Slippery, slimy science culture
As mentioned earlier, following the accumulation of a mountain of evidence by unpaid netizens, the fattest rats started jumping ship in Mar, 2021.
Tedros went from: China’s commitment to transparency and supporting other countries .. is.. impressive, and beyond words.
To:
(Mar31,2021) Although the team has concluded that a laboratory leak is the least likely hypothesis, this requires further investigation.
In May, Ralph Baric, GoF bat-virus WIV collaborator, engineer suspect, who'd supported WIV to the hilt, suddenly released a statement saying:
theories of accidental release from a lab .. remain viable.
Fauci soon followed with his own ratty qualifications.
These subtle acknowledgements of the bleeding obvious sound innocuous, but it came off the back of a year of relentless, co-ordinated vilification by scientists of anyone who dared raise the possibility.
They also came after the WHO team had completed their investigation and announced a lab-leak was extremely unlikely and they n The Guardian had closed the lid on it.
Dr. Peter Ben Embarek, WHO mission head declared, it was "not in the hypotheses that we will suggest for future studies".
In other words, the lab-leak was dead to WHO. Move on.
As such, this subtle signalling from Tedros was actually a blaring betrayal for those who can translate Scio-pol expert-speak.
(Aside: Whatever you might think about Tedros, he’s a cunning old fuck - always survives - somehow - though his friends don’t. How on earth can someone who was praising the CCP transparency to high-heaven, who ensured Covid escaped into the world by advising against border closures - how can that person keep his public-funded job? Not only did he keep it, he was elected unopposed (!) for another term.)
Tedros's subtle signalling sent shockwaves through the scientific community, the media, and politicians. It precipitated the unseemly scurrying behaviour we’ve recently witnessed by the experts trying to distance themselves - from themselves.
It was like watching footage from a mouse plague where the whole earth appears to scurry.
Typically, the scurriers recite the above remarks: It’s not that we ever dismissed a lab-leak entirely - extremely unlikely doesn't mean impossible - we never said that - merely there was no evidence.
(Edit: there are some more nuanced ones evolving now: we were afraid - of political repercussions so we had to lie/play politics. To the world in its moment of need. Same scientists who kept insisting they were taking the politics out. Or - the cover-up was caused by a small group of scientists that managed to create a mass-illusion that duped us all - the so-called dumb fkn idiot defense.)
Caught in the precarious position of having to re-position, whilst desperately trying not to offend the CCP, the experts were left slithering around in their own slime.
Disturbingly, some of the (very, very few) scientists who raised the possibility of a lab-event are now the ones making excuses for all their colleagues who took the money then sold the world out. The proffered excuse: they were afraid, the poor darlings.
The gist is: We would have told the truth to help save the world in its moment of need, but we couldn't, coz we were busy being a pack of craven cowards acting politically to protect our financial interests. But next time ....
The Covid Atrocity runs deeper than a small group of scientists. It's a brazen lie to say otherwise. Yet another Bait&Switch by truth-adverse scientists - who - God forbid - be subjected to an investigation by outsiders.
The messaging is: Everything is fine, WHO's fine, all the nice scientists who did nothing are fine. All we need to do to fix it is switch me in at the top!
Yeah-no.
The fact that not a single university or research organization on the planet spoke up when it mattered is incontrovertible evidence that THE Science culture is rotten to the core. It cannot be fixed internally. Any attempt to do so is: scientists acting politically to protect their highly-paid, unaccountable world - same as it ever was.
Science can be saved - but not by scientists. First stop is to get the ethicists (philosophers/sociologists) in. Explain to scientists what 'truth' means (spoiler: it doesn't mean a license to lie coz of my self-serving idea of a common-good). Once that has been established then the rebuild can begin.
But i digress ... Back to the ship-jumpers ...
Despite the lurid exodus of scientist from the good-ship WIV, a few notables decided to hang tough with the CCP - double or nothing - to the bitter end. This is not an exhaustive list - only from those Celebrity Scientists we’ve looked at:
Daszak (WIV/EcoHealth)
Holmes (Sydney Uni - Prox Or. author)
Andersen (Schipps - Prox Or. co-author)
Linfa Wang*
Dwyer (WHO/Westmead)
Nature (Mega-science platform)
That makes you wonder, what does the CCP have on these dudes? It can’t be just money.
How, for instance, do you get an expert to say this?:
Dwyer: Now of course it doesn’t mean that the outbreak actually started in Wuhan. .. It’s an easy assumption just to say, ‘It’s all in Wuhan’. (AKA Occam's Razor) .. It could have been brought into Wuhan either from .. other parts of Asia, or indeed, other parts of the world. (2:45) ..(A) number of detailed studies need to be done to work out was the virus in Wuhan in an unknown manner or cryptic manner .. could it have been in other parts of the world? (3:25)
Cryptic manner - that's a good one Dom. Yeah, maybe it could have gotten into Wuhan from outside. Wouldn't surprise me in the least if it was cooked up in a US lab then shipped/smuggled to WIV. Note: smuggling was common practice, according to Andersen in case you think it's far-fetched:
In several cases, international scientists .. transported (ebola) samples back to their home countries for further research, in many cases without permission or knowledge of the affected nations (Heymann et al., 2016).
The Bat Pack were an international network - could have come from anywhere. In some ways it would help explain the organized deceit.