Fascinating interview with Kamran Pasha on Hollywood and China (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muO5fy7lOOM). My favorite part was him describing how he was supervising a Chinese version of Nikita (替身 - Ti Shen, "The Substitute") and got pulled into a 12 hour debate on whether...See more

Some guy breaks down the people who signed the “lab-leak is a conspiracy theory” letter and finds that out of 27 people: * 15 have financial conflicts of interest * 4 worked with Ralph Baric, one of the major gain-of-function researchers (who wanted to sign but was stopped by Daszak for optics; Baric has changed his mind and called for an investigation) * 5 have reversed their positions * 3 have kept quiet (https://twitter.com/alexandrosm/status/1401813071635501056)

Daszak’s Ecohealth Alliance - the organization funneling money to the Wuhan Institute of Virology - had received $123m in grants from the Federal government in total, including $39m from the Pentagon...See more