How scientists who dismissed Wuhan lab theory are linked to Chinese researchers

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Revealed: How scientists who dismissed Wuhan lab theory are linked to Chinese researchers
Cover-up alleged over Lancet letter that effectively shut down scientific debate into whether coronavirus was manipulated or leaked from lab
By Sarah Knapton, SCIENCE EDITOR
10 September 2021 • 9:00pm
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/09/10/revealed-scientists-dismissed-wuhan-lab-theory-linked-chinese/
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The Wuhan Institute of Virology. The Telegraph can disclose that 26 of the 27 scientists
listed in The Lancet letter had connections to the Chinese lab | CREDIT: Thomas Peter

   All but one scientist who penned a letter in The Lancet dismissing the
   possibility that coronavirus could have come from a lab in Wuhan were
   linked to its Chinese researchers, their colleagues or funders, a
   Telegraph investigation can reveal.
   
   The influential journal published a letter on March 7 last year from 27
   scientists in which they stated that they "strongly condemned
   conspiracy theories" surrounding Covid-19.
   
   It effectively shut down scientific debate into whether coronavirus was
   manipulated or leaked from a lab in Wuhan.
   
   On Friday, researchers who tried to investigate a link but were
   stonewalled and branded conspiracy theorists called it an "extreme
   cover-up".
   
   Despite declaring no conflicts of interest at the time, it has since
   emerged that the letter was orchestrated by British zoologist Peter
   Daszak, president of the US-based EcoHealth Alliance, which funded
   research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, where the leak was
   suspected.
   
   However, The Telegraph can disclose that 26 of the 27 scientists listed
   in the letter had connections to the Chinese lab, through researchers
   and funders closely linked to Wuhan.
   
   While Mr Daszak eventually declared his involvement in the EcoHealth
   Alliance, he failed to mention that five other signatories also worked
   for the organisation.
   
   A further three of the signatories were from Britain's Wellcome Trust,
   which has funded work at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in the past.
   
   Sir Jeremy Farrar, a member of Sage and the director of the Trust, who
   signed the letter, has also published work with George Gao, the head of
   the Chinese Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, whom he
   describes as an "old friend".
   
   Researchers and their links to China
      Peter Daszak – President of the US-based EcoHealth Alliance which
      funded research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. Treasurer of Global
      Virome Project of which EcoHealth is a partner. Published work with Shi
      Zhengli.
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   Oxford-educated Dr Gao is a former Wellcome research assistant, and Mr
   Daszak has previously claimed Dr Gao had supported his nomination to
   the National Academy of Sciences.
   
   Dr Gao also has close connections with Shi Zhengli, the scientist known
   as "batwoman" who was leading research into bat coronaviruses in Wuhan,
   and whose team discovered a virus in 2013 in a cave in Yunnan which is
   the closest ever found to Sars-Cov-2.
   
   Another signatory, Prof Linda Saif, of Ohio State University, spoke at
   a workshop in Wuhan in May 2017 alongside Dr Shi and Dr Gao, organised
   partly by the Wuhan Institute of Virology. Topics discussed at the
   meeting included the level of security in Chinese labs. Prof Saif's
   talk dealt with animal coronaviruses.
   
   Similarly, two other signatories are in the leadership team of the
   Global Virome Project, of which Mr Daszak is treasurer. Dr Gao helped
   launch the project and EcoHealth Alliance is a partner.
   
   The Global Virome Project's goal is to detect and identify at least 99
   per cent of potential zoonotic viral threats to human health and food
   security. It took over from the Predict project, which uncovered more
   than 1,000 unique viruses in animals and humans.
   
   However, it has since emerged that Predict part-funded controversial
   work by Wuhan researchers on bat coronaviruses which were altered to
   see if they could infect humans. The funds came via EcoHealth Alliance.
   
   In an email on Feb 8, released under Freedom of Information requests,
   Mr Daszak revealed he had composed the letter after being asked by "our
   collaborators" in China for a "show of support".
   
   Angus Dalgleish, professor of oncology at St Georges, University of
   London, and Norwegian scientist Birger Sorensen, who struggled to have
   work published showing a link between the virus and Wuhan research,
   said there had been an "extreme cover-up".
   
