Ebright: "The claim repeated literally thousands of times by journalists that most scientists favour a natural origin of Covid and oppose a lab origin of Covid always was a lie. And almost always was a deliberate lie."
https://t.co/q1JKQdKyI8
The corruption here is off the charts. Rand Paul has just released a trove of emails showing Fauci soliciting various so-called scientists to nominate him for awards, many of which Fauci then went on to win, receiving substantial prize money in the process.
This needs to be forensically dissected, preferably by the DOJ. But even looking at just one example, Barton Haynes of Duke, the questions are staggering. Fauci personally petitioned Haynes to nominate him for an award, which Fauci ultimately won, including $1 million in prize money. That alone raises serious ethical concerns.
But what really knocked me off my chair is that Haynes has received something like $1.2 billion (with a "B") in funding from Fauci’s NIAID. The entire system is totally compromised, with a small circle of elites effectively doing favors for one another, all at taxpayer expense.
For my first post, I’m sharing a letter @NVIDIA signed on why open models matter.
AI will transform every industry, power every company, and be built by every country.
Open models strengthen safety and cybersecurity, accelerate innovation and diffusion, and enable sovereignty.
The world needs both frontier closed models and frontier open models.
https://t.co/AUKzoQ5Ikb
I read that when it came out. A ten year old kid could have debunked that piece of shit. No peer review, no independent verification, no science whatsoever.
@nature is a complete disgrace for publishing it. Science, as an institution will take decades to recover from Covid.
🚨NEW: Rand Paul released Slack messages showing the authors of "Proximal Origin" — the paper Fauci used to label the lab leak a "conspiracy theory" — privately turning on Ralph Baric and Peter Daszak after the DEFUSE proposal leaked.
September 21, 2021. DEFUSE surfaces: a 2018 plan to insert furin cleavage sites into SARS-like coronaviruses, submitted by Daszak's EcoHealth Alliance with Baric and Wuhan's Shi Zhengli.
SARS-CoV-2 is the only betacoronavirus that has one.
Andrew Rambaut, on Daszak and Baric:
"I would just like to discuss what our strategy should be so we don't get associated with these fuckers."
Eddie Holmes, on Daszak:
"Peter should have seen this coming and it is worse than he was suggesting a few days ago. He's a jackass."
Kristian Andersen, on Baric — who co-wrote DEFUSE, then attacked him for asking questions:
"He knew how suspicious a FCS would look back then. And his attacks on me for even suggesting we need to take a look at this. He's a two faced bastard, that's for sure."
They'd spent 18 months telling the world a lab origin wasn't credible.
Then they saw a 2018 proposal to insert a furin cleavage site into a SARS-like coronavirus, from a team that included the Wuhan lab — written a year and a half before SARS-CoV-2 emerged with one in Wuhan.
Rambaut:
"It really isn't beyond plausibility that someone went ahead and tried some of this stuff. We just need to re-convince ourselves it is coincidence."
Holmes:
"It is very striking that a bat-derived CoV with an FCS turns up in a city that was on a grant proposing to muck around with FCSs in bat-derived CoVs."
Andersen:
"This can't (shouldn't) be dismissed out of hand."
"There's a big difference between 'the lab was working on bat CoVs' to 'the lab was modifying bat CoVs using features we see being unique to SC2.'"
Then, as they split up the review, Rambaut:
"And stay off email."
"Or carefully curate some emails for the FOI records."
@RandPaul@TulsiGabbard