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20 May, 4 tweets, 1 min read
"Emergent BioSolutions, whose Baltimore plant ruined millions of coronavirus vaccine doses, disclosed..Wednesday that more than 100 million doses of Johnson & Johnson’s vaccine are now on hold as regulators check them for possible contamination."

nytimes.com/2021/05/19/us/…
"The government has so far paid Emergent $271 million, even though American regulators have yet to clear a single dose of vaccine produced at the Baltimore plant."

(On contract arranged by Trump ASPR Robert Kadlec, who had been lobbyist for Emergent before appointment by Trump.)
"Emergent officials appear to have wasted taxpayer dollars while lining their own pockets"
"Representative Raja Krishnamoorthi..asked..[Emergent CEO and steaming turd] Kramer if he would consider turning over his bonus to the American taxpayers. 'I will not make that commitment,' Mr. Kramer replied. 'I didn’t think so,' Mr. Krishnamoorthi shot back."

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Richard H. Ebright Profile picture
21 May
"If..scientists have not felt free to speak their minds, then we have a..problem..Regardless of..virus’s origins.., we need to understand..political drama surrounding the science..if we are to learn..from..pandemic and reduce..likelihood of future ones."

unherd.com/2021/05/how-sc…
"[T]he 'consensus'..Covid must have a..natural origin was established bypronouncements..in The Lancet in February 2020 and..in Nature Medicine in March 2020. These were op-eds, not scientific papers. Both spoke with certainty about matters which it was impossible to be certain"
"The yawning gap between the actual state of knowledge at the time and the confidence displayed in the two letters should have been obvious to anyone in the field..The Lancet and Nature Medicine letters were in fact anti-scientific in spirit and intent."
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Richard H. Ebright Profile picture
17 May
@Ayjchan @nytimes The piece by McNeil is thoroughly dishonest.

I told McNeil, in great detail, in the first half of February 2020 that a lab-accident origin could not be dismissed.

I have the receipts.
@Ayjchan @nytimes
@Ayjchan @nytimes
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14 May
"Ian Lipkin..who in March 2020 pointed to a natural origin..now sounds more skeptical. 'We may never know the origin of SARS-CoV-2. I am concerned that scientists from..WIV did not take adequate precautions when cultivating bat viruses'"

elpais.com/ciencia/2021-0…
"Lipkin..cites research with dangerous viruses carried out in Wuhan before the pandemic in laboratories with a medium level of biosafety."
"Ian Lipkin..fue otro de los..expertos que apuntaron en.2020 a un origen natural..Su discurso suena ahora más escéptico. “Quizá nunca sabremos el origen del SARS-CoV-2. Me preocupa que los científicos del WIV no tomasen las precauciones adecuadas al cultivar virus de murciélagos"
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14 May
"[C]onsider the contrast with how disasters like..nuclear accidents at Chernobyl and Fukushima..were..covered. The importance of how the accidents happened,..to prevent recurrence, was obvious from the get-go. Why hasn't the same been true..for..COVID-19?"
theweek.com/articles/98215…
"We still need to know what happened in Wuhan because that is the only way pressure can be brought to bear to prevent it from happening again."
"If you believe nuclear power has an important role.. to play in fighting climate change (as I do), then you ought to want safety questions investigated as aggressively and thoroughly as possible, so that the public has confidence when a reactor is pronounced safe."
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Richard H. Ebright Profile picture
13 May
"A group of 18 scientists stated Thursday in a letter published in the journal Science that there is not enough evidence to decide whether a natural origin or an accidental laboratory leak caused the Covid-19 pandemic."

nytimes.com/2021/05/13/sci…
"The list of signers includes researchers with deep knowledge of the SARS family of viruses, such as Ralph Baric at the University of North Carolina, who had collaborated with the Chinese virologist Shi Zhengli in research done at the university on the original SARS virus."
"While this group of scientists does not single out any researchers by name, the letter finds fault with those who have also been vocal in supporting the theory of a natural origin, citing a lack of evidence."
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13 May
"[I]n..letter in..Science, 18..biologists—including the world’s foremost coronavirus researcher—are lending..weight to calls for..new investigation of all possible origins of..virus, and calling on China’s laboratories and agencies to 'open their records'"
technologyreview.com/2021/05/13/102…
"Whether or not an investigation uncovers the source of covid-19.., Lipsitch says, he believes there needs to be more public scrutiny of laboratory research involving viruses that have the potential to spread out of control."
"'I’d like to see the attention focus on the regulation of dangerous experiments, because we’ve seen what a pandemic can do to us all, and we should be extremely sure before we do anything that increases that probability"
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