Antivaxxers really need to get their #coronavirus conspiracy theories straight. Yesterday, they were blaming the flu vaccine for reducing viral interference and allowing 2019-nCoV to run wild in China. 1/https://respectfulinsolence.com/2020/01/30/coronavirus-flu-vaccine/ …
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Today, an antivaxxer is claiming that 2019-nCoV came from a strain being used to develop a vaccine against
#coronavirus that somehow got loose. I wonder what@StevenSalzberg1 thinks of this one?
2/ https://jameslyonsweiler.com/2020/01/30/on-the-origins-of-the-2019-ncov-virus-wuhan-china/ …3 replies 2 retweets 12 likesShow this thread -
Replying to @gorskon
He has quite a bit of technical detail (phylogenies and sequence alignments) in that blog post, but ultimately his argument is very weak and rather implausible. Seems more like a conspiracy theory. Far more plausible is that it's a natural virus that jumped from animals to humans
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Replying to @StevenSalzberg1
Personally, I like how he implies that the "insert" comes from a Chinese pShuttle containing the SARS S protein sequence, when in fact he's lined up sequences from the commercial pShuttle vector with no insert. It's odd that there's 68% identity, but it's not coding sequence.
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Replying to @gorskon @StevenSalzberg1
In any case, I'm not a super expert on this sort of thing, but I do know enough, if you know what I mean.
https://respectfulinsolence.com/2020/01/31/2019-ncov-wuhan-outbreakdue-to-failed-coronavirus-vaccine/ …1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @gorskon @StevenSalzberg1
The pshuttle alignment is a bit weak. Not certain why this person gets flagged as an Anti-vaxxer though. It’s important we look for the source given the history of human experimentation in China. If you had pitchforks for He and think this is a conspiracy, you aren’t consistent.
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Replying to @Kevin_McKernan @StevenSalzberg1
I flagged him as an antivaxxer because he is an antivaxxer. https://respectfulinsolence.com/2019/12/20/demonizing-aluminum-adjuvants/ …
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Replying to @gorskon @StevenSalzberg1
Don’t know him...but a quick glance at his work suggests he’s just looking for vaccines to embrace personalized medicine. Eureka. I don’t think I know anyone that is anti-antibiotics. No one would classify all antibiotics as being good or bad.. step into the vax debate..tribalism
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Replying to @Kevin_McKernan @StevenSalzberg1
Oh, please. Lyons-Weiler has been promoting antivaccine pseudoscience for the last few years. He's done everything he can to deny that autism is genetic, for instance.https://respectfulinsolence.com/2019/07/29/autism-is-genetic/ …
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Earlier, he battled another antivaxxer for the title of most antivaccine crank in a hilarious exchange in which each of them tried to one-up the other.https://respectfulinsolence.com/2018/02/09/antivaccine-crank-fight-james-lyons-weiler-vs-manookian/ …
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Replying to @gorskon @StevenSalzberg1
I don’t know either of these people. The biggest issue on vaccines isn’t the sound science of immunology. It’s the economics and politics of informed consent, one size fits all medicine and lack of liability for the manufactures. You won’t gain public support calling them stupid
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