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Liberals now try to blame 'coon dogs for COVID origin
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Fauchi
Mar 25, 2023, 11:15:20 PM3/25/23
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Nobody with any brains is buying that shit story.
"‘They should do decent science’: Report on raccoon dogs and Covid origins
spurs ethics flap"
<https://usrtk.org/covid-19-origins/raccoon-dogs-ethics-flap/>
By Emily Kopp and Karolina Corin
A team of Western virologists could face professional penalties for
scooping data collected by the Chinese Center for Disease Control and
Prevention in their rush to call attention to their own rapid reanalysis —
an analysis at odds with the Chinese team’s conclusions.
A prominent group of Western virologists announced last week that data
collected by China CDC from the Huanan Wholesale Seafood Market in Wuhan
strongly suggests a zoonotic spillover there in the winter of 2019 —
likely from raccoon dogs — while the China CDC scientists concluded their
samples indicate a superspreader event at the market.
The Western virologists have said in press reports that they “sleuthed”
the data. In fact, the data was uploaded by the China CDC scientists to a
genomic database as their preprint moved through peer review for
consideration in the scientific journal Nature.
The virologists involved in the hasty analysis of the Chinese data were
briefly locked out of the major genomic database where it was posted,
“GISAID” — Global Initiative on Sharing Avian Influenza Data. GISAID has
alleged unethical “scooping” by the Western virologists.
The virologists’ access was temporarily restored as GISAID collects more
evidence, the GISAID Secretariat said in a statement Thursday.
“The review is not complete,” the statement reads.
Should the ban be reinstated, the scientists would lose access to one of
the largest repositories of viral data in the world.
GISAID locked out the virologists as a “last resort” because the entire
team — particularly University of Arizona professor Michael Worobey and
University of Sydney professor Edward Holmes — ignored requests for
clarity from GISAID, according to the statement.
“When GISAID received a recent complaint from China CDC researchers about
their interaction with registered GISAID users Messrs. Holmes and Worobey,
who communicated their intent to make certain use of data generated by the
China CDC that was non-compliant, GISAID opened an inquiry,” the GISAID
Secretariat said. “When it becomes evident that any user ignores requests
for clarity and appears reluctant to help ensure the data generators’
rights will be upheld, such measures will only be used as a last resort.”
The Chinese scientists had voiced concerns to GISAID that Holmes and
Worobey were using their data in violation of GISAID’s terms of use,
according to the statement.
Many of the same Western virologists, including Worobey and Holmes, had
previously used unpublished China CDC data to advance contrary findings.
Worobey and Holmes did not respond to requests for comment.
"‘They should do decent science’: Report on raccoon dogs and Covid origins
spurs ethics flap"
<https://usrtk.org/covid-19-origins/raccoon-dogs-ethics-flap/>
By Emily Kopp and Karolina Corin
A team of Western virologists could face professional penalties for
scooping data collected by the Chinese Center for Disease Control and
Prevention in their rush to call attention to their own rapid reanalysis —
an analysis at odds with the Chinese team’s conclusions.
A prominent group of Western virologists announced last week that data
collected by China CDC from the Huanan Wholesale Seafood Market in Wuhan
strongly suggests a zoonotic spillover there in the winter of 2019 —
likely from raccoon dogs — while the China CDC scientists concluded their
samples indicate a superspreader event at the market.
The Western virologists have said in press reports that they “sleuthed”
the data. In fact, the data was uploaded by the China CDC scientists to a
genomic database as their preprint moved through peer review for
consideration in the scientific journal Nature.
The virologists involved in the hasty analysis of the Chinese data were
briefly locked out of the major genomic database where it was posted,
“GISAID” — Global Initiative on Sharing Avian Influenza Data. GISAID has
alleged unethical “scooping” by the Western virologists.
The virologists’ access was temporarily restored as GISAID collects more
evidence, the GISAID Secretariat said in a statement Thursday.
“The review is not complete,” the statement reads.
Should the ban be reinstated, the scientists would lose access to one of
the largest repositories of viral data in the world.
GISAID locked out the virologists as a “last resort” because the entire
team — particularly University of Arizona professor Michael Worobey and
University of Sydney professor Edward Holmes — ignored requests for
clarity from GISAID, according to the statement.
“When GISAID received a recent complaint from China CDC researchers about
their interaction with registered GISAID users Messrs. Holmes and Worobey,
who communicated their intent to make certain use of data generated by the
China CDC that was non-compliant, GISAID opened an inquiry,” the GISAID
Secretariat said. “When it becomes evident that any user ignores requests
for clarity and appears reluctant to help ensure the data generators’
rights will be upheld, such measures will only be used as a last resort.”
The Chinese scientists had voiced concerns to GISAID that Holmes and
Worobey were using their data in violation of GISAID’s terms of use,
according to the statement.
Many of the same Western virologists, including Worobey and Holmes, had
previously used unpublished China CDC data to advance contrary findings.
Worobey and Holmes did not respond to requests for comment.
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