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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Hi.
Ya got to wonder how many of those scientists bang bang Fang Fang?
5.56mm
Wow
This is the biggest scandal in the history of Science
Certainly in our lifetimes, maybe for all time.
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I agree. There was not just the attempt to deflect and destroy the lab leak hypothesis, which was bad, there was the concerted effort to prohibit even the investigation of treatments for the virus, such as Ivermectin or HCQ. This doesn’t just border on, it is flat out is criminal.
Is it a rumor that thousands of animals from the Wuhan wet market have been tested and not one has tested positive for Covid-19?
Is it a rumor that scientists have tried to infect bats with Covid-19 and find that it is very difficult to get them infected?
If those things are rumors these Lancet scientists should forward their findings to Sen. Rand Paul and publish the findings publicly. Let’s hear what animals they’ve found in the wild with Covid-19. Let’s hear how easily they’ve infected bats with it.
Paid off by globalists and the ChiComs.
Like no one will know. SMH
I want to see Peter Daszak being grilled by Rand Paul. Daszak’s EcoHealth Alliance was Fauci’s cutout for funding coronavirus gain-of-function research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
Are you an idiot?
Yes I am, and thank you for the compliment!
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