I am going to respond to Dr Rasmussen's questions as honestly as I can here. But first I thank the wise people in my life who reached out to me, reminded me of the ultimate goal of finding the #OriginOfCovid and advised me to take the high road. x.com/angie_rasmusse…
I waded into #OriginOfCovid without knowing the kind of mess I would get in for writing a single line in a preprint that the virus might have come from nature or it might have come from a lab. A year later, I wrote VIRAL: The Search for the Origin of Covid-19 with @mattwridley
Half of the money I've made from the book has been donated to charity (non-political). I have not accepted $ for doing #OriginOfCovid research despite several offers. Thankfully the publication and open access fees were waived for my peer reviewed paper. academic.oup.com/mbe/article/39…
I am honored to be part of a Taskforce that looks into how pathogen research can be made safer and more transparent. There is no compensation tied to this role. This Taskforce and conference do not discuss #OriginOfCovid but the much larger issue of lab-based outbreaks.
Over the past 2.5 years, some virologists have tried unsuccessfully to assert that I am not qualified to comment on #OriginOfCovid or have an agenda. The attacks have gotten worse and worse despite the lab leak hypothesis becoming more widely accepted. x.com/ayjchan/status…
Over the past 2.5 years, some virologists have tried unsuccessfully to assert that I am not qualified to comment on #OriginOfCovid or have an agenda. The attacks have gotten worse and worse despite the lab leak hypothesis becoming more widely accepted. x.com/ayjchan/status…
A major development was the release of FOIA'ed emails in 2021 revealing that the highly influential Proximal Origin letter dismissing a lab #OriginOfCovid as implausible had come out of discussions with funders & collaborators of the Wuhan scientists + gain-of-function advocates.
After the emails were released, the 1st author of Proximal Origin deleted ~5,000 tweets before deactivating his twitter account. Among others, I called for the release of the unredacted emails so the public might understand how they changed their minds about lab #OriginOfCovid
This summer, data was accidentally released revealing that a senior author of Proximal Origin had collaborated with the Wuhan scientists suspected of being involved in the #OriginOfCovid on the study of novel SARS-like viruses. x.com/ayjchan/status…
This summer, data was accidentally released revealing that a senior author of Proximal Origin had collaborated with the Wuhan scientists suspected of being involved in the #OriginOfCovid on the study of novel SARS-like viruses. x.com/ayjchan/status…
@Ayjchan I listened to this book a few times you all laid it out extremely well. So much information was put in here. I appreciate your hard work. Keep doing what you’re doing. There are people that want to know you are an important part of the story.