Episode Details

Remember the COVID-19 pandemic? That was crazy, right? And did you hear that the virus responsible, SARS-CoV-2, leaked from a virology lab in Wuhan? And that it may even have been deliberately leaked to act as a bioweapon? You definitely heard that. Everybody has. But is it true? Well... I mean what's the alternative? All those stupid scientists talking about how it almost certainly originated from a wet market, with live animals coughing and crapping everywhere, just like so many other documented spillover events, what sense does that make? Those people are stupid establishment shills, right? Well, why don't we talk about it in excruciating detail for a couple hours? That should clear everything up.

0:00 Introduction
2:05 Facts First
13:14 The Bioweapon Bullshit That Made a Billion
29:20 The Mojiang Myth and the Rise of DRASTIC
37:48 The Rise of the Frankenvirus Narrative
1:02:05 How Pandemic Origins Became Culture War Gold
1:14:08 Lab Leak Goes to Washington
1:26:08 Conversation With Philipp Markolin
1:53:32 Epilogue

Special thanks to Philipp Markolin for helping me produce this video, please check out his book and other writings, as well as an upcoming documentary from Christian Frei.
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Epidemiology paper: https://www.science.org/doi/full/10.1126/science.abm4454
Another epidemiology paper: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abp8715
Origins paper: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0092867421009910
Paper on the wet market: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-91470-2
Another paper on the wet market: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06043-2
More epidemiology: https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(24)00901-2
Multiple zoonotic origins paper: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abp8337
Origin and evolution of pathogenic coronaviruses: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41579-018-0118-9
Review on animal reservoirs: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0168170207001050
Novel bat coronaviruses: https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674%2821%2900709-1
Proximal origin paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-020-0820-9
Furin site paper: https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2211107119
Recombination paper: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8882382/
QTQTN motif paper: https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.2205690119

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