The only reporters who were seriously harassed were those that stuck their neck out to investigate the lab-leak hypothesis, putting their careers and reputations at risk of being destroyed by the Amy Maxmens of this world.
Natute, as with all rigid corporate bureaucracies the mediocre unimaginative types like her tend to fail upwards.
Conflicts of interest and lack of transparency at every level of the medical and media establishment threaten us all. Not only by obscuring facts, which has enormous consequences for individuals, but also, eventually, by destroying trust in shared truth and reality, which deeply undermines cohesion in society.
Thanks Paul, You might want to send Maxmen and Nature editors a copy of Jeanne Guillemin's book "Anthrax: An Investigation of a Deadly Outbreak", which repeatedly refers to this 1979 Soviet disaster as an "epidemic". Dr. Matthew Meselson of Harvard U was the principal investigator of an independent forensic team which followed-up on this incident; his wife - Jeanne Guillemin - was a member of this research team. In 1994 Meselson published a paper in Science which documented the team's findings, and it referred to the incident as "an unusual Anthrax epidemic" in the paper's Abstract.
Also, a webpage devoted to defining the difference between an "outbreak" and an "epidemic" is provided via the website of the Association of Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC) - see: https://apic.org/monthly_alerts/outbreaks-epidemics-and-pandemics-what-you-need-to-know/ . This authoritative source indicates that: "An epidemic occurs when an infectious disease spreads rapidly to many people." Nearly 100 Russian citizens were killed when the Soviet biolab accidentally released spores of Anthrax - a highly infectious disease that spread rapidly and killed nearly 100 Russian citizens.
So glad that you exposed the unsavory antics of Amy and her editors at Nature - sadly, they're shameless!
The only reporters who were seriously harassed were those that stuck their neck out to investigate the lab-leak hypothesis, putting their careers and reputations at risk of being destroyed by the Amy Maxmens of this world.
Natute, as with all rigid corporate bureaucracies the mediocre unimaginative types like her tend to fail upwards.
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Conflicts of interest and lack of transparency at every level of the medical and media establishment threaten us all. Not only by obscuring facts, which has enormous consequences for individuals, but also, eventually, by destroying trust in shared truth and reality, which deeply undermines cohesion in society.
Thanks Paul, You might want to send Maxmen and Nature editors a copy of Jeanne Guillemin's book "Anthrax: An Investigation of a Deadly Outbreak", which repeatedly refers to this 1979 Soviet disaster as an "epidemic". Dr. Matthew Meselson of Harvard U was the principal investigator of an independent forensic team which followed-up on this incident; his wife - Jeanne Guillemin - was a member of this research team. In 1994 Meselson published a paper in Science which documented the team's findings, and it referred to the incident as "an unusual Anthrax epidemic" in the paper's Abstract.
Also, a webpage devoted to defining the difference between an "outbreak" and an "epidemic" is provided via the website of the Association of Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC) - see: https://apic.org/monthly_alerts/outbreaks-epidemics-and-pandemics-what-you-need-to-know/ . This authoritative source indicates that: "An epidemic occurs when an infectious disease spreads rapidly to many people." Nearly 100 Russian citizens were killed when the Soviet biolab accidentally released spores of Anthrax - a highly infectious disease that spread rapidly and killed nearly 100 Russian citizens.
So glad that you exposed the unsavory antics of Amy and her editors at Nature - sadly, they're shameless!
Thank you for an outstanding article on arguably the most important issue of our time.
Norman B.Ratliff III, MD FACC
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