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This tech millionaire went from covid trial funder to misinformation superspreader
MIT Technology Review ^ | October, 2nd, 2021 | Cat Ferguson

Posted on 11/01/2021 7:19:22 AM PDT by David Chase

He’s also publicly railed against what he claims is a campaign against drugs like fluvoxamine and ivermectin. And, according to three members of CETF’s scientific advisory board, he put pressure on them to promote fluvoxamine for clinical use without conclusive data that it worked for covid.

More recently, he’s adopted extremist positions on covid vaccines, which he alleges are “toxic.” He has claimed that one in 1,000 people who have received mRNA vaccines have died as a result, and even claimed the vaccines “kill more people than they save” at an FDA public forum, which was first reported by the Daily Beast.

As Kirsch has gone deeper into the anti-vaccine scene, many professional associates have increasingly distanced themselves from him. In May, all 12 members of CETF’s scientific advisory board resigned, citing his alarming dangerous claims and erratic behavior. Over the summer, the conflict reached his most recent startup, M10. Its board told him that if he wanted to remain part of the company he would have to stop making public anti-vaccine statements. In September, he resigned as CEO and gave up his board seat.

So how did a man once intent on furthering science become a source of misinformation that undermines the very research he funded?

(Excerpt) Read more at technologyreview.com ...


TOPICS: Computers/Internet; Conspiracy; Health/Medicine; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: anthonyfauci; anticovidvax; catferguson; catnamedferguson; cetf; conspiracies; covid; covidstooges; covidvaccines; fluvoxamine; ignazsemmelweis; inventor; ivermectin; massachusetts; mediabias; mediawingofthednc; mit; obamacare; oooooanextremist; partisanmediashill; partisanmediashills; safeandeffective; semmelweis; stevekirsch; tech; unexpected; vaccinemandates; vaccines; vaxxes; vitamini; waronivermectin
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To: Skywise

I thought you were a Freedom lover?

So if I don’t believe information the same way you do I’m worshipping an object?

Again, more proof the Anti-Vaccine movement is morphing into a zealot like cult.

It’s sinful not to believe Dr. Tenpenny. Right?


21 posted on 11/01/2021 7:49:09 AM PDT by David Chase
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22 posted on 11/01/2021 7:51:34 AM PDT by DJ MacWoW (The Fed Gov is not one ring to rule them all)
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To: rightwingcrazy

“ “he’s adopted extremist positions”

Joining Bruno, Galileo, Willian Harvey, Francisco Redi, Newton, Faraday, Boltzmann, Einstein. Imagine a world without radicals promoting such “extremist positions”.”
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Excellent point!! Well said.


23 posted on 11/01/2021 7:51:46 AM PDT by David Chase
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To: SiGeek

I didn’t go to that link……thanks for the info.
Normally I would but I’m multi tasking a lot right now.


24 posted on 11/01/2021 7:54:53 AM PDT by David Chase
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To: curious7

For a moment, as she tries to come up with a response.

When she can’t she’ll reach back for the ‘standbys’....

“Shut up you big meenie Trump supporter, racist, misogynist, xenophobic, homophobic, transphobic, Conservative, meenie!!!!”

And then she’d be interviewed by one of her friends who would write that she’s so traumatized by your question that she’s in therapy and won’t leave her apartment.


25 posted on 11/01/2021 7:57:03 AM PDT by qaz123
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To: David Chase

No - because you support the press and Facebook in censoring this man. Then wave your hands and say it’s not your problem.

You ARE the problem.


26 posted on 11/01/2021 8:01:52 AM PDT by Skywise
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To: Skywise

“ No - because you support the press and Facebook in censoring this man. Then wave your hands and say it’s not your problem.

You ARE the problem.”
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Oh…..so now we’re at the making stuff up phase of the conversation.

Purrrrrteee sure I agreed that no one should be silenced.
But that matters not.

As far as I know Kirsch is on Twitter. I don’t know if he is on Facebook because I left Facebook for censoring me. Repeatedly.

When you claim the Moral Religious High Ground……..it’s best to speak the truth.


27 posted on 11/01/2021 8:10:41 AM PDT by David Chase
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To: David Chase; Skywise; cyn; Jane Long; metmom; ransomnote
David Chase :" He has claimed that one in 1,000 people who have received mRNA vaccines have died as a result, and even claimed the vaccines “kill more people than they save”
at an FDA public forum, which was first reported by the Daily Beast."

CERT advisory Board :
COVID-19 Early Treatment Fund

Source : https://www.treatearly.org

"The COVID-19 Early Treatment Fund (CETF) is on a mission to ensure rapid funding and successful completion of the most promising outpatient clinical trials
that lead to effective early treatments for COVID-19, using existing repurposed drug.
They have a scientific advisory board comprised of the worlds top doctors and scientists, including experts from Johns Hopkins, Northwestern, and Harvard."

