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Billy Bostickson 🏴👁&👁 🆓 Profile picture
@BillyBostickson
Jan 9, 2022 • 24 tweets • 28 min read • Read on X
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204. Trying to catch up now with news stories and mentions of #DRASTIC since "the split" on Halloween

It's been relatively quiet over the last two months but I found some articles to add.

Clerical Work can be fun during consolidation phases and winter time, and lockdowns ;)
205. While promoting their Covid origin book in Italy, Quay, Barnard & Dalgleish extensively spoke about DRASTIC
They realized that Italian MSM had given DRASTIC more coverage than imagined
"Some people in the vast audience were very aware of you guys"
206. Podcast Ep. 6 of Origins by @asterisk_double focuses on #GainOfFunction and what we know from #NIH & #DARPA documents made public.
Thanks @thackerpd for chatting
Thanks @BillyBostickson
#DRASTIC @BioSRP @joshrogin @Ayjchan for all the hard work.
anchor.fm/doubleasterisk…
207. A reminder in 2022 of all of the #DRASTIC Breakthroughs, Research & Achievements since early 2020:

drasticresearch.org/2021/11/03/dra…
208. #Viral emerged by @mattwridley and @Ayjchan

Many references to the work of #DRASTIC

"Drastic has no leader, but the closest it has to a coordinator goes by the pseudonym of Billy Bostickson, an indefatigable collator of information"

amazon.com/Viral-Search-C…
209. Good to see a total of 9 references to #DRASTIC in this provocative, dare I say "radical", review of the book "Viral" in @ForBetterSci by @LeonidSchneide1

forbetterscience.com/2021/11/24/vir…
210. What Really Happened in Wuhan Published

Part-thriller, part-expose, What Really Happened in Wuhan is a ground-breaking investigation from into the origins of Covid-19

harpercollins.com/products/what-…

Many references to DRASTIC, including my favourite one:

211. "Prophet in Purgatory" by @sciencecohen

science.org/content/articl…
212. @Newsweek 11/22/21

Thorough, well written analysis of recent FOIAs which includes 2 hot linked references to the work of #DRASTIC

How Dr. Fauci and Other Officials Withheld Information on China's Coronavirus Experiments

BY @rowanjacobsen

newsweek.com/how-dr-fauci-o…
213. #DRASTIC News

Please welcome 4 new members to #DRASTIC

@pathogenetics
(Sherlock G. Nomes)
@FrancescoEsp33
(Francesco Esposito)
@anthonybellotti
(Anthony Bellotti)
Citizen Dot Matrix (Anonymous Member)

drasticresearch.org/the-team/

We now stand 23 strong!
214. Updated #DRASTIC Documentaries and Videos

drasticresearch.org/documentaries/

About 25 Videos in total

My favourite

Who masterminds COVID-19 lab-leak theory?

(Chinese State Media Investigates us)
215. Great article by @ianbirrell on China's coverup

December 9, 2021

Double #DRASTIC mentions

How China made Covid worse

The regime's deceit stalled the pandemic response

unherd.com/2021/12/how-ch…
216. @SCMPNews

Science turns nasty in Covid-19 origins argument on Twitter

scmp.com/news/china/sci…

8 solid mentions of the work of #DRASTIC thanks to Eduardo Baptista and Simone McCarthy

Archived: archive.ph/PNDvs

Discussed

217. "The Covid-19 trace struggle" Dec 16, 2021

First Article to discuss the #DRASTIC split

"DRASTIC is a private investigative organization tasked with tracking down the source of COVID-19"

"NIH and USAID have received focused attention from DRASTIC"

theamericanreporter.com/the-covid-19-t…
218. Viral, a Review by By Andy May (Jan 2, 2022) which claims among other things that:

"Nearly all the findings of Drastic have subsequently been found to be true"

wattsupwiththat.com/2022/01/03/vir…

Interesting comments section:

"DRASTIC was infiltrated by the compromised Yuri Deigin"
219. 2 hour video by @jjcouey with guest appearance by @CharlesRixey of #DRASTIC Lineage B

Gigaohm Biological:

LIVE REPORT Science & Technology

twitch.tv/videos/1250966…
220. @Newsweek once more (1/4/22)

Donald Trump's Fiercest Critics Now Agree With His COVID Fighting Strategy

"The evidence assembled by DRASTIC amounts to what prosecutors call probable cause—a strong, evidence-based case for a full investigation."

newsweek.com/donald-trumps-…
221. @Mediapart Series on Origins of SARS-COV-2

Reserved for subscribers (but fascinating):

1. Hypothesis of a lab leak: the United States at the heart of the investigation into the origin of Covid-19

mediapart.fr/journal/intern…
222. @Mediapart Series on Origins of SARS-COV-2

2. Wuhan, the lab of legends: a year and a half of cover-ups by the Chinese authorities

mediapart.fr/journal/intern…

3. Origins of Covid-19: latest revelations

mediapart.fr/journal/intern…

@gdemaneuf @BricePerrier any archived versions?
223. #DRASTIC mentioned in the Wikipedia article on Lab Leak theory (an ongoing saga)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_…
224. Wikipedia's anodyne #DRASTIC Page

"DRASTIC released a video appearing to show bats present inside the WIV, which, while unverified, would contradict a previous statement made by Peter Daszak, if shown to be true"

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DRASTIC

Talk Page

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:DRAS…
225. @MailOnline by @mattwridley (29/10/21)

Is this finally proof China created Covid?

