Emails Show Zeynep Tufekci Is a Master at Flimflam
Neither scholar nor journalist, the social media influencer lacks credibility.
The DisInformation Chronicle
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Documents Catch NIH Officials Misleading Science Writers at Science Magazine and STAT News About Dangerous Virus Research
Will science writers finally stop trusting and protecting an agency caught multiple times lying to the public?
After Throwing Scientists Under the Bus for a Media Smearing, Cochrane Backtracks on Mask Review Statement
Editor Karla Soares-Weiser has still not explained her unprofessional collusion with social media influencer Zeynep Tufekci, who falsely claimed she "corrected" the Cochrane mask review.
In Sworn Congressional Testimony, Tony Fauci Admits He Fibbed to the New York Times, But What’s a Lie Among Lovers?
Some journalists found their Brokeback Mountain with Tony.
BMJ Slaps Down Scientific American’s Laura Helmuth for Unscientific Trans Activism
In one egregious incident, Helmuth compared concerns with placing children on puberty blockers to unfounded fears over comic books and rap music.
Fauci’s NIH Consigliere David Morens Beaten Up at COVID Hearing, Advised by Own Attorney “Tie Your Shoe”
Media outlets including Science Magazine, Washington Pot, Nature, and The New York Times downplayed or ignored major new findings of corruption at NIH, but you already expected this.
Tulane’s John M. Barry Prints “Masks Work” Nonsense in the New York Times
History has stopped. Nothing exists except the COVID narrative—which is always right.
WHISTLEBLOWER: Insider Details How "New Knowledge" Cybersecurity Firm Created Disinformation in American Election
Documents find Center for American Progress paid disinformation company to update "Hamilton 68" dashboard that was caught spreading Russian disinformation.
EXCLUSIVE: New Documents Expose How NIH Misled the Public About Dangerous Virus Research at the Wuhan Institute of Technology
The NIH has ceased any pretense of overseeing risky virus research and now coordinates with Peter Daszak’s EcoHealth Alliance on public relations.
The Lancet Publishes CDC Studies on Misinformation, Hoping You Forgot The Lancet and CDC Spread Pandemic Misinformation
Censorship academic Claire Wardle helps guide the journal’s descent into authoritarian, censorship hell.
Fake Physician Group Platformed Disgraced, Fake Physician Allison Neitzel on Their Fake Medical Journal Website
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WHO Official Admits Vaccine Passports May Have Been a Scam
Testifying in a lawsuit, WHO’s leading vaccine expert said she advised against COVID vaccine passports as the vaccines did not stop transmission and gave a false sense of security.
Fact Checkers Caught Looking the Other Way (Again!) As Pfizer Nabbed Spreading Vaccine Misinformation and “Bringing Discredit” on the Entire Industry
Pfizer's COVID vaccine corruption adds further evidence that fact checkers are the pharmaceutical industry’s partners in crime.
Fake Physician Allison Neitzel Caught Running Real Medical Misinformation Site
Medical clown for “disinformation reporters” Brandzy Zadrozny at NBC and Kiera Butler at Mother Jones crashes her own disinformation circus.
Financial Flim-Flam Backs Imran Ahmed’s Center for Countering Digital Hate
Intelligence asset Imran Ahmed’s seedy money comes to light, although his lawyers won’t explain his false filings with the IRS.
Science Magazine Reaches New Low, Defames Their Critics
Collaborating with their friends in biodefense virology, Science Magazine vomits up a malicious hit piece to attack and silence researchers pointing out scientific fraud and misconduct.
Scientific American’s Mask Essays Are Rife With Fraud and Citation Sorcery
Two essays on masks published by professors in Scientific American highlight—in ALLCAPS and boldface—the growing conclusion that THE COVID PANDEMIC BROKE ACADEMIC RESEARCHERS WHO PUT THEIR PERSONAL POLITICS AHEAD OF SCIENCE AND THE PUBLIC GOOD.
Why Is the Justice Department Bird-Dogging Public Universities’ Releases of Public Information?
