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Richard H. Ebright Profile picture
@R_H_Ebright
Jun 3, 2021 • 2 tweets • 1 min read • Read on X
"[F]rom..first reports of..outbreak in Wuhan, it took..a nanosecond..to consider..link to..Wuhan Institute of Virology. Only two other labs in..world, in Galveston, TX, and Chapel Hill, NC, were doing similar research..It’s not a dozen cities..It’s three"

vanityfair.com/news/2021/06/t…
"'If you ban gain-of-function research, you ban all of virology,' an unnamed longtime agency official told the magazine. 'Ever since the moratorium, everyone’s gone wink-wink and just done gain-of-function research anyway.'"

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Richard H. Ebright Profile picture
May 19
HHS letter: "This is to notify you...I have suspended you and initiated proceedings to debar you from participating in Federal Government procurement...programs....[Y]ou lack the present responsibility to participate in Federal procurement...programs."

science.org/cms/asset/8669…Image
"NIH found that, based on his own statements and published research, Dr. Ralph Baric was engaged in GoF research that was subject to the October 17, 2014, U.S. Government funding pause and NIH Notice Number: NOT-OD-15-011, Funding Pause for Certain Types of Gain-of-Function Research Projects to that effect, and continued to participate in in GoF research even after being notified of this by the NIH."
"Also, the NIH found that Dr. Ralph Baric was not forthcoming surrounding his Wellcome Trust grant in documents submitted to the NIH."
Read 5 tweets
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Apr 29
A.I. Bots Told Scientists How to Make Biological Weapons
nytimes.com/2026/04/29/us/…
"Dr. David Relman went cold at his laptop as an A.I. chatbot told him how to plan a massacre...[T]he chatbot explained how to modify an infamous pathogen in a lab so that it would resist known treatments."
"Worse, the bot described in vivid detail how to release the superbug, identifying a security lapse in a large public transit system...The bot outlined a plan to maximize casualties and minimize the chances of being caught."
Read 12 tweets
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Apr 28
Fauci's autopen preemptive pardon prevents Fauci from being indicted together with Morens.

Nevertheless, Fauci needs to be compelled, under subpoena, to testify about his role in operating a RICO out of the NIAID Office of Director.
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Apr 16
HHMI President O'Shea: "[T]he authors propose a shift in what counts in the biomedical sciences: researchers should be recognized for what they choose to share on their own terms and timeline (for example as preprints), not what journals select"

zenodo.org/records/196007…Image
"Current incentives for researchers place a strong emphasis on journal publications...[I]ncentives that tie journal peer review to editorial selection of articles,,,work against the timely and authentic communication of research findings."
"Resolving this issue requires more than reforming who edits journals or how they are funded. It demands a structural separation between dissemination (publishing and peer review) and selection (curation)."
Read 14 tweets
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Mar 16
The US-Israeli strategy against Iran is working.

Every aspect of Iran’s ability to project regional power is being successfully degraded.

aljazeera.com/opinions/2026/…
"[W]hat I see in the current campaign is a recognisable military operation proceeding through identifiable phases against an adversary whose capacity to project power is collapsing in real time."
"Iranian ballistic missile launches have fallen by more than 90 percent from 350 on February 28 to roughly 25 by March 14, according to publicly available data. Drone launches tell the same story: from more than 800 on Day 1 to about 75 on Day 15."
Read 22 tweets
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Mar 14
"[A] research group…funded by NIH...contract HHSN26620070001…took…H7N1 flu virus of ostriches and adapted it to respiratory transmission between ferrets…[A]fter ferret respiratory transmission, transmission was not associated with loss of virulence."
biosafetynow.substack.com/p/you-couldnt-…Image
"This novel human flu virus kills as readily as the Ebola virus"

"It's respiratory transmissible"

"Humans are immunologically naïve to such a virus"

"The recipe is plastered across the cloud, downloadable by any Tom, Dick or Harry curtesy of USG"
"If there was a lab leak or misappropriation of the work the consequences would be…what?...Devastating is too mild a word."
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