2) Just like the #OriginofCovid, the science of the outbreak was driven by conflicted researchers closely connected to the suspect lab #Ebola2014
3) Just like Covid, a barely credible origin narrative was presented as an established fact and propagated in the global media #Ebola2014
4) Just like Covid, early outbreak cases and samples were omitted, lost, not taken, or not shared by the experts on the ground and elsewhere, presumably to obfuscate the location of the origin in Sierra Leone and hence make it look like the outbreak began somewhere else.
5) Just like Covid, established scientists used prestige journals to publish dubious results that failed to discuss obvious alternative hypotheses and, just like Covid, these elite journals and their elite reviewers let them do it #Ebola2014#SciComm
7) Just like Covid, and perhaps most surprising of all @K_G_Andersen@ARambaut Eddie Holmes and Bob Garry, were at the scientific centre of this obfuscating scientific narrative #Ebola2014
Wanted to try a twitter tutorial (our first, so bear with it) on the v. interesting #CRISPR issues raised by the recent birth of #geneedited#Calf "Cosmo", thx to @UCDavis researcher @BioBeef. Author @MeganMolteni gamely brought in some perspective but no technical critic, so....
The following are issues neglected or barely raised in the text but should be born in mind while reading the article, which described attempts to add the SRY sex "determining" gene and make all male animals: wired.com/story/a-crispr…
2 The researchers began w/a "crude portrait" #genome sequence (so the first embryos died because the researchers chose the wrong place to edit). The premise of #geneediting is precision but this requires EXACT knowledge of the target genome, which almost invariably is lacking.