Yuri Deigin and Bret Weinstein on the possible lab leak, before it became mainstream, and then banned.
Deigin’s original article: Lab-Made? SARS-CoV-2 Genealogy Through the Lens of Gain-of-Function Research.
Matt Ridley’s book “Viral”, on the origin of the pandemic, will be published in 2021: http://www.rationaloptimist.com/blog/did-covid-escape-from-a-lab/
EXPOSING THE LIKELY WUHAN LAB LEAK OF SARS-COV-2/COVID-19
Peter Daszak’s name seems to come up quite a bit:
https://journals.plos.org/plospathogens/article?id=10.1371/journal.ppat.1006698
http://www.ianbirrell.com/world-experts-condemn-who-inquiry-as-a-charade/
Undark: Lab Leak: A Scientific Debate Mired in Politics — and Unresolved
Mainstream now, it seems: https://edition.cnn.com/videos/health/2021/03/26/sanjay-gupta-exclusive-robert-redfield-coronavirus-opinion-origin-sot-intv-newday-vpx.cnn/video/playlists/coronavirus/
Nicholas Wade: Origin of Covid — Following the Clues
It can’t get too much more mainstream than this letter in Science: Investigate the origins of COVID-19 Bret and Heather discuss it here: What Covid Reveals About our Leaders.
https://medium.com/@SherlockGNomes/an-engineered-origin-for-the-sars-cov2-genome-47914a6919ad
https://harvard2thebighouse.substack.com/p/molecular-evidence-for-covid-19s
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0166354220300528?via%3Dihub
Precedents
H1N1, Smallpox, Venezuelan equine encephalitis (VEE), SARS, and Foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) have documented cases of lab leaks:
For H1N1 one piece of evidence was missing evolution:
In 1977, H1N1 influenza A virus reappeared after a 20-year absence. Genetic analysis indicated that this strain was missing decades of nucleotide sequence evolution, suggesting an accidental release of a frozen laboratory strain into the general population.
The Re-Emergence of H1N1 Influenza Virus in 1977: A Cautionary Tale for Estimating Divergence Times Using Biologically Unrealistic Sampling
Based on available evidence, the 1977 strain was indeed too closely matched to decades-old strains to likely be a natural occurrence.
The Reemergent 1977 H1N1 Strain and the Gain-of-Function Debate
Soviets Once Denied a Deadly Anthrax Lab Leak. U.S. Scientists Backed the Story.
The 1977 H1N1 Influenza Virus Reemergence Demonstrated Gain-of-Function Hazards
More Resources
Decentralized Radical Autonomous Search Team Investigating COVID-1, also LaboratoryLeak.com.
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