🚨DEEP DIVE: Docs show the makers of Tylenol secretly knew credible research linked its drug to autism 7 years ago. Tylenol’s epidemiologist said "the weight of the evidence is starting to feel heavy to me." But she worried doing their own study could confirm the link. 🧵

I feel like I'm LOSING IT. I just learned that the White House is dodging calls from manufacturers with hundreds of millions of N95s collecting dust. So it's up to US to upgrade our masks. Boosters can't prevent all transmission of omicron. You can find masks here (pls RT):

The moment the New York Times won a Pulitzer Prize for its Russiagate reporting. Mark Mazzetti says that “we still have no idea how this story will end,” a not-so-subtle nod to the possible removal of Trump. Instead of being an existential threat to Trump, the story is an existential threat to the reputation of the Times.

I'm sitting next to a Pentagon employee at a DC coffee shop talking about efforts to move policies out of the hands of "politicals" to "career folks." Rough transcript: "Any steps DOD can take to institutionalize, to preserve what we consider positive policies that might come under fire, any steps to shore that up, we’ve already done it." Some discussion of moving policies "out of the office of the secretary."

There is evidence of a Tylenol-autism link published as recently as August 2025 coauthored by the dean of the Harvard School of Public Health. That's pretty new.

Things are moving fast: 800 hospitals have introduced vaccine mandates according to the American Hospitals Association

You may have heard that a research proposal called DEFUSE lays out a blueprint for the creation of COVID. You may also know that other scientists brush off DEFUSE because the risky virology was to take place in North Carolina. Today new docs obtained by me indicate American scientists misled DARPA about the DEFUSE proposal. They indicate some risky virology in DEFUSE was slated for Wuhan under inadequate biosafety conditions. "PD" = Peter Daszak "BRS" = Baric, Ralph S. usrtk.org/covid-19-origins/a…

I hear this is the most hotly anticipated story of 2024!!! 1,200 docs obtained by USRTK reveal plans to engineer viruses with the properties of SARS-CoV-2 — including a furin cleavage site at the S1/S2 junction and six restriction sites — in Wuhan. usrtk.org/covid-19-origins/s…

Sen. Paul tells reporters: "Three prominent scientists told us the NIH funded gain-of-function research in Wuhan. This is in contrast to what Fauci told us directly in committee. ...Something is amiss here."

Jay Bhattacharya confronts NIH bureaucrats with a fact that most Americans believe but that a complicit mainstream media has sheltered them from: NIH-sponsored research may have killed 1 million Americans

In a POLITICO profile today, I’m described by a virologist as investigating the lab leak theory out of “deliberate malice and scientific ignorance.” If you’re coming to my page from that profile, please allow me to clarify my actual motivations. The Biden administration has abrogated its responsibility to do an after-action report or assign a national bipartisan commission to investigate the pandemic’s origin. Across several U.S. agencies, there are a lot of cans of worms that such an investigation could crack open. So it’s largely up to the Fourth Estate to set the record straight for historians. In the absence of any meaningful errors in my reporting to spotlight, virologist Stephen Goldstein told POLITICO that I’m not credible because I’m really more of an activist. In my prior job in corporate media I quoted Goldstein in one of my first stories about this subject, about the 2021 kerfuffle between Sen. Rand Paul and Tony Fauci. The conclusion I was led to believe by Goldstein and other virologists was that the work funded by NIAID in Wuhan did not qualify as gain-of-function research. That was false. In fact, NIH had changed the website defining "gain-of-function research" to disguise the fact that Fauci had perjured himself. NIH eventually conceded to funding gain-of-function research in Wuhan. Subsequent emails obtained under FOIA have demonstrated that Fauci knew NIAID had funded gain-of-function research in Wuhan by early 2020. So how did Goldstein, an expert virologist, get it wrong? It turns out, other emails FOIA'd by @JamesCTobias demonstrated that Goldstein was on an email chain with NIAID and with EcoHealth's Peter Daszak denigrating news articles about the research in Wuhan in the fall after that summer hearing. Fauci's aide for twenty years, David Morens, was also Daszak's friend and mentor, and was on this email chain. The incentive to make a show of defending the reputation of NIAID was of course immense. NIAID controls millions in virology grants and had an enormous interest in downplaying the possibility of a catastrophic leak from an NIAID-connected lab. While privy to these conversations with Daszak and Morens, Goldstein postured to the press as an independent voice. In short, I won’t be scolded about my journalism by a source I consider to be duplicitous. The duplicity comes into play in the POLITICO story. Goldstein casts the DEFUSE proposal — which describes generating viruses just like SARS-CoV-2 — as just some unfunded UNC grant. He must know, because we reported it, that notes in the margins of the draft showed an intention to outsource the key experiments to Wuhan. The origins of COVID-19 is an expansive story involving coverups by the world’s two leading superpowers, complex and competing scientific claims, millions in government grants and contracts, and unrevealed classified intelligence. There is still a lot more to do!

