Science Writings
By Jonathan Latham, PhD. It is a remarkable fact that, despite its purported emphasis on science, no one who led the US pandemic response in its first year, not Robert Redfield, not his colleague Deborah Birx, nor his nemeses Tony Fauci, Alex Azar, and Scott Atlas, had the standard qualification expected of a scientist, a [ ]
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by Jonathan Latham, PhD Newly released written testimony provided by Robert Garry to the Senate s Committee on the Origins Of COVID-19 documents him evading questions about whether his institution brought Ebola virus to West Africa prior to the 2014 Ebola outbreak In testimony supplementing his in-person statements, Garry was asked by the Committee s Senator Marshall [ ]
By Jonathan Latham, PhD and Allison Wilson, PhD This text was originally posted as a Twitter/X thread. We are reposting it (minus a few typos) as a short essay. 1/ Many people on Twitter are, like Nicholas Wade, wondering if the latest DEFUSE grant revelations from @emilyakopp and @USRTK are maybe the last word on [ ]
by Jonathan Latham, PhD Anyone sincerely seeking to avoid a repeat of the COVID19 pandemic is faced with two mysteries. Both of them need urgent answers. One mystery is the obvious one: Where did SARS-CoV-2 come from? The second mystery is this: Why, if they are as confident as they say they are that the [ ]
by Sam Husseini and Jonathan Latham, PhD Between 2014 and 2016, West Africa endured an Ebola epidemic that was easily the largest and deadliest in history. Over 29,000 people were infected and more than 11,000 died in what was also an economic and social calamity. The countries most afflicted were Sierra Leone, Liberia, and Guinea; but [ ]
by Jonathan Latham, PhD On February 1st, 2020, Anthony Fauci, head of the US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease (NIAID), secretly convened a group of select international virologists. Their task was to decide whether SARS-CoV-2, the virus newly emerged from Wuhan, was engineered. Some key emails from their resulting discussions have only recently [ ]
by Jonathan Latham, PhD and Allison Wilson, PhD The task of every COVID-19 origin theory is to explain a human outbreak in Wuhan, China, when the closest wild relatives of SARS-CoV-2 are located far away, 1700 km to the South West. In public, virologists have tended to say that the proximity of the outbreak to [ ]
On October 7th, 2021, I gave a presentation at the latest #covidunknowns workshop organised by the British Medical Journal (BMJ). The workshop was titled Origins of Covid and the talk was titled: “The Mojiang Miners Passage Theory and the Lab Origin Question”. I gave a brief overview of key origin questions and of the Mojiang [ ]
by Jonathan Latham, PhD and Allison Wilson, PhD Back in March, the World Health Organisation s report on the origin of the COVID-19 pandemic coronavirus confirmed something that had long been widely presumed. Since the pandemic began, there has been an enormous virus hunt in China. The purpose of this hunt has been to find the [ ]