When did @mattyglesias "bully the media into entertaining the lab leak hypothesis"?

Liberal journalists, can you please remind your peers that the media should address a lab #OriginOfCovid because it is considered plausible by prominent virologists + US intelligence community?
@mattyglesias Has the word "bully" changed to mean something else this month?

Have any journalists been bullied into entertaining the lab leak hypothesis?
@mattyglesias From the office of the Director of National Intelligence.

"All agencies assess that two hypotheses are plausible: natural exposure to an infected animal and a laboratory-associated incident."
dni.gov/files/ODNI/doc…
@mattyglesias Does this mean I got bullied?
@mattyglesias Is the above journalistic malpractice?

It's hard to tell because I perceive that the words "bully" and "journalistic malpractice" have different meanings to @Salon @amandamarcotte vs the rest of the functioning world.

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12 Dec
On whether the unique furin cleavage site, which makes SARS-CoV-2 the pandemic pathogen that it is, was genetically engineered, please see the comments of unassailable virologists.

#OriginOfCovid Image
No sensible scientist is saying that the furin cleavage site could not possibly have evolved naturally in SARS-CoV-2.

We're saying that it is also reasonable to hypothesize that scientists might've inserted it in a lab. They had a pipeline for this as early as March 2018.
For a deeper dive into why it's so challenging to know whether the furin cleavage site in SARS-CoV-2 arose naturally, please see our peer-reviewed manuscript at @MolBioEvol
academic.oup.com/mbe/advance-ar…
Read 11 tweets
11 Dec
Half of the earnings from our #OriginOfCovid book are going to charity.

If you want to help us make VIRAL: The Search for the Origin of Covid-19 a bestseller, please consider buying it within the next 24 hours.

Thank you!

Amazon: amzn.to/3m85kDl
You can find independent local bookstores that sell our book here:

US
harpercollins.com/products/viral…

UK
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Whether or not the book is a bestseller, I feel that we have achieved what we set out to do. Share with the world key #OriginOfCovid findings, evidence & stories to galvanize worldwide calls for a credible investigation of both natural and lab origin hypotheses. @mattwridley
Read 6 tweets
11 Dec
I became infamous for writing that SARS-CoV-2 might have adapted for human infection and transmission in a lab, alongside other plausible natural scenarios.

But top experts had also been saying the same thing, just without pointing out that the virus might've come from a lab.
I was actually annoyed when @antonioregalado pointed this out to me earlier this year. That even the Proximal Origin authors had discussed how was it that SARS-CoV-2 had (pre-)adapted for humans.
@antonioregalado Some ask, why are we seeing new variants if SARS2 was well adapted for humans in Dec 2019?

Because viruses don't stop evolving. If we had run the well adapted SARS1 through 300 million people across every race and health condition, we would've also been overrun with variants.
Read 6 tweets
11 Dec
The world can investigate and find strong evidence for the #OriginOfCovid even if China is not being cooperative.

There is a huge amount of information, communications, and documentation outside of China that describes the type of SARSrCoV research that was happening in Wuhan.
There were literally US doctors in Wuhan in late 2019 who were among the first to hear about the novel outbreak of respiratory disease, and for some reason there has not been a public systematic interview of them.
Many significant findings pointing to a likely lab #OriginOfCovid were only revealed in September/October of this year after documents were leaked or successfully FOIA'ed.

Read 4 tweets
11 Dec
Can't believe this still needs to be said.

The reason why the lab #OriginOfCovid hypothesis "won't die" is because there is an incredible amount of circumstantial evidence pointing to it.

Both natural and lab origin hypotheses deserve a full and credible investigation.
Scientists & journalists, join me in calling for transparency.

Ask @EcoHealthNYC to release all data, records, documents & communications relating to the transfer of 1000s of pathogen samples from SE Asian countries, including Laos, to Wuhan.
Ask them to show us the exchanges leading up to their early 2018 DEFUSE proposal where they laid out a road map for inserting novel cleavage sites into novel SARS-like viruses.

Read 6 tweets
9 Dec
Likely covid lab leak, Taiwan BSL3.
🇹🇼 is zero covid; straightforward to track lab origin of SARS2 infections.

Lab worker in their 20s, fully vax'ed (Moderna), symptoms for a week before testing, ~50 people in quarantine h/t @chasewnelson @spectralcodex
cna.com.tw/news/firstnews…
@chasewnelson @spectralcodex English report @keverington
taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/4371080

Taiwan 🇹🇼 Central Epidemic Command Center doing an incredible job.

Case diagnosed, contacts traced and origin tracked in the same day by local experts.

Transparent reporting. Showing us how it's done.
cdc.gov.tw/Bulletin/Detai… Image
@chasewnelson @spectralcodex @keverington News update on the SARS-CoV-2 lab leak of a Delta variant from a Taiwan BSL3/P3 lab:

"A female researcher was bitten by a lab mouse while running experiments on COVID before testing positive for the virus"
taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/4371212
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