@MarkDGoldCoast It is impossible to escape the impression that major news outlets (NYT, WaPo, ABC, CBS, NBC, PBS, NPR), science news outlets (Science, Nature), Democrat Congressional leadership, and White House prefer that the public is misinformed--or at minimum uninformed--on this subject.
The WHO's track record is not encouraging:
On 14 January 2020, at a time when hospitals in Wuhan were seeing a flood of Covid cases, many of whom had never been near animals in a market and some of whom were in turn infecting healthcare workers, the WHO repeated the Chinese government’s nonsensical insistence that you could normally only catch Covid from an animal, not a person: “it is very clear right now that we have no sustained human-to-human transmission.
Genuinely surprising NYT still hasn’t reported on the Slack Channel release that included some authors of the 2020 COVID Origins paper directly and contemporaneously contradicting the position of the paper.
@MJnanostretch It has revealed a field which is unable and unwilling to regulate itself like other professions.
When industrial disasters happen in other sectors there are major investigations, and safeguards employed to protect the public. It is staggering that it hasn't happened yet.
"If SARS-CoV-2 did enter the human species through a laboratory accident, it's not just a case of *research* that went wrong. It would be a case of *pandemic prevention research* that went wrong. And I think that's quite a key point that I'm not sure I felt has been ...
COVID-19: twelve arguments for lab origin:
1) Pandemic caused by bat SARS-like coronavirus emerged in Wuhan--a city that is 800 miles from wild bats with SARS-CoV-2-like coronaviruses, but that has labs conducting world's largest research program on bat SARS-like coronaviruses.
This may sound like an exaggeration but there is documented proof that the Proximal Origin paper in @NatureMedicine did NOT reflect the actual scientific conclusions of its authors. No ambiguity whatsoever.
1/26 My comments about this just published poling of experts, examining their opinions on the plausible origins of Covid-19.
There is a lot to unpack. Much more than I have seen so far in reductive tweets.
So here it is.
https://t.co/CtQyEbFW0p
@RogerPielkeJr@BallouxFrancois
A very good point to remember.
There has been especially bad behavior from those in a field aimed at the study and prevention of threats to human health, who are instead acting to suppress reasonable inquiry.
If that happened in any other professional field, the response would be extreme public and regulatory pressure to ensure accountability and prevent a future occurrence.