Recently, meaning in the last few days, maybe yesterday, I received an email from the U.S. Right To Know organization.
U.S. Right to Know can exclusively report that last Thursday, the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic began transcribed interviews about the history behind “The proximal origin of SARS-CoV-2.” The enormously influential article, the most impactful scientific article of 2020, dismissed the lab leak theory as a conspiracy theory.
RE:New evidence released by the Select Subcommittee today suggests that Dr. Fauci “prompted” the drafting of a publication that would “disprove” the lab leak theory, the authors of this paper skewed available evidence to achieve that goal, and Dr. Jeremy Farrar went uncredited despite significant involvement.
The first page of the memo opens with this…
On February 1, 2020, Dr. Anthony Fauci, Dr. Francis Collins, and at least eleven other
scientists convened a conference call to discuss COVID-19.1
It was on this conference call that Drs. Fauci and Collins were first warned that COVID-19 may have leaked from a lab in Wuhan,
China and, further, may have been intentionally genetically manipulated.2
Only three days later, on February 4, 2020, four participants of the conference call
authored a paper entitled “The Proximal Origin of SARS-CoV-2” (Proximal Origin) and sent a
draft to Drs. Fauci and Collins.3
Prior to final publication in Nature Medicine, the paper was sent
to Dr. Fauci for editing and approval.4
On April 16, 2020, slightly more than two months after the original conference call, Dr.
Collins emailed Dr. Fauci expressing dismay that Proximal Origin—which they saw prior to
publication and were given the opportunity to edit—did not squash the lab leak hypothesis and
asks if the NIH can do more to “put down” the lab leak hypothesis.5
The next day—after Dr.Collins explicitly asked for more public pressure—Dr. Fauci cited Proximal Origin from the
White House podium when asked if COVID-19 leaked from a lab.6
A weird connection to this is the day before I received the email from USRTK, I was looking through old saved files, and saw this https://www.newyorker.com/science/elements/the-mysterious-case-of-the-covid-19-lab-leak-theory. The Mysterious Case of the COVID-19 Lab-Leak Theory… Did the virus spring from nature or from human error? By Carolyn Kormann October 12, 2021
I thought I’d use it in a No Trust post I’m working on.
If you didn’t read it a year and a half ago give it a shot now. That oversight committee memo could have been lifted from the article.
Don’t think I’m trying to raise some hope in this mental dungeon the democrats are still building; I’m not.
I found this in the files, too…
Here’s one that goes back even further…
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joshua_Lederberg
…In 1978, he became the president of Rockefeller University, until he stepped down in 1990…
*During a 1986 fact finding mission of the 1979 Soviet Union epidemic of anthrax bacteria… Lederberg sided with Soviets that the anthrax outbreak was from animal to human transmission stating, “Wild rumors do spread around every epidemic.” After the fall of the Soviet Union… subsequent US investigations in the early 1990’s a team of scientists confirmed the outbreak was caused by a release of an aerosol of anthrax pathogen from a nearby military facility…
Go figure.
Oh, the bio-lab was in Russia at that time. It was before Russia returned the Ukraine back to the people inhabiting it; after a couple of hundred years of Ukraine being identified as part of Russia.
From https://www.wilsoncenter.org/publication/why-did-russia-give-away-crimea-sixty-years-ago
(1) the cession of Crimea was a “noble act on the part of the Russian people” to commemorate the 300th anniversary of the “reunification of Ukraine with Russia” (a reference to the Treaty of Pereyaslav signed in 1654 by representatives of the Ukrainian Cossack Hetmanate and Tsar Aleksei I of Muscovy) and to “evince the boundless trust and love the Russian people feel toward the Ukrainian people”;
*Update 04/13/23
Lederberg’s report https://collections.nlm.nih.gov/ext/document/101584906X18717/PDF/101584906X18717.pdf
“Wild rumors” indeed
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_laboratory_biosecurity_incidents
I mistakenly believed Sverdlovsk Ukraine was the location of the bio-lab Lederberg visited mentioned above. It wasn’t explicitly stated in the posts but I apologize if any reader was confused by references here and at https://www.bucksafa11.org/2022/06/10/truth-will-shout/ or https://www.bucksafa11.org/2022/05/13/machine-04122/ about Sverdlovsk’s geographical location.