Fauci may have conducted official business on a private Gmail that he believed was out of reach of FOIA, according to this email from his aide in 2021 (before he left NIAID). nypost.com/2024/05/22/us-new…

New docs reveal quarterly contacts between Ralph Baric, who exported blueprints for creating coronaviruses to the Wuhan lab, and America’s top spy agency, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. Baric was also approached by the CIA about a coronavirus project in 2015. ODNI in 2021 dismissed intel pointing to a lab leak as “misinformation.” This risked implicating Baric — their own bioengineering expert. Tulsi Gabbard totally disbanded the ODNI biological threats office earlier this year following questions from me about its suppression of intel.

Jay Bhattacharya on the topic most would-be NIH directors would assiduously avoid: How much NIH research is irreproducible or outright fraudulent? The fake amyloid beta *56 protein in Alzheimer's research is the perfect example.

When Tylenol (acetaminophen) is not properly metabolized, it creates a toxic biproduct. The process to metabolize acetaminophen is called glucuronidation. This process is underdeveloped in young babies.

Sen. Rand Paul opens a bipartisan hearing on COVID origins by reading the statements of virologists who privately agonized about the lab leak theory but cried "conspiracy theory!" publicly. He includes the statements of Bob Garry, one of those virologists, who is a witness today. hsgac.senate.gov/hearings/or…

Just learned through our docs that a coauthor of this piece was a paid consultant to Peter Daszak's Global Virome Project. Why wasn't that disclosed in Time? time.com/6150383/origins-cov…

SCOOP: FDA scientists first began recommending warning pregnant women about Tylenol nine years ago. But FDA officials like Janet Woodcock, who oversaw the approval of OxyContin, bucked the recommendation to warn the public about another painkiller, internal docs show. 🧵

The North Carolina House is investigating UNC virologist Ralph Baric, asking for records sought for years via FOIA and records tied up in the U.S. House Oversight Committee. Records could include emails with the Wuhan Institute of Virology/pre-2020 lab records about research on unique features found in the COVID genome.

I may be extrapolating too much from my own experience, but this recovering COVID reporter: - wears NIOSH-approved N95s - works from home - doesn't drink/go to bars - orders groceries online Worried that our immunity is very fragile heading into the fall.

Fauci appears to be redefining "gain-of-function research" in order to escape a perjury conviction. He recently said that gain-of-function only includes enhancing viruses "highly likely to be known to be very transmissible giving morbidity and mortality in humans." Seconds later in the same interview, he gives a different definition.

they were talking about Trump being a threat to democracy seconds earlier apparently unaware of the irony. I wanted to point it out but didn't want to make a scene, so I tweeted.

Peter Hotez said a congressional investigation into gain-of-function research was a “a plan to undermine the fabric of science in America” What he didn't say: He helped fund gain-of-function work in Wuhan usrtk.org/biohazards/critic-…

Newly unredacted email shows Fauci knew in extraordinary detail about the novel coronavirus research he funded Wuhan by January 2020. usrtk.org/covid-19-origins/f…

Who is the virologist who just took over Fauci’s former institute? He’s not just any 1918 flu researcher, he’s the gain-of-function virologist who made the shockingly short-sighted decision to revive 1918 flu and publish its genome. According to FOIA’d emails he was key to helping Fauci sell gain-of-function research to the public. He helped EcoHealth Alliance’s Peter Daszak evade scrutiny. This is the last person you want implementing an (expected any day now) gain-of-function ban. Just breathtakingly stupid.

