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Matt Ridley
Matt Ridley@mattwridley·
My summary slide last night at NIH:
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Anshul Kundaje
Anshul Kundaje@anshulkundaje·
@TylerAStepke @See74370Justice @NIHDirector_Jay @NIH What about Peter Miller? Not sure if you consider him decent. But I'm pretty sure we wasn't involved in the Proximal Origin commentary or the Worobey/Pekar papers. x.com/i/status/19415…
Peter Miller@tgof137

I write a lot about Covid origins. I thought the lab leak theory made sense, back in 2020, but I eventually came to realize that it's very unlikely to be true. Here's a summary of some long posts I've written and many shorter threads:

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Jay Bhattacharya, MD, PhD
Jay Bhattacharya, MD, PhD@NIHDirector_Jay·
🔬Scientific progress depends on discovery, but also the freedom to question, debate, and examine evidence wherever it leads. In the spirit of that ideal, I’m thrilled to announce the launch of our NIH Scientific Freedom Lecture Series, an exciting new forum aimed at advancing transparency, rigor, and open scientific inquiry. Please join me March 20 at 2:30pm ET for our inaugural talk, titled “Viral: The Search for the Origin of COVID-19” featuring a conversation with Matt Ridley, D.Phil. Guests can attend in person at the Masur Auditorium in NIH Building 10 or online via the NIH videocast page. bit.ly/3PsHAu5
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Tyler Stepke
Tyler Stepke@TylerAStepke·
@anshulkundaje @See74370Justice @NIHDirector_Jay @NIH It would be nice if there was a decent scientist publicly advocating for natural origin that wasn't involved in the blatant scientific fraud in Proximal Origin or the blatant statistical nonsense in Worobey/Pekar. Unfortunately I'm not aware of anyone.
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Anshul Kundaje
Anshul Kundaje@anshulkundaje·
@See74370Justice @NIHDirector_Jay @NIH Second, this is not a media circus. It is supposed to be an official NIH hosted discussion. So assuming u don't want to have the censorship of the past, u shud want to see all sides represented. Or is this all about "revenge"?
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Anshul Kundaje@anshulkundaje·
@See74370Justice @NIHDirector_Jay @NIH Firstly, lab leak narratives were very alive & widespread during the pandemic. I was actively following Alina Chan at the time on X & was originally leaning towards it. It was not the "mainstream" narrative yes.
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Tyler Stepke
Tyler Stepke@TylerAStepke·
I really like the article. It reflects typical views in biosecurity, including some widespread and dangerous blindspots Olivia discusses here. I think 1 is true if you're talking about someone with no scientific background, but I would not underestimate the capabilities of newer models in the hands of someone with a solid foundation. x.com/OliviaHelenS/s…
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Bryce Nickels
Bryce Nickels@Bryce_Nickels·
I'm particularly enjoying Matt Ridley presenting dispositive evidence Kristian Andersen and his co-authors of Proximal Origin committed scientific fraud.
Bryce Nickels@Bryce_Nickels

🚨HISTORIC EVENT REMINDER🚨 Today, 2:30–4:00 p.m. ET Matt Ridley (@mattwridley) delivers the inaugural lecture in the NIH Scientific Freedom Lecture Series “Viral: The Search for the Origin of COVID-19” Watch the livestream: videocast.nih.gov/watch/244438a5…

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Jamie Metzl
Jamie Metzl@JamieMetzl·
Kudos to @NIHDirector_Jay for inviting @mattwridley to give his excellent talk at NIH on #COVID19 origins. The case for a research related origin remains overwhelming. The main reason it has not been proven conclusively is the criminal obfuscation of the Chinese government.
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Bryce Nickels
Bryce Nickels@Bryce_Nickels·
🚨HISTORIC EVENT REMINDER🚨 Today, 2:30–4:00 p.m. ET Matt Ridley (@mattwridley) delivers the inaugural lecture in the NIH Scientific Freedom Lecture Series “Viral: The Search for the Origin of COVID-19” Watch the livestream: videocast.nih.gov/watch/244438a5…
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MJ Allen
MJ Allen@MJnanostretch·
Seems no one told Rasmussen the last expert who tried to correct Ridley w science, Dr Goldstein, badly lost the debate to Ridley. *Obviously Rasmussen is v. good at being simultaneously biased &insulting- but let's see if she can do more than that vs Ridley's strongest arguments.
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Tyler Stepke
Tyler Stepke@TylerAStepke·
Anyone still supporting this blatant BS from the most dangerous scientific frauds of our era isn't just failing as a scientist or journalist; they are threatening global biosecurity and public health.
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Telegraph Global Health Security@TelGlobalHealth

