Adrien (ex-nico239) wrote:VetusLignum wrote:A new theory on the origin of SARS-CoV-2, very well supported, especially since it reconstructs almost all the pieces of the puzzle.
1) The minors were infected with RaTG13 (or a similar virus, and perhaps by other VOCs simultaneously)
2) The RaTG13 virus has mutated to SARS-CoV-2 in their lungs (or in the lung of one of them)
3) At the end of 2019, an employee of the WIV was infected with this virus and initiated its circulation
A must read: https://www.independentsciencenews.org/ ... -pandemic/
One of the weaknesses of this thesis is that, in this case, we would not have expected the epidemic to start from the hospital where these minors were being treated. The authors answer that the doctors at the hospital understood the risk of a pandemic, and took all the precautions.
Another weakness is that some researchers find it hard to believe that the RaTG13 virus could have evolved into SARS-CoV-2 in just a few weeks, even in a human's lungs (although some of the miners were sick for several months. ).
But we cannot exclude that the WIV carried out additional manipulations on the viruses taken from minors.
Tracing the trail of the Covid will be the detective drama of the decade I think ....
Hope we know the end of the story one day
The problem is that the main defendant (the WIV) is supported not only by the Chinese authorities, but also by all those who financed it, like the NIH, with the complicity also of the WHO, the pharmaceutical companies. who want to make money from a vaccine…. So those who should be investigating are not doing it, and the only ones investigating are a handful of virologists scattered around the world, who are putting their careers at risk in doing so.
As we noted in our earlier article, the most important of the questions surrounding the origins of SARS-CoV-2 could potentially be resolved by a simple examination of the complete lab notebooks and biosafety records of relevant researchers at the WIV. Now that a credible and testable lab escape hypothesis exists this task becomes potentially much easier. This moment thus represents an opportune one to renew that call for an independent and transparent investigation of the WIV.
In requesting an investigation we are aware that no scientific institution anywhere has made a comparable request. We believe that this failure undermines public trust in a “scientific response” to the pandemic. Instead, the scientific establishment has labeled the lab escape theory a “rumor“, an “unverified theory” and a “conspiracy” when its proper name is a hypothesis. By taking this stance the scientific establishment has given the unambiguous message that scientists who take the possibility of a lab origin seriously are jeopardizing their careers. Thus, while countless scientific publications on the pandemic assert in their introductions that a zoonotic origin for SARS-CoV-2 is a matter of fact or near-certainty (and Andersen et al has 860 citations as of July 14th), there is still not one published scientific paper asserting that a lab escape is even a credible hypothesis that deserves investigation.
Anyone who doubts this pressure should read the interview with Birger Sørensen in Norway's Minerva magazine in which Sørensen discusses the “reluctance” of journals to publish his assessment that the existence of a virus that is “exceptionally well adjusted to infect humans” is “suspicious” and “cannot have evolved naturally”. The source of this reluctance, says Sørensen, is not rationality or scientific evidence. It results from conflicts of interest. This mirrors our experience. To find genuinely critical analysis of COVID-19 origin theories one has to go to Twitter, blog posts, and preprint servers. The malaise runs deep when even scientists start to complain that they don't trust science.
We nevertheless hope that journalists will investigate some of the conflicts of interest that are keeping scientists and institutions from properly investigating the lab escape hypothesis.