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Get ready for the long awaited sequel, starring Marion Koopmans and many of the original actors, plus some emerging talents such as Summermatter.

Chinese production, US financing.
Due to some unexpected problem with the casting, Daszak was unfortunately not available for the new production.

We will miss his bumbling gruffness and natural sense of comedy, but watch for the new names - plenty of great talents there:
Anyway, it looks like the someone took a leaf from the "Second China-U.S. Workshop on the Challenges of Emerging Infections, Laboratory Safety and Global Health Security" (May 2017)
minus the transparency that is..
But, hey, what do you do 'when accidents happen all the time'..

(by the way Franz, former Commander, U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases, is an EcoHealth Alliance adviser)
And it's not as if nobody mentioned the risks:
Plenty more in that very interesting summary of that China-US workshop in Wuhan in 2017. Worth dissecting.

Note: the document seems to have been deleted from the WIV website in April 2020.
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Apr 7
1/8 Nod (@nizzaneela) has updated his paper demolishing Pekar et al's claim of 'two introductions'.

v3 is more accessible, same brutal conclusion: the supposed support for two spillovers is an artefact of rigged hypothesis testing.

arxiv.org/html/2502.2007…Image
2/8 Quick recap: Pekar et al claimed a Bayes Factor of 60 for two introductions.

After three major errors were found (including a bad cut-and-paste!), it dropped to 4, just at the noise level border. Image
3/8 Nod later showed that the 4 is still wrong.

The one-introduction model was tested against stricter conditions than the two-introduction model, which is basic statistical malpractice.

Under the same conditions, the Bayes factor is <0.25.
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Dec 6, 2025
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. Image
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…Image
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Nov 16, 2025
Good luck to the Daszak in suing EHA (through its board of directors) for a total of $4mln.

He is a debarred fraud, likely linked to one of the most destructive events of the last 100 years, who racked millions at EHA, and enjoyed the high life in its colonial revival villa in upstate NY, not far from his favourite ski fields.
But, wait, they were 'incredibly supportive of Peter'. They knew that 'Peter [was] a great scientist, a deeply honest man', etc.

Sure. And pigs fly. Image
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Nov 6, 2025
1/24 🚨 New insights into #COVID19Origins! 🔍 In this thread, I reveal previously unreported key aspects:

1️⃣ Direct connections between the CIA and virologist Ralph Baric in U.S.-China virology cooperation and monitoring. 🕵️‍♂️🇨🇳 @SenRandPaul

2️⃣ The complete ODNI BSEG composition as of Sep 2020—never published before.Image
2/24 Context:

The BSEG, est. 2006, is an advisory panel designed to assist U.S. intelligence on biological threats, incl. viruses and biosafety. 🦠

🔒 Meetings are classified and managed by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. @thackerpd Image
3/24 BSEG stands for Biological Sciences Experts Group.

3️⃣ Additional context on early briefings, biosafety concerns, and international collaborations.

Let's explore! 👇
gillesdemaneuf.medium.com/the-odnis-b-gr…
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Sep 5, 2025
DRASTIC Working Notes:
Findings from EHA documents made public by Congress in December 2024.

1️⃣ How the folder was made public:
@RandPaul @thackerpd @SenJoniErnst @BillyBostickson
@RogerPielkeJr Image
2️⃣ The folder content: Image
3️⃣ Our quick summary: Image
Image
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Apr 7, 2025
@CD57227 @JanKlimkowski @Florin_Uncovers @DavRoeck @R_H_Ebright @emilyakopp @zeynep Your link does not work unfortunately. Can you give one that works?
Quite a few foundations there (Stiftungen).
@CD57227 @JanKlimkowski @Florin_Uncovers @DavRoeck @R_H_Ebright @emilyakopp @zeynep - Schweizerische Eidgenossenschat, Bundesamt für Kultur (BAK) (some funding if 10% is shot in Switzerland)
- Zürcher Filmstiftung
- Stiftung Volkart
- UBS Kulturstiftung
- Stiftung Corymbo
- Ernst Göhner Stiftung
@CD57227 @JanKlimkowski @Florin_Uncovers @DavRoeck @R_H_Ebright @emilyakopp @zeynep Zürcher Filmstiftung
CHF 60,000 to develop the project, on 16Mar 2021:
filmstiftung.ch/die-forderung/…Image
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