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Four years after the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic in the Chinese city of Wuhan‚ what do we know about the origin of the SARSCOV2 virus&;#63; We were presented at the outset with two competing theories: natural-origin spillover from animals to humans and accidental lab leak. And at the outset‚ a cadre of elite scientists passionately argued that the evidence overwhelmingly favored a natural origin. With comparable fervor‚ they dismissed the possibility that SARSCOV2 leaked from a lab as a “conspiracy theory.” With a few notable exceptions‚ mainstream media outlets and the larger scientific community vehemently nodded in agreement. NPR said the lab-leak theory was “debunked”; Vanity Fair called it a “right-wing coronavirus conspiracy”; and Facebook banned posts suggesting the virus may have been manufactured in a lab. Four years later‚ that narrative has begun to crack—and rightly so. It was always a lie—one of the most consequential lies of the 21st century. Like all great lies‚ it perfectly inverted the truth: The evidence supporting natural spillover has always been thin. Conversely‚ the evidence pointing to a lab leak has always been compelling and has grown substantially more persuasive with time. A coalition of elite scientists and complicit media outlets have proven remarkably effective in suppressing the truth for this long. But in recent months‚ as congressional investigations have intensified‚ honest scientists and journalists have begun challenging the false consensus with greater alacrity as new revelations have tipped the scales toward lab leak even further. &;#63;BREAKING&;#63;EcoHealth Alliance President Dr. Peter Daszak will testify at a public hearing on May 1‚ 2024.Dr. Daszak must answer questions about COVID-19 origins‚ dangerous gain-of-function research‚ and his relationship with the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China. pic.twitter.com/CyTGoEBvDr— Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic (@COVIDSelect) April 4‚ 2024 The clique of elite scientists propagating the natural-spillover theory have always had several problems on their hands. Despite an exhaustive four-year search‚ no intermediate animal host has ever been found. The closest natural relatives to SARSCOV2 are found in bats in Laos and in Yunnan province over 600 miles away. Two of the more popular arguments advanced by spillover partisans—that pandemic began at the Huanan wet market in Wuhan and that it jumped to humans from raccoon dogs and pangolins—have withered under scrutiny. The academic papers supporting both arguments have been hollowed out by fatal challenges to the underlying data‚ methods‚ or conclusions. To date‚ a natural-spillover explanation for the COVID-19 pandemic remains little more than a distant theoretical possibility. The Lab-Leak Theory The most obvious piece of incriminating evidence for the lab-leak theory has always been the existence of a biolab in Wuhan just miles away from the initial outbreak. This wasn’t just any old biolab—the Wuhan Institute of Virology was an advanced research facility studying coronaviruses that “collaborated on publications and secret projects with China’s military.” And this wasn’t just any old coronavirus research—the Wuhan Institute of Virology was conducting the riskiest viral research in the world. Gain-of-function research of concern—which can make viruses more transmissible to humans‚ ostensibly in order to create vaccines—was so risky‚ and the chance of causing an accidental pandemic was so great‚ that the U.S. government banned funding for this research in 2014. Nevertheless‚ U.S. agencies continued funding this dangerous research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology‚ even before the moratorium was officially lifted in December 2017. This was a spectacularly irresponsible decision. U.S. authorities had visited the institute and found it to have wildly inadequate safety protocols. In a truly Strangelovian twist‚ we later learned that the institute was conducting virus research that theoretically could end human civilization in BSL-2 conditions—roughly the equivalent of a dentist’s office safety protocols. “That’s screwed up‚” responded Dr. Ian Lipkin‚ an early proponent of natural spillover‚ after learning of the Wuhan Institute of Virology’s safety protocols. “People should not be looking at bat viruses in BSL-2 labs. My view has changed.” As well it should have. Mere