With Australian Aborigines, it was someone’s (a woman’s) job to carry/nurture a smouldering stick when you moved camp - so you wouldn’t have to do the friction trick every time.

If that stick was the embers of scientific spirit, then Richard Ebright/Simon Wain Hobson, who were warning, way back since the Anthrax-inspired funding boom, that reckless GoF experiments would lead to a pandemic, have kept the fire alive. Then there’s your DRASTIC collective - smelled a rat with Covid - pursued it, persisted - that’s the important bit. (And others - including not-scientists - more than real scientists - a sign that science-culture has lost its way?)

With Genomic Surveillance, Yves Moreau has been the stick carrier - through the Wellcome/Thermo Scientific/CCP typhoons - he kept it going - used that ember to shine a light on the truth.

Sadly, he's very much in the minority so far as 'the scientific community' goes - which makes his work all the more valuable - so let's take a look at what he uncovered...