More COVID related conspiracy theories from Public - Michael Shellenberger.
We will have a lot more to say about the Covid lab leak cover-up in the weeks, months, and perhaps years to come. We are only now starting to discover how vast and insidious the effort was. It will go down as one of the greatest scientific scandals in history.
Just moments ago, an NGO called U.S. Right to Know
released heavily-redacted U.S. State Department cables that it obtained under the Freedom of Information Act.
One July 2020 cable reads, “Initial Outbreak Could Have Been Contained in China if Beijing Had Not Covered It Up.”
One cable asks, “Who ordered the cover-up?” The question was being asked of the Chinese. But it needs to be asked of the many Americans involved, too. We still don’t know how long the US government knew that the virus came from a lab, rather than from nature.
You may recall that The New York Times called Robert F. Kennedy a “conspiracy theorist” for saying Covid resulted from a bio-weapons program.
And yet ne of the State Department
cables shows a connection between China’s biotechnology sector and the Chinese military (People’s Liberation Army), which included its construction of the Wuhan lab.
Another
cable shows that there was no clear line between military and civilian research. China referred to this as “military-civil fusion.”
While US government officials were uncovering the conspiracy to cover up the lab leak, Facebook was censoring people for claiming that Covid originated in a Chinese lab. Would you be surprised to learn that one of Facebook’s “fact-checkers” actually worked at the Wuhan Institute of Virology?
Facebook’s War On Facts
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On February 23, 2020, The New York Post ran an op-ed that argued that the coronavirus might have been the result of a laboratory leak rather than from a Chinese “wet market.”
The oped listed compelling facts, including the sudden arrival in Wuhan of China’s top biological warfare expert, China’s terrible track record of lab safety, and the small problem that the Wuhan wet market didn’t actually sell bats.
You might recall that it was somehow racist to think the virus might have escaped from a Chinese lab, despite decades of chronic lab leaks around the world, including in the U.S., but somehow not racist to think it came from the Chinese habit of eating wild animals.
Facebook ran the New York Post oped article through its “fact checkers,” who quickly declared it wrongspeak and slapped a “False Information” alert (above) on it.
One of the Facebook fact-checkers was Danielle Anderson, an assistant professor at a Duke University Medical School outpost in Singapore. In her fact check, Anderson said that the Wuhan Lab had “strict control and containment measures.”
In other words, the “fact check” was false or what is known as “misinformation.”
But Anderson wasn’t a neutral observer. As reporter Sharyl Attkisson noted at the time, Anderson had regularly worked with Wuhan’s researchers and had “even done her own experiments there.”
This is one of the many “I’m shocked/not shocked” moments we’ve had in recent months.
While it feels like it’s been scandal after scandal since last December, we are still at the very beginning of the process of uncovering all the bad deeds of the last three years. Abuse of power turns out to be the rule not the exception in our leading institutions, from the FBI to NIH.
So stay tuned.
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