Season 1 Episode 41
The Natural Origin Conspiracy Theory
A raccoon dog rumor can run around the world before the truth is done tying its shoes.
The Atlantic chose to publish a hypothesis that was the subject of a World Health Organization conference call. It wasn't even a pre-print yet, let alone a peer-reviewed study.
The claim: A raccoon dog transmitted the SarsCov-2 virus to humans at the Huanan Wet Market in Wuhan.
The author of the Atlantic article, Katherine Wu, went on the PBS News Hour, declaring that they'd found the equivalent of fingerprints at the crime scene. Wu also expressed her "hope that some people will be swayed" away from the Lab Leak explanation.
Wu's presentation of this story is an extreme overstatement. Here's what you need to know...
The "scientific consensus" does not favor the Wet Market story. In this episode, we introduce you to the #SpilloverGang - the tiny, connected group behind the Wet Market story.
The Spillover Gang has had other culprits for this crime - bats, pangolins, and now the raccoon dog. But this is like the accused murderer who is too late to commit the crime. We'll show you how this conspiracy theory cannot get past Go.
Turn the Other Cheek
These days, it's considered heresy to publicly question The Science. Free expression has been censored for partisan and geopolitical narratives, so we cannot trust that we won't be banned. It's happened to others. That's why we're encouraging you to download the show.
However, we will continue to practice Grace.
That's why, instead of hiding our biases, we disclose our beliefs up-front. And during the program, we Steelman (instead of strawman) by highlighting the Spillover Gang's best spokesperson, and we link to his work.
Timeline
0:00 - Download this episode before it gets banned!
4:20 - Jim's prediction about "The Spillover Gang" from November 2022
5:15 - Jim's provisional beliefs
9:35 - The Spillover Gang
12:18 - DRASTIC - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DRASTIC
12:59 - COVID timeline part 1: 2023
15:47 - Preprints and peer review explained
17:12 - Florence Débarre as reported by the New York Times - https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/16/science/covid-wuhan-market-raccoon-dogs-lab-leak.html
19:54 - COVID timeline part 2: February and March 2023
24:03 - Peter Daszak - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Daszak
26:00 - Bob Garry and intelligent design
27:08 - Who were the fist COVID patients and when did they get sick?
30:04 - COVID timeline part 3: mid to late 2019
31:20 - Michael Worobey's peer-reviewed geographical clustering study
33:33 - Eddie Holmes and the Hunan wet market raccoon dog photo from 2014
34:28 - Worobey's COVID origin claims from Science magazine published July 2022 - https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abp8715
38:21 - "Follow the science"
41:00 - An allegation
43:13 - Two points to remember
44:40 - An investigation is needed, along with truth and reconciliation - https://youtu.be/WQnD_02KPYU
46:02 - Gain of function research
47:08 - The grace point
Show Notes
The Spillover Gang members are (Twitter handles and links for ease of use):
@K_G_Anderson - https://twitter.com/K_G_Andersen
Dr Anderson deleted his Twitter in June of 2021 - https://www.newsweek.com/scientist-who-warned-fauci-covid-could-engineered-deletes-twitter-account-andersen-1598069
@EdwardCHolmes - https://twitter.com/edwardcholmes?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor
@RobertFGarry1 - https://twitter.com/robertfgarry1?lang=en
@MichaelWorobey - https://twitter.com/MichaelWorobey?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor
Bill Protzmann is your moderator.
Published on 2 years, 8 months ago
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