Inquisitive Monkey
@inquisitivemonkey.bsky.social
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I had first-hand encounter with confiscated pangolins at a rescue center run by Save Vietnam’s Wildlife (svw.vn)
One pangolin had to have its left hind leg amputated due to an injury caused by a snare
It was a privilege to take part in a feeding session and witness the animals in action
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One pangolin had to have its left hind leg amputated due to an injury caused by a snare
It was a privilege to take part in a feeding session and witness the animals in action
5/
June 11, 2025 at 2:59 PM
I had first-hand encounter with confiscated pangolins at a rescue center run by Save Vietnam’s Wildlife (svw.vn)
One pangolin had to have its left hind leg amputated due to an injury caused by a snare
It was a privilege to take part in a feeding session and witness the animals in action
5/
One pangolin had to have its left hind leg amputated due to an injury caused by a snare
It was a privilege to take part in a feeding session and witness the animals in action
5/
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I felt I had to set the record straight.
Did I not have reservations about speaking out?
Of course, I did. I was terrified.
I gave careful thought to the consequences of speaking out, such as facing the kind of bully and smears👇
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Did I not have reservations about speaking out?
Of course, I did. I was terrified.
I gave careful thought to the consequences of speaking out, such as facing the kind of bully and smears👇
29/
June 26, 2025 at 3:56 PM
I felt I had to set the record straight.
Did I not have reservations about speaking out?
Of course, I did. I was terrified.
I gave careful thought to the consequences of speaking out, such as facing the kind of bully and smears👇
29/
Did I not have reservations about speaking out?
Of course, I did. I was terrified.
I gave careful thought to the consequences of speaking out, such as facing the kind of bully and smears👇
29/
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Here’s the backstory behind the making of Blame in response to @angierasmussen.bsky.social
During shooting in Thailand,I was shocked by Daszak’s fast & loose with facts, his refusal to acknowledge his conflict of interest,& his denial of his gain-of-function res in collaboration with Wuhan lab
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During shooting in Thailand,I was shocked by Daszak’s fast & loose with facts, his refusal to acknowledge his conflict of interest,& his denial of his gain-of-function res in collaboration with Wuhan lab
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June 26, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Here’s the backstory behind the making of Blame in response to @angierasmussen.bsky.social
During shooting in Thailand,I was shocked by Daszak’s fast & loose with facts, his refusal to acknowledge his conflict of interest,& his denial of his gain-of-function res in collaboration with Wuhan lab
25/
During shooting in Thailand,I was shocked by Daszak’s fast & loose with facts, his refusal to acknowledge his conflict of interest,& his denial of his gain-of-function res in collaboration with Wuhan lab
25/
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By framing the covid origins controversy as a left-right issue, labelling all lab-leak
supporters as conspiracy theorists, & failing to scrutinise the conduct of scientists, Blame misses the mark by a wide margin—risking further polarisation of the debate & deepening public distrust in science
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supporters as conspiracy theorists, & failing to scrutinise the conduct of scientists, Blame misses the mark by a wide margin—risking further polarisation of the debate & deepening public distrust in science
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June 26, 2025 at 3:39 PM
By framing the covid origins controversy as a left-right issue, labelling all lab-leak
supporters as conspiracy theorists, & failing to scrutinise the conduct of scientists, Blame misses the mark by a wide margin—risking further polarisation of the debate & deepening public distrust in science
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supporters as conspiracy theorists, & failing to scrutinise the conduct of scientists, Blame misses the mark by a wide margin—risking further polarisation of the debate & deepening public distrust in science
24/
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Why does the covid origins debate remain so polarising & acrimonious?
What does this say about the state of science & the public discourse of science?
My @theguardian.com op-ed debut, from a sociological perspective
Include backstory behind the film Blame
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www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
What does this say about the state of science & the public discourse of science?
My @theguardian.com op-ed debut, from a sociological perspective
Include backstory behind the film Blame
1/
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The Covid ‘lab leak’ theory isn’t just a rightwing conspiracy – pretending that’s the case is bad for science | Jane Qiu
While figures like Steve Bannon have exploited the issue, scientists have done themselves no favours by shutting down legitimate inquiry, says award-winning science writer Jane Qiu
www.theguardian.com
June 26, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Why does the covid origins debate remain so polarising & acrimonious?
What does this say about the state of science & the public discourse of science?
My @theguardian.com op-ed debut, from a sociological perspective
Include backstory behind the film Blame
1/
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
What does this say about the state of science & the public discourse of science?
