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2025

July 30, 2025 – The Conversation: How conspiracy theories about COVID’s origins are hampering our ability to prevent the next pandemic – READ, Popular Rationalism: Lab-Origin Denialists Are… Denying Lab Origin… Over, and Over, and Over, and Over… – CREDIT

• Edward Holmes, Andrew Rambaut, Kristian Andersen, and Robert Garry—key authors of the discredited 2020 Proximal Origin paper—repeat their thesis under the headline: “How conspiracy theories about COVID’s origins are hampering our ability to prevent the next pandemic.” …The authors …invoke consistency of narrative as a stand-in for scientific rigor.” – REF

• The report concluded that although we don’t know conclusively where the virus that caused the pandemic came from: “a zoonotic origin with spillover from animals to humans is currently considered the best supported hypothesis.”

June 27, 2025 – WHO: WHO Scientific advisory group issues report on origins of COVID-19 – READ, ARCHIVE

• Developed by the Scientific Advisory Group for the Origins of Novel Pathogens (SAGO): Independent assessment of the origins of SARS‑CoV‑2 –READ

July 8, 2025 – Daily Caller: EXCLUSIVE: USAID Quietly Sent Thousands Of Viruses To Chinese Military-Linked Biolab – READ, Gateway Pundit – CREDIT

• “The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) shipped thousands of viral samples to a lab in Wuhan over the course of a 10-year program even though it had no formal agreement with the lab in place, according to previously unreported documents.”…The documents show that USAID funded the exportation of 11,000 samples from Yunnan Province…” [Bat coronaviurses!]
• “USAID’s sample dispensation plan for China is sparse: “No need [sic] information from Yunnan. They were never an official lab partner for PREDICT. All samples they helped collected [sic] are sent to, tested, and stored in Wuhan.””

May 21, 2025 – Daily Sceptic: Is This the Experiment that Started the Pandemic? – READ, Jim Haslam – CREDIT, CREDIT

• Revealing “meeting of the biosafety committee of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on February 6th 2019…They show an experiment proposed by leading coronavirus specialist Ralph Baric, whose work has been implicated in the origin of the COVID-19 virus.”
• “Experiment number 56023 (found on p274 of the FOI obtained by US Right to Know) is the key one: “The aim of this experiment is to mutate the sequences… with the goal of rescuing wildtype replication and virulence in the attenuated CRG7 mutant strain.”
• CRG7 is a SARS-like virus engineered by Baric and his lab colleagues at UNC – a “rewired SARS-CoV mutant”, as he put it – which first appeared in his October 29, 2018 Nature paper ‘Evaluation of a recombination-resistant coronavirus as a broadly applicable, rapidly implementable vaccine platform‘.
• “Duke geneticist Dr Tony VanDongen calls UGGUCGC Baric’s “signature” because it was his novel way of stopping attenuated viruses reverting.”
• The full sequence of CRG7 has yet to be published by Baric

February 3, 2025 – Washington Examiner: Lab leak confirmation ends the era of noble COVID-19 lies – READ

2024

September 5, 2024 – WHO Media Breifing – WATCH – the still don’t know where the SARS-CoV-2 virus originated –READ, CREDIT

• “We still don’t know how the COVID-19 pandemic began, and unfortunately, the work to understand its origins remains unfinished” – TWEET
• REMINDER March 30, 2021 – Guardian: Covid probably passed to humans from bats via other animal, finds WHO report – READ
  • “Experts believe the Sars-CoV-2 virus that causes the Covid-19 disease originally came from bats.”
  • “Meanwhile, claims promoted by the former US president Donald Trump’s administration that the virus escaped from a research lab were judged “extremely unlikely””

August 2, 2024 – Daily Clout | Pfizer Documents: Report 101: Gain-of-Function Research and Origin of SARS-CoV-2, the Virus That Causes COVID-19 by Corinne A. Michels – READ, Pfizer document reports – HERE

