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The Covid dissidents taking on China: Beijing's science stooges are being unmasked by an international team of online sleuths
Unherd ^ | April 13, 2021 | Ian Birrell

Posted on 04/16/2021 8:03:23 AM PDT by CheshireTheCat

...‘The Seeker’ is a member of Drastic, an informal guerilla group of internet sleuths, scientists and data experts who have spent the past year scouring a multitude of digital sources for such vital pieces of evidence. Some members have expertise in areas such as microbiology, genetics and virology. Others are data specialists, engineers or simply obsessed with discovering the truth about the origin of this wretched pandemic. Some hide their identities; others are open. They have been accused of hacking and fiercely deny it. Occasionally they hurtle down blind alleys.

Yet there is no doubt their collective efforts — and some of the illuminating evidence they have uncovered — have been crucial in challenging both China and the scientific establishment to ensure the lab leak theory is properly investigated. “We have exposed so many things they wanted to cover up, while there has been too much geo-politics around the issues,” said Gilles Demaneuf, a French data scientist who works at a New Zealand bank and is another Drastic member. “Many people now accept there is a possibility that a lab leak was the cause of the pandemic and that this is not a conspiracy theory as claimed at the outset.”

It has been fascinating to see, in the course of my investigations over the past year, how this group of activists — in tandem with few brave scientists — has forced the lab leak hypothesis from the shadows. Note how the UK was one of 14 nations that reacted so strongly to the dismal WHO report by accusing China of “withholding access to complete, original data and samples”, while Anthony Blinken, the new US secretary of state, criticised China’s cover-up and called for deeper investigation at the weekend....

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TOPICS: Conspiracy; Government; Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: beijing; china; covid19; covid19stats
I'm glad skeptics with a science background exist and are crowdsourcing their investigations so that maybe we can get to the truth.

Follow the science.

1 posted on 04/16/2021 8:03:23 AM PDT by CheshireTheCat
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To: CheshireTheCat

You want the truth? Go look at early FR posts.


2 posted on 04/16/2021 8:32:47 AM PDT by Cold Heart
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To: CheshireTheCat

That second to last paragraph is crap. Trump saw it right away. If it weren’t for Trump there would be little evidence left. Biden has joined the other side, the CCP. Its one of those paragraphs stuck in there by an editor. It is also written differently. Probably added to get wider distribution.


3 posted on 04/16/2021 8:53:26 AM PDT by poinq
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To: Cold Heart

Indeed...look at those early posts.

We knew straight away.

Unfortunately no one yet knows the full life cycle of this little beast, except maybe China.


4 posted on 04/16/2021 8:58:24 AM PDT by EBH (How they did it? Social Contagion and Social Media is the mechanism)
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To: CheshireTheCat

“Follow the science.”

Follow the funding and Dr. Fallacy!

Arrest Dr. Fallacy!


5 posted on 04/16/2021 8:59:14 AM PDT by romanesq (TRUSTY THE PLAN! ChiCom Joe is the Plan? Que magnificent! 👹)
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To: romanesq
BOL:! Thanks! skimbell


6 posted on 04/16/2021 9:14:10 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (Still alive, in spite of being stupid and getting vaccinated twice!! On: 01/31/2021 & 2/21/2021)
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To: CheshireTheCat

Wonder when, these skeptics will start having weird fatal accidents?


7 posted on 04/16/2021 9:15:28 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (Still alive, in spite of being stupid and getting vaccinated twice!! On: 01/31/2021 & 2/21/2021)
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To: Grampa Dave

Karry Mullis Inventor of PCR test, which he claimed was not a diagnostic tool.

Called Fauci a fraud

died August 7th, 2019


8 posted on 04/16/2021 10:21:53 AM PDT by Cold Heart
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To: Cold Heart

Yes, I know. I saw this bio attack from the deep state, NWO, China, etc. coming down the pike back in 2018.

But FR is only one very little corner of the internet world.

I am just glad that some scientists are skeptical, human, and are trying to work together to present the evidence and timelines.


9 posted on 04/16/2021 12:29:11 PM PDT by CheshireTheCat ("Forgetting pain is convenient.Remembering it agonizing.But recovering truth is worth the suffering")
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To: Cold Heart

I have heard different reports that he died of pneumonia and some that he had been involved in a car accident weeks before death.

A person, particularly and older one, can get pneumonia and die from it after an accident, but he appeared to be in pretty good shape for his age from the video of him I saw that was made earlier the year he died. And given his field of study, he would certainly know how to take care of himself.


10 posted on 04/16/2021 12:31:58 PM PDT by CheshireTheCat ("Forgetting pain is convenient.Remembering it agonizing.But recovering truth is worth the suffering")
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