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Mar 17, 2023Liked by David Zweig

I just signed on as a Founding Member. Wherever this country is headed next, and I am deeply troubled by our trajectory, it is critical that we have journalists willing to investigate controversial issues. So many of these people, Fauci, Baric, Collins, and the entire bureaucratic and political apparatuses that enabled this last 3 years of suffering need to be in prison, or swinging from the gallows. It won't happen without people like David. Go get those MFers.

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You might consider tempering your righteous indignation and blood lust with the following: Fauci discovered a cure for vasculitis thereby saving countless lives. He guided the development of HAART & PrEP which have saved countless lives from death by AIDS. He was principal architect of PEPFAR which by conservative estimate has save over 20,000,000 lives. He oversaw the revamping & streamlining of the approval process for drugs to treat imminently life threatening diseases. He is principal author or coauthor on over 1,300 basic research papers spanning the entire fields of immunology & ID.

I’m simply stating this so you can be disabused of the notion being pushed by many to further their own political ambitions that Fauci is Satan motivated by malice and sadism.

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So says you. There is a direct line from the funding of this research to the unleashing of an experimental, dangerous and ineffective big pharma injection which killed my wife’s best friend. Pfizer lot # en6201 is the jab that got her. That lot presently has over 220 reported deaths into the VAERS database. My righteous indignation comes from taking our dead friend’s daughter to the ER after we took her in and she tried to kill herself. Fauci should swing.

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I’m sorry about your dead friend, but ineffective? It’s saved 10s of millions of lives.

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3099(22)00320-6/fulltext

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Same lancet that essentially failed on masks, origin, vaccine injuries… captured drivel.

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You might check in on Matt Taibbi’s Twitter feed tonight. WTF did we just live through?

https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1636729192489336835

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Matt Taibbi is a misogynist attention whore. https://jezebel.com/writers-matt-taibbi-and-mark-ames-serviced-no-one-but-t-1820007051

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Right there brawk, you discredited everything you said before.

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Weak ad hominem garbage from a different era. Try to stay on point. Maybe next time bring up Trump too!

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BS. These are your opinions. Many would disagree.

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Fauci’s accomplishments are not open to debate: he did all those things, and many more that I did not mention. Any moral assessment of the man must include them.

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Don’t forget to include his creation of AIDS & a supposed cure that killed thousands.

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Creation of AIDS? Are you mentally challenged? The Hx of AIDS is well studied. This article is a good starting point if you want to shed your ignorance, not because Gaëtan Dugas was “Patient Zero” but because it gives a rich set of links to studies and describes the early Hx of the epidemic in the US: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaëtan_Dugas

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Wikipedia is junk. Anyone can add or change details on it.

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Oh damn you brought up AIDS?

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Yes, I did. Fauci directed the NIAID through the development of HAART and PrEP which that douchebag RFK Jr never mentions because it doesn’t serve his insatiable ambition to attain the Presidency. (Please look up HAART & PrEP before responding so you you don’t further embarrass yourself.)

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“However, one has to wonder, what is the reason for such vehement denials by Collins and Fauci about their approvals for funding this type of research when the evidence shows otherwise?”

I can think of 6.8 million reasons...

If you haven’t read The Invisible Siege by Dan Werb, highly recommend. It gives insight into Baric who I suspect ghost wrote it.

Baric honestly believes he’s the savior and one person standing between humanity and our extinction from coronavirus, never reflecting on how similar he sounds to your run of the mill doomsday cult leader who *just happens* to arrive right before Aliens/Jesus/Helter Skelter wipes us out.

He honestly believes that while coronavirus have been mingling with humans freely for 3 million years, it’s only a matter of years before they evolve from common cold to super deadly pathogen-which is why he is convinced he needs to solve them into super deadly pathogen first.

It’s insane.

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No rational person can dispute this evidence.

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The first peer-reviewed paper arguing for a lab origin was written by me and my dad, submitted April 2020 and published in August. After several high-level American officials emailed me and my dad to try and get us to retract it, we published a Clarification explaining that we'd just lost an link in the editing process.

That Clarification also demonstrated that the 1977 H1N1 outbreak was caused by a virus that had been subject to serial passage, to make a live-attenuated vaccine which reverted too quickly. This is also what SARS-CoV-2 is, as the article below outlines, our peer-reviewed work is linked at the top:

https://harvard2thebighouse.substack.com/p/understanding-covid-19-and-seasonal

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Their vehement denials are all that they have to do. Since no MSM will challenge anything they state publically, it's easy to maintain the lie. It reminds me of what Nixon said "I am not a crook". If no one provides concrete evidence to the contrary, the statement stands to reassure the public. Another example is Trump saying I asked Putin if he did what our intelligence team accused him of doing but he said it wasn't true. Those who trusted Trump believed him.

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"I am the science" is going to end up being a hell of a lot more notorious that "I am not a crook" but not soon enough.

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Thank you for your work, I really appreciate it. There are very few voices that I connect with out there right now. I wish I had access to something like this in 2020, when I felt totally lost.

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Thanks for this. It would be valuable if you would list the 7 projects that were exempted., the 5 MERS and the two flu projects. The titles and the PIs and the $ amounts if available

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Wait.

No reaching out to anyone other than the Ebright (who is a controversial participant in the LL discourse in the least as he has made disputed claims about the timeline of grant funding to assert that the funding comprised bribes to scientists to lie about their views on the origins of SCOV-2)?

Surely a quest for "truth" would suggest an effort to get perspectives from more than just one source who is very heavily committed to a LL version of events.

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