Richard Ebright, Critic On Gain Of Function Research

We now have the saddening reasons to go back and ask ourselves again – What is the origin of CoViD19/SARS CoV2? Until this day, concerned scientists have not found the intermediate host animal. (Updates)

“The spike protein, which extends outward from the body of the virus and modulates the binding and fusion of the virus with the human cells, has components that appear to be unique to SARS-CoV-2 and not a consequence of a normal evolutionary process.” (Updates at IMO below.)

“COVID: summary of lab-origin hypothesis: 1) Pandemic caused by a bat SARS-like coronavirus emerged in Wuhan–a city 1,000 miles from nearest wild bats with SARS-like coronaviruses, but that contains labs conducting world’s largest research program on bat SARS-like coronaviruses.” – Dr. Richard H. Ebright, Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology Research, Rutgers University

This letter below published by the Lancet (Prompted by Dr. Fauci. Lancet one of the few left-leaning ‘scientific’ journals imo) was then used to suppress and censor the Chinese lab leak theory in Mainstream Media and on ‘big tic social media’ for over a year. There was, and remains, no evidence for the “scientists’” claims:

“… direct evidence for a natural origin for SARS-CoV-2 is missing. After 19 months of investigations, the proximal progenitor of SARS-CoV-2 is still lacking. Neither the host pathway from bats to humans, nor the geographical route from Yunnan (where the viruses most closely related to SARS-CoV-2 have been sampled) to Wuhan (where the pandemic emerged) have been identified. More than 80,000 samples collected from Chinese wildlife sites and animal farms all proved negative. In addition, the international research community has no access to the sites, samples, or raw data …

Some unusual features of the SARS-CoV-2 genome sequence suggest that they may have resulted from genetic engineering, an approach widely used in some virology labs.

Alternatively, adaptation to humans might result from undirected laboratory selection during serial passage in cell cultures or laboratory animals, including humanised mice.Mice genetically modified to display the human receptor for entry of SARS-CoV-2 (ACE2) were used in research projects funded before the pandemic, to test the infectivity of different virus strains. Laboratory research also includes more targeted approaches such as gain-of-function experiments relying on chimeric viruses to test their potential to cross species barriers.

A research-related contamination could result from contact with a natural virus during field collection, transportation from the field to a laboratory, characterisation of bats and bat viruses in a laboratory, or from a non-natural virus modified in a laboratory. There are well-documented cases of pathogen escapes from laboratories.”

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Aria Collins

“Ebright is also an outspoken critic of the unchallenged narrative of the origins of the COVID-19 virus. Ebright notes that a document from 2018 points to “smoking gun” evidence that COVID-19 was engineered by researchers at a Chinese lab.”

World’s Top Molecular Biologist Warns of ‘Smoking Gun’ Evidence COVID Was Bioengineered by ‘Deep State’

Agree with this IMO? 39

Don Schafer

🤔 We’re getting closer it seems👇 but let’s just hope an expected retaliation won’t be used as a staging post for a new war that the powers-that-be are craving for. Really hope not.🤞 https://thepeoplesvoice.tv/chinese-govt-orders-destruction-of-all-covid-data/

Agree with this IMO? 31

Rey Arm

“… a report on Tuesday revealed that the FBI knew about the origin of COVID since at least March 2020. That would mean that FBI Director Chris Wray and other officials likely kept that information from former President Donald Trump, as well as the wider public.

According to the report from journalists Michael Shellenberger and Alex Gutentag, a Chinese national from Wuhan, working as an FBI informant, told their handler at the bureau’s Chinese Intelligence Squad. The report cited unnamed sources who reportedly said it was probable that the whole squad of 25 people knew.

“A person working at the Virology Institute lab in Wuhan, China was infected, left the building, and spread the virus outside the lab in Wuhan,” the FBI informant said, according to a source. “It didn’t have anything to do with the wet market or the bat soup story they were going with.”

