Events since Nicholas Wade's lab-leak article look different to people who were tracking the story over 2020. Everything "new" is actually not new. What changed is that the official narrative has been forced into acknowledgement.

Damage control is clearly in full swing.
This paragraph is from @SharriMarkson's report, in March, in The Australian. Why does the @WSJ story read like a scoop? Why was it treated as one? Why was Nicholas Wade's article treated as if it cracked the case?

It's not like #DRASTIC's work isn't public.
It's not like @JamieMetzl, @joshrogin and I haven't explored the evidence with @joerogan. Not like @HeatherEHeying and I didn't discuss it with @billmaher. Not like @SteveHiltonx hasn't covered it repeatedly. Not like @mattwridley, @Ayjchan, @nicholsonbaker8 didn't survey it...
One should be very careful not to leap to the conclusion that a proper investigation is coming, and the truth is in sight. The sequence of pivots and admissions of the viability of the lab-leak hypothesis suggests the construction of a new 'less false' narrative. It's not organic
We have a right to know what happened to us. We are entitled to a full access to anything that might mitigate harm.

If SARS-CoV2 emerged from the Wuhan Institute, we NEED to know EXACTLY what protocols produced it, and we NEED a FULL accounting of the purpose of the research.
The likelihood that it came from the Wuhan Institute of virology is very high and going up. The evidence that staff were hospitalized with COVID-like symptoms *could* be a false lead, or it could be indicative of a cover up. But of what? What's the full scope? What can't we know?
The lateness of the revelation of a cluster of illnesses is conspicuous. If it is as it appears, then it's clearly been an open secret in some circles. Were those circles entirely within China, or did some shutting down discussion in the west know it too? WHO? CDC? Fauci? Daszak?

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18 May
The race is on to immunize the corrupt people and institutions that got the COVID's origin question upside down. @davidfrum pins the fault squarely on Trump who (violating the rules by being closer to right) forced the inherently good/correct people to double down on being wrong.
The most maddening thing about attempts to fictionalize the history is the way they assert: those investigating and publicizing the lab leak hypothesis were all Trump supporters pushing a wild eyed version of the "theory" until Nicholas Wade opened our eyes to the sober version
There's a hint of what likely happened in this. The establishment and their sources ignored the discussion (because they had higher priorities than their official titles imply) until Wade, Baltimore and Baric forced them awake. What occurred as they slept is taken as immaterial.
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13 May
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.
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22 Jan
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"!)
He has now been booted from Facebook--without explanation, being told there is no possibility of being reinstated. That is exactly what happened to me, and similar to what happened to @jgreenhall (Game~B founder, now like me restored to FB with unofficial, nonsense explanation).
Apparently Jim's elimination from Facebook came at the same time the two other admins of the Game~B Facebook group were thrown off.

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18 Jan
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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5 Jan
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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2 Dec 20
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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