pfizer.

@thackerpd - Paul D. Thacker

8) Read more at @DisInfoChron and please subscribe! https://www.pauldthacker.com/blog/#/

The DisInformation Chronicle - Paul D. Thacker I'm an American investigative journalist based in Spain and former Fellow at the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard. I've written on scientific ethics for outlets including the New York Times, BMJ Investigations, JAMA, Washington Post, NEJM, Los Angeles Times, The New Republic, Slate, and Mother Jones. I also spent several years in the U.S. Senate investigating corruption and conflicts of interest in science and medicine.  pauldthacker.com

@DrewHolden360 - Drew Holden

🧵THREAD🧵 Do you remember how bad the media’s “Covid lab leak” - the hypothesis that the virus came from a lab - coverage was? I thought I did. But it was a more dramatic example of uniform media malpractice than even I remembered. So I revisited it. Buckle in, it’s long. ⤵️

@DrewHolden360 - Drew Holden

It started in Feb 2020 when @SenTomCotton suggested looking into the CCP lab studying bats near the initial cases in Wuhan. The media were outraged. In a since-updated piece, @washingtonpost said the idea was a “conspiracy theory that has been repeatedly debunked by experts.” https://t.co/kAQFbA4baF

@DrewHolden360 - Drew Holden

It wasn’t just WaPo. Shortly thereafter, @nytimes trotted out a similar allegation, calling the lab leak hypothesis a “fringe theory” and a “tale” designed to inflame social media. @CNN’s @ChrisCillizza said Cotton was “playing a dangerous game” with his suggestions. https://t.co/Xr7eXaNaKE

@DrewHolden360 - Drew Holden

@USATODAY, in a since-updated fact check, said that Cotton’s claims were “false” because “overwhelming scientific evidence” said so. https://t.co/ZMTekytd3L

@DrewHolden360 - Drew Holden

A quick pause here to point something out. What the media were up in arms about wasn’t the veracity of the lab leak idea. Just that people thought it was *plausible*. That it “may” be true, as @SenTomCotton said. Look how close the lab is to the first cases. “May” is too much? https://t.co/9v5eRdLKJP

@DrewHolden360 - Drew Holden

Anyway, back to the coverage. This was the dawn of what I like to call “experts say” reporting, where an outlet finds someone with credentials who agrees with them to make the point the outlet wants to make. Here’s @NatGeo, @Forbes, @CBSNews & @washingtonpost doing that here. https://t.co/3Of32wYYzl

@DrewHolden360 - Drew Holden

There were some even more dramatic examples I want to call out. Maybe my all time favorite is from @NPR who, with the confidence that only that station posses, claimed that the lab leak theory had been “debunked” in April 2020. https://t.co/Ne6JWdYX4L

@DrewHolden360 - Drew Holden

This @ABC headline presented without comment https://t.co/4wp49FkL0F

@DrewHolden360 - Drew Holden

It was really a banner time period for outlets using “fact checkers” as a political weapon with no connection to facts, as @CNN does here. The word of the year had to be “debunked,” which many outlets seemed to believe meant “we don’t like this idea.” https://t.co/aj0x6LZND5

@DrewHolden360 - Drew Holden

It’s impossible to ignore how this story intersects with Trump & his admin. Once he said he believed the lab leak idea, the press decided it must be a lie. Some really rich headlines here from @business (really?), @VICE (remember them?), @CNN (“crushed”!) and @BusinessInsider. https://t.co/bkeOZBe4WN

@DrewHolden360 - Drew Holden

It’s really the condescending tone here from @chrislhayes that gets me. https://t.co/WmVM5FUKTr

@DrewHolden360 - Drew Holden

Apropos of absolutely nothing, I want to remind you that @NPR is funded in part by your tax dollars. More on your tax dollars soon. https://t.co/QTqJzNOM1K

@DrewHolden360 - Drew Holden

Just a quick aside. The press at the time purported to be very upset that Trump was using the same language that they had used a few weeks before, to describe the virus as Chinese. Here’s @CNN. https://t.co/QIF55kIfYK

@DrewHolden360 - Drew Holden

Then a poll came out finding that lots of people believed the lab leak theory: about a third of Americans. The press leapt to tar the believers as rubes & the people who convinced them as charlatans. There’s a lot of this but a few from @CNN, @Forbes, @voxdotcom & @thehill. https://t.co/fZkWphnC6g

@DrewHolden360 - Drew Holden

One moment you may’ve forgotten: in April 2020, Trump stopped US funding to the lab in question in Wuhan. Read: up until then, your tax dollars were paying for dubious research in an autocratic regime that maybe started a plague. Naturally the media applauded that move, right?

