Covid 19 coronavirus: Wuhan virus lab scientist thought to be 'patient zero' still missing.
Posted on 01/28/2022 2:47:07 PM PST by lightman
The claim that the virus that causes COVID-19 definitely was not from a laboratory, put forth in a paper quietly shaped by Dr. Anthony Fauci that was cited by other scientists who called the lab idea a “conspiracy theory,” was “antithetical to science,” a former Centers for Disease Control and Prevention director says.
“The purpose of science is to have rigorous debate about different hypotheses. I’ve never really experienced in my life where there was private telephone calls among scientists that had a decision on what position they would take collectively, and to see that position then published in a scientific journal like Lancet, to say that individuals that thought like myself, had a different scientific hypothesis, somehow had to be put down and viewed as conspirators, this is really antithetical to science,” Dr. Robert Redfield, the agency’s head until Jan. 20, 2021, said during a Jan. 26 appearance on Fox News.
Emails recently made public show that Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), played a key role in shaping a paper published by Nature in early 2020.
The authors, most of whom messaged repeatedly with Fauci, joined him on a teleconference shortly before the paper was published, and have since received millions from Fauci’s agency, claimed that their analyses “clearly show that SARS-CoV-2 is not a laboratory construct or a purposefully manipulated virus.”
SARS-CoV-2 is another name for the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus, which causes COVID-19.
The Nature article was one of those cited by EcoHealth Alliance founder Peter Daszak and a separate group of scientists in an article later published in The Lancet. “We stand together to strongly condemn conspiracy theories suggesting that COVID-19 does not have a natural origin,” wrote Daszak, whose group funneled money from Fauci’s agency to scientists in Wuhan, China, and the other authors.
Many experts later acknowledged there’s no clear evidence that the CCP virus has a natural origin, and some have said the bulk of the evidence points to it coming from the set of laboratories in Wuhan.
Redfield is one of them.
“I don’t think it’s biologically plausible that this virus emerged from a bat to some intermediate species into humans and became one of the most transmissible viruses that we know in human disease. This virus clearly had a detour and that detour was being educated how to infect human tissue in the laboratory. I think that’s the most plausible explanation,” he told Fox.
Dr. Francis Collins, Fauci’s boss when he was the head of the National Institutes of Health, and Fauci were trying to “protect science” by suppressing debate over the virus origins, Redfield posited. The problem is, “there’s very limited data” to support their position, he told Fox.
Asked if Fauci, who has been in his position since 1985, should be fired, Redfield demurred but said he did think Fauci should “reflect on this and then provide the science leadership that we need to move forward.”
“I have a lot of respect for him over the years. I think he needs to step back and not try to second guess and make things a way that he thinks the world can hear. We should just tell the truth,” Redfield said.
NIAID didn’t respond to requests for comment.
Redfield also said that he believes scientists will eventually solve the mystery of the origin of the virus.
Tar, feathers and a rail.
Fauci should have been tried and executed 18 months ago. He packs a lot of evil in that diminutive stature.
“...Dr. Robert Redfield...”
I didn’t think it was that slimeball, Collins.
Wait, Fauci recently said, “I AM science.”
I have not ruled out that Fauci did all of this on purpose so when covid got released accidentally on purpose he could promote himself as the savior of humanity.
Redfield also said that he believes scientists will eventually solve the mystery of the origin of the virus.
Not if they’re taking or hope to receive government funding…
they’re just trying to divert the blame away from themselves
So many fools deify Fauci. Meanwhile, here is the naked truth, laid out by one who knows him personally. Instead of using science to shape his narrative, he used the narrative to shape the science. He corrupted it all, there's almost nothing you can believe regarding COVID, case and death counts, testing efficacy, the mechanisms taken to prevent it, the treatments (the ones approved and those demonized to death), vaccine effectiveness and/or dangers, none of it. All utterly politicized under his watch.
Further, if institutions/universities want to facilitate good innovative science, then they should not expect all those they hire to self-fund via grants. Harvard received ~$209 million in NIH grant money last year alone, while sitting on an endowment of $53.2 billion - as a not for profit. That is wrong on so many levels.
As a nation, we've totally lost our way. I fight when I can, and try to sustain as much energy as possible, but if you are not demoralized at some level by what is happening in the world - you aren't paying enough attention.
The effort to suppress a laboratory origin of the virus was and is despicable.
So is calling it the “CCP virus”. Odds are they had little or nothing to do with it.
Rand Paul should ask Fauci if and when he communicated with burner phones?
Fort Detrick, then?
I think the Wuhan lab were hired hands to do what was not allowed in the US or Canada. Need to know more about the Chinese scientists who were arrested carrying specimens out of Canada summer 2019.
It’s very hard to understand the sheer panic of the US establishment over this event unless they were involved somehow.
Look I’m not a COVID denier or minimizer. It’s a big problem. But the fact that the PTB can’t tell a straight story 2 years in, that they shift positions all the time, that they pursue eradication including using vaccines the way they have indicates to me that they feel threatened by the continued existence of COVID.
Now ask yourself, why would that be?
Maybe it’s because they did this, caused it to happen by manipulating biological processes they didn’t understand well enough to be doing the GOF work in the first place.
Their reaction to something brewed up by a foreign power wouldn’t look anything like this.
American Chernobyl. That’s why they’re afraid.
What is telling, is that there are no regular NIH spokespeople making daily comments about all things Covid. Looks to me like top down authoritarianism at NIH rules the day..
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