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SCOOP: Star researcher behind an infamous infant mortality study is OUT and her academic antiracism center is in jeopardy amid plagiarism charges

What now? "The U.S. is required to give the WHO one year’s notice, and the administration is also bound to pay membership dues under the fiscal 2020 appropriations law." via @LaClason rollcall.com/2020/06/10/cong…

NEW: An email obtained via FOIA shows the godfather of the "AMYLOID MAFIA" — the dominant theory of Alzheimer's — telling his critic that "it's time to fold." It shows the dark side of NIH-funded science. 🧵

Publicly Ian Lipkin dismissed the idea that COVID-19 came from a lab. Privately he voiced concerns about a "nightmare of circumstantial evidence" pointing to the Wuhan Institute of Virology. Today he told a conference: prepare for subpoenas.

NEWS: Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard is seriously reforming the intelligence community for the first time in her office's 20-year history. ODNI was formed after 9/11 and was supposed to enhance tradecraft standards. But intel deceptions have accumulated: On COVID origins, on Russiagate, on Chinese election interference, and other issues. Gabbard is trying to restore trust in an IC that most Americans view as an unaccountable Deep State. A staff that started out at 2,000 will become 1,300 at the end of today's efforts.  ODNI is also axing three centers, two of which acted as political enforcers. 1. The Foreign Malign Influence Center, which coordinated with social media companies to suppress stories related to Hunter Biden's laptop. 2. The National Counterproliferation and Biosecurity Center: The head of the NCBC called the lab leak theory a conspiracy theory in 2020. (More on this from me soon.) 3. The Cyber Threat Intelligence Integration Center. ODNI will also axe the External Research Council, formed just last year by political actors in the National Intelligence Council, and the Strategic Futures Group, both found to have injected neoliberal opinions into intelligence products.

The explanation is pretty simple: The ACIP and National Academies were concerned the vaccine would be less effective in people 65+ (often the case with flu shots). The DRAFT recommendations were written before we had final data that mRNA shots are effective in older people.

A lot of people don't like DOGE's aggressive methods. But the status quo is that some of the country's richest counties are around DC, powered by your tax dollars. You don't hear about it in The Washington Post because this is their reader base.

Peter Hotez knew about efforts in Fauci’s office to conceal emails and obstruct a congressional investigation. Hotez claimed the evidence was doctored. But a new email shows Fauci aide David Morens thanked Hotez for “bitch-slapping” critics on Twitter. usrtk.org/wp-content/uploads…

Fascinating exchange at the House this morning with NIH Acting Director Lawrence Tabak about the deletion of early COVID sequences at the behest of Chinese scientists. NIH archives data hidden from public view on a tape drive. @jbloom_lab

Higher-ups tried to intimidate an analyst into signing off on the Russia hoax. You feel the frustration in his emails as he tries to blow the whistle. The kicker: His senator Mark Warner was the chair of the Intel Committee but his office wouldn’t even give him an email address.

The ACIP working group and National Academies have met dozens of times in hours-long meetings to discuss the ethics and epidemiology of one of the most difficult public health questions in history. you guys aren't mavericks, you're assholes.

Did Fauci help suppress the lab leak theory, or is that a Republican conspiracy theory? I compiled several FOIAs, media reports and book excerpts into one chronological timeline. I hope it helps! *collapses* usrtk.org/biohazards/timelin…

Sen. Rand Paul says he’s hopeful a Trump Department of Health and Human Services will turn over more COVID origins docs

We’re just a few days away from Fauci testifying to Congress. FOIA’d emails provide fresh evidence that he perjured himself. Fauci has claimed the term “gain-of-function” did not apply to enhancing bat coronaviruses and that it only really applies to viruses that have already been proven to cause severe disease. In this letter NIAID classifies enhancing the ability of SARS-related coronaviruses to latch to human cells as “gain-of-function research.” Fauci’s explanation is bogus, according to this letter from his own NIAID. usrtk.org/wp-content/uploads…

CDC: vaccination is 5.5x more protective than a prior infection cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/m…

NEWS: Obama aides say they hope the explosive Russiagate revelations of recent days are kept from "mainstream" audiences. Obama and the legacy press share a code of silence.

