@Ayjchan @aaas @ScienceMagazine @sciencecohen Especially in the part where he insisted, preposterously, that an accident with a natural virus during field collection or lab characterization should be deemed natural spillover and not research-related spillover.
@Ayjchan @aaas @ScienceMagazine @sciencecohen And the part where he insisted, demonstrably falsely, that definition of research-related spillover changed over the year, initially covering only accident with engineered virus and now--"latest"--covering accident with natural virus in field collection or lab characterization.
@Ayjchan @aaas @ScienceMagazine @sciencecohen And in the part where he insisted, risibly, that he had been transparent in his comments over the past year, despite withholding information on his involvement in a proposal to insert furin cleavage sites into SARS-related coronaviruses.
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