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Sep 26 • 9 tweets • 5 min read
1/9 Congratulations to the @washingtonpost for being a finalist in the '3M Truth in Science Award', part of the 2022 Online Journalism Awards (#OJA22).

That piece was about a young Chinese female scientist who had sequenced SARS-CoV-2 by 27 Dec 2019.
awards.journalists.org/winners/2022/
2/9 The WaPo piece is based on #DRASTIC research.

I unearthed a bunch of very interesting blog entries by that scientist who wrote as 'Little Mountain Dog'.
We (DRASTIC) translated them and put them in context.

Here is the write-up of @OJA22.
awards.journalists.org/entries/as-the…
3/9 With a nice recognition of our work:
4/9 Here is the key thread about Little Mountain Dog's story.

That thread also quickly covers a few more of her blog entries that are worth reading (such as her strong criticism of the Pangolins preprint of South China Agricultural University).

5/9 Little Mountain Dog, whom I have identified but prefer to keep anonymous, did show some extremely good scientific skills and a proper understanding of the potential dangers of SARS-CoV-2 as soon as she sequenced it on 27 Dec 2019.

6/9 Her blog entries are poignant and disturbing as she ends up watching a crash in slow motion.

A crash that could have been much more limited than 6 mln official deaths, had her warnings - expressed by end Dec 2019 -been acted on.
7/9 That WaPo story was very successful.

Still the true hero of this story is neither the WaPo nor DRASTIC, but Little Mountain Dog.
She is a fine person.

8/9 The link for our detailed research on Little Mountain Dog's blog entries is here:

researchgate.net/publication/36…
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Sep 22
What we all agree on today:

In the fullness of time and in the fullness of SE Asia, evolution is capable of eventually coming up with the SARS-CoV-2 virus, with its very clinical FCS, on which labs in precisely Wuhan were working on exactly before the start of the outbreak.
In doing so evolution would typically leave a trail of intermediate genomes, with infected intermediate hosts and traces of human infections.

Also typically epidemiological tracing of the outbreak would find a long cryptic tail.
Make no mistake:
The reason China froze the official 2019 cases data to around the 14 Feb 2020, before any retrospective search, is not to hide that hypothetical zoonosis.

It’s to sell you the frozen import hypothesis.
The solution that has no earlier case, no animal host.
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Sep 18
It pains me to see how I got that one right.
This one too was right.

Everything we have seen for the last two years and a half is just part of a very simple script.

The script was so obvious, the actors so determined to play it once Proximal Origin and the Lancet Letter were out. You could perfectly predict its course.
When bored with the predictable events, I had a bit of fun with an 'I have seen the future' post:

Here are the results of the WHO mission two months before there were published:
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Sep 17
The best summary of the Lancet commission report so far is to be found in the Hong Kong South China Morning Post, written by Josephine Ma (who earlier handled Chinese CDC leaks for the same newspaper).

scmp.com/news/china/dip…
She gets straight to the main points:
And to be clear, she does not spare China either:
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Sep 15
Part of a planned PR answer to the Lancet report.

Since there is so little to grasp on, these people have to go very low and reach down to the antivax nonsense.

Another way also to remind any scientist that straying out of the Proximal Origin fatwa has consequences. Image
This goes with very few actual mentions in Main Street Media.

And some of the reporting that makes it misquotes and misrepresents Sachs words so as to frame him as wacko.

telegraph.co.uk/global-health/…
Then you get the frontal assault in the more specialised and authoritative media, so as to shape the opinion of that important target demographic:

foreignpolicy.com/2022/09/15/con…
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Sep 7
1/ Here, I will expose a well organised and very questionable framing of the SARS2 origins.

The core of the story is the drafting in February 2020 of a commentary denying any possible man-made virus.

It is not often discussed, but is very revealing.
tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…
2/ It is a story of veiled key contributors, bypassed peer-review, non-disclosures, tricks and deception, changes of mind as to a possible non-natural origin, strange timings, internal jokes as to what the 3 key authors were doing, etc.

You name it, it happened.
3/ That piece published in Emerging Microbes & Infections (EMI) on 26 Feb 2020 was very successful.

Which reminds me of a 'vocal minority of biased scientists free to spread misinformation', as aptly described by a WHO insider.

msn.com/en-gb/news/wor…
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Aug 31
1/ I have noticed that discussions on the Biden's Intel Assessment on COVID-19 Origins (released a year ago) often go a bit awry.

So I shall try to clarify a few things here.
2/ First do not just read the 2-page summary released on 27 Aug 2021, bit.ly/3KBx8dy.

Instead go directly to the 18-page declassified 'updated' assessment (the UA), released 21 Oct 2021: bit.ly/3wGtyZy
3/ Now a bit of background:

8 Intel agencies (out of the 17 in the Intel Community, aka IC) were tasked with answering some straight question about the origins (see p. 15 of the UA).

We can make an educated guess for 6 of these 8 (red stars).
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