miles from ground zero of the coronavirus pandemic‚ in chronically unsafe conditions‚ a government lab collaborating with the Chinese military was doing extremely risky research on coronaviruses—including the closest known relatives of SARSCOV2. Brace yourself‚ there’s more. The Chinese Cover-Up If the COVID-19 pandemic wasn’t the product of a lab leak‚ one might reasonably expect the Chinese government to provide a degree of cooperation with the international community‚ if for no other reason than to clear its name. China‚ of course‚ did the exact opposite. It swiftly arrested doctors and whistleblowers. It ordered labs to transfer or destroy any related viral samples and “not to publish any information related to the unknown disease.” And shirking its obligations to international health regulations‚ it refused to provide key data to international investigators. When the World Health Organization requested to do an audit of the Wuhan Institute of Virology and the wet market‚ China again refused. It also refused to turn over vital pieces of evidence‚ such as the blood samples of the lab workers or the animals at the wet market. Adding to the mystery‚ a few months before the acknowledged outbreak in December 2019‚ “several researchers inside the [institute] became sick.” The Wuhan Institute of Virology changed its security protocols‚ ordered an expensive new air incinerator and ventilation system‚ and—in the middle of the night—mysteriously took down an online database of 22‚000 bat virus samples. And let’s not overlook the fact that Beijing was inexplicably able to produce a vaccine in record time‚ with a patent filed in February 2020. Most scientists believe the timeline to create a vaccine implausibly short—unless someone in China had access to SARSCOV2 before December 2019. Notably‚ this mystery vaccine was created by a Chinese military scientist. Rather than being hailed as a hero for creating a vaccine with improbable speed‚ Zhou Yusen suspiciously died months later and was virtually scrubbed from the record by the Chinese Communist Party. At least one report claimed he “fell” to his death from the rooftop of the Wuhan institute. In sum‚ rather than providing any semblance of cooperation or transparency on the origins of the deadliest event of the 21st century‚ China acted pretty much exactly as you would expect from a paranoid communist country trying to cover up a lab leak. Brace yourself‚ there’s more. The Smoking Gun This list of giant red flags grew even longer with the discovery and examination of the “DEFUSE” proposal‚ submitted to the Pentagon in 2018 by a group of organizations led by Peter Daszak and his EcoHealth Alliance. Under lab examination‚ SARSCOV2 was always a bit of a mystery‚ adorned with some peculiar characteristics. The virus appeared better designed to target humans than animals‚ “fully optimized for interaction with the human ACE2 receptor” and “consistent with a laboratory optimized coronavirus‚ which entered the human population fully evolved.” An even more consequential peculiarity was the presence of a Furin Cleavage Site (FCS)‚ which has the unfortunate property of enhancing a virus’s transmissibility. The presence of an FCS was particularly puzzling because none of the more than 1‚500 known sarbecoviruses (the subgenus of SARSCOV2) has ever been found in nature with an FCS. On the other hand‚ it’s not uncommon for virologists to insert an FCS while doing gain-of-function experiments in a lab. Out of 1535 known sarbecoviruses only 1 has a furin cleavage site and it showed up the year after scientists first proposed putting a fcs into a sarbecovirus for the first time and in one of the two labs that were party to that proposal. https://t.co/lW4d9hvUG6— Matt Ridley (@mattwridley) October 11‚ 2023 For a while‚ it looked like the presence of an FCS in SARSCOV2‚ located at the S1/S2 boundary‚ would remain a vexing‚ unsolved mystery. Then we learned the details of the $14 million DEFUSE proposal. One year before the pandemic‚ Daszak and his collaborators requested funding from the Pentagon to conduct gain-of-function research at the Wuhan institute. Specifically‚ they proposed inserting an FCS into a coronavirus at the S1/S2 boundary—precisely the never-before-seen characteristics present in SARSCOV2 that aided the virus’s rapid transmission. The Pentagon wisely declined to fund the DEFUSE proposal‚ but a growing pile of evidence suggests this research went ahead in some form anyway—or was already being conducted—and