A.I. Bots Told Scientists How to Make Biological Weapons
nytimes.com/2026/04/29/us/… "Dr. David Relman went cold at his laptop as an A.I. chatbot told him how to plan a massacre...[T]he chatbot explained how to modify an infamous pathogen in a lab so that it would resist known treatments."

Fauci's autopen preemptive pardon prevents Fauci from being indicted together with Morens.

Nevertheless, Fauci needs to be compelled, under subpoena, to testify about his role in operating a RICO out of the NIAID Office of Director.

https://twitter.com/R_H_Ebright/status/2049127467021898000

https://x.com/R_H_Ebright/status/1966299574974488677

HHMI President O'Shea: "[T]he authors propose a shift in what counts in the biomedical sciences: researchers should be recognized for what they choose to share on their own terms and timeline (for example as preprints), not what journals select"

zenodo.org/records/196007… "Current incentives for researchers place a strong emphasis on journal publications...[I]ncentives that tie journal peer review to editorial selection of articles,,,work against the timely and authentic communication of research findings."

The US-Israeli strategy against Iran is working.

Every aspect of Iran’s ability to project regional power is being successfully degraded.

aljazeera.com/opinions/2026/… "[W]hat I see in the current campaign is a recognisable military operation proceeding through identifiable phases against an adversary whose capacity to project power is collapsing in real time."

"[A] research group…funded by NIH...contract HHSN26620070001…took…H7N1 flu virus of ostriches and adapted it to respiratory transmission between ferrets…[A]fter ferret respiratory transmission, transmission was not associated with loss of virulence."
biosafetynow.substack.com/p/you-couldnt-… "This novel human flu virus kills as readily as the Ebola virus"

"It's respiratory transmissible"

"Humans are immunologically naïve to such a virus"

"The recipe is plastered across the cloud, downloadable by any Tom, Dick or Harry curtesy of USG"

NIH files reveal broader coronavirus engineering research before COVID-19

Documents show scientists across multiple US-funded projects proposed altering spike proteins and cleavage sites in bat viruses

usrtk.org/covid-19-origi… "By the time the pandemic began..., the tools and scientific concepts for tuning how coronaviruses enter human cells were no longer speculative. They had already been...pursued across an international network of collaborating laboratories."

NIH Director: "[T]he best available evidence suggests that the pandemic was the result of a lab accident that happened in Wuhan"

Interviewer: "What percentage odds of that being true, would you say?

NIH Director: "It’s pretty close to certain."

nytimes.com/video/opinion/… NIH Director: "There was a whole effort by the scientific community, by the NIH, the Chinese scientific groups and European groups essentially to prevent all pandemics. The research program was you go into the wild places, find viruses in those wild places."

"A growing body of evidence shows that during the Cold War ticks were tinkered with and used as delivery mechanisms for biological warfare agents."

spectator.com/article/how-ti… "In 1953 the Biological Warfare Laboratories at Fort Detrick established a program to study the use of arthropods...for spreading anti-personnel BW [bioweapons] agents."

"'When people in Iran chant 'Neither Gaza nor Lebanon,' they are...rejecting the theocratic system in Iran entirely. In other words, the current crisis isn’t just about bread and jobs, it’s about who decides what Iran stands for."

theconversation.com/neither-gaza-n… "The phrase “Neither Gaza nor Lebanon, I sacrifice my life for Iran” first gained prominence during the 2009 Green Movement, when hundreds of thousands of people protested a disputed presidential election in Iran."

Catalonia lab was experimenting with African swine fever virus when the first infected boar was found nearby
english.elpais.com/international/… "The laboratory under scrutiny over an alleged leak of the African swine fever virus in the province of Barcelona...had planned at least two experiments with the pathogen on the same days that the first infected wild boar was found just a few hundred meters from the facility"

"The Wuhan lab…that conducted risky experiments on bat viruses…and almost certainly caused the pandemic has now revealed…it has done the same…risky experiments on another lot of horseshoe-bat viruses"

spectator.com/article/playin… "If a military team made a mistake during a nuclear…exercise and accidentally obliterated millions…, you would not expect to find…the very same people merrily admitting a couple of years later…they…carried out the very same…exercise...with...fewer safeguards."

