A longtime Forbes contributor and government transparency activist recently shared the emails from National Institutes of Health (NIH) public relations officials that led to his cancellation.
Adam Andrzejewski, the founder and CEO of Open the Books, can no longer write for Forbes after Amanda Fine emailed the magazine’s top brass on January 16, 2022, to complain about an article on Anthony Fauci’s family finances.
The email followed a January 15 article titled “Disclosures Show Dr. Fauci’s Household Made $1.7 Million In 2020, Including Income, Royalties, Travel Perks And Investment Gains.” It covered the publicly available information about Fauci and his wife, Christine Grady, the chief bioethicist for NIH.
Andrzejewski wrote that the alleged corrections were minor semantic issues. For example, Fauci reported $8,100 in gifts on a disclosure form, but Fine said that the $8,100 is the value of free tickets he received.
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