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Billy Bostickson 🏴👁&👁 🆓 Profile picture
@BillyBostickson
Apr 10, 2021 • 10 tweets • 7 min read • Read on X
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1. Monkey Hell
2. investigations.peta.org/nih-monkey-tor…
It’s monkey fright night!
Experimenters terrify brain-damaged monkeys with fake snakes and spiders as part of a decades-long project in which monkeys are abused and terrorized. It cost you, the taxpayers, $47 million.
@WhiteCoatWaste @anthonybellotti
3.
4. For more than 30 years, government experimenter Elisabeth Murray has been inflicting permanent, debilitating brain damage on rhesus macaques and conducting painful, frightening, and pointless experiments on them.
5. Scientific Takedown
Deconstructing NIH’s Monkey Fright Experiments
peta.org/blog/neuroscie…
You can read the full scientific critique here
peta.org/wp-content/upl…
6. Non-Animal Alternatives
7. Obligatory Mention of a Wuhan Laboratory ;)
Explore the Institute of Model Animals of Wuhan University
new.qq.com/omn/20191115/2…
8. Back to the "Land of the Free"...
A haunting parallel to my life chainsmoking on Twitter over the last year under lockdown.
Baby Monkeys on Nicotine
blog.whitecoatwaste.org/2017/03/03/wcw…
Thanks to @WhiteCoatWaste they are now free and living in Florida
blog.whitecoatwaste.org/2018/01/30/vic…
9. More about NIH Monkey Hell
blog.whitecoatwaste.org/2020/02/23/bre…
The federal government has spent almost $100 million on monkey brain studies since 2007,
nbcnews.com/politics/polit…
10. From FDA Hell via FOIA to Florida Freedom
Tks @WhiteCoatWaste
1. FDA NICOTINE TESTS ON BABY MONKEYS
blog.whitecoatwaste.org/2017/03/03/wcw…
2. FDA SHUTS DOWN NICOTINE TESTS
blog.whitecoatwaste.org/2018/01/30/vic…
3. FROM FOIA TO FREEDOM
blog.whitecoatwaste.org/2018/12/04/fro…
4. FLORIDA
blog.whitecoatwaste.org/2020/02/21/wcw…

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May 12
🧵THE GOOD, THE BAD & THE UGLY!

1. GOOD NEWS

Thanks to @BumblebeeJoe I have 250 new followers!



Welcome aboard!

To summarize the state of affairs in my world

As you may know, I am one very hard-working🙊

12-15 hours a day investigating "lab leak"✅
🧵2. My Recent Work

I demolished Pekar et al., (2025)

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This paper is so bad it is not even wrong!

Das ist nicht einmal falsch!

(Wolfgang Pauli)

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🧵3. I completed my 40,000-word final report

(Possibly final..😉)

The Pangolin (Coronavirus) Papers

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May 9
“We are not a Cult”

DRASTIC and the investigative network that broke the Corona laboratory taboo

Must Read Interview!

The hard working "Two Ronnies" of DRASTIC

@gdemaneuf & @BillyBostickson

Interviewed by @franzbecchi for @berlinerzeitung

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1. Who are the “pandemic detectives”?

We speak with 2 of DRASTIC's prominent members:

@gdemaneuf (a data scientist & engineer)

and @BillyBostickson, longtime activist who was formerly part of opposition networks in China & HK & who operates anonymously for security reasons.
@gdemaneuf 2. My Responses

How did DRASTIC come about?

I started in January 2020, triggered by an article by Dan Sirotkin on the origins of the virus.

I connected with people like @R_H_Ebright & others on Twitter.

In May 2020, I chose the name "DRASTIC" for this decentralized group.
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May 8
22. Biased Sampling distorts Geography!

They use a dataset skewed toward Yunnan & Laos (p. 16), leading to phylogeographic models that place SARS-CoV ancestors far from Wuhan & Guangdong (p. 12).

This sampling bias undermines the reliability of their geographic inferences.
23. Neglecting Alternative Hypotheses

No SARS-CoV-like viruses near emergence sites?

They completely overlook non-bat reservoirs, like civets or pangolins, which could explain local circulation (p. 15).

This omission weakens their claim of distant ancestor origins (p. 12).
24. Inconsistent Molecular Clock Rates

The paper misuses variable NRR-specific clock rates, which give inconsistent SARS-CoV ancestor dates (e.g., 1944–2014 for SARS-CoV-2, p. 9).

Without any validation of bat-specific rates, this approach has no rational grounding (p. 14).
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May 8
5. Why did they resort to using the POW model?

To show that :

"our inferences of the time of the ancestors of human SARS-CoVs and their closest bat sarbecoviruses are UNBIASED"
6. Captain Obvious Strikes Again (1)

"we show that the ancestors of SARS-CoV-1 & SARS-CoV-2 likely circulated in horseshoe bat populations 100s to 1000s km away from the sites of the emergence of these viruses in humans & as recently as one to six years prior to this emergence"
7. Captain Obvious Strikes Again (2)

"Our findings indicate that there would not have been sufficient time for the direct bat virus ancestor to reach the locations of emergence of the human SARS-CoVs via normal dispersal through bat populations alone"
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May 8
1. Last sick joke of the Zoonati?

Fragments of human SARS-CoVs share recent common ancestors with bat viruses

SARS-CoV-like viruses have circulated in Asia for millennia

Ancestors of human SARS-CoVs likely circulated in China & Laos

Ancestors traveled unexpectedly fast
2. No Pangolins allowed!

There is insufficient temporal signal when calibrating a molecular clock using tip dating with sarbecoviruses sampled from bats & pangolins, likely as a consequence of limited sampling across space & time.

Therefore, we used SARS-CoV-1 genomes!
3. Definitely no pangolins!

As sampling locations of SARS-CoV-1, 2 & pangolin sarbecoviruses likely do not represent where their direct bat virus ancestors circulated, we EXCLUDED their locations from phylogeographic analyses to avoid the IMPACT of dispersal of non-bat hosts!
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May 4
1⃣ Virological 🦠 Whistleblower 😮‍💨?

"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"
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