Another attempt at a gift link.
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As an example of really poor state of claims made in traditional media and high-prestige outlets. On the left, latest from an SF Chronicle editorial on the location of the Wuhan lab. On the right, reality. This shouldn't pass the most elementary fact-check—but it gets repeated.pic.twitter.com/jhwB8l83fX
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Chinese scientists, Lancet, Jan 2020: "bat virus but local bats hibernating." Dr. Shi, Nature, Feb 2020: guilty bats in Yunnan, ~1000km away. Repeats later she thinks zoonosis but not in Hubei—let alone Wuhan. Western media 16 months later: The lab was where the viruses were!
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Treating us all like we're idiots with really poor arguments isn't helping convince anyone and, if anything, just makespeople who can assess basic facts more suspicious of *everything*, including things that, imo, are genuinely far-fetched like bioweapon scenarios etc.
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zeynep tufekci Retweeted
A good thread full of key—but often overlooked—points about all this. https://twitter.com/holden/status/1409224657316638721 …
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zeynep tufekci Retweeted zeynep tufekci
I see people are debating me as a science communicator. Hah! On the contrary, if there are errors or if I’m wrong, they are on *me* because everything I publish are my own analyses—of course based on empirical evidence as best I can—not communication of some predigested science.https://twitter.com/zeynep/status/1409481518205046791 …
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zeynep tufekciVerified account @zeynepReplying to @zeynep @jimiadams and 3 othersSo if there are any claims of errors in my pieces, they would be mine because they’re my analyses, and not due to some communication misunderstanding. Of course, everyone could make errors or be wrong, but my track record speaks for itself and I’m happy for any examination of it!4 replies 9 retweets 92 likesShow this thread -
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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zeynep tufekci Retweeted Declan Butler
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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Declan Butler @Declan_M_Butler1/22 Dec 2011 "Fears grow over lab-bred flu" "It is a nightmare scenario: a human pandemic caused by the accidental release of a man-made form of the lethal avian influenza virus H5N1.Yet the risk is all too real." https://www.nature.com/articles/480421a …Show this thread4 replies 18 retweets 61 likesShow this thread -
zeynep tufekci Retweeted Jasnah Kholin - 8964 - ACAB - 💉 💉
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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Jasnah Kholin - 8964 - ACAB - 💉 💉 @wanderer_jasnahi know i'm a bit late to the party, but to anyone who thinks#SARSCoV2 FCS is engineered, if you were actually engineering in an FCS: 1) you'd use something you've seen before, say RRSRR in HKU1. turns out this particular one *does* show up in some strains of FIPV but it's rare.Show this thread10 replies 6 retweets 60 likesShow this thread -
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This thread you link to calls the lab leak theory "comically silly," therefore undermining your entire article. So thanks for linking.
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It's about the FCS being engineered. It's a good thread!
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