Vanity Fair: Government Bureaucrats Warned Other Bureaucrats to Not Look Into Covid's Origins, as It Would "Open a Can of Worms;" Scientists Issued Death Threats to Other Scientists

 

From Ace of Spades:

Do read this narrative-defying expose from Vanity Fair exposing the coordinated efforts of bureaucrats, politicians, and the media to threaten anyone pursuing the lab leak theory.

Let's just start calling it the "Lab Leak Fact."

Now yes, at every turn, they cover for their government pals and Democrat politicians and fellow media propagandists, sayin it's so very understandable that we all collectively acted to censor people and shut down scientific investigation because the Bad Orange Man said something only a fool would dismiss as false, but which could help he get reelected.

So of course we all banded together to suppress science to get Biden elected.

I mean, of course: "elected."

But dismiss that spin and just focus on the facts, which are damning for, yes, the government bureaucrats, the Democrat politicians, and the media -- including our Information Censoring Tech Overlords, social media monopolies.

The Lancet statement organized by Peter Daszak -- through whom Fauci funneled money to the Wuhan lab for gain-of-function research on bat viruses -- effectively shut down all discussion of the Lab Leak Fact by branding anyone who mentioned it a racist who wanted to harass Chinese scientists and Chinese people generally.

... On February 19, 2020, The Lancet, among the most respected and influential medical journals in the world, published a statement that roundly rejected the lab-leak hypothesis, effectively casting it as a xenophobic cousin to climate change denialism and anti-vaxxism. Signed by 27 scientists, the statement expressed "solidarity with all scientists and health professionals in China" and asserted: "We stand together to strongly condemn conspiracy theories suggesting that COVID-19 does not have a natural origin."

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. "Everyone had to follow it. Everyone was intimidated. That set the tone."

GO READ THE WHOLE THING.