Exclusive: How Amateur Sleuths
Broke the Wuhan Lab Story
and Embarrassed the Media
Newsweek,
by
Rowan Jacobsen
Original Article
Posted By: Judy W.,
6/3/2021 6:50:33 AM
For most of last year, the idea that the coronavirus pandemic could have been triggered by a laboratory accident in Wuhan, China, was largely dismissed as a racist conspiracy theory of the alt-right. (Snip) The reason for the sudden shift in attitudes is clear: over the weeks and months of the pandemic, the pileup of circumstantial evidence pointing to the Wuhan lab kept growing—until it became too substantial to ignore. The people responsible for uncovering this evidence are not journalists or spies or scientists. They are a group of amateur sleuths, with few resources except curiosity and a willingness to spend days combing the internet for clues.
People doing the jobs that journalists used to do...
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Bur Oak 6/3/2021 7:16:45 AM (No. 804485)
Newsweek publishes article admitting they are not competent, nor journalists but some amateurs are. This has been known for a long time.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
SweetPea3 6/3/2021 7:17:09 AM (No. 804486)
Bravo for the amateur sleuth team, but sorry, NOTHING ever embarasses today's demowhore media. Nothing.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Jesuslover54 6/3/2021 7:18:19 AM (No. 804489)
They certainly have my respect.
Same will happen with the mRNA vaccines, and the suppression of ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
John C 6/3/2021 7:22:09 AM (No. 804495)
Trump is right again.
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A true journalist is merely a scribe who reports the facts as they are. A writer who uses adjectives and adverbs is not a journalist, he is a novelist. The reason the NYT was once respected was because it was boring to read. Now investigative reporters are what every reporter should be. They should root out the facts as they report on them. But too many young people want to be Woodward and Bernstein who did more to destroy actual journalism than any communist could ever do. They made the young think that celebrity should be the reward for good journalism rather than knowing that you gave people an accurate picture of what happened. Almost the entire press has become a useless tool for the American people. We are definitely not served by these people who should truly be the servants and scribes of the people, but are instead a pathetic group of narcissists who only seek a name for themselves instead of the truth for the American people.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
JrSample 6/3/2021 7:33:16 AM (No. 804508)
So, this small group of ''amateur sleuths'' was doing the actual work that the establishment press was being paid to do. Instead of doing their jobs CNN, Time, NY Times, etc. were too busy covering it up and denying the facts in evidence. The racist allegation was especially stupid, considering that Chinese is not a race, but a nationality. It is unbelievable that none of the credulous boobs in the media even bothered to notice that of the entire vast land mass of Asia the outbreak of a mysterious new disease just happened to occur in a city that hosts two Chinese government virology labs. Those labs coincidentally were doing research on the exact same pathogen that causes the new disease. Noticing these facts is not racism, but common sense, which seems to be in short supply among journalists, being replaced by closed-minded group think and political bias.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
mean Gene 6/3/2021 8:01:09 AM (No. 804533)
Loved the article, bookmarked the D.R.A.S.T.I.C. Research link in there.
Lots more to come from these guys.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Clinger 6/3/2021 8:21:27 AM (No. 804549)
We need to leverage every revelation of democrat leftist lies and expose the truth about every pillar of their platform. Everything they push for in the name of "progress" is based on lies. Global warming, police and rednecks systemically hunting innocent black men, gun control, life will be better with other people in positions of power spending more of your money than you spending it, America was founded on racism, white supremacists are the greatest threat, Trump is a Russian asset, Benghazi was the act of overzealous movie critics.....
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
sanspeur 6/3/2021 8:36:06 AM (No. 804562)
The real reason for the true science “coming out” ? VSGPDJT has been robbed of his second term and this now ineffective “truth” will divert from the horror bid’n is inflicting upon us/US .The lab /funding origins were known just not acceptable to allow our president to be effective and worthy of our highest office .
