from 28:24, on Daszak's lack of transparency and fake protests:
"So in light of this knowledge it is very hard not to interpret his protests as being because he feared the very opposite. He protested that the lab leak was a ridiculous possibility because he knew it was not"
from 43:30, on Andersen's smokescreen and publication of the dogma in Nature Medicine in March 2020:
"And none in that circumstance is going to sort of stand up and say ‘This paper by Andersen and his colleagues is bullshit’.
No one said a word."
from 1:09:57, on DRASTIC:
"They’ve been an enormously fruitful source of information and put our intelligence community to shame - it seems to me - who have not been able to make up their mind what on earth happened at the beginning of the epidemic."
The full podcast contains many more interesting passages, including a good description of Andersen 180 degrees turn on the origins in 48 hours (dressed up as a remarkable example of scientific method at play).
Quick transcript for the 3 sections above: bit.ly/3DkyGDR
You can even find DARPA unclassified budget for PREEMPT online as part of its FY21 report (a report that is a rabbit hole of its own - no time to go there):
The name is different - makes it a bit fuzzy - but that is PREEMPT most certainly. darpa.mil/attachments/DA…
You can see that DARPA is spending on average around $2.5 mln per year per team. So allowing for some tapering off after 3 years, the individual budget per team must average $10 mln or so.
It is in line with the $9.37mln for UCDavis PREEMPT Project:
A great interview of @BricePerrier by @Tantalite in le Point, about the media silence in France on the origins question - very similar to the situation in many other countries.
English Translation (it's becoming my second job): bit.ly/3oo3Yp5
The conclusion is spot on:
With a good evaluation of the importance of the DEFUSE documents that leaked to DRASTIC:
@R_H_Ebright Olival is the one who had that very sudden epiphany about the risk of BatCov infection from bat guano ***just one year *** after the 3 people working in the Mojiang mine died with SARS-CoV like symptoms and with IgG+ tests.
@R_H_Ebright Nothing was ever mentioned about these Mojiang deaths. Just one of these coincidences.
They had to rush a bit to do that paper, so they used bat guano samples that DARPA had collected back in 2006-7, before EHA was created and could replace them there.
The Zhongnan hospital of Wuhan University is right next to the university ABSL-3 and is close to the mysterious young early patient WH3 (21y old female, ebi.ac.uk/biosamples/sam…)
WH3 is also linked to the PLA hospital of central military command - with genomic file created on December 10 [yes, 10], 2019 as explained by Dr Quay zenodo.org/record/4119263…. @quay_dr
"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.