Group of online sleuths fought to discover if the virus was engineered by scientists in Wuhan lab at heart of probe into the pandemic's origins

dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1…

Tks @MundlerStudents
226. Screenshots from above article in @MailOnline

"Soon, some of the sleuths had coalesced into a loose confederation known as DRASTIC (Decentralised Radical Autonomous Search Team Investigating Covid-19). And more key findings were quick to follow"
227. @BricePerrier Article

"Hypothesis of virus increased in the lab is quite plausible"

"Technically we can find information that has been erased, if we give ourselves the means. This is what the Drastic" has undertaken to do"

sciences-critiques.fr/brice-perrier-…

h/t @MundlerStudents

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Billy Bostickson 🏴👁&👁 🆓 Profile picture
May 9
“We are not a Cult”

DRASTIC and the investigative network that broke the Corona laboratory taboo

Must Read Interview!

The hard working "Two Ronnies" of DRASTIC

@gdemaneuf & @BillyBostickson

Interviewed by @franzbecchi for @berlinerzeitung

berliner-zeitung.de/politik-gesell…
1. Who are the “pandemic detectives”?

We speak with 2 of DRASTIC's prominent members:

@gdemaneuf (a data scientist & engineer)

and @BillyBostickson, longtime activist who was formerly part of opposition networks in China & HK & who operates anonymously for security reasons.
@gdemaneuf 2. My Responses

How did DRASTIC come about?

I started in January 2020, triggered by an article by Dan Sirotkin on the origins of the virus.

I connected with people like @R_H_Ebright & others on Twitter.

In May 2020, I chose the name "DRASTIC" for this decentralized group.
Read 18 tweets
Billy Bostickson 🏴👁&👁 🆓 Profile picture
May 8
22. Biased Sampling distorts Geography!

They use a dataset skewed toward Yunnan & Laos (p. 16), leading to phylogeographic models that place SARS-CoV ancestors far from Wuhan & Guangdong (p. 12).

This sampling bias undermines the reliability of their geographic inferences.
23. Neglecting Alternative Hypotheses

No SARS-CoV-like viruses near emergence sites?

They completely overlook non-bat reservoirs, like civets or pangolins, which could explain local circulation (p. 15).

This omission weakens their claim of distant ancestor origins (p. 12).
24. Inconsistent Molecular Clock Rates

The paper misuses variable NRR-specific clock rates, which give inconsistent SARS-CoV ancestor dates (e.g., 1944–2014 for SARS-CoV-2, p. 9).

Without any validation of bat-specific rates, this approach has no rational grounding (p. 14).
Read 33 tweets
Billy Bostickson 🏴👁&👁 🆓 Profile picture
May 8
5. Why did they resort to using the POW model?

To show that :

"our inferences of the time of the ancestors of human SARS-CoVs and their closest bat sarbecoviruses are UNBIASED"
6. Captain Obvious Strikes Again (1)

"we show that the ancestors of SARS-CoV-1 & SARS-CoV-2 likely circulated in horseshoe bat populations 100s to 1000s km away from the sites of the emergence of these viruses in humans & as recently as one to six years prior to this emergence"
7. Captain Obvious Strikes Again (2)

"Our findings indicate that there would not have been sufficient time for the direct bat virus ancestor to reach the locations of emergence of the human SARS-CoVs via normal dispersal through bat populations alone"
Read 12 tweets
Billy Bostickson 🏴👁&👁 🆓 Profile picture
May 8
1. Last sick joke of the Zoonati?

Fragments of human SARS-CoVs share recent common ancestors with bat viruses

SARS-CoV-like viruses have circulated in Asia for millennia

Ancestors of human SARS-CoVs likely circulated in China & Laos

Ancestors traveled unexpectedly fast
2. No Pangolins allowed!

There is insufficient temporal signal when calibrating a molecular clock using tip dating with sarbecoviruses sampled from bats & pangolins, likely as a consequence of limited sampling across space & time.

Therefore, we used SARS-CoV-1 genomes!
3. Definitely no pangolins!

As sampling locations of SARS-CoV-1, 2 & pangolin sarbecoviruses likely do not represent where their direct bat virus ancestors circulated, we EXCLUDED their locations from phylogeographic analyses to avoid the IMPACT of dispersal of non-bat hosts!
Read 24 tweets
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May 4
1⃣ Virological 🦠 Whistleblower 😮‍💨?

"I worked with researchers in this space - virology + combatting future pandemics - in the decade before the pandemic".
2⃣ One Fact

"The one fact that the last 5 years never readily disclosed is that the core ideology of this community of researchers was fundamentally divided"
3⃣ Lab based creation of super-viruses

"About half of the researchers, including many leading virologists whose names appeared in the news, believed and argued passionately for the lab-based creation of super-viruses and super-bacteria"
Read 12 tweets
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Apr 23
1. The Second Lab Leak

Turning and turning in the petri dish,
The scientists cannot hear the warnings;
Genes recombine; the barriers cannot hold,
Evil virology is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
2. The Second Lab Leak

The best lack critical thinking, while the professors
Are full of furious bias.
Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the cover up is now banned?
Lab Leak! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of Human Folly
Troubles my sight:
3. Somewhere in Wuhan

somewhere in the cell lines of a Chinese laboratory
A shape with pangolin body and the head of a bat,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its long tongue, while all about it
Reel shadows of the indignant molested bats.
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