[P2P-F] Fwd: Natural Origin or Lab Escape? The Emergence of SARS-CoV-2 (3 Online Lectures)

Wed Mar 3 08:09:23 CET 2021

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From: Jonathan Latham <jrlatham at bioscienceresource.org>
Date: Tue, Mar 2, 2021 at 2:53 AM
Subject: Natural Origin or Lab Escape? The Emergence of SARS-CoV-2 (3
Online Lectures)
To: BSR-PROJECT-ELIST1 at gn.apc.org <BSR-PROJECT-ELIST1 at gn.apc.org>

Dear Friends and Colleagues

Today (Mon, March 1st, 2021) we would like to share something new.

It is a series of three talks titled, collectively: *Natural Origin or Lab
Escape? The Emergence of SARS-CoV-2.*
by Dr Jonathan Latham.

The three talks were presented to the EAT online community
<https://www.eatcommunity.com/> on Jan 8th, Jan 15th and Jan 22nd, 2021.
Each is now published on the Youtube channel of Independent Science News
<https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtx1gXlAzs82pXI2CAphFfg>.
The three talks describe aspects of our current thinking on the origin of
the SARS-CoV-2 virus and the nature of the underlying political/economic
forces attempting to influence public perception, especially of its origins.
These talks are designed for people new to the virus origins debate but
also are designed to important new information to satisfy those who are
already very familiar with the arguments and the evidence.

More details and links are below.

Lecture 1
*Why Wuhan?*
Could SARS-CoV-2 have come from a lab?  As this first talk details, the
evidence for a natural zoonotic origin was always weak. Interestingly, the
case for a natural origin has become ever weaker as the pandemic has
progressed. In stark contrast, the evidence base for a lab origin has grown
steadily. At present, numerous lines of evidence, outlined in this first
talk, point strongly to a lab escape.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAIQ7hH5VKw&t=461s

Lecture 2
*The Mojiang Miners Passage Theory*
Dr Latham introduces the various lab origin theories for the SARS-CoV-2
coronavirus, the cause of the COVID19 pandemic. In order of appearance: 1)
Sirotkin and Sirotkin, 2) Segreto and Deigin, and 3) the DRASTIC theory. Dr
Latham then discusses the latest thinking on the Mojiang Miners Passage
Theory. This theory originated from the observation that RaTG13 (the
closest related viral sequence to SARS-CoV-2) was sampled in 2013 from a
mine (the Mojiang mine) that had recently been the site of a disease
outbreak. In that outbreak, six miners were hospitalized and three died;
each had COVID-19-like symptoms. The ill miners were diagnosed at the time
as likely suffering from an unknown coronavirus and it is known they had
been shovelling bat guano. It is known that serum, and possibly other
tissue samples, from four of the hospitalized miners were transported at
the time to the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) for testing. The Mojiang
Miners Passage theory proposes that, by the time these patient samples
arrived at the WIV, the original mine virus had evolved inside the miners
to become a highly adapted human pathogen. According to the theory, it was
this virus which subsequently escaped and caused the COVID19 pandemic.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59cXOHj0On8&t=30s

Lecture 3
*The Pandemic Virus Industrial Complex*
The military has its academic industrial complex and so does virus medical
research. The Pandemic Virus Industrial Complex (PVIC) is busy on many
fronts, only one of which is trying to suppress discussion of the potential
lab origins of the SARS-CoV-2 virus.
In this video, Dr Jonathan Latham, PhD, shares insights into the
functioning and organization of the various elements that constitute the
PVIC. How do its academic, military, and commercial aspects interact? Who,
if anyone, pulls the strings? What does it fear from the revelation of a
lab leak?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mq9HFlpc2uA

Please enjoy these talks and share these links if you find them useful.

Yours sincerely
Jonathan

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
Skype: jonathanlatham2
Twitter and Facebook: @Biosrp
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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. Organisms are
self-organised systems and therefore are not genetically determined.
Second, the explanation for the myth, which predates Mesopotamian cities of
6,000 years ago, is its utility. Genetic determinism rationalises political
systems based on genetic privilege. The result of the emergence of genetic
determinism was the dismantling of ancient cultures based on inclusiveness
and egalitarianiism 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 the subsequent
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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