@davideyoungmd@AndrewNoymer Very creationist to see a gap in evidence (no definitive intermediate host) as an argument for lab leak. Nevermind the evidence there were animals in the market that could be infected and transmit sc2. Noymer does a god of the gaps fallacy.
@DrJMarine@gorskon I read Makary's 2021 op-ed and his own sources refuted his fantasy before the delta wave also refuted it later in 2021. Makary should stick to bleating out obvious things about antibiotic resistance years after others have already done so. https://t.co/YyKq8JKCj4
@FRCdc@NIHDirector_Jay this is still human fetal tissue or no?
"NIH funds are permitted for use of research involving HFT obtained from miscarriage or stillbirth"
https://t.co/TFvHE3I4xn
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Dr. Anthony Fauci complained about death threats to him, his family, public health experts + staff, etc.
This thread will cover some of the rhetoric that may have contributed to that, along with surrounding context.
1:43:53 - 1:47:40 :
https://t.co/ilzJ6RdzTc
@Marcia4Science@angie_rasmussen If the survival of the NAS is critically dependent on federal grants as suggested in the nature article, then maybe it's time to become a private nongovernmental institution that does not materially depend on the federal government.
@Marcia4Science@angie_rasmussen If you're already walking on eggshells like this and worried the federal grants could be cut at any moment, then this will be the only mission of the NAS going forward.
@curryja The paper contradicts you.
"My take is that we are still in the multi-decadal hiatus that began around 2000."
"I expect this hiatus to continue at least another decade."
https://t.co/McIcwtb9kd
https://t.co/MnFTKlY8O0
@AtomsksSanakan@StavaRune@sigridbratlie If your freezer has orangutan DNA in it and Sigrid Bratlie asks if you have samples that match human DNA then you better say yes or she will write that you are not correct.
@AtomsksSanakan@StavaRune@sigridbratlie I guess she can still sell books to people not inclined to look these things up
"Overall, the researchers found that the human and orangutan genomes are 97 percent identical"
https://t.co/JmrUdKKqa3
@AtomsksSanakan@StavaRune@sigridbratlie If your freezer has orangutan DNA in it and Sigrid Bratlie asks if you have samples that match human DNA then you better say yes or she will write that you are not correct.
@StavaRune@sigridbratlie Zhengli Shi just happens to be another scientist that must be malevolent for your lab leak theories to work since she says her staff was not infected.
How much does your book depend on a secret cabal of malevolent people hiding the truth I wonder?
@StavaRune@sigridbratlie Nobody thinks a RaTG13 can be a progenitor to sc2. You have a PhD in molecular biology. You must know this as well.
If you care about academic freedom then you need to do a lot better job justifying your claims of dishonesty when you attack scientists.