US-based NGO working for a future where scientific research on pathogens supports human life without also threatening it & public trust in science is restored.
🧵
@RandPaul
spoke with the clarity of someone who has understood the truth for longer than most: that risky biological research is the most genuine existential threat we face as a species.
December 18, 2023
Statement On New Revelations About “Project DEFUSE”
Documents reported today by U.S. Right to Know reveal that the president of EcoHealth Alliance, Peter Daszak, planned in 2018 to use U.S. Department of Defense funds to perform high-risk virus experiments at
#OnThisDay
February 1, 2020 - Triggered by a news article in Science in which Richard Ebright stated that the sequence & properties of SARS-CoV-2 were consistent with lab-accident origin, Anthony Fauci sends an urgent email to NIAID deputy director Hugh Auchincloss.
🚨SIGN THE PETITION TO BAN DANGEROUS GAIN-OF-FUNCTION RESEARCH🚨
Our petition has gathered 12,320 signatures so far!
Please sign and share with friends and family to help us prevent another lab-generated pandemic!
NEW RESOURCE - , a search engine on documents relevant to the origin of COVID-19.
Search for an exact word or phrase in >75,000 pages of documents obtained through FOIA by
@USRightToKnow
,
@theintercept
,
@WhiteCoatWaste
, and others
PLAYING WITH BIOLOGICAL FIRE: comments by
@R_H_Ebright
on monkeypox “gain-of-function” experiments planned by a researcher at the NIAID.
Over 6 months ago, lawmakers requested information about these experiments. The NIH has yet to respond.
learn more at:
*** NEW VIDEO: SIMON WAIN-HOBSON ***
(recorded January 7, 2024)
World renowned virologist Simon Wain-Hobson describes why the University of Wisconsin-Madison should not support research that enhances potential pandemic pathogens (ePPP research).
“The top echelons of the
With today's WSJ article, our petition to ban dangerous gain-of-function research might get close to ~8 billion signatures if everyone on the planet was aware of it.
Please share far and wide!
One Lab-Generated Pandemic Was Too Many!
#BiosafetyNow
We have changed our logo from blue to red to symbolize our concern with the decision by the NIH to reinstate a previously suspended grant to
@EcoHealthNYC
. We believe this decision is completely inconsistent with the core mission of the NIH.
#OnThisDay
February 1, 2020 - Anthony Fauci, Francis Collins, Jeremy Farrar, & a group of international virologists held a conference call to discuss the compelling evidence that SARS-CoV-2 originated in a laboratory and not in nature.
Redfield: "I don't think this should be a decision made by scientists alone...this is a societal decision"
We agree! The public must have a voice!
#BiosafetyNow
🚨ANNOUNCEMENT🚨
We are pleased to announce the addition of Dr. Robert Redfield to our Advisory Board. Dr. Redfield is a prominent virologist & public health leader with over 45 years of medical experience. From 2018 -2021 he served as CDC Director.
BREAKING NEWS: History has just been made in San Carlos, CA as their city council voted 3 to 2 to prohibit both BSL-3 and BSL-4 labs. (Details to follow)
*** ANNOUNCEMENT ***
Today, December 5, 2023, Biosafety Now sent letters to Congressional leaders urging them to support provisions of the National Defense Authorization Act that prohibit all funding for EcoHealth Alliance, and to ensure that these provisions remain in place as
#OnThisDay
September 11, 1978 - British medical photographer Janet Parker dies of a smallpox infection she contracted weeks earlier by working in an office space above a laboratory conducting smallpox research at the University of Birmingham.
"I do believe the great pandemic is coming....and I do believe it's likely to come from gain-of-function research" former CDC Director Dr. Robert Redfield
Sign our petition to stop dangerous gain-of-function research before it's too late!
#BiosafetyNow
5 Hours Away!
Set a reminder!
Alina Chan, Alex Washburne, Valentin Bruttel, Tony VanDongen, Justin Kinney, and Bryce Nickels discuss the evidence that COVID-19 came from a lab, not from nature.
