I did not comment on this aspect, because what Daszak, Morens, Keusch and Roberts were trying to do is so ethically and morally repulsive. But since @sigridbratlie brought it up, I feel necessary to fill in with some details. @DrJBhattacharya

Here are Fauci and Morens getting apoplectic at the thought of Jesse Bloom daring to oppose their fake natural origin certitudes. @jbloom_lab is the son of Marshall Bloom, an expert of parvoviruses and flaviviruses, who works at Rocky Mountain Laboratories (NIAID).

Kudo to Ian Lipkin to state a few simple truths. 👉 In particular, the simple and established fact that Worobey et al (2022) and Pekar et al ( 2022) - aka the two Science papers - are 'crap epidemiology'.

For the record, @angie_rasmussen discussing @jbloom_lab after a critical article that quoted him. "As a virologist, I say hell with Jesse. He's a hypocrite and an embarrassment to the field."

One should ask @mgordonwsj if he is ok with the deliberate targeting of journalists such as Betsy McKay (WSJ) by Peter Daszak, the facilitation of trips for them into South East Asia, and the total absence of any distance to the controversial character and his pal, Morens.

Nice to know that Morens bonded with Betsy McKay of the @WSJ, and that they agreed that 'guys like Ebright were evil pieces of shit not to be listened to'. @betswrites @R_H_Ebright usrtk.org/wp-content/...

USRTK FOI regarding R01AI089728 by Baric + Fang LI (from 2015) Note the suspected effect on brain-entry of the RARR proprotein convertases due to the three arginines ('enhanced' PPC/cleavage site). This was back in 2015. usrtk.org/wp-content/... @RandPaul @thackerpd

Worth noting. Morens describing what went behind the scene at NIH/NIAID: @DrJBhattacharya usrtk.org/wp-content/...

This is worth a read. In May 2022, Rich Roberts reached out to Jeff Sachs, who explained to him why he considered @PeterDaszak a fraud. Jeff's answer was then forwarded by Rich to Peter, who added his comments:

Peter Daszak: "Just saw that Richard Ebright and others have formed a new 501c3 to combat research that will enhance pathogens (biosafetynow)" @R_H_Ebright @DrJBhattacharya

Worth checking: USRTK FOI published 2 Oct 2025, regarding Baric + Fang LI R01AI089728 (from 2015) usrtk.org/wp-content/...

Am I the only one who read this as @angie_rasmussen asking if @DrJBhattacharya would like to risk his life speaking at TPUSA this December, given Kirk's assassination for 'disseminating extremist right-wing political rhetoric'? Sounds like some kind of invitation to me. @FBIDirectorKash

I am not sure that I can follow @walkerbragman.bsky.social's logic: If Kirk hosting Jay Bhattacharya means that Jay is a 'cynical right-wing hack', then does Gavin Newsom hosting Kirk mean that Kirk is a holy Democrat? Or does that mean that Gavin is the cynical right-wing hack? @governor.ca.gov

Very damaging email. This is the reaction of Fauci to the ‘Tedros Proposal’ I wrote about. The proposal was not enough for Fauci; he needed a quicker move. He got it through Proximal Origin, which Farrar forced onto Andersen himself. @SenRandPaul @SenJoniErnst @thackerpd

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

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

Please enjoy my latest bedtime story. A story that will hopefully educate children about modern science and make sure that they too can succeed. g.co/gemini/shar... @DrJBhattacharya

Try to guess what Jeffery Taubenberger does these days: @thackerpd @RogerPielkeJr @R_H_Ebright @RandPaul @SenJoniErnst

Just dropping this here. @R_H_Ebright @thackerpd

Worth listening to it. It was actually obvious to anybody with a critical mind and the ability to read the very poorly argued Proximal Origin or its many copycats.

Random quote from the EHA stink-pot: "Collins/Lauer are both deplorable. We will get them in the end, their end, rear end, and out." @thackerpd @R_H_Ebright

This is now my favourite question to test the probabilistic understanding of LLMs: 🤔 I have 3 children. At least one of them is a girl. That girl was not born on a weekend but was born in spring. What is the chance that my second born child is a boy?

A challenging choice for some: @R_H_Ebright @ggronvall

This time, we are comparing Deep Seek R1, DeepSeek V3, Grok 3, Llama 3.3 70B, Gemini 2.5 Pro, and GPT-4o on Daszak's calendar items about NatComms. DeepSeek R1 regularly surprises (image). @PeterDaszak @sciencecohen @Lake_Octopus @R_H_Ebright @emilyakopp @thackerpd @mattwridley

Trying to see how AI can help analyse our stash of unreleased files. Also, rather useful to get a simple fact-based analysis at the micro level. The analysis below, based on @PeterDaszak 's calendar items about Latinne et al, is a good example: @sciencecohen @Lake_Octopus @R_H_Ebright

Remember when Bluesky was supposed to be the social media safe-space? It turned into a boring echo-chamber instead. Daily active users, mobile apps, US, numbers to end-June 2025: @thackerpd

More information on this: ▶️ The WIV had the samples, EHA had no access to them. ▶️ The WIV did the sequencing. ▶️ There was a simple understanding that the WIV would share the sequences with EHA (not to be shared further unless agreed). ▶️ No way to double-check anything. Unreleased document quoted:

These numbers were already reported in a Jul 2022 FOI by USRTK. See 'PREDICT Sample Disposition Summary to USAID as of July 30 2019' in the UCDUSR0005086.pdf FOI doc. @emilyakopp x.com/NeilPatelTD...

