Reply #63: Couple of points...

[Sufi Marmot]

Like the scientist in England messing around with the Spanish flu. But they're still alive, right? The article was misleading because it linked Pasechnik, the Soviet dissident who worked at Regma. Per their website, Regma works on antibacterials, rather than antivirals - at least I'm unaware that Regma/Pasechnik worked on viruses. I also note that their website hasn't been updated since 2001, before Pasechnik's death.

The following is very misleading:
Early-October saw reports that British scientists were planning to exhume the bodies of 10 London victims of the 1918 type-A flu epidemic known as the Spanish Flu. An October 7 report In The Independent, UK said that victims of the Spanish Flu had been victims of "the world's most deadly virus." British scientists, according to the story, hope to uncover the genetic makeup of the virus, making it easier to combat.

Professor John Oxford of London's Queen Mary's School of Medicine, the British government's flu adviser, acknowledges that the exhumations and subsequent studies will have to be done with extreme caution so the virus is not unleashed to cause another epidemic. The uncovering of a pathogen's genetic structure is the exact work Pasechnik was doing at Regma. Pasechnik died six weeks after the planned exhumations were announced. The need to exhume the bodies assumes no Type-A flu virus sample exists in any lab anywhere in the world.. As far as I can tell, Pasechnik's work at Regma and the virus sequencing described in these paragraphs are entirely unrelated, other than they are the "uncovering of a pathogen's genetic structure". Again, thousands of biolabs sequence pathogens and their strain variants. I find this is a typical practice for Rense - take two unrelated specifics and link them by their common generality that the layperson doesn't realize is so common/vague as to be meaningless.



Nguyen, the scientist (technician?) in Australia, wasn't, to my knowledge, working on mousepox, at least I couldn't find any evidence that he was. I don't think he worked in the lab that was doing the mousepox work, I think he just worked in the same building. (Note, by "lab" here I mean a single research group headed by a senior investigator - most institutes house multiple lab groups).

Wiley was an X-ray crystallographer who spent the majority of his career trying to understand the 3D structures of certain influenza proteins and the mammalian proteins they bind to. He also published a small handful of papers on the cyrstal structure of certain HIV and Ebola virus proteins. I doubt his lab worked with live viruses, rather I strongly suspect they just cloned, expressed and purified specific proteins for analysis.

There were other things that freaked me out. I will go back and read again and come back and ask you questions. I love my foil. But I am willing to let you debunk this. Fair enough. Ask away and I'll do my best to answer.

Cordially, -SM

On Edit: I do agree that exhuming people who died of deadly flu viruses is potentially fraught with peril and should be done with utmost caution.