Peter Daszak

Today we’re launching our nonprofit Nature.Health.Global. @naturehealthglobal.bsky.social to help build a future that is resilient to emerging disease threats, supports healthy ecosystems & our own communities, & one in which we make decisions based on science naturehealthglobal.org/announcing-t...

Not only a vital defeat of the far right, but also a win of inestimable value for the planet.

This is the perfect opportunity to show how easy it would be to be a lab leak ‘sleuth’ (derogatory). Suppose a new flu strain did come from this mink farm in Provo, Utah… Say, no! To the official story. Employ countermeasures. Gogogadget Google for a nearby lab.

Check out the Rally for Health & Science we organized in DC last Friday. Streamed on Facebook etc. Full video, clips coming soon! @drericding.bsky.social @rdmorris.bsky.social @pauloffit.bsky.social @peterdaszak.bsky.social @vinguptamd.bsky.social www.facebook.com/share/v/18bN...

Today, we are announcing a huge new project in development: The Dark Money Illuminator. You can search any nonprofit to see: - Funders - Directors and officers - Groups it’s connected to You can also explore/search nonprofits by assets. And it’s going to be FREE! Donate to support this project

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Great to see this published, and heartbreaking what Trump admin and frenzy lab leak mania amplified by too many destroyed. Read the whole thread, and the paper, and think about it.

This should be a humdinger of an event... 911hs.org

A very timely and important new paper: “How decades of corporate capture enabled today's assault on universities in the United States” www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Here's a neat thing! My mom retired after 25+ as a children's librarian at public libraries yesterday. (It was very cool! Hundreds of former Story Hour kids arrived, some as adults!) I let Ed Markey's office know in case they wanted to send a nice email back and they sent this! He's still got it!

Wait a minute - when they find an FCS in a wild bat or raccoon dog beta-CoV, do we then get all our grants back??

I am sure the Coal Baron is magically gonna reverse his position on lab leak when a Sarbecovirus with a functional FCS at S1/S2 is found, right? Of course not, he will double down and claim that when nature created it, isn´t it so much more likely the lab found it secretly and used it as template?

#WOHC2026 @peterdaszak.bsky.social “Converting a forest in Malaysia releases diseases like lepto & malaria - completely removes profit from palm oil plantation”. He presents #OneHealth Strategy for #PandemicPrevention: smart surveillance, broad acting vaccines, policies, action & awareness.

A new contender for least accurate article on COVID-19 origins ever: arxiv.org/abs/2608.20416 Abstract pictured here. But I think Bannan still holds the crown given that his article somehow passed peer review despite being a compilation of years old conspiracy theories (plus new errors).

Since Kadlec’s grabbing NIH funds, here’s a reminder that he can’t tell fact from fiction: www.the-gallop.com/bob-kadlec-i...

NYT: Inside the D.O.J.’s Investigation of Fauci and Other Virus Scientists By Benjamin Mueller and Glenn Thrush @nytimes.com nyti.ms/3UU9RMU

Timely reminder re. the truth behind these attacks. No, Dr. Fauci did not fund GoF research in Wuhan. No, the work we did in China not have caused COVID-19. Yes, as @gostin.bsky.social points out, this work is considered an important goal for pandemic prevention. www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/the-...

Seems lab leak-sympathetic Relman needs to use Signal to have a conversation with a fellow scientist. This is the exact thing the lab leakers have been attacking me and others they call zoonati about & implying some sort of cover-up. Just shows what a non-story this whole thing really is...

Tour-de-force debunk of FBI agent Bannan’s BS on the lab leak. So easy for people to post paranoid ramblings based on the hundreds of other lab leak conspiracies, but such hard work to go through all the inaccuracies and lay them out, with receipts, as @zachhensel.bsky.social has done so well here.

Unbelievable how erstwhile good scientists believe debunked conspiracies because they can’t get over the idea that China = bad. Relman is a true believer in this as well as the prob BS microwave/sound wave attacks. He’s prob half way there on the Jewish laser beams too after a couple of drinks!

They can’t admit the real reason they prefer to post on X

Come on, folks. Your chance to get you voice heard. It’s comment time! (until October 13th)

Actually, the fact that more media vitriol was cast onto an academic than is being cast on the rapists in the Epstein Files (many of whom are ACTIVE academics) is EGREGIOUS. No one should be driven to their death in this way—even if every accusation were true—over academic misconduct.

The lab leak theory is not a strict scientific theory, but mostly a narrative of different allegations Rand Paul is not only falsely accusing Fauci of creating SARS-CoV-2, he is endorsing a very stupid version of the origin theory that has incredibly strong evidence against it. Let me illustrate:

New story from @jocelynkaiser.bsky.social at Science on K award changes. www.science.org/content/arti... 1/13

The NIH just released a proposal that will apparently hide peer reviewers’ impact scores and percentiles from the research team, their institution, and NIH program officers. All the better to obscure how funding decisions will be made primarily via political review, I’m guessing.

2 honorable choices. She can resign or resist from the inside until she’s fired. She knew she was signing up for this. We’ll see.