Science Pulling Together to Avoid Exposing china's Wuhan Responsibility
Science Pulling Together to Avoid Exposing China's Wuhan Responsibility
"These emails show a lamentable lack of openness and transparency among Western scientists who appear to have been more interested in shutting down a hypothesis they thought was very plausible, for political reasons."Viscount Ridley, co-author, Viral: the search for the origin of COVID"He [Prof.Mike Farzan, Scripps Research] is bothered by the furin site and has a hard time [to] explain that as an event outside the lab, though there are possible ways in nature but highly unlikely.""I think this becomes a question of how do you put all this together, whether you believe in this series of coincidences, what you know of the laboratory in Wuhan, how much could be in nature -- accidental release or natural event?""I am 70:30 or 60:40."Jeremy Farrar, director, Wellcome Trust"[The furin cleavage site] strikes me as unusual.""I think the only people with sufficient information or access to samples to address it would be the teams working in Wuhan."Professor Andrew Rambaut, University of Edinburgh"Further debate about such accusations would unnecessarily distract top researchers from their active duties and do unnecessary harm to science in general and science in China in particular."Dr.Ron Fouchier, U.S. biosecurity expert"I share your view that a swift convening of experts in a confidence-inspiring framework is needed or the voices of conspiracy will quickly dominate, doing great potential harm to science and international harmony."Dr.Francis Collins, U.S. National Institutes of Health
Wuhan Institute of Virology: Associated Press |
Harmony,
now that's a word describing a social condition that Beijing is
particularly fond of. Harmony means that suspicions are set aside, along
with accusations. And that includes an entire range of human social
constructs along with state interventions and initiatives, including the
co-opting of sovereign nations into a giant grip as China expands its
own sovereignty in control and command. It includes penalties and
punishment for doubting Beijing's right to exercise its authority within
its sovereign ambit so mass re-education and slave labour is China's
internal business and no other countries'.
And
harmony is best achieved by Beijing's word being taken for what it is
not; trustworthy. The pathogen that has proven so deadly to so many
millions around the globe is a naturally evolving phenomenon, according
to Beijing, a zoonotic pathogen that has roiled the world body like no
other such has before it, on a scale to alter human social interaction,
take down the world economic order, and re-order the global community on
a scale previously unimagined.
Whether
or not it is even proven that the SARS-CoV-2 virus causing COVID-19 and
ultimately all its mutated nuances plaguing the world was a laboratory
escapee from a highly secure lab that was not sufficiently secure is one
thing; China's response to the original virus in containment within
China with little concern for its escape out of China in maintaining
open national borders and accusing other countries of racism for closing
theirs, stands as a special example of abandonment of responsibility.
And
the world's leading scientists in the field of deadly pathogens in the
interests of an open scientific community of trust and cooperation where
scientists from all over the world can freely exchange between
themselves in communicating their latest discoveries is quite wonderful
in theory, but in practise may leave something to be desired; allowing
the world's leading human-rights suppressor and oppressor to go on
denying any role in the mass destruction the world faces.
Elite
British and American scientists appear to have more or less agreed that
COVID-19 likely was an accidental release from a secure laboratory's
explorations in virus attributes and combinations; science is nothing if
not curious and unleashing potentially destructive organisms in the
conceited belief they are more than capable of restraining the results
to a closed laboratory setting does on occasion result in breakaway
accidents; unfortunate occurrences at the mild end, catastrophic in this
particular instance.
Information
has now come to light of the discussions that took place between
scientists of great renown and their opinion of the Wuhan virus that
speedily took over the world. "A likely explanation",
said an email from Jeremy Farrar of the Wellcome Trust focused on
health research based in London being that COVID had evolved rapidly
from a SARS-type virus within human tissue in a low-security laboratory.
This was a communication received by Dr.Anthony Fauci and Dr.Francis
Collins of the U.S. National Institutes of Health, that such evolution
may have "accidentally created a virus primed for rapid transmission between humans".
A
teleconference between a dozen scientists on February 1, 2020 led to a
series of emails, Dr.Farrar's one of them, some refuting the theory of
an escaped virus, urging caution, and others more convinced of the
likelihood of a virus escape. Members of the U.S. House Oversight
committee granted access to the documents led to their becoming publicly
available. The emails are indication that scientists were actively
attempting to close the debate into a laboratory leak theory.
Of
particular concern was a part of COVID-19 called the furin cleavage
site, representing a section of the spike protein aiding the virus entry
into human cells, creating its huge infectiousness capacity. Scientific
institutions in possession of these emails repeatedly spurned outside
efforts to publish their content. The University of Edinburgh as an
example refused a Freedom of Information request to scrutinize
Dr.Rambaut's emails that claimed "disclosure would be likely to endanger the physical or mental health and safety of individuals".
Ilustracija/AFP |
Labels: Beijing, Harmony, Lab Escapee, SARS-CoV-2, Science Collaboration, Wuhan Institute of Virology
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