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Gilles Demaneuf
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Pointy Head. Opinions, analyses and views are mine and should never be interpreted as representing any institution or company. #DRASTIC
Apr 11 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
1/6 Why on earth did Gerald Keusch think he could write in these terms to @drsanjaygupta?

👉🏻 "do better to clarify and not further muddy the sewage left over from the behavior of the US gov. toward China"

That was just after the CNN interview of Dr. Redfield on 27 March 2021. Email correspondence discussing the origins of COVID-2, highlighting misunderstandings between Dr. Keusch and Dr. Gupta regarding U.S.-China relations. 2/6 Dr. Gupta actually did not even say much at all. He was taken a bit aback during the interview.

Daszak and Keusch are just annoyed that CNN dared interview him. Dr. Robert Redfield discusses COVID-19 origins on CNN, surprising Sanjay Gupta with his view on a Wuhan lab.
Apr 10 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
Simon Wain-Hobson (Institut Pasteur) gave a talk to NIH officials last month.

He told them Collins and Fauci committed a "professional failure" by sterilizing debate on dangerous virus research.

He said Proximal Origin had "no data", and lab leak likely.
@thackerpd Image André Lwoff Prize, Athena Prize from the French Academy of Sciences, Officier de la Légion d'Honneur, OBE (Order of the British Empire, 2022 list) for services to virology.

Wain-Hobson and his research group at Pasteur Institute were the first to publish the sequence of HIV.

One of the top virologists around.Four prestigious awards and medals are displayed, including the André Lwoff Prize, Athena Prize, Légion d’Honneur, and OBE.
Apr 7 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
1/8 Nod (@nizzaneela) has updated his paper demolishing Pekar et al's claim of 'two introductions'.

v3 is more accessible, same brutal conclusion: the supposed support for two spillovers is an artefact of rigged hypothesis testing.

arxiv.org/html/2502.2007…Image 2/8 Quick recap: Pekar et al claimed a Bayes Factor of 60 for two introductions.

After three major errors were found (including a bad cut-and-paste!), it dropped to 4, just at the noise level border. Image
Dec 6, 2025 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Worobey is working on a paper showing that the epicenter is a taberna close to the lab.
Holmes has a photo of a well-wined evening there, which he will turn into a paper too.

Places like that are clear zoonotic disasters in the making. Image All [ASF] viruses currently circulating in the Member States belong to genetic groups 2-28 and not to the new genetic group 29 to which the virus causing the outbreak in the province of Barcelona belongs - very similar to genetic group 1 that circulated in Georgia in 2007.
mapa.gob.es/es/prensa/ulti…Image
Nov 16, 2025 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Good luck to the Daszak in suing EHA (through its board of directors) for a total of $4mln.

He is a debarred fraud, likely linked to one of the most destructive events of the last 100 years, who racked millions at EHA, and enjoyed the high life in its colonial revival villa in upstate NY, not far from his favourite ski fields. Letter to EHA from 2021:
Nov 6, 2025 • 26 tweets • 10 min read
1/24 🚨 New insights into #COVID19Origins! 🔍 In this thread, I reveal previously unreported key aspects:

1️⃣ Direct connections between the CIA and virologist Ralph Baric in U.S.-China virology cooperation and monitoring. 🕵️‍♂️🇨🇳 @SenRandPaul

2️⃣ The complete ODNI BSEG composition as of Sep 2020—never published before.Image 2/24 Context:

The BSEG, est. 2006, is an advisory panel designed to assist U.S. intelligence on biological threats, incl. viruses and biosafety. 🦠

🔒 Meetings are classified and managed by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. @thackerpd Image
Sep 5, 2025 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
DRASTIC Working Notes:
Findings from EHA documents made public by Congress in December 2024.

1️⃣ How the folder was made public:
@RandPaul @thackerpd @SenJoniErnst @BillyBostickson
@RogerPielkeJr Image 2️⃣ The folder content: Image
Apr 7, 2025 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
@CD57227 @JanKlimkowski @Florin_Uncovers @DavRoeck @R_H_Ebright @emilyakopp @zeynep Your link does not work unfortunately. Can you give one that works?
Quite a few foundations there (Stiftungen). @CD57227 @JanKlimkowski @Florin_Uncovers @DavRoeck @R_H_Ebright @emilyakopp @zeynep - Schweizerische Eidgenossenschat, Bundesamt für Kultur (BAK) (some funding if 10% is shot in Switzerland)
- Zürcher Filmstiftung
- Stiftung Volkart
- UBS Kulturstiftung
- Stiftung Corymbo
- Ernst Göhner Stiftung
Apr 6, 2025 • 12 tweets • 5 min read
You can't make that up..

"Blame" – when the only critical words about Shi Zhengli and Peter Daszak come from a Chinese journalist.💥

Jane Qiu visibly feels uncomfortable. It seems to her as if she is participating in propaganda, she says' Image In contrast, Variety has a surrealist article:

"Oscar-nominated Swiss director Christian Frei began to experience a feeling that “those who warned us would eventually be the ones who are blamed.

This sentiment, which he calls an “epiphany,” is at the heart of “Blame”. Image
Apr 6, 2025 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
@CD57227 @DavRoeck @Florin_Uncovers More details. Daszak had a work/vacation at end Oct 2022 during which he went top What Khao Ching Pan, but that was before the filming. Image The filming occurred during the first two weeks of December.

Note that Daszak went vi Zurich and shared the flight to Bangkok with Markolin.

He often does that for key people: Farrar from Geneva to London in Feb 2020, Koopmans from Wuhan to Amsterdam after the 2021 WHO mission, etc.
@ebright @JanKlimkowski @TantaliteImage
Apr 5, 2025 • 10 tweets • 4 min read
You can't make that up..

