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We need to follow the evidence, not politics from a field that continuously falsifies bio-accident evidence. The field struggles with this issue. Here’s a virologist’s take on key lab-leak evidence—without tunnel vision on engineering.

The fields bias needs highlighted more. They improperly falsified an accident and they still are doing it. WHO ignored the DEFUSE proposal and leaned into a double spillover paper that got published with the help of a math error that also has several peer reviewed papers countering it.

Most people believe it, but hard-left partisan types are still entrenched. A question I always wonder about: is most of the press in this category? Maybe a lot of the press falls into the “why does it matter” crowd, which is sort of stage 2 after denying the evidence.

They pushed the wetmarket in a speculative unscientific manner at first. Their case definition included ties with the wetmarket and cases after Dec 1st. Both speculation that scientists pride themselves in not doing that also corrupted their findings. It was a political decision.

Did he say July? Sept is summer. I saw good evidence of covid being in the US in late Dec. The WHO accepts global Dec spread but pay them little mind and I think the field is biased and trying to make the wetmarket work. Check out that title. The bias is palpable gh.bmj.com/content/7/3/...

They initially pushed the wetmarket. It was in their case definition at first. Scientists wouldn't do that unless political forces were guiding their hand. Also Sept is summer. Also the initial spillover, lab or nature, would likely be less efficient at transmission and an extinct lineage.

Natasha Loder wrote about potential earlier cases including Lawrence Gostin's account that in mid-late Dec 2019 he heard from friends in China via WeChat and other communications. “Clearly, it was even then a widely circulating novel virus, reminiscent of SARS”. open.substack.com/pub/overmatt...

"Michael Callahan, an infectious disease expert, was working with Chinese colleagues in a longstanding avian flu collaboration in November [2019] when they mentioned the appearance of a strange new virus." www.nationalgeographic.com/science/arti...

I think it is unclear whether the virus was a zoonotic leap or a lab leak. We may never know. But our analysis (in Apollo’s Arrow) of cases throughout China in January 2020 strongly suggest that the virus had already left Wuhan by November. Here is the data we used: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

December cases in Wuhan tell us little about the virus’s origin. By then, cases had already appeared in the U.S., Italy, France, and elsewhere. gh.bmj.com/content/7/3/...

This is the intel the US is likely sitting on and hasn't confirmed that Jeffrey Sach confirmed when he was on the covid origins committee. It's likely this virus mentioned.

Still learning bluesky. Retweeting this cause it's not linked in my replies...