Inspirational interview from @benjaminmateus.bsky.social. Christian Frei can't help but show the sensitivity of his approach: "For me, Blame isn’t just about virus origins. It’s about the breakdown of shared reality, & the political consequences of abandoning science when we need it most."

Something else: Bhattacharya is transparently ego-driven.

His cynical embrace of the lab leak narrative only came after the emails were revealed showing Collins called him a fringe epidemiologist (which he is) and asked Fauci about a published rebuttal to the GBD.

Then, it was full steam ahead.

Interview with Swiss filmmaker Christian Frei, writer-director of COVID pandemic documentary <em>Blame</em>: “I wanted to be a filmmaker guided by curiosity, not ideology” <em>Blame</em> offers a sobering and humanizing portrait of three scientists—Drs. Peter Daszak, Linfa Wang and Zhengli Shi.

Remarkable interview; deep, insightful, thought-provoking.

..and I say this as somebody who got to know Christian quite well.

He is an artist through and through, because if this, he manages to reveal and magnify what scientists often struggle with expressing

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Having your dangerous, unscientific ideas heard and then rejected by the mainstream of public health does not equate to censorship of those ideas.

YouTube video by Debunk the Funk with Dr. Wilson COVID Lab Leak: A State of the Evidence

Everyone needs to watch this essential video breaking down the evidence against the COVID lab leak narrative from @debunk-the-funk.bsky.social.

Dr. Wilson is part of @accountabilityji.bsky.social’s scientific advisory board. Also in this video is AJI board member @peterdaszak.bsky.social.

Could you DM me?

Turmoil at US science academy as Trump cuts force layoffs Efforts by leaders of the US national academies to adjust to the new political reality have spurred member concerns about capitulation and censorship.

The National Academy of Sciences is effectively undermining science by choosing to stay silent and outright platforming anti-scientific agendas.

It is time for McNutt to be replaced - our times call for leadership in science, not spineless, self‑serving inaction.

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Kennedy’s hand-picked ACIP elevates anti-vaccine pseudoscience into US public health policy The two-day CDC ACIP meeting that concluded this week was a brazen showcase of incompetence and a complete repudiation of the scientific process, raising alarms in the scientific community.

The CDC ACIP meeting was not a scientific forum; instead the induction of pseudoscience and antivaccine within the public health edifice-acting like a dangerous festering infection
@peterdaszak.bsky.social
@walkerbragman.bsky.social @angierasmussen.bsky.social

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Anti-vax Sentiment On Display At Two-Day Vaccine Panel The meeting of the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices concluded with a vote to validate an unsupported anti-vaccine narrative.

Great Read from @walkerbragman.bsky.social on shambolic ACIP meeting. Republicans agree: Sen. Kennedy asked mtg. to be delayed 'til committee "staffed w/ robust..expertise". One of his picks withdrew. Meanwhile Am. Assoc Pediatrics refused to take part. www.importantcontext.news/p/anti-vax-s...

Anti-vax Sentiment On Display At Two-Day Vaccine Panel The meeting of the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices concluded with a vote to validate an unsupported anti-vaccine narrative.

HHS Secretary Kennedy stacked the CDC’s critical Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices with anti-vaxxers and contrarians.

The newly organized panel held its first meetings this week.

It went as well as could be expected…which is to say poorly.

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WHO Scientific advisory group issues report on origins of COVID-19 The WHO Scientific Advisory Group for the Origins of Novel Pathogens (SAGO), a panel of 27 independent, international, multidisciplinary experts, today published its report on the origins of SARS-CoV-...

SAGO Report is out:

1️⃣ No new data in report
2️⃣ Not bioweapon, man-made, or engineered
3️⃣ All scientific evidence points to zoonosis
4️⃣ No evidence for lab leak
5️⃣ New evidence could swing the conclusion

In other words, what we concluded in April, 2020. Five years later.

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WHO Scientific advisory group issues report on origins of COVID-19 The WHO Scientific Advisory Group for the Origins of Novel Pathogens (SAGO), a panel of 27 independent, international, multidisciplinary experts, today published its report on the origins of SARS-CoV-...

WHO SAGO report is out.

Nothing unexpected, they say all hypotheses must remain on the table but weight-of-evidence supports zoonotic origin.

About as vanilla statement as it gets with little appetite to upset politics and organize a proper consensus assessment

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One of the organizers of The Bethesda Declaration 👇👇

Seeing some reactions to this calling it a strongly worded letter.

While true in a literal sense that this is a letter, it’s unprecedented—and an escalation of a growing trend of unrest inside NIH.

This took bravery. Each of the signers put their career on the line.

We should acknowledge that.

Part of @benjaminmateus.bsky.social's series of articles reviewing COVID-19's implications for public health and its intersection with politics

<em>Blame</em>, a documentary film: The defense of science and scientists against the Wuhan-Lab leak conspiracy Acclaimed Swiss filmmaker Christian Frei peels back the layers of a global controversy to reveal the human cost of a conspiracy. With quiet precision and emotional depth, he confronts the lab leak nar...

