# The Greatest Academic Fraud of all Time

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Fast Factoids:</span>[ <span style="font-weight: 400;">Proximal Origin</span>](https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-020-0820-9)<span style="font-weight: 400;"> of SARS-CoV-2:</span>

- <span style="font-weight: 400;">displays a beautiful irony in it’s title</span>
- <span style="font-weight: 400;">was, according to the authors,</span>[ <span style="font-weight: 400;">purpose-written</span>](https://youtu.be/IxwrDSYrhjU?t=784)<span style="font-weight: 400;"> to quell</span>*<span style="font-weight: 400;"> conspiracy theories</span>*<span style="font-weight: 400;"> around a possible lab-leak (theories</span>[ <span style="font-weight: 400;">originated by Chinese netizens</span>](https://www.businessinsider.com.au/wechat-users-posted-coronavirus-before-china-confirmed-cases-2020-2)<span style="font-weight: 400;">, btw</span>
- <span style="font-weight: 400;">was</span>[ <span style="font-weight: 400;">funded by</span>](https://directorsblog.nih.gov/2020/03/26/genomic-research-points-to-natural-origin-of-covid-19/comment-page-1/)<span style="font-weight: 400;"> NIH/Francis Collins (H3Africa co-funder) and [Wellcome](https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-020-0820-9#Ack1) (Farrar)  
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- <span style="font-weight: 400;">draft,</span>[ <span style="font-weight: 400;">according to Garry</span>](https://youtu.be/IxwrDSYrhjU?t=775)<span style="font-weight: 400;">, </span>*<span style="font-weight: 400;">was complete .. </span>****Feb 1st***<span style="font-weight: 400;"> - same date as authors held</span>[ <span style="font-weight: 400;">strategy-session conference call</span>](http://formosahut.com/forum/index.php?id=2947)<span style="font-weight: 400;"> with Farrar and Fauci. (Flashback: On </span>**Jan 31**<span style="font-weight: 400;">, Andersen (lead author) emailed Farrar/Fauci/Collins saying</span>[ *<span style="font-weight: 400;">it looks engineered</span>*](https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/20793561/leopold-nih-foia-anthony-fauci-emails.pdf)<span style="font-weight: 400;">. That means -</span>*<span style="font-weight: 400;"> literally overnight</span>*<span style="font-weight: 400;"> - the authors changed their thinking 180 degrees, then re-researched/re-wrote/re-edited to - </span>*<span style="font-weight: 400;">first draft </span>*<span style="font-weight: 400;">-</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> delivered (at MOU’s Feb 1 teleconference) a paper that</span> *<span style="font-weight: 400;">clearly show(s)</span>*[ *<span style="font-weight: 400;">SARS-CoV-2 is </span>****not***](https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-020-0820-9) *<span style="font-weight: 400;">a laboratory construct or a purposefully manipulated virus</span>*<span style="font-weight: 400;">.)</span>
- <span style="font-weight: 400;">Or …they made it up.</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">  
    </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">1707 citations so far - mostly positive ones. An altmetric score of</span>[ <span style="font-weight: 400;">36,768</span>](https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-020-0820-9)<span style="font-weight: 400;"> - which blows the</span>[ <span style="font-weight: 400;">previous world record</span>](https://www.altmetric.com/top100/home/about/)<span style="font-weight: 400;"> of 11,980 out of the water. Once Prox O breaks new ground as </span>*<span style="font-weight: 400;">Exhibit A</span>*<span style="font-weight: 400;"> in the cover-up - which it’s about to - all bets are off</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">  
    </span>[<span style="font-weight: 400;">mega-platformed</span>](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/feb/07/pangolins-might-have-spread-coronavirus-to-humans)<span style="font-weight: 400;"> (via Nature, Guardian, CNN et al media) the pangolin/wetmarket discourse to </span>*<span style="font-weight: 400;">irrefutably show</span>*<span style="font-weight: 400;"> Covid couldn’t possibly be a lab-leak. </span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">All this In </span>*<span style="font-weight: 400;">the </span>*<span style="font-weight: 400;">crucial nascent period. Where if we’d known it was a GoFFed-up lab bug on the loose - we could have reacted accordingly.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">But wait - there’s a silver lining!</span>

[<span style="font-weight: 400;">Nature, Sep 2020:</span>](https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2787-6) *<span style="font-weight: 400;">Through the </span>****‘Solidarity’ trials****<span style="font-weight: 400;">, the WHO has launched a global campaign to test therapeutic agents and vaccines on an unprecedented scale</span>*[*<span style="font-weight: 400;">5</span>*](https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2787-6#ref-CR5)*<span style="font-weight: 400;">. </span>*

<span style="font-weight: 400;">No, we’ll get to that in a different thread </span>*<span style="font-weight: 400;">Nature</span>*<span style="font-weight: 400;">, but we’re not going to be diverted from this question:</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Was Proximal Origin knowingly concocted/pro-moed with the full-might of One-Everything - to cover up the origin of Covid?</span>