[kennywinker]

Person organizing PR statement takes actions to make that PR statement as effective as possible? Not exactly a cover up. I don’t “like” my own instagram posts for the same reason.

[lps41]

It’s expected that conflicts of interest be disclosed in journalism and things like this. Instead he actively worked to hide his conflict of interest.

[noptd]

Exactly, and it looks like almost all of them did:

>All but one scientist who penned a letter in The Lancet dismissing the possibility that coronavirus could have come from a lab in Wuhan were linked to its Chinese researchers, their colleagues or funders, a Telegraph investigation can reveal.

Source: https://archive.ph/dXc0n

[dash2]

Scientists have to hold themselves to a higher ethical standard than PR flacks.