A Canadian scientist and Harvard postdoctoral associate said she and her colleagues withheld support for the Wuhan lab leak hypothesis out of fear that they’d be associated with President Trump.
Alina Chan is one of 18 experts who signed a letter in May calling for a deeper investigation into the origins of the coronavirus. Before the letter, experts were wary of aligning too closely to Trump.
“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,” she told NBC News, via The Hill.
Chan urged, though, that despite calls for further investigation, the evidence is lackluster.
“I know a lot of people want to have a smoking gun,” she said. “It’s more like breadcrumbs everywhere, and they’re not always leading in one direction. It’s like the whole floor is covered in breadcrumbs.”
Chan believes that last month’s letter opened a floodgate of opportunity for experts like herself to distance themselves from the previously felt guilt and fear, adding that the letter may offer credibility to alternative theories like the Wuhan leak.
“I think it had a big effect,” she said. “I think it literally helped all the people who wanted to investigate this by saying: This is not bogus. Top scientists think this is plausible.”
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I wouldn’t doubt it—particularly from the power players on the Left. They took issue with everything Trump did or said regarding the virus. While there is definitely a health element involved, it quickly became the political tool of choice by the Left. Lockdowns, mask wearing, restrictions on businesses and schools and churches—and it hasn’t ended yet.
IF trump was for it, THEY INSTINCTIVELY were against it.. NO MATTER HOW Truthful it was…
The corona virus that attacked the world is not found in nature. Three scientists in the Wuhan Lab were hospitalized in November, 2019 for corona related illness. Tucker has had a female virologist from communist China on his show, who studied the covid virus in China and this virologist indicated that genes had been spliced / inserted into the virus to make it more virulent than the virus found in nature. Fauci is in bed with the scientists in Wuhan and Fauci funded this gain of function research. This was all covered up.
Add to that, there’s all sorts of evidence out there, showing NOT ONE BAT out of ten thousand tested, came positive for covid, LET ALONE NOT ONE OF the animals in those wet markets they kept blaming, TESTED positive for covid..
That was obvious from the very beginning. Everything was about the politics of getting Donald Trump and not the truth.
Pretty sad state of affairs in this country when “political hatred” can influence medical decisions of this magnitude.
Every one of them should resign in disgrace or be fired from their position.
I prefer being FIRED myself.. LETTING THEM resign, lets them KEEP ANY pension that’s coming.
FIRING THEM, doesn’t! (OR shouldn’t)
Trump Hatred Influenced Experts Who Denied Wuhan Lab Leak
Without an opposition party, the Radical Left has nothing standing in it’s way.
Seems to me that those who knowingly and willfully hid the truth from the American public, and the rest of the world for that matter, so as not to be connected to Trump need to be held accountable for their actions. That is irresponsible at best and most likely criminal since had the truth been known sooner better and more accurate research and cures might have been considered.
A lot of time was wasted and many people died due to the disinformation of these and other ‘scientists’. Makes one wonder what cures or treatments might have been available but knowingly hidden in order to make Trump look bad. We have been played and many, many people died because of it. I doubt we’ll ever know the extent of it.
TO ME it puts any potential charges coming their way, to PREMEDITATED, rather than just ‘negligence’..