"You don't write such applications out of the blue," says Martin Wikelski, Director at the Max Planck Institute for Behavioural Biology in Radolfzell.
"It really worries me for the future that the experiments conducted were not classified as gain-of-function trials by the researchers," said Karin Moelling, Professor of Virology at the University of Zurich.
A big mistake was, for example, the declaration of solidarity by well-known scientists with their Chinese colleagues, which was published in the renowned scientific journal "Lancet" in February 2020 - and which, as is now known, was initiated by Peter Daszak of the EHA.
"If we as scientists start to stop thinking scientifically and questioning ourselves, but instead blindly protect each other, then we are digging our own grave," Wikelski said.
1/6 Why on earth did Gerald Keusch think he could write in these terms to @drsanjaygupta?
👉🏻 "do better to clarify and not further muddy the sewage left over from the behavior of the US gov. toward China"
That was just after the CNN interview of Dr. Redfield on 27 March 2021.
2/6 Dr. Gupta actually did not even say much at all. He was taken a bit aback during the interview.
Daszak and Keusch are just annoyed that CNN dared interview him.
3/6 The opening is mad:
"You totally missed the point with your comments about the origins of CoV-2. Whether or not the virus was even in the Wuhan Institute of Virology or there was an accidental release, CoV-2 originated as a spillover from bats and ultimately to humans."
Simon Wain-Hobson (Institut Pasteur) gave a talk to NIH officials last month.
He told them Collins and Fauci committed a "professional failure" by sterilizing debate on dangerous virus research.
He said Proximal Origin had "no data", and lab leak likely.
@thackerpd
André Lwoff Prize, Athena Prize from the French Academy of Sciences, Officier de la Légion d'Honneur, OBE (Order of the British Empire, 2022 list) for services to virology.
Wain-Hobson and his research group at Pasteur Institute were the first to publish the sequence of HIV.
One of the top virologists around.
Wain-Hobson called the 2011 Collins/Fauci/Nabel Washington Post essay a "Papal Bull" that stopped all discussion about gain-of-function dangers.
👉🏻 "Everyone was scared...because Drs. Fauci, Nabel, and Collins had sterilized the debate. We can't have this."
Plan of the Barcelona CReSA lab, showing that drainage from the main labs and the dissection rooms flows right through the site of the extension (where site preparation work had already started):
Work was going on in that top-left quadrant (extension site preparation):
Another view of the site before work started:
Thanks to @RdeMaistre for finding the files.
Worobey is working on a paper showing that the epicenter is a taberna close to the lab.
Holmes has a photo of a well-wined evening there, which he will turn into a paper too.
Places like that are clear zoonotic disasters in the making.
All [ASF] viruses currently circulating in the Member States belong to genetic groups 2-28 and not to the new genetic group 29 to which the virus causing the outbreak in the province of Barcelona belongs - very similar to genetic group 1 that circulated in Georgia in 2007. mapa.gob.es/es/prensa/ulti…