""Secondly, in the spring of 2020, a global network of internet researchers begins the search for the origin of the pandemic and uncovers astonishing details."
"In May 2020, a Twitter user with the pseudonym TheSeeker268 finds two scientific papers from China on the internet: a master's thesis written in 2013 and a doctoral thesis from 2016....."
4. Sceptical Internet Users ;)
"RaTG13 is the virus from which a short genetic sequence with the designation 4991 was isolated years ago in the copper mine..
Shi later admits this, only after sceptical internet users dug through genome databases & drew attention to the renaming"
5. Some "Drastic" members remain anonymous and cannot be identified in the great Spiegel...?
"Some "Drastic" members remain anonymous and can only be reached via a common email address."
drasticgroup@protonmail.com
Nice talking to you, Aleksander Sarovic!
6. Some of course are happy to talk
"Another is Gilles Demaneuf, who works as a data scientist. When a new epidemic emerged in the early 2020s, he "sensed something bad was coming". At that time, however, little was known about the new epidemic: "No one had the necessary data"
"SPIKED tells the inside story of one of humanity’s biggest & most pressing mysteries: the debate over the origins of COVID-19"
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2. The Making of the Documentary (20 minutes)
"Unfolding like true crime, this detective story takes us deep into clashing conspiracy theories & partisanship while exposing the dangers posed by experiments regularly taking place in the world’s biolabs"
"It’s about the future of biotech and the next pandemic. We wanted to make a contentious story really exciting, with twists and turns, that covers the science but with a strong dramatic structure"