SocraticGadfly: Greenwald, Leighton Woodhouse omit some White Coat details

December 06, 2021

Greenwald, Leighton Woodhouse omit some White Coat details


 That's true, the above picture, about stupidity and COVID contrarian grifting just as much as the virus itself. Let's dig in.

The headline? That's, of course, the White Coat Waste Project, full name. (Named as such, and NOT the "White Coat Animal Safety Project" or similar.) Put an asterisk in that.

This is an expansion of a Twitter thread from last week, after Glennwald hosted Woodhouse at his own Substack.

First Tweet is straight up. (And, the Two Stooges were tagged.)

And, I remember MSM coverage. It was reported straight-up, without the humongous outrage that WCWP founder Anthony Bellotti or the likes of COVID contrarian or worse Woodhouse (put an asterisk in that) or public health denialist and libertarian (you ARE) Glennwald (put an asterisk in that) would like. Some of the MSM questioned WCWP's bona fides. I half-bit, noting that its VP of marketing and policy, Justin Goodman, was former PETA. (Put an asterisk in that, too. We'll get to them all.) 

Next? This.

Frum names people like Cancun Ted Cruz as the weaponizers of this. But, before that, it seems like the likes of Woodhouse were doing their own. Maybe even WCWP, including the former PETA VP, . Bellotti's a definite conservative, but some PETA folks are, too. And, even if not? COVID's heavily illustrated horseshoe theory is true, contra the likes of Noah Berlatsky.

Weaponization, did I say? This:

That's what that is. This was an attack on Fauci, not NIAID. And, there's one obvious reason why. So, it wasn't even Woodhouse who led the weaponization, and this is before Bellotti and White Coat Toxic Waste Dump got the funding on one project wrong, as well as not caring to check if Fauci personally signed off on ones approved by NIAID.

Now, back to the Batman and Robin of current headline grifters:

Technically, the two options aren't mutually exclusive. Woodhouse's "just asking questions" on his Substack and Glennwald opening challenging public health issues re COVID could well be idiocy, not a grifting appeal to the crowd.

Onward. Next Tweet ties with the previous:

Eventually, White Coat, which is now looking like as much a PR machine as Syria's White Helmets, did reference it being an animal rights group, per the link in that Tweet. But, it never did when founded. 

Besides, there's the old "waste, fraud and abuse" strawmanning. Anybody who's read about the Sacklers and Purdue Pharma over opioids, or Jamie Dimon and JPMorgan about just about anything a bankster can do wrong, know that "waste, fraud and abuse" abound in private sector businesses.

And, to wrap up? Here you go:

Glennwald's blocked me on Twitter, but before he did, I got receipts from there. Before that, I got receipts from him unfairly blaming Brazilian lockdowns, not the fact that he and porn co-producer David Miranda are Brazilian 0.1 percenters, for the robbery of their Brazilian McMansion. I'm not even going to link to his or Woodhouse's Substacks, not even with a "no follow." But, I did get receipts on him months ago, when he first showed that he was both a COVID contrarian and a tribalist. (If I had remembered that earlier, I probably never would have even half-bit on White Coat Toxic Waste Dump, I mean White Coat Waste Project.

That said, as with the Fauci emails, it takes two sides to fuel flames on tribalism, and Fauci himself, along with much of BlueAnon, is willing to play Br'er Rabbit to the Tar Baby, or vice versa.

Greenwald? It's past tribalism with him; it's cultism by fanbois, which include Greens dumb enough to think he's a leftist.

At the same time, there's still the issue of the puppies. Several thoughts:

1. Is there any of this that can be at least partially replaced by computer simulation?

2. On what can't, why are we using purebred pups instead of getting abandoned dogs from shelters, especially ones that aren't "no-kill," and thus would have fewer qualms about surrendering animals to research.

3. At the same time, a research organization backing continued use of animals notes that when he was still at PETA, Justin Goodman made many inaccurate claims about animal welfare in research. The animal welfare complaints that didn't exist are similar to NIAID noting that (as far as it could tell) welfare guidelines were followed. Also, don't forget, if you didn't know, that PETA kills animals.

4. Is this battle, Fauci and COVID aside, have we descended to another tribalism? Probably.

at Monday, December 06, 2021 Posted by Gadfly

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