The Lab-Leak Theory: Inside the
Fight to Uncover COVID-19’s Origins
Vanity Fair,
by
Katherine Eban
Original Article
Posted By: Harlowe,
6/4/2021 1:08:25 AM
Gilles Demaneuf is a data scientist with the Bank of New Zealand in Auckland. He was diagnosed with Asperger’s Syndrome ten years ago, and believes it gives him a professional advantage. “I’m very good at finding patterns in data, when other people see nothing,”(Snip)Early last spring, as cities worldwide were shutting down to halt the spread of COVID-19, Demaneuf, 52, began reading up on the origins of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes the disease.(Snip)If the lab-leak explanation proves accurate, history may credit Demaneuf and his fellow doubters for breaking the dam--not that they have any intention of stopping.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Harlowe 6/4/2021 1:10:45 AM (No. 805291)
FTA: “On February 19, 2020, The Lancet, among the most respected and influential medical journals in the world, published a statement that roundly rejected the lab-leak hypothesis, effectively casting it as a xenophobic cousin to climate change denialism and anti-vaxxism. Signed by 27 scientists, the statement expressed “solidarity with all scientists and health professionals in China” and asserted: “We stand together to strongly condemn conspiracy theories suggesting that COVID-19 does not have a natural origin.”
“The Lancet statement effectively ended the debate over COVID-19’s origins before it began. To Gilles Demaneuf, following along from the sidelines, it was as if it had been “nailed to the church doors,” establishing the natural origin theory as orthodoxy. “Everyone had to follow it. Everyone was intimidated. That set the tone.”
“The statement struck Demaneuf as “totally nonscientific.” To him, it seemed to contain no evidence or information. And so he decided to begin his own inquiry in a “proper” way, with no idea of what he would find.
(Snip)
“Then came the revelation that the Lancet statement was not only signed but organized by a zoologist named Peter Daszak, who has repackaged U.S. government grants and allocated them to facilities conducting gain-of-function research--among them the WIV itself. David Asher, now a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute, ran the State Department’s day-to-day COVID-19 origins inquiry. He said it soon became clear that “there is a huge gain-of-function bureaucracy” inside the federal government.”
The article concludes stating that China bears responsibility for stonewalling investigators, but that the United States “deserves a healthy share of blame as well” which is attributed to President Trump and his allies having “less than zero credibility” for “their unprecedented track record of mendacity and race-baiting” as well as “enmeshed leading virologists in conflicts of interest at the exact moment their expertise was most desperately needed.”
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
NotaBene 6/4/2021 1:37:33 AM (No. 805302)
If you watch Stephen K. Bannon you know this was an engineered Chinese virus generated in the Wuhan Institute of Virology. President Trump asked for 10,000,000,000,000 (10 Trillion) in reparations from the CCP today.
In other news, Ralph Baric, the inventor of gain-of-function engineered Coronaviruses and mentor of the Wuhan Batlady, was rewarded with election to the prestigious National Academy of Sciences in 2021.
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Quite the long but interesting reading..
And that guy named Peter Daszak is being investigated ..Scott Hounsell wrote an article on Red State today and mentioned Katherine Evans’ long essay...
Thanks for posting OP..I printed it.
Can’t wait until we get the TRUTH!!!
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Terry_tr6 6/4/2021 2:23:46 AM (No. 805315)
astounding how every mention of trump ia wrapped in a blanket of disgust at his racism and ignorance and blame for causing rhe problem by his umfortunately precient statements
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
The Remnants 6/4/2021 3:04:59 AM (No. 805317)
Long before Vanity Fair, you could find great investigative reporting on the subject at The National Pulse with Raheem Kassam and Natalie Winters.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
JimBob 6/4/2021 4:28:15 AM (No. 805323)
Well, I read the article. It's long, but I found it interesting..... I wonder how much of it is TRUE?
What strikes me is how most of the article sounds serious and reasonable, but every time it mentions President Trump, the SPITTLE flies off the page and I have to stop and wipe if from my face. The jarring change of tone just does not ring true. It's as if one serious person wrote the article, then someone else, a real hate-filled Looney Leftist, went in and inserted every nasty thing they could think to say about president Trump. Was this really the same person writing the whole article? Is the writer trying to brown-nose and curry favor with the Leftists while at the same time admitting that there's a good chance that President Trump and the 'far Right conspiracists' were correct after all?
It WILL be interesting to learn the Truth, if we ever do.
In any case, the WuFlu served it's purpose..... it enabled the widespread unsecure mail-in voting that was ONE of the tools the Leftists used to steal the election. And, as with any other thing -or person- USED by the Left, as soon as the purpose of the moment is achieved, the Tool is discarded like a used condom.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
shredmaster 6/4/2021 6:52:23 AM (No. 805373)
#6 has it right. This is the Lefts attempt to say Trump was right but it's still all his fault because Orange Man Bad.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Bur Oak 6/4/2021 8:18:51 AM (No. 805469)
Vanity Fair is late to the parade. They can follow the horses.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
HotRod 6/4/2021 8:45:07 AM (No. 805497)
Slowly, slowly, the truth emerges- despite the best efforts of the Chinese, democrats, and all the far-left traitors.
First, it was an act of nature, where the virus naturally jumped from dead bats, and possibly other varmits, and no one was really to blame.
Then, when the virus began to spread, President Trump took action to mitigate the spread. Meanwhile, Fauci asserted that there was no reason to do much, and that masks were not effective. President Trump was mocked and called a racist, etc.
Now, we are seeing the lies and political crimes against the citizens being confirmed by multiple sources- some are being vindicated for telling us about it all along.
We are now starting to see evidence that the virus was weaponized and purposely employed for political benefit. The left denies it, but they are in a panic.
The truth is like the tide: They can fight it and try to stop it in various ways, but they will fail!
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
NorthernDog 6/4/2021 9:07:02 AM (No. 805534)
It's like an arson investigator saying the can of kerosene, matches, and oily rags found at the site of a massive fire had absolutely no connection because he didn't like the person who found the evidence.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
LadyHen 6/4/2021 9:08:45 AM (No. 805536)
Fta: ...under the cloud of Donald Trump’s toxic racism, which contributed to an alarming wave of anti-Asian violence in the U.S.
Yeah I tried but this article is so filled with sputtering moon bat crazy Trump hate and absolute slanderous opinions with zero proof like the one above, why should I believe anything this militant leftist broad has to say? There may be some good stuff in it but then again, she is a compromised source.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
DVC 6/4/2021 9:21:43 AM (No. 805558)
I stopped reading, disgusted by her hateful, lying rhetoric against President Trump.
I think she was assigned to toss Dr. Fraud to the wolves to protect the higher ups who paid him to do this job.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Laotzu 6/4/2021 10:41:34 AM (No. 805660)
There is still a Biden Executive Order from January prohibiting federal employees from using the term "China Virus."
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Ribicon 6/4/2021 3:05:36 PM (No. 805949)
Radical leftist magazine of course blames President Trump, but it's notable that the laboratory creation of the virus, with US assistance and funding, is being covered in mainstream publications. Maybe we're being lubed up for a very profitable hot war with Our Most Favored Friends, which was built up via massive trade imbalances with western nations, primarily the USA. Do we get the leaders we deserve?
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