Slack / Private Message Drop — page 935

SLACK_001149 https://(www.wsj.con/articles/the-science-suggests-a-wuhan-lab-leak- 11622995184 Specifically: _In the case of the gain-of-function supercharge, other sequences could have been spliced into this same site. Instead of a CGG-CGG (known as "double CGG') that tells the protein factory to make two arginine amino acids ina row, you'll obtain equal lethality by splicing any one of 35 of the other two-word combinations for double arginine. If the insertion takes place naturally, say through recombination, then one of those 35 other sequences is far more likely to appear; CGG is rarely used in the class of coronaviruses that can recombine with CoV-2._ "In fact, in the entire class of coronaviruses that includes CoV-2, the CGG-CGG combination has never been found naturally._ ~ Now the damning fact. It was this exact sequence that appears in CoV-2. Proponents of zoonotic origin must explain why the novel coronavirus, when it mutated or recombined, happened to pick its least favorite combination, the double CGG. Why did it replicate the choice the lab's gain-of-function researchers would have made?_ Yes, it could have happened randomly, through mutations. But do you believe that? At the minimum, this fact--that the coronavirus, with all its random possibilities, took the rare and unnatural combination used by human researchers--implies that the leading theory for the origin of the coronavirus must be laboratory escape._ Best, Andrew Kerr Investigative Reporter Daily Caller News Foundation [Kristian Andersen] More from Baltimore - from the damn good business reporter at LA Times... Why he can do what so many supposed 'science' journalists can't, I don't know... https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2021 -06-08/nobel-laureate-baltimore-smoking-gun-for-the-covid-lab-leak-th eory [Robert Garry] It's behind a paywall for me but good on DB. Maybe he'll sign our letter. [Kristian Andersen] "Incognito" window and you should be able to read it... [Robert Garry] That's a helluva trick - why did I not learn this before? [Kristian Andersen] Works with Science too...