likely escaped from the Wuhan lab and started the COVID-19 pandemic. “If you study hundreds of different bat viruses at BSL-2 [safety protocols]‚ your luck may eventually run out‚” admits one of the godfathers of gain-of-function research and a frequent Wuhan institute collaborator‚ Dr. Ralph Baric. Of the two possible theories of COVID-19’s origins‚ only one stands atop a mountain of increasingly persuasive evidence. Natural-spillover proponents have nevertheless sought to dismiss this damning indictment as merely a chain of misinterpreted coincidences. The proximity of the Wuhan institute‚ the gain-of-function research‚ the dead People’s Liberation Army scientists‚ the mysterious vaccines‚ the dentist office security protocols‚ the Furin Cleavage Site‚ the deleted databases‚ the silenced doctors‚ the DEFUSE proposal‚ the lack of an animal host are all just … coincidences. Any one of them would have been a legitimate cause for inquiry and concern. A dozen of them‚ by the laws of probability and basic common sense‚ constitute a smoking gun. The Real Conspiracy This all raises a final question: How could this group of elite scientists have gotten this paramount question so horribly wrong&;#63; The inevitable answer is: They didn’t. They weren’t wrong. They were lying. We know from leaked internal communications that some of the same scientists most ardently dismissing the lab-leak theory took one look at SARSCOV2 and concluded it was‚ in the words of biologist Kristian Andersen‚ “so friggin’ likely” the virus escaped from a Wuhan lab “because they were already doing this type of work and the molecular data is fully consistent with that scenario.” The virus seemed “pre-adapted from the get-go‚” observed virologist Edward Holmes. The presence of an unprecedented Furin Cleavage Site in SARSCOV2 kept scientist Bob Garry “up all night.” The SARSCOV2 genome was “inconsistent with evolutionary theory‚” concluded Dr. Andersen on Jan. 31‚ 2020. One day later‚ some of the same scientists held a phone call with National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases head Dr. Anthony Fauci and rapidly did an about-face‚ condemning the lab-leak theory as a “crackpot” conspiracy and viciously attacking anyone questioning their fabricated consensus. A larger network of scientists and science journalists quickly fell in line. The cover-up had begun. Dr. Anthony Fauci‚ then-director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases‚ gives the thumbs up after receiving his first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine on Dec. 22‚ 2020‚ in Bethesda‚ Maryland. Fauci months earlier had given thumbs up to efforts to discredit the lab-leak theory of COVID-19’s origin. But the preponderance of evidence since has discredited his preferred explanation of a natural origin for the virus. (Photo: Patrick Semansky/Getty Images) The Cover-Up A tight network of elite scientists soon engaged in a remarkably effective effort to deceive the world. They collectively briefed the U.S. government‚ the World Health Organization‚ and any media outlets that would listen: The science was settled; this wasn’t a lab leak. Some of them went on to publish the now-infamous “Proximal Origins” paper in March 2020 in Nature Medicine‚ ranked as the most impactful science article of that year. “We do not believe that any type of laboratory-based scenario is plausible‚” the paper’s authors asserted. Their efforts to discredit the lab-leak theory were aided substantially by Daszak‚ the EcoHealth Alliance president. He had been involved in multiple collaborations with the Wuhan Institute of Virology‚ including the now-infamous DEFUSE proposal which included a veritable blueprint for creating SARSCOV2. The experiments were so dangerous‚ and the Wuhan institute’s safety protocols so poor‚ Daszak intentionally sought to deceive the Pentagon by suggesting the research would be conducted in the U.S.