125. Domains and Functions of Spike Protein in SARS-CoV-2 in the Context of Vaccine Design
via @TheSeeker268
"the claim that the polybasic furin cleavage site in SARS-CoV-2 has been experimentally inserted is not too far‐fetched."
"The million-dollar question: would a bat coronavirus RatG13, isolated in 2021, have the functional polybasic furin site?" (or like a few years earlier?) via @TheSeeker268
127. Decoding Covid-19 with the SARS-CoV-2 Genome link.springer.com/article/10.100…
"arguments exist that challenge the zoonotic origin of SARS-CoV-2 and, instead, suggest that the virus may not have a natural origin."
128. Thanks for the reminder from @JohnGal52793009
"Vector sequences in early WIV SRA sequencing data of SARS-CoV-2 inform on a potential large-scale security breach at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic"
Daoyu Zhang @Daoyu15 ex- @flavinkins zenodo.org/record/4486195…
129. @netpoette is back with a comprehensive update
Frustrated by the superficiality & bias of recent press conferences about the possible #origin of #SARS-CoV-2? This article is extremely detailed & comprehensive & updated changingtimes.media/2020/10/12/sar…
130. Why China and the WHO Will Never Find a Zoonotic Origin For the COVID-19 Pandemic Virus
by Jonathan Latham, PhD and Allison Wilson, PhD independentsciencenews.org/commentaries/w…
131. Anon, A, Bostickson, B, & Demaneuf, G. (2021) Investigation into Wuhan Institute of Virology Pathogen Databases (Version 2). Zenodo. doi.org/10.5281/zenodo… zenodo.org/record/4512260…
24 Page on the Missing Databases
My first Paper but not my last, I can assure you!
132. A Bayesian analysis concludes beyond a reasonable doubt that SARS-CoV-2 is not a natural zoonosis but instead is laboratory derived
Quay MD PhD, Steven Carl @quay_dr zenodo.org/record/4477081…
Massive 193 Pages
Includes a Free Zenodo Warning (never see that before)
"I worked with researchers in this space - virology + combatting future pandemics - in the decade before the pandemic".
2⃣ One Fact
"The one fact that the last 5 years never readily disclosed is that the core ideology of this community of researchers was fundamentally divided"
3⃣ Lab based creation of super-viruses
"About half of the researchers, including many leading virologists whose names appeared in the news, believed and argued passionately for the lab-based creation of super-viruses and super-bacteria"
Turning and turning in the petri dish,
The scientists cannot hear the warnings;
Genes recombine; the barriers cannot hold,
Evil virology is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack critical thinking, while the professors
Are full of furious bias.
Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the cover up is now banned?
Lab Leak! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of Human Folly
Troubles my sight:
3. Somewhere in Wuhan
somewhere in the cell lines of a Chinese laboratory
A shape with pangolin body and the head of a bat,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its long tongue, while all about it
Reel shadows of the indignant molested bats.
🧵As promised, here is my counter critique & rebuttal of some points made by @gadboit about the Pangolin Papers Hypothesis.
His theory seems to be that SARS-COV-2 emerged like Aphrodite, from BANAL BAT viruses, possibly with some FCS tweaking & no Pangolins coronaviruses needed.
@gadboit 🧵2. @gadboit claims BANAL-52’s 96.8% similarity & ACE2 binding make it closer to SARS-CoV-2 than PCoVs (~91%) & that PCoV features could come from bat CoVs.
But GD PCoV’s RBD (97% identity) needs no mutations for hACE2, unlike BANALs.
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 and 2019.
1. A Modest Proposal for the Fair Imprisonment of Women and the Liberation of Men
By a Concerned Citizen of Reason,
Published in The Rational Gazette on X
March 24, 2025
2. Dire Injustice!
It is a lamentable truth, oft repeated in the progressive broadsheets and the sanctimonious halls of modern discourse, that the state of our prisons reveals a dire injustice.
3. Gaol'd Wretches
We are told, with furrowed brows and trembling voices, that Black men, comprising a mere 4% of the good people of England and Wales, yet numbering 13% of our gaol’d wretches, suffer under the cruel yoke of systemic discrimination.