lab leak theory

U.S. Senator Rand Paul and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. share their experiences with coronavirus and censorship in this historic episode.

Here is the description of Rand Paul's new book, Deception: The Great Covid Cover-Up:

Senator Rand Paul was on to Anthony Fauci from the start. Wielding previously unimaginable power, Fauci misled the country about the origins of the Covid pandemic and shut down scientific dissent.
One of the few leaders who dared to challenge "America’s Doctor" was Senator Rand Paul, himself a physician. Deception is his indictment of the catastrophic failures of the public health bureaucracy during the pandemic.
Senator Paul presents the evidence that:

• The Covid virus was likely the product of gain-of-function research at the Wuhan lab in China—research funded in part by the U.S. government.
• Taxpayer dollars for that research were deceptively funneled to Wuhan without the required regulatory review.
• Fauci and his scientific yes-men knew from day one about Covid’s origin and tried to cover it up.
• Fauci and his allies ruthlessly attacked everyone—including highly qualified scientists—who threatened to reveal the truth about the pandemic.

Why? Hundreds of millions of dollars of grants and unreported royalties were at stake, and heads would roll if the truth got out.

https://www.amazon.com/Deception-Great-Cover-Up-Rand-Paul/dp/1684515130

Covid is back in the news - there is a new mutation of Omicron which is potentially more infectious than the last.

Some are sounding the alarm. We talk about whether you should be worried (spoiler -probably not). But while it's in the news we thought we'd examine a question long lurking at the sidelines of the Covid news story - where did it come from?

Is the lab leak theory increasingly credible? Plenty in Washington, including big elements of the Biden administration think so. And if it is - why are we not talking about it? What might be the biggest story of our time?

Lewis talks to a leading expert who sits on SAGE and a journalist who has done the running on the story from the very beginning.

Editor: Tom Hughes

Producers: Rory Symon and Alex Barnett

Social Media Editor: Georgia Foxwell

Video Producer: Will Gibson-Smith

Three years after the start of Covid, the central mystery of the pandemic — how exactly it began — remains unsolved. But recently, the debate about the source of the coronavirus has re-emerged, this time in Congress.

The Energy Department has concluded, with “low confidence,” that an accidental laboratory leak in China was most likely the origin, but politics are making it harder to find definitive answers.

Guest: Benjamin Mueller, a health and science correspondent for The New York Times.

Background reading: 

• Republicans have pushed the lab leak theory, but they lack a “smoking gun.”
• What we know and don’t know about the origins of Covid.

For more information on today’s episode, visit nytimes.com/thedaily. Transcripts of each episode will be made available by the next workday.

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Dr. Jordan B. Peterson and Matt Ridley go in depth to explore the Covid 19 outbreak, scrutinizing the lack of criticism, the inherent red flags widely accepted as benign, the possible motive for a multi-government cover up, and ultimately the demise of the scientific enlightenment as it bends to a more fearsome pandemic: totalitarianism.

Matt Ridley is a British writer, journalist, and public speaker. His books collectively have sold over a million copies, and have been translated into 31 languages. His books include The Red Queen, The Origins of Virtue, Genome, Nature via Nurture, Francis Crick, The Rational Optimist, The Evolution of Everything, and How Innovation Works. He is also frequently published in the Wall Street Journal, and in the Times (London), as a columnist. As a speaker, Ridley has seen over two million views for his TED talk, “When Ideas Have Sex.” Ridley focuses on the area of science for his writings, and held the role  of science editor at the Economist for nine years.

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- Chapters -

(0:00) Coming up

(1:31) Intro

(4:25) The origin of the Covid 19 outbreak

(7:39) Adapted for humans

(11:42) Immediate effectiveness

(13:50) Inserted genetic information

(16:29) Early concerns of engineering, the pangolin problem

(20:00) Reputation management, potential cover up

(25:00) The smoking gun, Project Defuse

(28:24) The impossibility of ethical science in a totalitarian country

(33:50) When presumptions don’t add up

(37:00) Framing the pandemic as political, a distraction

(45:16) 80,000 animals tested in Wuhan, 0 infected

(50:30) The lack of criticism for the Chinese government

(53:53) Potential darkness, spreading totalitarianism

(57:03) China envy, recalling the USSR

(1:01:23) Other possible motives

(1:05:24) The sad evolution of scientific inquiry

(1:09:30) The demise of the enlightenment

(1:17:15) The antagonism between religion and science

(1:22:07) Truth over consequence

(1:28:01) The conflation of religion as a faith and as an institution

(1:36:00) The spirit of inquiry

(1:38:37) Dawkins; not seeking the answer, following the questions

(1:43:20) The truth will set you free

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