Director Collins Caught Red-handed Avoiding FOIA
Former NIH Director Francis Collins was caught red-faced and red-handed in the latest release of FOIAed documents in the drama around gain of function.
Holden Thorp, Editor-in-Chief of Science journals sent an email to Director Collins, indicating a forthcoming editorial about the concerns around EcoHealth Alliance and gain of function research in Wuhan funded by the United States government.
Director Collins was a bit put out, got a little emotional, admitting that this whole fiasco has been the worst part of his career. And then went on to say how “bruised” he felt how upset he was at this publication. Of course, he then indicated that some of this was not for email… indicating, of course, that he knew of the FOIA consequences if he went further on this issue.
Has more and more data comes out. It will be eminently clear that this was a cover-up from day one. More soon.
A whole lot was written about GOF virus research in the 2010's decade, the restrictions and difficulty that researchers were having with those pesky anti-science and research people getting in the way of progress with obstructions like rules and laws. "Those scientific and illiterate Neanderthals!"
In my research I found this link to discussion held at the Council on Foreign Relations Council in 2016. It gets into virus Gain-Of-Function, Dual-Use research, biosecurity, pandemic influenza, China's massive role (and Ukraine??), university research, restrictions on research, political concerns, public ignorance, a whole lot especially relevant in the Q&A part:
https://www.cfr.org/event/biotechnology-potential-and-perils-innovation
It mentioned a name I had to look up, Robbie Barbero, who was at one time Assistant Director of Biological Innovation under the Office of Science and Technology's (OSTP's) Technology and Innovation Division:
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/administration/eop/ostp/about/leadershipstaff
Which is where I noticed another name that had come into my world view researching the field of Behaviorism, Behavioral Science/Behavioral Economics. A field that took lead, front in center as The Science (TM) of the pandemic, the definition of Nonpharmaceutical Interventions (NPI). Maya Shankar was the Assistant Director of Behavioral Science at OSTP. I thought it odd that she was right there, same agency, division as Robbie Barbero from biological innovations (GOF) at the same time!!
And I found that she, too, had been on a CFR panel, where Maya Shankar describes behavioral science, the science of that studies the efficacy of propaganda and censorship in changing people's perspectives so that they change their behaviors to match what authorities want, to the Council on Foreign Relations on how governments can impose policy using psychological manipulation and coercion: https://www.cfr.org/event/behavioral-insights-policymaking
[Note: the article acknowledges that they can’t speak freely on how the behavioral sciences are being used by government to coerce and manipulate populations on the record, they save those conversations for behind closed doors]
There's a whole lot more to this information trail I may have shared on your Stack before, Justin. But I believe it is important to identify these two areas of "science" and how closely they work together for purposes of understanding much of what's happened and ongoing as a result of a virus that changed the world in 2020.
The justification used to fund research into viruses by these health and science agencies with close ties to the Department of Defense is that it is necessary to protect us from a bioterror attack:
Bio=Biological agent that causes disease and death.
Terror=Intentionally scaring people, life/death fear.
Bio-terror. Thing is, for terror to work it doesn't even need to result in a whole lot of people dying. September 11 saw 3,000 people die. In a nation of 300 million. Forever changing the nation. Air travel sucks now as a result. Patriot Act surveillance enacted. Department of Homeland security created to target domestic terrorist threats. Straight terrorism without biology did that.
All that is needed for a successful bio-terror attack is a little bit of death, like, say, a mild infectious agent, perhaps viral, capable of causing severe symptoms that the immunocompromised, like elderly, obese and diabetic, might die with. That's the bio part. The terror part being the fear-amplification campaign, health officials, government-directed media deploying fear-porn at piercing decibels levels. And behavioral scientists pulling out their fear-amplifying NPI strategies to scare people away from another, like fear-amplifying masks, lockdowns, quarantines, contact tracing, psychological appeals strategies like appeal to virture (be a good person), fear appeal (it's real scary), appeal to popularity (everyone cool is doing it), appeal to authority (I'm a doctor), etc. Nudge theory, behavioral science. Called "the science of totalitarianism by practitioners of it for that reason, it can scare people so effectively that they will demand totalitarianism to protect them from a threat they're told they are under.
https://web.archive.org/web/20210519003131/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/05/14/scientists-admit-totalitarian-use-fear-control-behaviour-covid/
Bioterror. It looks to this researcher and observer that we, the world, suffered a massive bioterror attack in 2020. A little bit of a biological threat + a whole lot of sophisticated, coordinated terror. By our own government. To fundamentally transform western liberal capitalism societies into totalitarian collectivist societies.
No such things as conspiracies. There are no coincidences.
Let's not mention how Collins was directly involved in shutting down therapeutics for COVID so that the vaccine program could be pushed through under the EUA.
That crime against humanity ought to land him on the gallows. One could argue that the leak of COVID was accidental, but you cannot argue that his actions after the fact to use the crisis to his advantage and the advantage of Big Pharma were not wholly intentional.
Who remembers Collins' little kumbaya video? It was at that moment that I realized he was just another narcissistic psychopath like Fauci.