Paul D. Thacker
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Paul D. Thacker
@thackerpd
Journalist; Former Investigator U.S. Senate; Former Safra Ethics Center, Harvard. https://t.co/aD6NkYzjqM




This “woman” should be committed, and anyone who takes her even remotely seriously should be in the next room.

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🚨BOMBSHELL SCIENCE INTEGRITY SCANDAL – 17 NOV 2025 Elisabeth M. Bik – the fake “science integrity consultant” who brags about >10,000 PubPeer comments – has spent years stalking, smearing, and destroying careers of researchers she targets. But dare post a single critical comment on HER papers or her inner-circle mob? 100 % CENSORED. 17 of her and her collaborators’ papers flagged → 17 comments instantly blocked. One slipped through on 23 Nov 2024 → ERASED after exactly 10 days (3 Dec 2024). The queen of PubSmear just got caught rigging the game to protect herself and her network. 9-minute total exposure with screenshots, DOIs, and receipts just dropped. Watch it. Spread it. The mask is shattered. #ElisabethBik #PubPeerScandal #PubSmear #Breaking #News #ScienceFraud #ScienceHypocrisy #ImageForensics @SciGuardians 🔱

CSU Professor O'Quinn: "As a Iesbian, I got plenty of girlfriends with PENlSES, okay?"

🚨 NEW SUSPICIOUS WALLETS 10 fresh wallets just loaded over $160,000 on a ceasefire by end of March Almost no history all created around the same time Potential payout: over $1,000,000

The Iranian military has outlined a potential response to US President Donald Trump's threats to attack the country's power plants if Iran does not open the Strait of Hormuz. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.news/hp81ag

The existence of the gag order was later confirmed by two other researchers at the same national lab. I've talked to several other virologists in Japan, all of whom believe in a lab origin of COVID. I can introduce them if you want to confirm it yourself. x.com/DopplerEffect9…


Old enough to remember when public health "experts" were rushing to call everyone a murderer for pointing to science that found lockdowns would be harmful. And legacy media reporters religiously regurgitated these "experts'" falsehoods.

Transparency, accountability and freedom of information are among the most fundamental principles in academia, especially in a debate of significant public interest. It is therefore deeply disappointing that the University of Oslo (UiO) has spent months obstructing the release of a recording of the lecture Kristian Andersen gave about the origins of the pandemic in Oslo (organised by UiO) a year and a half ago in which he made serious allegations against me and others who have spoken out in this debate. Many who were present thought it problematic and perceived it as an attempt at intimidation. I want the recording made public so it can be subject to objective assessment and public scrutiny so I filed a freedom of information (FOIA) request. That was no easy task! UiO has searched high and low for legal grounds to deny access and avoid releasing the recording, cycling through a remarkable number of justifications: first, they argued it couldn’t be considered an official document. Then, they said it had to be protected as Andersen’s intellectual property (which is particularly ironic given that he was showing my media quotes on the screen). Next, they claimed it would be too burdensome to isolate the relevant parts of the video. And also that releasing parts of the recording would create a misleading impression. None of these arguments held up. The Norwegian Directorate for Higher Education and Skills gave me full support, in two separate appeal rounds. But the saga doesn’t end there. UiO is now attempting to circumvent the ruling. First they gave me a version of the video with a large watermark attempting to prohibit me from publishing it publicly. They have now removed it after yet another round of arguing. However, now they have redacted the video so that Andersen is cut out, claiming it is for privacy reasons. I have appealed again. It is frankly incomprehensible that an academic institution behaves this way. They have no legal basis for any of this. Either UiO’s lawyers are unable to grasp basic principles of freedom of information and privacy law — or this is a deliberate strategy to avoid accountability for something that reflects badly on the university. I strongly doubt it’s the former. But beyond the legal dimension: Andersen appeared in a public capacity, at a public event, which was already broadcast live online — and made public statements criticising named individuals and making statements that must be understood as claims and opinions in an ongoing public debate. Academics do not enjoy enhanced privacy protections compared to other public figures, and cannot retract or block others’ access to statements they have made publicly. The European Court of Human Rights has established in numerous cases that Article 8 (right to privacy) does not protect public figures’ public statements from documentation and dissemination- particularly when those statements concern other people. I should also mention that certain UiO employees have attempted to prevent me from speaking about the origins of the pandemic at other public events — by contacting organisers and asking them to remove me from the programme. This is completely unacceptable. A news feature can be read at Khrono Original Norwegian version here: khrono.no/mener-uio-driv… Google translated version here: www-khrono-no.translate.goog/mener-uio-driv…



At Aspen, Economist editor-in-chief Zanny Minton Beddoes laid out her vision for ‘the day after’: “Israeli security first and foremost,” followed by “some kind of autonomy” for Palestinians. But she made clear she shouldn’t be mistaken for someone calling for an equal Palestinian state. And said it should not be run by the PA but by a “less corrupt, more effective” body that manages “some form of self-government.”