@DrewHolden360 - Drew Holden

Wrong. The press were incensed Trump would stop giving your tax dollars to a shady lab in China. @CBSNews said it was “jeopardizing” a Covid cure. @nytimes did much the same. @ABC blamed the bad move on “conspiracy theories” as @VanityFair pointed to “right-wing disinformation.” https://t.co/nMSKxc2teb

@DrewHolden360 - Drew Holden

One phenomenon that really stuck with me is how the press elevated China’s claims in an effort to, I presume, stick it to Trump. Look at how @nytimes, @CNN and @TIME put the U.S. and China on equal believability footings. https://t.co/cPc63kEHQX

@DrewHolden360 - Drew Holden

This wasn’t a mere momentary blip. All the way until December, @AP was writing up the lab leak as a conspiracy theory that survived online “despite facts.” Right. https://t.co/sD2wZohlnx

@DrewHolden360 - Drew Holden

The enormous irony of the @AP story about Covid “conspiracy theories” is the image that accompanies it. “Wear a mask outside” the 1984-esq wall art reads. https://t.co/p8ugGHMZi7

@DrewHolden360 - Drew Holden

The real facts aren’t as hospitable to what the media was claiming in 2020. Further investigation into the lab leak in 2021 gave the idea a respectability even the mainstream media couldn’t ignore. They started to change their tune. Here’s @nytimes https://t.co/Hjh4DTOTqs

@DrewHolden360 - Drew Holden

Then in 2023 Biden’s own Department of Energy said that the lab leak theory was the most likely explanation for Covid’s origins. The side-by-sides of the original reporting vs the newly indisputable facts are what I see when I close my eyes at this point. @NPR https://t.co/nfPLdQDpzA

@DrewHolden360 - Drew Holden

You probably don’t need me to spell it out for you, but you really can’t overstate the impact of the failure. When we should’ve been investigating what happened, the press had given social media platforms cover to censor the mere mention of the lab leak. The media cheered along. https://t.co/5OM3y7iocN

@DrewHolden360 - Drew Holden

As a result of the media refusing to consider a politically inconvenient idea — and their need to throttle its very mention — we may never definitively know what caused a pandemic that’s killed millions and irrevocably changed the course of modern life.

@DrewHolden360 - Drew Holden

And it may mean that some people get off scot-free for what they’ve done to play a role in that disaster. Hard to imagine that wasn’t the goal all along, in my humble opinion. https://t.co/SK7ZMOA6Vw

@ggreenwald - Glenn Greenwald

Wikipedia is a complete bullshit site. It glorifies establishment dogma and those who advocate it, while smearing anyone who questions western institutions. That's why its co-founder, @lsanger, has urged people not to use it due to ideological bias: https://rumble.com/v33nemd-system-update-121.html

Wikipedia: From Democratized Knowledge to Left-Establishment Propaganda, w/ co-Founder Larry Sanger. Plus: Joe Rogan on FBI in Jan 6 | SYSTEM UPDATE #121 Become part of our Locals community: https://greenwald.locals.com/ You can read more about Larry's encyclosphere here: https://larrysanger.org/2023/07/the-encyclosphere-is-greater-than-wikipedia/ Foll rumble.com

@Bryce_Nickels - Bryce Nickels

🧵The COVID Cover-Up: Calls for Retraction of 4 Key Papers Mainstream media & scientific journals have chosen not to report on calls for retraction of four key papers on the origin of COVID-19. This decision has enabled virologists to continue misleading the public. (1/n)

@Bryce_Nickels - Bryce Nickels

The four papers that should be retracted are based on invalid premises and conclusions, or are potentially products of scientific misconduct - including fraud. (2/n)

@Bryce_Nickels - Bryce Nickels

The first paper that should be retracted is: "No credible evidence supporting claims of the laboratory engineering of SARS-CoV-2" published online in Emerging Microbes & Infections on February 26, 2020. (3/n)

