Demystify! Laboratory leak theory turned out to be only the second option for the United States
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WeChat platform editor: Zhou Yue
September 27, Australia "Science Tips" website reported, France and Laos research The author’s latest research shows that the closest coronavirus to new coronavirus was found in a bat in Laos, and its similarity reached 96.8%.
The co-corresponding author of the study, Mark Elliott, head of the pathogen discovery field at the Pasteur Institute in France, said that the newly discovered virus is by far the closest coronavirus to the ancestor of the new coronavirus.
In other words, the RaTG13 virus previously discovered in China can no longer be considered the closest ancestor of the new coronavirus.
Brother Quan believes that this is a big step towards the truth about the origin of the epidemic, although the scientific traceability work still has a long way to go.
Can this major discovery put the "Wuhan laboratory leak theory" to an end? Certainly not! Because as long as there is a one percent uncertainty, players who are politicized at the source will be 100 percent invested in it, in an attempt to continuously push up the cost of China's "self-certification of innocence". As the "Los Angeles Times" columnist Michael Hilzik said, "The'laboratory leak theory' has never been empirical, only speculation." "It was driven by ideology, not science from the beginning."
There is no cost for the United States to spread rumors and lie? Not necessarily so. It may be difficult to escape the influence from the credibility of the country to the personal finances.
Yu Maochun and almost released the "Chinese Biological Weapons Theory"
It is very possible that a liar is not afraid of a dead pig. However, regardless of whether the dead pig is afraid of being scalded or not, Brother Pi will always be scalded-the manufacturing process of uncovering the lie.
In June of this year, an open letter from Christopher Ford, former US Assistant Secretary of State, revealed the process of the U.S. Department of State’s Arms Control, Verification and Compliance Agency (AVC) concocting and disseminating the "laboratory leak" theory:
early December 2020 ,Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Dinano and Asher, who is in charge of AVC, reported to Ford that AVC had reached a "scientific conclusion" that the new crown virus was a biological weapon agent deliberately released by the Chinese government after vaccinating Chinese people against the world. . Ford asked the two to convene experts in the field of biological sciences and intelligence experts to conduct a professional evaluation of the conclusion.
However, Dinanno and Asher did not conduct expert assessments as required. Instead, they directly investigated the " biological weapons said" and continued to publicize the assertion to various departments of the State Council, encouraging the State Council to issue a public statement on this and take measures. Diplomatic action. later explained to Ford by Dinano that AVC spread the thesis everywhere under the instigation of Yu Maochun, the Policy Planning Office of the State Council. Yu Maochun said that this was the meaning of Secretary of State Pompeo and asked him not to mention this to Ford.
From January 4 to 6, 2021, Ford sent emails to remind the two people several times, saying that this allegation is very alarming, and scientists must be organized to conduct a serious evaluation, and required to send relevant documents to the participants before the relevant meeting. . On January 7, AVC organized an expert meeting, but did not send relevant documents to the participants in advance. However, the participating experts pointed out the key mistakes on the spot. On January 8, Ford sent an email to a number of senior State Department officials to inform about the meeting, pointing out that the AVC judgment has problems and should not become the official position of the US State Department, reminding relevant colleagues to use the judgment cautiously.
According to Ford's inference, it is precisely because of this that the senior officials of the State Council did not mention the "biological weapons theory" in the "Statement Note: Wuhan Virus Research Institute Activities" published on January 15 and instead proposed the "laboratory accidental leak theory". Speculative statement.
What a "retreat first"!
A credible inference: American rulers need lies more
Brother circle remembers, I don’t support before logging in to the White House. Ism .
Now, the basis for the so-called "tracing investigation" by the Biden administration,Much of this stems from an open letter published by 18 scientists in the journal Science in May this year. The open letter calls for a new and independent investigation of all possible origins of the new coronavirus, including an independent scientific evaluation of the possibility of laboratory leaks and the possibility of laboratory personnel mismanipulating the release of the virus.
Recently, the lead person of the open letter, professor of medicine and microbiology and immunology at Stanford University School of Medicine, and senior researcher at the Center for International Security and Cooperation of Stanford University, Reelman, accepted an interview with Stanford Magazine. It is appealing that both theories of the origin of the new coronavirus can be fairly investigated, and the open letter cannot be used as a basis for the "laboratory leak theory."
