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# Decentralized Radical Autonomous Search Team Investigating COVID-19
- URL: https://www.whiteroseintelligence.com/decentralized-radical-autonomous-search-team-investigating-covid-19/
- Published: 2026-02-20T19:54:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-02-20T19:54:22.000Z
- Author: Liam Sturgess
- Tags: Profiles, #docs, #organization, COVID-19, Organization, #toc, Research

**Decentralized Radical Autonomous Search Team Investigating COVID-19 (DRASTIC)** is an online research community notable for its role in advancing the narrative that the SARS-CoV-2 virus leaked from the Wuhan Institute of Virology.

## Participants

Members of DRASTIC include:[\[1\]](#fn1)

- Anthony Bellotti
- Billy Bostickson
- Jonathan Couey
- Chris de Zilcho
- Francesco Esposito
- Gilles Demaneuf
- [Charles Rixey](https://www.whiteroseintelligence.com/Charles-Rixey)[\[2\]](#fn2)
- Jack Ward
- Luigi Warren
- [@capitolsheila](https://twitter.com/capitolsheila)
- [@CarltheChippy](https://twitter.com/CarltheChippy)
- [@Daoyu15](https://twitter.com/daoyu15)
- [@FunctionGain](https://twitter.com/FunctionGain)
- [@ico\_dna](https://web.archive.org/web/20210822061259/https://twitter.com/ico%5Fdna)
- [@lab\_leak](https://twitter.com/lab%5Fleak)
- [@pathogenetics](https://web.archive.org/web/20210708064217/https://twitter.com/pathogenetics)
- [@Real\_Adam\_B](https://web.archive.org/web/20210129023052/https://twitter.com/Real%5FAdam%5FB)
- [@still\_a\_nerd](https://twitter.com/still%5Fa%5Fnerd)
- [@uacjess](https://twitter.com/uacjess)
- [@waittwoweeks](https://twitter.com/waittwoweeks)
- [@WhereIsYanLing](https://twitter.com/WhereIsYanLing)

## External links

- [Campfire Wiki](https://www.campfire.wiki/doku.php?id=drastic)
- [Website](https://drasticresearch.org/)

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1. *The DRASTIC A Team.* D.R.A.S.T.I.C. Research. Retrieved June 5, 2023, from <https://web.archive.org/web/20230605044937/https://drasticresearch.org/the-team/> [↩︎](#fnref1)
2. *Charles Rixey.* ResearchGate. Retrieved August 7, 2023, from <http://archive.today/2023.08.07-052641/https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Charles-Rixey> [↩︎](#fnref2)