I'll answer some of your questions since Jay likely doesn't have time.
1) Yes, the 2018 DEFUSE proposal is basically a blueprint for SARS-CoV-2. Insane GoF at WIV like NIH-funded 10000x growth chimeras in humanized mice in BSL2 is also obviously important evidence.
1) Yes, the 2018 DEFUSE proposal is basically a blueprint for SARS-CoV-2. Insane GoF at WIV like NIH-funded 10000x growth chimeras in humanized mice in BSL2 is also obviously important evidence.
August 2, 2025 at 4:57 PM
I'll answer some of your questions since Jay likely doesn't have time.
1) Yes, the 2018 DEFUSE proposal is basically a blueprint for SARS-CoV-2. Insane GoF at WIV like NIH-funded 10000x growth chimeras in humanized mice in BSL2 is also obviously important evidence.
1) Yes, the 2018 DEFUSE proposal is basically a blueprint for SARS-CoV-2. Insane GoF at WIV like NIH-funded 10000x growth chimeras in humanized mice in BSL2 is also obviously important evidence.
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WHO SAGO 18 February 2025 meeting presentation of data supporting non-natural origin hypothesis of SARS-CoV-2 spike protein furin cleavage site
zenodo.org/records/1538...
zenodo.org/records/1538...
WHO SAGO 18 February 2025 meeting presentation of data supporting non-natural origin hypothesis of SARS-CoV-2 spike protein furin cleavage site
Data Assembly and Presentation Material: Dr. Andreas Martin Lisewski (CUB)Data Presenter at WHO SAGO Meeting: Prof. Dr. Christian Drosten (WHO SAGO) World Health Organization (WHO) Scientific Advisory...
zenodo.org
May 12, 2025 at 9:46 PM
WHO SAGO 18 February 2025 meeting presentation of data supporting non-natural origin hypothesis of SARS-CoV-2 spike protein furin cleavage site
zenodo.org/records/1538...
zenodo.org/records/1538...
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Even the biotech industry is asking questions about lab leak now.
Although not — yet — their principal mouthpiece, @statnews.com.
Although not — yet — their principal mouthpiece, @statnews.com.
April 4, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Even the biotech industry is asking questions about lab leak now.
Although not — yet — their principal mouthpiece, @statnews.com.
Although not — yet — their principal mouthpiece, @statnews.com.
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Experts such as Ralph Baric have always said that there is absolutely no way to distinguish engineering from evolution from the genome alone, plus passaging in a lab is evolution, albeit human directed.
So any claims to the contrary — some made them — were always false.
bsky.app/profile/slui...
So any claims to the contrary — some made them — were always false.
bsky.app/profile/slui...
@zey.bsky.social do other evolutionary molecular biologists studying the SARS CoV-2 sequence agree with Kristian Andersen’s statement that “the molecular data is fully consistent with that [lab leak] scenario”??
March 18, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Experts such as Ralph Baric have always said that there is absolutely no way to distinguish engineering from evolution from the genome alone, plus passaging in a lab is evolution, albeit human directed.
So any claims to the contrary — some made them — were always false.
bsky.app/profile/slui...
So any claims to the contrary — some made them — were always false.
bsky.app/profile/slui...
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News from Germany
A sad lesson in how letting self-interested and/or dishonest parties yell “conspiracy theory” and go on a silencing spree against legitimate, scientific dissent ended up backfiring and empowered those with genuine baseless conspiracy theories.
bsky.app/profile/gdem...
A sad lesson in how letting self-interested and/or dishonest parties yell “conspiracy theory” and go on a silencing spree against legitimate, scientific dissent ended up backfiring and empowered those with genuine baseless conspiracy theories.
bsky.app/profile/gdem...
The Frankfurter Allgemeine explains that Lothar Wieler, ex president of the Robert Koch Institute (the German equivalent of the US CDC), now believes that a research accident is more likely than a zoonosis as origin of Covid-19.
@ianbirrell.bsky.social @zey.bsky.social @katherineeban.bsky.social
@ianbirrell.bsky.social @zey.bsky.social @katherineeban.bsky.social
March 20, 2025 at 4:37 PM
News from Germany
A sad lesson in how letting self-interested and/or dishonest parties yell “conspiracy theory” and go on a silencing spree against legitimate, scientific dissent ended up backfiring and empowered those with genuine baseless conspiracy theories.
bsky.app/profile/gdem...
A sad lesson in how letting self-interested and/or dishonest parties yell “conspiracy theory” and go on a silencing spree against legitimate, scientific dissent ended up backfiring and empowered those with genuine baseless conspiracy theories.
bsky.app/profile/gdem...
