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The latest so-called "lab leak" scientific experts: A breast health entrepreneur and a climate-change denying physicist who's now a self-proclaimed expert on the origin of the Covid pandemic https://t.co/AXAaoFBu6i
— delthia ricks 🔬 (@DelthiaRicks) June 7, 2021
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The WSJ is now feeding the news cycle another article claiming to have "damning" evidence that COVID was created in a lab. It's a scientific claim, so one I can assess. 🧵 pic.twitter.com/CMvk5B4NrA
— Amy Maxmen, PhD (@amymaxmen) June 7, 2021
They reference the CGG codon that David Baltimore called a "smoking gun" in Nicholas Wade's piece. Baltimore told me he only meant to point out that we should consider a lab-origin hypothesis (uncontroversial). He told @profvrr that Wade twisted his words. https://t.co/5WjL8N7MB2
— Amy Maxmen, PhD (@amymaxmen) June 7, 2021
Andersen also pointed out that feline coronaviruses have CGG-CGA, meaning it's a single nucleotide difference (ie evolution can make these codons in viruses). An A to G switch happens frequently because it's synonymous, it doesn't change the function of the amino acid. pic.twitter.com/phlmPXAoeO
— Amy Maxmen, PhD (@amymaxmen) June 7, 2021
I talked @AlJazeera about how the media is feeding the media on this runaway story about a lab-leak, with smarter comments from @BeijingPalmer & @GidMK https://t.co/BcCX5Jdy4S
— Amy Maxmen, PhD (@amymaxmen) June 7, 2021
I wrote this piece about how unsubstantiated allegations of a lab leak & the volatility of the debate may IMPEDE studies on Covid origins & interfere with the ability to end this pandemic & prepare for the next one. That requires collaboration & consensus.https://t.co/IEk1ufBrFZ
— Amy Maxmen, PhD (@amymaxmen) June 7, 2021
This doesn't stop influential figures from pushing a provocative story about how the scientific establishment/science journalists suppressed a lab-leak hypothesis because they're liberal/cancel culture. Consider we look for the science & it's not good. https://t.co/jigZGxxWtw pic.twitter.com/lL5AuZbb97
— Amy Maxmen, PhD (@amymaxmen) June 7, 2021
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This is the claim made by the WSJ
The Science Suggests a Leak at #China's Wuhan Lab
— Indo-Pacific News – Geo-Politics & Defense News (@IndoPac_Info) June 7, 2021
The Covid-19 pathogen has a genetic footprint that has never been observed in a natural coronavirus.
The leading theory for the origin of the coronavirus must be laboratory escape.https://t.co/p8XIwhdHpG
2/ The presence of the double CGG sequence is strong evidence of gene splicing, and the absence of diversity in the public outbreak suggests gain-of-function acceleration. The scientific evidence points to the conclusion that the virus was developed in a laboratory.
— Indo-Pacific News – Geo-Politics & Defense News (@IndoPac_Info) June 7, 2021
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Respectively, this WSJ opinion is awful and the double CCG focus is foolish. Side with a lab leak theory that reeks of propaganda or the virologists who have provided ample evidence that animal spillover is the likely and leading theory.
— Bobby (@labsocialist) June 6, 2021
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— Amy Maxmen, PhD (@amymaxmen) June 4, 2021
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The writer cited by the New York Times, Washington Post, and WSJ to prove the "credibility" of the "Wuhan Lab" theory is a serial fabricator whose pseudoscientific arguments for racism were praised by David Duke and the Daily Stormer.
— Andre Damon (WSWS) (@Andre__Damon) June 7, 2021
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