@Bryce_Nickels - Bryce Nickels

The second paper that should be retracted is: "The proximal origin of SARS-CoV-2 ('Proximal Origins')," published in Nature Medicine on March 17, 2020. (4/n)

@Bryce_Nickels - Bryce Nickels

The third paper that should be retracted is: "The Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market in Wuhan was the early epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic" published in Science on July 26, 2022. (5/n)

@Bryce_Nickels - Bryce Nickels

The fourth paper that should be retracted is: "The molecular epidemiology of multiple zoonotic origins of SARS-CoV-2” published in Science on July 26, 2022. (6/n)

@Bryce_Nickels - Bryce Nickels

A letter requesting the retraction of "The molecular epidemiology of multiple zoonotic origins of SARS-CoV-2" was sent to the editor in chief of Science on June 14, 2024. https://biosafetynow.substack.com/p/covid-origins-worobey-et-al-2022

COVID Origins: Worobey et al 2022 and Pekar et al 2022 Retraction Request Request for editorial action for Worobey et al. 2022 and Pekar et al. 2022 (June 14, 2024) biosafetynow.substack.com

@DavidDavisMP - David Davis MP

At the start of the pandemic, any discussion over whether Covid originated in a lab was shut down. Yesterday, in the US, @COVIDSelect published its two-year investigation, which found that "COVID-19 most likely emerged from a laboratory in Wuhan, China". https://oversight.house.gov/release/final-report-covid-select-concludes-2-year-investigation-issues-500-page-final-report-on-lessons-learned-and-the-path-forward/

FINAL REPORT: COVID Select Concludes 2-Year Investigation, Issues 500+ Page Final Report on Lessons Learned and the Path Forward - United States House Committee on Oversight and Accountability United States House Committee on Oversight and Accountability oversight.house.gov

@HolaBackupFiJC - HolaBackup

THEY. JUST. CAN’T. HELP. THEMSELVES. (🤣🤣🤣) *So there I was, perusing a “Coronavirus” list of ‘experts’ on TwitterX, as one does, and I stumble across this juicy little nugget from @IntegralAnswers, posted yesterday at 6:23 pm CST: “The origins of COVID-19: What does the evidence say? Scientists overwhelmingly support the conclusion that SARS-CoV-2, the virus behind COVID-19, most likely emerged from a natural zoonotic spillover. Here’s why.🧵👇” *NOTE: The post above had been quoted by Peter Openshaw, one of the members of this “Coronavirus” group, right under what looks to be a Peter Hotez alt account (lol) that repeatedly shills his “Vaccines Didn’t Cause Rachel’s (Hotez’s daughter) Autism” book and gives him the chance to retweet himself (lmao). Peter Openshaw added his own caption to the “quote post”, which read: “Excellent thread explaining the overwhelming evidence favoring a natural origin of #SARSCoV2. There’s no similar body of work to support a possible lab origin.” (Referring to the thread by @IntegralAnswers.) In addition to being embarrassed for these fucking genocidal charlatans still trying to push the long-discredited “zoonotic COVID origins” horseshit, I also remembered the “IntegralAnswers” account seemed oddly familiar to me recently for another reason. *So that’s when I scrolled his feed for just a second and came across this little nugget I remembered seeing him quietly post three days ago, on 2/20/2025 at 8:01 pm CST: “Will Dmitry show up?” Yep, you guessed it. IntegralAnswers was directly quoting our recently-exposed ‘CIA Counter Mouse Army’ homie, Real Truther (Dmitry), to add some passive aggro “that’s not him” interference. What a fucking time to be alive, sports fans.🤣

@HolaBackupFiJC - HolaBackup

As you can see, the @IntegralAnswers account is a totally serious person who’s worth listening to regarding all of our world’s most important questions. He’s definitely NOT just another shameless, lying, Global Jewry operative.🤣 PS: Feigl-Ding might actually be his most embarrassing “Following”, which says a FUCK ton, given the competition lol.

@HolaBackupFiJC - HolaBackup

@IntegralAnswers “Dr.” Neil Stone: Here’s another Israeli Jew ‘expert’ who deserves to be stuffed in a locker and whose medical/public health opinions should be dismissed out of hand.

