Ørjan Sagvolden
@drsagvolden.bsky.social
Turløper, stientusiast, leseesel. Liker snø. Jobber innenfor psykisk helse.
Hervorragende Widerlegung der Lab-Leak Nano-Dokumentation auf 3sat.
Die Wissenschaftssendung „nano“ des öffentlich-rechtlichen Senders 3sat wollte Ende Juni vermeintlich neue Indizien zum Herkunft der Pandemie gefunden haben.
Eine Spurensuche zwischen Phantasie und Pandemie.
radiocorax.de/phantasie-un...
Eine Spurensuche zwischen Phantasie und Pandemie.
radiocorax.de/phantasie-un...
November 29, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Hervorragende Widerlegung der Lab-Leak Nano-Dokumentation auf 3sat.
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Disse funnene passer mildt sagt ikke så godt med fortellingene til Sigrid Bratlie om covid‑pandemiens opphav.. @langsiktsenter.bsky.social
Med mindre koronavirusene i jungelen i Brasil har satt inn et "furin cleavage site" på pur f som del av en stor konspirasjon
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Med mindre koronavirusene i jungelen i Brasil har satt inn et "furin cleavage site" på pur f som del av en stor konspirasjon
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
A divergent betacoronavirus with a functional furin cleavage site in South American bats
Bats are natural reservoirs for a wide range of RNA viruses. Members of the genus Betacoronavirus , including Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome virus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) and Middle East Respiratory Syndrom...
www.biorxiv.org
November 2, 2025 at 11:39 AM
Disse funnene passer mildt sagt ikke så godt med fortellingene til Sigrid Bratlie om covid‑pandemiens opphav.. @langsiktsenter.bsky.social
Med mindre koronavirusene i jungelen i Brasil har satt inn et "furin cleavage site" på pur f som del av en stor konspirasjon
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Med mindre koronavirusene i jungelen i Brasil har satt inn et "furin cleavage site" på pur f som del av en stor konspirasjon
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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🧵Remember the preprint claiming SARS-CoV-2 has a "synthetic fingerprint"?
It said a restriction map was "extremely unlikely to have arisen by random evolution.”
I took its claims seriously.
The "synthetic fingerprint" hypothesis collapses. My new preprint explains why.
arxiv.org/abs/2510.23833
It said a restriction map was "extremely unlikely to have arisen by random evolution.”
I took its claims seriously.
The "synthetic fingerprint" hypothesis collapses. My new preprint explains why.
arxiv.org/abs/2510.23833
October 29, 2025 at 7:32 AM
🧵Remember the preprint claiming SARS-CoV-2 has a "synthetic fingerprint"?
It said a restriction map was "extremely unlikely to have arisen by random evolution.”
I took its claims seriously.
The "synthetic fingerprint" hypothesis collapses. My new preprint explains why.
arxiv.org/abs/2510.23833
It said a restriction map was "extremely unlikely to have arisen by random evolution.”
I took its claims seriously.
The "synthetic fingerprint" hypothesis collapses. My new preprint explains why.
arxiv.org/abs/2510.23833
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Apparently, Norway has been hit by its own motivated conspiracy theorists, including Alina Chan's facsimile, Sigrid Bratlie, who has been making the media rounds with her fan fiction book.
The article below coldly recommends she first read my book before debating 😂
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The article below coldly recommends she first read my book before debating 😂
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![Conspiracies threaten science – not the other way around
There is a growing scientific consensus that SARS-CoV-2 most likely originated from a previously unidentified animal sold at the wet market in Wuhan. The arguments against this explanation, as advanced by Sigrid Bratlie in her book "Mysteriet i Wuhan" and in Aftenposten on October 15, have been largely refuted or taken out of context. Bratlie misrepresents peer-reviewed research and repeats media speculation to support the theory of a laboratory leak.
For a thorough review, we recommend the book "Lab Leak Fever " (2025) by Philipp Markolin, an Austrian science journalist [...]. Unlike Bratlie, he has interviewed key researchers such as Zhi Shengli, Peter Daszak and Kristian Andersen. These are people against whom Bratlie makes serious accusations.
