Is the sudden publicising of the “lab leak theory” a sign of the end or the beginning of something new?

Is the sudden publicising of the “lab leak theory” a sign of the end or the beginning of something new?

Rhoda Wilson

Corporate media has suddenly become awash with the “lab leak theory.”  There has been overwhelming evidence for some time that covid was manufactured in a laboratory using gain-of-function because of its highly unusual genetic structure. Whether we think covid is the main threat or the vaccine is, they both came from a biotech laboratory carrying out genetic experiments.

However, the internet and the media are alive with uninformed mocking accusations of bias and irrelevance.  As a last resort, some people are arguing that the origin of covid is irrelevant. At this point, it is clear that the discussion has drifted from science to the realm of political allegiance and unqualified opinions curated by public relations experts working for giant corporations and somewhat shady government interests.

It is good to be aware of disingenuous attempts to sanitise the sad history of the pandemic origins and response.  But we must also be awake to the knock of the next virus on our door fuelled by state-sponsored fear-mongering and the risks of uncontrolled biotech experimentation.

You have probably seen renewed discussion of the origin of covid in the media. As reported by the Wall Street Journal, the US Department of Energy (“DoE”) has come down firmly on the side of a laboratory origin of covid-19 from the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China. Speaking on Fox News, the former director of US National Intelligence John Ratcliffe commented:

“The idea that covid-19 has a natural origin has always been at odds with our intelligence…it is due to a lab leak. From the beginning, scientists have not been able to explain why there is a furin cleavage site within the genetic makeup of covid-19…This is something that happens when scientists insert a snippet of manipulated material into viruses.”

UK commentator Piers Morgan responded reassuringly:

“I think that the truth is that science, by its very nature, will evolve with facts. And so you have to give them some leeway for that … So, I do think in the future, we’ve got to examine the science. You’ve got to listen to all ranges of opinions, and people have got to stop being cancelled on social media for raising concerns, which now look like they were absolutely right.”

Popular US Fox News commentator Tucker Carlson went further in a twenty-minute excoriation of the Biden administration’s covid policy. Carlson wanted to know: has the administration’s policy to fund biotechnology research in China changed? (Watch Carlson HERE, begins at 3 minutes).

Some, like late-night talk show host Stephen Colbert, have wrongly accused the DoE of lacking sufficient qualifications to decide on the lab leak theory, saying “stay in your lane” (is Colbert even vaguely qualified himself?). In fact, as the authoritative Washington Post reports the DoE employed highly qualified and skilled scientists – including members of the Energy Department’s Z-Division, which since the 1960s has been involved in secretive investigations of nuclear, chemical and biological weapons threats by US adversaries, including China and Russia – who undertook detailed scientific assessment of genetic evidence as well as using access to classified information. They went through the kind of discovery process and critical thinking that mathematical biologist Alex Washburne hints at HERE and HERE. After the dust of misinformation had cleared the DoE’s conclusion that there was a lab leak was inevitable.

You may think, as we have done at the Hatchard Report since the first genetic analysis of covid was completed (see HERE and HERE), that the argument is settled, but you would be surprised. The internet and the media are alive with uninformed mocking accusations of bias and irrelevance on the part of the DoE. Stupidly describing the DoE as whining. At this point in time, it is clear that the discussion has drifted from science to the realm of political allegiance and unqualified opinions curated by public relations experts working for giant corporations and somewhat shady government interests.

It was the job of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI”) to investigate how the truth was being manipulated and yesterday they also came out firmly and publicly on the side of the lab leak theory (it’s not a theory, there is overwhelming evidence). Early in 2021, a highly qualified geneticist friend wrote to me that he and many of his colleagues were sure that covid was engineered in a lab because of its highly unusual genetic structure, but he added the codicil: please don’t mention my name. This was going on all over the world in differing forms. Some of them were verging on the corrupt.

Among damning evidence the FBI has uncovered, Kristian Andersen, a British scientist, emailed Anthony Fauci on 31 January 2020, saying the virus looks lab-made. According to this authoritative thread, Fauci called him on 1 February 2020 and ordered him to publicly say it wasn’t lab-made, which he did. Fauci then gave him a $1.88M grant, +$16.5M funding. US officials were manipulating information on a global scale, you decide if that is legal or moral. According to the New York Post, Dr. Fauci is keeping very quiet at this stage following the DoE and FBI revelations.

All this information is in the public domain, but still, the BBC published two dismissive articles on its front page on Thursday. One covered the FBI announcement but said the FBI conclusion was not backed by any evidence (????). The other was an explainer article entitled ‘Covid origin: Why the Wuhan lab-leak theory is so disputed’. A more blatant attempt to muddy the waters of truth could not be imagined. The article forgot (???) to discuss the genetic evidence that clearly points to gene-edited inserts in the virus genome.

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