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Opinion
Dalio: The WHO and WTO are obsolete as global conflicts rise
“Things like the World Health Organization, the World Trade Organization, all of those are obsolete, and so we're going to have, again, might is right, and so it's going to be a period of greater conflict.”
Assertion Contradicted
RFK Jr.: Bill Gates and WHO give DTP vaccine to 161M African kids annually
“We stopped it here, they stopped in Europe, but Bill Gates and WHO are still giving it to a hundred and sixty one million African children every year.”
Assertion Supported
Sacks: Major tech platforms censor posts contradicting the WHO
“Google, YouTube, and even sites like LinkedIn or Nextdoor are now censoring People's statements if they contradict the WHO, apparently without irony, because nobody has contradicted the WHO more than the WHO itself.”
Opinion
Sacks: Public health agency responses amount to malpractice and negligence
“But if by health system, we mean the FDA, the CDC the WHO, which is part of the U S system, but we do rely on them to some extent. You've just seen, I think, you know, amazing really malpractice or negligence. If they were a pharma company, I think they'd be s…”
Assertion Partly supported
Trump says U.S. paid $500M to WHO while China paid $39M
“One of the things I can tell you, the World Health Organization, so we pay them almost five hundred million dollars, and China pays them thirty nine million dollars.”
Opinion
The World Health Organization is an academic body, not a health body
“This organization is not a scientific or health body. It's an academic body.”
Opinion
Friedberg rejects the WHO as a trusted scientific source
“Yeah, and by the way, the World Health Organization, I've had an issue with since well before COVID just from another life, they I won't get into it, but they've said some stuff publicly that that was just flat out fucking wrong, scientifically, and invalid, a…”
Assertion Supported
Friedberg: WHO IARC ruling on Roundup led to $10B settlement
“And that ruling led to a ten billion dollar lawsuit that Monsanto or now Bayer is settling which wasn't rooted in the science or the facts that, that the other scientists on the committee had kind of previously kind of previewed and gone through and said, this…”
Assertion Supported
David Sacks: The WHO initially advised against wearing masks during COVID-19
“Remember that at the time that I was saying that we should wear masks, the WHO was saying we shouldn't.”