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April 8, 2025, Dr. John Campbell /Campbellteaching

We were badly misled about the event that changed our lives. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/16/op... Since scientists began experimenting with dangerous pathogens in laboratories,

the world has experienced four or five pandemics.

1977: Russian Flu

Almost certainly a research accident. https://armscontrolcenter.org/wp-cont... Scientists quickly suspected the strange Russian virus of 1997.

2020: Speculation about a lab accident – ​​crackpots and crackpots.

Crazy/eccentric/quarrelsome to feel superior/fantastic/insane

Many, public health officials, prominent scientists – conspiracy theory
A nonprofit organization, the EcoHealth Alliance

Lost a grant for planning risky research on bat viruses at the

Wuhan Institute of Virology, lax safety standards

But

77 Nobel laureates and 31 scientific societies joined forces to defend the EcoHealth Alliance

consensus.

However, we have since learned that some officials and scientists, in order to create the appearance of consensus, have concealed or downplayed key facts, misled at least one reporter, orchestrated campaigns by supposedly independent voices

and even shared experiences on how to conceal their communications to protect the public from the whole truth. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2... Donald McNeil Jr. said their efforts to derail him influenced the newspaper's coverage of the theory and likely contributed to the issue being shelved for a year.

Details of the Wuhan lab's research have now emerged – safety precautions may have been shockingly lax.

Is this just history?

Anyone who needs convincing that the next pandemic is just an accident away should watch Cell. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science... Researchers, former and current employees of the Wuhan Institute of Virology,

describe how they took virus samples from bats and experimented to see if they could infect human cells and pose a pandemic risk.

"Inadequate for working with potentially dangerous respiratory viruses."

You'd think we'd have learned by now that testing possible gas leaks with a matchstick is a bad idea.

And one would hope that prestigious scientific journals would have learned not to reward such risky research.

Why haven't we learned our lesson?

To admit now that it's risky—must it have always been risky?

And that we may have been deliberately misled.

When a novel, bat-related coronavirus broke out in Wuhan, and researchers soon discovered that the pathogen shared the same rare genetic trait that the EcoHealth Alliance and Wuhan researchers had proposed for bat coronaviruses (https://theintercept.com/2021/09/23/c...), one might have thought EcoHealth would have sounded the alarm widely.

But it didn't.

Without the public records requests, leaks, and subpoenas, the world might never have learned of the disturbing similarities between what might have happened in the lab and what was spreading in the city. (https://www.lemonde.fr/en/les-decodeu... https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2... The proximal origin of SARS-CoV-2)

(Nature Medicine, 2020) https://www.nature.com/articles/s4159... "We consider a laboratory scenario implausible."

However, we later learned through Congress's subpoena of their Slack conversations that while the scientists publicly dismissed the scenario as implausible, many of the authors privately considered it not only plausible, but even probable. https://www.thetimes.com/uk/science/a... https://theintercept.com/2023/07/12/c... https://reason.com/2024/06/18/anthony... Evolutionary biologist Kristian Andersen (Slack messages)

"The lab-escaped variant is so damn likely because they've already been involved in this kind of research, and the molecular data is completely consistent with this scenario..."

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