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harish seshadri

@harishseshadri2

6 months

1/ Why did Daszak release this email? An obvious reason comes to mind... Morens: "As a coda, Tony knows about your work. Sometimes around 1 Feb, I sent him an email outlining your work." "We will be doing what is possible to protect you and your research over the long haul"

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. @R_H_Ebright is right - some of these people are sociopaths. Weiss belligerently defends the nondisclosure of DEFUSE: to expect otherwise is "bizarre" and "There's no reason why someone should go around telling you what's in their grant proposal." h/t @dr_handler

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Never tell Fouchier that he cannot create something in his lab! "I do not understand Andrew's argument. Molecular biologists like myself can generate perfect copies of viruses without leaving a trace."

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Bob Kadlec to @SharriMarkson : “We think [Zhou Yusen's] vaccine research resulted in the pandemic – that vaccine research was the proximate cause"

What really happened in Wuhan: new lab leak evidence over the origin …

archived 29 Jul 2023 01:55:38 UTC

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Baric clones a MERS-like CoV. van der Merwe (Oxford): “There is no prospect of using such work to develop a vax or antiviral since these can only be tested in humans during an actual pandemic." "It seems to me this experiment is simply not justified”

Scientists linked to Wuhan lab accused of performing dangerous experiments that could cause leak

A team from the University of North Carolina published a paper detailing how they had synthesised a Mers-like bat virus

www.telegraph.co.uk

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1 year

😯 Accident in Kawaoka's BSL3 lab (UW Madison) running experiments on H5N1 in *Dec 2019* !! "...{Fauci and Auchincloss] “were briefed about the incident”..." Fantastic investigative reporting by @alisonannyoung .

Lab-created bird flu virus accident shows lax oversight of risky 'gain of function' research

New book reveals lax oversight and efforts to avoid reporting an accident involving a controversial flu virus at a University of Wisconsin lab.

www.usatoday.com

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harish seshadri

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3 years

Simon Wain-Hobbs: "In short, there are no benefits from GoF virology...Weighing up the risks and benefits of such work should be a no-brainer. It was for me and many others who don't believe in making the world a more dangerous place."

Dangerous gain of function research has gotten out of hand and needs to be reined in

With its reputation for consensus building, Germany could help drive the effort leading to an international agreement regulating gain-of-function research.

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harish seshadri

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1 year

This is the best quote so far from "Textbook Science"😅😅 "All of this work getting bat samples was supported by PREDICT. So if they are not able to predict the pandemics they themselves cause, then I'd say their program is in pretty bad shape"

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harish seshadri

@harishseshadri2

2 years

Announcing "Protect Our Future", an NGO dedicated to biosafety. @Bryce_Nickels

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harish seshadri

@harishseshadri2

6 months

2/ Reading Morens' bizarre email, one would think that Trump canceling Ecohealth's NIH grant was one of the greatest disasters to befall US science. Far worse was the cringe-inducing letter by 77 Nobel laureates circling their wagons around Daszak.

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harish seshadri

@harishseshadri2

10 months

1/ Now that it's clear that the DoD is protecting Ecohealth, it's a good time to revisit articles that hint at the 'special' nature of EHA. Neil Harrison: "There is also a strange and slightly sinister climate of intimidation that hangs around Daszak..⬇️

Peter Daszak — the Elizabeth Holmes of Pandemic Prevention?

Neil L. Harrison

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harish seshadri

@harishseshadri2

6 months

1/ A few Daszak-Morens emails, courtesy Ecohealth! "We have 15,000 samples in freezers in Wuhan and could do the full genomes of 700+ CoVs we've identified" Apparently, his "work" is essential for US "National Security", vaccines, science, etc🙄

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harish seshadri

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9 months

Daszak: "I am trying to downplay the non-US focus of this proposal so that DARPA doesn't see this as a negative". "This proposal" proposed doing DURC in a powerful and secretive authoritarian country. 🤦‍♂️ This shady middleman's best excuse is that he's clueless.

