The February 2020 Lancet letter re #COVID19 origins was pseudo-scientific propaganda designed to undermine open inquiry. Now that Peter has testified to the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic committee he no longer stands by its assertion that “We stand together to strongly condemn conspiracy theories…

Peter daszak tells congress he didn’t rubbish all lab leak theories.

More importantly, what about more SARS-like viruses sequenced and studied in Wuhan during the two critical years of 2018 and 2019?

BIG: After cross examining by Mitch Benzine Daszak acknowledges the Wuhan Institute of Virology could have unpublished coronaviruses.

Prior claims that a paper called Latienne et al. contained all COVID-relevant sequences fell apart quickly after Benzine asked the time scope…

🧵Fascinating origin-of-Covid testimony from renowned coronavirus expert Ralph Baric. “The single biggest issue to jump from the pages of Baric’s testimony is his persistent concern over unsafe research practices at the WIV,” writes @katherineeban vanityfair.com/news/story/ral…

The first Chinese scientist to publish a genomic sequence of the Covid-19 virus, in defiance of government orders, has been staging a sit-in protest after claiming he was locked out of his laboratory. theguardian.com/world/2024/apr…

1/A year ago, Chinese scientists published data from samples collected at a Wuhan market at the heart of the COVID outbreak - startling many, given it happened years ago. Then the data got retracted.

Maria Cheng and I tried to find out why. Our findings:
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“There were no real reforms, because doing reforms means admitting fault,” said a public health expert in contact with Chinese health officials. #OriginOfCovid
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