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Harvard epidemiologist Miguel Hernán: “It is very unlikely that COVID did not come from a Chinese laboratory” t.co/0VF7timDQu
https://www.lavanguardia.com/lacontra/20250331/10533835/miguel-hernan-improbable-covid-saliera-laboratorio-chino.html
t.co
April 16, 2025 at 1:18 AM
Harvard epidemiologist Miguel Hernán: “It is very unlikely that COVID did not come from a Chinese laboratory” t.co/0VF7timDQu
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Dr Washburne: The declassified analysis of the SARS-CoV-2 genome from these folk at the DIA is a tour de force of lab origin theory, so much that now I recommend the DIA slides as required reading on SARS-CoV-2 origins as they concisely cover the essentials.
alexwasburne.substack.com/p/kudos-to-a...
alexwasburne.substack.com/p/kudos-to-a...
Kudos to a DIA analysis
Admiring a 2020 examination of the genome of SARS-CoV-2
alexwasburne.substack.com
April 16, 2025 at 3:20 AM
Dr Washburne: The declassified analysis of the SARS-CoV-2 genome from these folk at the DIA is a tour de force of lab origin theory, so much that now I recommend the DIA slides as required reading on SARS-CoV-2 origins as they concisely cover the essentials.
alexwasburne.substack.com/p/kudos-to-a...
alexwasburne.substack.com/p/kudos-to-a...
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The post he tagged me about is below. Not about his paper.
Context: Daszak & Ecohealth were debarred by BIDEN’s HHS as “a threat to public safety.
Separately, just two can publish but Pekar correction shows, more eyes better, no? Especially in this context. So I asked.
bsky.app/profile/zey....
Context: Daszak & Ecohealth were debarred by BIDEN’s HHS as “a threat to public safety.
Separately, just two can publish but Pekar correction shows, more eyes better, no? Especially in this context. So I asked.
bsky.app/profile/zey....
Again, they’ve all blocked me so I can’t see whatever else BUT the post YOU TAGGED ME about was me responding to this by Daszak, who along with his NGO EcoHealth was debarred BY BIDEN’S HHS as “a threat to public safety.”
It wasn’t about your paper, but I did ask why no senior authors. No answer.
It wasn’t about your paper, but I did ask why no senior authors. No answer.
April 12, 2025 at 11:40 PM
The post he tagged me about is below. Not about his paper.
Context: Daszak & Ecohealth were debarred by BIDEN’s HHS as “a threat to public safety.
Separately, just two can publish but Pekar correction shows, more eyes better, no? Especially in this context. So I asked.
bsky.app/profile/zey....
Context: Daszak & Ecohealth were debarred by BIDEN’s HHS as “a threat to public safety.
Separately, just two can publish but Pekar correction shows, more eyes better, no? Especially in this context. So I asked.
bsky.app/profile/zey....
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The post I replied is below. Context is Biden’s HHS having debarred EcoHealth and Daszak as “a threat to public safety”.
You can certainly publish as you wish, and they can all block me and talk amongst themselves behind a block. Fine! I asked you why no senior authors, no reply. Ok.
Good luck!
You can certainly publish as you wish, and they can all block me and talk amongst themselves behind a block. Fine! I asked you why no senior authors, no reply. Ok.
Good luck!
April 12, 2025 at 11:47 PM
The post I replied is below. Context is Biden’s HHS having debarred EcoHealth and Daszak as “a threat to public safety”.
You can certainly publish as you wish, and they can all block me and talk amongst themselves behind a block. Fine! I asked you why no senior authors, no reply. Ok.
Good luck!
You can certainly publish as you wish, and they can all block me and talk amongst themselves behind a block. Fine! I asked you why no senior authors, no reply. Ok.
Good luck!
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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!
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“...the consensus is shifting to an accidental lab leak, which, if it was ever confirmed (a remote possibility given the assiduous clean-up of the potential crime scene in Wuhan), would surely prove to be the deadliest cover-up in history.” – Vikram Patel, Harvard
indianexpress.com/article/opin...
indianexpress.com/article/opin...
Five years after Covid, it is important to ask difficult questions about how we handled the crisis
Truth has been the biggest casualty of the past five years, powered by the distortion or denial of facts and accompanied by the decline of trust in institutions
indianexpress.com
April 10, 2025 at 11:48 PM
“...the consensus is shifting to an accidental lab leak, which, if it was ever confirmed (a remote possibility given the assiduous clean-up of the potential crime scene in Wuhan), would surely prove to be the deadliest cover-up in history.” – Vikram Patel, Harvard
indianexpress.com/article/opin...
indianexpress.com/article/opin...
