Still ironic how you've said nothing of substance whatsoever while repeating the word vacuous lol. Let me respond for you: "vacuous vacuous vacuous" while ignoring the substance of DEFUSE and egregious proven biosafety failures in Wuhan.

Except dozens of legendary scientists disagree with you. The most qualified intelligence agencies in the world also disagree, and they have access to more data. And of course WIV scientists literally proposed inserting an FCS in 2018 lol. Time will tell, muting now for your vacuousness.

I'm focused on one issue, but I'm against the vast majority of pauses and cuts I've heard about. I want to see NIH funding increased long-term, I grew up in MD around NIH scientists.

The long-term success of NIH depends on recovering from its role in the deadliest accident in history.

I think a natural origin of COVID-19 is still technically possible, in the same sense that a natural origin of the 1979 anthrax outbreak in Sverdlovsk is still "technically possible."

The late Phil Russell:

2) They literally had the closest related viruses, and permanently shut down their databases in fall 2019.

3/4) There is overwhelming evidence Huanan was spreader event of late cases and not the origin. The earliest cases obviously weren't at Huanan in Nov/Dec.

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Momentum has been shifting to lab leak for years, with more IC agencies joining and scientists like Drosten. You're also dangerously ignorant and arrogant, and clearly have spent no time studying the issue. Muting.

All of those intelligence agencies made their assessments under Biden. Biden's HHS debarred Peter Daszak for insane reckless GoF in Wuhan. I'm a Democrat and I'm dedicating my life to ensuring no accident like this ever happens again.

Ebright showed his model was wrong in 1984. He'll be remembered as a legend who developed several new antibiotics and led efforts to expose the single deadliest accident in history, while you continue to promote the single most dangerous campaign of fraud in history.

When it's confirmed that Bhattacharya, Ebright, and all of the most qualified intelligence agencies in the world (CIA/FBI/DOE/BND) are correct about the single deadliest accident in history, your participation in the cover-up will be remembered. Your ignorance and arrogance are deeply dangerous.

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.

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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.

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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.
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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!

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?

> A novel virus has never leaked from a lab.

Marburg virus was unknown to science before it leaked from a lab.