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Why did scientific journals help China censor the truth about COVID-19?
Washington Examiner ^ | 4/25/23 | staff

Posted on 04/26/2023 5:19:22 AM PDT by CFW

From the start of the COVID pandemic, China's government has ruthlessly censored doctors and researchers who tried to tell the truth about the origin and early spread of the novel coronavirus. This has long been known. But a New York Times report suggests Western institutions, particularly medical and scientific journals, also helped the Chinese obscure anything that might lead researchers and scientists to the truth.

The Chinese government bullied scientific journals into retracting research papers from within China about "early cases, conditions for medical workers, and how widely the virus had spread." They got the Lancet Global Health to retract a February 2020 letter from two Chinese nurses describing appalling work conditions in Wuhan and describing the situation as "more difficult and extreme than we could ever have imagined." According to the letter, more than 1,700 medical staff in Wuhan had been infected at that early date.

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


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: covid; journals; science; vaccines
The scientific journals didn't make these decisions on their own or even due to threats from China. They were threatened by withdrawal of funding and support from grants, etc, from the U.S. as well. Fauci has a lot to answer for and shouldn't be allowed to skate from his actions during the past three years.
1 posted on 04/26/2023 5:19:22 AM PDT by CFW
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“...funding and support from grants, etc. ...”

THAT is paramount, where ‘academia’, ‘experts’ and other media and research types are concerned. Without a doubt, they hold their own (possibly, even excel) as prostitutes, right along side of 'journalists'.

2 posted on 04/26/2023 5:36:35 AM PDT by SMARTY (“Liberalism is totalitarianism with a human face.” Thomas Sowell)
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To: CFW

Same reason Biden and his Dims and MSM did probably, because money talks and BS walks...


3 posted on 04/26/2023 5:37:26 AM PDT by Democrat = party of treason
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To: CFW

Yep. Always follow the money.


4 posted on 04/26/2023 5:38:26 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam
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Science has nothing to do with science. It’s about the money. And the politics.


5 posted on 04/26/2023 5:42:29 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (“You want it one way, but it's the other way”)
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To: SMARTY

Follow the money.


6 posted on 04/26/2023 5:43:04 AM PDT by chopperk ( )
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To: CFW

Money and pressure.


7 posted on 04/26/2023 5:48:45 AM PDT by Jewbacca (The residents of Iroquois territory may not determine whether Jews may live in Jerusalem.)
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To: Democrat = party of treason

Because the deep state is a bunch of perverts


8 posted on 04/26/2023 5:54:38 AM PDT by Fai Mao (Starve the beast and steal its food!)
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To: chopperk

For sure!

But, no one EVER demands to see THEIR tax records!


9 posted on 04/26/2023 5:55:36 AM PDT by SMARTY (“Liberalism is totalitarianism with a human face.” Thomas Sowell)
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To: CFW

To quote an old song that has always been true: Money, money, money....MONEY!


10 posted on 04/26/2023 6:01:30 AM PDT by silent majority rising
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To: ClearCase_guy

Take a look at some scientific journals and see how many articles there are with authors from China.


11 posted on 04/26/2023 6:16:41 AM PDT by Carl Vehse
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To: CFW

I “kaching” don’t have “kaching” a clue why “kaching”


12 posted on 04/26/2023 6:16:48 AM PDT by Bob434 (question )
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There are 2 primary motivating influences toward evil in America: The Democrat Party, on one hand, and, on the other, the herd instinct of liberal citizens that has swept them into a deep madness.

The strange thing is that both influences are defined by their opposition to the kind of goodness or righteousness that has been extant since the days of ancient Greece and Abraham of the Bible.

The above-mentioned evil influences are so profoundly dark that one can safely imagine that a graphic representation of their polar opposite would be a clear portrait of the Judeo/Christian God.

13 posted on 04/26/2023 6:28:34 AM PDT by RoosterRedux (Bonhoeffer: “Silence in the face of evil is evil. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act.”)
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He tried again to deny his bully pulpit.

Consideration should be to an Italian vacation.

A necktie would be a suitable gift. (/s)


14 posted on 04/26/2023 6:30:40 AM PDT by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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To: CFW

Because compliance pays. Same reason 85% of Americans got jabbed. Obedience without question. Holocaust levels of obedience without question.


15 posted on 04/26/2023 6:52:13 AM PDT by momincombatboots (BQEphesians 6... who you are really at war with)
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They were threatened by withdrawal of funding and support from grants, etc, from the U.S. as well.

Do you know of any medical journals that get funding or grants from the government?

16 posted on 04/26/2023 6:57:58 AM PDT by semimojo
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Why did scientific journals help China censor the truth about COVID-19?

$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

17 posted on 04/26/2023 7:05:55 AM PDT by The Sons of Liberty (Save the Republic - VOTE TRUMP!!!)
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The Lancet was one of three medical journals that provided timely, bogus, “studies” critical of HCQ.


18 posted on 04/26/2023 7:37:44 AM PDT by ChessExpert (Required for informed consent: "We have a new, experimental vaccine.")
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To: momincombatboots
Because compliance pays. Same reason 85% of Americans got jabbed. Obedience without question. Holocaust levels of obedience without question.

I think most Americans have caught on. The uptake for the bivalent booster is ~20%

19 posted on 04/26/2023 7:48:39 AM PDT by EVO X ( )
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