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Professor at Nova Southeastern University. Antibiotic Resistance, Agent-Based Models, Seizure Prediction, Information Entropy of DNA

Ft. Lauderdale FL

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Joined July 2014

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Louis R Nemzer

3 years

“...condensed matter physicists study nonliving matter, and biological physicists study living matter...you will have a hard time convincing me that you and I and other living creatures are not the most interesting matter in the universe.” - Rob Phillips

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What Is Biophysics? Where Physics and Biology Meet — Caltech Magazine

A look at the multifaceted, interdisciplinary world of biophysics by Whitney Clavin DNA, the quintessential molecule of all living beings, is composed of two twisted strands that wind around each...

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@katiedimartin There is an XKCD comic on this

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1 year

Meta-analysis of pre-vaccination era COVID infection fatality rate: The median IFR was 0.0003% at 0–19 years, 0.002% at 20–29 years, 0.011% at 30–39 years, 0.035% at 40–49 years, 0.123% at 50–59 years, and 0.506% at 60–69 years.

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From the new FOIA release by @JamesCTobias . State Department approval for NIH grant by @EcoHealthNYC 🔴Humanized mice 🔴5-6 Novel SARS-related coronaviruses 🔴"All work involving samples and viral isolates from bats will be performed at the Wuhan Institute of Virology"

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1 year

Full set of documents here:

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Moderna CEO Stéphane Bancel: "...escape from a lab by an accident, it's possible, humans make mistakes - so is it possible that the Wuhan lab in China was looking at virus enhancement or gene modification and then there was an accident, somebody was infected...it is possible"

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2 years

Moderna President get's called out on Fox for having the same genetic sequence patented 3 years before the pandemic.

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@JeremyRedfernFL @NIH @R_H_Ebright @RandPaul This is the problem with trying to argue with someone who can literally change the definitions of words.

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Louis R Nemzer

1 year

You see, when it could get Peter Daszak more funding, he was more than happy to promise "rapid detection of natural and laboratory-enhanced threats.” But as soon as it was his affiliated lab involved, now it's a conspiracy theory 😅 By @ianbirrell

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Why did Peter Daszak change his mind?

New documents reveal he warned against risky research

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Louis R Nemzer

2 years

***UPDATE*** Just unredacted. Fauci's immediate response to KGA's concern about the "Furine" [sic] site was the the FBI and MI5 should be contacted, if it was "validated" H/T @emilyakopp Credit: @JamesCTobias

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After a long #FOIA fight, I just received a bunch of new unredacted emails detailing the Feb 1 2020 teleconference between Dr. Fauci and virologists discussing SARS-Cov-2:

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I think this is kind of a big deal. Dr. Brix is trying to portray herself in her new book as part of the "resistance" inside the Trump admin. Dr. Birx: SARS2 "came out of the box ready to infect" possibly because of serial passage in human cells in a lab.

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Lancet report is out! "No independent, transparent, and science-based investigation has been carried out... The laboratory notebooks, databases, email records, and samples of institutions involved in such research have not been made available to independent researchers"

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3 years

@EWErickson <Private company removes posts> Conservatives: "Help, I'm being cancelled! <Autocratic regime cracks down on press freedom> Conservatives: ShrugEmoji

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Louis R Nemzer

2 years

Scientists who believe: *The location in Wuhan was a coincidence *The FCS was a coincidence *The CGG CGG codons were a coincidence *The database going offline was a coincidence Should probably refrain from using the word "parsimonious"

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So amazing to see in one image! @Ayjchan and @zeynep in today's @nytimes

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zeynep tufekci

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NYT Sunday print. Thank you, especially to all the public health people who wrote to me privately — like them, I want to defend public health institutions under much unfair attack and recognize voicing painful truths are necessary to strengthen them. Denial does the opposite.

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Louis R Nemzer

2 years

Creating chimeric viruses by mixing-and-matching spikes and backbones from different coronaviruses, and testing them in humanized mice so Daszak can say: "...This work proves there is a clear and present danger for the future emergence of novel SARS-like viruses in people..."