Markolin shows that researchers [...] started with an openness to all hypotheses, as Bratlie asks us to do. When all the scientific facts pointed in one direction, they followed the science. Bratlie, on the other hand, interprets the fact that someone has changed their mind as a sign of a conspiracy.
The book documents how researchers who have worked extensively on the nature and origins of the virus are being subjected to threats and harassment. It also highlights how social media today promotes conspiracy theories and weakens trust in science.
The documentary film "Blame" (2025), directed by Christian Frei, depicts how research into the origins of the pandemic has come under attack in a political game. The film will be screened at BIFF in Bergen this October and at Film fra Sør in Oslo in November.
No one wants to take away Bratlie's freedom of expression. On the contrary, few have been given such broad space in the public sphere, often without critical counter-questions. She has even been invited to the Research Council's panel debate "The Fight for Truth" later in October. We recommend that she read Markolin's book before that debate.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:5zqjavyvxgpqup52vic4whgn/bafkreihxq44247c6vcqb334szwqoxmohrn6gnnj4bbsuppvhtdbtivjtem@jpeg)
October 17, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Apparently, Norway has been hit by its own motivated conspiracy theorists, including Alina Chan's facsimile, Sigrid Bratlie, who has been making the media rounds with her fan fiction book.
The article below coldly recommends she first read my book before debating 😂
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The article below coldly recommends she first read my book before debating 😂
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Anders Goksøyr and I wrote in Aftenposten last week.
We recommed Sigrid Bratlie to read Markolins new book, not that she will shift her position on the lableak, but perhaps get new perspectives of the persons she wrongfully accuses for conspiracies.
www-aftenposten-no.translate.goog/meninger/deb...
We recommed Sigrid Bratlie to read Markolins new book, not that she will shift her position on the lableak, but perhaps get new perspectives of the persons she wrongfully accuses for conspiracies.
www-aftenposten-no.translate.goog/meninger/deb...
Forskningen peker mot våtmarkedet – ikke laboratoriet
Sigrid Bratlie forsøker å fremstille debatten om pandemiens opphav som en kamp for akademisk ytringsfrihet. Men hun går på tomgang i de faglige argumentene.
www-aftenposten-no.translate.goog
October 25, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Anders Goksøyr and I wrote in Aftenposten last week.
We recommed Sigrid Bratlie to read Markolins new book, not that she will shift her position on the lableak, but perhaps get new perspectives of the persons she wrongfully accuses for conspiracies.
www-aftenposten-no.translate.goog/meninger/deb...
We recommed Sigrid Bratlie to read Markolins new book, not that she will shift her position on the lableak, but perhaps get new perspectives of the persons she wrongfully accuses for conspiracies.
www-aftenposten-no.translate.goog/meninger/deb...
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It was nice to read @zachhensel.bsky.social 's Op Ed in the Norwegian newspaper Aftenposten
"Let's return to an evidence-based debate about the corona pandemic"
Google-translated version: www-aftenposten-no.translate.goog/meninger/deb...
"Let's return to an evidence-based debate about the corona pandemic"
Google-translated version: www-aftenposten-no.translate.goog/meninger/deb...
La oss vende tilbake til bevisene for koronapandemiens opprinnelse
Jakten på pandemiens opprinnelse er for viktig til å bli avsporet av uvitenskapelige insinuasjoner.
www-aftenposten-no.translate.goog
October 1, 2025 at 3:27 PM
It was nice to read @zachhensel.bsky.social 's Op Ed in the Norwegian newspaper Aftenposten
"Let's return to an evidence-based debate about the corona pandemic"
Google-translated version: www-aftenposten-no.translate.goog/meninger/deb...
"Let's return to an evidence-based debate about the corona pandemic"
Google-translated version: www-aftenposten-no.translate.goog/meninger/deb...
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Tylenol/acetaminophen/paracetamol use in pregnancy probably doesn't give babies autism.
Now unlocked for all to read
gidmk.substack.com/p/tylenol-us...
Now unlocked for all to read
gidmk.substack.com/p/tylenol-us...
Tylenol Use In Pregnancy Probably Doesn't Give Babies Autism
Why acetaminophen/paracetamol probably isn't causing the autism epidemic.
gidmk.substack.com
September 22, 2025 at 10:53 AM
Tylenol/acetaminophen/paracetamol use in pregnancy probably doesn't give babies autism.