• “After years of half-truths and outright falsehoods, facts are emerging about SARS-CoV-2’s origins. The Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) purged important genome sequence information from its servers and was not forthcoming regarding their research, so complete details will never be known. Enough can be pieced together for objective molecular geneticists to uncover the likely process used to create the pathogen, and the preponderance of the evidence supports the lab leak hypothesis.”
• “Why U.S. health agencies worked so hard to discredit the lab leak hypothesis remains an important question…”
• “…the public remains prey to continued cover-ups and lies put forth by the government to explain what happened. Creating SARS-CoV-2 required multiple complex sequence changes that could not have happened by random genetic mutation in a natural setting. It is important to understand this if we are to unravel the COVID-19 fiasco.”
• “Mutations that prevent the protein from functioning are called “loss-of-function” mutations….“Gain-of-function” mutations expand the capability of the encoded protein without affecting its ability to carry out the original function….It should be noted that, in the true sense of the term, gain-of-function mutations retain their original function.”
• “SARS-CoV-2 and BatCoV-RaTG13 Spike protein sequences are nearly identical despite host differences — S1 and S2 sections of Spike are 96% and 100% identical, respectively.”
• Findings “suggest a complex, multi-step process origin for SARS-CoV-2 not easily explained by natural processes.”
• “When geneticists looked carefully at the SARS-CoV-2 Spike protein sequence, they found it to still carry the sequence hallmarks of its laboratory creation. This information was withheld from the public.”
• “Since the ability to infect a reservoir host is not retained, the research to create SARS-CoV-2 is not gain-of-function research in the true sense of the term but, rather, “replacement of a functional domain.” The above discussion explains how these somewhat contradictory statements can be considered truthful. Nonetheless, these NIH leaders are using semantics and obfuscation to deflect responsibility for their actions.”

May 22, 2024 – US Right to Know: Fauci aide triggers deeper concerns about hidden emails on COVID origins – READ, Dr Malone: Wrongdoing and Illegal Activity by Dr. Fauci’s Senior Scientific Advisor – CREDIT

• US Oversight: A Hearing with the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Senior Scientific Advisor, Dr. David Morens – READ, WATCH
• “Allegations of Wrongdoing and Illegal Activity by Dr. David Morens, Senior Advisor to National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases former-Director, Dr. Anthony Fauci” (incl. screenshots of emails) – PDF
• Morens strategically and intentionally avoided FOIA – strategically misspell keywords, and that “Fauci apparently used a private Gmail account and that Morens used a Proton Mail account in addition to his Gmail account.”
• “…possibility of concealed or destroyed emails concerning connections between the institute and the Wuhan Institute of Virology”

May 17, 2024 – Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic| Hearing Wrap Up: NIH Refutes EcoHealth’s Testimony, Tabak Reveals Federal Grant Procedures in Need of Serious Reform – READ, CREDIT

• “Overseeing the Overseers: A Hearing with NIH Deputy Director Lawrence Tabak” to examine the National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) process for funding and overseeing scientific research as well as investigate NIH’s relationship with EcoHealth Alliance, Inc. (EcoHealth).

“It depends on your definition of gain-of-function research. If you’re speaking about the generic term, yes, we did…the generic term is research that goes on in many, many labs around the country. It is not regulated. And the reason it’s not regulated is it poses no threat or harm to anybody.”

National Institutes of Health (NIH) Principal Deputy Director Lawrence Tabak

• “Rep. Rich McCormick (R-Ga.), M.D., proved that EcoHealth violated the terms of its NIH grant when it failed to produce “laboratory notebooks” with information about the WIV’s gain-of-function research. On May 1, Dr. Daszak falsely testified that he was not required to produce these notebooks as a condition of his grant.”

May 16, 2024 – NY Post: NIH official finally admits taxpayers funded gain-of-function research in Wuhan — after years of denials – READ

March 7, 2024 – The Highwire Ep 360: The Business of Science – FULL, SENATOR RAND PAUL: EXPOSING THE COVID COVER-UP – on Fauci, GoF and the Lab Leak – WATCH

January 19, 2024 – Disinformation Chronicle Substack: US DOCUMENTS released by congressional committee: Chinese Researcher Who Mapped COVID Virus Two Weeks Before China Released Sequence Was on Anthony Fauci’s Payroll – NIH officials refuse to explain how much salary they provided to Chinese researcher Lili Ren, a co-investigator with Peter Daszak of EcoHealth Alliance. – READ

