Ørjan Sagvolden
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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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Reposted by Ørjan Sagvolden
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...
Reposted by Ørjan Sagvolden
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.
thank you @acritschristoph.bsky.social for an interesting thread. Textbook science communication
June 28, 2025 at 4:59 AM
thank you @acritschristoph.bsky.social for an interesting thread. Textbook science communication