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1 year

"Surveillance of SARS-CoV-2 at the Huanan Seafood Market" has finally been published in Nature. It specifically argues against the market origin hypothesis, using more complete data than was provided for the Worobey et al. analysis.

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Surveillance of SARS-CoV-2 at the Huanan Seafood Market

Nature - A study presents the results of surveillance for SARS-CoV-2 in animal and environmental samples from a market linked to early human cases of coronavirus disease 2019.

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3 years

@ChristinaPushaw @GovRonDeSantis I feel like a lot of confusion by the national media would be avoided if they actually visited Florida and knew what a Publix is.

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Louis R Nemzer

1 year

Former Director of National Intelligence "...will explain... U.S. intelligence and evidence... the lab leak side of the ledger would be long and overwhelming while the ‘spillover’ side would be nearly empty."

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Former Intelligence chief to say a lab leak is the 'only explanation' for COVID

EXCLUSIVE: Former Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe says the “only explanation" and “plausible assessment" for the COVID-19 global pandemic is a leak from a Chinese Communist Party-c...

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6 months

Ralph Baric, the world expert in making recombinant coronaviruses, has been consistent in saying it should only be done at BSL3 Only NOW we find out he was already worried Chinese scientists would do it at BSL2, even while drafting the DEFUSE proposal!

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Louis R Nemzer

1 year

The State Department *still* won't show Congress what it was doing with taxpayer money in Wuhan

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"The U.S. intelligence community and health officials opposed publishing information about the Wuhan Institute of Virology because it could raise questions about research and labs supported by the U.S..." Via @emilyakopp @USRightToKnow

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Just bask in the awful, fallacious reasoning. (1) I don't want to talk about lab manipulation, so take it out (2) We don't have evidence that they had a precursor virus, so that means they didn't (3) Colossal Strawman (4) Discussing this hypothesis is bad for our interests

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@emilyakopp Everything is coming out in drips. First the EcoHealth report (2 years late) is filed in 2021, showing experiments with humanized mice. The "Wild West" emails were redacted until recently And only yesterday, we find out that the State department and (Fauci?) knew the whole time

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3 years

@_AlexHirsch @Ariel_Hirsch_ The judge is going to be very surprised by the verdict

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Nicholas Wade is great: "New documents may explain why no one has been able to find the SARS2 virus... infesting a colony of bats, from which it might have jumped to people. The reason would be that the virus has never existed in the natural world"

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1 year

"malinformation is...in the eye of the beholder since it is defined not by its alleged inaccuracy but by its perceived threat to public health...often amounts to nothing more than questioning the wisdom, honesty or authority of those experts."

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Malinformation: Censors' excuse to suppress 'inconvenient truths'

According to an alliance of social media platforms, government-funded organizations and federal officials that journalist Michael Shellenberger calls the "censorship-industrial complex,"...

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2 years

@CharlieCrist "Remember how for 2 years we said that Ron "DeathSantis" was endangering Florida citizens by recklessly keeping the economy and schools open? Well, forget it because we are now going to pretend like that never happened"

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1 year

This is literally a conspiracy theory about why conspiracy theories are bad.

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Louis R Nemzer

10 months

Note: Fauci was told right away EcoHealth was "among the biggest players in Coronavirus work", and the virus appeared in a major city containing a lab they were working with - not in a rural area near "people highly exposed to bats" or "living at the wildlife-human interface"

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Newly unredacted email shows Fauci knew in extraordinary detail about the novel coronavirus research he funded Wuhan by January 2020.

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1 year

Former CDC director Robert Redfield (who is also a virologist): "We are calling for a moratorium on all gain of function research, where it is forbidden to deliberately alter a pathogen to provoke or assess its ability to spread among or sicken humans"

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To prevent a deadlier pandemic, pause gain of function research

If gain of function didn’t cause this ferocious pandemic, it most certainly can cause the next one.