• January 17, 2024 – WSJ: Chinese Lab Mapped Deadly Coronavirus Two Weeks Before Beijing Told the World, Documents Show – READ
• Docs show that Lili Ren first uploaded the COVID virus sequence to the NIH’s GenBank on December 28, 2019, two weeks before scientists celebrated China’s release of the genetic sequence on January 11, 2020

January 18, 2024 – US Right to Know | Emily Kopp: US scientists proposed to make viruses with unique features of SARS-CoV-2 in Wuhan – READ, Chronos by MacKenzie Substack: Documents Reveal Disturbing Insights into SARS-CoV-2 Research – CREDIT, Arkmedic: Smoking glove – READ

• “American scientists planned to work with the Wuhan Institute of Virology to engineer novel coronaviruses with the features of SARS-CoV-2 the year before the virus emerged from that city, according to documents obtained by U.S. Right to Know.” – Project DEFUSE – PDF
  • (Sen Rand Paul The Highwire Ep 362 – the smoking gun – EXCERPT)
• Dec 5, 2023 – US Right to Know Letter from U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) under FOIA – PDF
  • Communications from March 2017 b/ Dr Tonie Rocke, a government research epidemiologist at the National Wildlife Health Center to EcoHealthAlliance, WIV, with terms “PREEMPT” and “DEFUSE”
• Documents predating pandemic show US and Wuhan scientists aimed to strategically insert furin cleavage sites in the spike protein of SARS-CoV-2 like coronavirus’. The documents delve into the scientists’ fascination with the receptor binding domain –
• The takeaway “Ecohealth, the people who were accused of making the Wuhan virus, were found to have ordered a very specific splicing enzyme [BsmBI] that was identified in a publication in 2022 that showed that whoever had used this enzyme to splice viruses likely created the COVID (SARS-CoV-2) virus.” – aka The smoking glove – Arkmedic REF
  • The FOIA documents contain the “order form for R0580L, which is the BsmBI restriction enzyme” under the heading “DEFUSE proposal for creating [chimeric] bat coronaviruses that EcoHealth Alliance and the Department of Defence denied went ahead. They said it had been cancelled. Yet they ordered reagents for the project.”

January 17, 2024 – US govt: E&C Investigation Uncovers Earliest Known SARS-CoV-2 Sequence Released Outside of China – READ, CREDIT

January 16, 2024 – Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Statistics did not prove that the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market was the early epicentre of the COVID-19 pandemic – Stoyan & Chiu – READ, CREDIT, Spektrum.de – READ

• Serious statistical errors in the widely cited Science Magazine’s 2022 study by Worobey, Garry, Holmes, Andersen et al who claim the Huanan seafood market in Wuhan is the place of origin of the COVID-19 pandemic virus – is “invalid” and based on “flawed” statistics. “Their statistical arguments are not convincing and do not provide sufficient evidence to support the claim that the market was the early epicenter,” write mathematician Dietrich Stoyan from TU Bergakademie Freiberg and his colleague Sung Nok Chiu from Hong Kong Baptist University” – REF
• “Michael Worobey from the University of Arizona and his team carried out a statistical analysis, among other things, with the conclusion that the pandemic began in the Huanan market. The study has now been downloaded more than 400,000 times, cited by 260 other scientific publications, and has also made headlines in the press.” …”misapplied statistics can also have serious consequences” [i.e. media fodder!], “the two mathematicians have shown that the statistical arguments of the “Science” study are not tenable.” – REF

2023

November 30, 2023 – Dr Malone Substack: Limited Hangout: Robert Kadlec Forced to Cover for Fauci? (Watch Sky News report) – READ, Bannons War Room – WATCH

November 29, 2023 – Dr Malone Substack: Dr Kadlec Admits Covering Up the COVID-19 Origins. – Done to protect the Gain of Function programs and their own asses as revealed in Sky News Australia interview this week – READ, Sky News – READ