The very real possibility of a lab origin of COVID is the worst kept secret in Washington. Follow the money. 🧵 politico.com/news/2023/01/09…

The lab leak theory is often cited as a quintessential example of Facebook's censorship overreach -- and for good reason. A virologist "fact checker" was only later revealed to have been on the DEFUSE grant proposal with the Wuhan Institute of Virology, which some scientists describe as a "blueprint" for COVID.

NEW email: NIH leaders Francis Collins and Anthony Fauci emailed about whether they had funded the Wuhan Institute of Virology before secret call with virologists usrtk.org/biohazards-blog/fr…

Statement on abstention from FDA adviser Michael Kurilla. It really shows all of the complexity underneath the 17-0-1 vote. Don’t think many VRBPAC members would disagree with these points.

An influential study on infant mortality omitted a data point that undermined the pro-DEI narrative, according to FOIA docs obtained by @donoharm

Remember this? "You take an animal virus and make it transmissible to humans, that's not gain-of-function?" Fauci privately in February 2020: "Scientists in Wuhan ... are known to have been working on gain-of-function experiments to determine the molecular mechanisms associated with bat viruses adapting to human infection." nitter.app/COVIDSelect/stat…

NEW: Among the "Jewish groups" Trump cited calling for Rep. Ilhan Omar's removal from the Foreign Affairs Committee is a hate group with neo-Nazi ties rollcall.com/news/congress/t…

NEWS: Jay Bhattacharya confirmed the closure of NIH's LAST in-house beagle lab. For 40 years NIH induced sepsis & hemorrhagic fever in dogs. They sourced the beagles, valued for being docile, from a contractor that paid the largest animal welfare fine in history.

Wuhan Institute of Virology collaborator Peter Daszak appears to have misled the committee. He said risky coronavirus experiments were due to occur in North Carolina, not Wuhan. We dug up a draft grant proposal suggesting that was a lie. The committee writes: "Committee counsel advised you that ... if you knowingly made false statements, you could be subject to criminal prosecution." usrtk.org/covid-19-origins/a…

I hope this isn’t a controversial opinion: We shouldn’t allow virologists who misled millions of people to rehab their reputations by stating the obvious many years too late.

Reminder that Paul Offit advised his own son in his 20s not to get a booster shot.

My story: EcoHealth Alliance has been immediately suspended from receiving federal funds and is on track to be banned from receiving federal funds for years. A government official said that immediate suspension was in the public interest. ​​usrtk.org/covid-19-origins/e…

New info complicates former CDC Director Susan Monarez's story about her termination and the push to oust RFK Jr. Monarez said she "held the line" on the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices. But she was light on details and seemed out of her depth on the science. Today we learned Monarez never spoke to the ACIP chair about her concerns.

Politico reports White House staffers who interact with Biden are required to wear N95s.

I would have been too intimidated to say this 3 years ago. But I've since read hundreds of USAID docs. Elon Musk's claim about its bioweapons-work-by-another-name is not as crazy as the Deep State would like you to believe. 🧵

Did you know that a scientist at the center of the lab leak theory is connected to Fauci’s inner circle? We’re publishing new emails of David Morens, an aide to Fauci for decades. Morens was also a mentor and drinking buddy of EcoHealth Alliance President Peter Daszak, whose collaboration with the Wuhan Institute of Virology is at the center of concerns about a lab leak in Wuhan. Daszak’s NIH grant was suspended in 2020 and he was asked to get data from the Wuhan lab. Morens brags in a new email that they helped get EcoHealth more money than was lost. “Lots of folks outside nih are working on it.” This could refer to private donations or to money from the Pentagon. The NIH grant was suspended in the spring. That summer, $18 million flowed from the Pentagon to EcoHeath. We never got the data from Wuhan. EcoHealth Alliance is still receiving federal money. usrtk.org/wp-content/uploads…

Why are we only just learning about this? Reminder: Congress unanimously passed a law last year to declassify intel related to the Wuhan Institute of Virology.

