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Rand Paul Discloses COVID Authors' Private Lab Leak Conversations
The released messages show authors privately weighed a lab origin at up to 30% while publicly saying there was no evidence, Paul said.
- On Tuesday, Senator Rand Paul released internal Slack messages from authors of 'The Proximal Origin of SARS-CoV-2,' revealing that Kristian Andersen, Robert Garry, Eddie Holmes, and Andrew Rambaut privately harbored significant doubts about ruling out a laboratory origin.
- While the group's March 2020 Nature Medicine paper publicly argued for natural zoonotic spillover, internal messages show they privately discussed Gain-of-Function research risks and noted the 'remarkable similarity' between COVID-19 and a 2018 grant proposal.
- In the messages, Andersen reportedly assigned a roughly 30% probability to a lab origin, while Holmes estimated 10%. The authors also discussed the virus's furin cleavage site as 'some smoking guns' that eroded their confidence in ruling out laboratory involvement.
- The Slack exchanges reveal close coordination with the National Institutes and the Intelligence Community, with Andersen telling co-authors he would 'have a handler' on the same day Anthony Fauci met with intelligence officials during the 90-day origins sprint.
- Senator Rand Paul argues the messages demonstrate a stark contrast between the authors' private assessments and their public stance, as the committee continues investigating federal handling of COVID-19 origins and the Nature Medicine paper's influence on early pandemic discourse.
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The Daily ScepticThe messages that show Covid scientists secretly suspected a lab leak
Authors of influential Nature Medicine paper privately admitted ‘we can’t rule it out’
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Private Messages Reveal ‘Proximal Origin’ Authors Privately Considered COVID Lab Leak While Publicly Dismissing It
Slack messages released by Sen. Rand Paul show scientists behind the influential “Proximal Origin” paper privately assigned meaningful odds to a laboratory origin, questioned their ... The post Private Messages Reveal ‘Proximal Origin’ Authors Privately Considered COVID Lab Leak While Publicly Dismissing It first appeared on [your]NEWS.
It has emerged that the authors of an influential scientific paper arguing that the Covid-19 pandemic arose naturally were still debating the possibility of a laboratory-induced accident months after its publication.
·Istanbul, Türkiye
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