Comprehensive review of Blame by @benjaminmateus.bsky.social

"Blame is not just a documentary. It is a field report. A case study. A moral reckoning. Blame is not merely a defense of scientists; it is a defense of the very idea that truth still matters."

Must read:
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Amazing analysis - selective interpretations, conflicts of interest with supplement selling, undisclosed AI content.. and to top it all, this report is a rehash of an earlier Children’s Health Defense diatribe. Is this the best we can do for health leadership here in the USA???

MAHA Report Appears to Plagiarize a 2023 Document Published During RFK Jr.’s Tenure at CHD The report maintains a veneer of inquiry, but its structure and many of its claims closely mirror those of a document produced under RFK Jr.'s leadership at another organization.

🧵New from me:

MAHA Report Appears to Plagiarize a 2023 Document Published During RFK Jr.’s Tenure at CHD
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my website for searching all SAGE Covid-related documents is now complete: sagesearch.info

Contains over 900 documents from Jan 2020 to Feb 2022, filterable by document type, categories covered and date.

There are AI-generated summaries of every doc.

You can also free-text search summaries

Terrestrial orchids are endangered & declining across the world. They require specific habitats & are often pushed when wild lands are chewed up for development. These pink ladies slipper orchids are thriving in Harriman State Park - protected land just 1 hr from New York - amazing & beautiful!

Senate GOP Ramps Up Attacks On COVID Vaccines Amid FDA Push Sen. Ron Johnson’s Wednesday hearing on myocarditis was an anti-vax spectacle.

Anti-vax is now the mainstream GOP position.

They’re starting with COVID jabs because they’re new. And media has been willing to carve out an exception for skeptics of the COVID jabs as though they’re not anti-vaxxers.

But they are and they’re coming after all vaccines.

Oklahoma to require schools to teach Trump's 2020 election conspiracy theories The Republican-led state's new high school history curriculum says students must learn about Donald Trump's baseless claims of voting irregularities.

Nothing disturbing at all here! Oklahoma high school history students will now be taught 2020 stolen election and COVID origins lab leak conspiracies in their curriculum. Committee tha pushed this includes Heritage Fdn Pres & conservative talk show host. www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

A must read, and not only for this gem:

Precisely

Trump Administration Incorrectly Claims Certainty About Origin of Coronavirus - FactCheck.org Since regaining power in January, the Trump administration has repeatedly claimed with false certainty that the COVID-19 pandemic originated in a lab. But there isn’t clear evidence that the virus cam...

“… peer-reviewed literature is dominated by articles supporting a zoonotic origin” while lab leak papers “are rare, fringe, and mutually incompatible with each other.”

Correct. And it’s not because one side is “censored”. It’s because one side has zero evidence.

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Exclusive: The inside story behind the search for the origins of COVID-19 An big screen documentary movie, an announcement, and an exclusive excerpt from "Lab Leak Fever", the definitive book unraveling the pandemic origin controversy

Guess the cat is out of the bag.

Today marks the beginning of the end of the false lab leak narrative.

Read what I have been working on over the last years:
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An interview with Dr. Peter Daszak on the COVID-19 pandemic, the Wuhan Lab Lie and the defense of science—Part 2 In this exclusive interview with the WSWS, Dr. Daszak recounts the story of his persecution and that of other principled scientists falsely accused of bearing responsibility for the COVID-19 pandemic.

Part 2 of my interview published today: My take on what China did early in the COVID pandemic to reduce the risk of further spillovers, on the WHO study on the origins of COVID, on “proximal origins paper” & on how politics got in the way. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

An interview with Dr. Peter Daszak on the COVID-19 pandemic, the Wuhan Lab Lie and the defense of science—Part 2 In this exclusive interview with the WSWS, Dr. Daszak recounts the story of his persecution and that of other principled scientists falsely accused of bearing responsibility for the COVID-19 pandemic.

Part 2 of interview with Peter Daszak British ecologist who has been made the target of the Wuhan lab leak conspiracy.

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The spread of Mpox in Sierra Leone is unlike anything we have ever seen - and we have been keeping an eye on this bug in the region for >15 years.

Given geographical spread, 50/50 men vs women, this is no "sexual network".

This could be the next one.

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An interview with Dr. Peter Daszak on the COVID-19 pandemic, the Wuhan lab lie and the defense of science—Part 1 In this exclusive interview with the WSWS, Dr. Daszak recounts the story of his persecution and that of other principled scientists falsely accused of bearing responsibility for the COVID-19 pandemic.

New interview out re. our work to understand how & why coronaviruses emerge. New info on WHO joint study, EcoHealth, DARPA DEFUSE, biosafety at WIV etc. Part 1 here w/ more coming soon…

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