Lab Origin: The Case Is Even Stronger Now

Two of the three leaders in the field of coronavirus reverse genetic systems were on the DEFUSE grant: Ralph Baric and his former student, Wuhan Institute of Virology's Shi Zhengli.

The DEFUSE PI Daszak had many other sources of funding, including tens of millions of dollars from USAID's PREDICT program, the Gates Foundation and Wellcome Trust's CEPI-funded Global Virome Project, and even NIAID. In fact, not only did NIAID fund Daszak through the grant "Understanding the risk of bat coronavirus emergence," but this NIAID grant also expanded to include all the PI's of DEFUSE in 2019.

He coordinated with DEFUSE colleagues Ralph Baric and Linfa Wang to write an article to the Lancet calling lab origin theories "Conspiracy theories." Not only did Daszak not disclose DEFUSE as a COI, but the email also indicates Daszak's intent to ghostwrite the article, hide conflicts of interest, all for the purpose of distracting the Lancet's audience from DEFUSE PIs' central role working with the lab at the heart of the lab-origin theory to design a biological novelty matching the specs of SARS-CoV-2.

If SARS-CoV-2 were a laboratory product of DEFUSE-related work, then it makes sense the NIAID grant connecting DEFUSE collaborators would be terminated and sequences associated with this grant would bring "Very unwelcome attention" to those who published the sequences, because somebody like me would look at the sequences and realize they provide even stronger evidence that SARS-CoV-2 was a product of DEFUSE-related work, that the suspects had the genomes on their computers prior to the emergence of this virus.

Lab-origin theory made several predictions about the specific research methods that would lead to the creation of SARS-CoV-2, and recently obtained drafts of DEFUSE contain precisely those methods to astonishing detail, from the S1/S2 insertion of a furin cleavage site to the 6-segment assembly with order forms for BsmBI. The drafts of DEFUSE also reveal Daszak's awareness of DoD's biosafety concerns, and his willingness to defraud the DoD at great risk to humanity by claiming to conduct risky research in UNC's BSL-3 labs but intending to actually conduct the work in the Wuhan Institute of Virology's problematic BSL-2 labs.

The authors who wrote DEFUSE behaved with a consciousness of guilt once the research product proposed in their grant began circulating around the world, and both our scientists and science-funding institutions have withheld critical information that reveals the nature of research proposed, and conducted, at the Wuhan Institute of Virology with the support of the US taxpayer.

We can further strengthen the case with more evidence, but with information in the public domain we already have enough evidence to justify probable cause to investigate DEFUSE PI's, preponderance of evidence in civil suits of DEFUSE PI's, and beyond-reasonable-doubt confidence that SAR-CoV-2 emerged from a lab even if we don't know who held the pipette. 

https://brownstone.org/articles/lab-origin-the-case-is-even-stronger-now/