Authored by Paul D. Thacker via The Disinformation Chronicle,
Replace: Gonsalves (aka ‘4G’) has been scalped, and has deleted his account since this text was initially printed.
Former White Home medical adviser Dr. Anthony Fauci admitted in a congressional deposition final week that the federal authorities’s COVID steerage for six-feet social distancing was not based mostly on scientific proof, stating under oath “it sort of just appeared.” Fauci’s testimony got here throughout the second day of his closed-door deposition earlier than the Home Choose Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic, and echoed an identical remark made by former FDA Commissioner Dr. Scott Gottlieb.
“The six toes rule was arbitrary in and of itself,” Dr. Gottlieb said throughout a September 2021 look on “Face the Nation” whereas discussing COVID steerage. “No one is aware of the place it got here from. The six toes is an ideal instance of kind of the dearth of rigor of how CDC made suggestions.”
Curious to see who had promoted this arbitrary rule that “kind of simply appeared”, I started looking information articles and social media and ran throughout an skilled declaration on Yale’s web site, filed by Gregg Gonsalves with the School of Public Health and Yale Law School. Gonsalves additionally writes frequently for a number of media retailers, together with The Nation the place he’s their public health correspondent. “Information from China signifies that the typical contaminated individual passes the virus on to 2-3 different folks at distances of 3-6 toes,” Gonsalves claimed in a authorized submitting.
Each medical disaster is AIDS
In case you’re unaware of Gregg Gonsalves, he’s a Eighties AIDS activist who later in life attended college after which, for some motive, received employed by Yale. However having honed his abilities in advocacy, he retains a road activist’s indifference for scholarship and a pugnacious ability in diagnosing each medical disaster as AIDS within the 80s.
Eighties Flashback:
Ebola? That’s AIDS, Gonsalves told NPR.
Opioid epidemic? AIDS again, he advised New York Instances.
How about Monkeypox? Do you should read this Gregg Gonsalves essay, or is the proof not clear? Good day, it’s AIDS!
And when the COVID outbreak started, physicians scrambled to check a by no means earlier than seen virus, struggled to know the way it unfold, and argued over the way to finest cease it.
In the meantime, Gonsalves supplied up one other Eighties flashback efficiency. Are you able to hear Madonna pumping within the background? Papa Don’t Preach: it’s AIDS yet again.
Chatting with Vox, Gonsalves explained that “Trump’s dealing with of the disaster appears like an eerie callback to the Eighties, when then-President Ronald Reagan selected to disregard early warnings in regards to the menace from HIV/AIDS.”
With Trump now posing as Reagan with a nasty tan and orange hair, Gonsalves then donned a white coat and prescribed a New York Instances article as therapy to handle a respiratory virus that had nothing to do with HIV. “Except we determine the way to kind of transfer towards what the New York Instances known as for the opposite day — a nationwide lockdown of kinds,” Gonsalves told Vox, “We’re simply going to see circumstances improve and emergency rooms and ICUs throughout the nation be stuffed to capability.”
On social media, Gonsalves continued arguing for lockdowns, earlier than complaining that he was being mischaracterized as pro-lockdown. After which biking by way of this flip flop as soon as once more.
It’s the logical consistency of a small-minded hobgoblin.
Which brings me again to Fauci and the “it simply kind of appeared” science for six-feet social distancing.
Protestors don’t want information
In a March 2020 expert declaration under penalty of perjury, Gonsalves claimed, “Information from China signifies that the typical contaminated individual passes the virus on to 2-3 different folks at distances of 3-6 toes.” The declaration apparently supported authorized claims that prisoners have been vulnerable to COVID damage and needs to be launched from the hoosegow.
However in the event you study Gonsalves’ writing rigorously (apparently, he didn’t) you’ll see he cites medical help for his 3-6 toes declare with footnote #7.
However while you go to footnote #7, you discover Gonsalves doesn’t cite precise medical proof; Simply as when he argued for lockdowns in Vox, Gonsalves’ medical proof is a information story within the New York Instances.
Maybe you’re unfamiliar with science and the way specialists rank analysis, however nowhere within the medical literature do you discover “newspaper article” cited as credible proof. Please see this explanation at Mt. Sinai Medical College, if nonetheless unsure.
But it surely will get much more odd.
While you learn the New York Instances article, you discover there is no such thing as a “information from China” as Gonsalves claims. The one proof the newspaper article offers for “six toes social distancing” is—get this—an artist’s drawing.
Briefly, Yale’s Gregg Gonsalves filed a authorized declaration that made a medical declare based mostly on a newspaper article—and that newspaper article would not comprise any proof as Gonsalves claims.
Fairly the skilled, no?
To grasp how this meets Yale’s tutorial requirements, I emailed Gonsalves, asking him to elucidate.
Learn the remaining here
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Aaaand, he is gone:
STORY UPDATE: Hours after this story ran documenting Yale’s Gregg Gonsalves’ use of pretend information and harassment of reporters and several other feminine physicians, @greggonsalves closed his @x account. https://t.co/Vpx1pzdOYg
Gonsalves has not responded to questions despatched to @YaleLawSch pic.twitter.com/wlqYc9Zltt
— Paul D. Thacker (@thackerpd) January 18, 2024
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