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harish seshadri

@harishseshadri2

5 months

1/ Baric on DEFUSE: "We were fundamentally interested in why sarbecoviruses didn't have a furin cleavage site" (P 193-194) 🙂This "fundamental" question turned out to have an amazingly simple answer... @ydeigin @mitch_benzine

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harish seshadri

@harishseshadri2

1 year

On Fauci and GOFROC at WIV: Ratcliffe: "Some of Dr. Fauci's testimony is inconsistent with some of the intelligence we have that remains classified..." Is he talking about unpublished GOFROC work? @emilyakopp

Emily Kopp

@emilyakopp

1 year

Fauci's sworn testimony that the U.S. did not fund gain-of-function research in Wuhan ("Sen. Paul, you do not know what you are talking about, OFFICIALLY") is inconsistent with classified intel and publicly available information

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harish seshadri

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2 years

Sachs on DEFUSE: "Jeff, I was the reviewer. The research was done before the proposal went in." 😲😲 Around the 30: 20 mark here: @emilyakopp @KatherineEban @ryangrim @fastlerner @Ayjchan @gdemaneuf @R_H_Ebright h/t @stephen_lagana

Jeffrey Sachs: Lessons from the COVID Commission, Lab Leak Questions, and Nord Stream — #21

Jeffrey D. Sachs is a world-renowned economics professor, bestselling author, innovative educator, and global leader in sustainable development.

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harish seshadri

@harishseshadri2

9 months

1/ Baric to Daszak (Jan 13 2020): "Looks like we found our highly variable SARS-like CoV!"

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harish seshadri

@harishseshadri2

5 months

1/ @emilyakopp 's DEFUSE draft reveal is a huge deal, from various points of view. Even Thorp cannot spin away Daszak's stated intent to mislead DARPA!

Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic

@COVIDSelect

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🚨🚨🚨 @ScienceMagazine AGREES that EcoHealth Alliance may have misled the U.S. government about its highly controversial DEFUSE proposal — which some believe created a blueprint for COVID-19. WATCH 📺👇

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harish seshadri

@harishseshadri2

6 months

1/ Don McNeil, the ex-NYT health reporter who is now whining that the Proximals misled him, is a dangerous d*mwit. In April 2023, he wrote: ‼️"Supporting the bat research done by EHA and the WIV was the right thing to do"‼️

New York Times Magazine Interview With Dr. Fauci: Science Fiction

I love science-fiction series like “The Man in the High Castle” because they force us to question our ingrained assumption that history was…

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harish seshadri

@harishseshadri2

2 years

It is amazing how sensible some of these people were pre-COVID19. Reading Garrett's tweets on the origin issue, I wouldn't have expected this ⬇️ h/t @snorman1776

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harish seshadri

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6 months

The original DEFUSE gang: R. Baric (University of N. Carolina) P. Daszak (EcoHealth Alliance) Z. Shi (Wuhan Institute of Virology) L. Wang (National University of Singapore) I. Lipkin (Columbia University) V. Munster (Rocky Mountain Labs) Rand Paul's letter to NIH Dir:

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harish seshadri

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@SherylNYT @benjmueller "The finding, while hardly conclusive, pointed to an infected animal." Why does it point to an infected animal? If this is your idea of "taking great care" and "parsing every word", perhaps you and @benjmueller should move on to something else.

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1/ Rand Paul: "Under duress, the administration finally released documents that show that the DEFUSE project was pitched to at least 15 agencies in January 2018." "These documents also reveal that [Ian Lipkin] was also part of the original plan"

The Great COVID Cover-up: Shocking truth about Wuhan and 15 federal agencies

Here's what my investigation has recently discovered regarding government officials from 15 federal agencies and what they knew about the Wuhan Institute of Virology in 2018.

www.foxnews.com

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harish seshadri

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1 year

The familiar bunch of virologists and their media sidekicks (Hiltzik, in particular) are furious about @JamesCTobias ' recent article in The Nation. The ferocity of this mob attack on a thoroughly professional freelance reporter is puzzling.

Jimmy Tobias

@JamesCTobias

1 year

@_everythingism I mean a good part of the US Congress, the former CDC director, and numerous prominent scientists believe there was malfeasance here. Are reporters just supposed to ignore that fact and blot out their voices? Both sides of the debate are represented in this piece.