I just finished reading all 69 pages of the new MAHA Commission report. Here are some of the statistics I found most shocking: - 40% of children have a chronic condition. - 75% of young people are ineligible for military service due to medical issues. - Obesity has jumped 270% since the 1970s. - For teenagers, social media is a full-time job. They average 9 hours of non-school screentime everyday. A separate study found that 46% of teens report being online “almost constantly.” - At the FDA, 70% of medical reviewers go on to work for the pharmaceutical industry. - NIH only devotes 4-5% of its budget to nutrition research. - A push for cheaper food came at the expense of nutrition. Cheap ultra-processed foods are not cost-free when it comes to health. But 70% of a child’s diet is now made up of ultraprocessed foods. - Americans get 50% of their calories from ultraprocessed foods vs. 10-31% in Portugal, Italy and France. - Ultraprocessed grains, sugars, & fats comprise 2/3rds of American calories. These can mess with fullness cues and lead to overeating. - A 10% increase in the consumption of ultraprocessed foods was associated with a 14% increase in all-cause mortality in a JAMA Internal Medicine study. - Farmers only receive 16 cents of every dollar spent on food, with the remaining 84 cents absorbed by manufacturers, marketers and distributors. - 95% of members of the Dietary Guidelines Advisory Council had a conflict of interest in 2020. - Support for organic food farming only accounted for 0.1% of the 2018 Farm Bill. - Infants put their hands in their mouths 10 times per hour, leading to increased exposure to toxins. - 90% of homes have residues of at least one insecticide on their floors. - A meta-analysis of 74 studies found an association between fluoride and IQ decline in children – a concern we were told was a conspiracy theory. - The U.S. ranked 47th out of 50 countries in an international study of aerobic fitness of children. - 15% of young men report no close friendships, a fivefold increase since 1990. - Since 1986 the number of vaccines on the childhood schedule has increased from 3 injections to 29 by one year of age. Some comparable nations (Denmark) have half as many. - Pharma funds five times as many clinical trials than every U.S. agency, including NIH, combined. This means that a lot of patient-level data is not available for scientists to independently check, as companies consider it proprietary. - Two editors of major medical journals received payments from the pharmaceutical industry greater than $1 million in 2014. A former editor of the prestigious British Medical Journal (The BMJ) said that “medical journals are an extension of the marketing arm of pharmaceutical companies.” - Half of DSM-5 decisionmakers had a conflict of interest, and their recommendations relaxed criteria for ADHD and bipolar disorder, driving up prescriptions.

March 2023: Congress unanimously told Biden's Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines to declassify information about the Wuhan Institute of Virology. April 2025: We learn for the first time that: - Scientists with the Defense Intelligence Agency argued the genome had signs of engineering and that the Wuhan lab could perform just such experiments - 7 athletes at the October 2019 World Military Games in Wuhan had COVID-like symptoms before the first official U.S. case - A FOIA'd document from the Dept. of Energy about its origins assessment comes back entirely redacted

Virologist who cowrote an enormously influential paper dismissing a lab origin of COVID failed to disclose his partnership with EcoHealth Alliance usrtk.org/biohazards-blog/an…

FDA Commissioner Marty Makary says he is trying to persuade Vinay Prasad — who left FDA amid a PR blitz by Sarepta Therapeutics and Laura Loomer — to rejoin FDA. 🤔

Major takeaways from the explosive report from two German newspapers that German intelligence pointed to a lab origin with 80-95% probability as early as 2020 — which was allegedly downplayed with the help of Biden's Director of National Intelligence. 🧵

Peter Marks circumvented FDA’s advisors on COVID boosters, spurred the resignations of top vaccine regulators, and unilaterally approved a Duchenne muscular dystrophy drug that just killed a teenager. Many will sanitize his record for political purposes, but I have a long memory.

