by Kristian Andersen, The Tenpenny Report:
Incredibly, Andersen et al. turned around and submitted a draft of the Proximal paper to Nature with the exact opposite claims, e.g. that the virus was “NOT human-engineered.”
Is it really presumptuous to say that the authors made a hard pivot to suppress the discussion of the lab leak theory?
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During the hearing, Andersen made it seem that making a 180-degree shift in just a few days from man-made to a natural spillover was simply “textbook science in action.”
When asked about the millions of dollars he received after the publication of Proximal Origin, he said it wasn’t related.
“There is no connection between the grant and the paper. Funding decisions… were made before the pandemic, months before February.”
There is also an allegation that Andersen stated this would also secure his tenure.
With all due respect, Andersen is not trustworthy, he lied under oath a few times. It reminded me of when Dominion President & CEO John Poulos fibbed under sworn testimony before the House Administration Committee on January 9, 2020.
Within hours of receiving the first draft, Dr. Fauci reportedly worried about the possibility of “serial passage” in lab animals and asked the whole group:
“Would serial passage in an animal in the laboratory give the same result as prolonged adaption in animals in the wild? Or is there something that is fundamentally different in what happens when you serial passage versus natural animal adaption?”
Serial passage is the successive transfer of an infectious agent through a series of cultures or experimental animals, usually to attenuate pathogenicity.
Dr. Garry responded,
“It’s possible to fairly rapidly select for more pathogenic variants in the laboratory. ”
Thus confirming Dr. Fauci’s fear of a potential lab leak.
Through its investigation, the Select Subcommittee learned that Dr. Francis Collins pushed for publication and approved the substance of Proximal Origin. However, Virologist Ron Fouchier’s, who had a significant but silent role in shaping the paper, argued against publishing ‘as is’ with any reference to an existing reverse genetic system.
As Husseini points out, if they had mentioned passaging as a possible scenario, they would be opening up a can of worms, along with threatening the future GOF research.
“… I’d have thought Garry and Andersen understood the threat to them from the top and that’s exactly part of the reason Fauci and Farrar wanted them to write the piece,” added Husseini.
In any case, Nature rejected the first draft reportedly because it didn’t downplay the lab leak theory enough.
Consequently, the authors amended their paper.
They also brought in Ian Lipkin for “gravitas.” Dr. Garry testified that Lipkin “…made a nice authorship contribution” and that “he read the paper many times and made some good comments back and forth…”
If you read the substantial messages and emails between the “Bethesda Boys” (Fauci and Collins) and the Proximal authors, you can clearly see for yourself that they were colluding and that this p*andemic was very likely not an incident involving a raccoon dog or pangolin at a wet market. To me it’s as though they were trying to write the best plausible cover-up (albeit mediocre) for non-inquiring minds.
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