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Fauci: Serial passage in ACE2 transgenic mice ? Farrar: Exactly ! Collins: Surely that wouldn't be done in a BSL-2 lab ? Farrar: Wild West....

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harish seshadri

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5 months

1/ This is unbelievable. Daszak continues to be funded for doing very risky and useless stuff (hunting novel viruses, infecting humanized mice, etc) in *South-East countries*. I thought he was "only" into virus hunting, post-pandemic.

Covid 'lab leak' firm given $60m for MORE virus tests that could spark pandemic

A FIRM at the centre of the storm over the origins of Covid is still receiving US taxpayer cash for virus experiments that could spark another pandemic, a senator has warned. The US government has …

www.thesun.co.uk

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10 months

1/ EHA has received a combined total of $50 million *since 2020* from US agencies!! Rep. Paul Gosar: “EHA does not deserve any taxpayer support after its years of empty promises of predicting and preventing pandemics and instead probably causing one"

NGO with Ties to Wuhan Lab Received over $50 Million from Federal Agencies since Pandemic, GOP...

In four letters, Representative Paul Gosar asked several questions relating to EcoHealth Alliance’s funding and virus research.

www.nationalreview.com

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5 months

Daszak's attempt at gaslighting Baric seems depressingly familiar - We have been (and continue to be) fed similar BS narratives by third-rate "scientists" and sci-comm hacks regularly over the past four years. The furious response to Daszak's email is relatable...

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harish seshadri

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4 months

1/ And the winner of the "I don't know" competition is... NIAID Principal Deputy Director Hugh Auchincloss: "I am not sure who that [Shi Zhengli] is."

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harish seshadri

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8 months

In my opinion, the release of DEFUSE by DRASTIC in Sept 2021 was *the* single most important development in the search for the origins of COVID-19. Thank you, Major J. Murphy & DRASTIC ( @CharlesRixey , @gdemaneuf , @BillyBostickson , @MonaRahalkar ,...)!

Monali C. Rahalkar

@MonaRahalkar

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@BiophysicsFL He just forgot to mention that the original Defuse project was released by Drastic, main lead was @CharlesRixey , to whom a brave whistleblower sent it. We analysed the project @BillyBostickson @gdemaneuf and me. This was 2.5 years ago, Sept 2021, when none of the PIs mentioned!

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harish seshadri

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3 months

1/ Now that I think about it, Fauci's attack on Alina is indeed shocking. One of the most powerful and visible men in the biomedical sciences publicly disparaged a junior female scientist (in personal terms) because she dared to question the "consensus"!

stephen lagana

@stephen_lagana

3 months

Shocking to see Dr. Fauci make it personal, calling an honest, careful young scientist a "fuzzy person." @CBSMornings should host @Ayjchan to summarize the case that covid arose in a lab. Gross that virologists seem to abuse female academics like chan and @zeynep in particular

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harish seshadri

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6 months

1/ Excerpts from a remarkable NIAID meeting on MERS in 2013 featuring prominent GOFROCers Ralph Baric, Peter Daszak, Mark Denison, Kanta Subbarao, etc. h/t @jhas5 , who has a long thread on this meeting.

MERS-CoV Research: Current Status and Future Priorities Meeting

This meeting will bring together leading virologists to discuss the current status of the coronavirus field in the context of the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus (MERS-CoV).

videocast.nih.gov

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harish seshadri

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10 months

1/ Daszak is supposed to have turned over an extensive set of documents to @COVIDSelect by Nov 10. The long list includes documents related to DEFUSE and proposals for "private funding that involved the insertion of an FCS into a CoV". Will there be a report by @COVIDSelect ?

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harish seshadri

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8 months

😯 "Baric’s documents have been subpoenaed by the Congressional subcommittee and he should be up for transcribed interviews soon." h/t @Florin_Uncovers for 'discovering' @mbalter 's post.

