If someone in your life believes a coronavirus patent proves the COVID-19 virus was made in a lab, this is the thread for you. I go over the various patents that have been brandished around by conspiracymongers. THREAD!
The Pirbright Institute patent: it’s actually for a virus called IBV, a type of coronavirus that causes bronchitis in birds. It’s not for SARS-CoV-2. (US10130701B2, EP3172319A1 and EP3172319B1.)
The University of North Carolina patent: it’s actually for a coronavirus that causes gastroenteritis in pigs. It’s not for SARS-CoV-2. (US7279327B2 and WO 02/086068 A2.)
The French patent: it’s actually for the human coronavirus that caused SARS in 2003. It’s not for SARS-CoV-2. (EP 1 694 829 B1.)
The Chiron Corp patent: it’s actually for the human coronavirus that caused SARS in 2003. It’s not for SARS-CoV-2. (US2006257852A1.)
The CDC patent: it’s actually for the human coronavirus that caused SARS in 2003. It’s not for SARS-CoV-2. It was to prevent others from monopolizing the field. (US7220852B1 and US7776521B1.)
BONUS - The Microsoft patent: it’s actually for a method to mine cryptocurrency using body activity. It’s not for adding microchips to vaccines. (WO 2020/060606 A1.)
You may be wondering why and how humans can patent viruses. I go over this and more in my full article for @McGillOSS: mcgill.ca/oss/article/co…
I read Chris' book chapter, from which he quotes in his piece, and want to share a few very interesting insights from it. Dare I say, I may have changed my mind on this topic.
"Were all who claimed psychic abilities either deliberate frauds or suffering from some sort of mental illness? This was certainly true of some claimants, but my personal view [...] is that the vast majority are neither fraudulent nor crazy."
"A widely ridiculed paper about jade amulets possibly protecting against COVID-19 makes us wonder what systems are in place to review outlandish claims."
I felt it important to reach out to the lead author. We chatted for over an hour. A few details that didn't make it into the article to follow.
The NIH did not fund this paper. It funded other studies of his that involved rats. When some of these rats got sick, Bility tied that to his hypothesis and wrote the paper.
"We propose that the ferromagnetic-like iron stores in humans are the unifying determinant for COVID-19-induced morbidity and mortality."
Seriously, WTF? What decides if you get severe COVID and die from it is how much iron is in you because of magnetic fields??
"This work seeks to advance the science of public health, as it lays the foundation for the unification of dynamics in the ferromagnetic-like iron-containing human-biosphere and geosphere via the empirical laws and the theoretical frameworks of condensed matter physics."
Dr. Andrew Kaufman made the rounds in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic by claiming the virus did not exist. Now, he tells hundreds of thousands of YouTube users that everything they know about medicine is wrong.
There was so much I didn’t have room to discuss or link to in my article, so here are some extra thoughts and links.
THREAD!
If you’re curious about the scientific link between exosomes and viruses, there’s a pretty cool piece here that I skimmed while looking into this topic: quantamagazine.org/cells-talk-in-…
"But if we are all shouting into our own echo chambers about risky behaviors, shaming may better serve our own reputations than the collective welfare."
"She stressed that she trusted Weiss far more than other experts because he had an open mind & no agenda. When I asked what would increase her trust in medical expertise, she said part of the problem was that 'People think doctors know everything. But you’re just people'."
"She wished they would admit when they were wrong and more readily acknowledge uncertainty. 'I just wish the experts would say, I don’t know'."