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SARS1 leaked several times. In 2006 WHO warned the risk of re-emergence from a lab was potentially greater than zoonotic spillover. In 2017 Marc Lipsitch & Carl Bergstrom said lifting the moratorium on GoF research on potential pandemic pathogens like SARS risked a pandemic and kill millions.
April 3, 2025 at 7:42 AM
SARS1 leaked several times. In 2006 WHO warned the risk of re-emergence from a lab was potentially greater than zoonotic spillover. In 2017 Marc Lipsitch & Carl Bergstrom said lifting the moratorium on GoF research on potential pandemic pathogens like SARS risked a pandemic and kill millions.
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There's a whole cottage industry of virologists LARPing as epidemiologists, trying to make a name for themselves by claiming Covid came from the Huanan Seafood Market, JFC.
April 2, 2025 at 8:52 PM
There's a whole cottage industry of virologists LARPing as epidemiologists, trying to make a name for themselves by claiming Covid came from the Huanan Seafood Market, JFC.
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People who rail on about how DEFUSE wasn't funded is like a litmus test for whether they understand how modern science works. The proposal shows the type of work that is being done. Do you think the Chinese government was waiting around for a few pennies from DARPA?
April 1, 2025 at 6:16 PM
People who rail on about how DEFUSE wasn't funded is like a litmus test for whether they understand how modern science works. The proposal shows the type of work that is being done. Do you think the Chinese government was waiting around for a few pennies from DARPA?
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> A novel virus has never leaked from a lab.
Marburg virus was unknown to science before it leaked from a lab.
Marburg virus was unknown to science before it leaked from a lab.
April 1, 2025 at 5:18 PM
> A novel virus has never leaked from a lab.
Marburg virus was unknown to science before it leaked from a lab.
Marburg virus was unknown to science before it leaked from a lab.
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RealClearScience republished my covid origins piece from the SoCalNewsGroup family of papers. Check it out ICYMI before: 🙏🏻
www.realclearscience.com/articles/202...
www.realclearscience.com/articles/202...
www.realclearscience.com
March 27, 2025 at 11:59 PM
RealClearScience republished my covid origins piece from the SoCalNewsGroup family of papers. Check it out ICYMI before: 🙏🏻
www.realclearscience.com/articles/202...
www.realclearscience.com/articles/202...
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”...and if you poke around on Bluesky, there’s still a coterie of dead-enders who insist they were totally correct to describe the lab-leak hypothesis as an impossible conspiracy theory.”
It really won't be long before lab leak is the generally-accepted narrative. The Atlantic is already paving the way for it.
archive.is/JNMTU
archive.is/JNMTU
archive.is
March 25, 2025 at 6:42 PM
”...and if you poke around on Bluesky, there’s still a coterie of dead-enders who insist they were totally correct to describe the lab-leak hypothesis as an impossible conspiracy theory.”
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It really won't be long before lab leak is the generally-accepted narrative. The Atlantic is already paving the way for it.
archive.is/JNMTU
archive.is/JNMTU
archive.is
March 25, 2025 at 6:34 PM
It really won't be long before lab leak is the generally-accepted narrative. The Atlantic is already paving the way for it.
archive.is/JNMTU
archive.is/JNMTU
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Virologists continue to bring dangerous bat viruses back into the middle of cities–and journals like @cellpress.bsky.social reward them with publications. My take: stevensalzberg.substack.com/p/virologist...
Virologists are still bringing dangerous, novel pathogens in from the wild
They seem to have learned nothing from the COVID pandemic
stevensalzberg.substack.com
March 10, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Virologists continue to bring dangerous bat viruses back into the middle of cities–and journals like @cellpress.bsky.social reward them with publications. My take: stevensalzberg.substack.com/p/virologist...
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Michael Weissman: Just to make sure that people understand, this is not about some judgment call. Working within the Pekar 2022 model and data set, Angus has shown that fixing a plain error in mathematical logic reverses the conclusion.
arxiv.org/abs/2502.20076
arxiv.org/abs/2502.20076
Purported quantitative support for multiple introductions of SARS-CoV-2 into humans is an artefact of an imbalanced hypothesis testing framework
A prominent report claimed substantial support for two introductions of SARS-CoV-2 into humans using a calculation that combined phylodynamic inferences and epidemic models. Inspection of the calculat...
arxiv.org
February 28, 2025 at 4:34 AM
Michael Weissman: Just to make sure that people understand, this is not about some judgment call. Working within the Pekar 2022 model and data set, Angus has shown that fixing a plain error in mathematical logic reverses the conclusion.
arxiv.org/abs/2502.20076
arxiv.org/abs/2502.20076