The sources also reportedly said that the FBI trusted the informant because the person’s information had been corroborated at least three times previously.

“The [informant] was from Wuhan, had been vetted, and the person had provided information on three prior occasions that they were able to corroborate as true and reliable,” an unnamed person told Shellenberger and Gutentag.”

https://headlineusa.com/report-fbi-knew-covid-came-from-lab-since-march-2020/

Agree with this IMO? 58

Tory Bobb

“There are many things that cannot be said on YouTube.
There are many things that cannot be said on Twitter.
Only researchers know what is true.
Researchers can directly obtain data and analyze it.
And when they analyze it, they can learn a lot of things.
We can’t communicate that …
So I’m not sure what Japan is doing.
By examining the amino acid sequences you can immediately understand what is being done.
If you analyze it, it’s obvious.”

Top Japanese Virologist Raises Alarm over Manufactured Omicron Strain

Agree with this IMO? 79

Shane Earle-Sears

Created a digest of Dr. Ebright’s X posts from 2023 to present. Dr. Ebright’s focus on the origins and impact of COVID-19 and related viruses, and his critique of public health policies and practices.

– **Jan 17, 2024:** Ebright discusses a study where Chinese scientists experimented with a mutant coronavirus with a 100% kill rate in mice.
– **Jan 14, 2024:** Ebright mentions Senator Rand Paul’s criticism of Dr. Fauci’s involvement in gain-of-function research in Wuhan.
– **Jan 13, 2024:** Comments on Rep. Morgan Griffith’s deposition with Fauci.
– **Dec 30, 2023:** Ebright reflects on the lab-origin hypothesis for COVID-19.
– **Nov 17, 2023:** Discussion on the sexual transmission of Clade I Mpox Virus in DR Congo.

Agree with this IMO? 191

Timo Larsen

Wish you went farther back because on Sept.7, 2021, Dr. Ebright shared an important ‘origin’ report from The Intercept, entitled “New Details Emerge About Coronavirus Research at Chinese Lab,” based on a trove of published and unpublished NIH grant proposals and other documents, provides significant insights into U.S.-funded coronavirus research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. Here’s a comprehensive summary I created:

1. Document Release: Over 900 pages of documents related to U.S.-funded research in China were released following a FOIA lawsuit by The Intercept. These include previously unpublished grant proposals funded by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and project updates from EcoHealth Alliance.

2. Research Focus: The documents detail efforts led by EcoHealth Alliance to screen thousands of bat samples for novel coronaviruses and involve screening people working with live animals. Critical research was conducted at a biosafety level 3 lab at Wuhan University Center for Animal Experiment, not at the Wuhan Institute of Virology as previously thought.

3. Grant Details: EcoHealth Alliance received a total of $3.1 million, including $599,000 for the Wuhan Institute of Virology. The research included identifying and altering bat coronaviruses likely to infect humans. The grant acknowledged the high risks associated with this fieldwork.

4. Lab-Leak Theory: The documents bolster the plausibility of the lab-leak theory of the pandemic’s origin, which has been dismissed by some researchers, including EcoHealth Alliance’s President Peter Daszak.

5. Research on Novel Viruses: Richard Ebright, a molecular biologist, noted that the documents reveal the creation of novel viruses. The research tested these viruses’ ability to infect humanized mice, with findings showing that novel coronaviruses could indeed infect these mice.

6. Grant Period and Context: The initial grant was awarded for 2014-2019 and renewed in 2019 but was suspended in April 2020 by the Trump administration. The research was deemed important by the funding agencies.

7. Origin Debates: The closest relative of SARS-CoV-2, which causes Covid-19, is found in bats. The article discusses the ongoing debate about the natural spillover versus lab origin of the virus. It also mentions President Biden’s call for a deeper investigation into the pandemic’s origins and the inconclusive findings of the intelligence inquiry.

