https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-01129-x
Thank you to a group of friends who share some amazing data amongst our group, this has come to light!
“During a public hearing in Washington DC today, Republicans in the US House of Representatives alleged that government scientists unduly influenced the editors of scientific journals and that, in turn, those publications stifled discourse about the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic.”
“Some have alleged that in the early days of the pandemic, government scientists Anthony Fauci, former director of the US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, and Francis Collins, former director of the US National Institutes of Health (NIH), steered the scientific community, including journals, to dismiss the lab-leak hypothesis.”
“During the pandemic, “rather than journals being a wealth of information”, they instead “put a chilling effect on scientific research regarding the origins of COVID-19”, Brad Wenstrup, a Republican representative from Ohio who is chair of the subcommittee, said at the hearing.”
It should be noted that the publishing journals known as Science, The Lancet, and Nature were asked to appear and they did not.
This is a great report and article. Is the tread beginning to unravel?
This is the same Rep Wenstrup that voted to send MORE aid to Ukraine yesterday. Go figure!
Thus, the rise of substack as a trusted source of scientific debate