• Dr Robert Kadlec is responsible for the creation of the COVID-19 vaccine development program Operation Warp Speed.
• May 14, 2020 – The Last Am. Vagabond: Head of the Hydra: The Rise of Robert Kadlec – READ
  • Kadlec with ties to “the founder of a “life sciences” company first known as BioPort and now called Emergent Biosolutions“
  • “…his decades-long career in shaping U.S. “biodefense” policy was directly enabled by his deep ties to intelligence, Big Pharma, the Pentagon and a host of corrupt yet powerful characters.”
  • “Kadlec assures us, however, that the fact that he now holds the very office he worked so long to create is merely a coincidence.”…It was all a random twist of fate, Kadlec asserts, that saw him occupy ASPR at this crucial moment in U.S. history.” “Kadlec now leads the coronavirus response for all of HHS”
  • “Kadlec is shown to hail from a tight-knit group of “bioterror alarmists” in government and the private sector…”

November 28, 2023 – Sky News: CIA analysts were ‘bribed to change position’ on COVID-19 origins as Fauci led ‘orchestrated’ effort to undermine lab-leak origin theory – READ, CREDIT

• A new Sky News Australia documentary reveals further evidence of the “orchestrated effort” to push the narrative that COVID-19 had natural origins, despite intelligence officials saying it “most likely” leaked out of the Wuhan Institute of Virology.

November 16, 2023 – Bannons War Room: Natalie Winters Unpacks Fauci-Funded COVID Cover-Up Ringleader Peter Daszak’s Congressional Testimony – “we’ve known this stuff for years” – WATCH, The Spectator – READ

• Peter Daszak’s 9.5 Hour Deposition to the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic – TWEET

October 24, 2023 – Daily Mail: REVEALED: Anthony Fauci-run lab in MONTANA experimented with coronavirus strain shipped in from Wuhan a year BEFORE Covid pandemic began – READ, Dr Wolf reports – WATCH

• SARS-CoV Coronavirus shipped from Wuhan lab to Montana virus lab to infect bats.
• RE: December 19, 2018 – Viruses Journal: SARS-Like Coronavirus WIV1-CoV Does Not Replicate in Egyptian Fruit Bats (Rousettus aegyptiacus) – by Doremalen et al including Ralph Baric – READ

October 25, 2023 – Meryl Nass Substack: Natural origin was CRITICAL to the entire global takeover – READ

• How else could you intimately link “Climate Change” with pandemics?

October 14, 2023 – Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic on X: Dr. David Morens — a close advisor to Dr. Fauci — likely used his personal email to delete COVID origins documents & evade FOIA laws. – TWEET

September 27, 2023 – NY Post: Fauci ​​secretly went to CIA HQ to ‘influence’ COVID-19 origins probe, House Republican alleges – READ

September 12, 2023 – NY Post: CIA tried to pay off analysts to bury findings that COVID lab leak was likely: new whistleblower testimony to Congress alleges- READ

September 14, 2023 – The Highwire Ep 337: – FULL, – STUNNING ANALYSIS: Were Omicron variants man-made? –WATCH

September 12, 2023 – Daily Mail: CIA whistleblower claims agency ‘BRIBED’ their own analysts to say COVID did NOT come from Wuhan: Bombshell Republican report exposes alleged virus origins cover-up – READ, Science Magazine – READ, Natalie Winters – WATCH,

September 12, 2023 – NY Post: CIA tried to pay off analysts to bury findings that COVID lab leak was likely: whistleblower (Letter) – READ

September 12, 2023 – Fox News: Whistleblower alleges CIA offered officials money to change view of COVID origins – Intel community has not concluded whether COVID was spurred by a lab leak or natural exposure – Fauci – WATCH

August 27, 2023 – Sasha Latypova Substack: Chief of Nuclear, Chemical, and Biological Defense of the Russian Federation Lt General Igor Kirillov speaks about U.S. bioweapons activity – Parsing out facts, fiction, narratives, and reading between the lines – READ

August 15, 2023 – Ask Dr Drew Show: Illegal Biolab in Reedley, California: Escaped Virologist Warns Of CCP Spy Links w/ Dr. Li-meng Yan – WATCH

July 29, 2023 – The Weekend Australian: Covid cover-up: how science was silenced by Sharri Markson – READ an excerpt, CREDIT, ABC journalist on Hot Mic- TWEET

• Dr Robert Kadlec’s, (Fauci’s boss) first media interview stated “We think vaccine research …was the proximate cause“.

