{"id":239652,"date":"2023-07-24T12:01:44","date_gmt":"2023-07-24T11:01:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=239652"},"modified":"2023-07-19T09:40:16","modified_gmt":"2023-07-19T08:40:16","slug":"coronavirus-covid-pandemic-new-doubts-revelations-by-us-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2023\/07\/coronavirus-covid-pandemic-new-doubts-revelations-by-us-congress\/","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus\/COVID Pandemic: New Doubts, Revelations by US Congress"},"content":{"rendered":"

“In Their Labs”: Fifteen Illuminating Passages in The Proximal Origin, Chats and Emails<\/strong><\/p>\n

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18 Jul 2023 – Communications between officials and scientists who wrote the key paper promoting a natural origin for Covid-19 show doubts, interference, politicized science, and more.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Public<\/a><\/em> and Racket <\/em>have just published a pair of stories about a scientific cover-up and the manufacture of a major media deception, respectively, in the Covid-19 crisis. Both stories rely upon newly released documents from the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic, which is investigating communications between the authors of the influential Nature <\/em>article from March, 2020, The proximal origin of SARS-CoV-2, <\/em>and health officials like Drs. Anthony Fauci, Francis Collins, and Jeremy Farrar.<\/p>\n

You can read the backstory involving these documents in the two pieces linked above. The key characters are Proximal Origin <\/em>co-authors Dr. Kristian Andersen, Dr. Robert Garry, Dr. Andrew Rambaut, Dr. Edward Holmes, and Dr. Ian Lipkin. Here, I thought Racket <\/em>readers might benefit from a simple list of illustrations showing key exchanges. You can draw your own conclusions:<\/p>\n

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  1. Jeremy Farrar, now of the WHO, not only edited the Nature <\/em>draft, he made a key change<\/strong> to its most quoted line:<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
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    1. Proximal Origin<\/em> Co-Author Kristian Andersen makes reference to a draft being ready to \u201cgo up the chain<\/strong>\u201d:<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
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      1. Dr. Garry mentions that some may not like an early draft because it \u201callows\u2026 the nCoV may have arisen during cell culture passage in a lab (their labs)<\/strong>.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
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        1. Farrar will \u201cpush Nature<\/strong>\u201d to get the article out \u201cASAP\u201d:<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
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          1. Andersen gets rejection letter<\/strong> from Nature, <\/em>with concern about \u201cwhether such a piece would feed or quash the conspiracy theories\u201d:<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
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            1. Andersen laments that a draft doesn\u2019t \u201crefute a lab origin<\/strong>\u201d which \u201cmust be considered as a serious scientific theory<\/strong>\u201d and \u201cnot dismissed out of hand as a conspiracy theory<\/strong>\u201d:<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
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              1. Co-author Ian Lipkin is not only \u201cvery worried about the furin cleavage site<\/strong>,\u201d but \u201chigh ups are as well, inc. intel<\/strong>\u201d:<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
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                1. \u201cClose enough<\/strong>?\u201d Co-authors propose cartoon image of EcoHealth Alliance\u2019s Peter Daszak:<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
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                  1. Dr. Holmes: \u201cGood idea not to mention all the other anomalies<\/strong> as this will make us look like loons.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
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                    1. Garry roots for Trump to \u201csay more dumb stuff about the origins of the China virus, possibly poisoning Sino-American relations for decades,\u201d then asks, \u201cDoes this make me a bad person<\/strong>?\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
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                      1. Holmes on news that Lipkin has contracted Covid-19: \u201cWell, that\u2019s made my day<\/strong>.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
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                        1. Andersen \u201cstill leaning towards<\/strong>\u201d cell culture hypothesis:<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
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                          1. \u201cThe furin would be the first thing to add<\/strong> for sure.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
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                            1. \u201cWhatever has happened here, the virus has become very quickly loaded for human transition<\/strong>.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
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                              1. Andersen: \u201cThe presence of furin moves me <\/strong>a posteriori <\/strong><\/em>slightly more towards accidental release<\/strong>..\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
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                                \"\"<\/a>Matthew C. Taibbi is a <\/i>U.S. author<\/em>, journalist, and podcaster. He has reported on finance, media, politics, and sports. He is a contributing editor for <\/i>Rolling Stone, author of several books, a winner of the National Magazine Award for commentary<\/i>, co-host of <\/i>Useful Idiots, and publisher of a newsletter on <\/i>Substack.<\/p>\n

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