Building trust in media
by timlangeman
The allegations really most of them aren’t that far-fetched. The idea of a program that exists outside of congressional oversight dealing with something that’s sensitive. Yeah, I mean that that’s totally something that could happen the idea that the US military would spend decades trying to collect alien spacecraft to reverse engineer it.
by timlangeman
Everybody agrees they have immunity what studies do you have that people that have had the vaccine or have had the infection are spreading the infection if we’re not spreading the infection isn’t it just theater.
by timlangeman
Kristian Andersen said the lab escape version of this is so friggin’ likely to have happened
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by timlangeman
Here’s a quote from a recent letter (PDF) signed by 4 senators:
The letter urges Merrick Garland to purse litigation agains the fossil fuel industry:
As early as 1959, Edward Teller warned the American Petroleum Institute that carbon emissions from the burning of fossil fuels would raise global temperatures. In 1975, Shell-backed research concluded that increasing atmospheric carbon concentrations could cause global temperature increases that would drive “major climatic changes” and compared the dangers of burning fossil fuels to nuclear waste.
by timlangeman
In a letter to Secretary Xavier Becerra, the committee wrote Drs. Fauci and Collins were first warned that COVID-19 may have leaked from the WIV and, further, may have been intentionally genetically manipulated.
The letter lists several events, starting in January of 2020:
By January 27, 2020, Dr. Fauci knew NIAID had funded EcoHealth, the WIV was a subgrantee of EcoHealth, and EcoHealth was not in compliance with its grant reporting,
This is an excellent example of a government document available in PDF:
by timlangeman
“Naked quotations” often cause distrust and controversy.
Imagine if Substack Notes featured contextual citations.
It could differentiate Notes from Twitter and Threads.
Here’s yet another controversial “naked quotation,” this time on Twitter, regarding RFK Jr.
A Palestinian who wants to criticize his government had better do it in Israel. Its the only place where he can do it.– Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
“If a Palestinian wants to criticize his government, he better do it in Israel”- Robert F. Kennedy Jr. pic.twitter.com/b0jYttYLyD
— Rabbi Shmuley (@RabbiShmuley) July 26, 2023
by timlangeman
Armament advertorial is a non-partisan phenomenon. You’ll see it on CNN, but just as much on Fox, also packed with analysts and even full-time contributors like Trey Gowdy who have lobbying histories. To take another example, former General Jack Keane has been on Fox of late applauding the $800 million tranche, saying areas like the Donbass are very conducive to armor operations
, which surely has nothing to do with the fact that he served for years as chair of armored vehicle maker AM General.
Source: https://www.racket.news/p/the-gentlemens-agreement-when-tv
by timlangeman
It blows up probably half a dozen or maybe even a dozen major um media myths about covid um and uh I don’t know I I thought it was an amazing story because I you know when you get down to it it essentially 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.
by timlangeman
It’s slightly amusing that The Times fired their Pulitzer Prize-winning coronavirus reporter in middle of the pandemic — a reporter who saw the lab leak theory as credible — and replaced him with another reporter who dismissed discussion of the lab leak as “racist”.
by timlangeman
What Tony Fauci is saying it’s not a very good one but it’s it’s one that he was clinging to which is that there are various definitions of gain of function and he specific definition in the U.S funding issue is that you improve a human virus not an animal virus to make it more infectious to humans right that was that’s the the angel on the head of the pin that he’s that he’s dancing on but um as you say then why was he using the phrase gain of function to describe this work months earlier uh in that email