Online Presentations

On October 7th, 2021, I gave a presentation at the latest #covidunknowns workshop organised by the British Medical Journal (BMJ). The workshop was titled “Origins of Covid” and the talk was titled: “The Mojiang Miners Passage Theory and the Lab Origin Question”. I gave a brief overview of key origin questions and of the Mojiang Miners Passage (MMP) theory. I also expanded on the greatly accelerated virus evolution seen in some hospitalized long-term Covid-19 patients that is thought to give rise to new variants. Such cases appear to provide clues to what may have occurred in the infected miners in 2012.

My talk begins at 50 minutes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLSv4Iwk_jM&t=2988s

Information on the BMJ’s Covid-19 webinar series and links to previous workshops: https://www.bmj.com/covid-19-webinars

Mojiang Miners Passage Theory :
https://www.independentsciencenews.org/commentaries/a-proposed-origin-for-sars-cov-2-and-the-covid-19-pandemic/
An update based on the implications of new discoveries: https://www.independentsciencenews.org/commentaries/phylogeographic-mapping-of-newly-discovered-coronaviruses-pinpoints-direct-progenitor-of-sars-cov-2-as-originating-from-mojiang/

Here are three new talks titled, collectively: Natural Origin or Lab Escape? The Emergence of SARS-CoV-2.
The three talks are published on the Youtube channel of Independent Science News.
The three talks describe aspects of our current thinking on the origin of the SARS-CoV-2 virus and the political/economic forces attempting to influence public perception of its origins. The talks are designed to be of interest both to people new to the virus origins discussion as well as to those who are very familiar with the arguments and the evidence.

More details and links are below.More

Three upcoming talks.
Series title:
Natural Origin or Lab Escape? The Emergence of SARS-CoV-2

Talk I: Why Wuhan? on 8th Jan 2021
Talk II: The Mojiang Miners Passage Theory 15th Jan 2021
Talk III: The Pandemic Virus Industrial Complex 22nd Jan 2021
Each talk is live at 5pm EST.

Visit the EAT Community to learn more.
Registration is required but viewing is free.

A panel discussion with the people who brought the three new chemical industry documents collections to the UCSF library explored what the documents mean for public health and the perils they faced in making these documents public. Professor Stanton Glantz, who began the library with the first collection of internal tobacco industry documents and explained how the documents have been used to inform litigation, documentaries and public policy decisions. University Librarian and Assistant Vice Chancellor for Academic Information Management Chris Shaffer gave an overview of the Industry Documents Library and introduced the panel. Panelists were Dr. Jonathan Latham, Director of the Bioscience Resource Project, and Gary Ruskin, Co-founder and Co-Director of U.S. Right to Know. The panel was moderated by Dr. Tracey Woodruff, Professor and Director of the Program on Reproductive Health and the Environment and Co-Director of the UCSF Environmental Health Initiative, which has supported the development of the Chemical Industry Documents library.
Watch the panel discussion:
https://lecture.ucsf.edu/ets/Play/342d5d84275441b2b97aa9f641d0dca51d

Dr. Jonathan Latham, Director of the Bioscience Resource Project talked about the importance of the 20,000-document collection and how it exposes problems with both the internal culture of the EPA and its legal framework that are often fraught with industry influences that prevent precautionary decision-making, even when the science clearly points to danger. The documents that have come to be known as the Poison Papers were collected over a period of 40 years by Carol Van Strum, Diane Hebert, Eric Coppolino, and Peter von Stackelberg, who served as custodians of the documents, gathering, storing, scanning, and distributing them. Their ultimate goal was to make the documents accessible to anybody and everybody who might need them. The Park Foundation, The Bioscience Resource Project, Center for Media and Democracy, and the late Rosalind Peterson helped fund this endeavor.

Watch the talk:
https://lecture.ucsf.edu/ets/Play/0b4ef9a0f5af41fdb982aa4a1f0753f21d

Biotechnology, Agrichemicals, and the Value of Life (U of Hawai’i, Manoa campus)

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