Tell me you've never had a discussion of a scientific draft manuscript without telling me you've never had a discussion of a scientific draft manuscript
Tell me you've never had a discussion of a scientific draft manuscript without telling me you've never had a discussion of a scientific draft manuscript
@stgoldst @gtuckerkellogg Unpersuasive to claim this is completely routine. @R_H_Ebright @Bryce_Nickels @Ayjchan
@PrometheusCHT @stgoldst @gtuckerkellogg @R_H_Ebright @Ayjchan From personal experience, I have not once met with the head of a funding agency to discuss a manuscript; I have not once solicited comments from the head of a funding agency about a manuscript; and I include names of all major contributors in the author list or acknowledgements.
@Bryce_Nickels @PrometheusCHT @stgoldst @R_H_Ebright @Ayjchan Is Fauci *only* the head of a funding agency? He was the public leader of NIH response, and a leading physician-scientist. I agree that he should have been acknowledged, but is there a *single* email in which he was acting in his capacity as the "head of a funding agency"?
@gtuckerkellogg @PrometheusCHT @stgoldst @R_H_Ebright @Ayjchan In all emails he is acting as the head of a funding agency.
@Bryce_Nickels @PrometheusCHT @stgoldst @R_H_Ebright @Ayjchan Is that just because you say so (in the RHE/DJT style of categorical evidence-free statements) or do you have some basis for that claim. Because in the 173 pages of unredacted emails there isn't any.
@Bryce_Nickels @PrometheusCHT @stgoldst @R_H_Ebright @Ayjchan Fauci is Cc'd as a recipient on a few emails from Farrar that mention funding, but those are entirely separate email chains from any involving the science that led to the PO manuscript, and none of the PO authors are included.
@gtuckerkellogg @PrometheusCHT @stgoldst @R_H_Ebright @Ayjchan I am confused. I am referring to Fauci having any input in discussions of C19 origins w/ people who receive funding from his agency. Any deliberative process that included Fauci was destined to be viewed with suspicion unless it was fully transparent. Instead, is was hidden.
@Bryce_Nickels @PrometheusCHT @stgoldst @R_H_Ebright @Ayjchan Maybe we are in agreement. The PO authors should have acknowledged Fauci and the open, scientific, non-squashed discussions they had around C19 origins. There was no discussion, explicit or implied, of funding in the PO echange. Have a great Thanksgiving.