July 25, 2023 – Mid-Valley Times: Investigation on Reedley building uncovers bio, health hazards – A code enforcement checkup leads to the discovery of an illegal lab, COVID-19 and pregnancy test kits, infectious agents and upwards of 1,000 white mice at 850 I Street – ARCHIVE, NBC News – READ, California Globe – READ, Wuhan 2.0 – READ

• “When Reedley code enforcement officers investigated a warehouse at 850 I Street on March 3 over an illegally attached garden hose, they had no idea what massive medical violations they would go on to uncover. 
• Zero Hedge: “I’ve Never Seen Anything Like This” – Mysterious Chinese Bio-Lab Discovered In Remote California City – Why would a bio-lab run by a shady Chinese company be operating in Reedley, CA in the central San Joaquin Valley? – READ

July 19, 2023 – Public Substack: Top Scientists Misled Congress About Covid Origins, Newly Released Emails And Messages Show – Top advisor to Anthony Fauci still thought a lab leak was possible in April 2020, one month after claiming publicly that it wasn’t – READ, CREDIT

• “Proximal Origin” authors’ private statements contradicting their scientific conclusions. “Public and Racket [Substack authors] have obtained hundreds of previously unreleased email and Slack direct messages which cover the period when Andersen and his colleagues collaborated to write “Proximal Origin.””
• The private communications “show that Andersen and his colleagues clearly thought it was indeed possible not only that the virus that causes Covid-19 had leaked from the Wuhan Institute of Virology, but specifically that it had been cultured in the laboratory.”

“The lab escape version of this is so friggin likely to have happened because they were already doing this type of work & the molecular data is fully consistent with that scenario.”Kristen Andersen (Feb 1, 2020)

July 18, 2023 – NY Times: Biden Administration Moves to Ban Funding for Wuhan Lab – “10-year ban on funding for the Wuhan Institute of Virology” to “mitigate any potential public health risk.” – READ, CREDIT

• Official HHS Action Referral Memorandum – PDF, ARCHIVE

“On behalf of the United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), I hereby suspend and propose the debarment of Wuhan Institute of Virology, Chinese Academy of Sciences Capital Construction (“WIV” from participating in United States Federal Government procurement and nonprocurement programs.HHS memo

July 14, 2023 – WarRoom Battleground EP 333: Natalie Winters Explains Fauci Email Detailing How They Would Quash A Lab Leak Theory – EXCERPT, FULL

• Referencing a Feb 1, 2020 email from Anthony Fauci to other people in the NIH discussing how they would artificially select a group of experts to quash the lab leak theory and advocate in favour of the “natural” origin – to absolve the CCP and WIV of blame!

“The suspicion was heightened by the fact that scientists in Wuhan University are known to have been working on Gain of Function experiments to determine the molecular mechanisms associated with bat viruses adapting to human infection and the outbreak originated in Wuhan..”Read by Natalie Winters, quoting from Fauci’s email

July 12, 2023 – Vigilant Fox | Excerpt from Jesse Watters Primetime: Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: The U.S. Won’t Investigate the Wuhan Lab Because the U.S. Funded the Wuhan Lab – WATCH, TWEET

And we did a very, very big technology transfer of bioweapons technology to the Wuhan lab. Bioweapons technology that was developed at NIH expense. I think the CIA was [certainly] involved in this research. They were funding it through USAID. And NIH, I think, in the end, gave about $26 million in funding to the Wuhan Lab. But USAID, which was functioning as a CIA surrogate, gave over $64 million. And the Pentagon also gave a lot of money.”Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

• February 20, 2020 – Alex Jones interview with Dr. Francis A. Boyle already exposed the bioweapon technology – WATCH, CREDIT

July 11, 2023 – NY Post: Scientists downplayed COVID lab leak theory for fear of ‘s–tshow’ if China was deemed responsible for releasing virus: panel – READ

July 11, 2023 – Washington Examiner: NIH officials were involved in downplaying lab leak possibility, GOP report finds – READ

• “Lamenting the political consequences of their research, author Andrew Rambaut said in private communications on Feb. 2 [2020]: “Given the s*** show that would happen if anyone serious accused the Chinese of even accidental release, my feeling is we should say that given there is no evidence of a specifically engineered virus, we cannot possibly distinguish between natural evolution and escape so we are content with ascribing it to natural process.”

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