White House ordered NIH to cancel coronavirus research funding, Fauci says

[The Barbarian]

Nobody is claiming that the virus was "genetically engineered in a lab."

Well, let's take a look...

A conspiracy theory about the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic has been debunked thanks in part to a New Orleans virologist.

Robert Garry of Tulane University School of Medicine is the senior author of a newly published study in Nature Medicine that says the virus sweeping across the globe came from nature, not a lab.

Conspiracy theorists have been pushing a narrative for months, falsely implying that the virus was bioengineered — with some claiming it was invented in Wuhan, China, where it was first identified. Politicians, such as U.S. Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Arkansas), and other non-scientists have repeated the claim.

Garry says it’s nonsense. He and a team of international scientists have examined the genetic sequences and protein structures of other types of coronaviruses and compared it with this one. They now have a couple of solid ideas of how COVID-19 came into existence — none of them supporting the claim it was man-made.
Was coronavirus bioengineered in a lab? Tulane scientist debunks this conspiracy theory

 

[Radagast]

Pretty clear. Not from a lab.

Notice the Chinese are making the same excuses as Trump; they're claiming it was made by Americans. For the same reasons.

Nobody is claiming that the virus was "genetically engineered in a lab."

What the evidence supports is that the virus was "accidentally released from a lab, following gain-of-function experiments on naturally occurring viruses in that lab."

So this article is totally beside the point.... or else it's a deliberate smokescreen.

 

[Radagast]

Well, let's take a look...

A conspiracy theory about the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic has been debunked thanks in part to a New Orleans virologist.

Robert Garry of Tulane University School of Medicine is the senior author of a newly published study in Nature Medicine that says the virus sweeping across the globe came from nature, not a lab.

Conspiracy theorists have been pushing a narrative for months, falsely implying that the virus was bioengineered — with some claiming it was invented in Wuhan, China, where it was first identified. Politicians, such as U.S. Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Arkansas), and other non-scientists have repeated the claim.

Garry says it’s nonsense. He and a team of international scientists have examined the genetic sequences and protein structures of other types of coronaviruses and compared it with this one. They now have a couple of solid ideas of how COVID-19 came into existence — none of them supporting the claim it was man-made.
Was coronavirus bioengineered in a lab? Tulane scientist debunks this conspiracy theory

Nobody is claiming that the virus was "genetically engineered in a lab."

What the evidence supports is that the virus was "accidentally released from a lab, following gain-of-function experiments on naturally occurring viruses in that lab."

So this article is totally beside the point.... or else it's a deliberate smokescreen.

 

[The Barbarian]

Nobody is claiming that the virus was "genetically engineered in a lab."

Conspiracy theorists have been pushing a narrative for months, falsely implying that the virus was bioengineered — with some claiming it was invented in Wuhan, China, where it was first identified. Politicians, such as U.S. Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Arkansas), and other non-scientists have repeated the claim.

Garry says it’s nonsense. He and a team of international scientists have examined the genetic sequences and protein structures of other types of coronaviruses and compared it with this one. They now have a couple of solid ideas of how COVID-19 came into existence — none of them supporting the claim it was man-made.
Was coronavirus bioengineered in a lab? Tulane scientist debunks this conspiracy theory

 

[Radagast]

Conspiracy theorists have been pushing a narrative for months, falsely implying that the virus was bioengineered — with some claiming it was invented in Wuhan, China, where it was first identified. Politicians, such as U.S. Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Arkansas), and other non-scientists have repeated the claim.

Garry says it’s nonsense. He and a team of international scientists have examined the genetic sequences and protein structures of other types of coronaviruses and compared it with this one. They now have a couple of solid ideas of how COVID-19 came into existence — none of them supporting the claim it was man-made.
Was coronavirus bioengineered in a lab? Tulane scientist debunks this conspiracy theory

Nobody is claiming that the virus was "genetically engineered in a lab."

What the evidence supports is that the virus was "accidentally released from a lab, following gain-of-function experiments on naturally occurring viruses in that lab."

So this article is totally beside the point.... or else it's a deliberate smokescreen.

 

[The Barbarian]

Nobody is claiming that the virus was "genetically engineered in a lab."

See above. Republican Tom Cotton, for example, is peddling that story.

Coronavirus conspiracy theories

Any type of major world event that imperils a segment of the population is going to result in absurd pushes for real facts, and as such, coronavirus conspiracy theories are cropping up to try and explain what’s “really going on.”


