Posted on 06/17/2021 8:13:46 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Last month, a group of 18 scientists published a letter calling for a deeper investigation into the origins of COVID-19 which would give serious consideration to the lab-leak hypothesis - which posits that the virus escaped from the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
Now, several of those scientists, including MIT and Harvard geneticist Alina Chan, admit that scientists avoided the lab-leak hypothesis because they didn't want to be associated with then-President Trump, according to NBC News.
Chan said there had been trepidation among some scientists about publicly discussing the lab leak hypothesis for fear that their words could be misconstrued or used to support racist rhetoric about how the coronavirus emerged. Trump fueled accusations that the Wuhan Institute of Virology, a research lab in the city where the first Covid-19 cases were reported, was connected to the outbreak, and on numerous occasions he called the pathogen the "Wuhan virus" or "kung flu."
...The shift reflects how some scientists who previously avoided the topic or were quick to dismiss it are grappling with enduring uncertainties about the virus's origin, free from the politicization that clouded such discussions during the Trump administration.
So while America was told to follow the science, scientists chose to play politics.
"At the time, it was scarier to be associated with Trump and to become a tool for racists, so people didn't want to publicly call for an investigation into lab origins," said Chan.
Those who have 'come around' in recent months are also pointing to China's lack of transparency.
There are three primary theories circulating, according to the report:
"If we had a pandemic that was sourced near to a BSL-4 lab in the U.S., the first thing you would be asking is if they were working with that pathogen in that lab," said Andrew Reed, an expert on evolutionary genetics of infectious diseases and a professor of biology at Penn State - who cautioned that while the lab leak is plausible, it doesn't necessarily mean it's the most probable explanation (it is).
As the Daily Wire notes, "David Asher, who led the Trump administration’s investigation into the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic, said in an interview last month that he had biostatisticians from the U.S. government calculate that the odds of the coronavirus evolving from nature and they estimated that it was about 1-in-13 billion."
If only 'the science' had been more interested in facts than politics, we'd be further down the road of accountability:
Right now: Jon Stewart on the Covid Lab Leak “theory” is solid laughs pic.twitter.com/WlRX35p9WK — siskin.eth (@mns) June 15, 2021
All those "scientists" should be fired. They should be prosecuted for dereliction of duty.
Precisely. This was an organized international plan to create havoc for Trump in order to get rid of him.
These people that lied and covered up,because of their opposition to Trump should be lined up in front of a wall and....
Hence my tagline
Criminal scientists. They qualify for climate change scientists
so in essence, they let the world burn... hang every last one of them.
It’s a shame that science is whatever they say it is.
This is not science.
All of you who believed the govtards like fauxci and company.
They are not “science” nor practicing science.
Its pseudo acience. Junk science. Politicized science. Science with an agenda.
Government science is politicized science. Liberal niversity science has proven it also is politicized science. How many more examples do we need for you to get this?
This is good evidence “science” took a back seat to the desire to get rid of President Trump.
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No kidding and if anyone believes that the scientists are in some way pure and only ‘pursuing science’ for the love of it, think again...
This was the nonsense that Scientific America put out in October, 2020.... https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/yes-science-is-political/ Reading this allows you to ruminate on the ‘wisdom’ of these sentences.... “More than 200,000 Americans have died from COVID-19. Yet, as our nation grapples with the pandemic, our current administration believes that “science shouldn’t stand in the way” of business as usual.”
Bkmk
“We ALWAYS follow the science!”
(unless we find ourselves in agreement with President Trump)
The Heavenly Father keeps the perfect record.. and nothing is secret from Him.. The gods of science played God and they will get to have a personal accounting.. every last one of them.
Media-Science Complex
This is what Nobel winner Richard Feynman called “cargo cult science.” It looks like science but in reality it is just primitive make believe mumbo jumbo.
These people should be horse whipped, stripped of all honors, degrees, and licenses they have, sued into bankruptcy, and then sent to a leper colony somewhere to scrub bed pans for the rest of their lives.
And that would be too damned good for them.
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I call bullshit on this!
So they squelched news of a widely spreading virus and blame Trump?
What a psycho sick bunch of “scientists” they are!
Trump was right and closed the US off while they sat on their hands to try to destroy Trump?
THEY ALL NEED TO HANG!
Human refuse of the lowest order these so called scientists are who LET MORE PEOPLE DIE to get rid of Trump!
THEY are guilty of WAR CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY AND COLLUDING WITH THE CCP!
Lies by omission are lies and these partisan hacks lied to benefit the despotic Chinese Communists and Democrats.
Defund these scientists, now!
Covid was the Far Left’s plan to remove Trump from office.
By hook or by crook. And Bill Gates helped.
Event201984
They say science is men giving birth because some woman has been given testosterone.
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