@HolaBackupFiJC - HolaBackup

Yes, they do. Receipts are fun, “doc”. Know what else works? Capital punishment for all charlatans, medical terrorists and genocidal maniacs who’ve been LARP’ing as “experts” for years. https://t.co/0dlgola9fc

@DrNeilStone - Neil Stone

Joe Rogan is obsessed with ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine as Covid treatments Thing about them is - they don't work https://t.co/ol4qirG80n

@JeninYounesEsq - Jenin Younes

A miracle has happened. The NY Times ran an oped acknowledging not only that the covid virus likely originated in a lab, but that government officials and scientists conspired to keep the substantiating evidence secret. The lab leak theory was censored on social media because of "pressure from the administration ... we shouldn't have done it."

@JeninYounesEsq - Jenin Younes

This serves as a stark reminder that government uses censorship in order to hide its own misdeeds; free speech is necessary to hold the government accountable. That's one of the reasons the framers included the First Amendment in the Bill of Rights

@VigilantFox - The Vigilant Fox 🦊

10 Shocking Stories the Media Buried This Week #10 – ‘Measles Death’ of 6-Year-Old Girl Exposed as a Media HOAX The media claimed a 6-year-old girl died of measles, but “she did not die of measles by any stretch of the imagination,” Dr. Pierre Kory says. “In fact, she died of pneumonia. But it gets worse than that because she didn’t really die of pneumonia. She died of a MEDICAL ERROR.” Let that sink in. What happened was a complete breakdown in basic medical care. The hospital failed to give her the appropriate antibiotic regimen to treat her pneumonia. By the time they corrected their mistake, it was too late, and the girl died “catastrophically.” “I mean, this is like medicine 101. You put them on two antibiotics to cover all the possibilities. It’s a grievous error, and it’s an error which led to her death,” Dr. Kory attested. Not only did Covenant Children’s Hospital fail to provide the appropriate antibiotic, but when they noticed their error, they dragged their feet and took another 10 hours to administer it. “By that time, she was already on a ventilator. And approximately 24 hours later—actually, less than 24 hours later—she died,” Dr. Kory explained. And she did not pass away peacefully. According to Dr. Kory, “She died rather catastrophically.” And while her family grieved, the media hijacked her death to stir fear and push the vaccine narrative. Just another “measles death” used as a political weapon. This is a case Dr. Pierre Kory calls “absolutely enraging.” And it is. Just another example of how the media will shamelessly twist the story of a grieving family’s loss to push Big Pharma’s agenda. That’s not just dishonest. That’s evil, plain and simple. Follow @ChildrensHD for the full interview and more details on this enraging story. (See 9 More Revealing Stories Below)

@VigilantFox - The Vigilant Fox 🦊

#9 - Bill Maher guest calls out Fauci’s ridiculous pardon, saying, “There’s a reason he was given a pardon back to 2014.” “There is something very wrong going on here.” “Everyone knew it [gain-of-function research] was dangerous a long time ago. You go back to 2015, you will find a big meeting in London where they say there’s one lab in the world most likely to have a problem with this—Wuhan. Do you know who was the biggest supporter of gain of function research for the last 30 years? Anthony Fauci.” It turns out that in 2014, 300 scientists warned Anthony Fauci would start a global pandemic. RFK Jr. previously explained that following the high-profile escape of three bugs from U.S. labs, these 300 scientists sent a letter to President Obama, urging him to shut down Anthony Fauci's gain-of-function research. Obama issued a moratorium and shut down 18 of the worst projects by Anthony Fauci. In the end, he really didn't shut them down. Instead, Obama moved the research offshore to places like Ukraine, the former Soviet State of Georgia, and the Wuhan Institute of Virology in Wuhan, China. Now, it is widely accepted that COVID-19 originated from that very lab in Wuhan, China. The 300 scientists were right when they said Anthony Fauci would start a global pandemic.

@VigilantFox - The Vigilant Fox 🦊

#8 - Kevin O’Leary delivers a harsh reality check to people burning Teslas: You’re going to “rot in hell in prison.” “And frankly, as far as I’m concerned, that’s okay,” he said. O’Leary left no room for debate, making it clear that there’s zero justification for the destruction: “When you set a car on fire, you should go to jail. You’re a criminal. And I don’t think we have to talk about it in any other context.” He also had a blunt message for those thinking they’ll get away with it: “And all those cars have cameras in them, and those dealerships have cameras. You’re beyond being stupid when you do that... You’re going to spend five to 20 years in prison. If they get them on terrorism—which I think is a stretch—there will be no parole, no shortened sentence. They’ll rot in hell in prison for 20 years. And frankly, as far as I’m concerned, that’s okay.”

