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  1. So, Rand Paul just held a hearing at the U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs, with a CIA "whistleblower" on the "COVID Cover-up". The guy is an antivaxx nutter into "HIV inserts" who had NO information. #covidorigin

    Committee on Homeland Security...

  2. In this (very niche) post, I explain how I FOIA'd NIH to demonstrate that NCBI staff did not alter the metadata of a coronavirus sequence dataset. Come the emails, stay for the pangolins? (also works the other way round (-:) #covidorigin

    The pangolin sub-subplot

  3. Congratulations to @[email protected] for her prize in the Science category at the Swiss Press Awards! She won it for her article exploring the (undue) success of COVID lab-leak hypotheses in the media and public sphere Her article: www.tagesanzeiger.ch/covid-warum-... #covidorigin 🧪

    Corona geht wieder viral (Swis...

  4. Here is finally the third, and last, part of my rebuttal of Matt Ridley's inaugural "Scientific Freedom Lecture" at NIH on a lab leak origin of COVID-19. pandemonium.hypotheses.org/1260 #covidorigin 🧪

    Fact-checking Matt Ridley’s “S...

  5. In March, invited by Jay Bhattacharya, Matt Ridley gave the inaugural "Scientific Freedom Lecture" at NIH, on a lab leak origin of COVID-19. There was a lot to debunk; here is Part II: pandemonium.hypotheses.org/1108 🧪 #covidorigin

    Fact-checking Matt Ridley’s “S...

  6. In March, Matt Ridley gave the inaugural "Scientific Freedom Lecture" at NIH, on a lab leak origin of COVID-19. The talk was so full of misrepresentations, omissions, falsehoods and lies that I will need several blog posts to debunk it. Here's Part I: pandemonium.hypotheses.org/995 🧪 #covidorigin

    Fact-checking Matt Ridley’s “S...

  7. Le documentaire complotiste diffusé hier soir par @[email protected] sur l'origine de la pandémie de Covid n'est pas nouveau : il était sorti l'an dernier sur France5. J'avais écrit un débunk, toujours d'actualité ⬇️... #covidorigin

    Origine(s) de la Covid-19 : “Q...

  8. One of the best debunks of Ridley's theories was by 2018 Matt Ridley. He is now promoting what he mocked then: the creation in a lab, in secret, of a new human pathogen web.archive.org/web/20190922... #covidorigin

    RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:xtytenkhytpek3zszl3rh44t/post/3mhhanopr7k2z

  9. Do you remember the other pandemic that started in China in late 2023? Probably not, and for a good reason: it did not happen. The alarm was due to misinformation coming from a Falun Gong-linked outlet, laundered through other media. ▫️1/7 #covidorigin

    The new pandemic that was not

  10. The story of the WIV database, with the date of its removal, was the most successful piece of disinformation by the lab leak activist group DRASTIC. Did you know it started with different, wilder claim? If not, good for you, you did not waste time with a lie. For the curious: ▫️1/4 🧵 #covidorigin

    Hackers or liars?

  11. The EMI article was a non-story, but it gave an idea of the methods of conspiracy theorists: manufacture outrage, paint scientists as untrustworthy, amplify each other on social media. More details in this blog post: pandemonium.hypotheses.org/331 ▫️6/6 #covidorigin

    The making of outrage

  12. Are you familiar with the story of the EMI article? If not, good for you, you did not waste time with a manufactured controversy aimed to sow distrust. For the curious, here's how lab leakers tried (and this time, failed) to generate outrage: ▫️1/6 🧵 #covidorigin

  13. Looking for tips and comments! Some time ago, DRASTIC lab leak activists wrote that Shi Zhengli edited an article on 30 Dec 2019, that they have her IP and MAC addresses, and they could even tell the edits were from a train. How would this even be possible? ▫️1/4 #covidorigin archive.md/sKCPq

  14. Are you familiar with the story of the Antarctica sequences? If not, good for you: you didn't clutter your brain with yet another Covid-origin damp squib, where innocuous data were made to look suspicious by misrepresenting a date. For the curious, here's the story. ▫️1/9 🧵 #CovidOrigin

  15. According to @altmetric.com, the original paper was only shared on X. The usual #covidorigin leakers cheered, completely uncritically... How many of them actually read the paper? ▫️5/6 link.altmetric.com/details/1825...

  16. PS: I am trying to use hashtags more often to categorize posts (following @notjustdna.bsky.social 's example). Feel free to mute #covidorigin if you do not want to see posts on the topic. I am also using #revuedepresse when I am commenting on news in French.

    RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:thnzuria5x6askhzk2dkeiaj/post/3lbgxozizjk2i

  17. Maybe an even more inside baseball in these documents -- but it's key: No mention of furin cleavage site in the slides... which matches a remark made by Peter Daszak in an email to David Morens in May 2021, made public by FOIA ▫️1/8 #CovidOrigin www.hsgac.senate.gov/wp-content/u...

    RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:kwvtgth2vwakfigoksfhzfsl/post/3m4izjpfguc2m

  18. Stammt #Covid-19 aus einem chinesischen Labor oder entstand das Coronavirus durch natürliche Übertragung vom Tier auf Mensch? In den USA glauben zwei Drittel der Menschen, dass Covid aus dem Labor kam. Hier in Europa dürften die Zahlen ähnlich aussehen. Kein Wunder: Die Medien berichten überdurchschnittlich viel über die Laborthese. Dadurch entsteht in der Öffentlichkeit der Eindruck, beide Möglichkeiten seien gleich wahrscheinlich.

