This is explosive: Brexiteer ultras pushing a (non-working, failed to reach clinical trials) COVID vaccine tried to get MI5 to spy on the staff of the science journal "Nature", fomented an anti-science campaign via the Daily Telegraph, and createdand spread a conspiracy theory falsely blaming a Chinese biowar lab for creating COVID:
https://www.computerweekly.com/news/366553435/Top-science-journal-faced-secret-attacks-from-Covid-conspiracy-theory-group
This was the British equivalent of Trump's Ivermectin grift.
Charlie Stross /
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2023-10-04 08:37:09
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