Podcast appearances and mentions of Paul D Thacker

GUEST HOST: Peter Mcilvenna filling in for James Freeman.    GUEST 1 OVERVIEW: Investigative Reporter; Former Investigator United States Senate; Former Fellow Safra Ethics Center, Harvard University  He runs The Disinformation Chronicle Substack  https://disinformationchronicle.substack.com/   GUEST 2 OVERVIEW: Dr Naomi Wolf is a bestselling author, columnist and professor. She is a graduate of Yale University and received a doctorate from Oxford. She is co-founder and CEO of DailyClout.io, a successful civic tech company. Dr Wolf has long challenged conventional narratives on gender, foreign policy, economics, and journalism. In her speeches and seminars, she exposes the threats to liberty and democracy, providing audiences with the tools to fight back against powerful institutional forces. X: @naomiwolf 

GUEST 1 OVERVIEW: Crypto Rich is an investor, crypto vlogger, political commentator, anti-war activist, home educator, and social worker. You can find him on X at @cryptorichyt and watch his videos here: bit.ly/cryptorichodysee GUEST 2 OVERVIEW: Investigative Reporter; Former Investigator United States Senate; Former Fellow Safra Ethics Center, Harvard University  He runs The Disinformation Chronicle Substack  https://disinformationchronicle.substack.com/

GUEST 1 OVERVIEW: Paul D. Thacker is an Investigative Reporter; Former Investigator United States Senate; Former Fellow Safra Ethics Center, Harvard University. He runs The Disinformation Chronicle Substack https://disinformationchronicle.substack.com/ GUEST 2 OVERVIEW: Nikola Mikovic is a freelance journalist, researcher and analyst based in Serbia. His work focuses mostly on the foreign policies of Russia, Belarus and Ukraine. He writes for several publications such as Diplomatic Courier, Asia Times, CGTN, Tsarizm, Global Comment, among others.

GUEST 1 OVERVIEW: Paul D. Thacker is an Investigative Reporter; Former Investigator United States Senate; Former Fellow Safra Ethics Center, Harvard University, He runs The Disinformation Chronicle Substack. https://disinformationchronicle.substack.com/ GUEST 2 OVERVIEW: Former intelligence analyst and head of South Africa's diplomatic academy, who was the first ambassador of the New South Africa to “Black” Africa. A lawyer, novelist and commentator with a PhD in Political Science, in addition to Law degrees. Currently serves as the editor of the digital editions of NONGQAI, the South African Forces History e-magazine, Blog and YouTube channel.

GUEST 1 OVERVIEW: Paul D. Thacker is an investigative reporter with a background as a former investigator for the United States Senate and a former fellow at the Safra Ethics Center at Harvard University. He currently runs The Disinformation Chronicle Substack, where he provides insightful analysis and reporting on disinformation issues. You can find his work at https://disinformationchronicle.substack.com/. GUEST 2 OVERVIEW: Ian Proud was a member of HM Diplomatic Service from 1999 to 2023. Ian was the only member of the current generation of British diplomats who saw Vladimir Putin during his last visit to the UK in 2013 for the G8 Summit in Northern Ireland, which he organised. He was one of the Foreign Office's most accomplished crisis experts, having been involved in the response to 9-11, the first Bali bombing, the Indian Ocean Tsunami, Arab Spring, and Fukushima disaster. From July 2014 to February 2019 Ian was posted to the British Embassy in Moscow where he advised UK Ministers on sanctions against Russia; he also authorised a significant proportion of the sanctions imposed on Russia by the UK after war broke out in 2022, although he considers western sanctions policy to have been a failure. While in Moscow, Ian was Chair of the Russia Crisis Committee, and played a pivotal role in the response to the Salisbury nerve agent attack of March 2018 and the subsequent mass expulsion of diplomats and local staff. He was also Director of the Diplomatic Academy for Eastern Europe and Central Asia and Vice-Chairman of the Board of the Anglo-American School of Moscow. He speaks Russian, fluent Thai and a smattering of six other languages.

