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12 Aug 2020
The Forbes article cited by Alex Jones regarding a 'fake pandemic' is an audience-submitted op-ed from 2010 about swine flu complaints, not a scientific report involving the Rockefeller Foundation or Dr. Fauci.

So, there are a couple of important points about that article in Forbes. Sure. Even though Alex is accurately reading the headline. Okay. The first thing is that this article is from February 2010. It has to do with complaints about swine flu. The second thing is that Michael Fomento, the author, has a pretty suspicious credit on his byline. He's not listed as a scientist or a researcher or even a journalist. He's identified as a, quote, subscriber. Oh, no. This is an audience-submitted op-ed that Forbes published, which doesn't quite reach the platinum level of evidence that Alex is holding it up to be. As a columnist, Fomento has a dodgy history. He seems to have made a brand out of telling people to calm down about things. All right. Like in the late 80s, HIV AIDS. Hold on. This dude has been submitting comment or bullshit. He's also been a published columnist throughout some period of time. And he wrote a book called The Myth of Heterosexual AIDS. Oh boy! So we've got a hero on our hands. Also, he's told people to calm down about climate change and Monsanto. Does he think that Magic Johnson actually means magic? I don't know. But with Monsanto, he got in a little bit of trouble back in 2006 when it was revealed that he'd failed to report that he'd profited financially from a Monsanto grant for the Hudson Institute where he was employed. And he'd written positive things about Monsanto. It's so wild when the justice system has been bought and paid for by a large multinational corporation like Chevron or Monsanto. I'm sure it was a sincere slip-up and not an instance of someone writing positive articles about an entity that indirectly funded them. That sounds right. Anyway, another target of Femento's calm-down scolding was the swine flu outbreak of 2009. This op-ed in Forbes is in no way conclusive and has nothing to do with the topics that Alex is pretending that it does. There's no mention of the Rockefeller Foundation or of Dr. Fauci. This is just another example of Alex taking a headline that works for him and making up a story about what the article actually says.