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2 May, 5 tweets, 2 min read
Sir Richard, who was 'C' (MI6 head) from 1999 to 2004, says that the WHO joint study report was a "farcical investigation".
lbc.co.uk/news/coronavir…
Worth listening to...
and he makes a good point about scientific journals:
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5 Nov
Page 79 of the White Coat Waste Project FOAI doc is very interesting.

I'll just put it here with my notes in red. Read these first.
@MaraHvistendah @fastlerner
@AndrewKerrNC @anthonybellotti
The bat sampling is for markets AND surrounding caves & forest:
So it definitively includes wild-caught bats too:
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4 Nov
People are starting to talk about the likely real death toll for Covid-19, centered around 12 mln.

Detailed estimates have been available for months.

But, by and large, the media tend to stick to the 5 mln number which is way below actual.

fb.watch/935ITt8kS-/
Why stick to the 5 mln when it is very clear that there is dramatic underreporting in many countries, especially developing ones?

Is it because people prefer to report a very wrong number that is supposedly precise, instead of fairly spread estimate that is way more correct?
Thus effectively gaining an illusory precision at the cost of a massive bias..

Or because it comes from country officials. Effectively trading critical thought for some official backing.

The role of media is to question numbers, no to go for the blatantly wrong & easy solution.
Read 6 tweets
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3 Nov
That recent letter from the Committee on Energy and Commerce to Collins is really worth reading

Some very interesting revelations about four highly relevant letters between NIH and EcoHealth discussing EcoHealth’s research proposal.

republicans-energycommerce.house.gov/wp-content/upl…
Letters which have not been made public (why?) but for which HHS arranged an 'in camera' review of printed copies by a bipartisan Committee, at HHS headquarters on Oct 5 and monitored by HHS staff.

See particularly pages 6 and 7:
What they show is how easily EHA argued that their research objectives did not constitute GoF, against the initial concerns of the NIH.
Read 9 tweets
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31 Oct
Some interesting differences on the WIV portal, showing how web.archive.org can be harnessed:

Removal of many international links on the 22 Mar 2021:
web.archive.org/web/diff/20210…
'Projects' and 'Achievements' entries removed on 2 Sep 2020.
web.archive.org/web/diff/20200…
Easy to do from the 'Changes' page on web.archive.org:
web.archive.org/web/changes/ht…
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30 Oct
Let's get a few things clear about this declassified ODNI assessment (ODNI: Office of the Director of National Intelligence) :
washingtonpost.com/national-secur…
First as is written on page 2:
"This assessment is based on information through August 2021."

In other words it does NOT include any information that has come up since the summary assessment of 26th Aug 21.
dni.gov/index.php/news…
In particular it does not include the DEFUSE revelations (especially about the FCS).

Or the latest revelations that show that GoF on BatCoVs was indeed happening within the WIV.

It is based on data frozen in time - nothing new since the summary report: dni.gov/index.php/news…
Read 16 tweets
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29 Oct
@BiophysicsFL @stuartjdneil @Ayjchan @TheSeeker268 @R_H_Ebright @breakfast_dogs The BSL-4 was not studying BatCoVs, this was instead done in various institutions at BSL-2 and BSL-3, so the location argument - while being essentially correct - is a bit misleading.
@BiophysicsFL @stuartjdneil @Ayjchan @TheSeeker268 @R_H_Ebright @breakfast_dogs Also the historical argument which considers a zoonosis 1000x more probable (a priori) than a lab leak is incorrect.

It’s only over the last 15 years that BatCoVs have been extensively studied, and there were 6 primary cases of LAIs including one with community outbreak.
@BiophysicsFL @stuartjdneil @Ayjchan @TheSeeker268 @R_H_Ebright @breakfast_dogs Not counting that outbreak because it was not a pandemic is based on another wrong generalisation: it’s only during the last few years that China was looking at enhanced pathogenicity of BatCoVs at scale using passaging or by building chimeras (you can date that to 2017).
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