A new study was provided to show that the novel coronavirus has formed in Chinese labs, published by a pair of nonprofit groups linked to Steve Bennon, who is now facing fraud charges from Trump.
The study, co-authored by a Chinese virologist who fled Hong Kong this year, claims that “laboratory manipulation is part of the history of SARS-CV-2.” Its conclusions have been quickly picked up by a handful of leading news organizations New York PostWhich hype the “explosive” allegations against the source of the virus, which run counter to virtually all scientific literature.
This study is the rules of the Law Society and the Law Foundation, sister sister nonprofits that are helpful in building bananas. According to documents posted on the Society’s website last year, he served as chairman of the group. There was a non-connection First spot Shared by Kevin Bird, PhD candidate from Michigan State University, and Carl Bergstrom, Professor of Biology, University of Washington The study is called “Strange and baseless.”
A search of Google Scholar and the Law Royal Society’s Law and Law Foundation websites suggests that the institutions have not previously published scientific or medical research, and it is unclear whether the paper has received any peer review. It was posted on the publicly available repository of scientific and educational research on the website Zenodo on Monday, in which anyone can upload their work.
The study was co-produced by the two for-profit country-directed Chinese billionaires Guo Wengui, with whom Ben has collaborated in a number of advocacy efforts targeting the Chinese government and business efforts that have drawn the scrutiny of federal law enforcement officials.
In addition to their work on the nonprofit of the rule of law, Ben Nunn and Guo have also collaborated on a news website, Ji News, which has published stories suggesting that the coronavirus was created by the Chinese military.
In July, Bannon, a scientific study, backed up his controversy that the coronavirus originated in a laboratory in Wuhan, China. He said Rajinda message That laboratory scientists in the U.S. Did “defective” and was collaborating with American intelligence agencies. On the “Battlefield: Epidemic” podcast, Ben Nunn hosts others who have speculated that the virus may be a Chinese “biopin”, but he says he believes the most plausible explanation is that it is “from experiments.” Came out. Ongoing that at the Wuhan Lab.
It is a line that has been echoed by some prominent US officials. Both President Donald Trump and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo have hinted at intelligence reports endorsing that theory. Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) wrote in an April column that “this evidence is conditional, to be sure.” Wall Street Journal“But it all points to Wuhan Labs.”
While an accidental leak from a virology lab in Wuhan is the theoretically possible source of an early outbreak in the city, most of the scientific literature on the virus has determined that its origin was natural, and that it did not build a laboratory. Dr. Trump cutter Anthony Fauci, the Trump administration’s coronavirus point-person, repeatedly emphasizes that all the evidence shows that the virus is not man-made.
The study, published by a group of non-believers on Monday, is therefore particularly incendiary. During Monday’s presentation on the British talk show D This. Scientists named Li-Meng Yan said the virus was not contagious. She called the reports that the virus originated in the Wuhan meat market “smoke screen” designed to obscure its original purpose.
But other virologists disagree and say the paper makes false claims about a number of basic facts. “Basically, it’s all situational and some of it is completely fictional,” Dr. Angela Rasmussen, a virologist at Columbia University, told the Daily Beast of the study.
The paper goes on to claim that the genes for coronaviruses are “suspiciously similar to bats coronaviruses discovered by military laboratories” – a statement Russen says should not come as a surprise because “they are related to coronaviruses like storks.” ”
The study’s authors made a similar claim about a fraction of the SARS-Cavi-2 spike protein – which disrupts and infects virus cells – and wrote that it is similar to the original SARS virus “suspiciously” and suggests genetic manipulation. “SARS-Covey also used ACE2 as a cellular receptor, just as bats, like other SARS, carry coronaviruses,” says Ramsusen. “It is not doubtful and in fact it is expected that the receptor binding domains binding to the same protein will be the same.”
Ramses also said that the paper misrepresents basic facts about the second part of the coronavirus spike protein known as furine cleavage sites. The authors claim that the cleavage site of SARS-Cavi-2 is “unique” and does not appear anywhere else in nature. But according to Ramsesen, “Furin cleavage sites are found naturally in many other beta-cov, including bat coronavirus such as MERS-cov and other SARS.”
Yan said he fled China to avoid retaliation from the government over his allegations that he was not coming forward about the origin and nature of the virus. He said he had warned officials in December that the virus was highly transmissible among humans but that his allegations had been ignored.
The University of Public Health in Hong Kong, where Yan worked, has denied allegations that the university failed to heed its warnings before it erupted in China.
In August, Yan Ban appeared on Nunn’s podcast. During the show, Bennon said he was “still not in the camp that he believes they deliberately let him out but I’ve been in camp from the beginning that he came out of the Wuhan P4 lab.”
The rule of law is not only related to their work with groups, but also to non-non Facing serious crime Attempts by federal prosecutors to extort millions of dollars from a nonprofit seeking private funding for the construction of a wall on the South American border. Ben has pleaded not guilty to the charges.
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