Founding members of IHU request relocation of a congress welcoming antivax figures

The Institute of Professor Didier Raoult must welcome at the end of March, in Marseille, a symposium gathering personalities involving the scientific consensus on the CVIV-19 and the management of the sanitary crisis.

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This is the last provocation of Didier Raoult, whose balance sheet is already heavy in the field. The Hospital-University Institute (IHU) Mediterranean Infection it still runs, has planned to welcome in its auditorium in Marseille, on March 30 and 31, a convention bringing together many figures of the antivax movement.

“Covid-19, first assessment of scientific knowledge and controversy”, this symposium is organized by the association Reinfo Freedom, a support structure of the collective reinfo Covid of the anesthetist Marseille Louis Fouche and by the union teaching, research Freedoms! A less famous structure whose statutes were filed in July 2021 in Aix-en-Provence (Bouches-du-Rhône), and whose purpose is to “denounce the so-called sanitary policy of a government and a presidential majority who have been for two years lost any measure, mark and all ethics “.

Among the convention stakeholders, in addition to members of the IHU, we find the American biologist Robert Malone, author of Alarmist messages on the safety of Vaccines in RNA messenger, the doctor Pierre Kory, apostle of the use of the ivermectin in the treatment of COVID-19, or the French epidemiologist Laurent Toubiana, author of a study on the overmortality in 2020 dismissed by the scientific community. The cast was gathered under the leadership of Laurent Mucchielli, a CNRS sociologist, a time renowned for his work on delinquency and who, since the beginning of the pandemic, publishes analyzes on the health crisis that have earned him reminders. ‘order of his tutelage.

“Offshoring” of the Congress Requested

The International Covid Summit will be opened by a Didier Raoult speech, inviting power. As usual, the Marseille microbiologist settles behind the scientific debate argument to promote an event that he knows perfectly. If the IHU receives this congress for two days, it is, explains Professor Marseille on Twitter, “for the sake of freedom of expression, without censoring or capturing it”. However, it is a sure that it is and it does not go to the representatives of the six founding members of the IHU Foundation, some of which, at the height of the AntiVax wave, have been targeted by threats to dead and have seen their personal addresses put online.

After hesitating to react to not give more echo at the event, five of the six founding members Aix-Marseille University, the University Hospitals of Marseille, the Institute of Research for Development, the French Establishment Blood and the health service of the armies finalized Wednesday, March 23 a common statement. They ask the management of the IHU to “give up the holding of this meeting” and a “relocation” of the Congress. “The title and nature of the participants and partner associations leave no doubt about the objectives,” write the six signatories. “No breach of the requirement of rigor and excellence that our respective institutions pursue can be tolerated,” continues the statement that “founding members have not been concerted and are not associated with this meeting” .

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