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13 May, 10 tweets, 5 min read
A *stunning* development. The letter says COVID-19 could have leaked from a lab. To some of us that possibility has been obvious for well more than a year. What is significant about this is the masthead (Science) and author list, which includes Ralph Baric
science.sciencemag.org/content/372/65…
There are two labs at the forefront of the study/enhancement of bat-born coronaviruses. @Baric_Lab at UNC, and the Shi Zhengli lab at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. Here Baric (along with other luminaries) calls for a proper investigation of the lab-leak hypothesis.
For one of two leading experts on these viruses and their manipulation to say the lab-leak hypothesis warrants investigation means it has been a plausible hypothesis all along. We must now wonder about every authority who swore otherwise, and every journalist who bought it.
The letter being in @ScienceMagazine is significant because the question of laboratory origin has been taboo due to early articles in @NatureMedicine and @TheLancet portraying the case for natural origin as overwhelming, and stigmatizing skeptics as "conspiracy theorists".
Having @ScienceMagazine publish this plea for a proper analysis is incredibly significant. Academics will no longer need nerves of steel to openly evaluate the evidence. Those who've displayed nerves of steel (like @Ayjchan, a coauthor here with @Baric_Lab) deserve our gratitude.
Two other things: 1st @ScienceMagazine editor @hholdenthorp wrote a blog commentary on the decision to publish. In it he said he wasn't a subject-matter expert, still thinks natural-origin more likely, and found the decision to publish easy because it was right.

Good on you.
2nd. In both the letter and the commentary great pains are taken to forestall a backlash against Asians/Chinese scientists.

As @HeatherEHeying and I have said for more than a year, if SARS-CoV-2 emerged as lab leak, then it is a failure of the international scientific community
I'll say more about it on the DarkHorse Podcast this Saturday.

@hholdenthorp's blog post:
blogs.sciencemag.org/editors-blog/2…
For those interested the @NatureMedicine and @TheLancet papers that seeded the taboo against discussing the lab-leak hypothesis:

nature.com/articles/S4159…

and

thelancet.com/journals/lance…
Link for Saturday’s DarkHorse Discussion:

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So disturbing. @jim_rutt is a patriot, student of history and a complexity scholar--former Santa Fe Institute Chairman, organized Game~B to re-imagine governance and save the west from collapse, hosts the non-ideological 'Jim Rutt Show'. (Jim also coined the term "snail mail"!)
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The President encouraged supporters while maintaining formal deniability. Congress has the right and power to prevent him from seeking the office again. It should. Then President Pence should issue the pardons necessary to prevent political witch-hunting.

The nation is more important than any person. Our focus on Trump is unnatural—we have been drawn into his self-obsession, and if the Senate does not act, the next four years will become a cataclysmic battle between his tormentors and his disciples. The republic can’t afford it.
This is neither a ‘pro’ nor ‘anti’ Trump proposal. This is a non-partisan proposal to get our democratic republic out of a tailspin. Pardons would have historic precedent in the response to Shays’ rebellion. Alexander Hamilton describes the reasoning for it in Federalist #74.
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I'm glad this story has broken into the mainstream, but the fact that it took so long, and the endless near-universal condemnation of those who dared follow the evidence is cause for alarm. The probability of a lab leak was obvious in June, and many implications remain unexplored
How many of the idiosyncrasies of COVID might be the result of viral adaptation to the lab and to a particular experimental protocol?

If the virus was enhanced in a lab, it's urgent we find out everything about the protocol--a matter of life and death.

And what are we now to make of the year long "natural origin" consensus from all our top virologists?
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Three of the authors that designated people from across the political spectrum as "far right" have a previous paper on--wait for it--under and overfitting in network community models. So they're ostensibly experts in avoiding the exact error they made. arxiv.org/pdf/1802.10582…
I have tagged the two who are on Twitter, so maybe they'll explain themselves. Who knows, maybe it's a very clever attempt at Sokal^3.

cc: @ConceptualJames, @peterboghossian, @HPluckrose, @MikeNayna
Looks like Homa Hosseinmardi (@homahmrd) is also here on Twitter if she would like to explain the methodology used to assign positions on the political spectrum.

I'd ask others to be respectful. There is nothing wrong with critiquing a paper, but it shouldn't be personal.
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8 Oct 20
A strange error, in the weirdest possible place. There are, of course, many honest liberals pushing back on CRT, with millions of followers. Mainstream press often portrays us as conservative when it isn't ignoring us. BUT @WSJopinion has been a notable exception.

What gives?
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I live in Portland. When I have checked Ngo's claims about the Portland riots, they turn out to be accurate. This stands in stark contrast to the claims of "protestors" whose portrayal is consistently misleading and clearly exists in service of a dangerous false narrative.
With the mainstream press reporting fiction from Portland, Ngo has become the only window into the violent and incoherent riots nightly riots. It is very clear why he is under attack, and equally clear why no accusation should be entertained without compelling evidence.
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