A ‘nail in the coffin’ for the lab-leak theory? A new study suggests Covid-19 didn’t need special adaptation to spread to humans but was simply waiting for the right opportunity Analysis by medical historian Mark Honigsbaum (@honigsbaum)👇 telegraph.co.uk/global-health/…

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Paul D. Thacker
Paul D. Thacker@thackerpd·
@mattwridley Just look at the authors of the study: rogue's gallery of nonsense spreaders, including Kristian Andersen.
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Olivia H. Scharfman
Olivia H. Scharfman@OliviaHelenS·
@mosasaurus27 @mkoeris You are wrong here on the synthesis, without going into anything info hazardous. Yes, there are easier ways to inflict terror, but not if you are looking for scale. We need mandatory synthesis screening
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Jay Bhattacharya, MD, PhD
Jay Bhattacharya, MD, PhD@NIHDirector_Jay·
🚨Join us TOMORROW at 2:30pm ET for the inaugural talk in our NIH Scientific Freedom Lecture Series, titled “Viral: The Search for the Origin of COVID-19” featuring a conversation with Matt Ridley, D.Phil. Watch online via the NIH videocast page: bit.ly/3PsHAu5
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Olivia H. Scharfman
Olivia H. Scharfman@OliviaHelenS·
Mahajan states that (1) he is not scared of state actors largely because they signed a treaty [BWC] (2) he is not scared of highly engineered pathogens because AI will scale countermeasures symmetrically (3) he is not scared of individual actors and (4) nearly everyone he spoke to thinks the probability of a bioterrorism event is unlikely. (2/n)
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Alina Chan
Alina Chan@Ayjchan·
I believe an accidental lab pandemic is much more likely than a deliberate pandemic in the near future. The solutions of biosecurity startups and nonprofits will be tested then but its unclear they would compete well against established vaccine & therapeutics manufacturers.
owl@owl_posting

Reasons to be pessimistic (and optimistic) on the future of biosecurity owlposting.com/p/reasons-to-b… "It was such a fun read (if you can say that about an article on weapons)!" —a glowing review from an early reader this is (once again) the longest article I have ever published at 13,000 words. it involves interviews with 16+ researchers/VC's/policy folks in this field, and discusses basically every single facet of biosecurity that i could find. topics include: how machine-learning in rapid response therapeutic design may work, the financial status of the customer base of biosecurity startups, why agroterrorism feels extremely likely to me, and a lot more i admittedly started the essay pessimistic that this subject matters at all, and i end it surprised that it doesn't keep more people awake at night. im not a doomer about it all, but i can see how people become one. very grateful to the people who decide to spend their career (or some fraction of it) working here, and especially grateful to the ones who helped teach me about the subject

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Matt Ridley
Matt Ridley@mattwridley·
Remember “telegraph global health security” is a team of non journalists paying to place propaganda in the mainstream media for gates foundation and WHO. Here they support a flimsy attempt to find support for China’s popsicle origin theory in a single social media post!
Telegraph Global Health Security@TelGlobalHealth

A ‘nail in the coffin’ for the lab-leak theory? A new study suggests Covid-19 didn’t need special adaptation to spread to humans but was simply waiting for the right opportunity Analysis by medical historian Mark Honigsbaum (@honigsbaum)👇 telegraph.co.uk/global-health/…

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Bryce Nickels
Bryce Nickels@Bryce_Nickels·
Which is why it's also important that the Trump administration fulfill its promise to the American people by producing a strong and effective policy on dangerous gain-of-function research and that Congress pass Rand Paul’s Risky Research Review Act (RRRA). However, as of March 19, 2026, by all indications it appears that both Trump’s executive order on dGOF and Senator Paul’s RRRA have died on the vine... indicating that the opinions of the "bioweaponers cosplaying as scientists" community (Ralph Baric, Yoshihiro Kawaoka, Jeff Taubenberger, et al.) have prevailed over the opinions of others. It follows that we are likely barreling toward a future in which another major lab-generated pandemic occurs and the very bureaucrats who came to power promising to prevent it will be the ones scrambling to cover it up.
Matt Ridley@mattwridley

Correct. Which it’s why it’s so crazy to damage its reputation by defending idiotic and dangerous gain of function research that had huge risks and minor benefits.

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