Now unlocked for all to read
gidmk.substack.com/p/tylenol-us...
Now unlocked for all to read
gidmk.substack.com/p/tylenol-us...
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Full conversation here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=2H55...
Destiny FINALLY Learns The Truth About Covid
YouTube video by Last Night On Destiny
www.youtube.com
August 17, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Full conversation here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=2H55...
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"Last week’s attack on the #CDC could have been a slaughter."
Absolutely.
And, importantly, thanks to the inflammatory rhetoric, falsehoods, disinformation, and conspiracy theories constantly spouted by the very same person who's responsible for the agency - HHS Secretary RFK Jr.
He must go.
Absolutely.
And, importantly, thanks to the inflammatory rhetoric, falsehoods, disinformation, and conspiracy theories constantly spouted by the very same person who's responsible for the agency - HHS Secretary RFK Jr.
He must go.
This point isnt being made enough. Last week’s attack on the #CDC could have been a slaughter.
www.statnews.com/2025/08/15/c...
www.statnews.com/2025/08/15/c...
The CDC shooting was public health’s Jan. 6
“In RFK Jr.’s America, it will never be safe to practice public health or medicine," write an epidemiologist and a former CDC staffer.
www.statnews.com
August 15, 2025 at 5:41 PM
"Last week’s attack on the #CDC could have been a slaughter."
Absolutely.
And, importantly, thanks to the inflammatory rhetoric, falsehoods, disinformation, and conspiracy theories constantly spouted by the very same person who's responsible for the agency - HHS Secretary RFK Jr.
He must go.
Absolutely.
And, importantly, thanks to the inflammatory rhetoric, falsehoods, disinformation, and conspiracy theories constantly spouted by the very same person who's responsible for the agency - HHS Secretary RFK Jr.
He must go.
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New post up on Substack: I wrote about why frames beat facts, and why this Administration relies so heavily on “Files” dumps to shape reality & feed the base 🍽🧟♂️ The Twitter Files model is now foundational for MAGA.
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August 12, 2025 at 3:11 AM
New post up on Substack: I wrote about why frames beat facts, and why this Administration relies so heavily on “Files” dumps to shape reality & feed the base 🍽🧟♂️ The Twitter Files model is now foundational for MAGA.
open.substack.com/pub/agentsof...
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I will never get over how creepy it is how the NIH X account is a full time propaganda machine now
August 12, 2025 at 2:52 AM
I will never get over how creepy it is how the NIH X account is a full time propaganda machine now
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More than 3yrs down the line this has held up surprisingly well, very much because of @lewan.bsky.social prescience borne from climategate and previous clashes with USRTK
What we couldn’t predict was how the conspiracists would destroy US biomed science
www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-...
What we couldn’t predict was how the conspiracists would destroy US biomed science
www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-...
The Lab-Leak Hypothesis Made It Harder for Scientists to Seek the Truth
Virus origin stories have always been prone to conspiracy theories. COVID disinformation has threatened research—and lives
www.scientificamerican.com
July 30, 2025 at 8:32 AM
More than 3yrs down the line this has held up surprisingly well, very much because of @lewan.bsky.social prescience borne from climategate and previous clashes with USRTK
What we couldn’t predict was how the conspiracists would destroy US biomed science
www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-...
What we couldn’t predict was how the conspiracists would destroy US biomed science
www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-...
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Our research has been engulfed by an endless torrent of lab leak conspiracy theories about the origin of the pandemic - even as the evidence for zoonosis has only grown stronger.
This fuels anti-science agendas and erodes public trust.
Now, we respond 👇
theconversation.com/how-conspira...
This fuels anti-science agendas and erodes public trust.
Now, we respond 👇
theconversation.com/how-conspira...
How conspiracy theories about COVID’s origins are hampering our ability to prevent the next pandemic
The COVID pandemic likely began when the virus jumped from animals to humans, and didn’t start in a lab. But false narratives continue to circulate.
theconversation.com
July 30, 2025 at 12:45 AM
Our research has been engulfed by an endless torrent of lab leak conspiracy theories about the origin of the pandemic - even as the evidence for zoonosis has only grown stronger.
