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Yet more proof of systematic deception on COVID - C C - Mar 30, 2025
(UK) Yet more proof of systematic deception on COVID
https://rationaloptimistsociety.substack.com/p/yet-more-proof-of-systematic-deception
EXCERPT: . . . we now know that the two documents that persuaded the entire political, media, and scientific establishment that a lab leak was not just unlikely but a daft conspiracy theory, were highly misleading propaganda efforts by people with conflicts of interest who knew them to be misleading.
I should know, since at the time of these events I was on the Science and Technology Committee of the House of Lords. I thought a lab leak was unlikely but possible. Then these two statements were published. To my eternal shame I—and my committee colleagues—took these two papers as definitive evidence against the lab leak theory from experts in the field. Several peers and journalists asked me if a lab leak was likely. “No,” I said, “These two papers have ruled it out.”
Several months later, I discovered that I had been lied to—deliberately, maliciously, and consequentially. Yes, I am angry about that. So should you be... (MORE - missing details)
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COVID likely came from a lab, and it matters enormously to prevent another pandemic
https://www.ocregister.com/2025/03/12/covid-likely-came-from-a-lab-and-it-matters-enormously-to-prevent-another-pandemic/
EXCERPTS: [...] the most fundamental question is still unanswered: where did SARS-CoV-2 (the virus that causes COVID) come from?
There are two theories: market (or zoonosis) and lab leak. In my mind, neither theory is proven. [...] I won’t “both-sides” this question, though: while absolute proof remains elusive, the available evidence lopsidedly favors a lab leak.
[...] Who has been standing in the way of getting to the bottom of all this, apart from the Chinese government? The US National Institutes of Health (NIH), a funder of gain-of-function virology in general and of the WIV in particular (Francis Collins and Anthony Fauci, the past directors of the NIH and of the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases, respectively, were both enthusiastic proponents of gain-of-function).
The biotech industry and its allied news outlets, experimental virologists LARPing as epidemiologists. Scientists everywhere, who take offense to the notion that a science experiment gone wrong could have caused the pandemic. And especially the self-styled “scicomm” community, carrying water for science, and, often, industry...... (MORE - missing details)