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Louis R Nemzer

11 months

Apologists for the Proximal Authors like to focus on 'changing your mind is part of science'. But the slack messages revealed things that are absolutely not part of regular science: 🧵

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2 years

@KatherineEban @VanityFair @EcoHealthNYC @NIAIDNews Can we please end the farce already that claims Andersen et al. have comported themselves in a way befitting "normal science"?

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Press release: "we can firmly determine that SARS-CoV-2 originated through natural processes" Proximal Origin: "we do not believe that any type of laboratory-based scenario is plausible" Now: we were "never excluding the possibility of a 'lab leak' "

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Louis R Nemzer

9 months

Ralph Baric: You must resist the temptation to add a furin cleavage site to this reverse-genetic virus based on a sequence found in the wild, no matter how alluring the possibility seems - and even if you have a shiny and unfailing BSL3 lab.

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Reason not to do this (add furin site to this pangolin virus) is that it could be dangerous--the kind of thing to cause a pandemic. Lab-leakers will say Baric is warning against what already happened. (i.e. someone did put furin site into SARS2 predecessor, causing pandemic)

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2 years

Scientists will literally revert to miasma theory instead of conceding the possibility of a lab leak

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Louis R Nemzer

2 years

Dr. Fauci has repeatedly stated in interviews that he "has nothing to hide". Releasing full, unredacted emails in response to FOIA requests is an absolute minimum for transparency.

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Alex Washburne

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When we FOIA the NIH to release communications discussing a lab leak, and they give us this: then it's 100% reasonable to ask: "What are they hiding?" What was in-between the intro & signature of this redacted email? This is an insult to all Americans.

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Maybe the fact that Peter Daszak and Shi Zhengli were at NIAID in 2017, talking about getting money for "SARS, MERS and the risk of novel viral emergence from bats", is something the public should have been told before now.

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@jimmy_dore Just to clarify, it's not "from the NIH." It is a scientific paper published in the "American Journal of Therapeutics" available on the PubMed platform hosted by the NIH. This is like saying a book is "from the US government" because you found it in the library of Congress

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Before: Lab leak hypothesis is a 'shiny object' that will go away Now: Hey, if there was a leak, we didn't do it. (The uncomfortable position of using a defense that requires having to admit knowledge of something instead of just denying everything. 'Oh THAT virus lab...')

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Seems pretty big! In July of 2020, the @nih suspended a grant from @EcoHealthNYC until they 🔴Explain the disappearance of Huang Yanling(!) 🔴Explain the diminished cell phone traffic and roadblocks around the WIV 🔴Explain why they tried to hide the connection with RaTG13

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Just let this sink in. The State Department, via USAID, was funding coronavirus research in Wuhan before the pandemic started. Yet they refuse to release the grant proposals or progress reports to *Congress* . They offer only to provide 'briefings'. Totally unacceptable!

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2 years

Lancet COVID commission chair: "I am pretty convinced it came out of US lab biotechnology, not out of nature." WHO SAGO: "evaluate the possibility of the introduction...through a laboratory incident" Defense Intelligence Agency: may have been genetically modified

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5 months

Daszak in 2024 (After all DEFUSE drafts revealed) Vs. Daszak in 2021 And Daszak in 2022 (After final DEFUSE only revealed)

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1 year

One of the most vocal (and quoted by the media) virologists is letting everyone know that no amount of scientific evidence will change her mind - all because the CCP claims they are innocent.

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@MJnanostretch I hope people will start to realize that this attitude of 'I know I'm right, no amount of new information will change my mind' is exactly the thing science was made to counteract. She *knows* it's not true (how?) but even if true, she *knows* they didn't have a progenitor (how?)

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OMG. The NIH literally said the WIV wanted to delete sequences they had already submitted because of "version control issues," and that they "can’t speculate on motive beyond a submitter’s stated intentions"

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NIH deleted COVID info from public view at Wuhan researcher's request, emails show

Deletion raised concerns in science circles but NIH directed reporters to more favorable coverage of the agency.

