A renowned scientist who led the condemnation of the Covid lab leak theory privately believed it was “highly likely”, leaked messages show. The Mail has the story.
Dr. Kristian Andersen, a Danish evolutionary biologist, co-authored a now-notorious research paper published in March 2020 that denounced the [lab] origin scenario as a conspiracy theory and xenophobic.
Yet Slack messages obtained by DailyMail.com show how just weeks before the publication of that paper, Dr. Andersen told colleagues the idea of a lab leak was “not some fringe theory” and was, in fact, “highly likely” the genesis of the pandemic.
Separate, publicly-available communications between the virologist and his co-authors show how the group backed the natural origin theory – the idea the virus jumped from an animal to a person in the wild – for “political” reasons and feared pinning the blame on the Chinese lab would cause a “s***show” and threaten future funding of virus manipulation research.
Critics say the messages show how the scientific community conspired to censor debate about the origins of the pandemic, but the scientists involved claim they changed their minds between sending the messages and writing the paper.
Dr. Andersen and the other scientists involved in publishing ‘The Proximal Origin of SARS-CoV-2‘ paper on March 17th 2020, were asked to testify before the House Oversight Select Subcommittee on Tuesday.
But only Dr. Andersen and co-author Dr. Robert Garry, a respected microbiologist who works at Tulane University in New Orleans, actually did.
House Republicans grilled the two doctors [watch here], citing the newly disclosed communications between researchers in early 2020 as evidence of a cover-up – something the scientists strongly refuted.
Some of the messages were published as part of a Government report released early Tuesday before the hearing. DailyMail.com was able to obtain extra messages not revealed in the report.
House Republicans pointed to the scientists’ efforts to probe Covid’s origins in the document, which they say amounted to blatantly squashing voices that advocated for more serious inquiry into the theory that the virus leaked from the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV).
In a message sent on February 2nd 2020, Dr Andersen said:
The main issue is that accidental escape is in fact highly likely – it’s not some fringe theory.
I absolutely agree that we can’t prove one way or the other, but we never will be able to – however, that doesn’t mean that by default the data is currently much more suggestive of a natural origin as opposed to e.g. passage. It’s not…
In other messages, Dr. Andersen admitted he found it “strange” that Covid emerged in Wuhan, a city hundreds of miles from rural China where related coronaviruses circulate, despite labeling the lab leak theory a conspiracy.
He said: “Do we have any location information on the bat SARS-like viruses? … I believe RaTG13 is from Yunnan, which is about as far away from Wuhan as you can be and still be in China. What are the chances of finding viruses that are 96% identical given that distance? Seems strange given how many SARS-like viruses we have in bats.”
.@RepMalliotakis questions why the "Proximal Origin" co-authors suspiciously abandoned their initial belief that COVID originated in a Chinese lab.
— Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic (@COVIDSelect) July 11, 2023
Within 3 days of speaking to Dr. Fauci, @K_G_Andersen shifted his support to a zoonotic origin.
Americans deserve to know whypic.twitter.com/QAZwylO4f9
Worth reading in full.
Stop Press: Prominent gain-of-function critic Professor Richard H. Ebright responded to the revelations on Twitter, noting that Dr. Andersen’s comments calling a lab leak scenario “highly likely” came after he had written the first draft of the ‘Proximal Origin’ paper denouncing the theory as a baseless conspiracy.
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How are we ever expected to trust any of these people ever again? So called leaders and scientists who couldn’t even lie in bed straight!
If I’ve taken away anything from the non-stop debacle that was these last few years it’s that nobody in authority, regardless of position, achievements or title, can be trusted. And I think by now the select ones who actually can be have shown their worth. This stance obviously applies to all the ongoing agendas we’re bombarded with. I always think how thick must a person be if they’ve finally been red-pilled to the Covid scamdemic but are fully onboard with the ‘climate change’ hoax, for instance. Different types of garbage lies, same corrupt people behind it all.
Couldn’t agree more, Mogs. My trust of all institutions hovers around the zero mark.
Lied to protect their money, their ‘publications’, enhance their ‘careers’.
Yet the average sheeple believes these arselings are honest, hardworking, solitary monkish heroes, saving the world.
