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May 10 • 9 tweets • 4 min read
Proof by because I said so Image
Some equivocating... Image
This one is proof by personal incredulity. 'I can't see how it could have happened, thus it couldn't have happened'

“The fundamental cause of the trouble in the modern world today is that the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.”—Bertrand Russell Image
Calling the claims of two highly-disputed, unpublished preprints "facts" shows he is not ready for the role of Science communicator.

Jesse Bloom "I am especially unconvinced" Image
Why the preprints are not "facts"
Absolute masterclass in "Science is all about silencing alternative viewpoints for the good of society" ImageImageImageImage
Let's ask @sciencecohen and see if, in his opinion, this thread also displays an "open-minded tone". Image
You mean a bat CoV with an FCS appears in a city with a lab on a proposal to add a FCS to bat CoVs?

With an insert that "potentially looks engineered" with CGG CGG codons that appear zero other times in other SARS-like CoV?

Is that enough reason to investigate or 'equivocate'? Image

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Louis R Nemzer Profile picture
May 12
When he says definitively 'it didn't leak from a lab', what he *means* is that he personally hasn't heard a lab leak theory that he thinks is consistent with two unpublished preprints.

Is this #scicomm? ImageImageImage
Definitely not SciComm Image
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Louis R Nemzer Profile picture
May 10
Monday Meta-Thread🧶of Threads 🧵🧵🧵
(all from today):
Analyzing an interview with Proximal author Robert "I just can't figure out how this gets accomplished in nature" Garry from June 2020
Daszak likely withheld information from the NIH to keep his grant money flowing.
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Louis R Nemzer Profile picture
May 9
I know this might have been done before, but it's very enlightening to check out the Feb 17, 2020 version of "Proximal Origins" on the Wayback Machine and compare it with the final version.

web.archive.org/web/2020021717…
Lead author Kristian Andersen has already called an engineered origin a "crackpot" theory in an email on Feb 4.

(after saying it potentially looked engineered on Feb 1).

The original from Feb 17 sounds like something a scientist would actually say.
Notice how they will avoid talking about passage in animals here - for example with mice with humanized ACE2 receptors - when talking about the RBD, because that might actually have worked.

Later, they *will* talk about animal passage, to say it wouldn't work for the FCS.
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May 8
Baric was making "seamless" infectious clones of betacoronaviruses almost 20 years ago(!)

"The interconnecting restriction site junctions that are located at the ends of each cDNA are systematically removed...allowing reassembly without the introduction of nucleotide changes"
"...We purposely introduced several silent changes to remove preexisting Esp3I sites that resided within the MHV-A59 genome sequence and to distinguish between molecularly cloned and wild-type viruses..."
Proximal Origins (2020): No way SARS2 was the product of engineering - there are no traces of restriction sites.

Ralph Baric (2002): I invented a way to engineer coronaviruses without leaving a trace, and gave it a charming old-timey name.
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May 3
Mission Statement:

(1) Determine the origin of SARS2, in order to help prevent future pandemics

(2) Restore trust in science that was damaged by scientists abusing the imprimatur of their authority

(3) A more transparent framework for regulating research on dangerous pathogens
(1) Determine the origin of SARS2, in order to help prevent future pandemics

(2) Restore trust in science that was damaged by scientists abusing the imprimatur of their authority

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May 2
Absolutely contradicts himself in consecutive tweets.

Of course they looked into it! Nothing is ever good enough for you!

Also, why should they seriously investigate a "baseless conspiracy theory"?
They did a cursory glance before China told them to knock it off. What more do you people want!
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