pShuttle Gene and Wuhan Coronavirus: Request for Expert Help with Sanity Check
February 3rd, 2020If you are one of the many university professors in the life sciences reading Cryptogon, I would appreciate your opinion on these articles:
James Lyons Weiler: On the Origins of the 2019-nCoV Virus, Wuhan, China:
A database search by the first team to study and publish the whole genome sequence for the origins of the inserted sequence turned up no hits (Ji et al., 2020). They conducted a codon-bias analysis which led them to speculate that perhaps there had been a recombination event between a coronavirus in snakes with a coronavirus from bats (Ji et al., 2020).
This led to criticism on Wired(3) with quote dismissing the snake origin hypothesis as lacking evidence. There is, however, clear evidence that the novel sequence, which I will refer to henceforth as INS1378, is from a laboratory-induced recombination event.
And:
…the genetic sequences now identified in the coronavirus strain are, without question, proof that human engineers have been tinkering with the strain.
Please email me from your university account. I will not reveal your name, unless you want me to. I’m asking to know who is responding to this because the this coronavirus situation is attracting PSYOP from multiple state and nonstate actors, both U.S. and Chinese.