Wake the f* up.
Corruption and fraud, all the way down.
Agreed. It’s pure corruption. Just a few months after these emails, on 27 Aug 2020 Dr. Kristian Andersen was awarded an $8.9M grant from Fauci’s NIAID to build the Andersen Lab at Scripps Research Institute. So if you play the game you get well funded, and if you don’t you get nothing.
So frustrating to realize that nothing will ever come up from these revelations and Fauci et al will never gain a function of being behind bars. Despite the greatest disruption of the lives, the sheeple has obediently moved on to the new battles with climate, homophobia, Putin (you name it).
As far as I’m concerned there was no deadly virus leaked from a lab.. or a bat for that matter. It was an excuse to lockdown the world and get that toxic jab into billions of people.
Excess mortality figures worldwide for 2020 prove beyond doubt there was no pandemic, but still the lab leak garbage persists. Why.. because its yet another distraction while the deadly toxins in the jab slowly deliver there results.
The contents of those jabs varied undoubtedly, but those contents are the product of years of highly technical but malicious intent, and they haven’t only been delivered through a needle, they’ve been sprayed on us via Geoengineering programs that have been going on since at least the mid 90’s. Is it already in the food ???
For those who really want to get a handle on what was in those jabs, what its doing to the blood, the results of vax shedding and geoengineering our skies please check out the work of Dr Ana Mihalcea and her colleagues. As I said above, chasing lab leaks is nothing less than a distraction and utterly pointless.
I urge people to view the videos and blood-work at the URL below, its vitally important that you do..
https://anamihalceamdphd.substack.com/p/c19-unvaccinated-have-same-blood?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
My conviction since 2 years is:
It either doesn’t exist, or it was set free deliberately.
Mine is.. it existed on a computer and that was it. Planned way back, documented by the Rockefeller tribe in 2010, and rehearsed in September 2019 by the usual subjects.
Its all out there for those who are prepared to research.. although admittedly the fact checkers are all over the incriminating evidence now with there denials and obfuscation..
Being older and wiser, I now disbelieve everything the government says, particularly that coming from their ‘experts’. People continue to die suddenly and I watch with interest when the political leaders congregate am disappointed to find they are all still with us!
Exactly. There wouldn’t be such an emphasis on censorship in all countries if this were not the case and the governments told the truth, via their puppet masters of course. Is it just me or does the net seem to be closing in regarding that because I’m sure I never used to hear so much about censorship from all of these organizations five years ago? But then there wasn’t all of these social media and alternative platforms years ago either was there? Personally I like to think they’re shitting bricks because more and more people are awakening to the fact they’ve been scammed on multiple levels and are rising up to oppose the authoritarian constraints that TPTB are trying their damndest to subjugate us with.
“…lab leak … was, in fact, “highly likely” the genesis of the pandemic.”
THERE WAS NO PANDEMIC.
Otherwise, yes.
Absolutely Marcus.. THERE WAS NO PANDEMIC.. as I said above chasing alleged lab leak is a complete distraction from the malicious act that’s playing out at this very moment and involves us all..
The real question should actually be was this a lab leak of a genetically modified virus or was it a deliberate leak? The pandemic was created by the media not by a mild corona virus, which leads to the next question was there ever a virus?
I can’t see beyond the deliberate creation of a mass psychosis to introduce mRNA technology under an EUA. To my mind there is no other explanation.
Jabba.. you’ve said it.. the alleged pandemic was created by the media and a phony PCR test..
RIP Science. Buried by being overwhelmed by government, and the spineless malleability of its practioners.
When anyone talks about “The Science”, what they are talking about is anything but – they are spouting ideology.
Traitors to humanity. They’ll get their comeuppance sooner or later.
Scientists who conspired together in lying and falsely accusing people, accuse people of being conspiracy theorists.
When I realised, a couple of years ago that the post war Nuremberg trials were the ultimate limited hangout, and that anyone of any import was airbrushed out of the way under Operation Paperclip, that gave me greater resolve and peace.
Resolve, because this cycle of unpunished moral hazard will only end when citizens ensure it does, and peace from the knowledge that there is no passing the buck now.
Its up to us.