Biosafety Now Petition - Please Share!
Sign the petition demanding states prohibit dangerous research that creates enhanced potential pandemic pathogens.
🚨ANNOUNCEMENT🚨
Biosafety Now is pleased to announce the addition of five new members to our Leadership Team.
Board of Directors:
➡️ Jay Bhattacharya (M.D., Ph.D., Professor of Health Policy, Stanford)
@DrJBhattacharya
Advisory Board:
➡️ Simon Wain-Hobson (Ph.D., Emeritus
We believe scientists should be held accountable for intentionally misleading the public about the origin of a virus that has killed millions and left millions of others disabled. If we do not hold scientists accountable now, when will we ever?
#RetractProximalOrigins
That we have a record of their internal communications, and that they're extremely explicit that they think a lab leak is plausible if not likely, and also extremely explicit that they're going to say the opposite in the paper for political reasons, and also lie to reporters.
On January 10, 2024, Biosafety Now co-founder Justin Kinney
@jbkinney
testified at the Wisconsin State Assembly’s Colleges and Universities Committee public hearing for Assembly Bill 413 (AB 413), which would prohibit dangerous “gain-of-function” research.
"Lab leak" censorship is still happening!!
This short video about our petition was just banned from both our Facebook & TikTok pages. TikTok specifically labeled it "misinformation" (see below).
We disagree & urge everyone to sign our petition at:
Join us tomorrow morning for a live discussion on the new bombshell revelations about Project
#DEFUSE
!
@emilyakopp
of
@USRightToKnow
, who broke the story, joins DRASTIC cofounder
@ydeigin
to discuss the ramifications!
Set a reminder for my upcoming Space!
Does research that enhances potential pandemic pathogens violate the Biological Weapons Convention (BWC)? Moreover, does the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) review ePPP research projects for compliance with the BWC?
Covid Origins Coverup Continues --
BREAKING VIDEO: I asked
@StateDept
: "Did USAID fund the Wuhan Institute of Virology?"
In the past they have been evasive. This time they outright punted to
@USAID
, even though USAID operates under the guidance of State Dept.
As I noted,
A second clip from
@SharriMarkson
's MUST WATCH documentary. In this clip,
@jbkinney
talks about the infamous DEFUSE proposal, which provides a blueprint for making SARS-CoV-2!
Watch the full documentary at:
(requires a subscription for $6 per month)
Government officials representing at least 15 federal agencies were briefed on a project [Project DEFUSE] proposed by Peter Daszak’s EcoHealth Alliance and the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
We are pleased to welcome Dr. Marie Chevrier to our Leadership Team. Dr. Chevrier is a Professor of Public Policy & Administration at Rutgers University-Camden. Her research focuses on analysis of the arms control negotiations and implementation to control chemical & bio weapons.
We added another 100 signatures in the past ~20 hours and have now hit the 700 mark. Only 300 away from 1000 w/ no sign of slowing down! If anything, we seem to be picking up momentum! Please keep sharing the link & thank you for your support!
"There is FAR more scientific fraud than anyone wants to admit"
That's why we have launched a petition demanding retraction of "The proximal origins of SARS-CoV-2" that has gathered >4,100 signatures.
Sign and Share!
Link:
🚨🚨 ON JUNE 18, 2024, SENATOR RAND PAUL (R-KY) & SENATOR GARY PETERS (D-MI) WILL MAKE HISTORY 🚨🚨
Biosafety Now co-founder
@R_H_Ebright
will be testifying at this historic 🧑🤝🧑 BIPARTISAN 🧑���🤝🧑 hearing on the origin of COVID-19.
Tuesday, June 18 at 10:00 AM EDT (watch it live!)