(My COMMENT/ tik): " ..using existing repurposed drug" means "Off Label" use of medications that are already approved by FDA.
Shouldn't these already approved medications, at least, be looked into because the FDA/NIH/CDC/ has only a single focus into the recently developed analgesic, "the jab" ?
Even the CDC is no longer calculating nor investigating nor reporting in their statistics of the 'non-reported' side effects in VAERS.
Estimates are that only one in ten adverse effects are being reported to VAERS, because the reporting structure is too cumbersome and time consuming for physicians.
If a five day treatment of ivermectin (FDA previously approved), times three pills a day, at a cost of approximately $.20 per pill may eliminate covid,
why pay $700.oo for an analgesic, "the jab", which only masks the symptoms, cures nothing, looses effectiveness with age,
and may lead to more break-through variants ?
At what point do we acknowledge economy and 'common sense' is better than even one lost life ?
It would matter to you if you happened to be that one in one thousand cases that dies from "the jab".
When do we acknowledge that "the jab", the non-cure, may be more deadly than the disease, ..and may need to be reconsidered ?

28 posted on 11/01/2021 8:18:58 AM PDT by Tilted Irish Kilt
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To: David Chase

Thanks for the post.

Interesting at the end of the article Cat listing lawsuits lost by big pharma as though they have now learned their lesson and ah .... won’t do bad things any more.

With the Covid vaccines though they’re protected from liability.
They can enjoy open ended profits with Lenny of cash to spread around to the cheerleading squads.

- What does Cat have to say about Fausi and his clown show ?

- That Kirsh was able to get his idea started in the first place shows there were obviously many scientists who don’t trust big pharma and it’s hold on our agencies.

- Her comments on the public’s mistrust of “official” science being eroded is not the fault of a few straw men. The leadership in business and the government that shoves bs down the throats of the public is what’s at the root


29 posted on 11/01/2021 8:29:19 AM PDT by jcon40 (Machinery is only as good as its design and quality of parts. A citizen is only as good )
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To: David Chase
So how did a man once intent on furthering science become a source of misinformation that undermines the very research he funded?

Because he realized what was really going on and is doing the right thing in warning people.

He would know if anyone does.

30 posted on 11/01/2021 8:29:59 AM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith…)
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To: David Chase

What is Truth?

Other people have asked that question while doing the wrong thing, too. Interesting company you are keeping there.


31 posted on 11/01/2021 8:31:10 AM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith…)
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To: David Chase; b4me
Natural immunity is the best. Getting there might be a challenge for some.

So what else is new?

32 posted on 11/01/2021 8:33:40 AM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith…)
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To: rightwingcrazy

Don’t forget Semmelweiss and what he endured at the hands of the medical community for advocating for hand washing by doctors.


33 posted on 11/01/2021 8:35:36 AM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith…)
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To: David Chase; Skywise

You’re the one tilting at religious windmills.

Fabricating a position of someone you disagree with and then claiming victory because you think you knocked it down, is deceiving only yourself.

Everyone else can see through it.


34 posted on 11/01/2021 8:40:28 AM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith…)
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To: metmom

“Semmelweiss”

He came to mind, but I couldn’t remember his name! His experience with the medical community was frustrating, to say the very least.


35 posted on 11/01/2021 8:45:20 AM PDT by rightwingcrazy (;-,)
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To: David Chase

Steve seemed like an interesting voice when I first encountered his work last year. In fact, I think I was one of the first to post his observations about the promising results from Fluvoxamine here at FR last November.

Since then, though, he’s continued to get further and further out over his skis on just about everything he touches. Fluvoxamine looked promising, and frankly still does. But he leapt way past anything that could be supported, and is now off on a Jihad against the vaccines.

He’s a bright guy who was successful in silicon valley, and is trying to apply his intelligence against a novel (to him) problem, and is now leaping to conclusions based on very shaky evidence, at best.


36 posted on 11/01/2021 8:48:29 AM PDT by absalom01 (You should do your duty in all things. You cannot do more, and you should never wish to do less.)
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To: David Chase
I’m sorry I wasted so much time on this opinion hit piece from The Rockefeller Foundation.

The insights gained were not worth the time it took to acquire them.

37 posted on 11/01/2021 9:33:30 AM PDT by GBA (Endeavor to persevere)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

All neurolinguistic programming hiding under the (now decaying) reputation of another institution.


38 posted on 11/01/2021 9:51:52 AM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change with out notice.)
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To: rightwingcrazy

Add Semmelweis (said surgeons should wash their hands between patients and was hounded to poverty and insanity for it).


39 posted on 11/01/2021 9:53:03 AM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change with out notice.)
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To: David Chase

The patently see-through “Who, MEEEE?” defense.

You mouth platitudes about not wanting to censor people, while ridiculing those far more qualified than you as members of a cult, and publish articles trying to besmirch the reputation of others far more informed than you.


40 posted on 11/01/2021 9:55:18 AM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change with out notice.)
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