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Scientist Backing Probe Into Wuhan Lab: We Waited Because We Didnāt Want āTo Be Associated With Trumpā
By Ryan Saavedra
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Jun 17, 2021 DailyWire.com
Chan said there had been trepidation among some scientists about publicly discussing the lab leak hypothesis for fear that their words could be misconstrued or used to support racist rhetoric about how the coronavirus emerged. Trump fueled accusations that the Wuhan Institute of Virology, a research lab in the city where the first Covid-19 cases were reported, was connected to the outbreakā¦
āAt the time, it was scarier to be associated with Trump and to become a tool for racists, so people didnāt want to publicly call for an investigation into lab origins,ā Chan claimed in the interview.
Scientists rushed to downplay the possibility that the pandemic could have originated in the lab by publishing a letter in The Lancet that cast it āas a xenophobic cousin to climate change denialism and anti-vaxxism,ā Vanity Fair reported. āThe Lancet statement effectively ended the debate over COVID-19ās origins before it began.ā
Former CDC Director Robert Redfield said this week that he believes that the pandemic originated in the lab and that those who moved to shut down the lab leak theory were āvery anti-science.ā
David Asher, who led the Trump administrationās investigation into the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic, said in an interview last month that he had biostatisticians from the U.S. government calculate that the odds of the coronavirus evolving from nature and they estimated that it was about 1-in-13 billion
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