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harish seshadri

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1 year

From 2013: Baric finds it amusing that creating chimeric SARS viruses "may scare the hell out of some" in the audience. "Maybe dual-use is a concern" is accompanied by chuckles. Fantastic thread by @jhas5 . @emilyakopp @davidzweig @dwallacewells

Jim Haslam

@jhas5

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@PeterHotez asks Baric a (DARPA Defuse) type question: can we be “predictive” for the next pandemic? Baric giggles about ‘Dual Use’

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1/ David Morens' gaslighting attempts (in his transcribed interview) are so crude that he comes across as a mor*n. To be fair he might be one: he actually believes in the value of Daszak's "work". On DEFUSE: "I have not heard that term. I don't know what that is."

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harish seshadri

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8 months

1/ The Stoyan-Chiu critique of the Worobey market paper has been accepted in the Journal of The Royal Statistical Society (series A). The article is by senior "domain experts" in spatial statistics and is "peer reviewed" 😱 cc @Ayjchan

Statistics did not prove that the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market was the early epicentre of the...

Abstract. In a recent prominent study, Worobey et al. (2022. The Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market in Wuhan was the early epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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harish seshadri

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2 years

The raccoon dog preprint is surprisingly subdued in tone (except for the final paragraph😄). @emilyakopp @PatrickSSte @ryangrim

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Apparently, a single mutation in mACE2 makes mice susceptible to SARS2. Passaging it 30 times through their mice gave a highly pathogenic strain and a publication! Now imagine virologists all over the world doing such pointless and risky cr*ap...

Adaptation of SARS-CoV-2 to ACE2H353K mice reveals new spike residues that drive mouse infection |...

We developed a new mouse model with a humanized angiotensin converting enzyme 2 (ACE2) locus that preserves native regulatory elements. A single point mutation in mouse ACE2 (H353K) was sufficient to...

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harish seshadri

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6 months

1/ From the latest FOIA release by USRTK: Frieman to Menachery (8/2/20): "The first email from Shibo was that the senior guy died and no one knew anything about the samples or where the virus was. That seemed strange to me." senior guy = Yusen Zhou, Shibo = Shibo Jiang

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harish seshadri

@harishseshadri2

3 months

In 2009 the Gates Foundation funded Kawaoka's useless & insanely dangerous H5N1 GOFROC experiments. Now that USG funding for GOFROC & virus hunting is under scrutiny, careerists might turn to private sources. @RandPaul @SenGaryPeters h/t @BanounHelene

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@harishseshadri2

1 year

A person who had previously expressed serious concerns about the FCS in SARS2 pretending that DEFUSE was just a random grant proposal is just revolting. And this specimen was just elected to the NAS. @JamieMetzl , your sunny optimism looks more baffling by the day.

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harish seshadri

@harishseshadri2

5 months

Here we go... Gostin and other enablers of the "pandemic prediction" grift pose an immense danger to global public health. Perhaps the "One Health" agenda needs an addition: Exclude these dangerous liars from decision-making bodies.

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harish seshadri

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1 year

1/ Dazsak's upcoming (and long overdue) Congressional transcribed interview reminded me of his 'interesting' interview with The Intercept from March 2022. His crude attempts at CYA result in repeated self-contradiction 🙂

Peter Daszak Answers Critics and Defends Coronavirus Research

“Scientists disagree over an issue where there’s no definitive proof,” said the EcoHealth Alliance's Peter Daszak on the origins of Covid pandemic.

theintercept.com

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3/ Heavyweight supporters of Daszak (Nobel laureates Harold Varmus, Richard Roberts, etc) were furious with Francis Collins for canceling Daszak's grant. Here Morens apologizes to Daszak by pinning the blame on Collins

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harish seshadri

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4 months

1/ From the Associate Director for International Affairs at NIAID Gray Handley's transcribed interview: Q: 'In your role overseeing the research the NIAID does abroad, are you aware of countries' obligations under the Biological Weapons Convention?" Handley: "Vaguely."

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@harishseshadri2

8 months

1/ The complete DEFUSE draft (1412 pages) FOIAd by @USRightToKnow is a shocking document with direct implications for the origin of SARS2. Will @RepBradWenstrup , @cathymcmorris & @RepMGriffith finally ask Ralph Baric to testify and get hold of relevant documents⬇️? @RandPaul

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1/ Interesting timeline of the FBI's Covid origins investigation by @HansMahncke and @Themarketwork . Barely a week after the FBI had leads suggesting a lab leak, the investigation was shut down by the DNI Richard Grenell, a Trump appointee!

