10 Jan: Daily Mail: A conflict of interest: How can Peter Daszak, a British scientist who helped fund controversial experiments on coronaviruses by China’s Batwoman, be part of WHO’s team investigating the original source of the outbreak?
British scientist Peter Daszak’s organisation channelled cash to Wuhan scientists
He has spent much of the past year trying to counter claims of a possible lab leak
But he was invited by WHO to join its team of ten experts investigating outbreak
By IAN BIRRELL
A British scientist is facing calls to step down from two key inquiries into the origins of Covid-19 after leading the global battle to dismiss suggestions that it might have leaked from a Chinese laboratory linked to his charity.
Peter Daszak’s organisation channelled cash to Wuhan scientists at the centre of growing concerns over a cover-up – and also collaborated on the sort of cutting-edge experiments on coronaviruses banned for several years in the United States for fear of sparking a pandemic.
The Wuhan Institute of Virology has been carrying out this risky research on bat viruses since 2015, including the collection of new coronaviruses and hugely controversial ‘gain of function’ experiments that increase their ability to infect humans...
The prominent scientist, who runs a conservation charity originally founded by the famous naturalist and best-selling author Gerald Durrell, is also leading an investigatory panel on the pandemic’s origins set up by The Lancet medical journal...
‘Ignore the conspiracy theories: scientists know Covid-19 wasn’t created in a lab,’ ran the headline to one typical article he wrote in The Guardian...
‘He has also worked with the Wuhan Institute in what is reportedly gain of function research.’ - Colin Butler, honorary professor of environmental health at the Australian National University...READ ON
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9129749/How-Peter-Daszak-WHOs-team-investigating-original-source-outbreak.html
Wait a minute! Maybe it didn't leak from the Wuhan lab - maybe it was intentionally released to cripple the world's economy and set up China as the top world economic power.
If that was the case it worked magnificently! Especially now that we have Casper Bitem'toast leading our country.
Bitem: Wu who?