   Commenting on the discovery that so many of the signatories were linked
   to China, they said: "This article is the first to show beyond
   reasonable doubt that our entire area of virus research has been
   contaminated politically. We bear the scars to show it."
   
   

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     "Chinese state-run CCTV has offered a rare glimpse into the Wuhan
      Institute of Virology, which is at the centre of coronavirus conspiracy
      theories. Donald Trump in the past suggested coronavirus might have
      leaked from this lab before the pandemic started."
   
   Other signatories with links to the Wuhan team include Prof Kanta
   Subbarao, who spoke at a conference in Wuhan – part organised by the
   Wuhan Institute of Virology – on emerging disease in 2016, while she
   was still chief of the NIAID's Emerging Respiratory Viruses Section.
   
   Dr John Mackenzie, of Curtin University of Technology in Australia, put
   his name to the letter, but failed to mention he was still listed as a
   committee member of the Scientific Advisory Committee of Centre for
   Emerging Infectious Diseases at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
   
   Five other signatories had all published articles with Prof Ralph
   Baric, who was collaborating with Shi Zhengli and the Wuhan Institute
   of Virology on research about genetically manipulating coronaviruses to
   see if they could be made to infect humans.
   
   Crucially, Prof Baric was omitted from the list of signatures although
   he was initially asked to join the group by Mr Daszak. Emails have
   recently come to light between Mr Daszak and Prof Baric ahead of The
   Lancet letter showing that the pair decided to blur their association
   in case it looked "self-serving".
   
   Mr Daszak told Prof Baric he would distribute the letter in a way that
   "doesn't link it back to our collaboration so we maximise an
   independent voice".
   
   Out of 27 signatories, only Prof Ronald Corley, of Boston University,
   appears to have no links to funders or researchers.
   
   While an addendum was added to The Lancet letter in June this year,
   pointing out Mr Daszak's links to Wuhan, no others revealed any
   conflict of interest at the time.
   
   The Covid lab leak theory – according to the Chinese media
      "Fort Detrick was the lab at the center of the US biological weapons
      program and the US Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious
      Disease (USAMRIID) is still based there, holding many dangerous
      pathogens including anthrax, smallpox and SARS."
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   Molecular biologist Prof Richard Ebright, of Rutgers University, who
   has fought to uncover the truth behind the Covid pandemic, said: "For
   the June addendum, the Lancet invited the 27 authors of the letter to
   re-evaluate their competing interests.
   
   "Incredibly, only Daszak appears to have done so. Conflicts of interest
   were not reported for any of the other 26 signers of the letter – not
   even those with obviously material undisclosed conflicts such as
   EcoHealth employees and Predict contractors.
   
   "The standard remedy for fraudulent statements in scientific
   publications is retraction. It is unclear why retraction was not
   pursued."
   
   Several of those who signed the letters have since changed their
   stance, with Prof Peter Palese, of Icahn School of Medicine at Mount
   Sinai, now calling for a full inquiry. 
   
   Dr Charles Calisher, of Colorado State University, told The Telegraph
   that the letter never intended to suggest that Covid might not have a
   natural origin, rather that there was insufficient data.
   
   Signatory Prof Stanley Perlman, of the University of Iowa, told The
   Telegraph: "It is difficult to eliminate a possible lab leak as part of
   the process, so this still needs to be considered."
   
   Prof Bernard Roizman has gone the furthest of all, telling the Wall
   Street Journal in May that he is now convinced the virus was
   accidentally released by a "sloppy" scientist.
   
   Mr Daszak was removed from the UN's Covid commission looking at the
   origins of the pandemic in June over his scientific impartiality.
   However he is still part of the World Health Organisation Covid
   investigation team.
   
   Earlier this month, he co-authored an article in Nature with the WHO
   team claiming there was still little evidence for a lab leak theory and
   warning that it may soon be too late to get to the bottom of how the
   pandemic started.

   Prof Dalgleish added: "It may now be too late to get to the bottom of
   what happened with the pandemic because of this stalling but I think
   enough evidence is out there. It may be that if they hadn't been doing
   this work [a] pandemic might never have happened."
   
   When approached, the Lancet and Wellcome Trust refused to comment
   further on the letter. Nobody from EcoHealth Alliance had responded at
   the time of publication.
   
