Scientific Advisor at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard 
Co-author of VIRAL: the search for the origin of Covid-19 
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A fearless analysis by @nicholsonbaker8 of whether covid may have originated from a lab, how the US research system could be implicated, and the nearly decade-long debate over gain-of-function research.https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/coronavirus-lab-escape-theory.html …
Really enjoyable article to read with laugh out loud moments “Bats themselves just want to hang in their caves and not be bothered by frowning sightseers in spacesuits who want to poke Q-tips in their bottoms.” Made me feel sorry for the thousands of bats sampled over the years.
Maybe all those stories of alien abductions and probes were really about a team of aliens funded to build an interstellar virome...pic.twitter.com/DRFpnfvHJW
Now It Can Be Told
He has a nice shout-out to volunteer analysts doing a new kind of forensic, samizdat science, hunched over the code of the SARS-2 genome like scholars deciphering the Linear B tablets, including Yuri Deigin, Rossana Segreto, Alina Chan & others.
This is proof of nothing.
China is doing everything it can to bury any footprints of a lab-leaked virus. So make your guess
Thank you Alina !
Thank u both! Restoring some objectivity seems harder than I imagined, but so glad to see it happening 
True that.
8 months ago, sadly, @ydeigin, @Rossana38510044 & @Ayjchan were so far outside the mainstream they were quite wrongly considered "lunatic fringe".
The famous virus genomic experts should be ashamed. They should also be embarrassed & defunded but aren't & won't be.
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