This recent FOI shows that the following DOE national laboratories (NL) were involved in that 'Furin write-up' that went into the National Intelligence Council position of Aug 2021: ▶️Los Alamos (LANL) ▶️Lawrence Livermore (LLNL) ▶️Pacific Northwest (PPLN) @R_H_Ebright @emilyakopp

Yet another example where EHA was very clear about the real risk of the accidental release of pathogens via some research activity. In a March 2019 report with the World Bank: @ColinDavdButler

Important reporting on the Covid origin debate on Nano, a good German TV science program (3sat & ZDF). The origin question is covered during the first 13 minutes. @AlexanderKekule, Günter Theißen, @VBruttel are featured. @c_drosten was invited to take part, but did not.

Anybody who had some family there would know that Central Europe was a torn-away place before WW2, during it, and in its aftermath. Murderous nationalists, murderous soviets, all kinds of crazy people butchered each others and the Jews.

Look who was so unhappy about the conclusions of the just released SAGO report on COVID-19 origins: 👉🏻 China, Russia and Cambodia (a vassal state of China). Carlos Morel, the reliable friend of Daszak (also part of his $1.3 billion Global Virome Project) resigned 2 weeks ago.

The GVP ability to help detect escapes/releases of lab-enhanced viruses is also mentioned in the draft Boston Consulting Group presentation of March 2018. @ColinDavdButler @R_H_Ebright @SenTomCotton

Top virologist Simon Wain-Hobson: "Scientists too can lie:" @franzbecchi @sigridbratlie @mattwridley #DRASTIC

USAID really tried hard to get Carlos Morel to fly business to the GVP meeting in Beijing (where USAID & EHA tried to get China to take the lead, as the US Gov would not give $1.3bln for it). A shame he would just not accept to get a fancy medical certificate like everybody else (Daszak, Mazet, ..)

Chronicle of a Death Foretold: "Engagement on Bluesky appears to have peaked in mid-November. It’s now down about 50 percent, and the decline shows no sign of levelling out."

One may have found a Daszakus Ratus up that tree, trying to protect his cash cow of a GVP after his R01 got hit. Especially since the P.O. authors had argued with that animal about the validity of the GVP (except for Lipkin, a GVP ally, spared in the 'anonymous' email).

It's funny what @angierasmussen.bsky.social‬ can come up with. One of the peer-reviewers of her paper was actually rather upset by the cynical propaganda blitz, that was totally unjustified in his opinion (3/4 reviewers had issues with that paper).

The latest episode of Streitkräfte und Strategien, with military economist Marcus Keupp, is well worth listening to (in German).

How @peterdaszak came up with his GVP budget numbers for what should have been a 10-year cash cow, and the crowning of his career: “The good news – we need much more than $1.5 Billion – it’s more like $6+ Billion to do it well (22 viral families).” 💰💰 @DrJBhattacharya @mitch_benzine

I have a sense that having worked on Crohn's disease with Andrew Wakefield, and having written papers with him, Daszak is projecting rather badly here. Wakefield must have seen some potential in Peter. He did not disappoint.

The World Socialist Website (Trotskyist) recently featured 3 long articles about Peter Daszak's fight against anti-science, anti-China and anti-communism. It now asks for your money to fight the Big Lies..

I have just found out that Proximal Origin is listed in 'Unreliable' (Csaba Szabo, Columbia University Press) as a recent example of a biased review article. Well done Holmes, Andersen, Garry and Rambaut! Your contribution to biased science is being recognised in text-books.

It may be worth remembering that the “Alliance for Science” (then at Cornell University) once listed the possible lab origin of COVID-19 as one of the top 10 COVID conspiracy theories. It was all supposed to have started as anti-China nonsense propagated by The Epoch Times.

'Unreliable' (Columbia University Press) by Csaba Szabo is a perfect introduction to the bias, fraud and non-reproducibility which are widespread in biomedical research. I hope that the current government will walk the talk and really do something about it, politics aside. x.com/JDVance/sta...

Based on a story first reported by @forbetterscience.bsky.social here: forbetterscience.com/2025/05/19/a...

Here is the 3rd part of the interview of Peter Daszak, on the World Socialist Website. 👉 The Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic was "a McCarthyite, anti-science, anti-democratic, anti-China and anti-communist campaign"

Here is the 2nd part (out of 3) of the interview of @PeterDaszak.bsky.social on the World Socialist Website, a site of the International Committee of the Fourth International (ICFI). It largely follows the Chinese narrative, piling praise on it.

Please find here the latest interview of @peterdaszak.bsky.social‬ on the World Socialist Website, a site of the International Committee of the Fourth International (ICFI). It's the only media outlet that will interview him, and it's easy to miss for 99.9999999% of people (ex China and NK).