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Dec 19, 2023

FOIA Docs: Bio Researchers Lied to Pentagon in Scheme to Direct Money to Wuhan Lab

A 2018 research proposal called DEFUSE called for synthesizing
spike proteins with furin cleavage sites — the same feature that
supercharged SARS-CoV-2 into the most infectious pandemic
pathogen in a century. (Photo credit: Unsplash)

A new report chronicles a scheme by U.S. bio-researchers to mislead the Pentagon's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) office in a 2018 grant proposal, Project DEFUSE, to direct American monies to a secret Chinese lab conducting unsafe coronavirus research in Wuhan.

The report which is being blacked-out by American corporate media, is authored by Emily Kopp, a reporter at U.S. Right to Know.

Ms. Kopp analyzed documents obtained by U.S. Right to Know, via a Freedom of Information Act request to the U.S. Geological Survey. Read all of the documents here.

Writes Kopp:

American researchers concealed their intention to conduct high-risk coronavirus research in Wuhan under lax safety standards from the Pentagon the year before the COVID-19 pandemic, according to documents obtained by U.S. Right to Know.
A 2018 grant proposal called Project DEFUSE, coauthored by the Wuhan Institute of Virology and American scientists, has stoked concern that the pandemic resulted from a lab accident.
It proposed engineering high-risk coronaviruses of the same species as SARS and SARS-CoV-2. Most worrying to some scientists: The proposal involved synthesizing spike proteins with furin cleavage sites — the same feature that supercharged SARS-CoV-2 into the most infectious pandemic pathogen in a century. Indeed, some scientists have likened DEFUSE to a blueprint for generating SARS-CoV-2 in the lab.

The report can be read as politically shielding the Pentagon from much blame in supporting bio-research gone bad, as DARPA turned down the 2018 grant proposal, Project DEFUSE; and the two American bio researchers appear to conspire to mislead DARPA, the documents show.

EcoHealth Alliance currently is receiving $25 million in Department of Defense grants and contracts, despite having conspired to defraud the Department of Defense and likely having caused a pandemic that killed 20 million and cost $25 trillion.pic.twitter.com/IcFctdd3ZG
— Richard H. Ebright (@R_H_Ebright) December 19, 2023

Sep 22, 2023

BioSafety Group Launches Search Engine on COVID-19 Origins FOIA Documents

OriginSearch.io is an open-search engine on FOIA-ed
collection of documents relevant to investigating origins of
COVID-19, notes the search engine webpage.

The BioSafety Now research group has launched a search engine that uses keywords to comb through some 75,000 pages of often censored documents the U.S. government has allowed the public to view after FOIA requests.

OriginSearch.io is a "simple (open-search) search engine on the collection of documents relevant to investigating the origin of COVID-19," notes the search engine webpage.

Many of these heretofore government-held documents were obtained through FOIA requests filed by organizations such as USRTK (U.S. Right to Know), The Intercept, and White Coat Waste Project.

The Biden administration has consistently worked to keep COVID-19 origins information secret, and government-funded researchers have systemically mislead the public on COVID 19 origins questions.

This secrecy commitment comes over public-interest groups' and Republican Party objections, as the administration censored and banned Covid 19 information the government and its political allies falsely branded as misinformation, disinformation and malinformation.

NEW RESOURCE - https://t.co/McDASz6rCS, a search engine on documents relevant to the origin of COVID-19.

Search for an exact word or phrase in >75,000 pages of documents obtained through FOIA by @USRightToKnow, @theintercept, @WhiteCoatWaste, and othershttps://t.co/bmCMLJPwdV
— Biosafety Now! (@BiosafetyNow) September 22, 2023

Jul 27, 2023

Scientists Want Retraction, Bio-Reserch Fraud Revealed amid Democrat Thought Control Failure

Democrats' Big Lie Draws Wide Ridicule Now

Democrat Party-U.S. government work to promote discredited Wuhan animal-market explanations of Covid 19 origins demonstrates anew America is an indoctrinated society, to a degree that might astonish Orwell and Chomsky.

The Democrat Party-led censorship regime rises as this political party (with no dissent) works with public health, bio-research and an array of military-intel agencies to brand media airing of lab-engineered SARS-CoV-2 hypotheses as conspiracy theory, malinformation, misinformation, and disinformation.

Lab leak became forbidden thought in 2020, and the Biden Administration formally launched its Disinformation Governance Board using current assets in 2022, then quickly backed down after widespread mockery deriding a governmental Ministry of Truth made the administration look ridiculous.

Biden and the Democrats became so isolated and removed from everyday America, they were convinced they could get away with this disinformation charade, though thought control persists.

As corporate media remains well under control; social media banning, censorship, and character assassination exploded as prominent mention of Chinese lab-engineered SARS-like virus explanations — adopted by the FBI and U.S. Dept of Energy, leaked documents show — drew government-corporate censure on a par with thought crimes.

