{"id":68226,"date":"2024-05-19T16:37:26","date_gmt":"2024-05-19T21:37:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=68226"},"modified":"2024-05-19T16:37:26","modified_gmt":"2024-05-19T21:37:26","slug":"the-jig-is-up-its-time-for-accountability-for-the-origin-of-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=68226","title":{"rendered":"The Jig Is Up: It\u2019s Time for Accountability for the Origin of COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Jig Is Up: It\u2019s Time for Accountability for the Origin of COVID-19<\/a><\/h3>\n

Responsibility starts with EcoHealth Alliance’s Peter Daszak and ends with agency officials who funded and defended his reckless virus research.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Today\u2019s guest essay comes from David Robertson who looks at science officials\u2019 pattern of misleading the public and passing the buck, including possible attempts to create a fall guy to blame for reckless, NIH-funded virus research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.<\/em><\/p>\n

When the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic held a recent hearing, viewers beheld an amazing spectacle. For the first time in the Subcommittee\u2019s history, Democrats showed interest in getting to the bottom of the pandemic\u2019s origin and began aggressively interrogating the lone witness: EcoHealth Alliance president, Peter Daszak.<\/p>\n

Daszak is a\u00a0prime candidate<\/a>\u00a0for blame in a possible laboratory accident in Wuhan, for an obvious reason: his NIH-funded nonprofit was performing reckless research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) with inadequate safety, right before the Wuhan outbreak. This fact has long been known.<\/p>\n

Before working to cover all this up,\u00a0Anthony Fauci and other virologists<\/a>\u00a0stated as much in private emails back in February 2020. Daszak, however, has evaded questions about this for years.<\/p>\n

Daszak\u2019s responses to the Subcommittee\u2019s questions did not exactly fill Democrats with confidence. \u201cI remain seriously concerned that you, Dr Daszak, appear to be eluding questions from this Committee in an attempt to avoid consequences,\u201d Democratic Ranking Member, Raul Ruiz, said in his\u00a0closing statement<\/a>. \u201cIt is important that you and your organization be held accountable.\u201d<\/p>\n

In one telling example Daszak claimed that, in\u00a0a 2020 letter he orchestrated<\/a> in The Lancet to dismiss claims of a possible Wuhan lab accident as \u201cconspiracy theories\u201d, he was exclusively referring to hairbrained ideas that SARS-CoV-2 had been engineered from snake DNA or had HIV virus inserts…<\/p>\n

…click on the above link to read the rest of the article…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Jig Is Up: It\u2019s Time for Accountability for the Origin of COVID-19 Responsibility starts with EcoHealth Alliance’s Peter Daszak and ends with agency officials who funded and defended his reckless virus research. Today\u2019s guest essay comes from David Robertson who looks at science officials\u2019 pattern of misleading the public and passing the buck, including […]<\/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":[6],"tags":[29192,3717,34205,1426,34204],"class_list":["post-68226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-covid19","tag-disinformation","tag-disinformation-chronicle","tag-misinformation","tag-paul-d-thacker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68226","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=68226"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68227,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68226\/revisions\/68227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}