This fuels anti-science agendas and erodes public trust.
Now, we respond 👇
theconversation.com/how-conspira...
This fuels anti-science agendas and erodes public trust.
Now, we respond 👇
theconversation.com/how-conspira...
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grok has been added to the hate list
July 24, 2025 at 11:06 PM
grok has been added to the hate list
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What has always irritated me about this debate - and what I discuss in this piece - is how the lab leak has never had a shred of evidence supporting it. People are using the same arguments today that they were in 2020.
Meanwhile, zoonosis has only gotten more likely over time.
Meanwhile, zoonosis has only gotten more likely over time.
How did the pandemic start?
I have avoided publicly commenting on this for 5 years. Here's my take as someone who has no stake at all in the game.
gidmk.substack.com/p/pandemic-r...
I have avoided publicly commenting on this for 5 years. Here's my take as someone who has no stake at all in the game.
gidmk.substack.com/p/pandemic-r...
Pandemic Revisionism, Part One: COVID-19 Origins
Because people keep getting this very wrong.
gidmk.substack.com
July 8, 2025 at 3:51 AM
What has always irritated me about this debate - and what I discuss in this piece - is how the lab leak has never had a shred of evidence supporting it. People are using the same arguments today that they were in 2020.
Meanwhile, zoonosis has only gotten more likely over time.
Meanwhile, zoonosis has only gotten more likely over time.
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I expanded this thread about the hypocrisy of HHS and NIH leadership for spending half a billion dollars on an ancient vaccine technology that was tested with “dangerous gain-of-function” research.
rasmussenretorts.substack.com/p/gold-stand...
rasmussenretorts.substack.com/p/gold-stand...
July 10, 2025 at 11:51 PM
I expanded this thread about the hypocrisy of HHS and NIH leadership for spending half a billion dollars on an ancient vaccine technology that was tested with “dangerous gain-of-function” research.
rasmussenretorts.substack.com/p/gold-stand...
rasmussenretorts.substack.com/p/gold-stand...
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How did the pandemic start?
I have avoided publicly commenting on this for 5 years. Here's my take as someone who has no stake at all in the game.
gidmk.substack.com/p/pandemic-r...
I have avoided publicly commenting on this for 5 years. Here's my take as someone who has no stake at all in the game.
gidmk.substack.com/p/pandemic-r...
Pandemic Revisionism, Part One: COVID-19 Origins
Because people keep getting this very wrong.
gidmk.substack.com
July 7, 2025 at 9:46 PM
How did the pandemic start?
I have avoided publicly commenting on this for 5 years. Here's my take as someone who has no stake at all in the game.
gidmk.substack.com/p/pandemic-r...
I have avoided publicly commenting on this for 5 years. Here's my take as someone who has no stake at all in the game.
gidmk.substack.com/p/pandemic-r...
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Okay, this isn't hitting quite like I hoped it would, maybe because people are tired of hearing about the death of American science. So how about this: I also go into combat mode at Bhattacharya & his clown car of minions' efforts to destroy virology.
rasmussenretorts.substack.com/p/gain-of-fi...
rasmussenretorts.substack.com/p/gain-of-fi...
Gain of Fiction Research of Concern
The mortality rate is the only thing that will be improved by banning essential virology and vaccine research
rasmussenretorts.substack.com
July 7, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Okay, this isn't hitting quite like I hoped it would, maybe because people are tired of hearing about the death of American science. So how about this: I also go into combat mode at Bhattacharya & his clown car of minions' efforts to destroy virology.
rasmussenretorts.substack.com/p/gain-of-fi...
rasmussenretorts.substack.com/p/gain-of-fi...
Har skrevet litt om vitenskapsjournalistikk i forbindelse med utgivelsen av boka "Mysteriet i Wuhan", men også dekningen forut for dette
Sviktende vitenskapsjournalistikk share.google/qHTZ8SzwovQI... dette.
Sviktende vitenskapsjournalistikk share.google/qHTZ8SzwovQI... dette.
