Newly declassified files released by former DNI Tulsi Gabbard on June 19, 2026, suggest a coordinated effort to conceal COVID-19’s lab-manipulated origins and suppress scientists like Dr. Ariel Fernandez. The records indicate a deliberate attempt to protect research funding by discrediting researchers that highlighted the virus’s lab-created, synthetic structure.
NIH has censored Ariel Fernandez, a physicist and chemist with a Yale University Ph. D. and a retired endowed chair professor from Rice University. By weaponizing the Office of Research Integrity, NIH resurrected a closed case of research misconduct after more than a decade. The administrative action was triggered by Fernandez’s challenge of the official narrative regarding the origin of SARS-CoV-2, the causative agent of the COVID-19 pandemic. Fernandez was the first scientist to report that SARS-CoV-2 is a lab product of gain of function research, at a variance with the official narrative that claimed that SARS-CoV-2 was a zoonotic occurrence. Ariel Fernandez has been censored and discredited by NIH at the instigation of Peter Daszak, the NIH contractor who engaged the Wuhan Institute of Virology to perform the gain of function research that caused the pandemic. The censorship of Ariel Fernandez is part of the Covid-19 cover-up implemented by NIH/DHHS.
On March 8 2017, James Glanz and Agustin Armendariz published a highly unflattering and damaging article in the New York Times. Their target was Dr. Carlo Croce, a prominent member of the faculty at Ohio State University, in the Department of Cancer Biology and Genetics, and a member of the US National Academy of Sciences. The […]
Carlo M. Croce is a towering figure in cancer genetics. His discovery of the molecular mechanisms in leukemia and other malignancies places him in the league of pioneers in the field like Janet Rowley. Croce’s peers have recognized his contributions, elected him to the US National Academy of Science in 1996 and showered him with […]
Last week The New York Times published a front-page story entitled “Years of Ethics Charges but Star Cancer Researcher Gets a Pass“. The article grossly disparages Prof. Carlo Croce, a towering figure in cancer biology and genetics, and his home institution, The Ohio State University. It describes in some detail multiple accusations of misconduct and […]
Hilda Bastian is an NIH contractor for PubMed Health and PubMed Commons at the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM). She also seems to be a prolific science writer. Bastian recently informed the blog Retraction Watch that the NLM is planning a prominent display of Expressions of Concern (EoC) published by […]
While most scientists were skeptical from the start, some science writers heralded the self-published blog Retraction Watch as a beacon for scientific transparency. They were wrong. Without any solid standards for scientific critique, the blog degenerated in no time into a grisly predator of scientific misfortune. As the saying goes, the road to hell is […]
Scientific papers have been challenged since the early days of the Acta Eruditorum and the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society. For hundreds of years, the rules of fair play and transparency dictate that the challenger must seek publication of his/her adverse comments which must be granted pursuant to a favorable peer review conducted by […]
Science is undeniably hard. First you come to grips with failure in the lab and when you finally believe you got it right, another front opens up: the quest to pass peer review and get your findings published in a good journal. These days, a new cloud looms over the embattled researcher right at the end […]