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harish seshadri

@harishseshadri2

9 months

One of the most important points regarding the origin of the pandemic was made back in May 2020...

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harish seshadri

@harishseshadri2

8 months

Reminder: (1) Daszak gave a *9.5* hour to @COVIDSelect on Nov 15, 2023. The transcripts have not been released. (2) He was asked to submit an extensive set of documents (emails, project proposals, purchase receipts, etc) by Nov 10. No word on this from @COVIDSelect .

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1 year

USAID terminates mega virus hunting project DEEP VZN over fears that "the programme could inadvertently ignite a pandemic." Another fascinating story by WaPo investigative journalist David Wilman. @StevenSalzberg1 @kesvelt @R_H_Ebright

The US quietly terminates a controversial $125m wildlife virus hunting programme amid safety fears

Two years after launching what officials hailed as a five year flagship project for hunting viruses among wildlife to prevent human pandemics, the US Agency for International Development is shutter...

www.bmj.com

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harish seshadri

@harishseshadri2

1 year

It's obvious that the purpose of constantly braying "follow the science" is to thwart actual investigations. Still, this is shocking: Rambaut: "someone needs to lay out the science of this before it gets out of hand (and causes more formal investigations)

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harish seshadri

@harishseshadri2

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. @emilyakopp quietly drops a bombshell🙂 The letter is a bit cryptic but this⬇️ confirms what @mbalter posted sometime ago.

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@harishseshadri2

2 years

A scathing commentary on Daszak from Nov '21 by Professor Neil Harrison (Colombia University). "Scientists are seriously spooked by Daszak and are unwilling to discuss EHA..."

Peter Daszak — the Elizabeth Holmes of Pandemic Prevention?

Neil L. Harrison

medium.com

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harish seshadri

@harishseshadri2

9 months

I am starting to bore myself, but I can't help pointing out the elephant in the room: ‼️The man who wrote that part of DEFUSE works at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill‼️ Why hasn't he been asked to testify by @COVIDSelect ?

Bryce Nickels

@Bryce_Nickels

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I believe this is total BS-- someone tell Debarre to stop trying to get ahead of more bad news by spreading disinformation. I also have the documents -- please tell me PRECISELY what you are referring to because my read of the same docs you claim to have is that they confirm the

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"We don’t want to offend China." The near-universal fear of offending China might explain why *no* country has forcefully called for an investigation of COVID origins. If so, zoonosis-peddling corrupt scientists are only a sideshow.

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7 months

Debarre and Hensel, "domain experts" in aggressive sealioning, teamed up to whine and make false allegations against @jbloom_lab in connection with his 2021 paper on early sequences. Bloom's matter-of-fact response:

Bloom Lab

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@zhihuachen @flodebarre Here is my response to this pre-print:

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1 year

"... the data do not show that animals at the market were infected with SARS-CoV-2, or that people were infected from exposure to infected animals at that market. " @mvankerkhove on the HSM metagenomics data (aka "strongest evidence yet").

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This is very disturbing: why is "Maria" ( @mvankerkhove ) tagged in these conversations between highly dubious characters? PS: the expiry date for the "actual domain experts" narrative was Feb 2020. @JamieMetzl @gabbystern @drtedros @DrMikeRyan

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1/ One would expect "caused millions of deaths" to be followed by "It's appalling that the USG continues to withhold information (including assessments by the FBI and DoE) related to Covid origins". Instead: "There's no proof".

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1 year

One of the more remarkable passages (there are several) from the WaPo article on virus hunting is this ⬇️ It goes to the heart of the matter of US biodefence plans being at odds with the basic needs of developing countries. cc @colindavidbutler

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2 years

Had no idea that there were four BSL3 facilities in Wuhan alone. Thanks to DRASTIC, I now do 🙂

BSL Laboratories in Wuhan and their roles in coronaviruses research

A study by the DRASTIC collective

gillesdemaneuf.medium.com

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1 year

This⬇️is amazing. The NIH rep pathetically pleads with the audience to curb their enthusiasm for GOFROC and recognize that a paper in Nature or Science is not "the most important thing ". The audience responds with guffaws. @zeynep @mbalter

Jim Haslam

@jhas5

1 year

NIH rep reminds room to keep some of their risky research quiet: help us help you!

