Absolutely. As the piece tries to detail, the response may well be the most important lever we have. That perspective can help shape our risk/benefit analyses for broader research as well.https://twitter.com/RuthReader/status/1408428895897063433 …
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I would be thrilled if somebody wanted to actually look at my track record this pandemic. I took a risk because I thought I had a skillset that could contribute. I’m more than comfortable with the output that resulted. I should go make a chronological list. (Never bothered
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This is a great thread full of crucial biosafety articles that had been published Nature, and, as a topic, have been sorely missing from this discussion.https://twitter.com/Declan_M_Butler/status/1408458284827357191 …
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Ralph Baric has said you can’t rule things out or prove them just by looking at the genome. And yet people debate the furin cleavage site on Twitter. Meanwhile, biosafety—a basic, structural and forward-looking issue—is elided. (But this is the thread for FCS, if you insist.
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This is an amazing piece, featuring quotes from Dr. Ralph Baric—one of world’s foremost scientists on bat coronaviruses, and co-author of Dr. Shi of WIV on that 2015 paper with the chimeric virus. *Really* worth your time. By
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It's telling that you don't see a problem with that. Sometimes, the problem with these self-made analyses, even when done in good faith and with utmost care, is that one can only utilize the evidence one understands and the concepts one is not blind to. You are sociologist, 1/2
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which might qualify you to judge certain aspects of the origin discussion (like behavior of scientists), but you are thoroughly unaware about the basics of the SARS-CoV-2 genome (which is a hard evidence that cannot be left out or being an 'after-thought'). Not discussing the 2/
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Maybe take the time to read a thread before going in on the people in it? You're critiquing the people who were *defending* your record in that thread.
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I appreciate the intent but it’s not the right defense. I’m indeed responsible for my own analyses as they are mine. But thank you!
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ah that's why I have so much resonance with your stuff. . .
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