Le documentaire complotiste diffusé hier soir par @publicsenat.fr sur l'origine de la pandémie de Covid n'est pas nouveau : il était sorti l'an dernier sur France5.
J'avais écrit un débunk, toujours d'actualité ⬇️...
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Screenshot of Matt Ridley's final slide Acknowledgements - to those who investigated the lab leak hypothesis • David Asher • Rodolphe de Maistre • David Relman • lan Birrell Richard Ebright Sharri Markson • Francisco A. de Ribera • Jesse Bloom Andre Goffinet Steve Massey • Ashley Rindsberg "Billy Bostickson" Rowan Jacobsen Jamie Metzl • Charles Rixey Sigrid Bratlie Robert Kadlec Bryce Nickels Charles Small Colin Butler Hideki Kakeya Gerald Parker Valentin Bruttel Emily Kopp James Philips US Right to Know Alina Chan Jonathan Latham Matt Pottinger • Anton van der Merwe Virgine Courtier Filippa Lentzos Steven Quay Nicholas Wade Etienne Decroly Sharon Lerner Monali Rahalkar • Simon Wain-Hobson Yuri Deigin "Libertarian Virologist" • Prasenjit Ray "The Seeker" Alex Washburne Gilles Demaneuf Raina Macintyre Robert Redfield Alison Young The members of DRASTIC Angus McCowan • Antonio Regalado • And many
Matt Ridley's list of leakers #covidorigin
One of the best debunks of Ridley's theories was by 2018 Matt Ridley. He is now promoting what he mocked then: the creation in a lab, in secret, of a new human pathogen
web.archive.org/web/20190922...
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Do you remember the other pandemic that started in China in late 2023?
Probably not, and for a good reason: it did not happen.
The alarm was due to misinformation coming from a Falun Gong-linked outlet, laundered through other media. ▫️1/7 #covidorigin
The story of the WIV database, with the date of its removal, was the most successful piece of disinformation by the lab leak activist group DRASTIC.
Did you know it started with different, wilder claim?
If not, good for you, you did not waste time with a lie.
For the curious: ▫️1/4 🧵
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The EMI article was a non-story, but it gave an idea of the methods of conspiracy theorists: manufacture outrage, paint scientists as untrustworthy, amplify each other on social media.
More details in this blog post: pandemonium.hypotheses.org/331 ▫️6/6
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illustration: collage of tweets about the article
Are you familiar with the story of the EMI article?
If not, good for you, you did not waste time with a manufactured controversy aimed to sow distrust.
For the curious, here's how lab leakers tried (and this time, failed) to generate outrage: ▫️1/6 🧵 #covidorigin
screenshot: CHANGES TO CSD WIV DATABASE DESCRIPTION ON DECEMBER 30th 2019 Accessed: Mobile data connection from Shanghai to Wuhan high speed night train Device: Device MAC & IP address registered to Professor Zhengli Shi (Wuhan Institute of Virology) CHANGES FROM VERSION 2 (LEFT) TO VERSION 4 (RIGHT) VERSION 2 - 17™ JULY 2019 (ZH2) 中国科学数据 VERSION 4 - DECEMBER 30" 2019 (ZH4)
Looking for tips and comments!
Some time ago, DRASTIC lab leak activists wrote that Shi Zhengli edited an article on 30 Dec 2019, that they have her IP and MAC addresses, and they could even tell the edits were from a train.
How would this even be possible? ▫️1/4
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archive.md/sKCPq
illustration image, made of a map of Antarctica (NASA svg) and SARS-CoV-2 virus (NIH BioArt)
Are you familiar with the story of the Antarctica sequences?
If not, good for you: you didn't clutter your brain with yet another Covid-origin damp squib, where innocuous data were made to look suspicious by misrepresenting a date.
For the curious, here's the story. ▫️1/9 🧵 #CovidOrigin
screenshot of altmetric website: Mentioned by 47 X users
According to @altmetric.com, the original paper was only shared on X. The usual #covidorigin leakers cheered, completely uncritically...
How many of them actually read the paper? ▫️5/6
link.altmetric.com/details/1825...
PS: I am trying to use hashtags more often to categorize posts (following @notjustdna.bsky.social 's example).
Feel free to mute #covidorigin if you do not want to see posts on the topic.
I am also using #revuedepresse when I am commenting on news in French.
Maybe an even more inside baseball in these documents -- but it's key:
No mention of furin cleavage site in the slides...
which matches a remark made by Peter Daszak in an email to David Morens in May 2021, made public by FOIA ▫️1/8
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www.hsgac.senate.gov/wp-content/u...
https://covid.gov currently points to some kind of lab leak website.
#lableak #lableaktheory #EcoHealth #EcoHealthAlliance #CovidOrigin #OriginOfCovid #CovidIsNotOver #CovidIsAirborne #KeepMasksInHealthCare #maskup #WearAMask #VaccinesPlus #covid19 #covid #SARSCov2 #DavosSafe #BringBackMasks […]
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Why do many alleged leftists stump so hard for a *specific* intelligence angle?
Y'all are weird AF
👇🇺🇳🇨🇳"As Covid lab leak suspicion lingers, WHO urges China to share virus origin data" #WHO #CovidOrigin
#GlobalPandemic #ChineseData
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#zoonosis
Increasing unlikelihood of a #lableak aside, what's interesting - imo - are the *56* recombinant betacoronaviruses that Shi Zhengli and her group have identified in bats since 2004.
And in other mammals?
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"Rasmussen found the same pattern in the RNA profiles of humans who had been at the market and two of the susceptible animal species that were there: raccoon dogs and greater hog badgers."
Ein parteiischer Bericht eines republikanisch geführten Ausschusses voller Falschbehauptungen, verdrehter Darstellung…
Aber klar, das Ignorieren des zoonotischen Gefahrenpotentials liegt im Trend und passt zum Umgang der USA mit #H5N1. #Lableak #COVIDOrigin 1/3
🚨 Did SARS-CoV-2 come from gain-of-function research? And if so, will we ever find out? 🚨
I have been on a scientific journey for a definitive answer that took me to the cutting edge of #covidorigin science.
Here is what I found
open.substack.com/pub/protagon...
Fun fact: #covidorigin lab leakers claim that analyses wrongly reject #SARS2 lineage A/B intermediates, yet they don't reveal how zero (0) of 20 were from prior to 23 Jan 2020 (most were in Feb 2020). Had they even been intermediates, that's *far* too late to support lab origins.
