A Real-Life Bond Villain? Peter Daszak Is the Golden Thread Weaving Through Dismissals of the Lab Leak Theory
By Scott Hounsell | Jun 05, 2021 7:00 PM ET
QUICK AND DIRTY:
* Dr. Peter Daszak funneled tens of millions of dollars in grants from the US government – including the Department of Defense – to the Wuhan Institute of Virology through his non-profit, EcoHealth Alliance.
* Daszak performed gain-of-function research on SARS coronaviruses at WIV with Dr. Shi Zhengli, including on two trains nearly identical to COVID-19.
* Daszak spearheaded the drafting and submission of a 2/19/20 letter in the Lancet from 27 scientists declaring that COVID-19 arose naturally, without declaring his conflict.
* Many of the signatories of that letter had received emails from Daszak soliciting their signature and reminding them of all the research funding they’d received from EcoHealth Alliance.
* Facebook’s COVID-19 fact-checker, Science Feedback, used Daszak as one of their “experts” to shut down lab leak theory discussion.
* Daszak emailed Dr. Fauci in the early days of the pandemic, thanking him for shutting down the lab leak theory.
* Daszak influenced numerous other letters and statements in scientific journals that declared a lab leak was impossible.
* Daszak was a member of the WHO investigative team that declared it “highly unlikely” that the pandemic originated in a lab – without even visiting China or seeing original documentation.
* Daszak was recently tapped to head an investigation into COVID-19’s origin by Lancet.
Over the past several weeks as we have been writing about the unfolding lab-leak-theory story at RedState, one person always seemed to be acting as the puppetmaster in defending the Wuhan Institute of Virology against claims that the virus might have been accidentally released from a lab: Dr. Peter Daszak.
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