[HN Gopher] Daszak and EcoHealth drew attention for luxury flights
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       Daszak and EcoHealth drew attention for luxury flights
        
       Author : miguelazo
       Score  : 18 points
       Date   : 2023-02-15 20:37 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
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       | jpgvm wrote:
       | 300k over 3 years is hardly egregious, though it definitely
       | qualifies as wasteful. The title makes it seem like he was flying
       | private on taxpayers dime.
        
         | msandford wrote:
         | 100k a year is more than a lot of people earn as their salary.
         | Sure they aren't high flying international playboys (I mean
         | scientists) but it's a reasonable benchmark to measure to.
        
         | miguelazo wrote:
         | According to the article:
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         | >The emails also show that approximately _one third of the
         | destinations documented in the emails were to cities outside of
         | PREDICT partner countries_. PREDICT leaders jetsetted to
         | destinations like Vienna, Rome and Paris.
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         | Some of the trips to these destinations appeared to have _only
         | tangential relevance_ to the government program footing the
         | bill.
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         | Further, several of the business class requests were on behalf
         | of the Global Virome Project (GVP), a private organization
         | founded using U.S. tax dollars. Ethics experts say the use of
         | public resources for the private organization may have violated
         | federal ethics laws.
        
       | gregwebs wrote:
       | EcoHealth Alliance is the organization that was heavily involved
       | in gain of function research. Interpid 'virus hunter' is a nice
       | way of saying: lobbying for taxpayer money and using it to do
       | dangerous research with little upside but the downside that it
       | might have started the COVID pandemic. Daszak was then a member
       | of the UN group that went to China to investigate the outbreak-
       | an obvious conflict of interest there.
       | 
       | You can click on the "EcoHealth Alliance" tag at the bottom of
       | this article to see more about this:
       | https://usrtk.org/tag/ecohealth-alliance/
        
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