Sviktende vitenskapsjournalistikk
Det handler ikke om å kneble kontroversielle teorier, men journalistisk ansvar og vitenskapelig redelighet.
share.google
July 5, 2025 at 8:52 AM
Har skrevet litt om vitenskapsjournalistikk i forbindelse med utgivelsen av boka "Mysteriet i Wuhan", men også dekningen forut for dette
Sviktende vitenskapsjournalistikk share.google/qHTZ8SzwovQI... dette.
Sviktende vitenskapsjournalistikk share.google/qHTZ8SzwovQI... dette.
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@drsagvolden.bsky.social criticize Norwegian Press in @journalisten-norge.bsky.social for hyping the lab leak bestselling book "Mysteriet i Wuhan". @kgandersen.bsky.social
www.journalisten.no/sviktende-vi...
www.journalisten.no/sviktende-vi...
Sviktende vitenskapsjournalistikk
Det handler ikke om å kneble kontroversielle teorier, men journalistisk ansvar og vitenskapelig redelighet.
www.journalisten.no
July 4, 2025 at 1:59 PM
@drsagvolden.bsky.social criticize Norwegian Press in @journalisten-norge.bsky.social for hyping the lab leak bestselling book "Mysteriet i Wuhan". @kgandersen.bsky.social
www.journalisten.no/sviktende-vi...
www.journalisten.no/sviktende-vi...
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So ‘inconclusive’ is a meaningless word to smooth criticism from outside, but doesn’t mean what the lab leakers want it to mean. The panel is very clearly that the weight of evidence makes zoonotic emergence most likely. What is unknown is how it got there.
June 28, 2025 at 9:49 AM
So ‘inconclusive’ is a meaningless word to smooth criticism from outside, but doesn’t mean what the lab leakers want it to mean. The panel is very clearly that the weight of evidence makes zoonotic emergence most likely. What is unknown is how it got there.
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Quick thread on the WHO's SAGO report on the origins of COVID-19, highlighting key points and even *new* data.
Their summary is that a zoonotic origin of COVID-19 is best supported by available data. This is consistent with most scientific reviews and statements in the rest of the literature.
Their summary is that a zoonotic origin of COVID-19 is best supported by available data. This is consistent with most scientific reviews and statements in the rest of the literature.
June 28, 2025 at 12:10 AM
Quick thread on the WHO's SAGO report on the origins of COVID-19, highlighting key points and even *new* data.
Their summary is that a zoonotic origin of COVID-19 is best supported by available data. This is consistent with most scientific reviews and statements in the rest of the literature.
Their summary is that a zoonotic origin of COVID-19 is best supported by available data. This is consistent with most scientific reviews and statements in the rest of the literature.
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Disappointing from @janeqiu.bsky.social, who is well aware that scientists haven’t shut down legitimate inquiry into a “lab leak.” No evidence supports it.
Trust is lost not by scientists publishing evidence, but by dishonest actors misrepresenting the evidence.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Trust is lost not by scientists publishing evidence, but by dishonest actors misrepresenting the evidence.
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 25, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Disappointing from @janeqiu.bsky.social, who is well aware that scientists haven’t shut down legitimate inquiry into a “lab leak.” No evidence supports it.
Trust is lost not by scientists publishing evidence, but by dishonest actors misrepresenting the evidence.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Trust is lost not by scientists publishing evidence, but by dishonest actors misrepresenting the evidence.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Op ed (in Norwegian): Why the lab leak theory still got so much attention.
www.khrono.no/hvorfor-far-... @kgandersen.bsky.social @angelarasmussen.bsky.social
www.khrono.no/hvorfor-far-... @kgandersen.bsky.social @angelarasmussen.bsky.social
SARS-CoV-2 og opprinnelsesdebatten: Hvorfor laboratorieteorien fortsatt får oppmerksomhet
Det er en bekymringsfull utvikling når grensen mellom faglig vurdering, personlig tro og politisk agenda viskes ut.
www.khrono.no
June 20, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Op ed (in Norwegian): Why the lab leak theory still got so much attention.
www.khrono.no/hvorfor-far-... @kgandersen.bsky.social @angelarasmussen.bsky.social
www.khrono.no/hvorfor-far-... @kgandersen.bsky.social @angelarasmussen.bsky.social
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