A scandal erupts in America. Republicans in Congress led by Jerry Nadler have made public the contents of emails that a group of leading American virologists exchanged with NIAID (US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases) head Dr. Anthony Fauci before they sent a letter to Nature stating, that the virus that causes covid is of natural origin and has not leaked from the laboratory. It turned out that even two days before this letter, most of its signatories believed that the laboratory leak theory was at least plausible.
However, none of the scientists mentioned this opinion in a letter to Nature, did not explain what made him change his mind, and did not give any arguments refuting the leak theory.
In fact, what Congress published is a betrayal of fundamental scientific principles. >Anthony Fauci. Photo: Greg Nash-Pool/Getty Images
On March 17, several top virologists led by Dr. Christian Andersen, namely Andrew Rambo, V. Jan Lipkin, Edward Holmes, and Robert F. Guerry, published a letter in Nature stating that “the laboratory origin of Sars-coV- 2 is unlikely.» The letter was sent to the journal on February 4, 2020.
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This was not the first time that Dr. Christian Andersen of the Scripps Institute has spoken out strongly against the lab leak version. Before that, for example, he scolded her on Twitter. When Senator Tom Cotton suggested that the virus might have escaped from the lab, Dr. Andersen posted the following tweet. alt=»» />
However — as we have known for quite some time — at the same time Dr. Anderson in privately informed the head of NIAID, Dr. Anthony Fauci, that the virus could be of laboratory origin.
However, as we have known for quite some time, at the same time, Dr. Anderson, in a private letter, informed the head of NIAID, Dr. Anthony Fauci, that the virus could be of laboratory origin.
B In this letter, Dr. Andersen wrote to Dr. Fauci that the virus «looks engineered.» He also wrote that this is not only his opinion. “Eddie, Bob, Michael and I all find the genome inconsistent with the expectations of evolutionary theory,” wrote Andersen.
Eddie is obviously Edward Holmes, co-author of the Nature letter, a major British-born virologist, who now lives in Australia and has a position at the University of Shanghai, and Bob is Robert Guerry, another co-author of the letter. Mike is obviously Michael Farzan, another eminent virologist, professor of immunology and biology at the Scripps Institute, one of the discoverers of the S protein. His name was not among the co-authors of the letter in Nature.