On 3/17/23, the news cycle was dominated by a remarkable discovery from “an international team of virologists and evolutionary biologists.” They claimed data from China purportedly showing raccoon dogs at the HSM were linked to the origin of COVID-19/1
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The “international team” turned out to be “the usual suspects”. The same team that wrote Proximal Origins & claimed “no laboratory-based scenario was plausible” for COVID-19’s origin, they told us that inkblots on a Wuhan map was “dispositive evidence” of a natural spillover/2
and they told us that a virus 99% similar to SARS-CoV-2 had been isolated from pangolins and made them the likely reservoir animal responsible for COVID-19. Now they’re telling us “the data shows” COVID-19 is linked to a raccoon dog./3
Today, I interview Steven Massey to discuss the claim by “the usual suspects” that “the data shows” the racoon dog is the new pangolin. Dr. Massey is a researcher in bioinformatics, metagenomics and genomics, complexity and molecular evolution.
A follow up to the discussion with @stevenemassey. I spoke with veteran journalist @mbalter about “Raccoon Dog Mediapalooza” and the MSM coverage of the origin of COVID-19 from the beginning. Mike is a working journalist for >40 years. straighttalkmd.com
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