@VigilantFox - The Vigilant Fox 🦊

#7- Stephen A. Smith Rips his OWN STAFF while recording his show. Smith grilled his staff’s loyalty to the Democratic Party after pitching this common-sense idea to Democrats: “Rather than telling us what we should vote against, maybe you should present us with options of what to vote for.” “I mean, my God. Are you okay, Michael, with me suggesting that? Are you okay with me, Sherry, suggesting that?” Smith asked. “Rashawn Galen and all of a bunch of leftists that’s under my umbrella trying to act like they’re independents when they’re full of it! I’m talking about my own damn staff,” he clarified. “I’m a centrist. I think my man, Rashawn, is a centrist. The rest of these damn people working for me. I mean, what left-wing party are you associated with? I mean, you gotta believe this stuff.”

@VigilantFox - The Vigilant Fox 🦊

#6 - Vivek Ramaswamy drops a game-changing idea for public education: merit-based pay for public school teachers. “Pay for performance. That’s what businesses do. There’s no reason we shouldn’t be running our public schools in the same way.” Vivek announced that he plans for Ohio to become the first state in the nation to adopt merit-based pay for every teacher, principal, and administrator. He says that performance reviews should go beyond standardized testing, incorporating peer reviews, parent feedback, and student outcomes—with a clear goal of rewarding the best educators. “The best teachers in the country right now, sadly, are underpaid. We need to fix that—but fix it through meritocracy,” Vivek said. “Thanks to President Trump’s bold actions today, we can lead the way.”

@VigilantFox - The Vigilant Fox 🦊

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#5 - Tim Walz absurdly claims that Trump’s plan to dismantle the Department of Education could take America back to an era of racial segregation. “And then it’s about the Civil Rights Department at the Department of Education that makes sure that we don’t have a situation where a Ruby Bridges is escorted to school with police. And so we’re back in an area where we can segregate,” Walz said. Somehow, giving control back to the states means we’re suddenly back in 1960. This is why no one takes Democrats seriously anymore. All they do is cry wolf.

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#4 - Bill Maher believes JFK wasn’t killed by a lone gunman—says a lot of people wanted Kennedy dead. QUESTION: “Is it time to move on from this conspiracy theory?” MAHER: “Well, I mean, do you think it’s a conspiracy theory? Plainly, there was not a single gunman, right?… But the magic bullet. There could not have been a bullet that went through a guy, went around him, came back, went through the other guy, got lunch at the diner, came back, shot him in the back of the head. I mean, it’s just. Come on, everybody heard a shot from the grassy knoll.” “The idea that the CIA is going to now suddenly go, ‘You’re right, we had something to do with it.’ I’m not saying they did, but a lot of people wanted him [JFK] dead.”

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#3 - Elon Musk sounds the alarm on “magic money computers” at the federal government that can “send money out of nothing.” “So you may think that the government computers all talk to each other. They synchronize, they add up what funds are going somewhere, and it’s coherent that the numbers, for example, that you’re presented as a senator, are actually the real numbers. They’re not,” Musk explained. “They’re not totally wrong,” he continued. “They’re probably off by 5% or 10% in some cases. So I call it Magic Money Computer. Any computer which can just make money out of thin air. That’s Magic Money.” “So how does that work?” Ted Cruz asked. “It just issues payments,” Musk answered. “I think we found now 14 magic money computers. They just send money out of nothing.” This raises a critical question: If the government’s books are off by 5% to 10% in some cases, leaving up to hundreds of billions of dollars unaccounted for, where is all that money actually going?