In the case of the Wuhan virus, there are a number of alternate theories spreading through social media in both China and the West. Among other things, they allege that China created the coronavirus in Wuhan in a mysterious “biolab,” that U.S. researchers patented this strain of coronavirus to use as a weapon, that Bill Gates is somehow involved in the pandemic, or that China is suppressing how bad the virus really is.


Could China have created the coronavirus on purpose?

Conspiracy theorists, particularly on Reddit’s r/conspiracy, are running with the idea that because China opened a maximum security biomedical research lab in Wuhan a few years earlier, it must be connected to the viral outbreak—either through an accidental release of a pathogen or the purposeful testing of a weapon.
The Coronavirus Spread Has Helped Incubate Conspiracy Theories

 

[The Barbarian]

What the evidence supports is that the virus was "accidentally released from a lab, following gain-of-function experiments on naturally occurring viruses in that lab."

Sorry, conspiracy theorists. Study concludes COVID-19 'is not a laboratory construct'
Some have suggested the virus is actually an engineered biological attack.
An analysis of the evidence, according to the findings first published in the scientific journal Nature Medicine, shows that the novel coronavirus "is not a laboratory construct or a purposefully manipulated virus," with the researchers concluding "we do not believe that any type of laboratory-based scenario is plausible."

"There’s a lot of speculation and conspiracy theories that went to a pretty high level," Dr. Robert Garry, a professor at the Tulane University School of Medicine and one of the authors of the study, told ABC News, "so we felt it was important to get a team together to examine evidence of this new coronavirus to determine what we could about the origin."
Sorry, conspiracy theorists. Study concludes COVID-19 'is not a laboratory construct'

 

[Radagast]

See above. Republican Tom Cotton, for example, is peddling that story.

Coronavirus conspiracy theories

Any type of major world event that imperils a segment of the population is going to result in absurd pushes for real facts, and as such, coronavirus conspiracy theories are cropping up to try and explain what’s “really going on.”


In the case of the Wuhan virus, there are a number of alternate theories spreading through social media in both China and the West. Among other things, they allege that China created the coronavirus in Wuhan in a mysterious “biolab,” that U.S. researchers patented this strain of coronavirus to use as a weapon, that Bill Gates is somehow involved in the pandemic, or that China is suppressing how bad the virus really is.


Could China have created the coronavirus on purpose?

Conspiracy theorists, particularly on Reddit’s r/conspiracy, are running with the idea that because China opened a maximum security biomedical research lab in Wuhan a few years earlier, it must be connected to the viral outbreak—either through an accidental release of a pathogen or the purposeful testing of a weapon.
The Coronavirus Spread Has Helped Incubate Conspiracy Theories

Nobody is claiming that the virus was "genetically engineered in a lab."

What the evidence supports is that the virus was "accidentally released from a lab, following gain-of-function experiments on naturally occurring viruses in that lab."

So this article is totally beside the point.... or else it's a deliberate smokescreen.

 

[Radagast]

Sorry, conspiracy theorists. Study concludes COVID-19 'is not a laboratory construct'
Some have suggested the virus is actually an engineered biological attack.
An analysis of the evidence, according to the findings first published in the scientific journal Nature Medicine, shows that the novel coronavirus "is not a laboratory construct or a purposefully manipulated virus," with the researchers concluding "we do not believe that any type of laboratory-based scenario is plausible."

"There’s a lot of speculation and conspiracy theories that went to a pretty high level," Dr. Robert Garry, a professor at the Tulane University School of Medicine and one of the authors of the study, told ABC News, "so we felt it was important to get a team together to examine evidence of this new coronavirus to determine what we could about the origin."
Sorry, conspiracy theorists. Study concludes COVID-19 'is not a laboratory construct'

Nobody is claiming that the virus was "genetically engineered in a lab."

What the evidence supports is that the virus was "accidentally released from a lab, following gain-of-function experiments on naturally occurring viruses in that lab."

So this article is totally beside the point.... or else it's a deliberate smokescreen.

 

[The Barbarian]

Nobody is claiming that the virus was "genetically engineered in a lab."

How did you think "Among other things, they allege that China created the coronavirus in Wuhan in a mysterious biolab,?"

What the evidence supports is that the virus was "accidentally released from a lab, following gain-of-function experiments on naturally occurring viruses in that lab."

Well, let's see what American scientists have found...

Sorry, conspiracy theorists. Study concludes COVID-19 'is not a laboratory construct'
Some have suggested the virus is actually an engineered biological attack.
An analysis of the evidence, according to the findings first published in the scientific journal Nature Medicine, shows that the novel coronavirus "is not a laboratory construct or a purposefully manipulated virus," with the researchers concluding "we do not believe that any type of laboratory-based scenario is plausible."

So that story is debunked.