[HN Gopher] Daszak and EcoHealth drew attention for luxury flights ___________________________________________________________________ Daszak and EcoHealth drew attention for luxury flights Author : miguelazo Score : 18 points Date : 2023-02-15 20:37 UTC (2 hours ago) (HTM) web link (usrtk.org) (TXT) w3m dump (usrtk.org) | 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: | | >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. | | Some of the trips to these destinations appeared to have _only | tangential relevance_ to the government program footing the | bill. | | 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/ ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2023-02-15 23:00 UTC)