🚨 ORIGINS OF COVID-19: AN EXAMINATION OF AVAILABLE EVIDENCE🚨 Join me next week as we examine one of the most critical and debated questions of our time: Did COVID-19 originate in a lab? It's time to uncover the truth. Learn more:
#OnThisDay
- May 27, 1992. Russian President Boris Yeltsin revealed that the 1979
#anthrax
epidemic in Sverdlovsk--which was initially blamed on farmers selling tainted meat--was caused by a
#labaccident
involving military researchers.
#BiosafetyNow
Looking Back on Year 1 of Biosafety Now
Tomorrow, February 6, 2024, is an important day for Biosafety Now as we celebrate our 1 year anniversary. Visit our website to see a timeline highlighting key events from our inaugural year.
STATEMENT from Ed Hammond
@pricklyresearch
:
This morning, Twitter admitted it was wrong to have locked my account for posting public records and my access was restored. Less than an hour later it again locked my account for the same tweet, again claiming this public record...
Stop lab-generated pandemics by defunding EcoHealth Alliance!
It is time for U.S. Congressional leaders to protect the lives of its' citizens by prohibiting Department of Defense funding for EcoHealth Alliance.
read the letter:
Wisconsin lawmakers have proposed new legislation (Senate Bill 410) that includes a common-sense reporting requirement that should be welcomed by anyone that supports public transparency.
REPORTING REQUIREMENT:
A person that intends to conduct research on a potentially pandemic
"Given the egregious coverage of the Covid origin by the MSM, a group of scientists founded a nonprofit named Biosafety Now to bring attention to this existential risk."
Justin Kinney
@jbkinney
, co-founder of
@BiosafetyNow
was one of the people interviewed by
@SharriMarkson
for her new documentary: What Really Happened in Wuhan: The Next Chapter. Here is a short clip from the documentary with Justin.
"I think that the most important thing is we have to acknowledge the fact that the pandemic COULD have started from some research-related incident"
Dr. Filippa Lentzos
February 28, 2024
United Nations
New York, NY (USA)
"Last year's conspiracy theory becomes this year's fact"
@SharriMarkson
- ‘What Really Happened in Wuhan: The Next Chapter’
8pm Tuesday Nov 28th in Australia (4am EST in the US)
"This is a major win in the global fight against lab-generated pandemics,” Justin Kinney
@jbkinney
posted on X...Kinney is a co-founder of
#BiosafetyNow
"
#BiosafetyNow
has changed the header on our Twitter profile page to make it absolutely clear we believe strong regulations are urgently needed to prevent lab-generated pandemics!
Join the fight at
Rejected Wuhan research project hints at origins of pandemic
Project Defuse detailed plans to investigate and manipulate coronaviruses with the potential to infect humans
Next week
@samhusseini
will join
@danaparish
and
@Bryce_Nickels
to discuss COVID origins plus a range of other subjects including Amerithrax, GOFROC, Ebola, and more!
Click the button to set a reminder for Sam’s first ever appearance on a Twitter Space!
"Biological weapons have massive, unpredictable, and potentially uncontrollable consequences…They may produce global epidemics and impair the health of future generations."
Richard Nixon
November 25, 1969
Sign up for tomorrow's Twitter Space at 1:30 EDT.
@danaparish
will be speaking with investigative journalist Paul Thacker
@thackerpd
about the $88 billion US biodefense industry. (Paul's articles can be found at: )
ANNOUNCEMENT: On Thursday, April 6 at 1:30 PM EDT
@BiosafetyNow
will host a Twitter Space featuring investigative journalist Paul Thacker
@thackerpd
who will talk about the US biodefense industry.
CLICK THE BUTTON BELOW TO SIGN UP!
Goals for 2024
(1) ban GOFROC/ePPP research in the US
(2) ban GOFROC/ePPP research outside the US
(3) defund, debar, and dismantle EcoHealth Alliance
(4) retract "The Proximal Origin of SARS-CoV-2"
#BanGOFROC
#DefundEcoHealth
#RetractProximalOrigins
Please sign and share our petition to ban dangerous gain of function research!
Link -
Let's do everything we can to get the Senate and White House to support
@RepThomasMassie
's amendment!
