Here you will find a series of explainer videos of topics and papers produced with the generous help of Google LM notebook, hosted on the Vimeo video sharing platform.
- The end of the Pekar et al (2022) market paper, one of the most important papers of that year. Based on this article by Gilles Demaneuf.
2. The NIH FOIA Evasion Files
A review of the FOI evasion case against Fauci, Morens, Daszak and others.
Based on X threads by Gilles Demaneuf.
3. The Origin of a Narrative: Part 1 – The Lancet Paper
How the Covid narrative was immediately shaped by a pair of papers, with a focus on Daszak’s Statement of Support in Lancet.
Based on this series of articles by Gilles DEMANEUF.
4. The Origin of SARS-CoV-2
My take on the origins of SARS-COV-2, based on 5 years of research with DRASTIC (drasticresearch.org)
5. The Pangolin Papers
A Google LM Notebook presentation of the main findings in my report on pangolin coronavirus research in China pre-pandemic, which can be read and downloaded here.
6. An alternative version of video explainer 5, emphasizing some different aspects, again based on my report here.
7. Wuhan Labs: A Forensic Case
PROPOSED FORENSIC INVESTIGATION OF WUHAN LABORATORIES VIDEO EXPLAINER
Based on this report
Published in March 2021, part of a lengthy report submitted to the FBI WMD directorate in 2020.
8. RaTG13 AND THE 7896 CLADE
INVESTIGATION OF RaTG13 AND THE 7896 CLADE was a report published in May 2021, based on work undertaken with the FBI WMD Directorate in 2020. It can be read and downloaded here.
9. Wuhan Laboratories, Bat Research, and Biosafety Failures
an extensive overview of biosafety and research activities at several key facilities in Wuhan, including the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV), the Wuhan University Institute of Model Animal (IMA), and the Wuhan Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (WHCDC), focusing on their work with bats and coronaviruses. The report details biosafety issues and lax safety protocols observed at these laboratories and during field sampling expeditions by researchers collecting bat viruses. Specific attention is given to the WHCDC’s involvement in a 2019 state project to investigate viral pathogens and its substandard BSL-2 laboratory conditions during a relocation near the Huanan Seafood Market. Furthermore, the report reveals evidence of substandard facilities and contamination at the WIV and the Wuhan Institute of Biological Products (WIBP), along with a call for a thorough, independent investigation into these institutions. Read the whole report, featured in UK media and US CONGRESSIONAL AND SENATE reports here.
10. The October Surprise in Wuhan
This is the fourth part of a series of reports based on previously unpublished investigations into the origins of SARS-COV-2 by William Bostickson and Yvette Ghannam, which took place in 2020. This report also contains novel insights from ongoing joint investigations with Gilles Demaneuf from the DRASTIC collective in 2021, but it is worth noting that the majority of the content was analysed in 2020. Read the full report here.
11. PREDICT-2: Sanctions Evasion and Grants in Southeast Asia
A review of the way PREDICT-2 grants were artfully bent to keep running despite US sanctions on Myanmar, Laos and Vietnam. This video explainer is based on the first of three in the series reviewing key South East Asia grants.
Based on research by Gilles DEMANEUF.
12. Oddities in EHA R01 grant AI110964
This video explainer is based on the second of three articles in the series reviewing key South East Asia grants, with a particular focus over Myanmar, Laos, and Vietnam:
When what is reported to the US government is in total contradiction with what supposedly involved local partners tell you.
Why this happened, and what this shows.
Based on this article by Gilles DEMANEUF.
13. High-Stakes Science: sampling in South-East Asia
This video explainer is based on the third and final of three articles in the series reviewing key South East Asia grants, with a particular focus over Myanmar, Laos, and Vietnam:
The story of EHA sampling efforts in South-East Asia, and their relation to the origin questions.
Based on research by Gilles DEMANEUF
14. A Vanished Library (an investigation into the WIV databases that were taken offline)
On the 12th Sep 2019, the main database of samples and viral sequences of the Wuhan Institute of Virology went offline. Eventually every single of the 16 virus databases managed by the WIV was taken offline. Here, Charles Small, Billy Bostickson and Gilles Demaneuf show how these databases may provide essential clues at to the origins of SARS-CoV-2 and review the circumstances in which they were taken offline. the full report can be read here and a slideshow version is also available here
15. A Scientific Ghost Story (The mysterious case of the “second peak” papers)
The “Second Peak” Papers – Part 1 Findings
2nd Peak Papers Part 2 Overview and Analysis
Download and Readership DATA for 2nd Peak Papers
Curious findings concerning the reads of certain academic papers related to SARS-CoV-2 and/or SARS more generally, previous research, cited papers, furin cleavage sites, TMPRSS2, research on mice, porcine coronavirus etc.; which peaked sometime from late 2018 to end of 2019, i.e. before the COVID-19 outbreak.
We identified 22 “second peak papers” which, contrary to expected citation patterns, exhibited a sudden and coordinated surge in readership between September 2018 and December 2019, peaking in September or October 2019. The analysis details a distinct “fingerprint” of this activity, characterized by a pattern of fluctuating abstract reads followed by increased full-text views, indicating a likely coordinated effort by a consistent group of readers. While the data does not reveal the identity or location of the readers, the authors suggest the synchronized activity points to an unexplained event and subsequent response occurring around mid-2019. Ultimately, the paper concludes by posing questions about what connects these specific papers and why this peculiar reading pattern occurred.
16. “DRASTIC – An Analysis of Project DEFUSE,”
The report meticulously examines a rejected 2018 grant proposal by EcoHealth Alliance (EHA) to the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), known as Project DEFUSE.
