W. Ian Lipkin

As mentioned, i first authored a Wikipedia post on Ian Lipkin back in May-June 2020. I also did Eddie Holmes.  Along with the Formosahut thread, those two posts on Wikipedia represented the first in depth analysis on the planet of Proximal Origin and its authors.  The posts were very-much gloves on - happily following all Wikipedia rules - no opinions, every statement referenced, quoting from the horse's mouth.  For my troubles i was blanked, blocked n abused.  Doesn't matter - managed to get under the skin of the subjects and prick their bubble of bullshit.  We'll see who wins in the end. 

Lipkin, according to Garry, was brought on a little bit later  - as the celebrity scientist salesman - with more ties to high-ranking China officials than Marco Polo.  He didn't attend the Feb 1 teleconference because he was in China meeting Li Ke-chiang and George Gao (18:30)

Lipkin: (41:46): I offered my services to President Xi, who I found very impressive.

His main job was to coordinate with the CCP, then hit the international media circuit when he arrived back in New York. As he says:

I was doing a lot of media.

A dedicated book on Lipkin is coming - all the research is there, now i'm dying to write it up coz he's easily the funniest - he could not stop incriminating himself in all his interviews.  In the meantime, here's a list compiled in an earlier Formosahut thread:

• Founding Director of Northeast Biodefense Center in 2003. Granted $46 mil in 2009 alone for “pursuing multifaceted research activities” to fight “emerging infectious diseases and terrorism” with special emphasis on "Bacillus anthracis and ... Zoonotic diseases ...due to expertise of NBC members.”
• Member of WHO Collaborating Center.
• Loves the limelight. Featured advisor for the movie Contagion, which he never shuts up about. Reveals one of the characters, who saves the world by breaking the rules, is based on him. I devised the imaginary virus that wreaks havoc in the film. Cool!
• Conducted media blitz praising the CCP’s system of government (16:17) after returning from China in Feb 2020.
• Founding Director of the Beijing Center for Infectious Diseases. Visiting professor at Beijing University. Joint lab at Sun Yat-sen University, Beijing (CCP funded). Splits time between Columbia Uni and China.
• Relentlessly touts a medical data-centralization operation called GIDEON, whose funding, according to Lipkin, comes from the CCP. (13:43)
• “Close friends” with Chinese government ministers and officials. (18:10)
• Received two prestigious awards from the CCP/PLA, including one presented by Li Kechiang in person.
• Advocate of Gain-of-Function experiments.
• Co-author of Proximal Origins, “the definitive paper ruling out the possibility of a lab leak”, thereby shielding WIV from growing scrutiny. Blamed pangolin from a Wuhan market.
• Celebrity virus/environmental evangelist (32:30). Has played up threat of zoonotic crossover all his career - says this is not ‘the big one’.
• Regular collaborator with fellow-celebrity-scientist Daszak.  They co-authored a murky MERS-origin paper in Saudi Arabia.