The scientists delayed the probe into the leak of the Wuhan bio-engineered Covid virus, and continued to lie and cover for the ChiComs because of their hatred of President Trump and accusations of “racism”. They really can’t call themselves “scientists”. They’re political hacks.
A scientist that signed onto a letter recently backing a probe in the possibility that the coronavirus pandemic originated from the Wuhan Institute of Virology admitted in an interview this week that she and other scientists did not come forward sooner to back the possibility that the pandemic originated in a lab because they did not want “to be associated with Trump.”
NBC News reports:
“Chan was one of 18 scientists who published a letter in the journal Science last month calling for a more in-depth investigation into the virus’s origin that takes into account theories about both natural occurrence and laboratory spillovers. The letter helped kick-start a new round of calls to investigate the “lab leak hypothesis,” including demands from President Joe Biden and several leading scientists”
The report noted that numerous experts in the field have said that little-to-no evidence has emerged over the last year or so and that the only thing that has changed is the “context and circumstances” around the debate of the pandemic’s origins.
The report continued:
“Chan said there had been trepidation among some scientists about publicly discussing the lab leak hypothesis for fear that their words could be misconstrued or used to support racist rhetoric about how the coronavirus emerged. Trump fueled accusations that the Wuhan Institute of Virology, a research lab in the city where the first Covid-19 cases were reported, was connected to the outbreak…:
“At the time, it was scarier to be associated with Trump and to become a tool for racists, so people didn’t want to publicly call for an investigation into lab origins,” Chan claimed in the interview.
Scientists rushed to downplay the possibility that the pandemic could have originated in the lab by publishing a letter in The Lancet that cast it “as a xenophobic cousin to climate change denialism and anti-vaxxism,” Vanity Fair reported. “The Lancet statement effectively ended the debate over COVID-19’s origins before it began.”
“To Gilles Demaneuf, following along from the sidelines, it was as if it had been ‘nailed to the church doors,’ establishing the natural origin theory as orthodoxy,” the report added. “‘Everyone had to follow it. Everyone was intimidated. That set the tone.’”
Former CDC Director Robert Redfield said this week that he believes that the pandemic originated in the lab and that those who moved to shut down the lab leak theory were “very anti-science.”
Redfield received death threats for discussing the probability of the lab origin.
Biden shut down the probe because admitting the the virus was a ChiCom lab concoction would have ruined the ‘blame Trump’ narrative. The Biden Crime family has a lot invested into their ChiCom business deals and Anthony Fauci, the unethical incompetent liar, funneled American tax dollars into the Wuhan lab himself. He insisted that the risk of a pathogen escaping the lab “was worth it”.
And of course, the ‘woke’ libs at the New York Times wanted to make sure everyone knew that calling it after the place of origin is “racist”.
Trump was right but the unhinged leftwing mob couldn’t force themselves to find the truth for truth’s sake.