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Billy Bostickson 🏴👁&👁 🆓 Profile picture
@BillyBostickson
Aug 28, 2021 • 11 tweets • 6 min read • Read on X
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#DRASTIC #Monkey agrees

1. PROPOSED FORENSIC INVESTIGATION OF WUHAN LABORATORIES

researchgate.net/publication/35…
2. Ways Forward

Legal Route (Pompeo and Rivkin)

FSIA Exception + give federal courts jurisdiction over Covid-related claims under state law.

Congress to withdraw immunity from international organizations

Let Lawyers Hunt for Covid’s Origin

archive.ph/6s9ww
3. China wouldn’t be able to ignore lawsuits in American courts, given its close commercial ties with the U.S.
4. Bipartisan Support for Legal Route?
5. Political Route
1. Subpoenas?
2. CARES Act
3. House Select Oversight Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis
congress.gov/bill/116th-con…
4. 9/11 style Commission

Time for Congress to Investigate How the Pandemic Started

newsweek.com/time-congress-…
6. Congress has a constitutional obligation to gather answers itself, can it overcome the bipartisan issue?

and force the NIH to reveal more information?
7. "People have information, but they are afraid to come forward," said the House investigator, adding that Republicans and Democrats must drop partisan concerns and unite to protect public health.

"China is the threat. We've got to stand together. This is our country."
8. Letters are not Enough, we need Action
9. Meanwhile #DRASTIC will continue to investigate and inform all interested parties of our findings.

drasticresearch.org
10. Chinese Media will continue to lie and obfuscate

global.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202108/28/WS…
11. @DavidRelman gets the last word

vanityfair.com/news/2021/08/b…

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Billy Bostickson 🏴👁&👁 🆓 Profile picture
May 16
Some insights into our DRASTIC investigation

1. What appears wasteful research to you in the present may be of great value to you or others in the future, if it is given the time to develop to its logical end.

Don’t judge the usefulness of your findings too quickly!
2. What appears wasteful or a dead end to you..

May be of immense value to somebody else!

Don’t judge the usefulness:

1. Of other people’s findings based only on your own assessment of them.

2. Of your own findings based only on your own current assessment of them either.
3. What appears wasteful and a dead end to you..

A. May be the raw stuff that new hypotheses and new research directions are born from.

B. Don’t judge the usefulness of your "investigations" until you have given them enough time to surprise you.
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May 13
🧵Holmes Studies "Lab Leak"🤔

1⃣ WIV

-Deliberate release of bioweapon
-Accidental release of bioweapon in development
-Lab accident during genetic engineering
-Lab accident during cell culture
-Lab accident during vaccine development
-Accidental infection that no one knew about
2⃣ WCDC

• Lab worker infected during field animal sampling
• Accident during experimental work
• Accident from exposure to infected waste
• Accident during move to new location
• WCDC gave bat samples to the WIV
3⃣ Virus engineering

•Engineered from RaTG13
•Engineered from pool of bat viruses (Laos)
•Engineered from secret database of bat viruses
•Engineered at UNC & shipped to the WIV
•Engineered hybrid of bat & pangolin viruses🐵
•Synthetic infectious clone engineered in vitro
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May 12
🧵THE GOOD, THE BAD & THE UGLY!

1. GOOD NEWS

Thanks to @BumblebeeJoe I have 250 new followers!



Welcome aboard!

To summarize the state of affairs in my world

As you may know, I am one very hard-working🙊

12-15 hours a day investigating "lab leak"✅
🧵2. My Recent Work

I demolished Pekar et al., (2025)

x.com/BillyBostickso…

This paper is so bad it is not even wrong!

Das ist nicht einmal falsch!

(Wolfgang Pauli)

azquotes.com/author/21450-W…
🧵3. I completed my 40,000-word final report

(Possibly final..😉)

The Pangolin (Coronavirus) Papers

x.com/BillyBostickso…

I provided summaries and explainers here:

x.com/BillyBostickso…
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Billy Bostickson 🏴👁&👁 🆓 Profile picture
May 9
“We are not a Cult”

DRASTIC and the investigative network that broke the Corona laboratory taboo

Must Read Interview!

The hard working "Two Ronnies" of DRASTIC

@gdemaneuf & @BillyBostickson

Interviewed by @franzbecchi for @berlinerzeitung

berliner-zeitung.de/politik-gesell…
1. Who are the “pandemic detectives”?

We speak with 2 of DRASTIC's prominent members:

@gdemaneuf (a data scientist & engineer)

and @BillyBostickson, longtime activist who was formerly part of opposition networks in China & HK & who operates anonymously for security reasons.
@gdemaneuf 2. My Responses

How did DRASTIC come about?

I started in January 2020, triggered by an article by Dan Sirotkin on the origins of the virus.

I connected with people like @R_H_Ebright & others on Twitter.

In May 2020, I chose the name "DRASTIC" for this decentralized group.
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May 8
22. Biased Sampling distorts Geography!

They use a dataset skewed toward Yunnan & Laos (p. 16), leading to phylogeographic models that place SARS-CoV ancestors far from Wuhan & Guangdong (p. 12).

This sampling bias undermines the reliability of their geographic inferences.
23. Neglecting Alternative Hypotheses

No SARS-CoV-like viruses near emergence sites?

They completely overlook non-bat reservoirs, like civets or pangolins, which could explain local circulation (p. 15).

This omission weakens their claim of distant ancestor origins (p. 12).
24. Inconsistent Molecular Clock Rates

The paper misuses variable NRR-specific clock rates, which give inconsistent SARS-CoV ancestor dates (e.g., 1944–2014 for SARS-CoV-2, p. 9).

Without any validation of bat-specific rates, this approach has no rational grounding (p. 14).
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May 8
5. Why did they resort to using the POW model?

To show that :

"our inferences of the time of the ancestors of human SARS-CoVs and their closest bat sarbecoviruses are UNBIASED"
6. Captain Obvious Strikes Again (1)

"we show that the ancestors of SARS-CoV-1 & SARS-CoV-2 likely circulated in horseshoe bat populations 100s to 1000s km away from the sites of the emergence of these viruses in humans & as recently as one to six years prior to this emergence"
7. Captain Obvious Strikes Again (2)

"Our findings indicate that there would not have been sufficient time for the direct bat virus ancestor to reach the locations of emergence of the human SARS-CoVs via normal dispersal through bat populations alone"
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