Early in the COVID pandemic in March 2020, an article in Nature Medicine – known for short as “Proximal Origin” – helped push the lab-leak theory of the origins of COVID-19 to the outer fringes. “We do not believe that any type of lab-based scenario is plausible,” its authors stated. Yet new Slack messages (till 2022) from the Proximal Origin authors show, in late 2021, these influential virologists
* Knew it was plausible that Wuhan scientists had created COVID-19 (genetically modified origin)
* Were still talking to Anthony Fauci’s people about COVID origins.
Proximal Origin author Kristian Andersen even said in June 2020: “Most scientists I talk to believe there is a likely connection to the lab – people that are themselves doing GOF [virus gain-of-function] and culture-type of experiments, they know the risks and don’t seem to think that a natural explanation is more likely”.
You can read researcher Alina Chan’s damning thread here. She comments: “I cannot see how anyone can read these 1000+ pages of slack messages and still walk away thinking these Proximal Origin virologists are the good guys (or even good scientists) in this story.”
Molecular biologist Richard H. Ebright commented on the revelations: “The claim – repeated literally thousands of times by journalists – that most scientists favour a natural origin of COVID and oppose a lab origin of COVID always was a lie. And almost always was a deliberate lie.”
