Molecular biology clues portray SARS-CoV-2 as a lab manipulation of RaTG13

Re:Molecular biology clues portray SARS-CoV-2 as a lab manip... by tptacek on Monday May 31, 2021 @03:02PM (#27347154)

I'm sitting next to someone who now works in the field and he disagrees with you. Moreover, you wrote a comment upthread suggesting that the real driver for all this work is military contracts, which is simply false. Perhaps you & I are best off not litigating this.

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Re:Molecular biology clues portray SARS-CoV-2 as a lab manip... by deugo on Monday May 31, 2021 @03:48PM (#27347502)

With what specifically? All of it, even the quote? If we are going to do an appeal to Oracle authority by proxy, I should at least get to interrogate it, and I agree, that would get tedious fast. Maybe he can comment?

I am not really suggesting the real driver of GoF of concern is military contracts, except maybe when looking at public funding sources.

> Meticulous investigation of U.S. government databases reveals that Pentagon funding for the EcoHealth Alliance from 2013 to 2020, including contracts, grants and subcontracts, was just under $39 million. Most, $34.6 million, was from the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA), which is a branch of the DOD which states it is tasked to “counter and deter weapons of mass destruction and improvised threat networks.”

> Most of the remaining money to EHA was from USAID (State Dept.), comprising at least $64,700,000 (1). These two sources thus total over $103 million.

https://www.independentsciencenews.org/news/peter-daszaks-ec...

I do think our back-and-forth can be useful, at least I learned something and removed some uncertainties.

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