In investigating other potential zoonotic events, even finding infected animals has been interpreted to mean they were simply a "likely source". (e.g. HK hamsters) An HSM spillover event (and especially Pekar22's several) lacks key evidentiary support. Built on hopes and dreams.

DigitalDionysus It takes a mix, obviously. But yeah if you think the records we have of project DEFUSE, Andersens convos with Farrar, the biosafety records of similar labs, etc are irrelevant, I dunno how to help you.

Four dozen ethically challenged scientists and two dozen ethically challenged science administrators against 333 million other US residents. One would expect politicians would understand this is a issue with a 99.99998% to 0.00002% split. But many politicians still do not.

CBC News And only an ignoramus or a fraud would claim "It's very difficult to explain any other way, besides that virus was brought there with those live animals and it spilled over, twice actually, into the human population at the market."

Babak Javid Michael 英泉 Eisen Preprinting needs to be mandated by the NIH And would have been a decade ago if the NIH had had a competent, non-complicit, and non-corrupt Director.

The most intolerant and toxic accounts migrated to Bluesky. There is no surprise ending to this story... It seems inevitable that all the jerks (think zoonati) will be back on X as soon as Musk makes some minor pro-social change that they can use as an excuse for returning.

Goes hard. But can someone disagree? I can't.

The very *authors* of Proximal Origin were debating its most firm conclusions months after publishing. Unsurprising it doesn't hold up well.

If Presidential Medals of Freedom had actual correlation to heroism and freedom, Richard H. Ebright should have already been awarded one. He correctly and bravely spoke out about risky research more than a decade ago, well before the COVID pandemic. Had people in power listened,

I disagree. I think it is financial independence. Monks, patent clerks, aristocrats, and billionaires are scientists. The rest are grifters.

The impulse to target gov't agents for extragovernmental punishment in order to shape practice is undemocratic and illiberal. US gov't is designed so that all have an equal voice. This style of politics attempts to create a 4th branch of gov't, run by 'decent society'.

Hmm. Maybe, but TDS deserves some credit for the Gaza deal. /The tyrant's military lays siege to American cities, missiles strike targets at whim, his cruelty unbounded by law and untempered by compassion./ What tribe would not bow when His Eye and His Will turns toward them?

Q: How many other proposals for piecemeal parts of DEFUSE were written but haven't come to light? And what details do they clarify? Baric's (his in particular, but everyone on DEFUSE's) correspondence must be credibly reviewed. He didn't remember DEFUSE until it leaked, so we

When someone values their process (intrinsic motivation) over their product, they seek out and engage thoughtful criticism. Improvement is a joy. But Zoonati do not respect their craft. Their headline results and concomitant rewards, are everything. Sad.