Charles Rixey, MA MBA (c) 🐭
Charles Rixey, MA MBA (c) 🐭

@CharlesRixey

9 Tweets 2 reads May 19, 2022
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I apolgize, @trvrb, that it's taken a while to respond to you
If it's true that you had no role in pushing for Pradhan et al to be withdrawn, perhaps some people were making assumptions based off of your tweets..
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I'd love to know why you stated
"This is a tiny tiny sequence and in no way suggests engineering"
Your tweet came exactly 3 days after Gallaher posted about PRRA as the FCS, & its criticality
On 1/30, the next day, you liked another post, so the odds are good you saw this
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Why on earth would you publicly state on Twitter that PRRA had no relevance?
The Furin CS is the Stereotypical spark that can make a respiratory virus capable of making a pandemic.
If somehow you didn't know that beforehand, Uncle Bill was quite explicit
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Yet, 2 days later, you said it in no way suggest engineering.
You should call Vineet, then - because he later confirmed that QTNS+PRRA is vital for the complex.
Sounds like 'random' mutations, right?
"unlikely to be fortuitous"
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Now, I DO know why the REST of the 🌍hasn't heard much about this-because the 5.7 million readers of "Proximal Origin" don't know that much of the argu. came from Gallaher:
"Deja Vu" was ❌from the publ Nature ref's
Why would that ONE ref be nixed?
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Perhaps the pandemic has made me cynical, Trevor & Michael, but the deletion of Gallaher seems less than "fortuitous"
Especially since FOIA showed us that 4/5 co-authors wrote what they didn't believe
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But Gallaher was Garry's mentor/partner at Tulane for 30 years.
He even credited discussions w/Garry in the ackn. in his book.
The primary arguments in "Proximal" are identical to those made by Gallaher
Why fail to ackn. a key source?
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Even Farzan was thanked - but Gallaher was simply deleted.
Kind of like how the viral genome is aggressively trying to rid itself of the 'natural' mutations/inserts over time.
Of course, that would suggest that Gallaher was excised for a reason.
I think I can guess why...
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Why would the godfather of Class 1 fusion proteins & SARS-HlV spike homology be ghosted on an Altmetric top-3 all-time paper?
A paper devaluing the FCS & dismissing Pradhan et al?
...Perhaps because the link to HlV needed to be severed?
It's a rhetorical question
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