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by jeduehr 6y ago
Hi, you can actually look elsewhere in this thread to find the substance of my comments pieced out to meet specific arguments. If you make specific arguments I will do the same.
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by jeduehr 6y ago
Hey you can literally look up my name in the post I linked and find all the evidence in the world that I am who I say I am. https://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/gk6y95/covid19_did... James Duehr, Ph
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by jeduehr 6y ago
Oh yeah I think that's a great idea. NSF has been toying with this kind of thing for a while, and they've put mandatory public-facing time in some of their grants. There just aren't all that many good venues for it. But I thi
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by jeduehr 6y ago
Hi, I actually wrote a direct response to this idea in my original post. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1vRbACWf90iBC35xNOwlI5bWcUq0... (Footnote 1) Also, you can literally look around on this exact post and find
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by jeduehr 6y ago
Okay they at least need to stay quiet, sit in their warehouse of cages, and no journalists need to find out about it. And there can't be any leaks from anyone involved suddenly gaining a deathbed conscience. The conspiracy becomes so i
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by jeduehr 6y ago
Yes, a lab leak of a virus collected from nature is the most plausible of these lab theories. But the epidemiological evidence points to covid-19 originating outside wuhan entirely, that's why I find that theory less likely, among othe
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by jeduehr 6y ago
I am engaging, against my better judgement!
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by jeduehr 6y ago
Alina Chan, also not a virologist. She's a geneticst or biochemist. She just uses some viruses in her research sometimes, like basically all biochemists. Calling her qualified in virus biosafety is like saying someone with a PhD in Vis
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by jeduehr 6y ago
It's important to understand the distinction between chimeric and mosaic viruses. Baric makes Chimeras. CoV-2 in comparison to the other closely related viruses in nature, is a mosaic. Lots of little changes all over the genome, not bi
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by jeduehr 6y ago
Why didn't they do the same for the SARS-CoV-1 leaks that happened in Beijing over a decade ago, then?
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by jeduehr 6y ago
Re: inspections, Shi Zhengli has been yes. Her government, not so much. I am definitely not a fan of the Chinese government. But the scientists I've met at conferences and the papers I've reviewed from their labs have been of a ve
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by jeduehr 6y ago
But at the time when it was important, in both of these leak events, only extremely few people had died. Not millions. It was far from the worst accident in human history at that point, it looked like nothing and in America lots of people t
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by jeduehr 6y ago
I didn't say my argument must be true because I have a PhD. I said you should trust that I'm not talking out of my ass because I have a PhD. I'd much rather you read my arguments and criticize my content. The fact is, critici
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by jeduehr 6y ago
1.3. you cannot take any virus known in nature (like Ratg-13 for example) and "cook" it for long enough or in any specific way to make it look like SARS-CoV-2. You can't do it in the time we've been able to handle viruse
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by jeduehr 6y ago
I'm typing on a phone keyboard so forgive my typo. And I linked to a literal mountain of evidence describing both my credentials on this topic and then an extremely detailed and heavily sourced set of arguments. I'm not talking ou
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by jeduehr 6y ago
Actually I do. I have A) direct relationships with the people who study viral biodefense at USAMRIID and serve on the government panels, and they were very surprised to hear about these cables. They didn't find the authors credible at
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by jeduehr 6y ago
That's interesting, because of the scientists featured in the above article... None of them are virologists. Petrovsky, for instance, if you look at his google scholar, hasn't published a paper in a virology journal in the 10 year
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by jeduehr 6y ago
Everyone is citing the evidence of the SARS-CoV-1 leak as reason to believe that viruses escape labs. But you know what's interesting about that? We know about the CoV-1 leak because /the chinese scientists told us about it./
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by jeduehr 6y ago
Hi, I actually ended up responding below to point 3 in particular but I also respond to it in my original post. Very few, if any of these arguments are novel. The reason you will find extremely few people with actual credentials in the scie
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by jeduehr 6y ago
I would rather you criticize the facts of my argument than the platform it's raised on. I was under the impression HN has a certain sense of propriety in its "comment guidelines." Or do you want to stoop as low as the forums
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by jeduehr 6y ago
Hi, yes I do. Because those mutation events in a small number of people still require a longer time to become "stable" in the overall population of viruses. Generally speaking, the more virus "generations" you have, the
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by jeduehr 6y ago
Actually a lot of virologists are also critical of GOF. Just look at public health people, epidemiologists. Folks like Andrea Sant, Michael Osterholm, David Topham, etc. These folks criticize GOF all the time, and are a big part of the grou
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by jeduehr 6y ago
Actually occam's razor would say that the many many many more instances of bat-human contact throughout the Chinese countryside are likely responsible, not a lab leak. Did you know that people use Bat Guano (literally bat shit) eyedrop
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by jeduehr 6y ago
VERY VERY importantly, the cables were not written by or authored by scientists. It was all Trump State Department-hired businessmen and diplomats who inspected the facility and wrote that cable. Why should we expect them to be good at dete
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by jeduehr 6y ago
Furin cleavage sites very similar if not largely identical to this one have also been found in nature, and have been generated in nature in very short spans of time (on the order of a few decades, which is what is suspected to have happened
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by jeduehr 6y ago
Hi, I have a PhD in virology focused on emerging viruses, and a few months back I wrote a very lengthy and involved piece full of sources. And in there, I describe exactly how wrong your point 1 is. And how misguided your point 3 is. The po