The xicoms were worried about blame and because they own , truly own most of our influencers the real coup of shutdown , fear & scorn had to prevent true accountability
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
udanja99 6/3/2021 8:36:49 AM (No. 804564)
The most shocking thing about this story is that Twitter didn’t shut DRASTIC down at the very beginning.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
walcb 6/3/2021 9:17:11 AM (No. 804610)
So by Trump's very existence the theory that this was an engineered virus was dismissed. That sounds about right.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Jebediah 6/3/2021 9:37:53 AM (No. 804648)
If you care to look, the media is NOT embarrassed, just looking for another hook.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Strike3 6/3/2021 9:49:48 AM (No. 804667)
This conclusion did not take an Agatha Christie to reach. First cases of the bat flu break out a short distance from a lab working with bat flu. Dr. Fauci of the CDC claims to be an expert on the bat flu and has ties to Wuhan. Much like the gay flight attendant from Montreal who spread AIDS all along his flight path to San Francisco bath houses. Fauci proclaimed himself an expert back then too. He was wrong both times.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Lawsy0 6/3/2021 9:56:55 AM (No. 804674)
Sometimes I am so thankful to be an American that I tend to over-spiritualize the facts, but this one thing I know, a mighty right hand brought into being ''a group of amateur sleuths, with few resources'' as surely it brought about he parting of the Red Sea. Like fire and water, the World Wide Web is only as good/bad as those who use it.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
red1066 6/3/2021 10:15:20 AM (No. 804701)
The MSM is incapable of being embarrassed.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
PlayItAgain 6/3/2021 10:28:34 AM (No. 804729)
These DRASTIC folks have demonstrated that real journalists look at facts while the people who work at Newsweek just talk to each other.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
DVC 6/3/2021 11:51:39 AM (No. 804823)
Zero Hedge site published papers by "The Bat Woman" in Wuhan Institute of Virology in late Feb of 2020. I saw them, bounced them over to a cellular research biologist professor friend and he immediately said,"So, now we know it leaked out of their lab."
I've been certain that this came from Wuhan Institute for well over a year. Anyone who cared, made an effort and was smart enough to ask the right questions of honest tech folks could have known this at the same time.
They ARE the Enemedia. They are the greatest enemy that this country currently faces.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
DVC 6/3/2021 12:56:14 PM (No. 804885)
And clarification of #19 post. Keep in mind that for many, many months after that, the Enemedia were still pushing the clearly bogus story about 'the wet market', when it was clear that WIV had been doing research work on bat viruses, and publishing about it for years.
We didn't know about Dr. Fraud funding them to convert bat viruses into human viruses yet, but we DID have a damned good idea where it came from. And a SERIOUS intel agency or journalist would have grabbed ALL the tech papers by the bat woman and read them....and discover that they were writing papers about modifying bat viruses to give them the ability to infect humans.
Either the "intel agencies" are incompetent (entirely possible) or they knew over a year ago that Dr. Fraud had paid to have this virus created. Probably, they were helping him to weaponize this crisis to get rid of the President.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
WV.Hillbilly 6/3/2021 1:37:21 PM (No. 804917)
Science is never settled.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
stablemoney 6/3/2021 2:05:33 PM (No. 804954)
The only people dismissing the Wuhan lab story were the perpetrators, funders, and the left wing media. The people knew at the start it was a bioweapon, and said so, it being obvious to those with eyes. It was, and is, just as obvious as the stolen election, also done in front of our eyes. Notice to the leftist dismissers. We see you. You are not invisible. No amount of denials or redactions is keeping the people from knowing the truth.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
beancounter 6/3/2021 2:49:46 PM (No. 804997)
I don't see anything to support the claim that these "amateur sleuths" "broke the story". For one thing, the story has been out there since January 2020, so I'm not sure what breaking the story means. The recent interest in the origin was caused by the FOIA requests from WaPo and Buzzfeed.
I'm with Sundance on this. This release of the emails is intended to deflect attention from something else, otherwise the government would have stonewalled and finally released a heavily redacted version of the emails.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
JimBob 6/4/2021 5:11:25 AM (No. 805342)
This long article sure seems very similar to the long article I just read in "Vanity Fair' (linked by Citizen Free Press).
These two articles, and I see a couple others linked by L-Dotters..... Gee, all this suddenly comes to light TODAY?
I guess the WuFlu served it's purpose..... it was the tool used by the Left to push widespread Unsecured Mail-In Voting, which was ONE of the tools the Left used to steal the election from President Trump. Now, like every TOOL used the the Leftists..... as soon as the Tool has served it's purpose and given the Left a political advantage for the moment, the Tool (or the Person) is discarded like a used condom.
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This is a wonderful, fascinating story. The amateurs did research and presented their findings on Twitter. They formed a group and worked out their findings on Twitter threads. Scientists noticed them and some joined in. The result was that the truth overcame the big lie promoted by China, most of the U.S. government, and the media, and forced all of those, except China, to admit that Covid came from the Wuhan lab. In the process, let us hope they have brought down Fauci for good.