Steve Massey
@stevenemassey
Computational biologist and epistemic trespasser. I'm in it for the decentralization #DeSci Investigating the origin of COVID-19 with #DRASTIC and friends
It has been reported German Intel has assessed that COVID19 originated via a lab leak Swiss paper NZZ reports that our discovery of a MERS-related infectious clone with a chimeric spike from Wuhan sequencing datasets was considered by German Intel 🧵
I agree with the long-term goal, but it's far off. Our BSL3/4 labs currently lack bare minimum security regulations like mandatory cameras and sensors in critical equipment monitored by an independent regulator. No government agency even knows the total number of BSL3/4 in our…
We should ban humans from BSL4 labs and do all the work robotically instead. We need people working on developing defenses against the worst human diseases like Ebola — but to put actual humans in those labs with these viruses every day and then send them home to their…
"[B]ioscurity problems at high-containment labs justify...developing enforceable safety standards for labs that conduct dual-use research...While voluntary standards exist, there is presently no enforced system for safety measures globally." city-journal.org/article/robert…
This informative paper (june 2023), lists and discusses locations where humans get massively in contact with bats. Apart from Mojiang, no other instance of infection, confirming that viruses rarely pass from bats to humans and are not a source of pandemics. Another intermediate…
Because in the UK you have to be over 18 to view technical discussions about expression vector sequences (for online 'safety') 🤡🌍 🇰🇵
This just happened here in the UK
Dr. Roger Brent: But a short word about Kadlec's report. In this second Muddy Waters installment, Kadlec continues to operate as a kind of one-man DRASTIC group (2), making maximum use of openly available information, including information sources not usually considered. It's…
A key flaw with Grok is that it relies on peer reviewed papers that use non-validated models. What it doesn't realize is that sequence evolution models that use novel methodologies are opaque to scrutiny by reviewers as it is not practical for them to repeat / validate the work
I've reviewed diverse evidence on SARS-CoV-2 origins. While Alina Chan and Matt Ridley's "Viral" raises valid lab leak points—like WIV research and the furin site—genetic and epidemiological data (e.g., market lineages, bat/pangolin relatives) strongly favor zoonosis. No smoking…
The Virus That Was Born an Orphan: The Origin of SARS-CoV-2 and the Silence of Institutions by @mises cc: @sciencecohen @johnstravis @sudipsparikh @julianbarnes @jocelynkaiser @kakape @martinenserink @ScienceInsider @Nature @aaas @Marcia4Science mises.org/mises-wire/vir…
Now retract Worobey et al., 2022 and Pekar et al., 2022...which are even worse, and far more consequential, papers. Fifteen years late, Science finally retracts false ‘arsenic life’ paper science.org/content/articl…
I reported over a year back that the Inspector General of USAID opened an investigation of EcoHealth Alliance and their work with the Wuhan Institute of Virology. IG announced in Feb investigation is ongoing. How long does it take?
✅a litany of failures in safety & oversight ✅attempts to cover up the incident ✅bribery of people in charge ✅mistakes & mishandling at every level ✅huge difference in test results & actual levels ✅"modification" of results to show lower lead levels theguardian.com/world/2025/jul…
1. Kadlec awaiting confirmation for his new role 2. Kadlec's report references pangolins 76 times bush.tamu.edu/wp-content/upl… 3. Time to read my pangolin coronavirus report? researchgate.net/publication/39… 4. DRASTIC research cited @gdemaneuf @ydeigin @BillyBostickson @C_Small_
☠️COVID was Chinese Bioweapon? ☠️ A bioweapons expert, Robert Kadlec, likely to head the Trump administration’s top Pentagon post for countering weapons of mass destruction has charged in a new report that the Covid-19 pandemic was probably the result of a…
More interesting tidbits emerging from the intelligence files of DRASTIC, which i may add, are unrivalled.
This time, we are comparing Deep Seek R1, DeepSeek V3, Grok 3, Llama 3.3 70B, Gemini 2.5 Pro, and GPT-4o on Daszak's calendar items about NatComms. DeepSeek R1 regularly surprises (image). @PeterDaszak @sciencecohen @Lake_Octopus @R_H_Ebright @emilyakopp @thackerpd @mattwridley
"[A] research-related incident is the most probable origin of SARS-CoV-2...Accordingly, the worldwide construction of...high containment laboratories warrants great caution and should be accompanied by...global adoption of strong biosafety standards." bush.tamu.edu/wp-content/upl…
What does scientific conflict of interest look like?
The guy ( @PeterDaszak ) who cooperated closely with Dr. Shi at WIV & wrote a proposal to make, essentially, SARS CoV2 there in 2018 thinks SARS CoV2 did not leak from WIV. Shocker!