One of the more acutely-asked questions since the covid-19 pandemic broke out has been: Is the virus man-made?
Debate on the matter has been wild and furious. After much investigation, Chris is now chiming in on the heels of an explosive Newsweek report.
Newsweek reveals that as recently as last year, the US funded scientists at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in 'gain of function' research on bat coronaviruses.
The source of that funding? The National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Disease, headed by.....(drumroll please)....Dr Anthony Fauci, lead medical expert for America's Covid-19 task force.
Now, this doesn't mean the virus was lab-engineered as a bio-weapon. But it does suggest a naturally-occuring bat virus could have been artificially accelerated along certain vectors.
Of course, this raises an awfully lot of urgent and important questions.
So far, Fauci has not commented on the Newsweek report. But we will be keeping close tabs on developments from here...
The Nature article, saying the virus is a natural mutation, has faulty logic as do the arguments from the experts. Again, it's not their status but the arguments they are making and who writes their checks. The people making the claims were involved in the controversial research (messing with the virus). The Nature article is CLEARLY faulty. If you can't work it out from the explanation here then I can't help you. It does use weasel wording. I wouldn't know ordinarily, but it's explained to you, so that you can understand what they mean in plain english - and it becomes obvious.
[Posted at the SpookyWeather blog, May 3, 2020.]
Debate on the matter has been wild and furious. After much investigation, Chris is now chiming in on the heels of an explosive Newsweek report.
Newsweek reveals that as recently as last year, the US funded scientists at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in 'gain of function' research on bat coronaviruses.
The source of that funding? The National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Disease, headed by.....(drumroll please)....Dr Anthony Fauci, lead medical expert for America's Covid-19 task force.
Now, this doesn't mean the virus was lab-engineered as a bio-weapon. But it does suggest a naturally-occuring bat virus could have been artificially accelerated along certain vectors.
Of course, this raises an awfully lot of urgent and important questions.
So far, Fauci has not commented on the Newsweek report. But we will be keeping close tabs on developments from here...
The Nature article, saying the virus is a natural mutation, has faulty logic as do the arguments from the experts. Again, it's not their status but the arguments they are making and who writes their checks. The people making the claims were involved in the controversial research (messing with the virus). The Nature article is CLEARLY faulty. If you can't work it out from the explanation here then I can't help you. It does use weasel wording. I wouldn't know ordinarily, but it's explained to you, so that you can understand what they mean in plain english - and it becomes obvious.
[Posted at the SpookyWeather blog, May 3, 2020.]