8. Second Grant: Another grant titled “Understanding Risk of Zoonotic Virus Emergence in Emerging Infectious Disease Hotspots of Southeast Asia” was also detailed. This grant focuses on scaling up resources in Asia in case of an outbreak and was awarded in August 2020, extending through 2025.

Shared article provides critical insights into the nature and risks of coronavirus research conducted at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, highlighting the concerns about biosafety and the potential for lab accidents that might have contributed to the Covid-19 pandemic.

https://x.com/R_H_Ebright/status/1435053505169944579?s=20

Agree with this IMO? 72

Scot Tish👇

Bio-lab hazards and disposal of bio-lab wastes should all the more be of serious concern today because of recent coronavirus research (again) developments:
1. GX_P2V: A SARS-CoV2 related infected Pangolins (from bat feces) have been cloned in China.
2. By Chinese military-trained scientists in China.
3. Test on mice that were genetically engineered to express human ACE2 cell receptors resulted to 100% mortality rate in just 8 days with abrupt weight loss, neurological degeneration, confusion, weakness and eyes turning all white a day before their death.
https://nypost.com/2024/01/16/news/covid-19-strain-kills-100-of-infected-mice-in-chinese-lab-study/
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.01.03.574008v1.full
Agree with this IMO? 82

Lorna P.

Stumbled upon that study last week and sieved through the data.

I do foresee a ‘geo-political streak’ on it, maybe not purposeful, but a “natural spill-over” closes the door to the plausibility of a lab leak even with the fact that certain scientists were one of the first in the World infected by CoViD19 (SARS-like symptoms, progressively became very ill), and that the study below seems to be directing to an implication that it’s possible that the Malaysian Pangolin may be the missing intermediate host too for the animal to human CoViD19 infection.

To summarize based on the study’s various findings, “Lethal Infection of Human ACE2-Transgenic Mice Caused by SARS-CoV-2-related Pangolin Coronavirus GX_P2V (short_3UTR)”, it explores the effects of a pangolin coronavirus on mice engineered to express human ACE2. This virus caused 100% mortality in these mice, likely due to severe late-stage brain infection. This finding indicates a potential spillover risk of this virus to humans and provides a model for understanding the pathogenic mechanisms of SARS-CoV-2-related viruses. The study emphasizes the need for further investigation into the pathogenicity of this coronavirus strain.

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.01.03.574008v1.full.

Agree with this IMO? 78

Sue McCullen

Cover up of negligence, recklessness and/or creation – In my opinion.
Agree with this IMO? 39

Aria Collins

Due to the strikingly, ‘loud’ actual research data evidently and directly pointing to ‘man-made’ based on a research study on CoViD19 variants conducted by Dr. Takayuki Miyazawa et.al., this pivotal study has not been published for peer review. Won’t be peer-reviewed right now because actual data and research findings were deemed controversial?

Dr. Miyazawa then went out publicly, with passion from utter disbelief and likewise disappointment, and reached out to the people to learn about his research findings. Here are its key points:

“BREAKING: Top Japanese Virologist Warns of Manufactured Omicron Strain”
Source: The HighWire
Published Date: September 28, 2023

1. Takayuki Miyazawa’s Warning:
– Position: Professor and Virologist at Kyoto University.
– Claim: Coronavirus is artificially created.
– Belief: Governments have not been transparent about the virus’s origins.
– Statement: Many truths cannot be expressed on TV, YouTube, or Twitter.
– Research: Analyzed amino acid sequences, concluded something unnatural about Omicron (https://thehighwire.com/editorial/breaking-top-japanese-virologist-warns-of-manufactured-omicron-strain/).

2. Research Findings:
– Study: “Unnatural evolutionary processes of SARS-CoV-2 variants and possibility of deliberate natural selection.”
– Method: Used BLAST program to study nearly 400 Omicron-related variants.
– Conclusion: Formation of some Omicron isolates (BA.1, BA.1.1, BA.2) is not a natural genome evolution.
– Observation: Incremental and methodically stepped-down ordering of Omicron mutations, unusual for natural mutations. (https://thehighwire.com/editorial/breaking-top-japanese-virologist-warns-of-manufactured-omicron-strain/).