—not in China. (Shockingly‚ Daszak and EcoHealth Alliance are still receiving tens of millions of dollars in U.S. government research grants‚ including a seven-figure grant awarded in December 2022.) EcoHealth Alliance currently is receiving $50+ million in Department of Defense and NIH grants‚ despite having defrauded the Department of Defense‚ having double-billed NIH and USAID‚ and likely having caused a pandemic that killed 20 million and cost $25 trillion. pic.twitter.com/QTKjAKzS7g— Richard H. Ebright (@R_H_Ebright) December 23‚ 2023 After the pandemic outbreak‚ Daszak conveniently avoided disclosing his personal connections to risky coronavirus research at the Wuhan institute as he organized and co-drafted a letter in The Lancet to “strongly condemn conspiracy theories suggesting that COVID-19 does not have a natural origin.” “The idea that this virus escaped from a lab is just pure baloney. It’s simply not true‚” Daszak proclaimed in an April 2020 interview. Daszak also managed to get himself appointed to join the World Health Organization’s investigation into COVID-19’s origins. The investigation produced a March 2021 report that concluded it was “extremely unlikely” SARSCOV2 leaked from a lab. (Under growing scrutiny‚ the second phase of the WHO investigation was “quietly shelved.”) Daszak also positioned himself to lead The Lancet’s “COVID-19 Commission.” The following year‚ chairman Dr. Jeffrey Sachs disbanded the commission over “concerns about the conflicts of interest of one its members and his ties … to the Wuhan Institute of Virology.” Sachs later lamented how Dazsak was “not telling me the truth” and was “filled with misdirection‚” admitting “it’s time to ‘fess up [SARSCOV2] might have come out of a lab.” “We don’t have definitive evidence of either hypothesis‚” Sachs posited. “But what we do have is definitive evidence that officialdom has tried to keep our eyes away from the lab leak.” Fauci was also working overtime to deflect attention from the lab-leak theory. In multiple bouts of congressional testimony‚ Fauci engaged in semantic games to insist the U.S. wasn’t involved in funding dangerous gain-of-function research at the Wuhan institute. (It was.) On several occasions‚ Fauci publicly argued the evidence “very‚ very strongly” leans toward natural origin. (It doesn’t.) Those challenging Fauci on these questions‚ he famously told CBS’ “Face the Nation‚” were “really criticizing science‚ because I represent science.” Fauci also tried to explain away China’s stunning lack of cooperation with the international community and elaborate cover-up that cost the world countless lives by blaming the Trump administration’s “accusatory nature” for China’s deadly obfuscation. Anthony Fauci says &;quot;the anti-China approach that clearly the Trump administration had right from the very beginning&;quot; is why the Chinese Communist Party still has not been honest about COVID's origin. pic.twitter.com/9rxxI8aFze— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) November 27‚ 2022 Fauci also led an effort to brief other U.S. government agencies on COVID-19’s origins‚ reportedly leaning on the intelligence community‚ the White House‚ and State Department to conclude a lab leak was unlikely. One whistleblower later claimed Fauci’s “opinion substantially altered the conclusions that were subsequently drawn.” Oddly‚ U.S. intelligence agencies proved largely split and indecisive in their conclusions‚ with nearly all submitting “low confidence” assessments it was either a lab leak‚ natural origin‚ or the evidence was inconclusive. Only one agency had a “medium confidence” assessment in either theory: the FBI is convinced SARSCOV2 is the product of a lab leak. So‚ too‚ is former Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe‚ who explained in 2023 that “a lab leak is the only explanation credibly supported by our intelligence‚ by science and by common sense.” The Conspiracy This was the real conspiracy. Many of the elite scientists seeking to discredit the lab-leak theory knew all along it was the most credible explanation. Not only did they intentionally deceive the world‚ they slandered any scientist or journalist who challenged them. For daring to question this fraudulent consensus‚ scientist Alina Chan was viciously attacked as an “intellectually dishonest‚ manipulative conspiracist with very little subject matter expertise who has … compensated for her mediocrity by pursuing personal profit.” So‚ why did the scientific establishment act with such disgrace and deception&;#63; Their motivations were multi-causal. First‚ some of these scientists were direct collaborators with the Wuhan Institute of Virology. Dr. Peter Hotez had channeled U.S. government funds to five coronavirus research projects conducted by the Chinese Academy of Military Medical Sciences and the Wuhan institute between 2016 and 2019. Daszak’s DEFUSE proposal included a veritable blueprint for SARSCOV2. They were rightly concerned they could be held personally accountable. Hotez channelled NIH funds‚ through subcontracts on NIH