This week, the Wall Street Journal released an alarming report on how the Biden administration may have suppressed dissenting views supporting the lab theory on the origin of the COVID-19 virus. Not only were the FBI and its top experts excluded from a critical briefing of President Biden, but government scientists were reportedly warned that they were “off the reservation” in supporting the lab theory.
The problem was that FBI researchers had concluded that the lab theory was the most credible explanation. But their lead researcher, Dr. Jason Bannan, was kept out of the key meeting, and their opposing research was discounted or ignored.
They were not alone. The Journal reported that Defense Department experts John Hardham, Robert Cutlip and Jean-Paul Chretien conducted a genomic analysis that found evidence of human manipulation of the virus. It also concluded that it was done using a specific technique developed by the Chinese at the Wuhan lab. They suggested that the Chinese appeared to have altered the “spike protein” that enables the virus to enter the human body in a “gain of function” operation.
They were reportedly told to stop sharing their work and warned that they had to effectively get with the team. Later, the three wrote an unclassified May 2020 paper that was prevented from being shown outside the medical intelligence center.
At the same time, letters and articles that dismissed the lab theory were organized for public consumption. The government worked with social media companies to censor those with opposing views.
Fauci started walking back his claims that the lab leak theory was false. Which is suspicious to say the least.
Did he though?
Fauci walked back calling it a conspiracy theory, not his claims that it was false. I think you know that which explains the “started”, because you knew you were bullshitting.
Is it though?
If this wasn’t a conspiracy theory before, conspiracy theorists sure turned it into one.
That is a strawman and a lie.
https://youtu.be/AqYZw1TNFZ4?t=1m37s
If you say so. It sounded to me like exactly what I said. The concept alone of a lab leak isn’t a conspiracy theory, but it’s grown from there into what is definitely a conspiracy theory. I hadn’t recalled that Fauci actually stated it that clearly, so thanks for the reminder.
No Fauci clearly stated the lab leak was a conspiracy theory many times. For a more detailed explanation this video lays out the timeline.
Fauci made the mistake of being nuanced with conspiracy theorists who are not interested in actually understanding anything. While it’s not inherently a conspiracy theory to consider a lab link possible, it is absolutely a conspiracy theory to dismiss a scientific consensus that spans scientists from dozens of countries and across the political spectrum.
And yeah, you can find “scientists” who disagree, just like you can find scientists who think it was engineered by aliens. A handful of crackpots don’t invalidate broad scientific consensus.
Fauci was never nuanced he outright dismissed it as a fake conspiracy theory. And social media censored any mention of it being lab created.
All media you have seen was about a wet market bat pangolin transmission. Anyone who said "Hey what is the Wuhan lab of Virology doing right at the origin of Covid’ was dismissed as a conspiracy looney.
You are backtracking on years of government propaganda to pretend it was never their narrative.
The theory was downplayed from the start because it was unlikely, then later because evidence pointed another way. Maybe some did call or a conspiracy theory then too. In today’s world it was a damn good bet that it would become one, so maybe they jumped the gun. It sure is one now.
Gosh, it’s so sus that a virology lab in a location where a virus of concern is most commonly found was studying said virus. I mean what possible explanation could there be? It has to be a vast global conspiracy!
When you’re down to the “wake up sheeple” arguments, it’s pretty clear the discussion has run it’s course.
You can scream sheeple all you want but the fact is there was a clear cut easy explanation which was denied in favor of the wet market theory.
Conspiracy theories can turn out true. In this case it is clear the people you try to paint off as tinfoil hatters were right and you were wrong.