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1/ Some amazing bits from @KatherineEban 's latest: WIV was so desperate to work on Ebola that they were thinking of developing a reverse genetic platform to construct it. They couldn't import samples because of the "overly cautious and bureaucratic" Chinese govt!!

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5 months

WTH...Daszak's "Each day of delay helps" email is from 20 April 2024! Notable recipients: Peter Hotez, Richard Roberts, Gerald Keusch.

Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic

@COVIDSelect

5 months

“Each day of delay helps." This was a tactic endorsed by EcoHealth Alliance President Dr. Peter Daszak and employed by Dr. Morens and his team in an effort to postpone Dr. Morens's public testimony until after Dr. Fauci's public hearing. See NEW email evidence👇

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Kinney: "Two decades of inaction by the scientific community and scientific funding agencies have demonstrated that scientists alone cannot be trusted to police themselves on matters that present such obvious risks to every human on the planet."

Justin Kinney - Biosafety Now! Join The Movement! - Biosafety Now

The US Department of Energy recently assessed that the COVID-19 pandemic was likely caused by scientists doing research on viruses. This assessment is not proof of the “lab leak” theory: it was made...

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World-renowned virologist Simon Wain-Hobson describes why UW-Madison should not support research that enhances potential pandemic pathogens. Not mentioned by SWH: Kawaoka's lab, one of the most dangerous labs in the world, has had several shocking accidents in the past decade.

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1/ The full (1412 pages) DEFUSE draft is *far* worse than the snippets we have seen so far. From @VBruttel 's thread: cc @RepMGriffith

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@VBruttel

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The DEFUSE proposal has IMO always been a precise blueprint for how SARS2 came into existence. Now @emilyakopp and @USRightToKnow used the FOIA to get access to draft documents that contain further damning details. a 🧵. 1/x

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. @DavidBahry 's critical response to the letter by 156 virologists ("A call for rational discourse") has been published as a "Commentary" in mBio. @jbkinney @Bryce_Nickels "Here, I answer the call..." 🙂

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. @COVIDSelect 's bombastic announcements are beginning to wear thin. A year has passed and Baric has not even been mentioned, let alone called to testify. Daszak's interview is yet to be released.

Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic

@COVIDSelect

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🚨DR. FAUCI TODAY🚨 For the first time since retiring from public service, Dr. Anthony Fauci will appear in front of Congress. @COVIDSelect has prepared more than 200 pages of questions and approximately 100 exhibits. 2-days, 14-hours. Serious work needs serious answers.

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1/ Daszak (March 2021): “A lot of this work has been conducted with EHA…We do basically know what’s in [WIV's] databases.” But here comes the unbelievable punchline: “We don’t think it’s fair that we should have to reveal everything we do.” !!! cc @COVIDSelect @RandPaul

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"Covid-19: the [French] Academy of Medicine leans towards a laboratory accident" "The reference medical authority in France has broken the taboo of an origin linked to manipulations by virologists in Wuhan."

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Salzberg: "...the U.S. should also strive very hard to coordinate internationally with the WHO or other international bodies to get an international agreement making it clear this kind of work is very dangerous and carries pretty minimal benefits."

Commentary: It's time to stop creating 'superbugs' in the lab

Johns Hopkins computational biologist Steven Salzberg says Boston University study that created a new form of the omicron coronavirus variant should never have happened

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1/ Is US Intel (specifically, the DoE) in possession of CoV sequencing data from WIV? According to this CNN story from Aug 2021, Illumina sequencing machines are connected to external cloud-based servers and US intel accessed these.

Exclusive: Intel agencies scour reams of genetic data from Wuhan lab in Covid origins hunt | CNN...

US intelligence agencies are digging through a treasure trove of genetic data that could be key to uncovering the origins of the coronavirus – as soon as they can decipher it.

