167. Thacker on Fauci & Collins and Ethical Violations (From Archives)
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Sharyl Attkisson
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🗓️ 18 June 2023
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Investigative journalist Paul Thacker catches Drs. Fauci and Collins violating their own ethics rules against ghostwriting as they tried to steer the public away from their roles in the possible Covid lab leak. How does Thacker know? It has to do with a vintage email. This popular episode was first published on Dec. 7, 2022.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi everybody, Cheryl Ackison here. Welcome to another edition of the Cheryl Ackison Podcast. |
| 0:12.5 | Today an eye-opening interview with investigative journalist Paul Facker and alleged ethical |
| 0:18.5 | breaches he found committed by Dr. Fauci and then head of the National Institutes of Health |
| 0:24.3 | Dr. Francis Collins. |
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| 1:05.1 | podcasters to get started. Investigative journalist Paul Facker caught Dr. Anthony Fauci and Dr. |
| 1:13.5 | Francis Collins who is head of the National Institutes of Health violating their own established |
| 1:19.2 | ethics rules against ghost writing or plagiarism when they apparently behind the scenes weighed in |
| 1:25.3 | on or helped lead articles deflecting the public from the likelihood of the Chinese lab origins for |
| 1:31.2 | COVID but didn't disclose their roles in those articles. You'll hear in a moment how Paul Facker knows |
| 1:38.9 | that that's a violation of established ethics rules and how he knows they did exactly what they did. |
| 1:45.5 | To this day by the way nobody has been held accountable for what I see as one of the biggest problems |
| 1:50.7 | among many during COVID that the public health officials involved in the controversial research |
| 1:57.0 | that may have led to the leak from the Wuhan lab engaged in a campaign to steer the narrative away |
| 2:03.3 | from that possibility without disclosing their own roles in funding the research backing the |
| 2:09.5 | research with our tax money by the way. If this happened in private industry with investor money |
| 2:16.2 | involved and investor confidence at stake you can bet there would likely be swift action against |
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