Posted on 05/30/2021 1:39:02 PM PDT by MNDude
A group of 27 prominent public health scientists from outside China is pushing back against a steady stream of stories and even a scientific paper suggesting a laboratory in Wuhan, China, may be the origin of the outbreak of COVID-19. “The rapid, open, and transparent sharing of data on this outbreak is now being threatened by rumours and misinformation around its origins,” the scientists, from nine countries, write in a statement published online by The Lancet yesterday.
The letter does not criticize any specific assertions about the origin of the outbreak, but many posts on social media have singled out the Wuhan Institute of Virology for intense scrutiny because it has a laboratory at the highest security level—biosafety level 4—and its researchers study coronaviruses from bats, including the one that is closest to SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. Speculations have included the possibility that the virus was bioengineered in the lab or that a lab worker was infected while handling a bat and then transmitted the disease to others outside the lab. Researchers from the institute have insisted there is no link between the outbreak and their laboratory.
“We stand together to strongly condemn conspiracy theories suggesting that COVID-19 does not have a natural origin,” says The Lancet statement, which praises the work of Chinese health professionals as “remarkable” and encourages others to sign on as well.
The authors of The Lancet statement note that scientists from several countries who have studied SARS-CoV-2 “overwhelmingly conclude that this coronavirus originated in wildlife,” just like many other viruses that have recently emerged in humans. “Conspiracy theories do nothing but create fear, rumours, and prejudice that jeopardise our global collaboration in the fight against this virus,” the statement says.
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“Trust Science.” Right?
Scientists?
BBBBBBBBwwwwwwwhhaaaaaaaaa!!!!
Science has become The Political, fact free, emotional, fascist profession.
The science was settled.
These scientist need to be investigated to determine if they have undisclosed ties with China. If so, they should be prosecuted. If nothing else, they should lose access to all government funds, clearances, etc. There has to be consequences to treason.
the article was feb 20 2020. On Feb 29th, Fauci said...don’t worry about this virus...AND Nancy Pelosi went to China Town and told the world to Come On Down...AND...Chuckie Scumee called President Trump a racist for shutting down incoming from China.
The Lancet? This is the leftard publication which was forced to retract a bogus study they claimed proved Hydroxychloroquine was a danger.
Covid-19: Lancet retracts paper that halted hydroxychloroquine trials.
The Lancet paper that halted global trials of hydroxychloroquine for Covid-19 because of fears of increased deaths has been retracted after a Guardian investigation found inconsistencies in the data.
Different year, different scientists and different theories. Why post a 15 month old article? We know where it originated. Check this out from yesterday.
https://nypost.com/2021/05/29/explosive-study-claims-to-prove-chinese-scientists-created-covid/
They are good little Nazis.
Saying just what their Nazi master wanted them to say.
Anything for a buck you know.
Exactly right.
All I had the see “The Lancet”
They have been caught lying before concerning HCQ. A medical rag.
Every single element of our country is infiltrated by the enemy.
Follow the money. They’re bought and paid for by the criminal CCP scumbags.
Like hanging!!
“The rapid, open, and transparent sharing of data on this outbreak is now being threatened by rumours and misinformation around its origins,”
BS.
China has NEVER EVER been open or transparent about their data on this outbreak.
This is propaganda at its highest.
If they disbelieve the hypothesis being put forth then rather than make asinine political statements they could just DISPROVE the un-natural origins theory.
But they can’t because they know the proposition has merit - so they attack the character of the reporting rather than the reporting itself.
That’s bad science, period.
Yes. That’s exactly what they did.
Are you an idiot?
Huh.
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