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1/ Interesting... COVID Select Democrats (!): "...testimony and documents reviewed by @COVIDSelectDems raise serious concerns that EHA disregarded federal reporting requirements that ensure grantees are accountable to the American people"

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10 months

From 2018: Fauci talks about the "elegance" of Kawaoka's airborne H5N1 GOFROC experiment and how its "benefits" outweighed its risks. The man's GOFROC fixation is inexplicable. Surely he'd know better? In any case, he gaslights/lies with ease.

✂️ Fauci 2018

59 seconds · Clipped by CSH Math · Original video "Panel Q&A" by National Academy of Medicine

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5 months

🤣Cheerleaders and patrons of risky virology explaining why past lab leaks were, in fact, not lab leaks at all is either entertaining or unnerving - these are the geniuses propping up "scientific" grifts that can negatively affect the entire planet?

CD8

@CD57227

5 months

Yeah, a meteorite hit the anthrax lab and then it exploded. (Same thing with Chernobyl btw!) This Morens guy is just... 😂

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1/ Apparently, the origins of the pandemic (or any related matter) that has taken >20M lives is like religion or politics - one does not discuss it in polite society, even when the conversation *is* about risky bioresearch/ biosafety! Why?

Bryce Nickels

@Bryce_Nickels

7 months

The COVID origin cover-up: "The Elephant in the Room" (Part 2) During a panel discussion at the American Enterprise Institute on Feb 21, 2024, Marc Lipsitch & Gustavo Palacios did not respond when asked if the NIH funded gain-of-function research in a lab in Wuhan, China. (1/3)

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@WashburneAlex @Bryce_Nickels @Engineer2The Ben Hu *was* on DEFUSE:

Yuri Deigin

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3 years

An interesting detail: the management plan for the infamous DEFUSE proposal named Ben Hu from the WIV side. In 2019 he received a Chinese grant to investigate two new SARS-like CoVs in humanized mice. Still implausible to think Ben might’ve thought to insert an FCS?

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The FCS, according to Peter "The Scientist" Daszak: "An insertion point that would cleave furin" Whose brilliant idea was it to pay this dunce millions of taxpayer dollars to conduct DURC in China and put the whole world at risk?

Bryce Nickels

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In this clip from Oct 2020, Peter Daszak clearly doesn't understand what a furin cleavage site is. He should buy a hat, mug, T-shirt, doormat, poster, or ornament from @BiosafetyNow ’s “Inconsistent with Evolution” collection to help him better understand.

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1/ GOFROC nutter "Yoshi" Kawaoka, sci-comm hack Apoorva Mandavilli (infamous for her "lab leak is racist" post), Nature Medicine...all come together in this cringe-inducing puff piece from 2006. h/t @Amy31129057

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1 year

Finally, even @JamieMetzl realizes that civil discourse has its limits after Daszak attacks him.

Jamie Metzl

@JamieMetzl

1 year

I️ deeply believe in civility but we must also speak honestly. Peter Daszak has been dishonest, disingenuous, and dangerous. Not a single penny of US government funding should go to @EcoHealthNYC while he is involved and until every sub-grant and grantee is 100% accounted for.

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1/ Weiss gaslights that the FCS in SARS2 is no big deal (1:01:11 in the video). Baric (from his @COVIDSelect interview): "We were fundamentally interested in why sarbecoviruses didn't have a furin cleavage site" @antonioregalado @jbloom_lab

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1 year

"The world was misled, with serious consequences." Article by @Ayjchan and @mattwridley :

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10 months

1/ The Rocky Mountain Labs - Colorado State University project is wilder than I thought. Step 1: Capture horseshoe bats in Bangladesh and ship them to CSU. Step 2: Perform infectivity studies of Nipah (sampled in B'desh), SARS-2, and ...*RATG-13*!? h/t @WhiteCoatWaste

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@BallouxFrancois @MJnanostretch That, in a nutshell, is why virology cannot be treated as just another scientific discipline. Every academic discipline has people doing mediocre/pointless research - but virology is unique in that even third-rate work could end up devastating the whole planet.

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1/ So the DoD is in the same boat as the NIAID - they have been funding risky work in foreign countries but don't know the details of the work or expenditure. And they admit to outsourcing ("Fee-for-service") risky work😲 This is a recipe for disaster if there ever was one.