A 10 page brief on US intelligence related to the Wuhan Institute of Virology is out. Even as far as Friday night news dumps go, this one is especially egregious. Biggest news is perhaps confirmation that Beijing authorities investigated the Wuhan Institute of Virology in early 2020 and tested workers for exposure to the virus. Recall that this is also when Beijing ordered all viral samples incinerated. The Wuhan Institute of Virology planned to study "epidemic viruses from pangolin samples" in fall 2019. The Wuhan Institute of Virology researchers got sick with COVID-ish symptoms but were not hospitalized. The US intelligence services say they were "unable to confirm if any of them handled live viruses in the work they performed prior to falling ill," even though their public scientific reports & grants show they handled live viruses. No mention of the missing Wuhan Institute of Virology database. Bottom line: These powerful intelligence agencies claim to know embarrassingly little. odni.gov/files/ODNI/document…

20 years ago, the National Academies specified the "seven deadly sins" - seven types of experiments that should not be done. Today virologists perform many of these experiments routinely.

Former CDC Director Susan Monarez's Senate testimony was supposed to preempt tomorrow's meeting of the CDC's vaccine panel, the ACIP. That seemed to be the intent of Sen. Bill Cassidy. Instead it raised major questions about whether Monarez EVER supported MAHA. There were even signs she is part of a Democrat op to undermine Trump. Monarez couldn't provide details about: - When she began communicating with her anti-Trump lawyers. - Why she kicked political appointees off her floor. - Specific issues with Kennedy's appointments to the ACIP, only stating that people in the "medical community" had expressed concerns. - Who told her that there would be changes to the childhood vaccine schedule and what those changes would be. -  What evidence exists for administering vaccines for Hep B, an STD, in infancy, or COVID vaccines to children at six months.  Does this sound like someone who resigned in principled integrity over vaccine policy, or a Democrat bureaucrat reflexively opposed to Trump?

CIA director on looking at COVID origins intel: “That’s a day one thing for me.”

The White House is implementing social distancing in its briefing room. The House is requiring K95s and N95s. Washington is adopting the best strategies for itself but not the hoi polloi.

New FOIA'd email: Remember when a Wuhan lab leak was deemed "extremely unlikely?" WHO Director-General Tedros and Wuhan Institute of Virology collaborator Peter Daszak clashed over this is a "very ugly" Zoom meeting. usrtk.org/covid-19-origins/w…

The hearing is getting underway. I'll live tweet observations here. 🧵 Democrats are seeking to treat the issue of poorly regulated gain-of-function research in Wuhan funded by NIAID and a conspiracy to evade FOIA within his office as "discrete" from Fauci. One big, obvious challenge for Democrats: Fauci led NIAID.

Here's a 2007 CDC pandemic plan warning that erratic social distancing rules would cause economic and social damage without containing the disease cdc.gov/flu/pandemic-resourc…

It was recently reported that the Pentagon's Defense Intelligence Agency had collected evidence of a lab origin of COVID-19, but that intel had been left out of public reports. Just now, U.S. Right to Know obtained a heavily redacted report from the Defense Intelligence Agency about the origins of COVID. Download and share before the Pentagon claws back its release. usrtk.org/wp-content/uploads…

I can't believe I forgot about my story with @kccorin about USAID footing the bill for EcoHealth Alliance President Peter Daszak's $20,000 luxury flights

Email suggests Fauci was involved in some kind of "damage control" related to EcoHealth Alliance in April 2020. Top aide to Fauci relays rumor to EcoHealth Alliance President Peter Daszak that Fauci was doing damage control related to his grant. The "Lauer letter" likely refers to a letter from NIH Deputy Director for Extramural Research Michael Lauer to EcoHealth seeking more information about the group's work with the Wuhan Institute of Virology as a condition of the continuation of its NIH funding. h/t email maven @Rebecca21951651 ecohealthalliance.org/2024/0… wsj.com/articles/nih-presses…

"Dr. Fauci, You deserve better than this," Democrats keep saying. Reminder that this is the OVERSIGHT committee, which is supposed to provide oversight of the government. When Fauci's contacts in the Democratic Party and the media are long gone, historians are going to marvel that we coddled the government official who may have overseen the worst regulatory failure in history like a vulnerable child.

The Defense Intelligence Agency knew by June 2020 that COVID could have been engineered using a technique called Golden Gate Assembly with tools called Type II restriction enzymes. A scientific paper making the same point was dismissed by virologist Kristian Andersen as "kindergarten microbiology" and has never found a publisher in the deeply corrupt scientific publishing industry.

