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    1. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 26 Oct 2021

      zeynep tufekci Retweeted Jamie Metzl

      Worth reading. The first WHO investigation on COVID origins ended up rating *frozen food imports* from elsewhere as *more likely* than even a lab accident, let alone anything else. A repeat of the same embarrassing debacle isn't in the public interest.https://twitter.com/JamieMetzl/status/1452981444679249922 …

      zeynep tufekci added,

      Jamie MetzlVerified account @JamieMetzl
      .@WHO SAGO is an important step toward better understanding the origin of #COVID19 & future pandemics, but the list of nominees requires some essential changes to make this possible. Here's our letter sent to @DrTedros @ @mvankerkhove earlier today. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/355585072_Proposed_changes_to_the_composition_of_the_SAGO_committee?channel=doi&linkId=61779f59eef53e51e1ebdf46&showFulltext=true …
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    2. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 26 Oct 2021

      Two issues: what sparked this pandemic? May be unknowable, given the cover-up, but we can still learn to try to address *all* the possibilities. Second is about *us*. How can "frozen food" end up in a WHO report as a realistic option like that, for ex? Where's the deep coverage?

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    3. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 26 Oct 2021

      Lest anyone has any questions, I encourage people to look at the first WHO report to see their exact conclusions on what they considered "possible" (frozen food chain) and what they considered "extremely unlikely" (any lab incident), in explicit ranking. https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2019/origins-of-the-virus …pic.twitter.com/OSp8QP5phG

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    4. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 27 Oct 2021

      zeynep tufekci Retweeted Gary Ruskin

      Another letter on the new WHO origins group. The committee will have limits on access but a thorough accounting of open questions would be good. Having more people with the right expertise who demonstrate such independence and fewer who dismissed legitimate questions is helpful.https://twitter.com/garyruskin/status/1453118907246469130 …

      zeynep tufekci added,

      Gary RuskinVerified account @garyruskin
      Our open letter to @WHO asking them to remove ten proposed SAGO members for conflicts of interests and other reasons, and replace them with people who will inspire public trust in the WHO’s investigation of the origins of #COVID19. https://usrtk.org/biohazards-blog/public-comments-sago/ …
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    5. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 27 Oct 2021

      (I don’t think having an opinion on either likelihood is disqualifying. Trust is inspired by willingness to engage the open questions rather than brushing them away or pretending there is no issue. Surely there are a good number of such people with the requisite expertise).

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    6. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 29 Oct 2021

      zeynep tufekci Retweeted Mara Hvistendahl

      Yep. The people who *correctly* pointed out the obfuscations and the lack of transparency and accountability in the COVID origins investigation had long been dismissed as conspiracy theorists. Late conversions with shifting winds don't fix this dynamic.https://twitter.com/MaraHvistendahl/status/1454060376035893253 …

      zeynep tufekci added,

      Mara HvistendahlVerified account @MaraHvistendahl
      It will be interesting to watch how the NIH-EcoHealth Alliance spat plays out. Already I see people who dismissed @theintercept's FOIA lawsuit reinventing themselves as transparency advocates.
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    7. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 29 Oct 2021

      zeynep tufekci Retweeted Joseph Reagle

      Agree that the below helped make "origins" a big mess. But I think this reality made it *even* more important that people on the side of science, good journalism and accountability to be not so dismissive of the *many* legitimate issues over the past year.https://twitter.com/jmreagle/status/1454164878998978560 …

      zeynep tufekci added,

      Joseph Reagle @jmreagle
      Replying to @zeynep
      Trumpists attempted to use the lab hypothesis as a diversion from their own bungling. Their incoherence claiming both that it was a deadly conspiracy, born in a lab, and of little concern and soon going away) eviscerated any chance of actual nuance.
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    8. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 4 Nov 2021

      Recommended reading, both the Intercept article by @fastlerner and @MaraHvistendahl on how the NIH had reportedly been helping EcoHealth *avoid* oversight, and the full thread on why this matters, despite all the unknowns about the past. https://twitter.com/CT_Bergstrom/status/1456165187480797185 …pic.twitter.com/MGSjz981IG

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    9. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 19 Nov 2021

      zeynep tufekci Retweeted Flo Débarre

      There's a new article in Science—and a NYT piece about it—concerning a contradiction in the WHO report. Guess what, the "internet sleuths" long-dismissed, had identified that exact issue last May. It was in front of everyone's faces, but ignored, as usual.https://twitter.com/flodebarre/status/1461477807498964999 …

      zeynep tufekci added,

      Flo Débarre @flodebarre
      FYI @MichaelWorobey @carlzimmer @benjmueller and others writing on the early cases: @franciscodeasis had found out about Chen a long time ago and it's a bit uncool not to credit him @acritschristoph https://twitter.com/franciscodeasis/status/1397227238764990469 …
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    10. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 19 Nov 2021

      Plus, we now learn from Peter Daszak that the WHO team that signed off on a report claiming frozen food was more likely origins than any lab connection says they NEVER ASKED THE FIRST KNOWN SEAFOOD MARKET CASE WHERE SHE WORKED OR WHERE HER PRODUCTS CAME FROM. Kinda out of words.pic.twitter.com/1vn77TSJ6o

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      zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 19 Nov 2021

      zeynep tufekci Retweeted zeynep tufekci

      Anyway, thread of mine from last July noting the WHO report had a significant number of contradictions and unexplained issues. The so-called "Internet sleuths" had identified many already, and many were in-your-face obvious. What an embarrassing episode.https://twitter.com/zeynep/status/1415659838193942528 …

      zeynep tufekci added,

      zeynep tufekciVerified account @zeynep
      We know the early cases, as reported to us, were missing, incomplete and withheld. We know there are contradictions between earlier papers from Chinese scientists and what later got told to WHO. We know there are missing sequences and papers, even among what little got released.
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