1. Confessions of a Monkey buried alive on Twitter
....for 15 months
I juggle a lot of information lately, sometimes 3000 tabs open in 30 windows, with frequent memory crashes as C drive fills up with data.
2. Please don't suggest "One Tab", I used that once and it completely trashed my tabs, that is for light weights.
3. I don't think anyone actually realises the time I dedicate to this investigation, 17 hours a day non-stop for 15 months with no breaks, OK, maybe 2 hours for a walk and swim.
4. so, Twitter messages, twitter timeline, research papers, researchgate, three different emails, slack space, coordinating 10 different working groups, PR work, contacting journalists, logging media mentions
I could go on....
5. My brain is working at 99% capacity fuelled by nicotine and caffeine, unfortunately I can't be using amphetamines like Jack Kerouac these days ;)
6. eventually by sunrise I am nearly unconscious so when my head hits the keyboard, time for some sleep.

I am usually pretty accurate with everything but sometimes I slip up, very rarely.
7. Then it's Dream Time - Vampire Sunrise Lockdown
8. I'm Loving it!
9. All for a worthy cause
drasticresearch.org

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Apr 23
1. The Second Lab Leak

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;
2. The Second Lab Leak

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.
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Apr 22
🧵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.
🧵1. Introduction

@gadboit claims BANAL-52’s 96.8% similarity and natural recombination outweigh my lab + PangolinCoV hypothesis for SARS-CoV-2’s origin.

However, my evidence shows PangolinCoV signatures, WIV lab work & recombination are stronger.

researchgate.net/publication/39…
@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.

See Wrobel et al:

nature.com/articles/s4159…
Read 28 tweets
Apr 13
🧵 As promised, my final report is now published 🍾

1. Obviously this is not a tik tok video, although it would be great to make a tik tok version 🙂

So, you will need a few hours to read and digest the implications as the science is complex.

Links to the report in next tweet.
🧵2. Link to Report: Pangolin (Coronavirus) Papers

1. Researchgate:

researchgate.net/publication/39…

2. Zenodo:

zenodo.org/records/152063…
3, Well, it is a Pangolin Sunday, eh?

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.
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Mar 24
A Swift🧵

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.
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Feb 25
1🧵DECLASSIFICATION TASK FORCE - COVID 19

This Task force will be working to obtain the declassification and the release of Covid-19 origins files over the next 6 months.

This is GOOD NEWS!

2 🧵X GOP Member Handles

Task Force on the Declassification of Federal Secrets

@GOPoversight
@realannapaulina
@RepLuna
@RepEliCrane
@NancyMace
@RepNancyMace
@timburchett
@RepTimBurchett
@RepBoebert
@laurenboebert
@RepEricBurlison
@RepBrandonGill
@realBrandonGill
@RepJamesComer
@GOPoversight @realannapaulina @RepLuna @RepEliCrane @NancyMace @RepNancyMace @timburchett @RepTimBurchett @RepBoebert @laurenboebert @RepEricBurlison @RepBrandonGill @realBrandonGill @RepJamesComer 3 🧵Video (1)

Luna Reveals What The Task Force On The Declassification Of Federal Secrets Will Investigate

“This will no longer be a task force that makes bold promises only to fade into irrelevance or send strongly worded letters”

youtube.com/watch?v=Hz3aZL…
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Jan 29
@Ticklicker56 @angie_rasmussen @Dissenting2020 @DrStrangeLovett @Rebecca21951651 @All_New_to_This @VaughnMises @R_H_Ebright @Florin_Uncovers @ban_epp_gofroc @MJnanostretch @Muller_Lab @SolidEvidence @ydeigin @ciukzwil @tgof137 @StavaRune @VBruttel @FondueMean @tom335363 @BioSRP @stevenemassey @jbloom_lab @BallouxFrancois @Ayjchan @mattwridley Not sure what they have done since Burgdorfer's "swiss agent" experiments, apart from building tick moats & annoying locals

bitterrootstar.com/2013/01/about-…

Dr. Rasmussen can tell us or she can ask Dr. Trout

hcn.org/articles/in-mo…
@Ticklicker56 @angie_rasmussen @Dissenting2020 @DrStrangeLovett @Rebecca21951651 @All_New_to_This @VaughnMises @R_H_Ebright @Florin_Uncovers @ban_epp_gofroc @MJnanostretch @Muller_Lab @SolidEvidence @ydeigin @ciukzwil @tgof137 @StavaRune @VBruttel @FondueMean @tom335363 @BioSRP @stevenemassey @jbloom_lab @BallouxFrancois @Ayjchan @mattwridley RML expertise in biodefense inlcudes tick & flea agents, so I doubt she would want to discuss how many ticks they have or what they inject them with.

federalregister.gov/documents/2004…

In the bad old days they injected them with yellow fever & other nasties for dispersal by planes.
@Ticklicker56 @angie_rasmussen @Dissenting2020 @DrStrangeLovett @Rebecca21951651 @All_New_to_This @VaughnMises @R_H_Ebright @Florin_Uncovers @ban_epp_gofroc @MJnanostretch @Muller_Lab @SolidEvidence @ydeigin @ciukzwil @tgof137 @StavaRune @VBruttel @FondueMean @tom335363 @BioSRP @stevenemassey @jbloom_lab @BallouxFrancois @Ayjchan @mattwridley Also work of Jeffrey M. Grabowski

Biology of Vector-Borne Viruses Section, Laboratory of Virology, RML

Work on tick-borne pathogens at the Virology Lab at RML is funded by the Intramural Research Program, NIAID, NIH

Not for long, I think! @DrJBhattacharya
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