A Senate campaign brought some transparency to medicine, but problems persist in science and much more needs to be done. By Paul D. Thacker I gave a lecture last week to students in MIT’s Health Sciences and Technology (HST) graduate program about exposing and trying...
For over two years, the virologist posed as a fact checker and biosafety expert on China, without disclosure of grants involving risky gain of function studies. By Paul D. Thacker Shortly after people began dying from the COVID-19 virus in early 2020, virologist...
ROBERT REDFIELD: DICHRON INTERVIEW By Paul D. Thacker Shortly after the pandemic started in early 2020, many people began to ask, “Where is the CDC? Why are they not leading on this?” Criticisms of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have persisted...
Do fact check outlets serve as bodyguards for biomedical companies and those in power? By Paul D. Thacker The Disinformation Chronicle's Paul Thacker continues to provide some of the best deep investigative journalism on Covid vaccines, the lab leak theory of the...
COVID damages memory of grant dismissal protestors, but the Internet never forgets By Paul D. Thacker Paul Thatcher is by far one of the best investigative journalists following the Wuhan lab leak theory and the nefarious role of the EcoHealth Alliance in dismissing...
By Paul D. Thacker A silly preprint uploaded a few weeks back underlined how scientists and scicomm writers easily fall for “research” that tickles them in their political privates. With an authoritative title, “The Efficacy of Facemasks in the Prevention of COVID-19:...
With elections on the horizon is the CDC following “midterm science”? By Paul D. Thacker “The past was alterable. The past never had been altered. Oceania was at war with Eastasia. Oceania had always been at war with Eastasia.” ― George Orwell, 1984 Releasing new...
By Paul D. Thacker Another round of emails finds the National Institutes of Health once again hiding records that might explain whether the pandemic started in a lab in Wuhan, China. In this case, the NIH redacted emails requested by investigative journalist Jimmy...
Court documents find NIH heavily redacts records in a haphazard fashion before making them public. By Paul D. Thacker Remember the name of Chinese researcher “Kangpeng Xiao,” because the National Institutes of Health really, really want you to forget him. Last week,...
When you’re funded by Facebook and a Chinese company cited for national security concerns, is it any surprise you can’t get your facts straight? By Paul Thacker UPDATE: The DisInformation Chronicle was given a harassing email LeadStories sent to a university and...
Current social conventions allow disparagement of drugs and devices, but critique a vaccine … good night, and good luck. By Paul Thacker "In a free country, we punish men for the crimes they commit, but never for the opinions they have," President Harry S....
Why can’t the Biden Administration tell the truth about the nonprofit that has funded the Wuhan Institute of Virology? By Paul D. Thacker The Defense Department research agency called DARPA was caught off guard last September when documents leaked showing...
A long history of drug scandals abetted by corrupt doctors who never faced sanctions from their own profession makes clear that physicians cannot self-regulate. By Paul D. Thacker A recent essay in the New England Journal of Medicine helped highlight, underline and...
Do fact checkers provide Facebook’s muscle to rob us of free speech? By Paul D. Thacker Emmanuel Vincent is a hunted man. On June 24, an officer of the French Ministry of the Interior, acting under the terms of the Hague Convention, summoned him to a police station...
As scrutiny increases on the NIH funding for dangerous virus research, Buzzfeed’s Peter Aldhous tries to shift blame and spotlights an obscure animal rights group. No, seriously. By Paul D. Thacker Investigative reporters and watchdog nonprofits have shone a harsh...