GUEST 1 OVERVIEW: David Adelman aka The People's Lawyer is a Cambridge University educated and a qualified Solicitor by training. His experience in the education system led to him to research and author a book now published as ‘School – No Place for Children'. He gave a keynote speech at the Glastonbury Symposium in July 2019 and was about to embark on a nationwide tour on education when COVID hit town. The result is now visible on this site and available at in-person live talks and online courses to massively upgrade people's general sense of their own power. GUEST 2 OVERVIEW: Investigative Reporter; Former Investigator United States Senate; Former Fellow Safra Ethics Center, Harvard University. He runs The Disinformation Chronicle Substack https://disinformationchronicle.substack.com/

GUEST OVERVIEW: Paul D. Thacker is an investigative reporter with extensive experience. He has previously worked as an investigator for the United States Senate and as a fellow at the Safra Ethics Center at Harvard University. Currently, he runs The Disinformation Chronicle Substack, where he continues his investigative work. https://disinformationchronicle.substack.com/

Frank Morano interviews Paul D. Thacker, independent journalist who reports on science, medicine and the environment. He was also a lead investigator of the Senate Finance Committee, where he examined financial links between physicians and pharmaceutical companies and Lab Leak theory, Hunter Biden case, vaccines, and Free Speech on social media.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Paul D. Thacker is a journalist based out of Madrid, and a former Fellow at the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard. In 2021, he won the British Journalism Award for a series of investigations for The BMJ into problems with COVID-19 policies, and he runs The DisInformation Chronicle, a newsletter on disinformation in science and medicine. On the podcast we discuss his most recent article “NEW EMAILS: Biden White House Behind Facebook Censorship of The BMJ's Pfizer Investigation” and more. PLEASE SUBSCRIBE LIKE AND SHARE THIS PODCAST!!! Follow Paul   Website- https://www.pauldthacker.com/ Instagram- https://instagram.com/the_disinformation_chronicle?igshid=NmZiMzY2Mjc= Twitter - https://twitter.com/thackerpd Substack- https://disinformationchronicle.substack.com/   Follow Me Twitter- https://twitter.com/CoffeeandaMike Instagram- https://www.instagram.com/coffeeandamike/ Facebook- https://www.facebook.com/CoffeeandaMike/ Truth Social- https://truthsocial.com/@coffeeandamike Gettr- https://gettr.com/user/coffeeandamike   Support My Work Venmo- https://venmo.com/code?user_id=3570365208987017385&created=1658667789.4661531&printed=1 Website- www.coffeeandamike.com Email- info@coffeeandamike.com

Thank you for joining us for another episode of the Low Carb MD Podcast. Paul D. Thacker is an investigative journalist with over 15 years uncovering campaigns to distort science. He has written on scientific ethics for outlets including the New York Times, JAMA, Washington Post, NEJM, Los Angeles Times, The New Republic, BMJ, and Mother Jones. He has been quoted by the Wall Street Journal, the Associated Press, and Rolling Stone, and has been profiled by Nature and PBS. While serving as an investigator in the U.S. Senate, he helped to produce stories that ran in dozens of outlets including the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, CBS News, Reuters, ABC News, Science, Nature, BMJ, and the Associated Press. His congressional investigations led to passage of the landmark Physician Payments Sunshine Act, a bill that has altered the field of medicine, and is now being copied in several countries including England, France, the Netherlands, and Scotland. In their conversation, Tro, Brian, and Paul talk about the great ‘aWOKEning' in American journalism, why vaccines are historically such a touchy subject in medical and science journalism, the anti-vaccine hysteria so prevalent in our current day, corruption, suppression, and disinformation in and from the pharmaceutical industry, financial relationships between doctors and pharmaceutical companies, the relationship between the FDA and big Pharma, narrative-based censorship, and lawsuits against the federal government for colluding with social media companies to violate free speech. For more information, please see the links below. Thank you for listening! Links: Paul Thacker: Substack Twitter Dr. Brian Lenzkes: Website Twitter Dr. Tro Kalayjian: Website Twitter Instagram