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Bloom on DEFUSE (15:00): "It was the moment for me when the possibility that the FCS was engineered went from a seemingly low possibility to a completely plausible possibility".

Fever: The Hunt for Covid's Origin - 5. Labs, Safety, and Risk - BBC Sounds

The lab leak theory goes mainstream. How safe are top-security laboratories?

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After his transcribed interview, Morens ceased cooperating (i.e. handover documents) with @COVIDSelect staff. Wenstrup's letter to Morens:

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1/ "Tony" shows why he had/has the US biomedical establishment in the palm of his hand. If you did his bidding, lavish rewards awaited you. Otherwise, banishment... "But she’s a pretty fuzzy person, quite frankly."

Curtis Houck

@CurtisHouck

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WATCH: Later, Fauci got testy when Dokoupil brought up the lab leak theory..... Dokoupil: “[T]he viruses funded by the NIH were so distant from the origin standpoint, or we call it phylogeny, or evolutionarily —” Gayle King: “We all know what that means, yeah.” Tony Fauci:

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1/ More from Garry's transcribed interview with @COVIDSelect (June 2023): Garry admits that * it's common for work to begin before proposals are submitted. * DEFUSE proposed to insert FCSs into "background viruses".

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From the man who went out of his way to thwart (and even sabotage) oversight and regulations: "If it’s a lab leak, then we really should have been much, much more attentive to protocols and training and restrictions."

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Truly brilliant investigation of virus-hunting, with a focus on Thailand, by David Willman and @JobyWarrick . This article is an eye-opener. Virus-hunting in remote corners of the globe putting the locals at risk is biodefence, not public health.

Research with exotic viruses risks a deadly outbreak, scientists warn

The covid-19 epidemic has challenged conventional thinking about biosafety, leading a growing number of scientists to reconsider the danger of prospecting for unknown viruses and other research with...

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Robert Redfield and Marc Siegel: "Despite the devastation of the COVID-19 pandemic, many kinds of potentially dangerous GoF research continue in the U.S., China, and around the world." "We call for a full moratorium on this kind of GoF research."

Why we worry at night about gain-of-function research - Washington Examiner

Disease X is an unknown pathogen capable of causing a devastating pandemic. This term was coined by the World Health Organization in 2018 and was under discussion at the World Economic Forum in...

www.washingtonexaminer.com

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@MarionKoopmans For starters, please stop talking about "the" science - it sounds silly at best. More often it sounds like Soviet-style propaganda. For instance, the fantasy dished out by Worobey-Pekar is not "the" science. It's just flawed speculation based on very sparse and biased data.

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I suspect scrutiny of PREDICT/USAID will make the NIH cover-up scandal look like kindergarten mischief. For one thing, the entire virus-hunting mafia (shady stalwarts include Dennis Carroll, Metabiota, etc) will be in trouble. @RandPaul @mitch_benzine

Gilles Demaneuf

@gdemaneuf

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These articles were shared with the USAID Special Investigator some months ago. I have now decided to release them. @COVIDSelect @SenRandPaul @RogerMarshallMD @JamieMetzl @RogerPielkeJr #DRASTIC

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Fauci's testimony: His gaslighting (Topics: his career, GOFROC, Proximal Origin, zoonosis vs lab leak) is topnotch until he gets to Morens. Fauci drops his 'elder statesman' act and tosses Morens aside with contempt...

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1/ Bob Garry's transcribed interview with @COVIDSelect was conducted by @mitch_benzine , who was *very* thorough - for the most part. But when it came to Garry's "relationship" with the intel community, "I don't want to dig too much in because we might get in trouble."🙂

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Enough with the "HIndsight is 20/20" BS. Ebright, Wain-Hobson, and many others pointed out the dangers of supporting risky research in a secretive authoritarian country with poor safety standards back in 2016. @RepMMM

Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic

@COVIDSelect

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The National Institutes of Health ADMITS to serious shortcomings in grant awarding and grant oversight procedures that allowed EcoHealth Alliance to facilitate gain-of-function research in Wuhan, China. @RepMMM and @NIH agree: "Hindsight is always 20/20."

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