Those following UN Biodiversity and World Health Organization (WHO) access and benefit sharing discussions will appreciate the ironies of Rick Bright complaining about US government agencies not sharing potentially pandemic virus digital sequence information. #pandemictreaty #DSI

I really don't know how Ralph Baric @baric_lab and Peter Daszak @EcohealthNYC can sleep at night.

It ain't the Berlin airlift and it shares none of that effort's serious intentions.

Uncommitted

Marion forgot #1: Greed related to intellectual property. She can check with her colleague Ron for a PhD course on that.

It seems to me that most publicly-funded US virologists working on zoonotic disease have an inherent conflict of interest on #COVID19 origins. It is that if you speak out 'wrongly', your cash & career may be over. A terrible situation created by sci-tribalism & funding systems.

I'm still the only guy that you know that has a Grammy award winning barber.

Indeed. It is disingenous to continue to make thinly disguised arguments for #gainoffunction research with misleading, fictional claims of past #GOF benefit. Nobody in #publichealth needed Ron and Yoshi and their risky, pointless experiments to know #H5N1 might jump species.

The folks @Illumina have taken down the press release that was mentioned in my #biopiracy #biodiversity tweet yesterday. But they have not contacted the Potato Park as far as I know. The news release is still available via Google cache at: webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache…

Shane MacGowan is definitely the greater loss.

What a headline, dear old non-lethal weapons blogger Noah Shachtman

Indeed, the notion that virologists possess all the relevant skills, experience, and perspective to regulate themselves is plainly incorrect. Just look at the wild risks some of them are willing to take.

Ed Hammond (Edward Hammond) of #BiosafetyNow searches for answers about the furin cleavage site before disking the back 40.
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Delivered today to the Eastern Shore from Alabama after a 1 year+ design process. Free product for anybody that correctly guesses what it is. (Not easy. I believe there are only about 3 of these things in North America.)

Hey @BerlinMD, instead of blowing public safety $$$ on cameras so the cops spy on Atlantic Hotel guests and the rest of town, why not get an air quality monitor? I seem to have the only one in town, but it's a cheap consumer model. Why not a good one? #berlinmd #WorcesterCounty