Yet more evidence that the so-called 'lab leak theory' is utterly absurd, an entirely confected piece of nonsense born of the same anti-intellectual regressive populism that's poisoned every part of every political discourse over the last decade.

#covid #LabLeak #LabLeakTheory #LabLeakConspiracy

https://today.ucsd.edu/story/recent-pandemic-viruses-jumped-to-humans-without-prior-adaptation-uc-san-diego-study-finds

Recent Pandemic Viruses Jumped to Humans Without Prior Adaptation, UC San Diego Study Finds

There is no evolutionary signal suggesting that these viruses were being “pre-adapted” for humans prior to their outbreaks. Instead, measurable changes in selection typically appeared only after sustained transmission began in people.

Lab Leak: The True Origins of Covid-19

Covid 19 Origins - Lab Leak THE ORIGIN “The Proximal Origin of SARS-CoV-2” publication — which was used repeatedly by public health officials and the

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Africa: The 'Lab-Leak Origin' of Covid-19. Fact or Fiction?: [The Conversation Africa] In a January 24 interview with the far-right-wing outlet Breitbart News, newly appointed CIA director John Ratcliffe stated that assessing intelligence on a potential Wuhan lab leak was a top priority. The following day, The New York Times reported that the agency had shifted from an undecided stance to favoring a possible… http://newsfeed.facilit8.network/TJCtPm #Covid19 #LabLeakTheory #FactOrFiction #WuhanLab #JohnRatcliffe
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In light of the recent conclusion by the U.S. Congress that the #SARSCoV2 pandemic may have started due to a lab leak, here’s a podcast where virologists and epidemiologists discuss and debunk the arguments supporting the #LabLeakTheory.

https://www.microbe.tv/twiv/twiv-special-how-the-pandemic-began/

(Links to Google/Apple Podcasts episodes are on the webpage. In the footnotes, there is also a list of other relevant episodes that you might want to listen to if you’re interested in the topic.)

#COVID19 #Science

TWiV Special: How the pandemic began in Nature, in 5 key points

TWiV rebuts a recent opinion piece which falsely claims that the COVID-19 pandemic began in a lab (it began in Nature). This material has been extracted from TWiV 1121.

This Week in Virology | A podcast about viruses - the kind that make you sick
“Chan notes that at the start of the outbreak, Shi ‘initially wondered if the novel coronavirus had come from her laboratory,’…[but] leaves out the vital context that…in response to her worry, [Shi] went through the lab’s records to check if it could have been the source, and found that it couldn’t have been.”
#COVID19 #LabLeakTheory #SARS_CoV2
https://fair.org/home/nyt-unleashes-the-lab-leak-theory-on-the-public-debate-once-again/
NYT Unleashes the Lab Leak Theory on the Public Debate Once Again

A Times guest essay recapitulates the misrepresentation, selective quotation and faulty logic that has characterized so much of the pro—lab leak side of the Covid origin discourse.

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CIA bribed its own COVID-19 origin team to reject lab-leak theory, anonymous whistleblower claims
Agency denies allegation as congressional panel demands information from CIA probe into pandemic’s start
. . . Andersen said that “several scientists were part of their team and they knew their stuff.” He asserts that the new whistleblower allegation “obviously is bullshit.”
https://www.science.org/content/article/cia-bribed-its-own-covid-19-origin-team-reject-lab-leak-theory-anonymous-whistleblower #COVIDー19 #CIA #LabLeakTheory #whistleblower #bribe #YesItsARepublican
US Government officials believe that patient zero was a Wuhan lab worker, strengthening the case for a lab leak.

Source: https://open.substack.com/pub/public/p/first-people-sickened-by-covid-19?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
#COVID19 #covid #wuhaninstitutevirology #lableak #lableaktheory
First People Sickened By COVID-19 Were Chinese Scientists At Wuhan Institute Of Virology, Say US Government Sources

The three scientists were engaged in “gain-of-function” research on SARS-like coronaviruses when they fell ill

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you have the admit the #lableaktheory is plausible