Proximal Origin of SARS CoV-2

Of the two papers that fooled the world, the most important one was:

Proximal Origin of SARS-CoV-2.

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Aka the Pangolin Paper. We originally analyzed this paper in detail on Formosa Hut in May 2020 (which appears to be the first in-depth critique on the planet), but here's a Fast Facts recap:

Which they did. Let's take a look at that language ...

The premise: 

Horseshoe bats, possibly carrying RaTG13 collected from the Mojiang caves*, Yunnan, & held at WIV, managed to infect a population of at least  21 caged Malayan pangolin such as those smuggled into Guangdong (1000 km away).

Lipkin, Feb 10, 2020: The latest data suggest that an endangered mammal, the pangolin, may be the source of the new coronavirus. My colleagues and I have been working to shut down wildlife markets for decades. Perhaps the silver lining in this outbreak is that we finally get the traction needed to achieve this goal.

The said pangolin were then transported to the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market in Wuhan (1000 km another away), where they were slaughtered for sale.


Before their deaths, the bat virus, now in the caged-pangolin on their way to market, is theorized by the authors to have pulled off an average of 50 years (according to Holmes - 20 years if you’re in a rush) of profound evolutionary change - within a few days!!! Smashing the authors' own time-frames, it somehow aced the ACE-2 spike protein barrier to human infectivity, which then resulted in patient zero at the market - as many early cases of COVID-19 were linked to the Huanan (Seafood) market in Wuhan.

The Conclusion:

As such: Our analyses clearly show that SARS-CoV-2 is not a laboratory construct or a purposefully manipulated virus. .. (P)angolins...provide a much stronger and more parsimonious explanation of how SARS-CoV-2 acquired these .. RBD mutations (making it infectious to humans).

Yeah, right.

Despite it being known at the time (!) that:

There’s your pangolin premise - collapsed in a heap - before it gets out of the starting gates.

Pile on all the fancy science you like after that - it’s a moot point when the premise is:

- wrong    -

It's quite likely that pangolin was an ingredient in an engineered Covid virus, but as Garry himself said: I just can't figure out how this gets accomplished in nature.

Remember, this is not benefit-of-hindsight. The authors, of course, knew it was a whopper as they wrote it (see Andersen's infamous Looks Engineered FOI email) - that's why they wrote it - but how did it go from there to:

All of the above chose to ignore glaring errors in the fundamental details of the paper. Why?

To perpetrate the greatest scientific fraud of all time.

That makes them hands-on complicit in the Covid Atrocity.

(* RaTG13 has been theorized to be the bat virus involved in the Mojiang Cave incident, where workers collecting bat guava fell ill & died. Curiously, it was dismissed by WIV/EHA as a coronavirus incident. I tend to agree with them. To this day, there's been no evidence of a bat virus ever directly infecting a human.)


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Created 14 March 2023 04:13:41 by dulandrift
Updated 21 December 2023 04:22:24 by dulandrift