The Washington Post editorial board accuses me of a conflict of interest that might bias me against Big Pharma, whose interests they apparently seek to protect. The alleged conflict comes from money I supposedly made from a settlement in a lawsuit against Merck for injuries caused by its Gardasil vaccine. The problem is that I never received a penny from the Merck Gardasil settlement, and neither has my son nor anyone else in my family.
Before taking office, I relinquished any interest in potential Gardasil fees back to the Wisner Baum law firm, which publicly confirmed this during my confirmation process. Yet @SenWarren, @Reuters, and @washingtonpost editorial board — in their ardor to protect Big Pharma — continue to push a false narrative that makes Big Pharma the victim and me the mendacious villain. They should correct the record — and spend more time examining the real conflicts that have long disabled the regulatory function of my Department, all of which I am now deconstructing.
I’m firing corrupt regulators and dismissing the panels formerly populated by heavily conflicted “experts.” We are dismantling the mechanisms of corporate capture that made this agency the sock puppet for the industry it was supposed to regulate. Why are Reuters, Warren, and WaPo inventing lies to besmirch the first @HHSgov Secretary in modern history to stand up to industry?
THE SCIENCE: Fauci knew COVID boosters put young men at risk of myocarditis and pushed for requiring them to take boosters despite the fact that he knew they were at almost ZERO risk from the virus.
Americans deserve transparency from the highest level of their government. I obtained these documents and I released them, and I will keep pulling this thread until the full picture is public.
Read every document: https://t.co/5MDRk69z3v
Here's why they were so desperate to cover up the lab leak:
The 2003 SARS outbreak exposed how outdated WHO's disease rules were, since the old International Health Regulations only covered a few named diseases. In response, the World Health Assembly launched a revision process.
By 2004, avian flu drove CDC and global experts to draft the Manhattan Principles, which coined "One Health," a plan to unite human, animal, and environmental health to stop zoonotic outbreaks before they start.
In 2005, WHO member states unanimously adopted the updated International Health Regulations (IHR 2005), legally binding all countries to detect, report, and respond to any event that might become a global health emergency.
That framework began taking shape in practice with USAID's PREDICT program (2009), which hunted new zoonotic viruses worldwide and trained scientists in the One Health approach. One of its partners was EcoHealth Alliance, which later collaborated with the Wuhan Institute of Virology to study bat coronaviruses under a 2014 NIH grant.
Meanwhile, WHO, FAO, and OIE formalized their Tripartite Concept Note in 2010, turning One Health into an institutional partnership. This tripartite later became a key partner in the Global Health Security Agenda (GHSA), launched in 2014 by the U.S. and allies to accelerate IHR 2005 compliance.
EcoHealth Alliance and the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security both participated in GHSA networks. Hopkins would go on to stage the infamous Clade X (2018) and Event 201 (2019) pandemic simulations which happened just months before the COVID-19 outbreak.
At the same time, the Sendai Framework (2015) wove biological threats into global disaster planning and introduced the "Build Back Better" language for post-crisis recovery, further cementing IHR 2005 principles in international policy.
So by the mid-2010s, the global outbreak response framework and the virus discovery networks had fused into one system.
In other words: the same institutions doing the gain-of-function COVID-19 research were also heavily involved in creating the response playbook and doing the scenario games. It was all happening in parallel. We likely would not have had COVID-19 in the first place if we had never adopted the IHR 2005 regulations in the first place.
The pandemic created its response, but the response also created the pandemic. That's the cover-up.
@JaniceDean It's therapy for your PTSD. It's validation that you were/are right! Our government, in multiple forms, lied to us based on this inhumane "scientist" and his giant ego power trip.
Kelsey Grammer, dad of 8, on the US education system:
“I think the educational community has really dropped the ball, probably deliberately in a lot of ways.
They don’t like the idea that we are a great country. Somewhere along the way, our education system decided we aren’t, and that’s what they teach our children.
“If you’re learning that from your teachers—and we believe our teachers—you start to think, well, maybe they’re right.
“You begin searching your soul for why you come from a ‘crap’ place, why you’re not a good person, why our country isn’t good anymore.
“That means mom and dad aren’t very good either, are they? There’s a whole series of questions that follow.
“What we’re doing to our children is basically child abuse.
“Someone deliberately set out to introduce the idea that we aren’t a good country through our educational system.”
BOMBSHELL 🚨 Investigative journalist Catherine Herridge says she found evidence that Joe Biden’s family was being blackmailed by China (and shows the documents) and our mainstream media ignored the evidence
“What we saw in the release of the records, which I'm afraid I think in the media or legacy media there was kind of a willful blindness. They didn't want to look at the records. All you had to do was spend a couple of hours. I found these records which are talking about blackmail by China. It was for President Biden's daily brief. I can conclude, I think, that it was probably about targeting his family”
She explains earlier that all this was ignored and buried by the FBI, CIA and the media in order to keep Democrats in power
🚨 JUST IN: Senator Mike Lee just told Senate GOP leadership to
- CANCEL RECESS
- WORK THROUGH WEEKENDS
- NUKE THE 60-VOTE ZOMBIE FILIBUSTER
- Force Democrats to expend political capital opposing the SAVE America Act on the floor
- And SEND THE BILL TO PRESIDENT TRUMP with a majority vote
No more LAZINESS!
LEE: "We could break the Democrats’ filibuster the old-fashioned way: make them actually speak on the Senate floor, knowing we can 'call the question' and pass it at a simple-majority threshold the minute they stop speaking."
"We could add pressure by working through weekends and recess weeks as needed, with a public commitment to keep the Senate in session until the bill passes."
"Right now Senate Democrats enjoy all the benefits of the filibuster with none of the political cost—and without even having to work for it."
"We could also advance key provisions of the SAVE America Act using budget reconciliation. Or we could nuke the filibuster."
"But doing nothing as Democrats increasingly abuse the filibuster is no longer defensible—especially as evidence continues to mount that hundreds of thousands of noncitizens are registered to vote in U.S. elections."
100% AGREE, @BasedMikeLee! Time is RUNNING OUT
This week we are FINALLY voting on banning insider trading. After the kicking and screaming Rep Burchett and I endured, finally got a vote on it. Watch how it will overwhelmingly pass.
Btw: want to see who is doing it? Look NO FURTHER than their disclosures. See who has become a multimillionaire off of a congressional salary using their stock trades.
Don’t forget that Hakeem Jeffries told his Democrat members to not sign the discharge petition even though it was in part a co-authored Democrat bill.