Paul D. Thacker is a journalist based out of Madrid, and a former Fellow at the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard. Last year, he won the British Journalism Award for a series of investigations for The BMJ into problems with COVID19 policies, and he runs The DisInformation Chronicle, a newsletter on disinformation in science and medicine. He has written on scientific ethics for numerous outlets including The Progressive, JAMA, The BMJ, The New York Times, Huffington Post, Washington Post, and Los Angeles Times. PLEASE SUBSCRIBE LIKE AND SHARE this podcast!!! Social Media  Twitter  https://twitter.com/thackerpd Instagram https://instagram.com/the_disinformation_chronicle?igshid=NmZiMzY2Mjc=   Recent articles  https://disinformationchronicle.substack.com/p/buzzfeed-takes-a-stab-at-journalism?s=r https://disinformationchronicle.substack.com/p/pfizers-press-release-pandemic-policy?s=r https://unherd.com/2022/03/is-the-media-still-stifling-the-lab-leak-theory/      

L'amplification est un outil de manipulation de l'information très utilisé sur les réseaux sociaux. Le nouveau « scandale » qui a éclaté sur la toile, à partir d'une enquête publiée le mardi 2 novembre dans le British Medical Journal (BMJ) en est un parfait exemple. Le géant pharmaceutique Pfizer est épinglé pour la façon dont certains essais cliniques ont été conduits en amont de la mise sur le marché de son vaccin contre la Covid-19. Sophie Malibeaux et Grégory Genevrier. L'article du British Medical Journal paru ce mardi 2 novembre 2021 pointe du doigt trois laboratoires du groupe Ventavia au Texas, chargés d'essais cliniques sur le vaccin Pfizer. Ils sont notamment accusés de falsification de données, de retard dans le suivi des effets indésirables, et de mauvaises conditions de stockage des doses. C'est Brook Jackson, une ancienne employée du groupe, qui révèle ces manquements. Aussitôt, les réseaux sociaux s'emparent du sujet avec le #Pfizergate ou plus tard #ScandalePfizer. Le lendemain de la publication de l'enquête, #Pfizergate affiche plusieurs milliers de mentions sur les grandes plateformes. La sphère politique s'empare alors de l'affaire, Florian Philippot et Nicolas Dupont-Aignan en tête. Les deux hommes parlent d'un scandale mondial et demandent la suspension immédiate du vaccin. La tendance monte en flèche dans la journée, devenant virale. Mais rien de « planétaire » pour autant puisque l'embrasement est avant tout franco-français, et porté par les militants anti-vax. Le rôle d'amplification des anti-vax En suivant le phénomène à la loupe, on observe des signes d'amplification artificielle. De nombreux comptes bombardent les réseaux de posts avec le #PfizerGate, sans même commenter l'affaire. Ce ne sont pas des robots mais bien une armée de twittos mobilisés pour créer la tendance. Et puis il y a tous ceux qui, par leurs commentaires, manipulent l'enquête pour lui donner une dimension qu'elle n'a pas. C'est le cas de l'agence de presse russe Tass, qui titre « Les essais de Pfizer sont défectueux et falsifiés, selon le British Medical Journal ». Certains twittos vont même jusqu'à évoquer la mise en danger de milliards d'êtres humains avec le vaccin. Une façon de généraliser les manquements alors que l'enquête cible un faible échantillon. En réalité, les essais cliniques de Pfizer en phase 3 ont concerné près de 44 000 participants dans 153 centres répartis dans le monde. Les défaillances observées portent sur un groupe de 1 000 personnes. Ce qui n'est donc pas de nature à modifier le résultat global de l'essai clinique. Une enquête incomplète On peut également s'interroger sur la qualité de l'enquête. Celle-ci évoque une lanceuse d'alerte, mais c'est l'unique source, à part quelques témoignages anonymes. Brook Jackson, la seule citée nommément dans ce rapport, aurait passé deux semaines dans l'entreprise. Ventavia aurait décidé de se séparer de son employée, le jour où elle a informé l'agence étasunienne du médicament (FDA) de ses observations. Le rapport évoque le mail envoyé à la FDA ainsi que d'autres documents comme des enregistrements et des photos, qui cependant ne sont pas dévoilés. Quant à l'auteur de l'article, Paul D. Thacker, il apparaît assez controversé dans les milieux des sciences et du journalisme. Certains lui reprochent d'avoir porté par le passé un regard biaisé sur des sujets comme la 5G ou les OGM. Précisons que la procédure de relecture n'a pas été effectuée en interne. C'est explicitement précisé, et le British Medical Journal nous l'a confirmé, l'article a fait l'objet d'une relecture par deux experts extérieurs à la rédaction. Par ailleurs, le sous-traitant incriminé affirme ne pas avoir été contacté par l'auteur du rapport. Un effet boule de neige Au bout du compte, ces éléments paraissent un peu faibles pour conclure à un « scandale planétaire ». C'est peut-être l'une des raisons pour lesquelles les grands médias ne se sont pas emballés aussi vite que les internautes. Le travail journalistique ne permet pas de rivaliser avec l'immédiateté du clic sur les réseaux sociaux, qui plus est lorsque les internautes ne se donnent pas la peine de lire l'article qu'ils commentent. La lenteur médiatique est ainsi instrumentalisée à des fins conspirationnistes.   #Pfizergate Pfizer finance les médias et les homme politique dans leur ensemble pour acheter le silence. — La France libre (@Joegood85812844) November 3, 2021   Depuis les faits constatés dans l'enquête – en septembre 2020 – les résultats obtenus à travers la vaccination ont validé l'efficacité du vaccin. On ne sait pas à ce stade, si les manquements dénoncés sont avérés. Pfizer et Ventavia ainsi que les agences étasunienne et européenne du médicament se penchent sur la question. Contactée par le journal Libération, la société Ventavia affirme enquêter sur les allégations de Brook Jackson.

