So Much Sciencing

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https://www.dailywire.com/news/scientists-demand-full-retraction-of-covid-natural-origins-paper-praised-by-fauci

Prominent scientists are demanding a full retraction of an early, highly influential paper on the origins of COVID-19 that downplayed the lab leak theory and was praised by Dr. Anthony Fauci.

"The Proximal Origin of SARS-CoV-2," published in March 2020 in the journal Nature Medicine, declared that COVID did not come from a lab despite private doubts from the authors that a lab leak was possible, and even "likely."

"Our analyses clearly show that SARS-CoV-2 is not a laboratory construct or a purposefully manipulated virus," wrote the five prominent scientists who authored the paper. "We do not believe that any type of laboratory-based scenario is plausible."

However, emails from early 2020 that came to light earlier this year show that Fauci and the paper's authors suspected all along that the virus may have been the result of a lab leak.

A total of 47 scientists and other STEM professionals signed an open letter to Nature Medicine journal calling for the paper to be retracted.

"We, as STEM and STEM-policy professionals, call upon Nature Medicine to publish an expression of editorial concern for the paper and to begin a process of withdrawal or retraction of the paper," the signers wrote.

The paper is "scientific fraud," declared one of the signers, Richard H. Ebright, the Board of Governors professor of chemistry and chemical biology at Rutgers University.

As to publishing this document in a journal, I am currently not in favor of doing so," he added.

However, in March, the researchers decided to move forward and publish the scientific paper that downplayed the lab leak theory.

"Thanks for your note," Fauci replied when informed the paper would be published soon. "Nice job on the paper."

In April, Fauci would cite the study from the White House podium as evidence the virus jumped from animals to humans.

In a new ripple that came to light this month, Andersen also had a pending $8.9 million NIAID grant that still required final approval from Fauci when the study was published, according to The Intercept.

https://www.nationalreview.com/2023/08/the-covid-cover-up/

One of the scientists, Kristian Andersen, sent an email to Dr. Anthony Fauci that morning, alerting him to the paper's publication. Fauci replied to Andersen that very day, "Thanks for your note. Nice job on the paper." He had praised an early draft of it as "very thoughtful summary and analysis."

Almost simultaneously, Peter Daszak, the head of EcoHealth Alliance, which was the cutout through which the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases funded research on coronaviruses in Wuhan, sent an email to University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill virologist Ralph Baric informing him that an investigative committee would not be looking into a lab-origins theory.

Now Fauci tells the New York Times that he's not sure he ever read the paper.

Immediately, the "proximal origin" paper was put to use to shut down debate. ABC: "Sorry, conspiracy theorists. Study concludes COVID-19 is not a laboratory construct." Vice News: "Once and for All, the New Coronavirus Was Not Made in a Lab."

Leaked messages now show that the "proximal origin" paper itself was the product of something like a conspiracy and was intended to mislead the public about the origins of Covid. FOIA requests of their emails and chat messages show that all of the authors of the paper expressed the exact opposite views of the conclusions in the paper. "60-40 lab," Dr. Edward Holmes said. "I really can't think of a plausible natural scenario," wrote Robert Garry.


"In the lab it would be easy," Garry also surmised in February. "It's not crackpot to suggest this could have happened given the gain of function research we know is happening." Andersen: "The lab escape version of this is so friggin' likely because they were already doing this work."

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