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Peter Hotez alleges “Anti-Science Aggression”

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Hotez uses the now-common technique of labeling disagreement as violence, railing against anti-science aggression . This gives latitude to call for more hardcore solutions. A fan of deplatforming, he suggested forming a federal task force whose actions could go beyond “amplifying pro-vaccination advocacy,” bringing in “Homeland Security, the State Department, the Justice Department and the Commerce Department,” to “give us some ideas.” Nothing like using criminal justice system to seek out pressure points in your business, your ability to travel, your Internet communications and more, as possible cures for hesitancy.

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Kamala Harris makes the case in 60 Minutes interview for why she should be president

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This is Kamala Harris’s standard answer on Israel:

Vice President Kamala Harris: Well, let’s start with October 7. 1,200 people were massacred, 250 hostages were taken, including Americans, women were brutally raped, and as I said then, I maintain Israel has a right to defend itself. We would. And how it does so matters. Far too many innocent Palestinians have been killed. This war has to end

Dr. Robert Garry: “it would be irresponsible to dismiss the possibility out of hand.”

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On February 5th, 2020, as a small group of scientists were crafting a Nature magazine paper that would become the basis of years of reports insisting Covid-19 had natural origins, one of the co-authors, Tulane’s Dr. Robert Garry, wrote in group email:

Accidental release is a scenario many will not be comfortable with but it would be irresponsible to dismiss the possibility out of hand.

People like Fauci steered the public away from investigating Covid’s origns, “America This Week,” with Matt Taibbi and Walter Kirn (Episode 48)

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People like Anthony Fauci and some of the senior health officials and Francis Collins and some other folks they basically steered the entire public away from um you know investigating the origins of a disaster that killed seven million people to date and um you know I I think it’s as big immediate deception as as we’ve had.

Scientist expected Email to be FOIA-ed and wrote Note to “potential future FOIA reader”

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On 7 Feb 2020, at 21:05,

Kristian G. Andersen wrote:

I would argue that any animal being identified would be beneficial to them -otherwise we’re all going to point fingers at them telling people that they’re so shit that they can’t even predict the outbreaks of their own making …
Too harsh?
K
[for a potential future FOIA reader -please note that I can at times be sarcastic and have a knack for bad jokes].

Rumors of a Lab Escape

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Eddie and Kristian wrote about rumors of a lab escape:

8. We strongly reject the idea that we should not have raised nor discussed the possibility of lab escape: as scientists we have to present all the data and discuss it openly. That’s what we did. To not have considered or mentioned the possibility of a lab escape would have been negligent. Is the person who emailed you seriously suggesting that we should not have discussed these issues? Wouldn’t that be a cover-up?

There are some people who argue that we shouldn’t even been (doing gain of function research)

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There are some people who argue that we shouldn’t even been studying these sars like coronaviruses from bats in the lab which to me is preposterous right i mean ignorance is hardly ever the best choice that you’re going to make here i i think it’s actually quite a dangerous choice and that’s one of the problems with the you know all this emphasis now on on lab leaks and you know that that kind of thing it takes away energy from what we actually need to be doing which is cooperating with china