<div dir="ltr"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">---------- Forwarded message ---------<br>From: <strong class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">Jonathan Latham</strong> <span dir="auto"><<a href="mailto:jrlatham@bioscienceresource.org">jrlatham@bioscienceresource.org</a>></span><br>Date: Tue, Mar 2, 2021 at 2:53 AM<br>Subject: Natural Origin or Lab Escape? The Emergence of SARS-CoV-2 (3 Online Lectures)<br>To: <a href="mailto:BSR-PROJECT-ELIST1@gn.apc.org">BSR-PROJECT-ELIST1@gn.apc.org</a> <<a href="mailto:BSR-PROJECT-ELIST1@gn.apc.org">BSR-PROJECT-ELIST1@gn.apc.org</a>><br></div><br><br><div style="word-wrap:break-word;line-break:after-white-space"><div style="word-wrap:break-word;line-break:after-white-space"><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap:break-word;line-break:after-white-space"><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap:break-word;line-break:after-white-space"><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap:break-word;line-break:after-white-space"><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap:break-word;line-break:after-white-space"><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap:break-word;line-break:after-white-space">Dear Friends and Colleagues<div><br></div><div>Today (Mon, March 1st, 2021) we would like to share something new.</div><div><br></div><div>It is a series of three talks titled, collectively: <b>Natural Origin or Lab Escape? The Emergence of SARS-CoV-2.</b></div><div><span style="color:rgb(3,3,3);font-family:Roboto,Arial,sans-serif;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:rgb(249,249,249)">by Dr Jonathan Latham. </span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(3,3,3);font-family:Roboto,Arial,sans-serif;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:rgb(249,249,249)"><br></span></div><div>The three talks<span style="color:rgb(3,3,3);font-family:Roboto,Arial,sans-serif;background-color:rgb(249,249,249);white-space:pre-wrap"> were presented to the </span><a href="https://www.eatcommunity.com/" target="_blank">EAT online community</a><span style="color:rgb(3,3,3);font-family:Roboto,Arial,sans-serif;background-color:rgb(249,249,249);white-space:pre-wrap"> on Jan 8th, Jan 15th and Jan 22nd, 2021. Each is</span> now published on the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtx1gXlAzs82pXI2CAphFfg" target="_blank">Youtube channel of Independent Science News</a>.</div><div><span style="color:rgb(3,3,3);font-family:Roboto,Arial,sans-serif;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:rgb(249,249,249)">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.</span></div><div>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. </div><div><br></div><div>More details and links are below.</div><div><br></div><div><div><span style="color:rgba(0,0,0,0.870588);font-family:Roboto,Noto,sans-serif;font-size:15px;font-variant-ligatures:normal;white-space:pre-wrap">Lecture 1</span></div><div><span style="color:rgba(0,0,0,0.870588);font-family:Roboto,Noto,sans-serif;font-size:15px;font-variant-ligatures:normal;white-space:pre-wrap"><u>Why Wuhan?</u></span></div><div><span style="color:rgba(0,0,0,0.870588);font-family:Roboto,Noto,sans-serif;font-size:15px;font-variant-ligatures:normal;white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="color:rgb(3,3,3);font-family:Roboto,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-variant-ligatures:normal;background-color:rgb(249,249,249)">Could SARS-CoV-2 have come from a lab? </span></span><span style="color:rgb(3,3,3);font-family:Roboto,Arial,sans-serif;background-color:rgb(249,249,249);white-space:pre-wrap"> 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, t</span><span style="color:rgb(3,3,3);font-family:Roboto,Arial,sans-serif;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:rgb(249,249,249)">he evidence base for a lab origin</span><span style="color:rgb(3,3,3);font-family:Roboto,Arial,sans-serif;background-color:rgb(249,249,249);white-space:pre-wrap"> has grown steadily. At present, numerous lines of evidence, outlined in this first talk, point </span><span style="color:rgb(3,3,3);font-family:Roboto,Arial,sans-serif;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:rgb(249,249,249)">strongly</span><span style="color:rgb(3,3,3);font-family:Roboto,Arial,sans-serif;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:rgb(249,249,249)"> to a lab escape.  </span></div><div><span style="font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap"><font color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588)" face="Roboto, Noto, sans-serif"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAIQ7hH5VKw&t=461s" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAIQ7hH5VKw&t=461s</a></font></span></div><div><span style="color:rgba(0,0,0,0.870588);font-family:Roboto,Noto,sans-serif;font-size:15px;font-variant-ligatures:normal;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></div><div><span style="color:rgba(0,0,0,0.870588);font-family:Roboto,Noto,sans-serif;font-size:15px;font-variant-ligatures:normal;white-space:pre-wrap">Lecture 2</span></div><div><span style="color:rgba(0,0,0,0.870588);font-family:Roboto,Noto,sans-serif;font-size:15px;font-variant-ligatures:normal;white-space:pre-wrap"><u>The Mojiang Miners Passage Theory</u></span></div><div><span style="color:rgba(0,0,0,0.870588);font-family:Roboto,Noto,sans-serif;font-size:15px;font-variant-ligatures:normal;white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="color:rgb(3,3,3);font-family:Roboto,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-variant-ligatures:normal;background-color:rgb(249,249,249)">Dr Latham introduces the various lab origin theories for the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, the cause of the </span></span><span style="color:rgb(3,3,3);font-family:Roboto,Arial,sans-serif;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:rgb(249,249,249)">COVID19 pandemic. In order of appearance</span><span style="color:rgb(3,3,3);font-family:Roboto,Arial,sans-serif;background-color:rgb(249,249,249);white-space:pre-wrap">: 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 </span><span style="color:rgb(3,3,3);font-family:Roboto,Arial,sans-serif;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:rgb(249,249,249)">RaTG13 (the closest related viral sequence to SARS-CoV-2) </span><span