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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Replying to @gorskon @StevenSalzberg1
Having sequenced over 14K kids with ASD and Epilepsy.. it definately has genetic predispositions and environmental influences...but also not one disease and poorly defined. X does not cause Y. Y is undefined. Logically incoherent.
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Replying to @Kevin_McKernan @StevenSalzberg1
Bloody hell you're annoying. I never said "cause." Again, I suspect you didn't bother to read what I wrote. I'm done.
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Replying to @gorskon @StevenSalzberg1
Was I supposed to read something else or are you this easily triggered?pic.twitter.com/K4rphXY8k5
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As I thought. You didn't bother to read the post, just the title and first paragraph or so. 
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Replying to @gorskon @StevenSalzberg1
It’s really quite boring and not original. Not interested.
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