Months before The BMJ released investigation, Facebook emailed the White House they would take action against “true content” on vaccines. By Paul D. Thacker Late 2021, I wrote a bombshell BMJ investigation that found data integrity problems in Pfizer’s...
How Will Pharma Allies Discredit Former Head of Australia Medical Association After She Testified On COVID-19 Vaccine Harms and Physician Censorship?
Medical groups and “disinformation reporters” have silenced those speaking up about vaccines side effects, so what tactic will they take with Dr. Kerryn Phelps? By Paul D. Thacker Ask any doctor or researcher even vaguely connected to vaccines to identify the third...
Fact Check True! Yes, Fauci Funded Research in Wuhan and Lied to Congress
Washington Post political writer Greg Sargent shouldn't let his right-wing obsession get in the way of reported evidence. And neither should you. By Paul D. Thacker The Washington Post’s Greg Sargent began scratching about like a cornered badger a week back...
The Wuhan Road Show: Forming a Band, Virologists Toured Washington’s Backstreets
INTEL BRIEFING DOCUMENT: Scientists’ talks to DC officials created an earworm in the intelligence community with lyrics bent against a Chinese lab accident. By Paul D. Thacker “I remember it very well,” the National Institutes of Health’s Anthony Fauci told USA...
Will the Biden Administration Investigate Evidence of Ghostwriting Involving Francis Collins and Anthony Fauci?
In a 2011 letter, Collins charged that failure to disclose author’s involvement is ghostwriting or plagiarism to be handled by the Office of Research Integrity which investigates research misconduct. By Paul D. Thacker Did Drs. Francis Collins and Anthony Fauci commit...
Punching Down: How the “anti-disinformation” movement worked with Big Tech to protect Big Pharma
Guest essay by Andrew Lowenthal, expert in digital rights and open technology. Hello readers, from the time my editor and I started The DisInformation Chronicle, we always planned to host essays from experts on corporate and government influence in science and...
PR Firm Repping Vaccine Manufacturers Now Promotes Doctors Group Denouncing Alleged COVID Vaccine Disinformation
Among the many social changes wrought by the pandemic, physician certification groups now clamor to defend the biopharmaceutical industry. By Paul D. Thacker Over the last century, perhaps no other profession has shown more willingness than medicine to shed its...
We All Know Disinformation When We See Someone (Anyone But Ourselves!) Spreading It
Just like Conservatives love their fossil fuels, Liberals love their vaccines. By Paul D. Thacker Very smart people from all across the world are gathering in Egypt for the UN’s COP meeting on climate change—one of the greatest challenges confronting our species and...
The Pandemic Erased Boundaries Between Government and Corporate Interests. So Who Can the Public Believe?
Research firm ICON services federal agencies including FDA, while helping private clients gain FDA approval. By Paul D. Thacker Talk about foxes guarding the henhouse. Or, maybe, one fox raising and caring for the hens, another alerting the farmer when it’s time for...
BBC Should Step Aside and Allow the Biopharmaceutical Industry to Do its Own Public Relations
With so many prior screw ups, now is the time for Big Fact Check to shut down. By Paul D. Thacker Big Fact Check and it’s many righteous followers erupted into furious Old Testament anger when some tweeters began noting that a Pfizer executive...
Weber Shandwick Embedded at CDC While Helping Royal Caribbean With a Public Relations Plan Like No Other
CDC not answering questions: “Please feel free to request the information through our FOIA office.” By Paul D. Thacker The cruise industry looked, quite literally, dead in the water. As the COVID-19 pandemic surged in early 2020, the Centers for Disease Control and...
Weber Shandwick Provides PR for Moderna and Pfizer, While Staffing the CDC’s Vaccine Office
A potential $50 million contract allows PR firm to be “embedded at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta as part of the Division of Viral Diseases team.” By Paul D. Thacker Early last month, CDC Director Rochelle P. Walensky endorsed...
Seeking Transparency and Reform in Medicine & Science
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...
Funding Documents Expose Virologist Danielle Anderson, Once Feted as a “Conspiracy Buster”
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...
Former CDC Director Robert Redfield On Inside Battles With Anthony Fauci, And Why Classified Information Will Point to a Lab Accident in Wuhan
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...