The Future of the lab leak theory, a Twitter/X thread about #COVID19 and the origin of #SARS-COV-2
1/ Many people on Twitter are, like Nicholas Wade, wondering if the latest DEFUSE revelations from @emilyakopp and @USRTK are maybe the last word on the great #covidorigin #lableak debate. They are not. usrtk.org/wp-content/upl…
2/ Why? Because they only deepen the mystery. The short answer is that six hallmark sites of reverse engineering identified by Brutttel et al () only explain 0.1% or less of the #SARS-CoV-2 genome.biorxiv.org/content/10.110…
There is a fatal flaw in the Huanan market #originofcovid theory.
How and why scientists at #NIDO2023, the coronavirus conference, spied on me, stole from me, and censored me. #CovidOrigins.
In 2 words: "Raccoon dogs" independentsciencenews.org/commentaries/t…
This article describes my incredible experiences at three European #Virology conferences in April and May: The #PathogensProject, #ECV2023, and #NIDO2023. That trip exposed a new nexus of scientists working to fix the facts around the #OriginOfCovid and the market origin.
1/few. Attendees of #Nido2023 may be wondering why I am not being allowed to ask questions of the speakers. Attendees should know too that I was denied the right to share our printed scientific articles. No reason given so far except the "instructions of @ProfVolkerThiel" ...
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questions, thus exposing his research program as not a fair-minded and objective enquiry into #Covidorigins but a veiled defence of the zoonotic origin.
Here is a link to our discussion:
1/3 My experience of #Nido2023 (the coronavirus meeting in Montreux) so far 1) The organisers refused to let me share the materials I bought. That is, two articles, one on #Ebola2014 and our proposed origin of SARS-CoV-2
This is under the instruction of Swiss virologist Volker Thiel.
They have also been removing ones I have left around while I have been attending the talks. T
They also stopped me asking my question to ZLS.
See next tweet below:
At the conclusion of Shi Zhengli's talk the microphone person went over to hand me the microphone but the podium stopped them and sent them to another questioner.
Then I put my hand up again and a different microphone person came over to me....
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Last week at the European Congress of Virology in Gdansk #ECV2023 I deep-sixed the raccoon dog market theory of #Covidorigins by questioning Martin Beer, senior author about their key paper (Freuling et al. 2020)
2/7 I asked why they tested a more transmissible G614 strain and not the original D614 strain, which would have supported or eliminated raccoon dogs as a potential intermediate host.
His answer was not "thanks, good idea we'll jump to it". He stumbled a bit and then, incredibly.
He said: I paraphrase slightly: "he didnt know whether D614 or G614 came first"
This is an astonishing answer on many levels.
Absolutely no one thinks that D614 came after G614. Because: 1) D614 was detected first 2) G614 displaced D614 as the pandemic progressed 3) See below...
2) The orthodox origin story has negligible evidence to support it. No #Ebola was found at Meliandou, Guinea, or elsewhere in wild animals nor was it diagnosed or positively tested in 'patient zero' or his contacts. The nearest known wild source was a whopping 3,000 km away
3) The subsequent epidemiological investigation back from the first confirmed cases was also highly speculative. E.g. the father and others disagree that his family had #Ebola, even tho' the epidemiology was supposedly largely based on interviews. #Ebola2014