Pete & Ian

First published on Formosa Hut,  December 29, 2020

Peter Daszak is high-profile member of the WHO's Team of Twelve approved by China to investigate the origin of Covid.

Daszak is a close collaborator with W. Ian Lipkin, an author of the notorious Proximal Origin paper that purported to 'prove' Covid had not leaked from a lab - it was pangolins that done it.  They have co-authored several papers and articles and have been accused of misinterpretation of data implicating dromedary camels in MERS during a shady trip to Saudi Arabia in which frozen samples accidentally were thawed en route to Columbia University.

Thanks partially to a world-first critique of the Proximal Origin paper published by Formosa Hut in May 2020, and subsequent exposure from a group called DRASTIC, that paper has now been discredited as a high-powered academic fraud committed on the behalves of the CCP and western interests.  Before that though, the paper's pangolin findings were headlines in all major media outlets around the world for several weeks, during which time it achieved its purpose of suppressing speculation about a lab-leak.

The debunking of that paper, on which all arguments that Covid was natural in origin were initially based, received almost no coverage.  At best, it was reduced to a by-line, such as in  this Dec 2020 puff-piece  about the upcoming WHO investigation that quietly mentions further examination appeared to rule out pangolins  (as) none had tested positive.

Remember, this bedrock paper, published by Nature & authored by scientists with massive China COIs, was touted by the bulk of the science community (including Daszak) & all main-stream media, as incontrovertible evidence that Covid was a natural event.  Turned out to be a load of made-up crap.

I'd have thought Top Scientists linked to CCP spread disinformation about Covid Origins would be a good headline - i'd read it.  But it seems now is not the right time to talk about that.