   Related Topics
   China, Coronavirus
   
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A comment from https://beforeitsnews.com/opinion-conservative/2021/09/situation-update-so-it-begins-events-happening-fast-trump-really-won-az-we-the-people-must-video-3597562.html   :

   Why would someone render a sheet, which at least should be in a
   720p video resolution, on only one half of the available video
   horizontal width ? Its hence unreadable. So instead we go to the page
   itself :
   
   JUDY BYINGTON:... (YOU NEED TO KNOW) RESTORED REPUBLIC VIA A GCR:
   UPDATE AS OF WEDNESDAY 8 SEPTEMBER 2021
   https://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/forum.cgi?read=181928
   
   Next we pan down to the hayline mentioning the British professor
   Angus Dalgleish and Norwegian scientist Dr Birger Sorensen :
   
   "A British-Norwegian study showed Covid-19 was artificially created
    by Chinese scientists to shut down the world economy as the Deep
    State orchestrated an elaborate cover-up."
   
   One of the many articles mentioning this in the popular reading press
   is here :
   
   'Scientists Silenced and Disappeared': New Study Says China Created
    Virus in Lab, Tried to Cover Tracks
   The 22-page paper to be published in the journal Quarterly Review of
   Biophysics Discovery, pieced together how Chinese scientists built
   the tools to create the virus.
   LAST UPDATED: MAY 31, 2021, 10:27 IST
   https://www.news18.com/news/world/scientists-silenced-and-disappeared-new-study-says-china-created-virus-in-wuhan-lab-tried-to-cover-tracks-3793352.html
     "A new study, quoted by ANI, has found that Chinese scientists
      created the virus in a lab in Wuhan, then tried to cover their
      tracks by reverse-engineering versions of the virus to make it look
      like it evolved naturally from bats.  The novel coronavirus
      SARS-CoV-2 virus has no "credible natural ancestor" and was created
      by Chinese scientists who were working on a "Gain of Function"
      project in a Wuhan lab, the Daily Mail reported on Sunday, citing a
      new research paper by British professor Angus Dalgleish and
      Norwegian scientist Dr Birger Sorensen.  The new research claims
      that scientists took a natural coronavirus "backbone" found in
      Chinese cave bats and spliced onto it a new "spike", turning it
      into the deadly and highly transmissible COVID-19. The paper also
      quotes that researchers found "unique fingerprints" in COVID-19
      samples that they say could only have arisen from manipulation in a
      laboratory."
   
   This was published already on MAY 31, 2021 and not SEP 2, 2021. The
   22-page research paper however has eversince not been in existence and
   is also not found at Quarterly Review of Biophysics Discovery today,
   and evenso not found at the individual researchgate.net pages of the
   two professors :
   
   https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Angus-Dalgleish-2
   https://www.researchgate.net/scientific-contributions/Birger-Sorensen-10296542
   
   There is however a paper listed at Quarterly Review of Biophysics
   Discovery, which strangely enough is not listed by both the Professors
   individual researchgate.net webpages :
   
   Biovacc-19: A Candidate Vaccine for Covid-19 (SARS-CoV-2) Developed
   from Analysis of its General Method of Action for Infectivity
   Birger Sørensen, Andres Susrud, Angus George Dalgleish
   Journal: QRB Discovery / Volume 1 / 2020
   Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 June 2020, e6
   Print publication: 2020
   https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/qrb-discovery/article/biovacc19-a-candidate-vaccine-for-covid19-sarscov2-developed-from-analysis-of-its-general-method-of-action-for-infectivity/DBBC0FA6E3763B0067CAAD8F3363E527
   
   What is interesting though is that Angus Dalgleish was listed as a
   senior consultant to Nigel Farage's UKip :
   
   It's your choice - the EU or NHS: Vote Brexit or we'll LOSE health
   service, warns top doc
   ONE of Britain's leading doctors has joined senior political figures to
   warn that British voters have 50 days to save the NHS by backing Brexit
   in the EU referendum.
   By DAVID MADDOX
   00:00, Wed, May 4, 2016 | UPDATED: 11:15, Wed, May 4, 2016
   https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/666769/save-nhs-eu-referendum-brexit-doctor-warn-Angus-Dalgleish
     "[ ... ]
      With 50 days to go to the historic vote on 23 June senior consultant
      Angus Dalgleish has joined Ukip leader Nigel Farage, Tory Grassroots
      Out and Tory MP Peter Bone, and former Labour Foreign Secretary Lord
      Owen in warning voters that they have a stark choice between keeping
      the NHS or staying in Europe.
      [ ... ]"e

