[P2P-F] Fwd: The Long History of Accidental Laboratory Releases of Potential Pandemic Pathogens Is Being Ignored In the COVID-19 Media Coverage

Tue May 5 15:46:34 CEST 2020

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From: Jonathan Latham <jrlatham at bioscienceresource.org>
Date: Tue, May 5, 2020 at 8:29 PM
Subject: The Long History of Accidental Laboratory Releases of Potential
Pandemic Pathogens Is Being Ignored In the COVID-19 Media Coverage
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Dear Friends and Colleagues

Published today (Tues May 5th, 2020) on *Independent Science News*:

*The Long History of Accidental Laboratory Releases of Potential Pandemic
Pathogens Is Being Ignored In the COVID-19 Media Coverage*
by Sam Husseini

https://www.independentsciencenews.org/health/the-long-history-of-accidental-laboratory-releases-of-potential-pandemic-pathogens/

*Synopsis*: Most of the media is treating the idea that the COVID-19
pandemic might have been the result of a lab escape as a wild and reckless
accusation. Yet there is a long and extensive history of Potential Pandemic
Pathogens (PPPs) escaping from labs all over the world. H1NI flu, for
example, is now considered to have been a lab escape as was the UK’s Foot
and Mouth disease (FMD) virus outbreak of 2007. Most of these escape events
and their consequences are virtually unknown outside of their specialist
fields, however. This article provides an overview.
The author is an independent journalist.

Please share this article if you know someone who will find it useful.

Best wishes

Jonathan

Jonathan Latham, PhD
Executive Director
The Bioscience Resource Project,
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It is provisionally titled: *The Myth of The Master Molecule: DNA and the
Social Order*

The contention of the book is that the key organising principle of Western
thought is the seemingly innocuous and seemingly simple idea that
our personal qualities are biologically inherited. That is, our character
derives from our ancestors rather than being an always-adapting product of
our own experiences, decisions, and education. The book makes the case,
first, that genetic determinism is a scientific fallacy since organisms are
self-organised systems and therefore not genetically determined. Second,
the explanation for the myth, which originated in Mesopotamia around
5,000 years ago, is its utility. Genetic determinism allows the
development of political systems based on genetic privilege. The result
was the dismantling of ancient cultures based on inclusive and egalitarian
social patterns and their transformation into rigid structures of
authoritarian domination based on separation and division: into
families, classes, races, nations, sexes (i.e. patriarchy), and
species. The final proposition of the book is that propagating the myth
was the chief aim of Zoroastrianism and all the Abrahamic religions. Since
the 1850s, this role has been appropriated by science. By recognizing how
the founding myth of Western civilization is being re-told in the language
of science we can start to dismantle and replace it with a more humane and
scientific understanding of the world.

Jonathan Latham, PhD
Executive Director
The Bioscience Resource Project,
Ithaca, NY 14850 USA

Websites:
www.independentsciencenews.org
www.poisonpapers.org
www.bioscienceresource.org

Tel: 1-607-319-0279
Twitter and Facebook: @Biosrp
Please sign on to our mailing list:
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Notice: Please forgive any delays and slow news. I am writing a book about
genetics and genetic determinism.

It is provisionally titled: *The Myth of The Master Molecule: DNA and the
Social Order*

The contention of the book is that the key organising principle of Western
thought is the seemingly innocuous and seemingly simple idea that
our personal qualities are biologically inherited. That is, our character
derives from our ancestors rather than being an always-adapting product of
our own experiences, decisions, and education. The book makes the case,
first, that genetic determinism is a scientific fallacy since organisms are
self-organised systems and therefore not genetically determined. Second,
the explanation for the myth, which originated in Mesopotamia around
5,000 years ago, is its utility. Genetic determinism allows the
development of political systems based on genetic privilege. The result
was the dismantling of ancient cultures based on inclusive and egalitarian
social patterns and their transformation into rigid structures of
authoritarian domination based on separation and division: into
families, classes, races, nations, sexes (i.e. patriarchy), and
species. The final proposition of the book is that propagating the myth
was the chief aim of Zoroastrianism and all the Abrahamic religions. Since
the 1850s, this role has been appropriated by science. By recognizing how
the founding myth of Western civilization is being re-told in the language
of science we can start to dismantle and replace it with a more humane and
scientific understanding of the world.

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