izentrop wrote:Written by
Alison Young, Opinion Collaborator
That does not make it a scientific reference.
It is a journalist who wrote in 2015 that the laboratories which perform experiments on viruses refuse to give information on the strains they are studying, when journalists are investigating them. It is obviously not a scientist who will write this, since it reports a journalist experience, not scientists. And she wrote this before the coronavirus crisis, and as Christophe recalled, there had been many warnings from scientists about the dangers of these experiments.
So to summarize;
* for the past ten years, teams of virologists have been experimenting to increase the contagiousness of viruses for human cells, with the "laudable" aim of better understanding how they contaminate them.
* the American pioneers of these techniques collaborated with the Wuhan Institute of Virology, one of the researchers, Shi ZhengLi, is a specialist in coronaviruses. It was she and her team who isolated and sequenced the closest known natural virus to SARS-cov2, RaTG13
* virus laboratories are known to be reluctant to provide information on the strains they are working on (possibly to protect their scientific advance, and not to be bothered too much with ethical and safety issues )
* the epidemic has been identified in Wuhan, where most experts agree to attribute the origin of this epidemic.
* there have been several alerts and reports of security breaches
* The WHO investigation was tightly controlled by the Chinese who demanded access to its report before publication and strictly monitored its progress. She officially concluded that the hypothesis of a leak was "extremely improbable", except that the director of the WHO himself immediately clarified that no hypothesis should be ruled out, and many specialists have expressed doubts .
these are all indisputable facts, I am not adding the stuff like HIV sequence identifications that seem much more dubious, I am sticking to what no one, and no scientist in particular, disputes. But that alone is still a lot I think.
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