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The diffuse proposal described inserting a furin cleavage site into a bat coronavirus to increase transmissibility in animals.
Boeing blamed pilot training while the FAA withheld documents, prompting Senator Ted Cruz to ask its head, “Do you know you don’t work for Boeing?”
Boeing answered Airbus’s fuel-efficient aircraft by enlarging the old 737 instead of building a new plane, avoiding extra pilot training.
The American Society of Civil Engineers took $1 million to investigate Katrina, then became embedded in the Army Corps and blocked scrutiny.
Katrina’s levees failed from underneath as water washed beneath them, turning a supposed natural disaster into a preventable engineering failure.
Three years after COVID emerged, DRASTIC uncovered a document linking EcoHealth Alliance, Peter Daszak’s company, Duke, and Wuhan.
Six years after COVID-19, its root cause remained unknown despite the catastrophe’s scale.
A highly successful misinformation campaign made animal spillover feel settled and lab-leak questions sound conspiratorial.
COVID’s origin remains unresolved. Bill Gurley refused to take a side, leaving animal spillover and other possibilities open.
COVID-19 lacked the investigations earlier disasters received: thirty-plus newsroom investigators, bipartisan committees, and a standalone inquiry.
Someone who championed gain-of-function research may struggle to conclude it contributed to mass death.
Misinformation destroys trust in authorities, leaving people less willing to listen when the next pandemic arrives.
Saltwater air corroded Surfside’s pool deck, sending it into the basement and damaging structural columns until the building collapsed.
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