My @theguardian.com op-ed debut, from a sociological perspective
Include backstory behind the film Blame
1/
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Kristian Andersen: "Natural viruses mutate rapidly when placed in tissue culture. SARS-CoV-2 does not, strongly implying it already evolved there."
Andrew Rambaut: "Lab passaging might also generate this mutation."
Andrew Rambaut: "Lab passaging might also generate this mutation."
November 29, 2024 at 5:30 PM
Kristian Andersen: "Natural viruses mutate rapidly when placed in tissue culture. SARS-CoV-2 does not, strongly implying it already evolved there."
Andrew Rambaut: "Lab passaging might also generate this mutation."
Andrew Rambaut: "Lab passaging might also generate this mutation."
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Great news, but please be more careful when co-authoring flawed research:
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
Some critical thinking is necessary!
Rebuttal of Pekar et al., (2025):
billybostickson.medium.com/pekar-et-al-...
Tweets 1-22
x.com/BillyBostick...
Tweets 22-52
x.com/BillyBostick...
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
Some critical thinking is necessary!
Rebuttal of Pekar et al., (2025):
billybostickson.medium.com/pekar-et-al-...
Tweets 1-22
x.com/BillyBostick...
Tweets 22-52
x.com/BillyBostick...
The recency and geographical origins of the bat viruses ancestral to SARS-CoV and SARS-CoV-2
Recombination-aware evolutionary analyses of the entire genomes of SARS-CoV-1-like
and SARS-CoV-2-like viruses indicate that SARS-CoV-1 and SARS-CoV-2 descend from bat
coronaviruses that circulated as...
www.cell.com
May 9, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Great news, but please be more careful when co-authoring flawed research:
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
Some critical thinking is necessary!
Rebuttal of Pekar et al., (2025):
billybostickson.medium.com/pekar-et-al-...
Tweets 1-22
x.com/BillyBostick...
Tweets 22-52
x.com/BillyBostick...
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
Some critical thinking is necessary!
Rebuttal of Pekar et al., (2025):
billybostickson.medium.com/pekar-et-al-...
Tweets 1-22
x.com/BillyBostick...
Tweets 22-52
x.com/BillyBostick...
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Interesting research but please be more careful when co-authoring flawed papers:
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
Some critical thinking is necessary!
Rebuttal of Pekar et al., (2025):
billybostickson.medium.com/pekar-et-al-...
Tweets 1-22
x.com/BillyBostick...
Tweets 22-52
x.com/BillyBostick...
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
Some critical thinking is necessary!
Rebuttal of Pekar et al., (2025):
billybostickson.medium.com/pekar-et-al-...
Tweets 1-22
x.com/BillyBostick...
Tweets 22-52
x.com/BillyBostick...
The recency and geographical origins of the bat viruses ancestral to SARS-CoV and SARS-CoV-2
Recombination-aware evolutionary analyses of the entire genomes of SARS-CoV-1-like
and SARS-CoV-2-like viruses indicate that SARS-CoV-1 and SARS-CoV-2 descend from bat
coronaviruses that circulated as...
www.cell.com
May 9, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Interesting research but please be more careful when co-authoring flawed papers:
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
Some critical thinking is necessary!
Rebuttal of Pekar et al., (2025):
billybostickson.medium.com/pekar-et-al-...
Tweets 1-22
x.com/BillyBostick...
Tweets 22-52
x.com/BillyBostick...
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
Some critical thinking is necessary!
Rebuttal of Pekar et al., (2025):
billybostickson.medium.com/pekar-et-al-...
Tweets 1-22
x.com/BillyBostick...
Tweets 22-52
x.com/BillyBostick...
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Great idea, but please be more careful when co-authoring flawed research:
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
Some critical thinking is necessary!
Rebuttal of Pekar et al., (2025):
billybostickson.medium.com/pekar-et-al-...
Tweets 1-22
x.com/BillyBostick...
Tweets 22-52
x.com/BillyBostick...
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
Some critical thinking is necessary!
Rebuttal of Pekar et al., (2025):
billybostickson.medium.com/pekar-et-al-...
Tweets 1-22
x.com/BillyBostick...
Tweets 22-52
x.com/BillyBostick...
The recency and geographical origins of the bat viruses ancestral to SARS-CoV and SARS-CoV-2
Recombination-aware evolutionary analyses of the entire genomes of SARS-CoV-1-like
and SARS-CoV-2-like viruses indicate that SARS-CoV-1 and SARS-CoV-2 descend from bat
coronaviruses that circulated as...
www.cell.com
May 9, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Great idea, but please be more careful when co-authoring flawed research:
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
Some critical thinking is necessary!
