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Date
2021-02-21 09:53
Type
chat message · slack
recipient
Kristian G. Andersen, Edward C. Holmes, Andrew Rambaut
speaker
Robert F. Garry
Topics
Intelligence community assessmentsWuhan Institute of Virology collaboration

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Worth a read: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/transcript-matt-pottinger-on-face-the-nation-february-21-2021/"MARGARET BRENNAN: U.S. intelligence has said COVID, according to wide scientific consensus, was not man-made or genetically modified. You are not in any way alleging that it was, are you? MATT POTTINGER: No. If you weigh the circumstantial evidence, the ledger on the side of an explanation that says that this resulted from some kind of human error, it far outweighs the- the side of the scale that says this was some natural outbreak. We have very strong reason to believe that the Chinese military was doing secret classified animal experiments in that same laboratory, going all the way back to at least 2017. We have good reason to believe that there was an outbreak of flu-like illness among researchers working in the Wuhan Institute of virology in the fall of2019, but right- immediately before the first documented cases came to light."

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We have very strong reason to believe that the Chinese military was doing secret classified animal experiments in that same laboratory, going all the way back to at least 2017. quoted / not their view quoted_external inside quotation marks asserts
We have good reason to believe that there was an outbreak of flu-like illness among researchers working in the Wuhan Institute of virology in the fall of2019, but right- immediately before the first documented cases came to light." quoted / not their view quoted_external inside quotation marks asserts

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  1. 2021-02-21 09:53 Robert F. Garry
    Worth a read: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/transcript-matt-pottinger-on-face-the-nation-february-21-2021/"MARGARET BRENNAN: U.S. intelligence has said COVID, according to wide scientific consensus, was not man-made or genetically modified. You are not in any way alleging that it was, are you? MATT POTTINGER: No. If you weigh the circumstantial evidence, the ledger on the side of an explanation that says that this resulted from some kind of human error, it far outweighs the- the side of the scale that says this was some natural outbreak. We have very strong reason to believe that the Chinese military was doing secret classified animal experiments in that same laboratory, going all the way back to at least 2017. We have good reason to believe that there was an outbreak of flu-like illness among researchers working in the Wuhan Institute of virology in the fall of2019, but right- immediately before the first documented cases came to light."
  2. 2021-02-21 09:54 Robert F. Garry open
    Actually, he is precisely alleging it came from the WIV.
  3. 2021-02-21 10:28 Robert F. Garry open
    Some of the details rather off, but A for effort. https://coronavirus-annotation-2.sci.utah.edu/
  4. 2021-02-21 11:16 Edward C. Holmes open
    Secret military experiments - what a piece of absolute crap. Good to see the post up there Bob!
  5. 2021-02-21 11:44 Robert F. Garry open
    That's precisely correct :hankey:. Not even the smiley kind.

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