Tag Archives: Gilles Demaneuf

How the coronavirus origin story is being rewritten by a guerrilla Twitter group

Jackson Ryan April 15, 2021 The Seeker poured a strong cup of chai and lit a cigarette. He was onto something. Alternating between a smartphone and a laptop, the former science teacher from the northeast Indian city of Bhubaneswar punched keywords into the search bar of CNKI, one of China’s foremost databases of scientific papers. Continue reading “How the coronavirus origin story is being rewritten by a guerrilla Twitter group”

A courageous article by @ParkSuAm1996 in the HK South China Morning Post

A courageous article by @ParkSuAm1996 in the HK South China Morning Post. Well done Eduardo and the SCMP, the questions of transparency and willingness to oppenly learn from mistakes are essential. https://t.co/U6NTBIo9SG “An employee at CNAS who declined to be identified said by phone that the Wuhan Institute of Virology was classified as a “secretContinue reading “A courageous article by @ParkSuAm1996 in the HK South China Morning Post”

White Unicorns – or the silly stories about no Covid-19 positive tests at the WIV (and other labs)

Issue #1:Sorry @China__Focus, but you have been caught lying.Ignoring your 2019 typo (should be 2020, the 700 tests ILI samples from the Wuhan Xiehe Hospital – not from the WIV (which anyway has 590 staff and students).

WHO knows? We still can’t be sure of Covid’s origins

Could Covid-19 have originated from a Chinese lab accident? When the virus was first identified, many pointed out that it was close to the Wuhan Institute of Virology. It sounded like a conspiracy theory. But it’s all too plausible. And there are questions that the long-awaited report by the World Health Organisation leaves unanswered.