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16 Nov, 4 tweets, 2 min read
Eventually one journalist asks the right questions:

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One should add Mark Honigsbaum’s recent article in the Guardian to the list of politically motivated disinformation pieces that abuse the Laos findings:
Here are the questions that these fawning journalists wearing the transparent clothes of their assumed moral superiority should be asking:

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16 Nov
Mark Honigsbaum's review of Viral by @Ayjchan and @mattwridley is rather disappointing.

Out of a lack of analysis, likely aided by an authoring bias, @honigsbaum has produced a damp squib, when usually his writings are much better.

theguardian.com/books/2021/nov…
The opening sets an unfortunate political tone, which is rather trite and totally unnecessary, unless Mark aims to please a political tribe instead of going through a rigorous review:

"Ridley, a Conservative hereditary peer.."
Is Matt now guilty of being born?

Very fancy ideas about hereditary responsibility here for a science writer. The last time this was fashionable it did not work out very well.

Seriously, it's better to abstain from taking cheap political swipes at someone.
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10 Nov
There are a lot of fallacies peddled by 'experts' when they tell you that based on an historical argument, the most likely explanation for Covid-19 is a zoonosis and not a research-related accident.

sandwalk.blogspot.com/2021/10/the-ca…
1/ Cargo Cult:
First, it is interesting to note that some of these experts happily follow a kind of cargo cult whereby sampling left and right on an industrial scale and tweaking viruses will get you to eco-health nirvana..
all achieved by bringing science to dark corners of the world, educating local populations, fighting bad local habits and the like. (Wait, did I read that somewhere else?)

And so one can go sample in some caves in these 'wild' places, occasionally with minimal PPEs, and bring..
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10 Nov
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)
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5 Nov
Page 79 of the White Coat Waste Project FOAI doc is very interesting.

I'll just put it here with my notes in red. Read these first.
@MaraHvistendah @fastlerner
@AndrewKerrNC @anthonybellotti
The bat sampling is for markets AND surrounding caves & forest:
So it definitively includes wild-caught bats too:
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4 Nov
People are starting to talk about the likely real death toll for Covid-19, centered around 12 mln.

Detailed estimates have been available for months.

But, by and large, the media tend to stick to the 5 mln number which is way below actual.

fb.watch/935ITt8kS-/
Why stick to the 5 mln when it is very clear that there is dramatic underreporting in many countries, especially developing ones?

Is it because people prefer to report a very wrong number that is supposedly precise, instead of fairly spread estimate that is way more correct?
Thus effectively gaining an illusory precision at the cost of a massive bias..

Or because it comes from country officials. Effectively trading critical thought for some official backing.

The role of media is to question numbers, no to go for the blatantly wrong & easy solution.
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3 Nov
That recent letter from the Committee on Energy and Commerce to Collins is really worth reading

Some very interesting revelations about four highly relevant letters between NIH and EcoHealth discussing EcoHealth’s research proposal.

republicans-energycommerce.house.gov/wp-content/upl…
Letters which have not been made public (why?) but for which HHS arranged an 'in camera' review of printed copies by a bipartisan Committee, at HHS headquarters on Oct 5 and monitored by HHS staff.

See particularly pages 6 and 7:
What they show is how easily EHA argued that their research objectives did not constitute GoF, against the initial concerns of the NIH.
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