"Would you?"

"The construction of the chimera may violate the
Biological Weapons Convention, as a protective purpose is elusive."

[There was no valid protective purpose.]

https://twitter.com/R_H_Ebright/status/1999973680399675439

"[T]he creation of the HKUJ4r-HZAU-2020-MERS(S) chimera may violate Article I of the Biological Weapons
Convention. This is because it is hard to see protective or peaceful purposes arising from its development, a stipulate of Article I."

"The handling of highly dangerous viruses is once again at the forefront of the biosecurity debate. In Spain, an investigation is currently underway to determine whether the outbreak of African swine fever could have originated in a laboratory. Separately, researchers in China recently reported the reappearance of a bird virus long thought to be extinct – a finding that is sparking discussion among virologists."

berliner-zeitung.de/politik-gesell… "Last week, the Spanish Ministry of Agriculture...launched an investigation to determine whether the virus might have escaped from a laboratory. The CReSA laboratory is a particular focus of the investigation. Genetic analyses...show that the virus does not resemble the variants currently circulating in other European countries, but rather a strain discovered in Georgia in 2007 and used in laboratories"

"The laboratory suspected of being the source of the African swine fever outbreak was under construction."

"Construction work can facilitate escapes, as happened with the foot-and-mouth disease virus in the UK"

elpais.com/ciencia/2025-1… "CReSA...has a 4,500-square-meter biocontainment unit with 6 laboratories at biosafety level 3...The CReSA expansion project, awarded to the construction company Rogasa, involves adding 3,000 square meters to the high-security laboratory area."

Virologist Simone Wain-Hobson:

"Yan and colleagues...report the reemergence of historically extinct virulent genotype IV Newcastle disease virus."

"The most parsimonious hypothesis is a lab leak."

biosafetynow.substack.com/p/a-viral-reaw… "In the case of viruses that have become extinct, it is far better to let sleeping viruses lie"

"Don’t resurrect them, don't play with them. Destroy any remaining stocks of virus or infected tissues in the freezer"

Another lab leak in China:

"Here, we report…emergence of…genotype IV NDV isolates…across…China between 2021 and 2023...These isolates exhibit remarkably high genetic similarity to ancestral strains, showing minimal divergence despite…50–90 years"

journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/jv… "Class II genotype IV Newcastle disease virus (NDV), a historically virulent strain responsible for the first Newcastle disease (ND) panzootic from the 1940s to 1960s, was presumed extinct after its last reported isolate in India in 2000."

"Biden preemptively pardoned Fauci...retroactive to Jan. 1, 2014. That date is key…according to...molecular biologist Richard Ebright. He said 2014 'is the start date of NIH grant AI110964—the NIH grant that funded the Wuhan research that caused COVID"

childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/sen-r… Ebright: "Fauci approved...continued funding in 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, and 2019, in violation of a moratorium in 2014-2017 and a mandate for HHS-Secretary review in 2018-."

"US virologist who collaborated with…Wuhan…before…COVID-19 privately informed…US intelligence…in January 2020 that the Chinese lab may be responsible for the outbreak. But…after meeting with…Fauci…the researcher stayed mum about the Wuhan lab"

freebeacon.com/biden-administ… "University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill virologist Dr. Ralph Baric warned the Office of the Director of National Intelligence during a closed-door presentation with the agency’s Biological Sciences Experts Group on or around Jan. 29, 2020, that the Wuhan lab, which was conducting risky gain-of-function experiments on bat viruses similar to the one that causes COVID-19, may have accidentally released the virus into the human population."

"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.'"

"[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."

https://twitter.com/HansMahncke/status/1970521166952464646

--Research on biological weapons agents, including genetic modification of biological weapons agents to increase their deadliness, is occurring worldwide.

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.

https://x.com/R_H_Ebright/status/1911505795327439092