You "forgot" to mention the German intelligence agency.

It's highly plausible that the "recent" Luo et al. GoF study was based upon experiments performed before the pandemic, but that they shelved it for more than four years. They think it's now "safe" to come out with it, because people don't care, they hope. Indeed, here on BlueSky not many care...

Would all these scientists be OK with experimenting with potentially dangerous chimeras in BSL-2 laboratories? I can't believe that. They should stand up now and speak out against it and the publication of it.

Indeed.

yes, this looks like straight-up gain-of-function research in bat coronaviruses. Creating new recombinant viruses with potentially greater pathogenicity, and doing this under BSL-2 conditions which are not at all strict. And the Journal of Virology published it, unsurprising given their record

Thanks for confirming.

So the Journal of Virology has a record of publishing this kind of unsafe GoF research?

What can be done about that?

I sent a complaint just out of principle, but of course, that won't change much.

Link to study: journals.asm.org/doi/pdf/10.1...

Why is this considered to be "spam"??

Immediately also blocked by Peter Daszak and Kristian Anderson. Impressively quick.

Blocked by Flo Debarre, just seconds after posting this.

Nonsense.

The lab leak theory is perfectly plausible. In fact, when viewed objectively, it is a much more likely explanation than the problematic market theory.

Antoine Lavoisier, 1785:

“It is frightening to think that, in a large assembly, the air that each individual breathes has passed over and over again (…)through the lungs of all those present, and that it must have been charged with(…)putrid exhalations; but what is the nature of these emanations?”

Also not mentioned in Airborne by @carlzimmer.com is John Scott Haldane (1860–1936), the great Scottish physicist. He pioneered systematic CO₂ monitoring in public buildings and cannot be dismissed as a miasmist.👇

Benjamin Marten in 1720:

Thanks! That's just the little push I needed to dig out some of the Bob Shaw books that I once bought in a second-hand bookshop!

Great book indeed.

What I missed a bit were some important but forgotten scholars from the 18th century, like Benjamin Marten, William Hillary, John Haygarth,… who were on the right track to the truth of airborne transmission. The history is more complex than just miasma vs contagion.