🧵🗞️The International News

A Convulsive Horizon of No Escape

Clang! Bar, far, scar, star.

Take the swarming headlines, shred them,

South Korea’s soy sauce grand master stirs

Books that don’t exist, AI’s fevered brew.

War without purpose, war crimes bite, 🧵🗞️ Clang! Crimes, limes, slimes!

EU’s chocolate crisis, cocoa beans scream!

Climate breakdown bites the fields.

The moment that changed me

a boulangerie revelation melting into Vindolanda’s stone relief

But the man in the navy suit and tie,

chokes on known unknowns.

Some insights into our DRASTIC investigation

1. What appears wasteful research to you in the present may be of great value to you or others in the future, if it is given the time to develop to its logical end.

Don’t judge the usefulness of your findings too quickly! 2. What appears wasteful or a dead end to you..

May be of immense value to somebody else!

Don’t judge the usefulness:

1. Of other people’s findings based only on your own assessment of them.

2. Of your own findings based only on your own current assessment of them either.

🧵Holmes Studies "Lab Leak"🤔

1⃣ WIV

-Deliberate release of bioweapon
-Accidental release of bioweapon in development
-Lab accident during genetic engineering
-Lab accident during cell culture
-Lab accident during vaccine development
-Accidental infection that no one knew about 2⃣ WCDC

• Lab worker infected during field animal sampling
• Accident during experimental work
• Accident from exposure to infected waste
• Accident during move to new location
• WCDC gave bat samples to the WIV

🧵THE GOOD, THE BAD & THE UGLY!

1. GOOD NEWS

Thanks to @BumblebeeJoe I have 250 new followers!



Welcome aboard!

To summarize the state of affairs in my world

As you may know, I am one very hard-working🙊

12-15 hours a day investigating "lab leak"✅

https://x.com/BillyBostickson/status/1921201790462132652

🧵2. My Recent Work

I demolished Pekar et al., (2025)

x.com/BillyBostickso…

This paper is so bad it is not even wrong!

Das ist nicht einmal falsch!

(Wolfgang Pauli)

azquotes.com/author/21450-W…

“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.

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).

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"

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!

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"

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;

https://twitter.com/BillyBostickson/status/1915049207511285865

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:

🧵As promised, here is my counter critique & rebuttal of some points made by @gadboit about the Pangolin Papers Hypothesis.

His theory seems to be that SARS-COV-2 emerged like Aphrodite, from BANAL BAT viruses, possibly with some FCS tweaking & no Pangolins coronaviruses needed.

https://twitter.com/gadboit/status/1913131808788533464

🧵1. Introduction

@gadboit claims BANAL-52’s 96.8% similarity and natural recombination outweigh my lab + PangolinCoV hypothesis for SARS-CoV-2’s origin.

However, my evidence shows PangolinCoV signatures, WIV lab work & recombination are stronger.

researchgate.net/publication/39…

🧵 As promised, my final report is now published 🍾

1. Obviously this is not a tik tok video, although it would be great to make a tik tok version 🙂

So, you will need a few hours to read and digest the implications as the science is complex.

Links to the report in next tweet.

https://twitter.com/BillyBostickson/status/1911081529163362304

🧵2. Link to Report: Pangolin (Coronavirus) Papers

1. Researchgate:

researchgate.net/publication/39…

2. Zenodo:

zenodo.org/records/152063…

A Swift🧵

1. A Modest Proposal for the Fair Imprisonment of Women and the Liberation of Men

By a Concerned Citizen of Reason,

Published in The Rational Gazette on X

March 24, 2025 2. Dire Injustice!

It is a lamentable truth, oft repeated in the progressive broadsheets and the sanctimonious halls of modern discourse, that the state of our prisons reveals a dire injustice.

1🧵DECLASSIFICATION TASK FORCE - COVID 19

This Task force will be working to obtain the declassification and the release of Covid-19 origins files over the next 6 months.