A passage in this interview by Reelman caught the attention of Quan Ge.
Reelman said that the Democratic decision-makers (before entering the White House) largely avoided any origin theory related to the laboratory. But he found that the Democratic Party also noticed the open letter this time, and began to say: "Well, maybe there is something here."
"On July 14, the Supervision and Investigation Subcommittee of the House Science, Space and Technology Committee held After the hearing, the topic was the origin of the new coronavirus and how to investigate the epidemic. I was one of the witnesses. The other three witnesses only talked about the natural origin of zoonotic diseases. In the end, about 95% of the questions were asked to me, because Everyone wants to talk about the rationality of this alternative hypothesis. Democrats and Republicans are equally interested in this. In fact, they all agree that this is a problem that must be solved." "Leakage theory" has a disproportionate degree of attention. Obviously, does not really matter to some American politicians the true origin of the new coronavirus. "Virus tracing" is only part of its strategy to systematically suppress China while covering up its own taint.
As said by British human rights lawyer and arbitration expert Graham Perry, "In the past 40 to 50 years, the relative power changes between China and the United States have allowed the United States to continuously contain and harm China in global affairs... Everything is done to cause harm to China.
Reelman also said in the interview that he believes that the United States should first show humility and admit its past laboratory accidents and dangerous scientific research to encourage China to participate in the "investigation."
圈Brother wants to say, this is at least naive. How could American politicians open their "Pandora's Box" for scientific traceability! Compared with spreading rumors and lying, self-exposing family ugliness may be much more harmful.
anti-lab leak On'Scientists are in a bad situation
Scientists cannot stop American politicians from lying. Not only that.
While American politics is constantly politicizing the source of the virus and vigorously exaggerating the'Wuhan laboratory leak theory', those who publish scientific research results or Remarks, scientists who expressed opposition to the theory have been suppressed and attacked.
Among them, the most well-known is Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. Because he is unwilling to cooperate with Tron during the epidemic The U.S. Republican Party has deep grievances about its anti-epidemic policy and its “virus traceability” to China, and has recently continued to threaten its old accounts.
On July 15, Republican members of the House of Representatives Oversight Committee collectively wrote to the National Institutes of Health (NIH). ) Director Collins and Fauci, pressured them to provide all documents and communication records related to the grant between NIH, Wuhan Institute of Virology and Eco-Health Alliance, as well as the US government’s inspection of Wuhan Virus Institute through the Eco-Health Alliance The documents and communication records produced.
On July 20, at a hearing held by the U.S. Senate, Republican Senator Rand Paul once again violently attacked Fauci, accusing Fauci of funding the Wuhan Virus Institute in NIH for'enhanced functions' The experiment “lied” to Congress, saying that Fauci was “trying to conceal the responsibility of the pandemic for causing 4 million deaths worldwide” and threatened to hold him criminally responsible.
Recently, a Republican in the House of People called for the United States Speaker of the House of Representatives Pelosi instructed the Judiciary Committee to summon many public health officials, including Fauci,To get the "answer" of the origin of the new coronavirus.
In addition to Fauci, many scientists who dared to speak up were suppressed and attacked:
Christian G. Andersen, a professor in the Department of Immunology and Microbiology of the Scripps Institute in the United States, insisted on the new crown The virus suffered no traces of modification and was forced to withdraw from Twitter in June of this year due to cyber violence, and said it approved the “laboratory leak theory”.
Susan Weiss, who works at the Center for Research on Coronavirus and Emerging Pathogens at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, said in an article last February that there is currently no reliable evidence to support that the new coronavirus originated in the laboratory, more likely from nature Of bats use intermediate hosts to spread humans. Subsequently, Weiss was harassed by phone calls and private messages.
Brother Quan thinks that this reality in the United States is sad but not surprising.
American writer Isaac Asimov once said: " has always had a cult of ignorance in the United States. Anti-intellectualism is a clue that has been entrenched in our political and cultural life for a long time, and behind it is such a Misconception: Democracy means'my ignorance is as good as your intelligence'. ”
In the United States like this, the suppression and smear of scientists by politicians and the politicization of the origin of the virus have made Ben keen to challenge The intellectual American people increasingly distrust science.
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