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-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
French scientists write letter calling for investigation into COVID-19 origins
2021-07-05
[HOT AIR] A group of 31 scientists signed a letter calling for further investigation into the origin of COVID-19. The letter was published Monday in the French newspaper Le Figaro. The letter is behind a paywall there but there’s an English summary of what it says at this site:
The new letter reads: "We ask for a new scientific enquiry into all the plausible origin hypothesis, which has unlimited access to all the pertinent files, samples and staff in China, and elsewhere if necessary.

"All people and all nations, including China, have a direct interest in the origin of the pandemic being identified so that our biggest vulnerabilities are protected. It is therefore particularly regrettable that no exhaustive inquiry on all the plausible origins has been undertaken, and that none is planned.

"We believe that the joint study process that the WHO is currently calling for, in its current form, does not satisfy the conditions to be credible due to serious structural gaps."...

It continues: "The measures taken by the Chinese government to hide the origins, and stop Chinese experts from sharing certain essential information and detailed data clearly show that the current process, without significant changes, has no chance of putting a complete or credible inquiry in place for all possible scenarios."
That last line about "all possible scenarios" is pretty clearly a reference to the lab leak theory, i.e. the scenario that China absolutely has no desire to investigate.

The letter suggests there are two options for moving forward. Option one is for the Chinese government to cooperate in a thorough investigation with outside researches given full access to all of the data and samples they need. The letter suggests the CCP should be willing to do this for "the good of humanity."

Obviously option one isn’t going to happen because if the Chinese were interested in being transparent they could have done that over the past 18 months (or sooner). The fact that they were still stalling the WHO team just a few months ago is a pretty clear indication they don’t want an unfiltered look at the evidence.

Option two assumes that option one was a bust. It suggests that the G7 or OECD nations team up to share whatever information they have and gather more information without the help of the CCP. "A well-organised and concerted effort, free of interference, drawing on all available sources of information and involving a large number of experts, may well end up providing unambiguous evidence supporting one particular hypothesis regarding the origins of the pandemic," the letter states.
Posted by:Besoeker

#5  What happened to Americans?

Soviet Union fell.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2021-07-05 14:48  

#4  What happened to Americans?

During the Cold War, they were infected by the Soviets with an anti-American memetic virus. It has been very successful. Just look at our media, universities, and the Democratic Party.
Posted by: SteveS   2021-07-05 11:40  

#3  First French schoolkids. Then French military officers. Now French scientists -- all standing up and publicly calling BS on political correctness, CRT/BLM, jihadis, Chinese etc official lies.

Why is it that France has more stones and a greater % of courageous people willing to stand up and denounce this garbage than America has?

What happened to Americans?
Posted by: Daffy Lover of the Ostrogoths8894   2021-07-05 10:47  

#2  All now banned from Fakebook, Twister, and Utube.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2021-07-05 08:12  

#1  No real need to 'investigate' the confit de canard. We pretty much already know what's in it.
Posted by: Besoeker   2021-07-05 07:57  

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