Rebuttal of Pekar et al., (2025):
billybostickson.medium.com/pekar-et-al-...
Tweets 1-22
x.com/BillyBostick...
Tweets 22-52
x.com/BillyBostick...
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
Some critical thinking is necessary!
Rebuttal of Pekar et al., (2025):
billybostickson.medium.com/pekar-et-al-...
Tweets 1-22
x.com/BillyBostick...
Tweets 22-52
x.com/BillyBostick...
I have posted a complete rebuttal of this paper:
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
with explainers of techniques, tools & acronyms
Pekar et al., (2025) Demolished!
billybostickson.medium.com/pekar-et-al-...
and @substack
billybostickson495983.substack.com/p/pekar-et-a...
Please share widely!
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
with explainers of techniques, tools & acronyms
Pekar et al., (2025) Demolished!
billybostickson.medium.com/pekar-et-al-...
and @substack
billybostickson495983.substack.com/p/pekar-et-a...
Please share widely!
Pekar et al., (2025) Demolished!
Here you will find a scathing critique of the latest zoonotic claims by Pekar et al., (2025), which I recently published on X
billybostickson.medium.com
May 8, 2025 at 7:02 PM
I have posted a complete rebuttal of this paper:
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
with explainers of techniques, tools & acronyms
Pekar et al., (2025) Demolished!
billybostickson.medium.com/pekar-et-al-...
and @substack
billybostickson495983.substack.com/p/pekar-et-a...
Please share widely!
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
with explainers of techniques, tools & acronyms
Pekar et al., (2025) Demolished!
billybostickson.medium.com/pekar-et-al-...
and @substack
billybostickson495983.substack.com/p/pekar-et-a...
Please share widely!
1. As promised, my final report is now published!
You will need a few hours to read and digest the implications as the science is complex.
Researchgate:
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
Zenodo:
zenodo.org/records/1520...
Please forward to the cabal of blinkered zoonati who block me!
You will need a few hours to read and digest the implications as the science is complex.
Researchgate:
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
Zenodo:
zenodo.org/records/1520...
Please forward to the cabal of blinkered zoonati who block me!
The Pangolin (Coronavirus) Papers
A. “The Pangolin Papers” presents a robust argument for the lab-mediated origin of SARS-CoV-2, particularly centered on experiments conducted at the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) during 2018 an...
zenodo.org
April 14, 2025 at 8:38 AM
1. As promised, my final report is now published!
You will need a few hours to read and digest the implications as the science is complex.
Researchgate:
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
Zenodo:
zenodo.org/records/1520...
Please forward to the cabal of blinkered zoonati who block me!
You will need a few hours to read and digest the implications as the science is complex.
Researchgate:
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
Zenodo:
zenodo.org/records/1520...
Please forward to the cabal of blinkered zoonati who block me!
The Nazi Dad of peterdaszak.bsky.social should have stayed in Ukraine to bring him up skiing in jeans instead of giving us a taxpayer scammer with countless ski trips, limos & hotels, expensive dental work, bat shit viruses & pandemic fear!
He blocks me..
I hope someone can let him know?
He blocks me..
I hope someone can let him know?
March 5, 2025 at 4:24 PM
The Nazi Dad of peterdaszak.bsky.social should have stayed in Ukraine to bring him up skiing in jeans instead of giving us a taxpayer scammer with countless ski trips, limos & hotels, expensive dental work, bat shit viruses & pandemic fear!
He blocks me..
I hope someone can let him know?
He blocks me..
I hope someone can let him know?
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Here is a recent blackmail attempt by @flodebarre.bsky.social, abusing her position as fact-checker for a French journalist at @lemonde.fr, to threaten @BillyBostickson.
Her argument was that she could get nonsense that sticks published!
@fayeflam.bsky.social
Her argument was that she could get nonsense that sticks published!
@fayeflam.bsky.social
February 28, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Here is a recent blackmail attempt by @flodebarre.bsky.social, abusing her position as fact-checker for a French journalist at @lemonde.fr, to threaten @BillyBostickson.
Her argument was that she could get nonsense that sticks published!
@fayeflam.bsky.social
Her argument was that she could get nonsense that sticks published!
@fayeflam.bsky.social
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February 28, 2025 at 2:45 PM
The nail in the coffin for the double spillover nonsense from Pekar et al:
academic.oup.com/ve/article/1...
"Working within the Pekar 2022 model and data set, Angus has shown that fixing a plain error in mathematical logic reverses the conclusion." (h/t Michael Weissman)
arxiv.org/html/2502.20...
academic.oup.com/ve/article/1...