Someone is shitting their pants, as the picture showing Farage and Dalgleish in 2016
was deleted, not only on express.co.uk, but on google cache and archive.org as well ,====

   Here's the DAILY MAIL report :
   
   EXCLUSIVE: COVID-19 'has NO credible natural ancestor' and WAS created
   by Chinese scientists who then tried to cover their tracks with
   'retro-engineering' to make it seem like it naturally arose from bats,
   explosive new study claims
    * An explosive new study claims researchers found 'unique fingerprints'
      in COVID-19 samples that they say could only have arisen from
      manipulation in a laboratory
    * DailyMail.com exclusively obtained the new 22-page paper authored by
      British Professor Angus Dalgleish and Norwegian scientist Dr. Birger
      Sørensen
    * The study showed there's evidence to suggest Chinese scientists created
      the virus while working on a Gain of Function project in a Wuhan lab
    * Gain of Function research, which was temporarily outlawed in the US,
      involves altering naturally-occurring viruses to make them more
      infectious in order to study their potential effects on humans
    * According to the paper, Chinese scientists took a natural coronavirus
      'backbone' found in Chinese cave bats and spliced onto it a new
      'spike', turning it into the deadly and highly transmissible COVID-19
    * The researchers, who concluded that COVID-19 'has no credible natural
      ancestor', also believe scientists reverse-engineered versions of the
      virus to cover up their tracks
    * 'We think that there have been retro-engineered viruses created,'
      Dalgleish told DailyMail.com. 'They've changed the virus, then tried to
      make out it was in a sequence years ago.'
    * The study also points to 'deliberate destruction, concealment or
      contamination of data' in Chinese labs and notes that 'scientists who
      wished to share their findings haven't been able to do so or have
      disappeared'
    * Until recently, most experts had staunchly denied the origins of the
      virus were anything other than a natural infection leaping from animals
      to humans
    * Earlier this week, Dr. Anthony Fauci defended US funding of the Wuhan
      Institute of Virology, saying the $600,000 grant was not approved for
      Gain of Function research
   By JOSH BOSWELL FOR DAILYMAIL.COM
   PUBLISHED: 22:50 BST, 28 May 2021 | UPDATED: 15:32 BST, 10 June 2021
   https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9629563/Chinese-scientists-created-COVID-19-lab-tried-cover-tracks-new-study-claims.html
   
   And searching for the title mentioned in this article "A Reconstructed
   Historical Aetiology of the SARS-Coronavirus-2 Spike" we finally find
   the article, which however was shrunk from a 22 to a 8-page pdf article :

   
   Corpus ID: 227108324
   The Evidence which Suggests that This Is No Naturally Evolved Virus
   A Reconstructed Historical Aetiology of the SARS-CoV-2 Spike
   B. Sørensen, A. Dalgleish, Andres Susrud
   Published 2020
     To discover exactly how to attack SARS-CoV-2 safely and
     efficiently, our vaccine candidate Biovacc-19 was designed by first
     carefully analysing the biochemistry of the Spike. We ascertained
     that it is highly unusual in several respects, unlike any other CoV
     in its clade. The SARS-CoV-2 general mode of action is as a
     co-receptor dependent phagocyte. But data shows that simultaneously
     it is capable of binding to ACE2 receptors in its receptor binding
     domain. In short, SARS-CoV-2 is possessed of... Expand
   https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/The-Evidence-which-Suggests-that-This-Is-No-Evolved-Sørensen-Dalgleish/bae0b5f2cae9f55b0f72349e7964989641a2d71d#citing-papers
   [pdf]https://www.minervanett.no/files/2020/07/13/TheEvidenceNoNaturalEvol.pdf[/pdf]
   https://www.minervanett.no/files/2020/07/13/TheEvidenceNoNaturalEvol.pdf
   
   So why the Rumorr Mill mentions a July 13, 2020 article on their GCR:
   UPDATE AS OF WEDNESDAY 8 SEPTEMBER 2021 webpage, keeps puzzling the
   Before Its News audience.