The scientists who put the paper together, Silver says, completely ignored the lab leak theory even though they admittedly thought it was a possibility. All of this was revealed in a series of unearthed Slack messages from February 2020 about how making such an accusation against communist China would be too political.
Jamie Metzl, a member of the World Health Organization's (WHO) advisory committee, tweeted about the matter after releasing the messages on Twitter, which is now known as "X."
"There can be no doubt the Proximal Origin authors consciously and inappropriately downplayed the #COVID19 research-related origin hypothesis and coordinated efforts manipulating media coverage," Metzl tweeted. "They also interacted like noxious frat boys."
(Related: Since the plandemic began, there have been more than 300 scientific papers that were published and later retracted for fraud.)
The Slack messages in question are voluminous, and many of them are very technical and difficult for the average person to understand. There are a few incriminating gems, though, including one in which a scientist states that he "literally swivels day by day thinking it is a lab escape or natural."
This same scientist then wrote that, because of politics, it is best to just ignore the lab leak theory altogether in order to allow communist China to save face.
"Given the s*** show that would happen if anyone serious accused the Chinese of even accidental release, my feeling is that we should say that given there is no evidence of a specifically engineered virus, we cannot possibly distinguish between natural evolution and escape so we are content with ascribing it to natural processes," this person, named Andrew Rambaut, wrote in Slack.
Another scientist then agreed with Rambaut, though he lamented that politics has so infected the realm of science that a coverup was necessary to stick to the script that covid came from tainted bat soup at a Wuhan wet market.
This second scientist, named Kristian Andersen, went on in the exchange to state that he, too, believes covid could have been cooked up in a lab, though he rejects the notion that it is a bioweapon or even that it is the result of intentional engineering for research purposes.
Andersen then stated that he favors the "evolved in nature" theory of covid, though the jury is still out concerning it potentially having been cultured.
"This is a huge scandal," tweeted Silver about these revelations. "Scientists like #K_G_Andersen believed a lab leak was extremely plausible, if not likely, they concocted a plan to deceive the public about it, and they've been caught red-handed."
"There's not really any ambiguity here. They are unethical as it gets."
Amazingly, another scientist named Gigi Gronvall blasted Silver for writing all this, instead ordering him to forget about what happened in 2020 and focus on 2023 instead.
"People who are upset that the scientific evidence is not supporting their preferred theory are just trying to change the subject," Gronvall scoffed.
Silver responded to Gronvall by stating that the Proximal Origins paper's conclusions are patently false, and were merely the product of a politically driven sleight of hand.
"It had an enormous influence on the public debate," Silver further stated about the fraudulent paper and how it was used to tyrannize the world with lockdowns, mask mandates, and more.
"Quit hiding the ball."
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