This is the article to read. On point explanation of the backstory and importance of the newly leaked EcoHealth documents by Drastic. Full range of expert perspectives. Beautiful reporting by @fastlerner @maiahibbett @theintercept theintercept.com/2021/09/23/cor…
Opinions ranged from “There are zero data to support a lab origin ‘notion’… the benefits [of the EcoHealth proposal] far, far outweigh the risk.”
To “This is doing everything that people say is going to cause a pandemic if you do it.”
To “This is doing everything that people say is going to cause a pandemic if you do it.”
“I find it really disappointing that one of the members of the joint WHO-China team… investigating this, are actually on this proposal, knew that this line of research was at least under consideration, and didn’t mention it all.” - @jbloom_lab
This article by @theintercept @fastlerner @maiahibbett is packed with good quotes:
“Once you make an unnatural virus, you’re basically setting it up in an unstable evolutionary place. The virus is going to undergo a whole bunch of changes to try and cope with its imperfections.”
“Once you make an unnatural virus, you’re basically setting it up in an unstable evolutionary place. The virus is going to undergo a whole bunch of changes to try and cope with its imperfections.”
Also, “Daszak directed and gathered signatures for @TheLancet letter [condemning non-natural origin hypotheses], all the while suggesting that he and his collaborators on the proposed DARPA project, Baric and Wang, distance themselves from the effort.”
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