@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.

@gtuckerkellogg @PrometheusCHT @stgoldst @R_H_Ebright @Ayjchan All I am saying is that because he is the head of the funding agency, he can never not act as the head of the funding agency.

@Bryce_Nickels @PrometheusCHT @stgoldst @R_H_Ebright @Ayjchan So are you saying Kristian should not have taken his call when he asked to speak with him about SARS-CoV-2? There's nothing suggestive of any impropriety by Fauci or KGA. There's nothing remotely consistent with Fauci squashing discussion.

@gtuckerkellogg @PrometheusCHT @stgoldst @R_H_Ebright @Ayjchan Kristian definitely should have taken his call. He had no choice. As far as impropriety by Fauci, any involvement by Fauci was not appropriate imo (regardless of his intent). As for KGA, many people have posted inconsistencies b/n his private and public statements after Feb 1.

@Bryce_Nickels @PrometheusCHT @stgoldst @R_H_Ebright @Ayjchan I disagree with your views on Fauci's involvment. Fauci was chief pandemic advisor to the White House, huge potential national security issues, he had to be involved. My only issue is that he should have been acknowledged. The tea-leaf reading of KGA's emails is tiresome, IMO.

@gtuckerkellogg @PrometheusCHT @stgoldst @R_H_Ebright @Ayjchan forgot to mention before that, imo, someone serving as chief pandemic advisor to the White House on something with potential national security issues should ABSOLUTELY NOT be involved in drafting a scientific paper

@Bryce_Nickels @PrometheusCHT @stgoldst @R_H_Ebright @Ayjchan Unless I've missed something, I think there's not a single email involving Fauci and the authors of PO discussing the draft. Farrar sends Fauci a copy (without the PO authors) at one point, and Kristian sends Fauci a copy after it's been accepted. That's it.

@Bryce_Nickels @PrometheusCHT @stgoldst @R_H_Ebright @Ayjchan Please do let me know if I've missed something.