grant AI098775‚ to at least five 2016-2019 coronavirus projects with Academy of Military Medical Sciences researcher Zhou Yusen and at least one 2016-2019 coronavirus project with WIV researcher Shi Zhengli. pic.twitter.com/IdtzGCaz8q— Richard H. Ebright (@R_H_Ebright) December 28‚ 2023 Second‚ some of these scientists had for years been quietly waging a behind-the-scenes battle to defend risky gain-of-function research over the considerable objections of other virologists. If the pandemic was‚ in fact‚ the product of a lab leak‚ it might deal a fatal blow to their crusade to preserve this controversial research. Even worse‚ from their perspective‚ it would mark the death knell for scientific cooperation with China. Third‚ some of these scientists had strong financial and reputational incentives to suppress the lab-leak theory‚ especially after Fauci weighed in. Andersen‚ for example‚ had a roughly $9 million grant pending with Fauci’s government agency at the time—a grant that was approved two months after he co-authored the seminal academic paper supporting natural spillover‚ “Proximal Origins.” “There were people that did not talk about [the lab leak]‚ because they feared for their careers‚” Dr. Filippa Lentzos of King’s College in London later admitted. “They feared for their grants.” Fourth and finally‚ the lab-leak debate was hyperpoliticized from the outset. Once President Donald Trump suggested the Wuhan lab might be responsible‚ scientists felt compelled to pick a side. Supporting with the lab-leak theory was “siding with President Trump” and nothing—not science‚ honesty‚ morality‚ credibility‚ or public health—was more important than opposing the “racist” conspiracy theory adopted by Trump‚ even if it was likely to be true. The Conclusion Presented the evidence objectively‚ the American people can now decide for themselves whether the natural origin theory of COVID-19 represents the most implausible string of coincidences imaginable or the lie of the century. Originally published at RealClearWorld.com The post The Lie of the Century: The ‘Natural’ Origin of COVID-19 appeared first on The Daily Signal.

The revolution will be catered. That’s what an anti-Israel student activist at Columbia University seemed to be saying in a video that went viral on social media Tuesday. Columbia Ph.D. candidate Johannah King-Slutzky‚ who is studying “theories of the imagination &; poetry as interpreted through a Marxian lens”—yes‚ this is real—went on camera and demanded that students who had violently entered and occupied Hamilton Hall receive free food. Reporter grills Columbia student after she demands the university help feed protestors occupying Hamilton Hall:&;quot;It seems like you're saying‚ 'we want to be revolutionaries‚ we want to take over this building‚ now would you please bring us some food'.&;quot; pic.twitter.com/vNczSAM4T1— The Post Millennial (@TPostMillennial) April 30‚ 2024 King-Slutzky said that Columbia had an obligation to give food to students paying for meal plans. She also used an old trick used by toddlers across the globe‚ saying‚ “Do you want students to die of starvation or dehydration or even get severely ill‚ even if they disagree with you&;#63;” The students had been occupying the building for less than a day at that point. I only wonder what their comrades in Stalingrad would have thought. Lest you think this is just a one-off situation‚ Fox News obtained a list of demands from protesters at UCLA. It contained all kinds of laughable items‚ among them gluten-free and vegan food. NEW: @FoxNews has obtained a Google Doc w/ a list of needs that protesters at the UCLA camp are requesting‚ including:– Vegan &; gluten free food – “Super bright” flashlights w/ strobe– Rope &; zip ties – Helmets‚ shields‚ &; wood– Lotion‚ “NO sunscreen”– Knee &; elbow pads pic.twitter.com/XUL6ZbtoLy— Bill Melugin (@BillMelugin_) May 1‚ 2024 They notably specified “NO bagels.” Hmm. This phenomenon of absurdly entitled student mobs is worth examining. The protesters really do expect school administrations—who they say they fervently oppose—to feed and cater to them. How is that possible&;#63; Are they really that out of touch&;#63; Actually‚ no‚ they aren’t. They are merely responding to the environment and incentives that are now inherent to the higher education ecosystem. School administrations have hesitantly begun restoring order on their campuses after months of vacillation‚ but that’s not because they are hostile to the demonstrators. Far