Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Group of 24 Scientists Issue Open Letter Detailing Incorrect and Contradictory Claims in WHO Origins Report Used to Downplay Lab Leak Theory
Daily Caller News Foundation via Epoch Times ^ | 04/07/2021

Posted on 04/07/2021 6:37:51 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

A group of 24 scientists issued an open letter Wednesday demanding a full investigation into the origins of COVID-19 that includes a thorough examination into the possibility the virus could have escaped from a lab in Wuhan, China.

The scientists said the World Health Organization’s report on the origins of the pandemic, which concluded the lab leak hypothesis was extremely unlikely, “failed to reach some most basic standards of credible analysis and assessment,” noting that the report contained 12 incorrect, disputed, contradictory and imprecise statements used to downplay the theory.

“Well over a year after the initial outbreak, critical records and biological samples that could provide essential insights into pandemic origins remain inaccessible,” the letter stated. “This withholding of key resources that could and should have been made available undermined the credibility of the joint study team work.”

The scientists said that a new investigation should be convened that strips China and any other government of veto power over the scientists selected to probe the pandemic’s origins. The Chinese government had such veto powers over the WHO’s recently-concluded origins investigation.

They added that whistleblower processes need to be in place to ensure Chinese scientists can “share relevant information without fear of retribution.”

The scientists flagged multiple comments from China’s top bat-based coronavirus researcher Dr. Shi Zhengli that the WHO’s report used to downplay the lab leak theory as being incorrect or contradictory.

Shi was quoted in the report saying “all fieldwork is done with full PPE,” which the scientist said was in contradiction with photographic and video records showing limited PPE use by Shi’s colleagues at the WIV.

(Excerpt) Read more at theepochtimes.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: coronavirus; origins; scientists; who

1 posted on 04/07/2021 6:37:52 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | View Replies]

To: SeekAndFind
The letter (Here is the pdf version) also highlighted that the WHO report relied on incorrect and contradictory statements Shi had issued regarding a deleted Wuhan Institute of Virology database in September 2019 that contained samples of at least 16,000 virus samples it had studied prior to the pandemic.
2 posted on 04/07/2021 6:38:59 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: SeekAndFind

Hat i find fascinting isconservatives who believe the government so much that the would rather go after other conservatives less wiling to believe the government.

They act like the old religious powers of old. You will not question the church of covid or its high priests.

The covid vaxxes are our sacrament. If you refuse, we will shun you and you will be stoned. Not the good kind of stoned either.


3 posted on 04/07/2021 6:48:16 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: SeekAndFind

Any number of reports detail completely that the Chinese destroyed all of the physical evidence that could have vectored back to a source. This will be swept under the rug by the Chinese in their current world dominance facilitated by the Biden/Harris cowed dog show.


4 posted on 04/07/2021 6:53:16 PM PDT by KC Burke (If all the world is a stage, I would like to request my lighting be adjusted.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: SeekAndFind

Ping


5 posted on 04/07/2021 8:56:04 PM PDT by WhattheDickens? (Funny, I didn’t think this was 1984…)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: SeekAndFind
A group of 24 scientists issued an open letter Wednesday demanding a full investigation into the origins of COVID-19....

It's such a shame that their next grant application will be denied -- for totally unrelated reasons, of course.

6 posted on 04/07/2021 10:18:17 PM PDT by LimitedPowers (Citizenship is not a Hate Crime!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Secret Agent Man

A friend sent me a meme (I don’t have source or I’d post it) which says:

Funny how we were raised to resist peer pressure and not experiment with drugs....
... and today we’re being peer pressured into taking experimental drugs.


7 posted on 04/08/2021 5:35:40 AM PDT by generally ( Don't be stupid. We have politicians for that.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3 | View Replies]

To: generally

the other meme that applies is for the boomers

the very same people that said f*** authority

now that THEY are the authority

demand total unquestioning obedience and compliance by any means necessary

funny how those that said never trust anyone over 30, now that they are old, say trust us, its good for you

funny how those that lived almost all their lives doing high risk potentially deadly drugs and substances and risky physical things, and giving each other diseases, now demand we must do what they say for this overhyped fear-driven shamdemic


8 posted on 04/08/2021 11:05:03 AM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 7 | View Replies]

To: Secret Agent Man

whats really funny is how many supposed conservatives at this site are those very same idiot totalitarians on this issue

either they are total scared idiots or the site’s been infiltrated by fraudsters undermining the conversations here


9 posted on 04/08/2021 11:06:45 AM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 8 | View Replies]

To: Secret Agent Man

agree completely.

I’m shocked at how many people are

1. terrified of CV.
2. Total sheeple.
3. believe the MSM.
4. think masks protect them

and so many more.


10 posted on 04/08/2021 4:05:22 PM PDT by generally ( Don't be stupid. We have politicians for that.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 8 | View Replies]

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson