News Round-Up
5 May 2024
by Will Jones
The case for a lab leak seems robust: the virus is plainly engineered and first emerged in a city with a major virus lab. But in fact the evidence the virus leaked from the Wuhan Institute of Virology just isn't there.
When asked about a possible lab leak in a November 2021 interview, Christian Drosten insisted that “I have no personal connection to the people in Wuhan". This photo with the WIV's Shi Zhengli may suggest otherwise.
New emails involving Anthony Fauci, Jeremy Farrar, Patrick Vallance and more let us see a lab leak cover-up happening in real time, shedding new light on what they have been conspiring about behind the scenes.
Dr. Anthony Fauci, the controversial Chief Medical Adviser to Joe Biden, has been booed by spectators while throwing the ceremonial first pitch at the Seattle Mariners baseball game. Richly deserved.
In a strange twist in the investigation into the origins of the virus, it has been discovered that a key genetic sequence in the virus was patented by Moderna in 2016, though for an unrelated purpose.
12 months ago, anyone claiming SARS-CoV-2 had escaped from a lab in Wuham was dismissed as a "racist" and "conspiracy theorist". Now, it's the accepted view of 10 Downing Street.
A declassified report from U.S. intelligence claims it is plausible that Covid escaped from a Chinese laboratory.
The WHO is embroiled in a new scandal: at least a third of its team investigating the origins of COVID-19, appointed last week, have conflicts of interest due to research links or previous statements about the disease.
I've written a comment piece for Mail+ about the shameful attempt by eminent British scientists to suppress the lab leak theory, pegged to the editorial in the BMJ calling for a "full, open, and independent investigation".
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