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Cummings said he warned about i.a. corona virus in 2019.
Thing is, he didn& #39;t. References to SARS and corona virus were added to his blog post on pandemic risks sometime between April and May of this year.
Thing is, he didn& #39;t. References to SARS and corona virus were added to his blog post on pandemic risks sometime between April and May of this year.
I& #39;ve been spending quite a while now (essentially since he said this at the start of his statement) looking in other media, things where he can& #39;t edit, for any mention of SARS or corona virus and so far I& #39;m coming up empty.
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He just repeated the claim that he wrote about this a year ago.
I wish someone would ask him, because... I can& #39;t find a single mention of corona virus and SARS.
To be fair, yes, he warned about pandemics (as did *many* people), but claiming prescience is just *too* classic Dom.
I wish someone would ask him, because... I can& #39;t find a single mention of corona virus and SARS.
To be fair, yes, he warned about pandemics (as did *many* people), but claiming prescience is just *too* classic Dom.
This is a really petty detail, I admit, but it& #39;s the kind of casual dishonesty and reengineering of the past that immediately and irrevocably destroys a persons reputation for me.
If he had said he had warned about pandemics, fair enough. So did a lot of people, but yes, he genuinely did, too.
However, adding refs to corona virus/SARS to make it appear he was prescient, & adding them only to the blog post related to bio-lab mishaps, that& #39;s what gets me.
However, adding refs to corona virus/SARS to make it appear he was prescient, & adding them only to the blog post related to bio-lab mishaps, that& #39;s what gets me.
I was just told about a wonderful feature of @waybackmachine by @MarkGraham: Changes.
You can see exactly what was changed between April and May here:
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You can see exactly what was changed between April and May here:
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Oh, and it goes without saying: you should donate to the @internetarchive / @waybackmachine, because the service they provide is crucial.
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I had heard the conspiracy theory so many times before then that I didn& #39;t connect it with this being picked up by major media networks the next day; but fact that his addition was made to post which caters to this was part of why it sat so badly with me. https://twitter.com/paulmasonnews/status/1265223508692533251">https://twitter.com/paulmason...
