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Sorry, conspiracy theorists. Study concludes COVID-19 'is not a laboratory construct'
ABC News ^ | March 27, 2020 | Kate Holland

Posted on 03/27/2020 5:25:39 AM PDT by McGruff

Conspiracy theories claiming COVID-19 was engineered in a lab as part of a biological attack on the United States have been gaining traction online in recent weeks, but a new study on the origins of the virus has concluded that the pandemic-causing strain developed naturally.

An analysis of the evidence, according to the findings first published in the scientific journal Nature Medicine, shows that the novel coronavirus "is not a laboratory construct or a purposefully manipulated virus," with the researchers concluding "we do not believe that any type of laboratory-based scenario is plausible."

"There’s a lot of speculation and conspiracy theories that went to a pretty high level," Dr. Robert Garry, a professor at the Tulane University School of Medicine and one of the authors of the study, told ABC News, "so we felt it was important to get a team together to examine evidence of this new coronavirus to determine what we could about the origin."

(Excerpt) Read more at abcnews.go.com ...


TOPICS: Conspiracy; Health/Medicine; Military/Veterans
KEYWORDS: fakenews; fakestudy
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To: McGruff

And Benghazi happened because of a shameful video..


21 posted on 03/27/2020 5:36:18 AM PDT by nevermorelenore ( If My people will pray ....)
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To: McGruff

Rebuttal to the bull shite! https://listverse.com/2020/03/20/top-10-reasons-to-believe-the-wuhan-virology-lab-caused-2019-ncov/


22 posted on 03/27/2020 5:36:55 AM PDT by 7thOF7th (Righteousness is our cause and justice will prevail!)
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To: McGruff

Need another...5 or 6 sources please. Way to have China’s back abc.


23 posted on 03/27/2020 5:37:02 AM PDT by V_TWIN
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To: McGruff

The Mouth of China speaks.


24 posted on 03/27/2020 5:37:14 AM PDT by Spruce
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To: McGruff

As reported by chinABC news.


25 posted on 03/27/2020 5:37:30 AM PDT by Caipirabob (Communists...Socialists...Fascists & AntiFa...Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: McGruff

WHO’s Tedros Adhanom Should be Tried for Crimes Against Humanity
https://youtu.be/5yD3o6_QGJI


26 posted on 03/27/2020 5:40:36 AM PDT by Fitzy_888 ("ownership society")
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To: McGruff

Forget it, Jake - it’s ABC”News”...


27 posted on 03/27/2020 5:40:38 AM PDT by kiryandil (Chris Wallace: Because someone has to drive the Clown Car)
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To: McGruff

The Nature article is at least a week old.

The theory still lives strong. When legend is greater than the truth...print the legend.


28 posted on 03/27/2020 5:41:23 AM PDT by Vermont Lt
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To: McGruff

FROM ABC??????

Now I know it is true.

What the media has lost is priceless and sad.

I can’t even take them seriously. I wonder if she is one of the screaming hags at the press conferences.


29 posted on 03/27/2020 5:41:32 AM PDT by Maris Crane
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To: JonPreston; McGruff
Thanks for this. I always turn to ABC’s Kate Holland for straight up news.

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30 posted on 03/27/2020 5:41:42 AM PDT by kiryandil (Chris Wallace: Because someone has to drive the Clown Car)
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To: McGruff

We believe NO news outlets. None are truthful.


31 posted on 03/27/2020 5:42:34 AM PDT by txrefugee
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To: McGruff
Study concludes COVID-19 'is not a laboratory construct'

It wasn't a lab, per se; it was a converted storage facility containing chemicals and equipment such as HPLCs and spectrometers, but no one ever called it a "laboratory."

32 posted on 03/27/2020 5:46:13 AM PDT by Lou L (Health "insurance" is NOT the same as health "care")
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To: McGruff

They may not have engineered the virus but their Biological Weapons lab in Wusan was no doubt experimenting on animals with any new “novel” virus they found. The best and most believable story is that the poorly paid workers at the lab instead of killing and incinerating the animals after the scientists were done with them, took the animals to that outdoor meat market, sold them and made a few bucks.


33 posted on 03/27/2020 5:46:27 AM PDT by allendale (.)
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To: dp0622
That didn’t work out so well for Michael and Fredo

Fredo went against the family. NEVER go against the family.

And now he sleeps with the fishes.


34 posted on 03/27/2020 5:46:54 AM PDT by bagster ("Even bad men love their mamas".)
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To: McGruff

Notice how they take the most extreme lab scenario to debunk it? Not the most benign?

You know that they have this live virus in the lab to see what it does. Sloppy process allowed it out of the lab in wuhan and wammo...it’s out.


35 posted on 03/27/2020 5:47:41 AM PDT by for-q-clinton
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To: ballplayer

No, it was cultured in a Biolevel 4 lab less than 10 miles from the Wuhan “wet market.” This has been very well documented by American Scientists.


36 posted on 03/27/2020 5:47:43 AM PDT by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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To: usconservative

I found a 2017.. is this it? (Btw...it has been updated with an editor’s note)
https://www.nature.com/news/inside-the-chinese-lab-poised-to-study-world-s-most-dangerous-pathogens-1.21487


37 posted on 03/27/2020 5:48:48 AM PDT by ZinGirl (Now a grandma ....can't afford a tagline :))
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To: ballplayer

From Feb. 22, 2020, filed under “things that make you go hmmmmm”:

“Some Chinese researchers are believed to sell laboratory animals to street vendors after they have finished experimenting on them.”

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/dont-buy-chinas-story-the-coronavirus-may-have-leaked-from-a-lab-2020-02-22

China says it’s not true, so that should end it. Right?


38 posted on 03/27/2020 5:49:36 AM PDT by Fresh Wind (Never let a crisis go to waste...you can do things you thought you could not do before.)
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To: McGruff

And TWA Flight 800 was definitely the result of an unlucky fuel tank spark. (That never happened before or since.)

“In politics, never believe anything until it has been officially denied.”

Bismark


39 posted on 03/27/2020 5:53:39 AM PDT by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: McGruff

Conspiracy theories are unkillable. There is no amount of evidence that could convince a conspiracy loon to change their mind.

When the global apocalypse ends life as we know it, there will be only two things left, cockroaches and conspiracy theories.


40 posted on 03/27/2020 5:53:49 AM PDT by FewsOrange
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