Gilles Demaneuf

Engineer and Data Scientist

Key questions are addressed in this book, such as: • Who was really behind the investigative initiative of Jeremy Farrar, of the Wellcome Trust, at the end of January 2020. • Why the tone and conclusions of the Proximal Origin draft changed so much within a week of the confidential investigative call that took place on 1 Feb, organised by Farrar at...

This post is the third in a series of documented calls for the retraction of scientifically unsound papers on the origin of COVID-19. These papers are based on invalid premises and conclusions, or are potentially products of scientific misconduct — including fraud. Below is a letter requesting the retraction of "The Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market...

This post is the fourth in a series of documented calls for the retraction of scientifically unsound papers on the origin of COVID-19. These papers are based on invalid premises and conclusions, or are potentially products of scientific misconduct — including fraud. Below is a letter requesting the retraction of "No credible evidence supporting cla...

The presentation does not try to force a narrative, or to over-interpret the data. The presentation is instead meant to add important data points and elements of analysis to the COVID-19 origins debate, on both sides of it, by pointing to primary sources. This presentation was sent to the WHO SAGO and Maria Van Kerkhove on 8 August 2023 The secreta...

Thanks to Chinese peer-reviewed papers that draw their data from that official database, we can show that there were 146 confirmed cases with onset up to 29 Dec 2019 for Wuhan and neighbouring cities, identified as of 25 Feb 2020, with an additional 92 clinically diagnosed cases for Dec 2019, known as of 27 Feb 2020. These papers also show that out...

Since the Huanan Seafood Market (HSM) in Wuhan, China was first suggested as the source of the COVID-19 pandemic in late January 2020, debate has continued over the evidence supporting this claim. Here, we assess the evidence provided in support of zoonotic spillover at the HSM as the origin of human infection of SARS-CoV-2. We find that the datase...

This DRASTIC research piece was the basis of the Washington Post editorial on the 22nd April 2022: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/interactive/2022/china-researcher-covid-19-coverup/ See also the thread: https://typefully.com/gdemaneuf/little-mountain-dog-and-a-missed-alert-about-lHNjrNv Thanks to the members of DRASTIC who helped with th...

- English and Chinese (simplified) versions available - The Olympic Charter states that “The goal of Olympism is to place sport at the service of the harmonious development of humankind, with a view to promoting a peaceful society concerned with the preservation of human dignity.” As athletes from across the globe gather together today for the st...

Comments on the proposed SAGO committee and proposed changes. Official SAGO notice: https://www.who.int/news-room/articles-detail/public-notice-and-comment-on-proposed-new-scientific-advisory-group-for-the-origins-of-novel-pathogens-(sago)-members

This is the fourth part of a series of reports based on previously unpublished investigations into the origins of SARS-COV-2 by William Bostickson and Yvette Ghannam, which took place in 2020. This report also contains novel insights from ongoing joint investigations with Gilles Demaneuf from the DRASTIC collective in 2021, but it is worth noting t...

A call for the resignation of Dr. Peter Daszak.

An Analysis of the Project DEFUSE proposal submitted by EcoHealth Alliance [EHA] to the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency [DARPA] on 3/27/2018; DARPA rejected the proposal, ultimately choosing 5 other groups for its PREEMPT initiative. The proposal describes, in great detail, experiments which could have directly resulted in the SARS-CoV-2...

Presentation of the 16 missing Databases of the WIV. Live version (nicer) available at bit.ly/3nF01M9

These notes aim to clarify how US intelligence first learnt of an outbreak in Wuhan in the second week of November 2019, and how that intelligence progressed from a 'situation report' to a 'formal assessment' before reaching a range of military and civilian consumers in December 2019, with a intermediate disclosure to key military partners at the e...

Twenty months and an estimated 12 mln deaths after its initial outbreak in Wuhan, the origins of the Covid-19 pandemic are still undecided. Two main plausible scenarios are in contention: a standard zoonotic spillover with or without an intermediate host, and a research-related accident. For the sake of clearer debate, this paper reviews some erro...

Two hypotheses of the origin of the COVID-19 pandemic exist: a natural zoonosis or a laboratory-related event. An investigation of the origin of the COVID-19 pandemic needs to be conducted to a science-based resolution of these competing hypotheses. Until new evidence is found, an investigation of the pathway for the origin of COVID-19 should proce...

The G7 leaders recently released a joint statement calling for “a timely, transparent, expert-led, and science-based WHO-convened Phase 2 COVID-19 Origins study including, as recommended by the experts’ report, in China.” Because failing to comprehensively investigate pandemic origins puts everyone and future generations at unnecessary risk, we cal...

Various representations were offered during the China-WHO joint-team visit about the routine testing of employees at some Wuhan labs. The final China-WHO joint-team report used these representations as an argument to dismiss the possibility of the COVID-19 outbreak being caused by an early infection in a Wuhan institution involved in BatCov researc...

We call on the World Health Organization and its Executive Board to fully address the recommendations and questions raised in this letter as a critical step toward protecting everyone on earth and future generations. As terrible as COVID-19 has been, this is almost certainly not the last pandemic we will face -- and possibly not even the worst. Ta...

Reaction to the China-WHO joint study team report. In our previous open letter, we outlined our fears that the joint international committee/Chinese government team “did not have the mandate, the independence, or the necessary accesses to carry out a full and unrestricted investigation into all the relevant SARS-CoV-2 origin hypotheses.” Having re...

This paper intends to describe the research platform at the Zhengdian Gold Industrial Park in Wuhan, with a particular focus on the Wuhan Institute of Biological Products, a vaccine development and production centre which is situated next door to the Wuhan Institute of Virology. This document is structured as a collection of notes that are typical...

As strong supporters of the WHO and its mission, we believe it must be made clear that any findings of the joint committee, while potentially useful to a limited extent, represent neither the official position of the WHO nor the result of an unrestricted, independent investigation. For this reason, we believe it is essential that the contours of a...

The purpose of this Wuhan outbreak scenario is not to try to read the tea-leaves, but first and foremost to challenge some common assumptions by exploring some possible chain of events. It is just one scenario out of many - even if it is a top scenario.

Slideshow version: bit.ly/3nF01M9 (slightly more up to date). On the 12th Sep 2019, the main database of samples and viral sequences of the Wuhan Institute of Virology went offline. Eventually every single of the 16 virus databases managed by the WIV was taken offline. Here we show how these databases may provide essential clues at to the origins...

This list of 50 questions was sent by André Goffinet and Gilles Demaneuf to the members of the Jan 2021 WHO Mission to Wuhan (Embarek, Koopmans, etc - the non-Chinese side as we had no name for the Chinese members), as a useful reference before they went on their trip. The questions themselves were a collective DRASTIC work over Dec 2020. I redacte...

In 2003–04, in the wake of the SARS epidemics, there were multiple cases of laboratory acquired infection (LAI) with SARS in just a few months: first in a P3 in Singapore, then in a military P4 in Taipei and last a protracted case in the very top P3 laboratory in China. This article reviews these cases in great details, going well beyond the exist...

A probabilistic treatment can be very useful when trying to discover the most probable causes that are consistent with the available information at the time. In particular in such a treatment all assumptions and all probability estimates are explicit and are open for investigation. Here we explore the relative probabilities of a lab-related acciden...

Spreadsheet listing 112 individual BSL-3 labs in China across 62 lab-complexes. As of Aug 2020.