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1 year

"Fauci insisted...not responsible for inviting attendees to the call with virologists." "...the people we brought in, we tried to get a large Interational group of people together so we could have well representation." - Fauci Sworn Deposition

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10 months

Excellent technical post by @ydeigin for why natural recombination is **not** a good explanation for how SARS2 became the only SARS-like coronavirus with a furin cleavage site The alternative hypothesis of a researcher trying to see what would happen fits the observations better

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Just a reminder that SARS2 remains unique in the SARS-like viruses family not only because of its FCS but also because the insertion that created the FCS made the loop at the S1/S2 junction 4 amino acids longer than that of any known SARS-like virus. And no, RmYN02 does not

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Satire? Q. Do you know Ralph Baric? A. Not really. I know who he is. I doubt if I've ever met him... Q. How about...Zhengli Shi? A. I believe, if I'm correct, that this is a scientist who is at the Wuhan Institute of Virology...I get sometimes confused with Asian names

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Louis R Nemzer

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This is some really messed up, Kafka-esque logic. 'We don't need to be careful where we step, there hasn't been shown to be a landmine directly in front of us.' >So why are we out here at all? 'We're looking for landmines'

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Amazing exchange between Daszak and the House Select counsel. TLDR: Daszak claims to have burned through millions of taxpayer dollars to test whether SARS can infect mice. It had nothing to do with humans. He’s either a pathological liar or he thinks we’re all stupid (or both).

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Louis R Nemzer

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People are mostly unaware of how all of the major papers used to claim a "scientific consensus" on the natural origin of COVID were actually authored by the same core clique Many of these authors (and Peter Daszak) were on a 2021 email from David #Morens about how he evades FOIA

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Louis R Nemzer

1 year

Here is the entire peer-review report for an invited commentary that was accepted the same day as it was submitted! While looking at the proofs a week later, the very same authors privately express their doubts to each other. @USRightToKnow @emilyakopp @garyruskin

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9 months

Wow. Proximal Origin had been cast into the category of "Bad-Faith Science" by @BenMazer @TheAtlantic "Each of these revelations brought demands that the affected papers be retracted...on the grounds that their authors had been hiding doubts about their own conclusions."

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5 months

Today is the 4-year anniversary of: "the lab escape version of this is so friggin' likely"

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"Wrote Andersen on February 1, 2020, 'I think the main thing still in my mind is that the lab escape version of this is so friggin' likely to have happened because they were already doing this type of work and the molecular data is fully consistent with that scenario.'"

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"Fauci, however, laughed as he mocked the theory... 'The microbe that we were working on, not only was not SARS-CoV-2, it would be molecularly impossible for them to turn it into SARS-CoV-2' " If it leaked from a lab "we" didn't do it!

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Fauci filmed laughing off lab-leak theory and wishing he'd made US...

“Maybe I should have done that,” Fauci said of getting people to wear masks sooners. “Yeah, I was wrong.”

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Louis R Nemzer

1 year

Editor in Chief of Science letting NIH director Francis Collins has his support.

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11 months

Absolutely Incredible. From April 16, nearly a month after Proximal Origin was published. Prof. Andersen: "We also can't fully rule out engineering (for basic research)" Bombshell by @galexybrane , @lwoodhouse , @shellenberger @mtaibbi

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Any more questions? "Seems to have been pre-adapted for human spread" - Eddie Holmes "(Potentially) looks engineered" - Kristian Andersen "I really can't think of a plausible natural scenario" [that inserts the FCS without changing nearby amino acids] - Bob Garry

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2 years

@DrewHolden360 "We don't know that [COVID affects older people more]". That is literally the most known thing about COVID.

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Louis R Nemzer

2 months

❗ Kristian Andersen responds❗ What's amazing is that NOW he wants to delve into the doubts they displayed in the early drafts, now that they have been revealed against all of their best efforts.