from it. As some have mentioned on social media‚ it’s more like a public sector union negotiation. Both the politicians and the unions may “negotiate” the deal‚ but they are really on the same side. It’s the taxpayers—or in the case of the universities‚ parents paying exorbitant tuitions‚ taxpayers and donors—who are really left holding the bag. In some cases‚ the protesters are getting significant concessions‚ like at Northwestern‚ where the school will now start giving full-ride scholarships to some Palestinian students. Throw a tantrum‚ get some stuff. That’s how this works. Columbia finally “cracked down” on its protesters by threatening suspensions‚ then giving them ample time to vacate before sending in the cops. But suspensions should have been on the table to begin with. Breaking into a building and fighting with the workers inside surely should receive more punishment than the equivalent of a tut-tutting. This maintenance worker has more courage and integrity than the entire Biden administration‚ Hochul administration and Adams administration… combined. https://t.co/5MW8F38zW6 via @nypmetro pic.twitter.com/3Bz1ulBkvG— Steve McLaughlin (@SteveMcNY) April 30‚ 2024 As we’ve seen time and again‚ those who engage in disruptions on college campuses—or in Democrat-run cities—have gotten off with the lightest of punishments‚ and in many cases aren’t punished at all. At the same time‚ those even accused of committing a crime that’s at the top of the Left’s social agenda on campus won’t even receive basic due process before being expelled and having their lives upended. Disruptive students advocating for various left-wing causes‚ even ones who carry out the most obviously unlawful acts‚ just don’t fear repercussions. In fact‚ they have a reason to assume that their schools will literally cater to their needs like the viral Columbia student suggested. After all‚ they’ve been rewarded for their ideology and activism on every rung of the ladder that got them into a prestigious school. Higher education aggressively promotes students who participate in “action civics.” It looks good on a resume. Action civics is a meal ticket into higher education‚ which is increasingly abandoning more measurable standards‚ such as testing. Organizing and participating in protests is now rewarded at the K-12 level more than knowledge of history or philosophy‚ as Heritage Foundation education expert Jonathan Butcher recently explained. (The Daily Signal is the news outlet of The Heritage Foundation.) Columbia University has permanently dropped its SAT/ACT requirements‚ making it the first Ivy League school to do so. Is it any wonder that Columbia has some of the most ridiculous and clueless protesters&;#63; What makes a student profile stand out in college admissions is participating in activism—such as bringing transgender bathrooms to your school‚ protesting your school until it converts to green energy‚ organizing a walkout for gun control‚ or writing “black lives matter” a hundred times on an application. Why do you think gun control activist David Hogg got into Harvard&;#63; It wasn’t because he was a great student or some genius. Every step of the way‚ these students have been rewarded for engaging in more and more dramatic action civics. They are taught that this is how the world is supposed to work and that the most elite‚ prestigious institutions in our society will reward them for it. Higher education has literally fed into this mentality. That perverse dynamic has ramifications on a society-wide level. It’s being duplicated in other institutions that get served a steady stream of students from higher ed. The Uber Eats revolution is here‚ it’s queer‚ and it hates Western civilization‚ but it won’t go away when the anti-Israel encampments disperse. Instead‚ these foot soldiers for the cause will get nice jobs at the State Department‚ in a state attorney general’s office‚ or in your company’s HR department. It’s not the students who have created this dynamic; it’s the school administrations that have decided time and again to empower the activists and the causes they champion. You can’t entirely blame the spoiled adult children for demanding free stuff‚ including a much more costly student loan bailout. Blame the malignant‚ coddling university administrations who normalized this behavior. The post Blame University Administrators for the Uber Eats Campus Revolutionaries appeared first on The Daily Signal.

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