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WIV15 Only one live isolate missing from WIV1 to WIV19. But why is it important? pnas.org/content/117/47… twitter.com/franciscodeasi…

Today we thank Ron Fouchier, famous stunt virologist at @erasmusMC, for standing up for science during the secret 1 February 2020 teleconference, set up by @jeremyfarrar to debunk the ultra damaging lab leak conspiracy theory.





Scientific integrity demands a virologist be as hard to track as a bat flapping through the darkness of the night. youtu.be/IxwrDSYrhjU?t=…







“As the social scientist Benjamin Hurlbut (of ASU)… puts it: the problem isn’t an anti-science public, but rather a scientific community that labels a sceptical public grappling with legitimate trust issues as anti-science or conspiracy theorists.” theguardian.com/commentisfree/…


.@janeqiuchina makes some good and bad points in the @guardian 1) The bad "misteps" is a very inadequate way to describe the behaviour of Peter Daszak. OTH: 2) "we still don’t know how the devastating Ebola outbreak in west Africa began in 2014." Amen theguardian.com/commentisfree/…?













