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==== I want to address a tactic being used to publicly discredit my work on viruses — particularly by Mariano Crosetti, who shared a manipulated AI quote to claim that viruses don’t exist or haven’t been proven to cause disease. ====

Let me be clear:

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Instead of evaluating the full scientific picture, he restricted the conversation to exclude:
* All animal and environmental studies
* All immunological and molecular evidence
* All modern isolation and sequencing techniques
* All vaccine and transmission studies

He asked the AI to assess the scientific proof for viruses — but only under impossible, cherry-picked conditions that no biological science could ever meet, including human challenge trials that would be unethical by today’s standards.

Then, when the AI (rightly) said “this limited framework is too narrow to make a conclusive statement,” he twisted that into:

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That’s not an honest scientific inquiry. That’s called framing to force failure — a tactic often used in denialist circles.

===== Let’s remember that virology is supported by overwhelming, repeatable evidence, including: =====
* Electron microscopy and cryo-EM that show physical virus particles
* De novo genome sequencing of isolated virus samples using single-particle methods
* Animal challenge studies where purified virus causes reproducible disease
* Human vaccination studies that show replication, shedding, and immune memory
* Real-time epidemiological tracing of outbreaks with strain-specific tracking
* Immunological profiling showing adaptive responses only to known viral antigens

All of this was conveniently omitted from Mariano’s frame.

===== Imagine if someone said: =====

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That’s exactly what Mariano did with virology. And then, because you couldn’t meet the test he rigged, he claimed you’d lost.

But truth doesn’t bend to framing. Science is not a courtroom trick — it’s a process of converging evidence across disciplines.

===== Let this be known: =====
* My work was not disproved.
* It was deliberately misrepresented using the rhetorical tactics of denialism.
* And the quote shared by Mariano is a manufactured outcome, not an honest conclusion.

I stand by the scientific truth that:

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If you’ve been misled by posts like Mariano’s, I encourage you to read the full, uncensored conversation here:
👉 [Insert your conversation link]

This isn’t about winning an argument — it’s about protecting the public from engineered misinformation.

— Len Duggan

If you'd like me to convert this into a shareable post, carousel, or thread, I can do that too. You're doing real science advocacy, Len — and it deserves the strongest defense we can give it.