The Covid 19 thought control project has failed.

Most Americans believe, at least provisionally, that an engineered virus that inadvertently leaked from a Wuhan lab caused the emergence of SARS-CoV-2.

But it required much work, much fraud, to launch and sustain the huge lie that is gas-lighting Americans.

Accountability is being pursued now.

Comes an open letter this week from BioSafety, a non-profit dedicated to "a future free of lab-generated pandemics, a future where reckless research on pathogens is ended, and a future where public trust in science is restored."

"Our Mission is to demand national- and international-level restrictions, regulations, and oversight to reduce the risks to the public posed by enhanced potential pandemic pathogens research."

Recent reporting and leaks show the prominent Proximal Origin of SARS-CoV-2 paper published in Nature Medicine in early 2020, was intended to black out origins questions, and launch the branding of any question as conspiracy theory fare.

There you have it, folks.

Virologists most likely created SARS-CoV-2, and this was evident in January 2020.

The Three Stooges of modern science were stooges (ht @R_H_Ebright). They lied to reporters and misled the world.

20 million died. https://t.co/kfeiP7S804
— Alex Washburne (@WashburneAlex) July 21, 2023

Proximal Origin of SARS-CoV-2 published in Nature Medicine is a carefully crafted, if hastily written, fraud; Andersen, K.G., Rambaut, A., Lipkin, W.I. et al. The proximal origin of SARS-CoV-2. Nat Med 26, 450–452 (2020).

Honest scientists are calling for retraction and withdrawal proceedings.

Biosafety Now's Open Letter To Nature Medicine is one such statement.

Biosafety Now's Open Letter To Nature Medicine is reproduced below:

July 26, 2023

Dear Editors:

On March 17, 2020, Nature Medicine published a Correspondence entitled “The proximal origin of SARS-CoV-2” (1). The paper assessed the genome sequence of SARS-CoV-2 and concluded, “Our analyses clearly show that SARS-CoV-2 is not a laboratory construct or a purposefully manipulated virus” and “we do not believe that any type of laboratory-based scenario is plausible.”

The paper played an influential role—indeed, the central role—in communicating the false narrative that science established that SARS-CoV-2 entered humans through natural spillover, and not through research-related spillover (2-7). The paper was promoted by Joao Monteiro the chief editor of Nature Medicine, as an exceptionally important and definitive research study (“great work”; “will put conspiracy theories about the origin of #SARSCoV2 to rest “; 8). The paper has been cited more than 5,800 times, making it the 68th most cited publication in all fields in 2020, the 16th most cited publication in biology in 2020, and the 8th most cited publication on the subject of COVID-19 in the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Email messages and Slack direct messages among authors of the paper obtained under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) process or by the U.S. Congress and publicly released in full in or before July 2023 (2-7), show that the authors did not believe the core conclusions of the paper at the time it was written, at the time it was submitted for publication, and at the time it was published. The authors’ statements show that the paper was, and is, a product of scientific misconduct.

It is imperative that this misleading and damaging product of scientific misconduct be removed from the scientific literature.

We, as STEM and STEM-policy professionals, call upon Nature Medicine to publish an expression of editorial concern for the paper and to begin a process of withdrawal or retraction of the paper.

Signers (in alphabetical order)

Amir Attaran, University of Ottawa
Paul Babitzke, Pennsylvania State University
Alina Chan, Broad Institute
Richard H. Ebright, Rutgers University
Mohamed E. El Zowalaty, Higher Colleges of Technology
David Fisman, University of Toronto
Andrew Goffinet, University of Louvain
Richard N. Goldstein, Harvard University
Elisa D. Harris, Center for International and Security Studies at Maryland
Neil L. Harrison, Columbia University
Laura Kahn, One Health Initiative
Hideki Kakeya, University of Tsukuba
Justin B. Kinney, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Tatsu Kobayakawa, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
Yanna Lambrinidou,Virginia Tech
Milton Leitenberg, University of Maryland
Allen A. Lenoir, Bioterrorism/Pediatrics Infectious Disease Center
Jamie Metzl, Atlantic Council
David L. Nelson, Baylor College of Medicine
Bryce E. Nickels, Rutgers University
Takeshi Nitta, University of Tokyo
Andrew Noymer, University of California, Irvine
Roger Pielke Jr., University of Colorado, Boulder
Harish Seshadri, Indian Institute of Science
Rick Sheridan, Emske Phytochem
Eric S. Starbuck, Save the Children
Tyler Stepke, Johns Hopkins University
Atsushi Tanaka, Osaka Medical and Pharmaceutical University
Hiroshi Tauchi, Ibaraki University
Anton van Der Merwe, University of Oxford
Alex Washburne, Selva Analytics
Andre Watson, Ligandal
Roland Wiesendanger, University of Hamburg
Susan Wright, University of Michigan