Let’s take a look at the co-authors of the March 17th Nature letter:
I realised, to my surprise, that I had already encountered 3 of the 5 co-authors & they were not people whose work had impressed me on identifying the origins of diseases
3. Eddie Holmes
"It is therefore possible that he is unconsciously sympathetic to Chinese colleagues, and sensitised to avoiding the causing of embarrassment to his hosts"
4. Robert Garry ( a very disturbing account) Part 1
"Now we come to Bob Garry, the final author of the Andersen piece, who has what is sometimes referred to as “a chequered history”, as evidenced in the narrative below."
5. Robert Garry ( a very disturbing account) Part 2
"Garry suggested that HIV had existed in humans for “hundreds of years”. However, people who are experienced in PCR work point out there might have been contamination involving the control samples used in the lab"
5. Robert Garry ( a very disturbing account) Part 3
Robert Garry's misinformation regarding Koporowski's debunked claims in his article in Science (2000)
“Chimpanzee Kidneys Not Used to Prepare Oral Poliovirus Vaccines”
6. Certainly makes one wonder, especially in light of their conflicts of interest and what we have discovered through FOIAs lately.
"the approach. will be targeted to a specific pathogen, but It Is applicable to several different pathogens. For example, an approach may be used to develop therapeutics against 20 different pathogens"
3. Professor Ron Taylor
This project started in May 1996 at the University of Virginia. Taylor and his colleagues developed a heteropolymer that functions on the one end to connect to the CR 1 site of the red blood cells, while the other end is tailored to the specific pathogen.
New documents back theory that Covid outbreak started in Wuhan lab
The emails uncovered by White Coat Waste Project suggest that viral DNA from “bats and other high-risk species” were sent to Wuhan between 2017 and 2019.
Just stating the obvious that THE FIRST CASE WAS NOT IN DECEMBER exposes the mendicant analysis of that recent piece, which feeds of the scraps of data left by China and then props itself up on odd logical shortcuts.
Useful Point by @baobaoxiaoliao
Dr.Worobey, here are some information you might interest in. In the early stage of the outbreak, China Gov only allows patients with Market contact history to receive tests. Is that a bias that can cause misinterpretation?
After fully reading the article, I think @sciencecohen does write a fairly well balanced analysis, especially the last half, and lists most criticisms of EHA and WIV.