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.