Jeffrey Sachs: Covid-19 Task Force Attacked Me as ‘Foe of Science’; ‘You’re Buying into This Conspiracy Theory Stuff’

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SACHS: “And I said immediately, well, then you can’t head this task force, that’s for sure. This is a transparent commission. We are looking for the public will, we’re not tied up in lawsuits and we’re not going to be tied up in lawsuits. So, I told him to step aside, and he did, but he remained on the commission but not on that task force for a little while. And two more things happened. One was that the rest of that task force attacked me as, you know, some foe of science and ‘how dare you,’ ‘Sachs, you ignorant, reckless fool, you’re buying into this conspiracy theory stuff.’ Very nasty from people that I’ve known for a long time. But the second thing was far more interesting, which was another Freedom of Information Act release came, and lo and behold, the people on the task force are co-investigators with Daszak and they didn’t even tell me after I asked them repeatedly, do you have any conflict of interest. So, suddenly I see, my God, this is really bad behavior. I asked you straightforwardly do you have any conflict, they didn’t lie, they never answered me until this came out, but they yelled at. Okay, I don’t care about that, except for the fact that the behavior was disgusting and unprofessional.”