126. Paul Thacker: Scientific Corruption and Conflicts in Covering Covid
The Sharyl Attkisson Podcast
Sharyl Attkisson
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🗓️ 2 April 2022
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Paul Thacker: Scientific Corruption and Conflicts in Covering Covid
Investigative Reporter Paul Thacker has insight into Dr. Fauci’s emails and the conflicts at play when it comes to scientists, public health officials, and science reporters. For more from Thacker, subscribe to his newsletter on Substack.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi everybody, Cheryl Ackison here. Welcome to another edition of the Cheryl Ackison podcast |
| 0:16.3 | on JustTheNews.com. I hope you'll check out all the Just The News podcasts. You can go to |
| 0:21.6 | JustTheNews.com and see the list of them on the homepage. Today a fascinating interview with a |
| 0:27.6 | really great investigative reporter named Paul Facker, who probably has better insight than most |
| 0:33.5 | into the conflict of interest among scientists and science reporters when it comes to COVID information. |
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| 1:17.8 | Paul Facker is a science reporter and let me say a real science reporter, not one of the writers |
| 1:30.7 | who writes for so-called science publications that are now taking political and ideological stands |
| 1:37.4 | at the expense of science. So many of them are squelching science, pushing narratives in many |
| 1:43.3 | ways that are anti-science. Well, Facker was a lead investigator of the Senate Finance Committee |
| 1:49.0 | where he specialized in examining corruption in the medical and pharmaceutical industries. |
| 1:54.9 | Today he gives some insight information and insight on recently public emails of Dr. Anthony Fauci |
| 2:02.0 | and the shocking conflicts of interest among public health officials and scientists that have |
| 2:06.9 | jeopardized public health during the COVID pandemic. I guess you could say he helps explain why |
| 2:12.8 | so many so-called science writers are proceeding in such an unscientific way when it comes to |
| 2:18.9 | covering COVID. If people aren't super well versed on all the topics at hand, like they know there's |
| 2:25.3 | a lot of controversy about COVID and science and but if they're just casually watching the news, |
| 2:31.4 | just a little teaser of our conversation, what would you say that might kind of blow their mind |
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