Catch up on what you missed on an episode of The Richard Syrett. An Investigative Journalist, Paul D. Thacker talks about his article in the BMJ titled: “Researcher blows the whistle on data integrity issues in Pfizer's vaccine trial.” Richard along with caWsbar (Canadian Women's Sex-Based Rights) fight back against radical gender ideology. Plus, Editor of World Net Daily's Whistleblower Magazine, David Kupelian shares more on the latest issue titled: “THE GREAT AMERICAN REBELLION: ‘We will not comply!' COVID-19 power grab ignites bold new era of national defiance.

Stephen Crabb, Conservative MP for Preseli Pembrokeshire says there needs to be joined up government thinking on spending from Johnson and Sunak. Crabb tells Bloomberg Westminster's Roger Hearing and Caroline Hepker that building homes should be the priority for the party. And investigative journalist Paul D. Thacker says there needs to be far more transparency about the government's scientific advise. His investigation for the British Medical Journal prompted more disclosure about members of SAGE advisory panel, but he says the British government is being far too opaque about how it makes health decisions in the pandemic. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com

The Bill Kelly Show Podcast: Ontario’s online portal where people from the general population can book their COVID-19 vaccine appointment will be launched on March 15, and will start by allowing people 80 and over to register first. ALSO: Health Canada's chief medical adviser said today the department is poised to make a decision on whether to authorize a promising COVID-19 vaccine from AstraZeneca in the coming days. GUEST: Dr. Sumon Chakrabarti, Division Head of Infectious Diseases with Trillium Health Partners Mississauga Hospital - A C.D. Howe Institute paper compares the annual budgetary projections for spending and the bottom line in the 31 municipalities over a decade and compares them to the results reported in those municipalities’ year-end financial statements. It finds cities’ were in robust health in the run-up to 2020. The 31 largest by population tallied an aggregate surplus of over $10 billion in 2019, with Hamilton’s surplus for that year sitting at $268m. GUEST: Bill Robson, CEO of the C.D. Howe Institute and author of the paper - Tracking down John Bell: how the case of the Oxford professor exposes a transparency crisis in the government: As testing and the Oxford AstraZeneca vaccine are hailed as UK pandemic successes, why won’t Oxford University or the government disclose the “long list” of financial interests of a high profile researcher at the centre of both? Paul D Thacker investigates. GUEST: Paul D. Thacker, Freelance Journalist for the British Medical Journal and a Former Investigator for the U.S. Senate and Safra Ethics Center, at Harvard See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Chewing podcast co-host Monica Eng details a lost interview with broccoli scientist Elizabeth Jeffery. Then Monica talks with fellow watchdog journalist Paul D. Thacker. Plus she visits Tortello pasta shop in Chicago during the before times. Finally co-host Louisa Chu dares her to eat Midwestern mostaccioli at a camp in Wisconsin, but Will She Eat It?