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@JamesCTobias Lots more proposing to shift work from UNC to Wuhan "pretty unclear who is doing what" "Peter said you should set up the subcontract..." "I think we should just subcontract with WU [Wuhan University?] to engineer the RCN constructs"

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Summary of the COVID origin debate FBI, DoE, former DNI, & former biodefense and epidemic response guy: 'Intel makes us think it was a lab leak' Some scientists: 'Based almost entirely on data China gave the WHO, we're super sure it was natural'

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Ex-White House official sheds more light on fate of researcher who...

A former Trump administration official has claimed “it’s certainly possible” the Chinese government killed a Wuhan scientist who may have caused the COVID pandemic by secretly working on a...

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Louis R Nemzer

1 year

"It is incredibly frustrating...to watch Dr. Fauci go on television and say things that are absolutely not supported by the intelligence. We’re seeing the intelligence...We’ve seen it. We’ve voted to say, show the American people"

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Top Lawmaker On Intel Committee: It’s ‘Incredibly Frustrating’ To Watch Fauci Say Things That Are...

House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Turner (R-OH) slammed Dr. Anthony Fauci, former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, over the weekend for making stateme...

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Louis R Nemzer

2 years

So the theory is: out of all the cities in China, a bat CoV with a FCS just "coincidentally" spilled over to start a pandemic in the city with a lab on a proposal to add a FCS to bat CoVs. And then the government "conspired" to hide the evidence to protect their animal trade?

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Louis R Nemzer

2 years

Incredible letter. "Blanket denials from the NIH are no longer good enough"

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Louis R Nemzer

2 years

Ralph Baric in 2016 making chimeric WIV1-CoV viruses better at infecting humanized mice. To argue for more permissive GoF regulations,he "cannot exclude the possibility" that it might escape, but "erring on the side of caution is not without its own risks.

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Louis R Nemzer

1 year

Someone is getting a less than triumphant welcome back to Twitter

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Louis R Nemzer

3 months

It seems like every day, yet another paper is published that undermines the conclusions of a small group of virologists that the origin of COVID is settled. How to keep them all straight? Here is a list of references, with a short tagline.

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Louis R Nemzer

1 year

Instead of vague platitudes, let's go point-by-point about how the Proximal Origin authors got from 'f*** this looks bad' to “we do not believe that any type of laboratory-based scenario is plausible.”

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Louis R Nemzer

2 years

"Peter Daszak's smoke and mirrors operation has failed to predict any pandemics and has proven incapable of finding an alleged natural source of COVID-19 despite the federal government funding him tens of millions of dollars to do both" Sen Roger Marshall

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GOP senators slam Peter Daszak for 'playing in a bat cave' in Thailand

Daszak, whose EcoHealth Alliance has received millions in federal funding for bat coronavirus research, posted the new images from Thailand in recent days.

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Louis R Nemzer

2 years

Someone actually went through all of the Betacoronvirus genomes on NCBI and counted the codons usage. For the Asia region, out of the 146,677 RR amino acids motifs, want to guess how many were CGG CGG?

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SARS-CoV-2 and MERS-CoV Share the Furin Site CGG-CGG Genetic Footprint

The SARS-CoV-2 polybasic furin cleavage site is still a missing link. Remarkably, the two arginine residues of this protease recognition site are encoded by the CGG codon, which is rare in Betacoro...

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Louis R Nemzer

2 years

"One scientist told us...'If we investigate and expose an error on the part of scientists, then the public will no longer trust science.' As if choosing to deliberately not uncover ...error would make people trust science more." @mattwridley & @Ayjchan

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Louis R Nemzer

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"Knowing FCSs were not found in nature in these SARS-related viruses I also knew that for years scientists have been artificially putting new FCSs into viruses to see what they do...increased infectivity, transmissibility, pathogenicity..." - @quay_dr

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"I suspected a China lab leak early on—but my research was rejected"

I don't feel the dangers of nuclear war are even close to the dangers of genetically modified viruses.

