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Since s on furin cleavage sites (FCSs) are now in fashion, I thought I should do one too.The S1/S2 FCS insertion in SARS2 (the covid-19 virus) is super interesting because

Also people asking me about this @nytimes article about Dr. Limeng Yan, Steve Bannon & Miles Guo. My stance has not changed. We need a way for whistleblowers to get

Get ready. This is going to be an important thread. Election season will be over soon and hopefully more people will devote some attention to this...I'm going to walk through

I need the scientists+editors who are directly or indirectly covering up severe research integrity issues surrounding some of the key SARS2-like viruses to stop and think for a bit.If your

Read the 2nd Yan et al. report. It was frustrating... each statement requires fact-checking to the point where, instead of pointing out the errors, it may be better for someone

I've been sitting on a major topic that I think the non-scientist public needs a primer on, with particular significance to COVID-19 research.That topic: Research Misconducthttps://ori.hhs.gov/definition-misconductAnd what to do about

The ripple effect of the Yan report that as I said before has done more to discredit the lab origins hypothesis than all of the peer-reviewed natural origins papers combined.

My thoughts about the Yan whistleblower report on SARS2 origins have been percolating over the past few very busy days. I'm ready to share them in this thread: (1) why+how

tldr RaTG13, the virus most closely related to SARS-CoV-2 was discovered by the WIV in a bat cave in 2013 where 6 miners contracted a viral infection leading to severe

Just became aware of an article from May interviewing experts to debunk lab scenarios for SARS-CoV-2 origins (it was cited in an Atlantic article published today). I'm going to work

Our preprint is up on bioRxiv! We discuss key findings about the adaptation of SARS-CoV-2 for humans, scenarios for cross species transmission (pangolins, Wuhan Huanan market), and measures to prevent