After talking such a big game, the guy couldn’t last longer than a pregnancy.

YouTube video by Debunk the Funk with Dr. Wilson Talking COVID origins (w/ Dr. Peter Daszak)

This interview from @debunk-the-funk.bsky.social of @peterdaszak.bsky.social is essential viewing.

Conspiracy theorizing about a COVID lab leak is creating dangerous conditions for scientists. But misinformers spread bullshit with reckless abandon.

It’s sickening.

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I’ll take it 😁 but corrections are also always welcome

Instead of endless conspiracy theories it's better to focus on the evidence of this Q instead.

Three 🌟 recent lay-resources 👇

@debunk-the-funk.bsky.social
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@gidmk.bsky.social
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@michaelhobbes.bsky.social
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I remember when folks were suggesting Makary was maybe not as terrible a pick as Trump could have made.

Not us tho.

Our Important Context story about this self-promoting anti-vax charlatan really did nail it.

(If I do say so myself)

www.importantcontext.news/p/everything...

It’s almost as if insertions are one of the basic kinds of natural mutations students learn about in genetics classes!

None of that is evidence of a lab leak, explicitly addressed in the video. Why didn’t you watch it before commenting?

And their evidence is…?

Promoters of Unproven COVID Lab Leak Narratives Join NIH Virologists expressed concern over under-qualified ideologues joining Director Bhattacharya.

The WHO’s Scientific Advisory Group for the Origins of Novel Pathogen released a report last month that evidence still points to COVID-19 having natural origins.

This week, we revealed that 3 lab leak enthusiasts with ties to a fringe biosafety group are working in the NIH director’s office.

On what basis? Can you cite a historical example of a lab leak mimicking a natural spillover?

All potential animal hosts were destroyed.

It went through several mutations shortly after introduction into the population. So not “pandemic ready” in the way you mean it.

Nothing about the genetic profile matches the SARS1-like viruses the WIV was working with.

Did you even ways the video?

Oh god. Whelp changing that name is at least 1 good decision they’ve made I guess.

Like, the Epstein case or is this a different conspiracy I’m not aware of?

Was that the debate with Peter Miller? Someone coincidentally sent me that while I was editing the video and I added one of his slides in as a reference.

Definitely a good example of a big error. Considering the “insertion” as something that nature is unlikely to produce is naive and ignores a lot of coronavirus biology.

To put it succinctly and bluntly, it’s a garbage-in garbage-out analysis.

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

Lots of people still feel strongly that COVID came from a lab. Conspiracy theorists say that this has even been confirmed. And still many believe things about this story that just aren’t true. Here is the truth as best we know it.
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Good thing we don’t make scientific conclusions based on what someone who knows 2 people thinks.

Quantification of objective concentrations of DNA impurities in mRNA vaccines The COVID-19 pandemic has demonstrated the benefits and advantages of mRNA technologies in combination with lipid nanoparticle (LNP) delivery systems …

A citation I missed because I filmed this video a few months ago. Tl;dr - it also destroys the anti-vaxxer’s blog posts: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Quantification of objective concentrations of DNA impurities in mRNA vaccines The COVID-19 pandemic has demonstrated the benefits and advantages of mRNA technologies in combination with lipid nanoparticle (LNP) delivery systems …

A citation I missed because I filmed this video a few months ago. Tl;dr - it also destroys the anti-vaxxer’s blog posts: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

YouTube video by Debunk the Funk with Dr. Wilson Update on DNA contamination

This has been a fun topic for me to cover because anti-vaxxers responsible for it hide behind jargon and the illusion of real data, but when you go in with expert eyes it becomes clear that it’s all just slop. COVID vaccines are not contaminated with DNA.
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I’m going to keep saying this: COVID contrarians and anti-vaxxers weren’t censored.

By anyone. It’s just a marketing ploy for their bullshit.

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.

Here’s my full write-up of this week’s ACIP meetings.

www.importantcontext.news/p/anti-vax-s...

Not captured by anybody. I agree with you that pharma companies shouldn’t be able to advertise to consumers. Are you defending this “17 million deaths from COVID vaccines” claim or are you just here to shout generic excuses?

Don’t call it outdated, call it what it is. Insane.

So this is who RFK Jr. just nominated as an ACIP member. If this isn’t an anti-vaxxer then wtf is?

I’ll probably never really get over people on the “left” attacking me for warning that Jay Bhattacharya was just a right-wing operative who wanted people back to work for the economy.

Dude was a favorite with business-aligned right-wing dark money groups, but I was the sellout.

Well, now look…

NIH Workers Demand Changes In New ‘Bethesda Declaration’ The public letter to NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya was signed by hundreds of agency personnel.

BREAKING: Over 300 NIH workers have signed The Bethesda Declaration and delivered it to Director Bhattacharya accusing him and the admin of putting “political momentum over human safety and faithful stewardship of public resources” and demanding changes.

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Tomorrow morning, we have a really big story coming out at www.importantcontext.news

You’ve been warned!

“Out Of His Depth,” “Sold His Soul,” “Clueless”: NIH Staffers Speak Out About Director Bhattacharya Widespread dissatisfaction over the NIH’s “continuous free fall” has people speaking out.

NEW: Important Context spoke with a dozen people working at NIH about Director Jay Bhattacharya.

The descriptions were universally unflattering, painting the health economist as ineffectual, dishonest, ideological, arrogant, and uncommitted to science.

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