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"...This is an outrageous position to take given the fact that Dr. Daszak's research is funded by US taxpayers..."

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2019 Unpublished project by Ben Hu: "Pathogenicity of 2 new bat SARS-related CoVs to transgenic mice expressing human ACE2" 2020 article by Baric and Shi: "Pathogenesis of SARS-CoV-2 in Transgenic Mice Expressing Human Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme 2" H/T @SharriMarkson

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@Sander_vdLinden At the time, Tom Cotton was explicitly trying to distinguish his opinions from what his political opponents were trying to conflate his views with. It looks like you accepted incorrect information at face value.

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❗ Q: "Do you know if the WIV had access to additional backbones or unpublished full-length virus" Baric: "I'm sure they were working on other full-length molecular clones"

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The notion that a cadre of prestigious scientists would systematic lie to journalists on a matter of vital importance to the world seemed to be so absurd as to edge into a deranged conspiracy theory. Yet here we are.

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IMO Looks pretty damning from these new emails that Peter Daszak actually did not know the WIV had really done the (very controversial) MERS chimera work they had proposed to the NIH... And then tried to blame the spokesman! @JamesCTobias @emilyakopp

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Ecohealth was "involved heavily" in proposal to do "MERS work" and someone thought Baric might want "contract work" validating the synthetic viruses with his humanized (DPP4) mice?

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Even since Kristian Andersen's "crackpot" email on Feb 4, 2020, the concept of an engineered origin was considered off the table by many based on the very flimsy logic of not recognizing the backbone as a previously published infectious clone. Our work should lay this to rest.

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@robert_zubrin It adds credence to the lab leak hypothesis as it shows gain-of-function genetic engineering being performed in Wuhan on unpublished viruses related to pandemic CoVs like MERS. So similar work could well have been done in Wuhan on SARS-like CoVs — as proposed in DEFUSE.

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Dear @voxdotcom , Linking to the same controversial scientific article twice in a paragraph does not make something "we know for sure" "but we know for sure that the virus is not the product of deliberate gene editing in a lab..." @Ayjchan @R_H_Ebright

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How biological detective work can reveal who engineered a virus

Exciting new research should make it easier to hold rogue bioengineers accountable.

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Peter Daszak carefully negotiating behind the scenes to "walk the line" between EcoHealth getting blamed and NIH looking negligent. Fauci's advisor assures him Collins is just doing it to protect all of them(!) "David, I'll send some bullets for you to pass on to Tony later on"

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Amazing interaction between @SenRandPaul and Secretary of State @ABlinken . The State department is hiding documents not just from the American people, but from Congress as well. Why all the secrecy? Both houses voted unanimously for records to be declassified.

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The American people need to know what the State Department is funding. Today I questioned Sec. Blinken on their involvement in COVID research. What is the State Department hiding? Why won't they give these records to the American people?

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Baric's "no see'm" seamless method to genetically engineer viruses without leaving a trace (2006)

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How the DEFUSE proposal explains many unusual features of SARS2 🟡Mice with humanized ACE2 [adaptation to humans] 🟢Making novel infectious clones 🟠"Unknown recombinants" [Backbone doesn't match known systems] 🟣Inserting a furin cleavage site [Only SarbeCoV with an FCS]

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Here is a section of a 2018 proposal drafted by @PeterDaszak (who investigated SARS-CoV-2 origin for WHO... conflict of interest?!). Read it and tell me that you still think the lab-leak origin is 'improbable'. This work was to take place in the Wuhan Institute of Virology. 1/2

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Louis R Nemzer

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@emilyakopp This is brazen Meta-gaslighting (ie. gaslighting about previous incidents of gaslighting) Let's remember what the lead author of that "paper" said in an official press release when it was published: "We can firmly determine that SARS-CoV-2 originated through natural processes"

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Louis R Nemzer

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A very disconcerting article. Because COVID turned out to be airborne, most of the advice from the WHO at first was exactly wrong: 6 ft social distancing ❌ Sanitizing surfaces ❌ Physical barriers ❌ Outdoor restrictions❌ As opposed to better ventilation

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Why the WHO took two years to say COVID is airborne

Nature - Early in the pandemic, the World Health Organization stated that SARS-CoV-2 was not transmitted through the air. That mistake and the prolonged process of correcting it sowed confusion and...