The country’s best experts in virology, epidemiology and health equity met for months to consider the ethics and epidemiology of both, discussed this in hours-long meetings, haven’t voted on this yet AT ALL & you’re tweeting a slide out of context. but pop off king.

Thank you to the New York Times health and science reporters who let little ol' me eat your lunch on the story of a century 🙏

NIAID scrubbed the definition of gain-of-function research overnight. The change was made when grant reports made it unambiguous that Fauci funded research to make coronaviruses more dangerous in Wuhan, including research that increased the viral load by 10,000 times. web.archive.org/web/20211021…

A month after "Proximal Origin" published saying no lab origin scenario was plausible, its lead author wrote: "I’m still not fully convinced that no [cell] culture was involved ...We also can't fully rule out engineering." This should clear up any lingering ambiguity. They lied.

A Senate hearing on gain-of-function research is underway. Sen. Paul clarifies: A key question is whether a novel virus *unreported in scientific literature* was under study at the Wuhan Institute of Virology hsgac.senate.gov/subcommitte…

Lab leak concerns have officially gone mainstream. Biden's former COVID response director, Trump's former deputy national security advisor and a Ginkgo Bioworks official write that COVID may have been a lab enhanced virus. They pitch a new bio intel agency. The virologists who spent the last 5 years covering for Fauci and the CCP should not be allowed anywhere near these jobs. archive.is/T5F83#selection-6…

The origin of COVID has been the subject of years of debate, Twitter bickering, and propaganda. So it’s a surprise to many of us that there are tools designed to dispassionately assess the origins of epidemics, including something called a modified Grunow–Finke assessment tool, which is used by the U.S. military. A new paper in Risk Analysis applies the modified Grunow–Finke assessment tool to the origins of COVID and finds that a lab origin is more likely than a zoonotic origin with a score of 68%. Applying 11 criteria, the authors found COVID to be more characteristic of an unnatural pandemic than a natural one. Virologists who say COVID is natural often compare it to other coronavirus epidemics — MERS and SARS. But the new paper demonstrates COVID is very different from those outbreaks in its genome (ideally positioned furin cleavage site); its spread (millions of deaths vs. 894 MERS deaths and 811 SARS deaths); its proximity to a high security lab; the uncertain transmission routes from animals; and the virus’ strong binding affinity for human receptors. Biosecurity expert Raina MacIntyre says: “Our research shows that we should not dismiss a lab leak as a fringe conspiracy theory. The motives and vested interests of anyone who is desperate to do so should be questioned.” onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…

Richard Ebright identifies the source of the intensity around the COVID origins debate as a culture in virology that resists considering the enormous unintended consequences of gain-of-function research and resists regulation. @R_H_Ebright

Peter Hotez has spent years trying to suppress discussion of American ties to Wuhan research as akin to violence. He has spent years smearing a congressional investigation into the matter with melodramatic rhetoric about Stalin. Oversight of government (and publicly funded research) is essential to democracy. His ahistorical statements about Stalin are projection. Hotez’s actions seeking to shield himself as above reproach are straight out of an authoritarian’s playbook. All the while, research projects listed as involving his NIAID funding involved: 1. the chimeric viruses being scrutinized by the committee and 2. Zhou Yusen, a virologist at the center of speculation about a lab leak in Wuhan. We now know he knew about EcoHealth’s withholding of docs from the committee and the evasion of FOIA. Frankly I have always been put off by someone relentlessly casting themselves as a victim amid a pandemic that killed millions and cost trillions — a pandemic that may stem in part from the lax biosafety and biosecurity culture that Hotez participated in. My question is *why* he invested years in trying to suppress and stigmatize the committee’s investigation? Sources: journals.plos.org/plosbiolog… usrtk.org/covid-19-origins/c… drive.google.com/file/d/1i0i… wsj.com/articles/covid-emerg…

God this is so depressing. American scientists, most prominently Fauci, knew right away that a lab origin was credible but lied about it, and that lie lives on in tweets like this. The Narrative matters more than a million dead. Nothing darker than that.

