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Jul 11 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
In 2020 UNEP commissioned me to lead a 70 page report, funded by govt of Norway, into origin & implications of the pandemic. Called "Covid-19 - a warning" it had 34 named reviewers. UNEP are now delaying its publication; I can only speculate why, but I have 2 main theories 1/3
1. It speculates & reviews evidence of a lab origin, and it criticises gain of function; 2. It doesn't strongly link covid to either biodiversity loss or to climate change (though each is remotely plausible) - hence, I think, this unsettles some UNEP power holders. Either way 2/3
I am very cross - not only at the waste of resources; $, time & expertise, of myself and many others, but by what increasingly smells like censorship by a UN body. @vukoje_ana @EmmaReillyTweet @JamieMetzl @JeffDSachs @LNLonRN @JulianCribb @serge_morand #OneHealth @CroakeyNews
UNEP have published forerunners of my report eg at unep.org/resources/repo… and un-spbf.org/wp-content/upl… Maybe the delay in final report is bureacratic inertia? If they intend to "kill" it why would they leave these earlier traces?

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Dec 20, 2021
1/6 I tweet into the wilderness, I know. Every day I hear horrible stuff re the pandemic. I have excellent reasons for thinking COVID-19 was caused by a lab leak - and even if it wasn't, the next one could be. I also have excellent credentials; I worked with Peter Daszak as 1 of
2/6 4 co-editors of the journal EcoHealth (2010-13); I have circa 300 scientific papers, chapters & letters to my name; almost all relevant to ecological change and future health (many as 1st or sole author); I am lead author for a 25k word report, in press, for UNEP on cause &
3/6 response to pandemic. I also publ'd (12/20) one of 1st papers warning it could be a leak. In 01/21 our letter to Lancet, responding to Calisher et al, was rejected, but almost identical version was published 09/21 after (as now known) Lancet editor @richardhorton1 changed his
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Jun 3, 2021
1/14 By far, best summary of this sordid story that I have read. Some snippets: "The evidence assembled by #DRASTIC amounts to what prosecutors call probable cause—a strong, evidence-based case for a full investigation."
newsweek.com/exclusive-how-…
2/14 @TheSeeker268 posted @ydeigin 's theory on Reddit, which promptly suspended his account permanently. .. .. recently discovered a massive Chinese database of academic journals and theses called CNKI. (Shortly after, China blocked access to that database).
3/14 Had WIV been actively working on RaTG13 during the 7 years since they discovered it? Peter Daszak said no: @franciscodeasis disproved that, discovering WIV scientists actively studied it in 2017 and 2018—they hadn't stuck it in a freezer and forgotten about it, after all.
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Feb 8, 2021
1/n U.S. govt has reason to believe several researchers inside WIV became sick in autumn 2019, with symptoms consistent with both COVID-19 and common seasonal illnesses. This raises questions re credibility of Shi Zhengli’s claim of “zero infection” 2017-2021.state.gov/fact-sheet-act…
2/n CCP prevented independent journalists, investigators, global health authorities from interviewing researchers at WIV, including those who were ill in the fall of 2019. Any credible inquiry .. must include i/views with these researchers & full account of unreported illness.
3/n WIV has published record of conducting “gain-of-function” research to engineer chimeric viruses. But WIV has not been transparent or consistent about its record of studying viruses most similar to the COVID-19 virus, WHO investigators must have access to WIV records
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Jan 20, 2021
1/n Thread (rumination) on conflict of interest (COI) dailycaller.com/2021/01/18/pet… "Dr. Peter Daszak admitted on Friday (ie Jan 15) through a spokesman that he issued the [Lancet] statement to protect Chinese scientists from online criticism.” Let's assume PD did, though with others.
2/n Lancet letter written when Chinese scientists receiving death threats; letter .. a show of support .. they were caught between important work trying to stop an outbreak & "crush of online harassment” ["Daszak’s spokesman told The Journal"].
3/n {BTW where would online harassment be coming from? I thought access of Chinese citizens, living in China, to Western social media is v limited. Do they mean online harassment via Chinese social media?} Anyway, let's assume protection of Chinese colleagues part of PD's motive.
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