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There's still no evidence of a Chinese lab leak. But here’s what's changed, scientists say.
NBC via MSN ^ | 06 17 2021 | Denise Chow

Posted on 06/17/2021 1:19:11 PM PDT by yesthatjallen

Alina Chan isn't saying the coronavirus definitely leaked from a lab in China. What she is saying is what more scientists have grown comfortable discussing publicly: There's no clear evidence either way.

"I know a lot of people want to have a smoking gun," said Chan, a postdoctoral associate at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard University who specializes in genetic engineering and has been vocal about the need to investigate the possibility of a lab leak. "It's more like breadcrumbs everywhere, and they're not always leading in one direction. It's like the whole floor is covered in breadcrumbs."

Chan was one of 18 scientists who published a letter in the journal Science last month calling for a more in-depth investigation into the virus's origin that takes into account theories about both natural occurrence and laboratory spillovers. The letter helped kick-start a new round of calls to investigate the "lab leak hypothesis," including demands from President Joe Biden and several leading scientists.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: chicompropaganda; china; covid; denisechow; fakenews; redchina; virus; wuhan
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Like the virus, news about the Wuhan lab has leaked. Since the media can no longer suppress the facts they have to do narrative control.
1 posted on 06/17/2021 1:19:11 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
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Concast has billions invested in Beijing.


2 posted on 06/17/2021 1:22:39 PM PDT by libh8er
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Like a cat, scratching and clawing, trying to hide a piece of crap on a marble floor...


3 posted on 06/17/2021 1:24:46 PM PDT by Mr. Rabbit
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There’s no way to “scientifically prove” it, unless the Wuhan lab opens its books and its researchers, which will never happen.

But if this were a court of law, there’s already more than enough forensic, circumstantial, hearsay, statistical evidence to prove guilt.


4 posted on 06/17/2021 1:24:55 PM PDT by PGR88
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Nothing to see here folks. That bat corona virus (strictly from nature) traveled 1000 miles with NO victims along the way and mysteriously struck here near the lab. Do NOT ask about the previous scientists who either died or disappeared who worked here in the lab before. So, nothing to see. Go back to sleep.


5 posted on 06/17/2021 1:26:34 PM PDT by BipolarBob (Who is John Galt and is he vaccinated?)
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“I know a lot of people want to have a smoking gun,”

*************

The Chinese threw the smoking gun in the lake.


6 posted on 06/17/2021 1:26:49 PM PDT by Starboard
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To: yesthatjallen

When you can’t put the toothpaste back in the tube, you do the limited hangout...

(Watergate lingo for you youngsters... :-) )


7 posted on 06/17/2021 1:27:48 PM PDT by cgbg (A kleptocracy--if they can keep it. Think of it as the Cantillon Effect in action.)
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What’s changed is - some of them have started lying slightly less than before.


8 posted on 06/17/2021 1:28:35 PM PDT by bigbob
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No evidence? We have the absolute worst journalists in America. This is what happens when you hire 23 year old graduates and pay them by the word. They don’t do any ‘homework’ or research they just write. Often, just write what they are told or what they think might get them promoted to another 1 cent per word.

Here’s evidence: A handful of workers from the Wuhan Lab were admitted to the Wuhan Hospital contagious disease ward in early November of 2019 with unknown infection and uncontrollable flu like symptoms.

Here’s more evidence: The Chinese Communist Government sent a high ranking military officer to commandeer the facility, who specializes in chemical warfare.

No evidence? Only to people who don’t want to look for it.


9 posted on 06/17/2021 1:29:20 PM PDT by monkeyshine (live and let live is dead)
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To: PGR88

The Chinese are home free. They know we’re too conflicted and too weak to do anything to force them to come clean.


10 posted on 06/17/2021 1:29:30 PM PDT by Starboard
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Fauci etal helped fund the Wuhan Lab.

That is why the US .gov will never come clean.


11 posted on 06/17/2021 1:32:08 PM PDT by cgbg (A kleptocracy--if they can keep it. Think of it as the Cantillon Effect in action.)
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Aphony Fauxcy’s fault.

Zer0 doubt.

Anybody who says otherwise has no evidence.


12 posted on 06/17/2021 1:34:42 PM PDT by Paladin2 (Critical Marx Theory is The SOLUTION....)
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And just think...Fauci’s corruption is but a drop in the DC waterfall.


13 posted on 06/17/2021 1:35:45 PM PDT by Starboard
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There was no leak. The virus was distributed by the PLA purposefully as an attack against the whole world, but especially the West.

Why would the CCP kill their own people? What is the one commodity that China has in abundance and would be glad to be rid of?

People. 1.4 Billion of them who the CCP is having an increasingly difficult time feeding.

14 posted on 06/17/2021 1:38:57 PM PDT by Dr. Thorne (The Media is the Virus.)
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Would the scientists who are comfortable in discussing this be Chinese agents?


15 posted on 06/17/2021 1:40:35 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Trump: "They're After You. I'm Just In The Way")
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When people, especially liberals in cases like this one, say “Follow the science “ or “Scientists say…” they reveal two things about themselves.

First, they are demonstrating that they know very little about “science”. They don’t understand the technicalities (even the most superficial scientific facts) or principles (e.g. Scientific Method) In their ignorance they yield to people who claim to be scientists (including doctors) - especially when they reflect their own world view (e.g. “Orange is bad”).

“World View” introduces my second point. These people (many of them) have turned away from the Creator and Maintainer (of everything). They have EXCHANGED God for “science” -

And they know nothing about either.


16 posted on 06/17/2021 1:41:35 PM PDT by Ken Regis
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“There’s no way to “scientifically prove” it, unless the Wuhan lab opens its books and its researchers, which will never happen”

That’s right. And they won’t.

That said, it is conceivable that data could turn up without an audit, but unlikely.


17 posted on 06/17/2021 1:41:44 PM PDT by ifinnegan ( Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: yesthatjallen

If you didn’t know that China bought out much of NBC, it’d be obvious from their reporting.


18 posted on 06/17/2021 1:43:27 PM PDT by Tell It Right (1st Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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Media - let’s try something that is very hard for you to do. Logic.

CCPvirus is not found in nature. With SARS, a source in nature was found in about one month. CCPvirus has no source in nature.

CCPvirus was found in close proximity to a CCP bio weapons lab.

Use Occam’s Razor, the simplest explanation is generally correct. The CCPvirus, which is not found in nature, was created in the bio-weapons lab in Wuhan where the disease was first found in humans.


19 posted on 06/17/2021 1:43:39 PM PDT by rigelkentaurus
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One second if you attend church you are killing Grandma. The next second if you think that wall-to-wall rioters are a problem, you’re a racist.

One second our federal elections are Russian-fraudulent. The next second if you doubt the elections you are a white supremacist.

One second if you suspect that Covid comes from the bioweapons lab near its origins, you are a racist. The next second your accusers are committing a limited hangout.


20 posted on 06/17/2021 1:44:24 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (THE ISSUE IS NEVER THE ISSUE. THE REVOLUTION IS THE ISSUE.)
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