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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
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."
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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."
Read 5 tweets
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Mar 9
NIH files reveal broader coronavirus engineering research before COVID-19

Documents show scientists across multiple US-funded projects proposed altering spike proteins and cleavage sites in bat viruses

usrtk.org/covid-19-origi…
"By the time the pandemic began..., the tools and scientific concepts for tuning how coronaviruses enter human cells were no longer speculative. They had already been...pursued across an international network of collaborating laboratories."
"The newly surfaced documents...provide contemporaneous evidence of how researchers and federal officials were thinking about coronavirus engineering years before the outbreak began."
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Jan 30
NIH Director: "[T]he best available evidence suggests that the pandemic was the result of a lab accident that happened in Wuhan"

Interviewer: "What percentage odds of that being true, would you say?

NIH Director: "It’s pretty close to certain."

nytimes.com/video/opinion/…
NIH Director: "There was a whole effort by the scientific community, by the NIH, the Chinese scientific groups and European groups essentially to prevent all pandemics. The research program was you go into the wild places, find viruses in those wild places."
NIH Director: "[There’s a trillion or more viruses out there, most of which do not infect have any chance of infecting humans. So you don’t know which of those viruses you’re pulling out of the wild places into the lab are likely to jump into humans."
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Jan 17
"A growing body of evidence shows that during the Cold War ticks were tinkered with and used as delivery mechanisms for biological warfare agents."

spectator.com/article/how-ti…
"In 1953 the Biological Warfare Laboratories at Fort Detrick established a program to study the use of arthropods...for spreading anti-personnel BW [bioweapons] agents."
"The advantages of arthropods as BW carriers are these: they inject the agent directly into the body, so that a mask is no protection to a soldier, and they will remain alive for some time, keeping an area constantly dangerous."
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Jan 14
"'When people in Iran chant 'Neither Gaza nor Lebanon,' they are...rejecting the theocratic system in Iran entirely. In other words, the current crisis isn’t just about bread and jobs, it’s about who decides what Iran stands for."

theconversation.com/neither-gaza-n…
"The phrase “Neither Gaza nor Lebanon, I sacrifice my life for Iran” first gained prominence during the 2009 Green Movement, when hundreds of thousands of people protested a disputed presidential election in Iran."
"It has since appeared in successive major demonstrations, from the 2017-18 economic protests to the 2019 fuel price uprising. It was also prominent during the 2022 'Women, Life, Freedom' movement, sparked by the death of an Iranian-Kurdish woman...following her detention by Iran’s morality police for not wearing a 'proper' hijab."
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