COMPROMISED: Peter Daszak is removed from UN commission investigating COVID

[DrQ]

Peter Daszak is removed from UN commission investigating COVID after he was exposed for secretly organizing letter denouncing leak claim in The Lancet medical journal and for his close ties to Wuhan lab

• The British scientist's profile on commission website now shows him as recused
• Daszak is president of New York-based EcoHealth Alliance, a medical nonprofit
• Earlier this month, it emerged he'd organized a letter co-signed by scientists and published in prestigious medical journal The Lancet denouncing lab leak theory
• Daszak did so despite having strong professional ties to the Wuhan Institute of Virology - the Chinese lab COVID may have leaked from
• He has for years been a strong supporter of the work of the Wuhan laboratory
• Anthony Fauci's institute gave grants to EcoHealth to support Wuhan work
• Daszak's passionate defense of the Wuhan lab's work has raised eyebrows
• He said the idea that COVID-19 could have escaped from the lab was conspiracy
• Daszak insisted live bats were not kept at Wuhan, but now admits they may
• He is increasingly seen as a compromised figure without scientific objectivity

Daszak removed from COVID commission for conflict-of-interest concerns

British scientist Peter Daszak, based in New York, is officially recused from the COVID commission's work on the origins of the pandemic, according to an update on their website on Monday.

www.dailymail.co.uk

 

[MrockStar]

:-\

 

[Old Hickory]

Uh oh. Where are the U.S. journalists?

 

[bluehende]

Interesting that the normal anti media crowd laps up the daily mail.

from wikipedia

The Daily Mail has been noted for its unreliability and widely criticised for its printing of sensationalist and inaccurate scare stories of science and medical research,

 

[Ty1on]

Interesting that the normal anti media crowd laps up the daily mail.

from wikipedia

The Daily Mail has been noted for its unreliability and widely criticised for its printing of sensationalist and inaccurate scare stories of science and medical research,

Okay, How about the New York Post? And you will find there a link to the original article in that sensationalist stalwart Vanity Fair that covers his conflict of interest.

 

[DannyTS]

"The Lancet, a respected British medical journal, updated the profiles of members on its COVID-19 Commission and said Peter Daszak, the president of EcoHealth Alliance, has been "recused" from working on the origins of the pandemic."

Daszak ‘recused’ from Lancet’s COVID-19 commission

The Lancet, a respected British medical journal, updated the profiles of members on its COVID-19 Commission and said Peter Daszak, the president of EcoHealth Alliance, has been “recused” from working on the origins of the pandemic.

www.foxnews.com

The Lancet twitter page mentions Peter Daszak's conflict of interest "update".

https://twitter.com/x/status/1406975643762429952

 

[WVBaker]

Interesting that the normal anti media crowd laps up the daily mail.

from wikipedia

The Daily Mail has been noted for its unreliability and widely criticised for its printing of sensationalist and inaccurate scare stories of science and medical research,

"The Daily Mail has been noted for its unreliability and widely criticised for its printing of sensationalist and inaccurate scare stories of science and medical research,"

Perhaps I missed it but, is that a quote from Wikipedia? Your link only leads to how Wikipedia itself describes, "sensationalist".

 

[DrQ]

Interesting that the normal anti media crowd laps up the daily mail.

from wikipedia

The Daily Mail has been noted for its unreliability and widely criticised for its printing of sensationalist and inaccurate scare stories of science and medical research,

The Daily Mail does not have a paywall and many times has links to the original stories.

 

[CanuckTravlr]

I normally check more than one media outlet on certain types of stories. I must admit that tendency is amplified if the source is the Daily Mail or the New York Post. It certainly doesn't mean a story is fake or inaccurate, but both have a bit of a reputation IME for putting more-than-a-little slant on an article and also for not always being the best at fact-checking.

 

[Cornell]

I normally check more than one media outlet on certain types of stories. I must admit that tendency is amplified if the source is the Daily Mail or the New York Post. It certainly doesn't mean a story is fake or inaccurate, but both have a bit of a reputation IME for putting more-than-a-little slant on an article and also for not always being the best at fact-checking.

Same is true of CNN

 

[CanuckTravlr]

Same is true of CNN

Not a particularly big fan of CNN, either. Like many television media outlets today, too much opinion and "analysis", not enough actual "news", and "breaking news" doesn't usually count.

 

[Brett]

Same is true of CNN

but Foxnews .... "fair and balanced"

 

[Cornell]

but Foxnews .... "fair and balanced"

hardly

And the NY Times All the News That's Fit to Print.

