I won’t pretend to be an expert in this field, but I’ve suspected for some time they’ve been lying, starting way back when they pressured those Indian scientists to withdraw their study about HIV insertions into the virus. And most of the experts in that field seem to be thinking along the same lines. It’s amazing to me that science has become so corrupted, I use to hold these folks in the highest esteem
I don’t pretend to be an expert, either. But with GoF research on those bat viruses being conducted in that leaky lab in Wuhan, plus all the indications pointed out in the piece I posted the link to, and Occam’s Razor...
Speaking of Ocean’s razor, it comes down on the side of accidental leak, not intentional release by the Chinese government. That does not mean elements of the CCP regime were not interested in such research for purposes of biowarfare, of course.
I, too, am saddened by the corruption of science. My father was a brilliant scientist who did much to better our world. He was also a great comfort to me back when they were trying to scare us kids at school with with “science” like global cooling (”we’re all gonna freeze”), population bomb (”we’re all gonna starve”), etc. back in the day. Now it’s “climate change”.
I hope the truth about the origin of Covid comes out eventually. Scientists involved in such GoF research to begin with were well-intentioned, believing they were possibly preparing to save many lives. There’s also a flip side to mucking about with this stuff, and we’re living it (while many have died from it). The dirty hands involved are not all Chinese. We’ll likely have a long period of the origin being “contended” and “controversial”.
The lessons we ought to be learning from this mess are not being discussed. Things like the wisdom of sharing our technology with China. The wisdom of allowing such GoF research to be conducted in such lab conditions as at Wuhan. The wisdom of allowing ourselves to be dependent on China for essential goods (pharmaceuticals, for example). The wisdom of our sharing dual-use technologies with China. This really should be a wake-up call.
Instead, we’re carrying on about nonsense like supposed teeny tiny razor blades in vaccines and “Covid is HIV” and “the vaccines give you AIDS”.