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Daniele Vecchi's avatar

It is amazing how Andersen who has bluntly lied to Congress keeps getting away with it. What a corrupted world the handling of public funding is.

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DSB's avatar

Okay on getting the paper retracted, but how do we make sure that Andersen, Garry, et al, never receive taxpayer funding again? That is the real penalty in their line of work.

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Dan Sirotkin's avatar

My father and I wrote two peer-reviewed papers focusing on serial passage as the method used to engineer this virus all the way back in 2020 and 2021, this is the second time I've written you about this - Why are you refusing to cite the peer-reviewed research that's several years old?

"Might SARS‐CoV‐2 Have Arisen via Serial Passage through an Animal Host or Cell Culture?"

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7435492/

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/bies.202100017

Additionally, those papers were based on a whitepaper written all the way back in January 2020, which a FOIA shows members of the DOE's LLNL emailing around from 2021 to 2023 - Why do you continue to pretend like our work does not exist?

https://usrtk.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/DOE-docs.pdf

And here's an article from 2022 focusing in on serial passage:

Weaponizing the Swarm by Weaponizing the Stupid - Why the suppression of "serial passage" as the technique used to craft SARS-CoV-2 depended on the cowardly compliance of morally and ethically bankrupt academic and journalistic worlds.

https://www.harvard2thebighouse.com/p/weaponizing-the-swarm-by-weaponizing

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Vivien C Buckley's avatar

Everything about the origins, the vaccines and lockdowns is heavily laden with obfuscation, coordinated cover ups and out right lies. This is the most bizarre and disorienting time I’ve ever experienced in life. I don’t understand it but it points to a much bigger picture than imagined. The cover ups are bending over backwards to keep the truth from ever being known. As a pfizer shot injured person, I feel this bullshit acutely.

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Marnie's avatar

Jonathan Latham at Independent Science News referenced your paper in May of 2022:

https://www.independentsciencenews.org/commentaries/faucis-covid-origin-swat-team-versus-the-mojiang-miner-passage-theory/

"Even though it [Proximal Origins . . .] is not even a full scientific paper (it is a “correspondence” piece) and its major conclusions were premature and some erroneous, this assessment nevertheless has 4453 citations (and still rising). By contrast, published hypotheses of COVID’s origins incorporating a lab leak all have very few citations. For example, the highly credible review paper “Might SARS-CoV-2 Have Arisen via Serial Passage through an Animal Host or Cell Culture?” has just 21 citations (Sirotkin and Sirotkin, 2020)."

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Marnie's avatar

In Testimony, Robert Garry Declines To Rule Out That Researchers Brought Ebola To West Africa In 2014

https://www.independentsciencenews.org/commentaries/in-testimony-robert-garry-researchers-brought-ebola-to-west-africa/

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Marnie's avatar

Did West Africa’s Ebola Outbreak of 2014 Have a Lab Origin?

https://www.independentsciencenews.org/health/did-west-africas-ebola-outbreak-of-2014-have-a-lab-origin/

"After Ebola was first confirmed by laboratory tests in mid-March 2014, persistent rumours in the region linked the outbreak to a US-run research laboratory in Kenema, Sierra Leone (Wilkinson, 2017). This facility studies viral hemorrhagic diseases, of which Ebola is one.

"Kenema is 140 km southwest of Guéckédou and the same distance from Macenta and a little farther from Nzérékoré (see figure 1, above). All these towns sit close to or fairly close to the border where Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia meet.

"The Kenema laboratory stands in the grounds of the Kenema Government Hospital (KGH). The lab, but not the hospital, has been operated by the US-based Viral Hemorrhagic Fever Consortium (VHFC) since 2010. Though there is an interesting continuity–a viral hemorrhagic fever laboratory was run by the US CDC in Kenema between 1976 up to Sierra Leone’s civil war in the 1990s.

"The president and founder of the VHFC is virologist Robert (Bob) Garry of Tulane University."

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Vivien C Buckley's avatar

I don’t know what the hell is going on in the world but have nothing but questions but no answers are forthcoming. Apparently, the Chinese researchers escorted out of the BSL4 in Winnipeg by the RCMP in 2029 were MAILING Ebola virus to China. WTF!!

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Vivien C Buckley's avatar

In 2019, sorry for the mistake.

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Vivien C Buckley's avatar

What we need to find out is why are they so disparately trying to cover up? What were they actually doing? I mean wouldn’t it have been better to admit to the leak followed by contrition and emphasizing the importance of the research for the betterment of mankind? With all of the lies we’ve been told in the last 5 years and believed initially, I’m sure they could have made this lie work. Instead they’ve brought all kinds of attention to the big fat lie. What are these people actually up to?

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