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Published 3 years ago

Top Trump officials pushed the coronavirus ‘lab leak’ theory. Investigators had doubts.

Summary by Ground News
NBC reports that some scientists are now open to the possibility that SARS-CoV-2 escaped from a lab accident. The shift was political, not scientific, according to Alina Chan, one of the 18 researchers who signed a letter urging colleagues to consider the possibility of a lab leak.

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Yahoo NewsYahoo News

Scientist Waited to Legitimize Lab-Leak Theory Out of Fear She Would Be ‘Associated With Trump’

A scientist revealed that she waited to legitimize the lab-leak hypothesis until President Trump left office.

3 years ago·Los Angeles, United States
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Washington TimesWashington Times

Scientist calling for probe of Wuhan lab leak: Fear of being ‘associated with Trump’ caused delay

Fears of being “associated with “associated with Trump” kept a scientist from speaking out about a possible lab leak from the Wuhan Institute of Virology in 2020.

3 years ago·United States
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The HillThe Hill

Harvard scientist says Trump hatred motivated experts who denied Wuhan lab leak theory

"At the time, it was scarier to be associated with Trump and to become a tool for racists, so people didn't want to publicly call for an investigation into lab origins,"Alina Chan said.

3 years ago·Washington, United States
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The Daily CallerThe Daily Caller

Scientist Admits She Didn’t Promote Lab-Leak Theory Because Trump Did

Alina Chan admitted that scientists didn't acknowledge the possibility of the lab-leak theory of COVID-19 origin because it was associated with Donald Trump.

3 years ago·Washington, United States
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The Gateway PunditThe Gateway Pundit

Top Virologists Admit Lying to American Public for Months on Likely Wuhan Lab Leak Theory Because They Didn't Want to be Associated with President Trump

Alina Chan is a biologist at the Silver lab at the Harvard School of Medicine. Chan is one of 18 scientists who finally admitted in the journal of Science last month that the Wuhan coronvirus likely originated in a Wuhan, China virology lab. Chan says liberal scientists lied to the American public for months about…

3 years ago·United States
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National ReviewNational Review

Scientist Waited to Legitimize Lab-Leak Theory Out of Fear She Would Be ‘Associated With Trump’

Chan said she and her fellow scientists were wary of becoming a ‘tool for racists.’

3 years ago·United States
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