The second influential publication to reject the possibility of leakage of the laboratory was letter Published at the beginning of 2020 in Lancet. The letter that described the idea as the theory of conspiracy seemed to be the work of a group of independent scientists. It was something other than. Thanks Requests for a public document According to us, the public later learned that in the scenes Peter Daszak, President EcoHealth, he developed and sent the letter while strategicing how to hide his traces and tell signatories that “will not be identifiable as a one of the organizations or persons.” Lancet later published Appendix The publication of Daszak’s conflict of interest as a collaborator of the Wuhan Laboratory, but the magazine did not look this letter.
And they had help. Thank you more of a public record request and ConquestThe public learned that David Morens, head of scientific advisor Fauci in Nih, wrote Daszak that he learned how to make “E -Maily disappears“Especially e -mail about pandemic origin. “We are all clever enough to know that we will never have smoking weapons, and if we did it, we wouldn’t put them in the e -mails and if we found them, remove them,” he wrote.
It’s not hard Imagine how he could initiate an attempt at a legitimate debate. Some of the loudest supporters of the theory of laboratory leaks were not only seriously carried out, they acted in a terrible faith, and, using a debate on pandemic origin, attacked the legitimate, beneficial science to attract public opinion to attract attention. For scientists and public health officials, cars can circle and strengthen anyone who dared disagree, could look like a reasonable defensive strategy.
This is also the reason why it could be tempting for those officials or organizations that represent to avoid too closely looking at the mistakes they have made, in the ways that, when trying to work, can detain relevant information and even leave the public. Such self -confident is now especially unpleasant as An uncomfortable child died of measles And the anti-Vaccineční nonsense is exhausted by the highlight of the federal government. But the clumsy, misleading efforts like this was not just failed, it failed. These half -truths and strategic frauds made it easier for people with the worst motifs to look credible and discredited important institutions where many work seriously in the public interest.
After several persecuted journalists brought a small non -profit organization that monitored applications for freedom of information and an independent group of scientists, followed by a congress investigation, Biden administration finally banned ECOHEALT of all federal grants for five years.
