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}}</ref><ref name="wapo" /><ref name="sky" /> Composed of about 30 core members, and primarily organized through the social media website [[Twitter]],<ref name="cnet" /><ref name="minutes" /><ref name="VanityFairFight" /> DRASTIC was formed in February 2020, at the start of the [[COVID-19 pandemic]].<ref name="minutes" /> DRASTIC members called for a "full and unrestricted investigation" into the origins of COVID-19, conducted independently of the [[World Health Organization]];<ref name="cnet" /> most scientists thought that COVID-19 likely had a natural origin, and some considered that a potential lab leak was worth investigating.<ref name="B2ETw" /><ref name="xJ04L" /><ref name="Frutos">{{cite journal |last1=Frutos |first1=Roger |last2=Gavotte |first2=Laurent |last3=Devaux |first3=Christian A. |title=Understanding the origin of COVID-19 requires to change the paradigm on zoonotic emergence from the spillover to the circulation model |journal=Infection, Genetics and Evolution |date=March 2021 |volume=95 |pages=104812 |doi=10.1016/j.meegid.2021.104812 |pmid=33744401 |language=en|pmc=7969828 }}</ref><ref name="ScientificAmerican">{{cite magazine |last1=Oreskes |first1=Naomi |author1-link=Naomi Oreskes |title=The Lab-Leak Theory of COVID's Origin Is Not Totally Irrational |url=https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-lab-leak-theory-of-covids-origin-is-not-totally-irrational/ |magazine=[[Scientific American]] |date=September 2021 |language=en |quote=To be clear, most scientists think animal spillover is the most likely explanation because that's where most new diseases come from.}}</ref>

Many of DRASTIC's members use [[pseudonym]]s, while identified members have backgrounds including [[mycology]],<ref>{{cite web |last1=Probst |first1=Maraike |last2=Flatschacher |first2=Daniel |title=Rossana Segreto |url=https://www.uibk.ac.at/microbiology/team/rossana-segreto/index.html.en |website=University of Innsbruck |access-date=28 June 2021 |language=en |archive-date=28 June 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210628162532/https://www.uibk.ac.at/microbiology/team/rossana-segreto/index.html.en |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Fridstrøm |first1=Aksel |title=Will the upcoming WHO investigation in China look into the possibility of a lab leak starting the pandemic? |url=https://www.minervanett.no/sars-sars-cov-2-who/will-the-upcoming-who-investigation-in-china-look-into-the-possibility-of-a-lab-leak-starting-the-pandemic/369666 |access-date=28 June 2021 |work=www.minervanett.no |date=2020-12-02 |language=no |archive-date=2021-06-28 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210628162532/https://www.minervanett.no/sars-sars-cov-2-who/will-the-upcoming-who-investigation-in-china-look-into-the-possibility-of-a-lab-leak-starting-the-pandemic/369666 |url-status=live }}</ref> neuroscience, and data science.<ref name="minutes" /><ref name="ElPaisDRASTIC" /> Members of DRASTIC have engaged in personal attacks against virologists and epidemiologists on Twitter, falsely accusing some of working for the [[Chinese Communist Party]].<ref name="cnet" />

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