#Pangolins

Analysis by @edyong209 @TheAtlantic of the impact of the pandemic on how science is done.I'm reading it from the POV of one of "Thousands of researchers dropped whatever intellectual puzzles
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The US β€œhas determined that the WIV has collaborated on publications and secret projects with China’s military. The WIV has engaged in classified research, including laboratory animal experiments, on behalf
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Changes to MeSH terminology for 2021 are posted!!!https://www.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/whatsnew.htmlI went looking for something else, saw this page had been updated on 02 Nov (!!). Time to drop everything and look at
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1. This History Thread (with Zoology) is about #Wildlife in Burma (Myanmar.) Interactions of humans & wildlife: including ways that non-domesticated mammals, reptiles & birds have been and are commodified
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A team of experts appointed by the @WHO completed its 28-day mission to the Chinese city of Wuhan this week seeking clues about the origins of COVID-19. The following looks
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@who going to investigate Covid-19 originating from frozen foods rather than #laborigins because lab leak too unlikely based on what the Wuhan lab personnel told them.https://twitter.com/kakape/status/1359093856957005824 Not too confident t
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Teamwork... This ought to rattle some cages...1) RaTG13 is incapable of binding to a bat or a pangolin (no binding observed), and is less than 1/1000 the affinity to humans
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Press conference on what @WHO-convened mission to investigate the origins of #SARSCoV2 found on their China trip is about to start in Wuhan.(Was originally supposed to start an hour ago
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I'm going to try and put this riveting BBC story in context for people who haven't heard about the 2012 Mojiang miners and a potential link to covid/SARS2 before.https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-55364445 In
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The @WHO's press conference in Wuhan has just started. I will the important points here. (You can also watch it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7VMiBAY56xU) The Health Ministry spokesperson starts w/
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Masks Masquerading as ScienceTM.I spent a good part of my career engineering emulsion PCR and Nebulization equipment for DNA and RNA shearing. I have a very different view on this
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Let Uncle Ralph educate youSynthetic Viral Genomics: Risks and Benefits for Science and Society https://www.jcvi.org/sites/default/files/assets/projects/synthetic-genomics-options-for-governance/Baric-Synthetic-Viral-Genomics.pdf "Alte
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1/n It is vital we get objective analyses of the SARS-CoV2 origin to prevent future outbreaks and recurrence. This long thread details what I’ve learned, hoping to encourage those with
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I went on the hunt for #womenstatues in London today. There really are very few - basically you have to be a queen or queen consort to be celebrated in
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1) "More and more licensed, postdoctoral and habilitated scientists contradict what we are told by the authorities and the mass media about the alleged corona pandemic. These are experienced experts
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For reference, here is the recent report alleging a potentially artificial origin for SARS-CoV-2, from virologist Li-Meng Yan.https://zenodo.org/record/4028830#.X1_G1mhKg2zhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li-Meng_YanYan recently fled Hong Kong
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