style="color:rgb(3,3,3);font-family:Roboto,Arial,sans-serif;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:rgb(249,249,249)">was sampled in 2013 from a</span><span style="color:rgb(3,3,3);font-family:Roboto,Arial,sans-serif;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:rgb(249,249,249)"> 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 </span><span style="color:rgb(3,3,3);font-family:Roboto,Arial,sans-serif;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:rgb(249,249,249)">COVID-19-like symptoms</span><span style="color:rgb(3,3,3);font-family:Roboto,Arial,sans-serif;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:rgb(249,249,249)">. The ill miners </span><span style="color:rgb(3,3,3);font-family:Roboto,Arial,sans-serif;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:rgb(249,249,249)">were diagnosed at the time as likely suffering from an unknown coronavirus and it is known they had</span><span style="color:rgb(3,3,3);font-family:Roboto,Arial,sans-serif;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:rgb(249,249,249)"> been shovelling bat guano. It is known that s</span><span style="color:rgb(3,3,3);font-family:Roboto,Arial,sans-serif;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:rgb(249,249,249)">erum, and possibly other tissue samples, </span><span style="color:rgb(3,3,3);font-family:Roboto,Arial,sans-serif;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:rgb(249,249,249)">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 </span><span style="color:rgb(3,3,3);font-family:Roboto,Arial,sans-serif;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:rgb(249,249,249)">these patient samples</span><span style="color:rgb(3,3,3);font-family:Roboto,Arial,sans-serif;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:rgb(249,249,249)"> arrived at the WIV, the original mine virus had evolved inside the miners to become a highly adapted human pathogen.</span><span style="color:rgb(3,3,3);font-family:Roboto,Arial,sans-serif;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:rgb(249,249,249)"> According to the theory, it was this virus which subsequently escaped and caused the COVID19 pandemic.</span></div><div><span style="font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap"><font color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.870588)" face="Roboto, Noto, sans-serif"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59cXOHj0On8&t=30s" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59cXOHj0On8&t=30s</a></font></span></div><div><br></div><span style="color:rgba(0,0,0,0.870588);font-family:Roboto,Noto,sans-serif;font-size:15px;font-variant-ligatures:normal;white-space:pre-wrap">Lecture 3</span><div><div><span style="color:rgba(0,0,0,0.870588);font-family:Roboto,Noto,sans-serif;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap"><u>The Pandemic Virus Industrial Complex</u> </span></div><div><span style="color:rgba(0,0,0,0.870588);font-family:Roboto,Noto,sans-serif;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap">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.</span></div><div><span style="color:rgba(0,0,0,0.870588);font-family:Roboto,Noto,sans-serif;font-size:15px;font-variant-ligatures:normal;white-space:pre-wrap">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?</span></div><div><span style="font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mq9HFlpc2uA" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mq9HFlpc2uA</a></span></div><div><br></div><div>Please enjoy these talks and share these links if you find them useful.</div><div><br></div><div><span style="color:rgba(0,0,0,0.870588);font-family:Roboto,Noto,sans-serif;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap">Yours sincerely</span></div><div><span style="color:rgba(0,0,0,0.870588);font-family:Roboto,Noto,sans-serif;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap">Jonathan</span></div><div><span style="color:rgba(0,0,0,0.870588);font-family:Roboto,Noto,sans-serif;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></div><div></div></div><div>
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:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:-webkit-auto;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;border-spacing:0px"><div style="font-weight:normal;word-wrap:break-word;line-break:after-white-space">Jonathan Latham, PhD<br>Executive Director</div><div style="font-weight:normal;word-wrap:break-word;line-break:after-white-space">The Bioscience Resource Project, </div><div style="font-weight:normal;word-wrap:break-word;line-break:after-white-space"><span style="text-align:-webkit-auto">Ithaca, NY 14850 USA</span></div><div style="font-weight:normal;word-wrap:break-word;line-break:after-white-space"><br>Websites:</div><div style="font-weight:normal;word-wrap:break-word;line-break:after-white-space"><a href="http://www.independentsciencenews.org/" target="_blank">www.independentsciencenews.org</a><br><a href="http://www.poisonpapers.org" target="_blank">www.poisonpapers.org</a></div><div style="font-weight:normal;word-wrap:break-word;line-break:after-white-space"><a href="http://www.bioscienceresource.org/" target="_blank">www.bioscienceresource.org</a></div><div style="font-weight:normal;word-wrap:break-word;line-break:after-white-space"><br>Tel: 1-607-319-0279</div><div style="font-weight:normal;word-wrap:break-word;line-break:after-white-space">Skype: jonathanlatham2</div><div style="font-weight:normal;word-wrap:break-word;line-break:after-white-space">Twitter and Facebook: @Biosrp </div><div style="font-weight:normal;word-wrap:break-word;line-break:after-white-space">Please sign on to our mailing list: <a href="https://www.independentsciencenews.org/subscribe/" target="_blank">https://www.independentsciencenews.org/subscribe/</a><span style="text-align:-webkit-auto"> </span></div><div style="font-weight:normal;word-wrap:break-word;line-break:after-white-space"><br></div><div style="word-wrap:break-word;line-break:after-white-space">Notice: Please forgive any delays and slow news. I am writing a book about genetics and genetic determinism.<br><br>It is provisionally titled: <b>The Myth of The Master Molecule: DNA and the Social Order</b><br><br>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.</div></span></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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