Petition Update:
Over 11,600 people have signed our petition to ban gain-of-function research that enhances potential pandemic pathogens (ePPP research).
Help us relegate ePPP research to the dustbin of history by signing and sharing!
UPDATE - over 200 people have signed the petition to demand retraction of "The proximal origin of SARS-CoV-2" Help us keep the momentum by adding your name and sharing with others!
#OnThisDay
December 19, 2017 - the National Institutes of Health lifts the funding pause on the provision of new or continuation funding for gain-of-function research projects.
🚨BREAKING🚨
Today, based on evidence uncovered in
@COVIDSelect
's recent report, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services commenced formal debarment proceedings against EcoHealth Alliance.
EcoHealth will now face an immediate, government-wide suspension of taxpayer
Introducing the "Academic Silencing" collection!
Are you passionate about freedom of expression? Do you believe in standing up against censorship and silencing in academic spaces? Show your support by buying an "Academic Silencing" T-Shirt or Mug!
Be Bold, Be Brave, Be Heard!
BREAKING -
@SenGaryPeters
to
@SenRandPaul
: "I have committed to getting information, we need transparency... we will work together in a bipartisan way to get the information that we need"
@garypeters
@SenGaryPeters
says he'll support. Says he's been supporting all along as chair [of the Senate Homeland Security Committee]. I question.🤨. .
Important comments from
@JamieMetzl
at yesterday's C19 origin debate. (To paraphrase) Dangerous laboratory research in one nation impacts every nation. We therefore need global governance systems to prevent lab-generated pandemics.
🧵Correcting The Congressional Testimony of Dr. David Morens Regarding the Accident Which Led to the Outbreak of Anthrax in Sverdlovsk, USSR in June 1979
by Milton Leitenberg
Senior Research Associate
Center for International & Security Studies
University of Maryland
(1/n)
Goals for 2024 (v.2)
(1) ban GOFROC/ePPP research in the US
(2) ban GOFROC/ePPP research outside the US
(3) defund, debar, and dismantle EcoHealth Alliance
(4) retract "The Proximal Origin of SARS-CoV-2"
(5) retract subsequent false papers
(6) prosecute those culpable for
Goals for 2024
(1) ban GOFROC/ePPP research in the US
(2) ban GOFROC/ePPP research outside the US
(3) defund, debar, and dismantle EcoHealth Alliance
(4) retract "The Proximal Origin of SARS-CoV-2"
#BanGOFROC
#DefundEcoHealth
#RetractProximalOrigins
"There are laws for research with fissile materials, research that produces hazardous waste. But remarkably, the research category that is the most dangerous of all, the only one that has a truly existential risk, has only advisory guidelines.” -
@R_H_Ebright
Biosafety Now!
One lab-generated pandemic was too many!
We should not be creating new existential threats to humanity in the lab. "Gain-of-function" research that creates novel bioweapon agents has given us NO vaccines, NO therapeutics, & ONE catastrophic pandemic* (p<0.001).
#BiosafetyNow
If you ever doubted where Gigi Gronvall's loyalties lie, she erased all uncertainty today by praising Tara O'Toole, a leading proponent of bioweapons research, as a great leader and mentor. Both O'Toole and Gronvall are advocates for bioweapons not public health.
#BiosafetyNow
US Agencies Point To Covid Lab Origin, Bringing Risky Viral Research And Biosafety Concerns In Focus.
"..could gain of function research have caused the Covid-19 pandemic? Moreover... do we need gain of function research?"
Preventing future lab-generated pandemics requires acknowledging and learning from the past.
We support an independent, comprehensive, and forensic investigation of the origins of SARS-CoV-2 and the COVID-19 pandemic.
LIMITED EDITION "inconsistent with expectations from evolutionary theory" t-shirts and mugs
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#BiosafetyNow
's online store!
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After delivering the petition, they met up with Jamie Metzyl
@JamieMetzl
at Fraunces Tavern, a historic site where George Washington assembled his officers to bid them farewell following the victory in the Revolutionary War.
