randomperson01

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by randomperson01 3y ago
Sure its evolutionarily possible to insert 12nt. Inserts are not common though. Whats key is that the insert -in a 30kbp sequence was at exactly a position that would give it functional properties to allow the virus much higher tropism for
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by randomperson01 3y ago
For some excellent COVID-19 origins discussions I' d recommend the Straight Talk MD podcast by Frank Sweeny. Great coverage -from initial coverup of cases, silencing of doctors and deliberately misleading the world on human to human tr
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by randomperson01 3y ago
Emily Kopp has a well researched article on the coverup of lab leak discussion by Fauci and instigation by him to publish the Proximal Origin paper. https://usrtk.org/covid-19-origins/timeline-the-proximal-ori...
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by randomperson01 3y ago
Paul Thacker https://unherd.com/2022/03/is-the-media-still-stifling-the-l... Ian Birrell https://unherd.com/2021/06/beijings-useful-idiots/ and Ashley Rindsberg have all done a good
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by randomperson01 3y ago
No the reason is that there was a concerted campaign by those with research links to the WIV to cast it as a conspiracy theory https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6... https:/&#x2
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by randomperson01 3y ago
Another good book is Dark Winter by epidemiologist Raina MacIntyre. Touches on COVID origin and similarity of the inital market excuse to the Sverdlovsk lab leak coverup by Soviets https://unsw.press/books/dark-winter&#
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by randomperson01 3y ago
Good timeline here https://archive.is/zaBp6
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by randomperson01 3y ago
from the WHO in 2006, page 236 on SARS: "the risk of a laboratory source is potentially greater" https://apps.who.int/iris/handle/10665/207501
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by randomperson01 3y ago
Imperiale, the last author is a known gain of function proponent with a history of downplaying the possibility of a lab leak https://twitter.com/emilyakopp/status/1620884457032155136?t=...
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by randomperson01 3y ago
Its a good compilation that I saw in mid 2020 that was one of the sources of data leading me to question the zoonotic spillover hypothesis that I had read in Zhou et al (RaTG13 paper) and Anderson et al. That the WIV was conducting exactly
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by randomperson01 3y ago
Just like someone leaked out about the Sverdlovsk lab accident - how many years did that take? http://web.archive.org/web/20210621032149/https://www.nytime...
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by randomperson01 3y ago
There is no reason to suspect Ill intent. Accidents happen. It is well known the WIV were doing gain of function research on SARS-related CoVs. It is also known that the WIV were partners in a proposal to insert human specific cleavage site