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Richard H. Ebright Profile picture
Richard H. Ebright
@R_H_Ebright
Board of Governors Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology Founder and CEO, APY Therapeutics, LLC @RutgersU @APYTherapeutics @BiosafetyNow
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Oct 7 • 12 tweets • 2 min read
"The…freeze in US-Russia relations shows occasional, promising cracks…During the UN General Assembly…Trump announced an initiative to address one of arms control's most intractable problems: verifying compliance with the Biological Weapons Convention."

responsiblestatecraft.org/us-russia-biow… "'[M]y administration will lead an international effort to enforce the biological weapons convention…,' Trump said. He framed this as an urgent priority, claiming 'many countries are continuing extremely risky research into bioweapons and man-made pathogens.'"
Sep 23 • 11 tweets • 2 min read
"[R]eckless experiments…gave us a devastating global pandemic. Yet despite that…catastrophe, many countries are continuing…risky research into bioweapons and manmade pathogens…[M]y administration will lead an international effort to enforce the Biological Weapons Convention." --Research on biological weapons agents, including genetic modification of biological weapons agents to increase their deadliness, is occurring worldwide.
Sep 20 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
The NYT today ran a column by its columnist Lydia Polgreen claiming that "Suggesting a transgender link to Kirk's murder is as awful as it is dangerous."

In other words, the NYT now openly affirms its belief that accurately reporting facts is "as awful as it is dangerous." This affirmation by the NYT that it prefers its readers be misinformed--or at minimum uninformed--about facts unfavorable to its favored views explains much of the last half-decade's reporting in the NYT.

Aug 20 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
"[A]ccidental bioaerosol dissemination has triggeredlaboratory-acquired infections…[T]his study elucidated…diffusion of leaked bioaerosols…The [tech at biosafety cabinet]…consistently posed…highest risk, with infection probabilities…up to 19.9 %"

sciencedirect.com/science/articl…Image "A facility classified as...BSL-2 + can offer a biosafety level that is higher than a BSL-2 but lower than a BSL-3...This study aims to investigate the diffusion characteristics of bioaerosols within a BSL-2 + and assess the infection risks of laboratory technician"
Jun 18 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
NIH Notice, June 18, 2025:

"Effective immediately, NIH will [t]erminate funding and other support for projects, including unfunded collaborations/projects, meeting the definition of dangerous gain-of-function research conducted by foreign entities in countries of concern" Image "Effective immediately, NIH will...[s]uspend all other funding and other support for projects, including unfunded collaborations/projects, meeting the definition of dangerous gain-of-function research"
Jun 13 • 10 tweets • 2 min read
"The UNC-Wuhan collaboration sought to create…genetically modified SARS coronaviruses having…a…'furin cleavage site' associated with enhanced transmissibility and virulence."

"The evidence suggests that UNC midwifed a virus that killed 20 million"

carolinajournal.com/opinion/uncove… "In 2018, UNC-Chapel Hill, in collaboration with the Wuhan Institute of Virology and EcoHealth Alliance...applied for, and were awarded, a five-year $3 million grant from the NIH to construct novel bat SARS-related coronaviruses having enhanced pandemic potential."
Jun 5 • 14 tweets • 3 min read
"Attorneys inside the Justice Department have launched initial inquiries into...[science fraudster] Kristian Andersen, who is now in the process of fleeing the United States for a position being created for him at the University of Oslo."

disinformationchronicle.substack.com/p/nih-dissolvi…Image "Senior officials inside the NIH are working to shut down a...Fauci initiative launched in 2020 called the Centers for Research in Emerging Infectious Diseases or 'CREID.'"
May 26 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
NIH Director Bhattacharya: "Two weeks ago...the President of the United States signed an executive order banning dangerous gain of function research...Dangerous NIH-approved research will never be conducted again”

limpertinentmedia.com/post/who-manip… "[B]ringing pathogens...into city centers and laboratories that are not secure, and doing research on them to make them more transmissible among humans [is]...dangerous...I think it's very likely that it was the cause of the pandemic."
May 7 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
"The FBI launched an investigation last week into security violations at the NIH’s [BSL-4] Integrated Research Facility at Fort Detrick following several dangerous incidents in which a contractor cut holes in an employee’s biocontainment suit"

disinformationchronicle.substack.com/p/fbi-investig…Image "'Many issues have been known for months if not years and previous NIAID leadership did nothing about it,' explained an NIH official, detailing problems at the facility which was described as having a 'poor culture of safety.'"
Apr 19 • 11 tweets • 2 min read
A striking aspect of the White House statement on the origin of COVID and its cover up is that it--correctly--assigns at least as much blame to US officials and US scientists as it assigns to China.

