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[Irreligious Atheist]

@Irreligious Atheist F* off with the Fox News bullshit.

I've talked about lab-leak.  It needs to be investigated more, but the evidence is against it.  As for the WHO, yes there are political hacks at the top, but the scientists themselves do good work.  The Wuhan investigation was good work.  They themselves pointed out areas that need more investigation.

Health authorities aren't compromised.  Trump tried to compromise the CDC, and it didn't work.  A scientist believes in coming as close as possible to truth.  You can't get scientists in on a conspiracy - one of them would blow the whistle.  There are examples in the past of corrupt scientists creating false data, and the rest of the community is very happy to bring them down.  I was a scientist at AT&T Bell Labs, and was told of one such fraudster there.  His colleagues brought him down within a year.

And, no Fauci didn't lie -- that's Fox News bullshit.  Fauci stood in the way of the Trump lies, and is forever an enemy of the Trumpers.  He's also not an all-seeing oracle.

https://theintercept.com/2021/09/06/new-...inese-lab/ And oh yeah, the media just interviewed Fauci but didn't even bring this report up to him and instead asked him about football stadiums. And people wonder why people go to youtube for their news haha?


The bat coronavirus grant provided EcoHealth Alliance with a total of $3.1 million, including $599,000 that the Wuhan Institute of Virology used in part to identify and alter bat coronaviruses likely to infect humans. Even before the pandemic, many scientists were concerned about the potential dangers associated with such experiments. The grant proposal acknowledges some of those dangers: “Fieldwork involves the highest risk of exposure to SARS or other CoVs, while working in caves with high bat density overhead and the potential for fecal dust to be inhaled.”

Alina Chan, a molecular biologist at the Broad Institute, said the documents show that EcoHealth Alliance has reason to take the lab-leak theory seriously. “In this proposal, they actually point out that they know how risky this work is. They keep talking about people potentially getting bitten — and they kept records of everyone who got bitten,” Chan said. “Does EcoHealth have those records? And if not, how can they possibly rule out a research-related accident?”

According to Richard Ebright, a molecular biologist at Rutgers University, the documents contain critical information about the research done in Wuhan, including about the creation of novel viruses. “The viruses they constructed were tested for their ability to infect mice that were engineered to display human type receptors on their cell,” Ebright wrote to The Intercept after reviewing the documents. Ebright also said the documents make it clear that two different types of novel coronaviruses were able to infect humanized mice. “While they were working on SARS-related coronavirus, they were carrying out a parallel project at the same time on MERS-related coronavirus,” Ebright said, referring to the virus that causes Middle East Respiratory Syndrome.