The analysis reveals that EHA, in collaboration with the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV), proposed research on bat coronaviruses that DARPA reviewers considered potentially gain-of-function (GoF) and Dual Use Research of Concern (DURC), despite EHA’s assertion that the work was exempt.
Key findings outline plans for chimeric virus construction, the introduction of human-specific cleavage sites, large-scale bat sampling in Yunnan caves, and the use of aerosolized vaccines on wild bats. The document also highlights issues with the proposal’s lack of proper risk assessment and EHA’s intent to pay WIV researchers, including Shi Zhengli, using U.S. taxpayer money. Overall, the analysis scrutinizes the proposed high-risk research and EHA’s attempts to “navigate” biosecurity frameworks.
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17. DIA 2020 report on Coronavirus Genealogy and Laboratory Origins
A classified Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) analysis from June 2020, obtained via a Freedom of Information Act request, presents a detailed scientific hypothesis that SARS-CoV-2 was a lab-engineered virus that subsequently escaped the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV).
This unpublished, “SECRET/NOFORN” assessment argues that genomic features such as the furin cleavage site and chimeric break points, along with the WIV’s advanced molecular biology capabilities like Golden Gate Assembly, are consistent with a synthetic origin.
The documents also include internal DIA emails discussing the coordination of responses to the agency’s Director regarding the virus and note that the analysis’s findings were kept secret while the natural origin hypothesis gained wider acceptance.
The DIA analysts specifically relied on evidence that the virus’s genome appeared to be a hybrid of bat and pangolin coronaviruses,
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18. Demolition of a recent zoonati paper, exposing its methodological and evidential flaws
Pekar et al. (2025) assert that SARS-CoV-1 and SARS-CoV-2 arose from bat sarbecoviruses, with SARS-CoV-2 emerging at the Huanan market, employing phylogenetic tools like GARD, BEAST, and the PoW model to support zoonotic spillover (p. 7, 22).
This critique exposes their study’s methodological deficiencies, including arbitrary GARD breakpoints, BEAST’s unvalidated Continuous-Time Markov Chain priors assuming memoryless mutation rates, and speculative PoW assumptions, which distort phylogenetic and phylogeographic inferences (p. 22). Data manipulation, excluding non-bat hosts, trimming genomes, and fabricating hypothetical taxa, skews their zoonotic narrative (p. 8, 20).
Claims of market origins, including raccoon dogs as intermediate hosts, lack virological evidence, while alternative hypotheses like laboratory origins are dismissed (p. 15). Independent critiques highlight model biases favouring dual origins over single-introduction scenarios and note the virus’s laboratory-compatible traits (Gifford, 2025; Holtz, 2025). Potential conflicts of interest, notably EcoHealth Alliance ties, raise bias concerns (p. 15).
Building on a social media analysis (Bostickson, 2025a), this critique argues that the study’s conclusions lack rigour, urging transparent research into all plausible SARS-CoV origins to address this critical issue effectively.
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19. 293 Questions for Dr. Baric
In November 2025, Billy Bostickson, working tirelessly as a coordinator for the DRASTIC collective locked the definitive, fully-referenced dossier: **293 questions** for Dr. Ralph Baric – UNC Chapel Hill, the only Western scientist who built infectious chimeric SARS-like viruses hand-in-hand with Dr. Shi Zhengli at the Wuhan Institute of Virology for over a decade.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/397608384_293_QUESTIONS_FOR_DRRALPH_BARIC_2025
Every question is backed by published papers, patents, FOIA’d emails, grant documents, intelligence briefings, congressional transcripts, or Baric’s own words and testimony.
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20. Antarctic SARS-CoV-2 Sample Origins and Analysis
The findings indicate that the SARS-CoV-2 sequences, along with traces of multiple specific laboratory cell lines and CRISPR components, were accidentally co-sequenced with the Antarctic soil samples at the Sangon facility, pointing strongly toward the source being an active viral research laboratory experiment cluster
Medium: The Sangon Antarctic SARS-COV-2 samples (Revisited in 2025)
Substack: The Sangon “Antarctic SARS-COV-2 samples
Taken together, all this data constitutes direct molecular evidence that, no later than December 2019, an ancestral SARS-CoV-2 strain was being serially passaged and genetically edited… at a facility (Sangon Biotech) that was a known… contractor for the WIV.
Video explainer
21. A DANGEROUS DISCOVERY (Wuhan Merbecovirus Gain-of-Function Chimera)
This is a video explainer of Professor Steven Massey’s new paper available on zenodo:
Note, this video was generated by Google LM notebook, using specific prompts, and there are a few minor pronunciation errors:
0:20 ‘Wuvan’ should be ‘Wuhan’
2:48 ’25 adenine’ should be ’25 adenosine’
4:25 ‘no seem’ should be ‘no seem-em’
4:56 ‘B si one’ should be ‘B-S-A one’
Audio podcast version (30 minutes)
NOTE: Pronunciation errors
Audio
14:00 ‘Type isf restriction enzyme’ should be ‘Type IIS restriction enzyme’
14:04 Bsai should be BsaI (pronounced ‘Bsa one’)
14:05 Bsmbi should be BsmBI (pronounced ‘BsmB one’)
14:15 ‘Type is enzymes’ should be ‘Type IIS enzymes’ (pronounced ‘Type two S’)
14:34 ‘Bsi enzymes’ should be ‘Type IIS enzymes’
15:20 ‘Bsi use’ should be ‘BsaI use’ (pronounced ‘Bsa one use’)
16:20 ‘Bsi restriction site’ should be ‘BsaI restriction site’
16:34 16:37 16:48 16:51 17:21 31:00 31:08 ‘Bsi’ should be BsaI (pronounced ‘Bsa one use’)
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