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Why China and the WHO Will Never Find a Zoonotic Origin For the COVID-19 Pandemic Virus

February 19, 2021 By jrl in Feature Articles No Comments Tags: coronavirus, sars-cov-2

by Jonathan Latham, PhD and Allison Wilson, PhD

In China there is a popular joke about the southern city of Guangzhou (Canton). A visiting space alien, curious to learn about Chinese customs, tours its various provinces. Arriving in Guangzhou the alien asks the locals what their interests are. The Cantonese oblige their guest by putting the alien in a soup pot and eating it. This joke hinges on the Cantonese fondness for cooking with unusual species, many obtained from far away.

This feature of Canton’s cuisine was implicated in the original SARS (Severe Acquired Respiratory Syndrome) pandemic of 2002-04, which began in Guangzhou. It is thought that the virus arrived there with palm civets imported for speciality dishes (Wang et al., 2005).More

Natural Origin or Lab Escape? The Emergence of SARS-CoV-2

January 13, 2021 By jrl in Online Presentations No Comments

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.

Engineered COVID-19-Infected Mouse Bites Researcher Amid ‘Explosion’ Of Risky Coronavirus Research

August 23, 2020 By jrl in Uncategorized 1 Comment

by Jonathan Latham, PhD

University researchers genetically engineer a human pandemic virus. They inject the new virus into a laboratory mouse. The infected mouse then bites a researcher…..It is a plot worthy of a Hollywood blockbuster about risky coronavirus research.More

A Proposed Origin for SARS-CoV-2 and the COVID-19 Pandemic

July 16, 2020 By jrl in Uncategorized 22 Comments

by Jonathan Latham, PhD and Allison Wilson, PhD

In all the discussions of the origin of the COVID-19 pandemic, enormous scientific attention has been paid to the molecular character of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, including its novel genome sequence in comparison with its near relatives. In stark contrast, virtually no attention has been paid to the physical provenance of those nearest genetic relatives, its presumptive ancestors, which are two viral sequences named BtCoV/4991 and RaTG13.More

The Case Is Building That COVID-19 Had a Lab Origin

June 3, 2020 By jrl in Feature Articles 6 Comments

By Jonathan Latham, PhD and Allison Wilson, PhD

If the public has learned a lesson from the COVID-19 pandemic it is that science does not generate certainty. Do homemade face masks work? What is the death rate of COVID-19? How accurate are the tests? How many people have no symptoms? And so on. Practically the lone undisputed assertion made so far is that all the nearest known genetic relatives of its cause, the Sars-CoV-2 virus, are found in horseshoe bats (Zhou et al., 2020). Therefore, the likely viral reservoir was a bat.More

Netflix’s “Unnatural Selection” ducks the big questions about gene editing

March 27, 2020 By jrl in Book Reviews No Comments

The opening scene of “Unnatural Selection,” a four-part docuseries released recently from Netflix, depicts scientist Jennifer Doudna showing off a tiny sample of a colorless liquid. It contains, she says, an enzyme that allows her to add or remove any piece of DNA from any living organisms. More

Researchers Are Substantially Undercounting Gene-Editing Errors, Concludes a New Paper

March 7, 2020 By jrl in News Articles No Comments

by Jonathan Latham, PhD

The standard gene-editing tool, CRISPR-Cas9, frequently produces a type of DNA mutation that ordinary genetic analysis misses, claims new research published in the journal Science Advances. In describing these findings the researchers called such oversights “serious pitfalls” of gene editing (Skryabin et al., 2020). More

Extensive Chemical Safety Fraud Uncovered at German Testing Laboratory

March 7, 2020 By jrl in News Articles No Comments

by Jonathan Latham, PhD (Please note: this article contains disturbing content)

The case of an animal rights activist who infiltrated an independent German chemical testing laboratory has triggered the discovery of an apparently extensive chemical testing fraud.More

Forthcoming appearances

October 5, 2019 By jrl in Forthcoming Appearances No Comments

Catch me at:

Title: “The Politics of Pesticides”
at Buffalo St Books
Ithaca, New York.
5pm, March 19th, 2020
A book talk with Mitchel Cohen, Robin Falk and myself.
We will be introduced by Emily Adams

Panel on Gene Editing
With Dag Falk and Lucy Sharratt of CBAN
Organic Connections Conference
Saskatoon, Canada
Friday Nov 6th, 2020.

Recent:

Title: “The Meaning of Life”. A  workshop.
The 2019 Biodynamic Conference (Lake George, NY) Nov 20-24, 2019

Title: “The EPA: Friend or Foe?”
at: Soil Not Oil September 9-10, 2019
San Francisco, California
September 9th 7-8pm.

Title: “Are Conservatism and Genetic Determinism the Same Thing?”
Oslo, Norway ISHPSSB 2019
Date: July 7-12th, 2019

Title: “The Politics of Pesticides”
The Golden Notebook (Confirmed)
Woodstock, New York.
April 27th, 2019
A book talk with Mitchel Cohen and others.

 

Gene-Editing Unintentionally Adds Bovine DNA, Goat DNA, and Bacterial DNA, Mouse Researchers Find

September 25, 2019 By jrl in Feature Articles No Comments Tags: Gene editing

by Jonathan Latham, PhD
The gene-editing of DNA inside living cells is considered by many to be the preeminent technological breakthrough of the new millennium. Researchers in medicine and agriculture have rapidly adopted it as a technique for discovering cell and organism functions. But its commercial prospects are much more complicated.More

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