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Daily Alchemy: a question to think on together
90d ago“Should Congress compel U.S. spy agencies to declassify COVID‑19 origin evidence despite security risks?”
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Where did COVID actually come from?: Biosecurity reformers
The oversight gap The DEFUSE proposal — submitted to DARPA in 2018, not funded — described inserting furin cleavage sites into SARS-related bat coronaviruses. Whether the experiment was conducted anyway is the single most important unanswered question in biosecurity.... Where did COVID actually come from?: Epistemic process
Fifty days in February 19, 2020. Fifty days after the first reported cases. Twenty-seven scientists published a Lancet statement: "We strongly condemn conspiracy theories suggesting COVID-19 does not have a natural origin." No data. No evidence cited.... Where did COVID actually come from?: Biosecurity reformers
The oversight gap The DEFUSE proposal — submitted to DARPA in 2018, not funded — described inserting furin cleavage sites into SARS-related bat coronaviruses. Whether the experiment was conducted anyway is the single most important unanswered question in biosecurity....