The White House statement--correctly--does not use the issue to bash China. Image Each cited example of policy failure involves a US-government policy, and each cited example of misfeasance or malfeasance involves a current or former US-government official or a current or former US-government-funded scientist.
Apr 18 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
"The Trump-appointed interim US attorney for the District of Columbia has sent multiple journal editors letters [accurately] asserting their publications are 'partisans in various scientific debates' and asking for responses to various questions."

science.org/content/articl… "[N]ew NIH Director...Bhattacharya...has argued [accurately] that journals (including Science) were biased against certain viewpoints during the COVID-19 pandemic."
Apr 8 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
"Seven Americans may have contracted COVID-19 in Wuhan in October 2019, several months before the reported start of the pandemic, according to a bombshell military report…that the Biden administration concealed from the public."

freebeacon.com/biden-administ… "The revelation adds to a mounting body of evidence that the virus was circulating in Wuhan for months before China disclosed it to the world in December 2019 and further bolsters the growing consensus that it could have leaked into the human population from a Chinese lab."
Mar 25 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
"[W]e identify 8 likely laboratory-acquired-infection SARS-CoV-2 infections from June 2020 to January 2021, sequenced at the University of North Carolina Hospital…[T]he LAIs have a high probability of being SARS-CoV-2 variants actively studied at...UNC"

zenodo.org/records/150805… "[V]irologists’ position is that…creating synthetic pathogens…under appropriate Biological Safety Laboratory standards can be performed safely."

"However…laboratory-acquired infections (LAI)…occur, even under the highest BSL-3 and…BSL-4 standards."
Mar 21 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
The 2021 WHO mission to Wuhan did not visit the WIV campus with the ramshackle BSL-2 lab where Shi and Daszak constructed and characterized novel SARS and MERS viruses.

The WHO Mission visited only the WIV NBL campus, which is located 19 km away. Daszak--who was on the 2021 WHO mission--misled the WHO mission by directing it to the WIV NBL campus instead of the WIV main campus, where Shi and he had constructed and characterized novel SARS and MERS viruses.
Mar 17 • 13 tweets • 3 min read
Five years ago today--a month after funding-agency heads Fauci, Collins, and Farrar commissioned scientists to write a paper falsely claiming lab origin of COVID is implausible--scientists Andersen, Rambaut Lipkin, Holmes, and Garry publish a fraudulent paper making this claim. Image Private email and Slack communications of authors Andersen, Garry, Holmes, and Rambaut--made public through a Congressional inquiry--show these authors knew that the conclusions of their paper were unsound and invalid but chose, fraudulently, to proceed with publication.
Mar 15 • 7 tweets • 1 min read
"[Former UK Science Minister Patrick] Vallance is facing increasing scrutiny over his role in suppressing the lab leak theory."

"[F]ormer minister Steve Baker said Lord Vallance 'should be fully transparent about what he knew'"

mol.im/a/14503159 "Vallance...took part in [Anthony Fauci's] teleconference in February 2020, after which...scientists began [fraudulently] dismissing the Chinese lab-leak hypothesis as implausible."
Mar 13 • 7 tweets • 1 min read
US Court of Appeals, plaintiff's opening brief, 03/11/2025:

"EcoHealth’s direct involvement in unauthorized Gain-of-Function (GOF) virus manipulation and research at its subcontractor laboratory in Wuhan, China...caused Appellant’s injuries" Image "EcoHealth is strictly liable for Heath's injuries
under New York’s strict liability and negligence laws, given its unauthorized GOF virus manipulation and vaccine research—both ultra-hazardous activities—
conducted at its subcontractor laboratory in Wuhan, China"
Mar 11 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
"The main reason there are dangerous pathogens…unsecured at labs [overseas]…is…US agencies…have spent billions…to construct unneeded and unsafe labs overseas…and to fund unneeded and reckless research…discovering…new dangerous pathogens…overseas"

childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/usaid… "Ebright said he found it 'ironic' that the opening first line in the Times’ article mentioned 'dangerous pathogens left unsecured at labs across Africa.'"

He said "The main reason there are dangerous pathogens left unsecured at labs across Africa, and in Asia and Latin America, is that US agencies— particularly USAID, DTRA BTRP, NIH Fogarty Center, and NIH NIAID—have spent billions of dollars over the last two decades to construct unneeded and unsafe labs overseas, and to fund unneeded and reckless research on discovering and enhancing new dangerous pathogens in labs overseas."
Jan 25 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
German virologist Christan Drosten, a former defender of EcoHealth Alliance, abandons the sinking ship of COVID natural origin.

"The more I think about it, the more skeptical I become"

taz.de/Christian-Dros…Image "In my initial assessment of the origin of the virus, I didn't know anything about it. In 2021, with the help of the American FOIA, it was published that American scientists had already applied for research funding in 2018 for work that, in my opinion, is by no means harmless."
Jan 20 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Fauci violated federal policies on gain-of-function and enhanced potential pandemic pathogen research, committed conspiracy to defraud and perjury, used federal funds to commit crimes, and caused a pandemic that killed $20 million and cost $25 trillion.

The pardon is a travesty. Image Nevertheless, the pardon ends Fifth-Amendment protections for Fauci, exposing Fauci to contempt charges or perjury charges when the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee issues subpoenas compelling him to testify under oath about his crimes.
Jan 13 • 19 tweets • 3 min read
"DEFUSE [i]s the Rosetta Stone for understanding the origin of SARS-CoV-2…[T]he entire genome of SARS-CoV-2 aligns with…DEFUSE. Almost every feature…, from the spike protein to the FCS and the…restriction sites, matches…what was outlined in…DEFUSE."

firstpost.com/world/millions… "Imagine a plane crash with…20 million…on board. After...years of searching for the black box..., you find out that someone has it but refuses to share it. Even worse, they insist...the cause is already settled...That’s...what we’re dealing with regarding...origins of Covid"