    Aber stimmt das?
    #CovidOrigin

    bazonline.ch/covid-warum-die-l

  19. I always wondered what it took to get an op-ed published in the NYT
    - now I know: just huff some glue and spew long-debunked conspiracy theories. Cool... wish someone had told me that years before I took the time to become an expert in my field. Would have made my life so much easier. #covidorigin #covid #alinachan #alinachanisadipshit #covidconspiracies #lableak

  20. I always wondered what it took to get an op-ed published in the NYT
    - now I know: just huff some glue and spew long-debunked conspiracy theories. Cool... wish someone had told me that years before I took the time to become an expert in my field. Would have made my life so much easier. #covidorigin #covid #alinachan #alinachanisadipshit #covidconspiracies #lableak

  21. I always wondered what it took to get an op-ed published in the NYT
    - now I know: just huff some glue and spew long-debunked conspiracy theories. Cool... wish someone had told me that years before I took the time to become an expert in my field. Would have made my life so much easier. #covidorigin #covid #alinachan #alinachanisadipshit #covidconspiracies #lableak

  22. I always wondered what it took to get an op-ed published in the NYT
    - now I know: just huff some glue and spew long-debunked conspiracy theories. Cool... wish someone had told me that years before I took the time to become an expert in my field. Would have made my life so much easier. #covidorigin #covid #alinachan #alinachanisadipshit #covidconspiracies #lableak

  23. I always wondered what it took to get an op-ed published in the NYT
    - now I know: just huff some glue and spew long-debunked conspiracy theories. Cool... wish someone had told me that years before I took the time to become an expert in my field. Would have made my life so much easier. #covidorigin #covid #alinachan #alinachanisadipshit #covidconspiracies #lableak

  24. @reallyflygreg 1) people should be thinking all kinds of things all day long, but how we are acting upon these thoughts is what makes a character. 2) a more interesting question than definitively settling is: in the last 20 years, how did the increasingly frequent zoonotic viruses originate, and what do we need to do about it?

  25. It seems like the freedom to think whatever you want is based on the idea that people are reasonable, honourable, and capable of rational thought. All of which don't seem to be in plentiful supply on the Internet.

    #CovidOrigin #science #conspiracytheories

    Treacherous ancestry - by Philipp Markolin, PhD
    protagonist-science.com/p/trea

  26. 🚨🚨 Did SARS-CoV-2 come from gain-of-function research? And if so, will we ever find out?

    I have been on a scientific journey for a definitive answer that took me to the cutting edge of #covidorigin science.

    Here is what I found
    ➡️ protagonist-science.com/p/trea

  27. @Tooden @elana @PacificNic @novid

    I guess the conclusion so far is that this underground lab wasn’t meant for bioterrorism, it was just the pharmaceuticals industry working hard to provide us with Covid and pregnancy tests, etc etc, at competitive prices.

    It doesn’t exactly reassure me that #lableak would be particularly unlikely as #CovidOrigin.

  28. Police crack down on clandestine virus lab in a Californian warehouse. The lab featured:

    🦠 Tissue samples included HIV, Hepatitis and Covid-19,

    🦠 A thousand humanized rats, bioengineered to catch and spread Covid-19,

    🦠 800 different chemicals, many categorized as ‘unknown chemicals’

    Insider: »An illegal lab in California containing nearly 1,000 bioengineered mice has officials concerned after improperly stored tissue samples were tested and discovered to contain infectious diseases including HIV and Hepatitis. […]

    The makeshift lab contained roughly 30 refrigerators and freezers — some of which were non-operational — as well as incubators, medical testing supplies, and hundreds of mice. Several disease samples tested from the lab included infectious agents like herpes, coronavirus, E. Coli, and malaria, SFist reported.

    Wang Zhaolin, a representative of the company operating the lab, Prestige Biotech, told investigators that the mice inside the warehouse had been genetically engineered to catch and spread the COVID-19 virus, according to The San Joaquin Valley Sun.

    The warehouse came under investigation in March after a local code enforcement officer discovered a garden hose attached to a back wall of the building. As officials searched, medical devices that appeared to have been created on-site, such as COVID-19 and pregnancy tests, were also discovered, NBC News reported.

    "Certain rooms of the warehouse were found to contain several vessels of liquid and various apparatus," NBC reported court documents related to the incident said. "Fresno County Public Health staff also observed blood, tissue and other bodily fluid samples and serums; and thousands of vials of unlabeled fluids and suspected biological material."

    Nearly 800 of the mice found inside the warehouse were euthanized by officials, per NBC. An additional approximately 175 mice were already dead when they were discovered.

    "There was over 800 different chemicals on site in different bottles of different acids," KRON4 reported the assistant director of the Fresno County Department of Public Health, Joe Prado, said. "Unfortunately, a lot of these are being categorized under unknown chemicals."«

    Source: insider.com/illegal-lab-found-

    #CovidIsNotOver #COVIDisAirborne #bioterrorism #PrestigeBiotech #lableak #GainOfFunction #covid #covid19 #CovidOrigin #California @novid