 

[Brett]

hardly

And the NY Times All the News That's Fit to Print.

And the awful Chicago newspapers !

 

[Cornell]

And the awful Chicago newspapers !

Do we even have any?

 

[Conan]

Okay, How about the New York Post?

Do you know who owns the New York Post, the Wall Street Journal, and Fox News?

Happy 90th birthday to Rupert Murdoch, savior of The Post

Media mogul Rupert Murdoch turns 90 today, and apart from his family, it’s The New York Post, and New York City, that have the most reason to celebrate the milestone. The Big Apple hasn’t been the …

nypost.com

 

[bluehende]

"The Daily Mail has been noted for its unreliability and widely criticised for its printing of sensationalist and inaccurate scare stories of science and medical research,"

Perhaps I missed it but, is that a quote from Wikipedia? Your link only leads to how Wikipedia itself describes, "sensationalist".

Yes....pretty easy to confirm on wikipedia.

 

[Ty1on]

Do you know who owns the New York Post, the Wall Street Journal, and Fox News?

Happy 90th birthday to Rupert Murdoch, savior of The Post

Media mogul Rupert Murdoch turns 90 today, and apart from his family, it’s The New York Post, and New York City, that have the most reason to celebrate the milestone. The Big Apple hasn’t been the …

nypost.com

What about Vanity Fair? This complete ignoring of legitimate news stories because they are published by Murdoch is reaching ridiculous proportions. You have to get a story like this on such sites because mainstream is curating an agenda that opposes them, and their deafening silence on specific issues counter to their agenda has become palpable.

 

[CanuckTravlr]

What about Vanity Fair? This complete ignoring of legitimate news stories because they are published by Murdoch is reaching ridiculous proportions. You have to get a story like this on such sites because mainstream is curating an agenda that opposes them, and their deafening silence on specific issues counter to their agenda has become palpable.

Well, Murdoch has created that situation all by his lonesome, without much help from what you refer to as "mainstream" media. All of his outlets, whether in the USA, the UK, or Australia, have a mostly self-created, rather soiled reputation amongst most hard news junkies and observers. Their regular failure to do solid, transparent, and public fact-checking, and their proclivity to encourage and promote certain "truths" that are known to be less-than-self-evident, does not help their cause.

Most international observers take anything they read or see on Murdoch outlets, that is overly controversial or provocative, with a very large grain-of-salt; at least until they are able to verify it from a more reliable and trusted, hard-news source. By the way, despite the fact that far-right pundits often like to use the term "MSM" as an epithet to describe those media outlets with which they disagree philosophically, most Murdoch outlets, including Fox, the WSJ and the NYP, are all technically mainstream media.

 

[Ty1on]

Well, Murdoch has created that situation all my his lonesome, without much help from what you refer to as "mainstream" media. All of his outlets, whether in the USA, the UK, or Australia, have a mostly self-created, rather soiled reputation amongst most hard news junkies and observers. Their regular failure to do solid, transparent, and public fact-checking, and their proclivity to encourage and promote certain "truths" that are known to be less-than-self-evident, does not help their cause.

Most international observers take anything they read or see on Murdoch outlets, that is overly controversial or provocative, with a very large grain-of-salt; at least until they are able to verify it from a more reliable and trusted, hard-news source. By the way, despite the fact that far-right pundits often like to use the term "MSM" as an epithet to describe those media outlets with which they disagree philosophically, most Murdoch outlets, including Fox, the WSJ and the NYP, are all technically mainstream media.

I'm not going to continue this line of discussion because you're edging on the political realm.

 

[CanuckTravlr]

I'm not going to continue this line of discussion because you're edging on the political realm.

Nope, I was certainly not referring only to political coverage, but it would be very easy to tip it there. You were the one who potentially started it down that path with your prior comments disparaging so-called "mainstream" media. However, I agree with you, that both our points have probably been sufficiently aired. We should now just let sleeping dogs lie, before they start barking about politics!

 

[MrockStar]

Woof.

 

[Brett]

Yes....pretty easy to confirm on wikipedia.

yup

 

[Roger830]

Media duped early on by Daszak.

Media allowed itself to be duped by one man on COVID-19

The more we learn about Peter Daszak, the one who fed misinformation claims on the Chinese Wuhan Virology Lab to the media — the worse it gets, Arthur Bloom writes.

nypost.com

 

[Conan]

Media duped early on by Daszak.

Where would we be without the New York Post and Fox News!