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Baric Transcribed Interview (Redacted), p.57 · baric_ti:utt:00453

Date: 2026-04-10 09:00 (day precision)
Type: transcript segment · interview
recipient: Christina Salazar, Harry Kazenoff, David T. Lambeth III, William Henderson, Clark Ervin, Jake Greenberg
speaker: Ralph S. Baric

I don't recall.

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2026-04-10 09:00 Ralph S. Baric open

I don't know if it was the Proximal Origins call. The purpose of the call was to discuss -- oh, the other person was Ron Fouchier, as well, and Ian Lipkin may have been on the call, as well. Whichever that call was, I was on, okay.
2026-04-10 09:00 Christina Salazar open

Did you speak?
2026-04-10 09:00 Ralph S. Baric open

No.
2026-04-10 09:00 Christina Salazar open

Who invited you to that call?
2026-04-10 09:00 Ralph S. Baric

I don't recall.
2026-04-10 09:00 Christina Salazar open

You're not on any of the invitation lists, and it's a question. And you don't recall?
2026-04-10 09:00 Ralph S. Baric open

I don't recall. I actually looked at all my records and I can't find the reason why I was on the call.
2026-04-10 09:00 Christina Salazar open

Do you recall what was discussed on the call?
2026-04-10 09:00 Ralph S. Baric open

Yeah. The purpose of the call was to talk about origins and potential origins. Most of the discussion was led by the evolutionary biologists, who were actually probably the most key, important people in the room. And what they said was that they thought it was DC.Scheduling@LexitasLegal.com extremely unlikely that there was any evidence of genetic engineering of the virus, but that they had trouble distinguishing between natural evolutionary processes in cell culture versus animals. And that became sort of the consensus, that it evolved by natural evolutionary processes.