"Working within the Pekar 2022 model and data set, Angus has shown that fixing a plain error in mathematical logic reverses the conclusion." (h/t Michael Weissman)
arxiv.org/html/2502.20...
February 28, 2025 at 2:05 PM
The nail in the coffin for the double spillover nonsense from Pekar et al:
academic.oup.com/ve/article/1...
"Working within the Pekar 2022 model and data set, Angus has shown that fixing a plain error in mathematical logic reverses the conclusion." (h/t Michael Weissman)
arxiv.org/html/2502.20...
academic.oup.com/ve/article/1...
"Working within the Pekar 2022 model and data set, Angus has shown that fixing a plain error in mathematical logic reverses the conclusion." (h/t Michael Weissman)
arxiv.org/html/2502.20...
Missing Truths
Katherine Eban ignores my early cooperation with FBI WMD, the work of DRASTIC & "The Seeker" in finding, translating & sharing WIV theses & Mojiang Miners' dissertation & thesis.
Nevertheless, a mildly interesting read!
Inside the FBI’s Lab Leak Investigation
archive.ph/9Qeru
Katherine Eban ignores my early cooperation with FBI WMD, the work of DRASTIC & "The Seeker" in finding, translating & sharing WIV theses & Mojiang Miners' dissertation & thesis.
Nevertheless, a mildly interesting read!
Inside the FBI’s Lab Leak Investigation
archive.ph/9Qeru
archive.ph
February 28, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Missing Truths
Katherine Eban ignores my early cooperation with FBI WMD, the work of DRASTIC & "The Seeker" in finding, translating & sharing WIV theses & Mojiang Miners' dissertation & thesis.
Nevertheless, a mildly interesting read!
Inside the FBI’s Lab Leak Investigation
archive.ph/9Qeru
Katherine Eban ignores my early cooperation with FBI WMD, the work of DRASTIC & "The Seeker" in finding, translating & sharing WIV theses & Mojiang Miners' dissertation & thesis.
Nevertheless, a mildly interesting read!
Inside the FBI’s Lab Leak Investigation
archive.ph/9Qeru
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"Zoonati" coping with the CIA news
Now it doesn't even matter if it was a lab leak LOL
Now it doesn't even matter if it was a lab leak LOL
January 29, 2025 at 4:38 PM
"Zoonati" coping with the CIA news
Now it doesn't even matter if it was a lab leak LOL
Now it doesn't even matter if it was a lab leak LOL
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Wrote this earlier but reposting now that the lab leak hypothesis is gaining ground. There were multiple interlocking mistakes that led to disaster in 2020. If it was Gain of Function research that created SARS2, the lack of airborne precautions guaranteed that it would spread.
January 26, 2025 at 3:31 AM
Wrote this earlier but reposting now that the lab leak hypothesis is gaining ground. There were multiple interlocking mistakes that led to disaster in 2020. If it was Gain of Function research that created SARS2, the lack of airborne precautions guaranteed that it would spread.
LOL
I don’t personally give a flying fuck if the CIA thinks that COVID19 came from a lab leak. They’re not known for their scientific acumen. I listen to the experts in the field, such as @angierasmussen.bsky.social.
January 29, 2025 at 4:23 PM
LOL
(Sir) Jeremy Farrar
From Burner Phones to the WHO with Lies
From Burner Phones to the WHO with Lies
January 29, 2025 at 4:20 PM
(Sir) Jeremy Farrar
From Burner Phones to the WHO with Lies
From Burner Phones to the WHO with Lies
Dick in the Wind?
January 29, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Dick in the Wind?
Interesting comment on @mikepompeo Dec 5 lab leak tweet
By Jon Myers:
"As an intelligence officer for the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs in 2019, based on message traffic, I briefed that it came from the lab. There were no objections to that. Then, months later….the story changed. Why?"
By Jon Myers:
"As an intelligence officer for the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs in 2019, based on message traffic, I briefed that it came from the lab. There were no objections to that. Then, months later….the story changed. Why?"
December 6, 2024 at 6:34 PM
Interesting comment on @mikepompeo Dec 5 lab leak tweet
By Jon Myers:
"As an intelligence officer for the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs in 2019, based on message traffic, I briefed that it came from the lab. There were no objections to that. Then, months later….the story changed. Why?"
By Jon Myers:
"As an intelligence officer for the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs in 2019, based on message traffic, I briefed that it came from the lab. There were no objections to that. Then, months later….the story changed. Why?"