This is GOOD NEWS!

https://x.com/GOPoversight/status/1891858020579098916

2 🧵X GOP Member Handles

Task Force on the Declassification of Federal Secrets

@GOPoversight
@realannapaulina
@RepLuna
@RepEliCrane
@NancyMace
@RepNancyMace
@timburchett
@RepTimBurchett
@RepBoebert
@laurenboebert
@RepEricBurlison
@RepBrandonGill
@realBrandonGill
@RepJamesComer

@Ticklicker56 @angie_rasmussen @Dissenting2020 @DrStrangeLovett @Rebecca21951651 @All_New_to_This @VaughnMises @R_H_Ebright @Florin_Uncovers @ban_epp_gofroc @MJnanostretch @Muller_Lab @SolidEvidence @ydeigin @ciukzwil @tgof137 @StavaRune @VBruttel @FondueMean @tom335363 @BioSRP @stevenemassey @jbloom_lab @BallouxFrancois @Ayjchan @mattwridley Not sure what they have done since Burgdorfer's "swiss agent" experiments, apart from building tick moats & annoying locals

bitterrootstar.com/2013/01/about-…

Dr. Rasmussen can tell us or she can ask Dr. Trout

hcn.org/articles/in-mo… @Ticklicker56 @angie_rasmussen @Dissenting2020 @DrStrangeLovett @Rebecca21951651 @All_New_to_This @VaughnMises @R_H_Ebright @Florin_Uncovers @ban_epp_gofroc @MJnanostretch @Muller_Lab @SolidEvidence @ydeigin @ciukzwil @tgof137 @StavaRune @VBruttel @FondueMean @tom335363 @BioSRP @stevenemassey @jbloom_lab @BallouxFrancois @Ayjchan @mattwridley RML expertise in biodefense inlcudes tick & flea agents, so I doubt she would want to discuss how many ticks they have or what they inject them with.

federalregister.gov/documents/2004…

In the bad old days they injected them with yellow fever & other nasties for dispersal by planes.

1. Latest Victim of Flo Debarre's "Doxxng" Crusade

Is ME!

I got a disturbing & threatening email, mentioning:

"room for negotiation about the name"

"1st story is often the one that sticks, even if it's not accurate..your chance to negotiate terms"

"continue over Signal" 2. Le Monde

The reporter she is working with, William Audureau @Willvs , seems a principled journalist and did not know of her nefarious doxxing activities against me and other members of DRASTIC and our supporters in Academia, of which he dissaproves.

An unexpected result in a UK Porton Down Study

"Participant 12" (maybe a soldier at Aldershot). after infection with SC2, over time experienced a substantial number of mutations suggestive of rapid evolution.

Yet he was healthy & not immunocompetent?

genomemedicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11… They don't consider the possibility of quasispecies viral swarms as a possible factor in Participant 12?

Quasispecies implications for virus persistence (Domingo, 1999)

pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC71…

Quasispecies theory & emerging viruses
(Sardanyes, 2024)

nature.com/articles/s4429…

🧵DTIC MIL WUHAN/COVID-19 DOCUMENTS

Just dumping these here like Santa!

Maybe you will find something of interest?

Maybe a lump of coal or a potato!

1. Novel Coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19): Q&A on Global Implications and Responses (May 14, 2020)

apps.dtic.mil/sti/pdfs/AD117… 2. Award Number: W81XWH-11-2-0148 (2013)

WIV, Wuhan University, Le Duc and GNL mentioned

TITLE: National Biocontainment Training Center

PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR: James LeDuc, PhD

University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston

apps.dtic.mil/sti/pdfs/ADA61…

1. Panama Canal in the News

Historical Perspective

On the many workers' lives lost trying to build it:

Who were they and where did they come from?

https://twitter.com/WallStreetMav/status/1870968462421692772

2. First Attempt (French)

In the 1880s, the French tried but failed to build a Panama Canal.

They finally gave up in 1889, after years of fighting a recalcitrant landscape, ferocious disease and spiralling costs

AND the deaths of 22,000 workers! .

archive.ph/8FqKi

1. Russian Biolab Claims: A Controversial Topic

Good luck using your critical thinking skills to seperate wheat from chaff so that you can decide what is propaganda & what is fact.

Of course the easy options are to dismiss everything as lies or to swallow everything as fact. 2. What I recommend

If you are interested in a balanced analysis of the Russian claims and all the detailed evidence presented by Kirillov before his assassination in Moscow, as well as relted topics, then I highly recommend you plough through those threads at your leisure.

1. 'CONSPIRACY OF SILENCE"

Pentagon was told 6 times that Covid was lab leak at start of pandemic – but buried the truth, ex-intel official says.

Story now published with intriguing detail by @imogen_braddick after we informed her of John Myers Tweet

thesun.co.uk/news/32257526/… x.com/BillyBostickso… 2. John Myers said that:

he "knows with absolute certainty" that top US military chiefs were told Covid had leaked from a lab in Wuhan.

"the Joint Chiefs of Staff were briefed in October 2019 - more than five years ago - about a new virus that had leaked from a lab in China"