The federal government is now tracking public universities’ release of public information involving federally funded science programs for “disinformation research” and bioweapons virus science. Both “disinformation research” and biodefense virus studies have come under increasing scrutiny from Congress and the public —“disinformation research” for helping the government censor Americans and bioweapons research for potentially causing the pandemic by funding dangerous gain-of-function virus studi
They Called Him “Crooked Cohen”
The COVID pandemic created some of the worst science writing in our lifetimes. Major media outlets failed at providing readers with accurate and balanced news across a host of issues, including vaccines, masks, lockdowns and how the virus likely began spreading through the human population.
It’s critical to call the news we read over the last four years “science writing” and not “reporting” because few science media outlets do any actual reporting. What science writers label “reporting’ is just
It’s critical to call the news we read over the last four years “science writing” and not “reporting” because few science media outlets do any actual reporting. What science writers label “reporting’ is just
Publisher Taylor & Francis Joins Science Magazine As Venue For Sleazy Scientific Behavior
Four years ago this week, publisher Taylor & Francis released a commentary in their journal Emerging Microbes & Infections—the third most popular paper published by Taylor & Francis in 2020—that violated their own ethical policies and apparently flouted their own norms for peer review. What did it say?
It claimed people were spreading a “conspiracy theory” if they speculated whether the COVID pandemic started in a Wuhan lab
When emails later came to light exposing that this commentary was corr
It claimed people were spreading a “conspiracy theory” if they speculated whether the COVID pandemic started in a Wuhan lab
When emails later came to light exposing that this commentary was corr
Misinformation Researcher Sander van der Linden Caught Lying and Spreading Misinformation
Sander van der Linden's webpage at Cambridge University says he is an esteemed academic, with prior positions at Princeton and Yale, and has published studies on social influence misinformation, and fake news that place him among the top 1% of all social researchers and the top 2% across all of science.
Pretty much every major media outlet—the New York Times, BBC, CNN, The Economist, NPR, the Washington Post and NBC Nightly News—has interviewed van der Linden about his research, while his book
Pretty much every major media outlet—the New York Times, BBC, CNN, The Economist, NPR, the Washington Post and NBC Nightly News—has interviewed van der Linden about his research, while his book
Florida Grand Jury Finds Average Citizens Aren’t Buying “Follow the Science” Propaganda on Masks and Social Distancing
I want to take some time to delve into the findings from a Florida grand jury that is looking into the pandemic’s response. There have been several lawsuits about the pandemic, and the UK has an ongoing COVID inquiry which I reported about briefly (COVID Inquiry Finds Lockdowns Were Terrible, While Reporters Call Bullshit on Government’s Lead Academic Advisor), but this grand jury in Florida has been mostly ignored.
The Florida Supreme Court empaneled a statewide grand jury on December 22, 2022
The Florida Supreme Court empaneled a statewide grand jury on December 22, 2022
German Newspaper Forces Correction at Science Magazine, While Americans Ignore Study That Undermines Market Theory for Pandemic Origin
While American science writers continue to ignore new research that calls a study published by Science Magazine “flawed” and “invalid,” a German newspaper forced the journal to issue a correction to their study, authored by Arizona researcher Michael Worobey, that argued the COVID pandemic began in a wet market.
Science Magazine corrected the Worobey study last October, but the Frankfurter Allegemaine reported a couple weeks back that their reporters forced the correction after sending several
Science Magazine corrected the Worobey study last October, but the Frankfurter Allegemaine reported a couple weeks back that their reporters forced the correction after sending several
Science Magazine’s Paper Advocating Market Origin for COVID Based on False Statistics
Shortly after the pandemic’s beginning, a group of virologists allied with Anthony Fauci conspired to divert attention away from a possible lab accident in Wuhan, working together to publish essays that labeled such claims a “conspiracy theory.”
On February 19, 2020, EcoHealth Alliance’s Peter Daszak and Wellcome Trust’s Jeremy Farrar published a statement in The Lancet that claimed a possible Wuhan lab accident was a “conspiracy theory.” The statement did not disclose that Daszak was funding r
On February 19, 2020, EcoHealth Alliance’s Peter Daszak and Wellcome Trust’s Jeremy Farrar published a statement in The Lancet that claimed a possible Wuhan lab accident was a “conspiracy theory.” The statement did not disclose that Daszak was funding r
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