Last week we saw influential virologists stigmatizing FOIA requests as harmful to scientific inquiry. This week @fastlerner reports that NIH sent her 292 blank pages in response to a FOIA lawsuit. theintercept.com/2022/02/20/…

October and November 2019. If true, this has enormous implications not just for the origins question, but for how soon the U.S. knew there was an emerging virus in Wuhan. The U.S. couldn't place sole blame on the CCP for letting the pandemic spiral out of control. thesun.co.uk/news/32257526/u…

In a debate organized by @ScienceMagazine, virologist Linfa Wang is asked by @Ayjchan whose idea it was to insert furin cleavage sites into bat coronaviruses in a rejected DARPA proposal: theintercept.com/2021/09/23/… A: UNC gain of function researcher Ralph Baric

A million American deaths. No accountability for the chief bureaucrat responsible for exporting high risk coronavirus virology to Wuhan and lying about it to the American public. I know everyone wants to forget about COVID, but we should not be numb to how corrupt this is.

I read Anthony Fauci’s seven hour deposition. To me, someone who knows this story pretty well, it seems like Fauci makes a few contradictory statements. agjefflandry.com/Files/Artic…

We had to battle for this big new document set (2,886 pages). It shows EcoHealth Alliance may have left novel viruses in the freezers of other countries. That may explain why the U.S. underwrote the Wuhan Institute of Virology’s coronavirus hunting expeditions, yet cannot reach a conclusion about whether the lab had a progenitor to COVID. usrtk.org/UCDavis-production…

New FOIA find: The WHO's top scientist Jeremy Farrar was a collaborator of Peter Daszak. Farrar was involved in a virus hunting project involving EcoHealth Alliance in Vietnam. usrtk.org/covid-19-origins/w…

Wired Magazine blamed a temporary shutdown of an NIH max security lab at Fort Detrick on DOGE. Turns out it stems from a "lover's spat." Someone poked holes in their ex's PPE.

There will be a lot of pearl clutching. But the World Health Organization never credibly addressed the cause of the worst pandemic in a century. WHO appointed some of the world’s most compromised scientists, who lied to millions of people: Peter Daszak and Jeremy Farrar.

Four times Fauci perjured himself in a House hearing last year: #1: “I’m saying no because I’ve said no multiple times.” Fauci, his program officers and the virologists he funded have massaged the definition of gain-of-function research to mean: altering an already pathogenic or pandemic capable virus; altering a virus to have a one log increase in growth; or altering a virus to have the same pathogenicity of SARS. All of these definitions are incorrect. NIAID’s own definition of gain-of-function research at the time of the experiments was to increase the pathogenicity or transmissibility of ANY virus. Documents obtained from FOIA show that the experiments were internally referred to as “gain-of-function” over and over again. For example, when NIH-funded experiments conducted with the Wuhan Institute of Virology first drew attention in the early pandemic period, Fauci wrote: “Hugh … you will have tasks today that must be done,” in an email to his aide Hugh Auchincloss, attaching the paper to the email under an abbreviation: “SARS gain-of-function.”

Why do we have so little info about the coronavirus research in Wuhan? Hundreds of documents reveal how Fauci's inner circle shielded EcoHealth Alliance from questions about the Wuhan Institute of Virology. Protected by Fauci's NIAID, EcoHealth delayed asking Wuhan colleagues for viral data and lab notebooks sought by the U.S. government for 20 months. usrtk.org/covid-19-origins/f…

SCOOP: How the Deep State suppressed intel about a likely WUHAN LAB LEAK. SIGINT pointed to an emergency in Wuhan in 2019. Elite spy scientists said the genomic analysis pointed to Wuhan's labs. But Deep State insiders, some with political science degrees, prioritized FAUCI and his handpicked scientists who called it a "conspiracy theory." DNI TULSI GABBARD exclusively tells me she is investigating where U.S. funds may have helped create COVID-19. "It is clear that dissenting views were likely silenced to support the Biden Administration’s preferred narrative. Under President Trump’s maximum transparency agenda, we’re committed to exposing the truth so that we can build back trust in the intelligence community," she said. CIA spox Liz Lyons says JOHN RATCLIFFE will continue to "root out politicization" of intel on this issue.