[FRIAM] Fraud in Research

[Roger Critchlow]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Baltimore is pretty good, though you
have to wade through his illustrious career to find the Controversies
section.

In May 2021, Baltimore was quoted in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulletin_of_the_Atomic_Scientists> in an
> article about the origins of the COVID-19
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19> virus, saying, "When I first saw
> the furin cleavage site in the viral sequence, with its arginine codons, I
> said to my wife it was the smoking gun for the origin of the virus. These
> features make a powerful challenge to the idea of a natural origin for
> SARS2."[114] <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Baltimore#cite_note-114> This
> quote was widely shared and gave credence to the possibility of a Wuhan
> lab leak <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_lab_leak_theory> that
> has been discussed extensively as part of investigations into the origin
> of COVID-19
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Investigations_into_the_origin_of_COVID-19>
> .
> A month later, Baltimore told the *Los Angeles Times
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Angeles_Times>* that he "should have
> softened the phrase 'smoking gun' because I don't believe that it proves
> the origin of the furin cleavage site but it does sound that way. I believe
> that the question of whether the sequence was put in naturally or by
> molecular manipulation is very hard to determine but I wouldn't rule out
> either origin."[115]
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Baltimore#cite_note-115>


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On Fri, Oct 8, 2021 at 2:47 PM Frank Wimberly <wimberly3 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I mentioned this unhelpfully in today's vFriam meeting
>
> https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Baltimore_Case/hBB7-vrk4fAC?hl=en
>
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