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Louis R Nemzer

1 year

The journal @mbiojournal has been one of the biggest advocates for gain-of-function research. Let's revisit some of their arguments back in 2014 around flu viruses: 'Won't someone please think of the postdocs! And our ability to recruit the best students'

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@kenklippenstein CNN can't decide between: "Of course he helped, it's his brother!" and "Of course he can be objective, he's a professional" and "I wonder why no one trusts us anymore"

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There is a lot of irony here, because someone once accused Robert Redfield, who was CDC director during that time, of pushing the possibility of lab leak as a way of distracting from his own poor performance. Here it looks like resistance hero Dr. Brix is actually doing that.

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Full Senate COVID origin report!

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DEFUSE proposal member

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We Desperately Need More Accountability From NIH "...NIH... dole out grants, received nine figures' worth of private royalties for the results of the taxpayer-funded research and then used more taxpayer dollars to fight key disclosures in court."

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We Desperately Need More Accountability From NIH

Americans deserve some sunlight on what appears to be a potentially enormous conflict of interest.

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Louis R Nemzer

2 years

I didn't even remember this one: (Nature 2017) "A laboratory in Wuhan is on the cusp of being cleared to work with the world's most dangerous pathogens...Some scientists outside China worry about pathogens escaping..."

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This would be like discovering a group email list with the judge, expert witnesses, defense lawyers, and suspect all getting together to chatter on about how mean the prosecutor was.

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Fauci adviser hid emails from FOIA requests by using personal...

The House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic revealed the emails Thursday, saying that Dr. David Morens potentially broke the law.

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Louis R Nemzer

2 years

Excellent recap by @R_H_Ebright

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"They bring viruses that we may never interact with. They bring them back to the lab, but then they manipulate them by combining them with other viruses to create viruses that don't exist in nature."

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Rand Paul rips Bill Gates' alleged tie to gain-of-function research: 'Funding the biggest danger to...

Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., expanded his criticism of gain-of-function research on Sunday, calling out Microsoft exec. Bill Gates for allegedly playing a major role in its funding.

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Louis R Nemzer

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This is why science is done in the open and not in secret conclave of a private conference call (Feb20): The Proximal Authors did notice the suspicious RE site spacing. It was dismissed as "random chance" by someone EVEN Dr. Andersen said was "too conflicted to think" straight!

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Scientists want to spend hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars to hunt for new *potentially* dangerous viruses, yet seem uninterested in exerting a fraction of the effort to understand what allowed a virus to *actually* cause a global pandemic- an anomalous furin cleavage site

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Alina Chan

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For example, if a massive forest fire might’ve started from a highly funded research program where scientists try to understand the best ways for fires to start in forests, the answer cannot be to accelerate and pour more funding into that same research.

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Some of @quay_dr statement from today. Missing seropositivity, Humanized mice, furin cleavage site, DEFUSE, RBD acclamation, and CGG codons all referenced on this one page.

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Louis R Nemzer

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Anyone who said: 'If you are merely a scientist, but not a virologist, you must defer to the experiese of a small cadre of virologists when they make a spatial statistics argument' should now, only logically, defer to the actual spatial stats experts 😅

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The location in Wuhan was a "crazy coincidence," and the (0.09%) CGG CGG codons are not 'impossibly scarecrow" according to Kristen Andersen. Now, "by almost pure happenstance," they discovered some data that for some reason was posted 3 years late, and deleted a week later.

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