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#2 - The New York Times finally ADMITS the “conspiracy theorists” were right about COVID and that Fauci and the “experts” misled the public. “Perhaps we were misled on purpose.” I can’t believe they actually printed this. Here’s what they’re finally admitting: • Tony Fauci, Francis Collins, and Jeremy Farrar coordinated a media strategy to discredit lab leak discussions. Emails show they worked behind the scenes to smear and silence anyone who questioned the official narrative. • The Biden administration and intelligence agencies pressured social media platforms like Twitter and Facebook to censor lab leak discussions and label them as “misinformation.” • Kristian Andersen, Robert Garry, and other scientists knew the truth but covered it up. Behind closed doors, they admitted a lab escape was likely. In public, they dismissed it as a “conspiracy theory.” • WHO’s Jeremy Farrar got a burner phone to secretly coordinate meetings with Fauci, Collins, and top scientists, ensuring their discussions stayed off the record. • Kristian Andersen, Robert Garry, and Eddie Holmes strategized how to mislead New York Times reporter Donald McNeil Jr., making sure he didn’t dig too deep into the lab leak theory. • The infamous Proximal Origin paper, authored by Andersen, Garry, Holmes, Andrew Rambaut, and W. Ian Lipkin, was a coordinated effort to mislead the public. Private Slack messages revealed they believed a lab escape was not only possible but likely—yet they publicly denied it. • Peter Daszak and EcoHealth Alliance helped cover for the Wuhan Institute of Virology, despite knowing their risky gain-of-function research could have caused the outbreak. • The Wuhan lab, run by Shi Zhengli (“Bat Woman”), had horrifyingly lax safety protocols—yet they expected the public to believe a leak was impossible. And now, after years of smearing and slandering the “conspiracy theorists,” The New York Times is quietly admitting the so-called “conspiracy theorists” were right all along.

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#1 – RFK Jr. Sounds the Alarm on Bird Flu Vaccines The USDA plans to inject millions of chickens to stop the bird flu outbreak, but RFK Jr. says “leaky vaccines” could make things worse. He breaks it down here. This is the must-read thread of the week:

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RFK Jr. Issues Grave Vaccination Warning HHS Secretary Kennedy just upended the bird flu vaccine narrative, revealing a disturbing reality authorities are trying to hide. Why isn’t anyone talking about this? 🧵 THREAD

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BONUS #1 - Popular Artificial Sweetener May Increase Insulin Levels, Research Shows https://www.theepochtimes.com/health/popular-artificial-sweetener-may-impact-heart-health-research-shows-5811637?utm_source=copyreflink&utm_campaign=vigilantf&src_src=copyreflink&src_cmp=vigilantf

Popular Artificial Sweetener May Increase Insulin Levels, Research Shows The research was inspired by a can of diet soda. theepochtimes.com

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‘The Spike Goes to Every Organ System’–Dr. Paul Marik on mRNA in the COVID-19 Vaccine Vs. Natural Infection; Cheap and Effective Treatments and Interventions “We make up about 4 percent of the global population in America, yet we consume 55 percent of prescription drugs. How is that possible? 80 percent of presc... theepochtimes.com

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BONUS #3 - How to Get Ivermectin, Z-Pak, and More https://www.vigilantfox.com/p/how-to-get-ivermectin-z-pak-and-more

How to Get Ivermectin, Z-Pak, and More While millions of Americans understand the need to be prepared, far too many are failing to stockpile one of the single most important items. vigilantfox.com

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BONUS #4 - Why Your Doctor Is Probably Wrong About Cholesterol https://www.theepochtimes.com/health/why-dietary-cholesterol-isnt-the-enemy-5796165?utm_source=copyreflink&utm_campaign=vigilantf&src_src=copyreflink&src_cmp=vigilantf

Why Dietary Cholesterol Isn’t the Enemy Research shows dietary cholesterol has little impact on blood cholesterol. So what really affects it? theepochtimes.com

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BONUS #5 - How to Remove Fluoride From Your Water at Home https://www.theepochtimes.com/health/fluoride-free-your-guide-to-water-filtration-and-health-5741827?utm_source=prtnrhard&utm_campaign=vigilantf&src_src=prtnrhard&src_cmp=vigilantf

How to Remove Fluoride From Your Water at Home Since 1945, fluoride has been added to public drinking water supplies, but research has shown it may pose risks to our health. theepochtimes.com

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Lab Leak: The True Origins of Covid-19 THE ORIGIN “The Proximal Origin of SARS-CoV-2” publication — which was used repeatedly by public health officials and the media to discredit the lab leak whitehouse.gov

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"They should be retracted...but of course I don't think these people have the courage or the decency to do so..." Virologist Simon Wain-Hobson calls for retraction of the key publications that misled the world on the origin of COVID (“Proximal Origin” & "The Lancet letter") https://t.co/fFh0UZsNfg