• thethirdgracchi [he/him, they/them]
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    4 years ago

    Yes, but as NJR points out (and the very article you linked to includes a quote from!!!), the WHO members on the ground includes Dr Peter Daszak, who has serious conflicts of interest with the investigation, and could have easily led the WHO team away from the "smoking gun."

    Daszak is the head of an NGO called the EcoHealth Alliance, a “global environmental health nonprofit organization dedicated to protecting wildlife and public health from the emergence of disease.” Daszak has worked with the Wuhan Institute of Virology and Dr. Shi for years, and is even listed as the project leader on the NIH proposal to study the “spillover potential” of bat coronaviruses. His organization received $3.7 million from the NIH to study bat coronaviruses, ultimately directing $600,000 of U.S. government funds to the Wuhan Institute. Daszak is intimately connected, then, with the lab that would have been the source of a lab leak, had there been a lab leak. Now here comes the crazy part: Daszak is the only U.S. member of the WHO’s team investigating the origins of COVID-19, and has been appointed by top medical journal The Lancet to chair its team investigating the origins of the virus.

    • richietozier4 [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      he previously worked with them so he must be a puppet of them? And you do realize the Lancet doesn't just fuck around with anyone right?

      • thethirdgracchi [he/him, they/them]
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        4 years ago

        No, he is currently working with them, and is also supposed to be impartially investigating if the virus originated from there! Just connecting the dots, and I think it's very odd that this is never brought up in any mainstream media reporting when using this guy to clear the lab from possibly accidentally releasing something. If this was all out in the open, if he was like "like ok I work with them, appoint somebody else to do this" or at least some acknowledgement, I'd be happy.

        • richietozier4 [he/him]
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          4 years ago

          Ok, let’s look at the facts here:

          • This man was appointed by Trump, not someone inclined to be favorable to China
          • He was one person out of 17
          • he was appointed by the Lancet, one of the most prestigious medical journals in the world, so they aren’t just going to appoint anyone
          • as you said, even the msm, who have every motive to slander China, yet barely pick up on it

          Now let’s look at the proponents of the lab leak theory:

          • Steve Bannon, who faked a paper
          • Donald Trump, who says whatever crosses his tiny little brain at the moment
          • the MSM, who don’t pick up on what looks like an easy gap in the armor, and who’s articles always include disclaimers like: “We have no positive evidence that the lab was involved.”

          You decide who we should believe between the people above, or someone who was on the ground and approved by some of the highest medical bodies in the world

        • richietozier4 [he/him]
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          4 years ago

          The Purpose of USAID is explicitly to topple opposition to america's empire. The Wuhan lab doesn't have "spill viruses" in its MO

      • DetroitLolcat [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        Nobody’s calling him a puppet. CTRL+F the article, the word puppet isn’t there. But to deny that he has a material interest in protecting the lab’s reputation is ridiculous. Science has conflict-of-interest regulations for a reason.

        And The Lancet is the same journal that ignored conflict of interest regulations to print the “vaccines cause autism” article in the 90s, so it’s not like they’re above reproach.

        • richietozier4 [he/him]
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          4 years ago

          sure. but still:

          • This man was appointed by Trump, not someone inclined to be favorable to China
          • He was one person out of 17
          • even the msm, who have every motive to slander China, barely pick up on it

          Now let’s look at the proponents of the lab leak theory:

          • Steve Bannon, who faked a paper
          • Donald Trump, who says whatever crosses his tiny little brain at the moment
          • the MSM, who don’t pick up on what looks like an easy gap in the armor, and who’s articles always include disclaimers like: “We have no positive evidence that the lab was involved.”