News Round-Up
3 May 2025
by Toby Young
Everyone assumes the virus that leaked in Wuhan was made in Wuhan. But they're ignoring the smoking gun in America: the fact that the COVID-19 virus transmits in American lab animals but not Chinese lab animals.
HIV discoverer Luc Montagnier deduced from the 'HIV inserts' in the SARS-CoV-2 genome that it was engineered. But he didn't think it could be a 'bioweapon': it just wasn't dangerous enough.
Following on from his article on the HIV 'inserts' in SARS-CoV-2 and the HIV research being conducted in Wuhan, Robert Kogon discovers that the WIV was the main partner in the German-Chinese virology network.
It's increasingly clear the virus leaked from a lab in Wuhan. But could it have been made in the USA? Will Jones says there's a clue in the fact that China only seemed to learn of the leak once the sequence was published.
In January 2020, an Indian team caused shockwaves with a paper that found HIV inserts in SARS-CoV-2, prompting Luc Montagnier to declare the virus engineered. Robert Kogon offers evidence HIV work was being done in Wuhan.
A U.S.-funded lab origin of COVID-19 would constitute the most significant case of governmental gross negligence in history, says Jeffrey Sachs. The people of the world deserve transparency and answers on vital questions.
Whose risky research led to SARS-CoV-2? Robert Kogon uncovers evidence that it's not the WIV's Shi Zhengli or UNC's Ralph Baric who has the most to hide, but Germany's Christian Drosten.
When it comes to who was behind the lab leak that may have started the pandemic, fingers often point at China and the U.S. But what about the German-Chinese lab at the epicentre of the first outbreak, asks Robert Kogon.
Cambridge University 'misinformation researcher' Sander van der Linden picked a fight with Nate Silver recently and ended up looking like a fraud who edits his Wikipedia page through a legion of sock puppet accounts.
A leaked recording reveals that the U.S. military told a pharma exec at AstraZeneca that the virus "posed a national security threat" on February 4th 2020 – weeks before a single death had occurred.
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