"Blame" – when the only critical words about Shi Zhengli and Peter Daszak come from a Chinese journalist.💥

Jane Qiu visibly feels uncomfortable. It seems to her as if she is participating in propaganda, she says' Image In contrast, Variety has a surrealist article:

"Oscar-nominated Swiss director Christian Frei began to experience a feeling that “those who warned us would eventually be the ones who are blamed.

This sentiment, which he calls an “epiphany,” is at the heart of “Blame”. Image
Mar 19, 2025 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
Let it be clear:

Farrar did not just sign Daszak's statement of support. He also organized its publication in Lancet.

This happened after he shared a taxi with Daszak back from a WHO conference in Switzerland on 12 Feb 2020.

Here is the never-published proof:
@JeremyFarrar #DRASTICImage Here Farrar replies it's fine with him, and please send the letter to Richard Horton (editor-in-chief) at Lancet: Image
Feb 18, 2025 • 11 tweets • 5 min read
What has never been reported in the mainstream media, is that when @SenTomCotton discussed some supposedly xenophobic 'fringe theory' of SARS-CoV-2 origins, he was effectively paraphrasing the expert opinion delivered by Baric during a classified BSEG (intel) meeting on 25 or 26 January 2020. The Biological Sciences Experts Group (BSEG) meetings are called by the NCPC, i.e: the National Counterproliferation Center within the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI).

They address the threat posed by the potential proliferation of biological weapons and related technologies.Image
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Jan 9, 2025 • 12 tweets • 4 min read
1/12 Nice article by @stephaniebenz and @yohanblavignat summarizing the situation as to the origins debate.

It captures very well the absurd cheap certitudes of the 100% zoonosis fans, and the questions that such a rush to close an existential debate raises.
lexpress.fr/sciences-sante…Image 2/12 If asked, I would say that after the wise 50/50 position that any scientist should have initially considered, most of the developments have been towards a research-related accident, with many predictions there coming true,
Dec 28, 2024 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
1/8 I am relieved to see that @RogerMarshallMD has asked Thomas Monheim, Inspector General of the IC, to look into the integrity of the Intelligence Community's COVID-19 origins assessment process.
marshall.senate.gov/wp-content/upl…Image
Image 2/8 I also asked 2 years ago if DEFUSE was part of the Biden intel evaluation, and, if not, why.
Dec 19, 2024 • 15 tweets • 6 min read
1/15 As you know, Peter Daszak is Greedy.

In 2023 Daszak was boasting internally that his funding was better than before the pandemic (and, indeed, at $17 min over the year, it was).

Read🧵 below for the details:
@R_H_Ebright @DrJBhattacharya Image 2/15 Research from Billy and me for DRASTIC, with the help of some anonymous friends, all based on legally obtained original documents (h/t @BillyBostickson), provides the internal EHA story.
Dec 4, 2024 • 29 tweets • 13 min read
1/29 In September 2021, we released DEFUSE with the original rejection letter, plus our 2-pager that detailed the reasons why DEFUSE was turned down:

Potential GoF/DURC work, no risk mitigation plan, no ESLI plan, all with vague deployment in the wild.

assets.ctfassets.net/syq3snmxclc9/5…Image
Image 2/29 @PeterDaszak spent the following 3 years pretending that this was all lies, that the grant was denied just because he asked for too much money, calling DRASTIC conspiracy theorists.

Today's💥bipartisan💥 @COVIDSelect report 💯% confirms what we explained back in Sep 2021. Image
Dec 3, 2024 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
1/7 Just another way to keep funding Daszak.

This was on top of the private donors and foundations that took the relay after Daszak's grants got suspended in Apr 2020.

One huge advantage in this: no reporting or regulatory requirements as private money!
.@DOGE
2/7 Proofs:

9 June 2020:
"We do have some good news though. First of all, we received the check from your Anonymous donor colleague [$500k] and this will go a significant way to allowing us not to lay off staff from the China work."
.@emilyakopp
Nov 30, 2024 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
1/4 For the record:

Florence Debarre did a lot of her checks by talking directly to Peter Daszak, today defunded & disgraced.

He seems to have been rather convincing. Did he tell her that he was happy to have coronavirus work done at P2 in China, when it would be P3 in the US? Image 2/4 Also, let's not forget that Debarre was a contact of Daszak from before the outbreak. Image
Nov 26, 2024 • 14 tweets • 6 min read
1/14 Here is a quick thread on the back-channels funding to EHA and the support by Fauci to Daszak/EHA, via Morens and Keusch as foot-soldiers.

The message below gives the gist.
@RandPaul @RogerMarshallMD @emilyakopp Image 2/14 We can see here :

• A gift from an anonymous donor (actually an anonymous foundation), enough to help keep staff in China.
• The gift from the Wallace Foundation
• Jeremy Farrar asking Peter for a pitch he can put out to Wellcome Foundation, for funding EHA.

@BiosafetyNowImage
Nov 23, 2024 • 9 tweets • 4 min read
1/9 An interesting paper about Covid origins open-science on Twitter/X, against the gate-keeping from entrenched communities.

'In essence, much of natural origin science advocacy over the following three years focused on achieving a definitive and final closure of the origin question, in the face of incomplete and missing data.'Image 2/9 'A core lab origin advocacy group formed on Twitter in spring 2020, under the name DRASTIC. [..] This loose multinational collection of molecular biologists, bioinformation specialists, biosafety experts, engineers, and internet sleuths, some of whom are anonymous, has produced very extensive Twitter content, as well as preprint documents, and peer-reviewed publications'.

#DRASTIC @BillyBostickson

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/03…Image