Paul Thacker: “The Disinformation Chronicle”
The Rich Zeoli Show
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🗓️ 26 April 2023
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Paul Thacker—American journalist based in Spain and former Fellow at the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University—joins The Rich Zeoli to discuss his work, “The Disinformation Chronicle” which documents the U.S. government’s missteps regarding the COVID-19 pandemic including Dr. Anthony Fauci’s refusal to concede that U.S. taxpayer money funded gain-of-function research in China. You can read all of Thacker’s incredible work here: https://www.pauldthacker.com
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| 0:00.0 | Thanks for listening to the C. O. Lee Show podcast from talk radio 1210 W. P. H. D. and the honesty app welcome back |
| 0:07.9 | It's great to be with you today |
| 0:09.9 | Paul Facker is an investigative journalist his articles have been just truly outstanding cited by works all across the country and the |
| 0:18.3 | disinformation Chronicle in particular foul him at Paul D Facker dot com a Paul thanks for making the time and calling all the way from Spain |
| 0:26.5 | I really appreciate it |
| 0:28.5 | Thanks for having me on |
| 0:30.5 | I you know your disinformation Chronicle is outstanding |
| 0:34.2 | The last week I shared an article that you wrote last year about the Wuhan Road Show |
| 0:38.9 | How these virologists toward Washington's backstreet's kind of like a boy band telling the intelligence community |
| 0:46.2 | Exactly what they |
| 0:47.7 | Wanted to hear basically that's set the narrative for the intelligence community to go out there and tell everybody that the coronavirus came from a wet market |
| 0:55.8 | Right, so what it was really happened is early on in the pandemic. We didn't really know what was going on and |
| 1:02.8 | virologist planted there actually three different studies they planted |
| 1:06.9 | In fit throughout February and March |
| 1:09.4 | Essentially misdirecting people into saying that if you said it came from a lab in Wuhan. That's conspiracy theory and |
| 1:16.0 | The biggest article they wrote was this study that appeared an essay in nature medicine and after that |
| 1:23.2 | Study appeared and actually we know that Anthony Fauci was involved and helping to orchestrate |
| 1:28.3 | That study after it appeared Francis Collins who was then head of the NIH then reference it on his NIH leaders blog in |
| 1:36.3 | Anthony Fauci |
| 1:37.6 | directed |
| 1:38.6 | Journalists to it during a White House briefing when president then president Trump was asked about the study now |
| 1:45.1 | What also happened so the thing you have to understand is what that did is that had the effect of shutting down scientific debate |
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