{"id":53506,"date":"2020-06-04T12:02:39","date_gmt":"2020-06-04T17:02:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=53506"},"modified":"2020-06-04T12:02:44","modified_gmt":"2020-06-04T17:02:44","slug":"former-mi6-boss-says-covid-19-manmade-escaped-from-chinese-lab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=53506","title":{"rendered":"Former MI6 Boss Says COVID-19 Manmade, Escaped From Chinese Lab"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/health\/former-mi6-boss-says-covid-19-escaped-chinese-lab\">Former MI6 Boss Says COVID-19 Manmade, Escaped From Chinese Lab<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>The former head of Britain&#8217;s MI6 spy agency believes COVID-19 is a manmade virus that accidentally escaped from a Chinese laboratory, based on forthcoming research, according to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/2020\/06\/03\/exclusive-coronavirus-began-accident-disease-escaped-chinese\/\"><em>The Telegraph<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Entitled &#8220;A Reconstructed Historical Aetiology of the SARS-CoV-2 Spike&#8221;, the new study, seen by The Telegraph, suggests the virus is &#8220;remarkably well-adapted virus for human co-existence&#8221;&nbsp;<strong>and is likely to be the result of a Wuhan lab experiment to produce &#8220;chimeric viruses of high potency&#8221;.<\/strong><\/p><p>The paper concludes: &#8220;Henceforth,&nbsp;<strong>those who would maintain that the Covid-19 pandemic arose from zoonotic transfer need to explain precisely why this more parsimonious account is wrong before asserting that their evidence is persuasive<\/strong>, most especially when, as we also show, there are puzzling errors in their use of evidence.&#8221; &#8211;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/2020\/06\/03\/exclusive-coronavirus-began-accident-disease-escaped-chinese\/\"><em>The Telegraph<\/em><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Perhaps most notable is that the former MI6 boss in question is Sir Richard Dearlove &#8211; who helped\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2019-04-17\/how-has-former-mi6-spymaster-richard-dearlove-dodged-scrutiny-despite-his-multiple\">Obamagate operative Stefan Halper<\/a>\u00a0set up a smear campaign against Michael Flynn, and who made a name for himself nearly two decades ago peddling a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2016\/jul\/06\/mi6-stood-by-bogus-intelligence-until-after-iraq-invasion\">bogus report<\/a>\u00a0that Saddam Hussein had WMDs &#8211; which Tony Blair used to justify the UK&#8217;s involvement the Iraq war. Clearly Dearlove is trying to ruin our street cred.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Indeed, while it was inevitable that the Western establishment would eventually gravitate towards the Wuhan lab theory&nbsp;<strong>Zero Hedge presented in&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/health\/man-behind-global-coronavirus-pandemic\">late January<\/a><\/strong>, Dearlove&#8217;s endorsement couldn&#8217;t come from a more suspicious operative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So, as the establishment continues to adopt the&nbsp;<em>very obvious conclusion<\/em>&nbsp;supported by a mountain of evidence that the bat-like coronavirus probably escaped from a Chinese laboratory known for modifying bat coronaviruses to infect humans, we suspect Dearlove and the &#8216;perpetual war&#8217; crowd are most interested in using the accusation as a political cudgel to wield against China.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Here&#8217;s the narrative<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former MI6 Boss Says COVID-19 Manmade, Escaped From Chinese Lab The former head of Britain&#8217;s MI6 spy agency believes COVID-19 is a manmade virus that accidentally escaped from a Chinese laboratory, based on forthcoming research, according to&nbsp;The Telegraph. Entitled &#8220;A Reconstructed Historical Aetiology of the SARS-CoV-2 Spike&#8221;, the new study, seen by The Telegraph, suggests [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[16271,130,4546,29837,855,28842],"class_list":["post-53506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-biolab","tag-china","tag-mi6","tag-sir-richard-dearlove","tag-viral-pandemic","tag-wuhan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53506"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53507,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53506\/revisions\/53507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}