A bipartisan congressional investigation into the origins of COVID-19 has brought significant criticism to the chief of a US-funded nonprofit that allegedly funneled money for coronavirus research to a lab in Wuhan, China. Both Republicans and Democrats have expressed concerns over the handling of the funds and the potential implications on public health and safety. The investigation has also highlighted the role of various scientists and officials, including Jeremy Farrar and Peter Daszak, in possibly suppressing information related to the lab leak theory and their involvement in gain of function research. This raises questions about the transparency and integrity of the research process and the ethical violations in the publication of the Nature Medicine paper.
A small band of scientists…caused a pandemic…and…are using…science institutions…to sow doubt in the…roles of their colleagues…By not resisting such abuses of…scientific institutions…virologists are increasing…distrust of their discipline" https://t.co/JKfxE3JhK7 https://t.co/bifaYMTuuQ
Here's where I was on Covid in early May of 2020: https://t.co/eQtIw7dFzL
We need an international moratorium on gain of function research on deadly viruses The Covid virus was engineered in China and released from Wuhan Now we learn Chinese scientists have created a super virus with parts of Ebola that’s causing “horrific symptoms” ENOUGH https://t.co/dwuTqvJGVJ
🚨 “Chinese scientists have engineered a virus with parts of Ebola in a lab that killed a group of hamsters. A team of researchers at Hebei Medical University used a contagious disease of livestock and added a protein found in Ebola, which allows the virus to infect cells and… https://t.co/j1c4XY2v74
NEW from @thenatpulse: Govt Scientists Ignored 'Gobsmacking' Evidence of COVID Lab Leak. Government scientific advisors and offic...... READ ON: https://t.co/SX1alZ5ZMA
NEW: Govt Scientists Ignored 'Gobsmacking' Evidence of COVID Lab Leak. https://t.co/szNVcWwEId
EXCLUSIVE: Chinese scientists create mutant Ebola virus to skirt around biosafety rules https://t.co/7uIJ8SIjuQ https://t.co/j8OI3vRkdJ
Interesting group. Are they assembled to try to stop the spread of a deadly virus, using their knowledge and experience? No. They are assembled to discuss how to try to establish that the virus did not begin in a lab from US NIH gain of function research. SHAMEFUL, AMORAL,… https://t.co/uqBYdwmO6B
Richard Ebright: "Science writers at most major news outlets and science news outlets have spent the last four years obfuscating and misrepresenting facts about the origin of the pandemic." https://t.co/eWeiBdGc5x
"Today we know that the poisonous atmosphere around the lab-leak question was deliberately created by Anthony Fauci and…scientists involved in dangerous research at the Wuhan lab…[T]he case for banning gain-of-function research has never been stronger." https://t.co/FAC16AmvO7 https://t.co/DuYxao8iMA
"Today we know that the poisonous atmosphere around the lab-leak question was deliberately created by Anthony Fauci and a handful of scientists involved in dangerous research at the Wuhan lab. And the case for banning gain-of-function research has never been stronger."… https://t.co/NS9N2UhzyU
On this day in COVID history, May 5, 2020: Coronavirus: US allies tread lightly around Trump lab claims Source: BBC #COVID #OnThisDay https://t.co/2kUoUGpigF
US shared intel with UK showing 'high likelihood' of COVID-19 lab leak: report https://t.co/fqgwsegENY
COVID revealed the societal need for checks and balances over science From mismanagement of research risks to funders’ censorship of valid science, our scientific system did not adequately serve the interests of the public who funded it. https://t.co/oKoTBGLfTO
Dr. Robert Malone: "The CCP and the US government were the prime movers in engineering this and all the evidence points to the proposal that Daszak had written and submitted to DARPA, proposed the engineering of a virus. And this SARS-Cov-2 sequence has the hallmarks of exactly… https://t.co/cJMxvYKtxv
"From lauding China’s inhumane lockdown response, to denying human to human transmission, to suppressing critical discussion as to the origins of the virus, the WHO’s performance during the pandemic was dismal. Embarking on a process to supercharge its resources and influence… https://t.co/9N7bP3n8rs
“ There was a deliberate suppression of @JeremyFarrar’s involvement in the Nature Medicine paper, which is an ethical violation that needs to be addressed” Scientists are waking up to the unethical conduct of gain of function proponents who misled the world on the probable lab… https://t.co/BQaFN0OdE8
It was known early on that Covid was probably a lab leak. This matters because: 1. Public health officials, medical journals & media who denigrated truth-tellers are still in positions of influence (and should not be). 2. The entire @WHO pandemic agenda is based on natural…
Who made COVID origins a political issue in the US? Bipartisan members of the public were open to the possibility of a lab origin. The first attempts to politicize the issue seem to be Kristian Andersen, Eddie Holmes, Peter Daszak, and their cronies prompted by Daszak’s funders…
All the information we need to know is in the public domain. China was conducting risky research in subpar biosafety facilities. They acquired biological agents and methods from US actors who later conspired to cover up the probable lab origin (Daszak, Baric, et al).… https://t.co/PfRlpVl6eu
Why was @JeremyFarrar pushing the UK to oppose the lab leak theory? Farrar, as we all know, was a major proponent of gain of function research of concern and funded Daszak through CEPI. https://t.co/6w2zl59ELO
If a lab explodes due to chemicals in the lab, it’s not a lab accident 🙄 For the love of all that is good, what is wrong with this small subset of NIAID officials who funded work in Wuhan? How have none of them decided to come clean and own up to their mistakes funding… https://t.co/YLdZTfSqdR
In a congressional COVID origins investigation that mostly sees Republicans and Democrats divided, both parties had ample criticism for the chief of a US-funded nonprofit that funneled money for coronavirus research to a lab in Wuhan, China. ⬇️ https://t.co/Z3wRhtNIig
When medicine and public health return to science, its policies will work better, and people will trust it again. An anti-scientific leadership is entrenched in our institutions that does not want to see this happen. It must replaced.