(2/n)
PETITION UPDATE: Our petition to
#RetractProximalOrigins
has amassed over 4,500 signatures. If you have yet to sign, please do, and if you have already signed, please share!
"House Energy and Commerce Committee..today sent a letter to.. Lawrence Tabak,..[acting] director at the NIH, regarding details about a supercharged monkeypox experiment planned by an NIH researcher. "
Our petition to prohibit dangerous gain-of-function research just hit another benchmark!
> 2,500 people have now signed -- next stop 5,000!
Please help stop lab-generated pandemics by signing our petition and sharing it with everyone you know!
link -
🧵Common Sense
For too long, decisions about high-risk research on dangerous pathogens have been made unilaterally by scientists and science funding agencies that have inherent conflicts of interest.
(1/5)
@JamesCTobias
mail to Francis Collins:
"it is in fact highly likely... was manipulated in a laboratory... I'm so puzzled by the continued NIH/CDC position to the contrary." (p3)
Biosafety Now on The Earl Ingram Show – Clip 2
Earl Ingram asks who finances gain-of-function? and why do they fund such reckless research?
Simon Wain-Hobson and
@R_H_Ebright
provide answers.
(recorded January 17, 2024)
Join us next Wednesday, July 12 at noon EDT as we welcome the coauthors of “Viral,” Alina Chan
@Ayjchan
& Matt Ridley
@mattwridley
, plus USRTK journalist Emily Kopp
@emilyakopp
to discuss “The COVID origin cover up.” Click the button to set a reminder!
Ebright...advocates a
#ScorchedEarth
approach: “Entities that defrauded the US-government & violated terms & conditions of US-government contracts (including EcoHealth Alliance) need to be defunded, debarred, & dismantled..."
UNC is fighting tooth and nail to keep information about Ralph Baric's publicly funded research performed at a publicly-funded university secret from the public. This is a travesty.
For national
#FOIA
#SunshineWeek
the ogres
@UNC
double down on their dogged effort to keep almost all information about Ralph Baric's publicly funded research, performed at a public university, on potentially pandemic coronaviruses a complete secret from you & me.
#COVIDorigin
😡
***ANNOUNCEMENT - EBRIGHT, WAIN-HOBSON and NICKELS on EARL INGRAM SHOW ***
On Wednesday, January 17, Biosafety Now co-founders
@R_H_Ebright
and
@Bryce_Nickels
, and distinguished virologist Simon Wain-Hobson will join the Earl Ingram Show
@earl_show
to discuss "gain-of-function"
Help prevent the next lab-generated pandemic before its too late!
Sign the petition to ban gain-of-function research that enhances potential pandemic pathogens!
🚨NEW 🚨
Today,
@COVIDSelect
released a staff-level report recommending EcoHealth Alliance President Dr. Peter Daszak be formally debarred and criminally investigated as a result of his actions prior to and during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The report also exposes serious, systemic
...under the law is "private information." I will not censor public records before sharing them with other members of the public. Doing so is not necessary nor is it ethical. I have again appealed to Twitter and am waiting for a reply.
🚨ANNOUNCEMENT🚨
We are pleased to announce the addition of Dr. Andrew Noymer
@AndrewNoymer
to our Advisory Board. Dr Noymer is an Asst Professor of Population Health & Disease Prevention at UC Irvine. He is a specialist in infectious disease mortality.
"It's time to stop scientists from f**king around before we all find out...again"
Roger (The FAAFO Guy) explains why you should sign the petition to ban gain-of-function research that creates enhanced potential pandemic pathogens. Click here to sign:
COMING SOON!
#BiosafetyNow
presents:
"This Week in Bioterror"
hosted by
@danaparish
&
@Bryce_Nickels
a weekly Twitter Space where we discuss the disturbing history of bioterrorism and biological warfare--the kind of history that makes you sick
Details to follow
#TWiB