3. Additional Research Support:
– U.S. Department of Energy, CIA, and FBI recognize the possibility of SARS-CoV-2 being lab-created.
– Tanaka and Miyazawa’s 25-page paper traces Omicron’s origins, finding evidence of lab creation and release.
– Researchers discovered roughly 100 separate Omicron subvariants unlikely to have arisen naturally. (https://thehighwire.com/editorial/japanese-scientists-find-indisputable-evidence-that-all-covid-variants-are-man-made/).

4. Context and Implications:
– Discussion: Tanaka and Miyazawa’s findings add to the scientific debate on COVID-19’s origins.
– Ramifications: Suggests large-scale lab creation and release of COVID-19 viruses.
– Wider Impact: Calls into question vaccine safety and regulatory processes, with implications for future pandemic responses. (https://thehighwire.com/editorial/japanese-scientists-find-indisputable-evidence-that-all-covid-variants-are-man-made/)
(https://thehighwire.com/editorials/jaxen-report/).

5. Author Credentials:
– Atsushi Tanaka: Immunologist at Osaka University, over 30 scholarly papers published.
– Takayuki Miyazawa: Virologist at Kyoto University, almost 300 academic articles published. (https://thehighwire.com/editorial/japanese-scientists-find-indisputable-evidence-that-all-covid-variants-are-man-made/).

6. Related Concerns:
– Study on prenatal exposure to mRNA vaccines indicating autism-like behaviors in rats.
– Debate on vaccine safety and the role of regulatory agencies in addressing potential risks. (https://thehighwire.com/editorial/as-cdc-pushed-covid-vaccine-with-no-safety-data-a-new-study-reveals-that-prenatal-exposure-to-the-mrna-jab-causes-autism/) (https://thehighwire.com/editorials/jaxen-report/).

Agree with this IMO? 99

Ori Gin

Straight from Moscow, the result of a Russian military intelligence investigation: “This coronavirus and so called pandemic is not a pandemic at all. It’s a global strategic operation to control humanity. The Zionists and financial powers of this world, want to reduce the population! They want about 100 million of their own and about one billion to serve them.”
Agree with this IMO? 99

Benj DR

“Prof. Miyazawa was very evidently in utter shock and disbelief, see his sadness too? Results of his research suggesting CoViD19 CoV2 variants were not products of a natural evolution opens the door to a lot higher chances that CoViD19 CoV2 was man-made. SARS CoV2 most likely was too! …”

BREAKING: Top Japanese Virologist Warns of Manufactured Omicron Strain

Even if it hasn’t been proven outright that CoViD19 CoV2 is not product of natural evolution and the least plausible with an intrinsic ability for zoonotic transfer, Prof. Takayuki Miyazawa’s findings increases the possibility of a man-made/laboratory origin especially the known fact that a chimera was created able to directly infect human cells.

Florida (USA) Surgeon General Dr. Joseph Ladapo on near-future consequences:
““I think when the real damage has been totally accounted for, honestly I’m not sure we’re going to even have a Pfizer anymore. I don’t think it’s going to actually look the same way. The harm that has been done by these vaccines…This is going to unfortunately go down as a very sad point in history,” Dr. Ladapo said recently regarding the DNA contamination found within mRNA vaccines.”

Florida Surgeon General: “Pfizer Execs Will Spend Rest of Their Lives in Jail”

Agree with this IMO? 95

Rey Arm

That was a breakthrough but reportedly further research towards whether CoViD19 CoV2 itself is also man-made is currently being prevented. And it’s nearing the point that it will come out as that imo. Probably would have by now if the plausibility was not outright rejected and the possibility was not covered up. That Drs. Fauci of NIAI and Djzack of EcoHealth Alliance did not have to vehemently reject the possibility early on, and if the 6 research scientists were not ‘silenced’. So those, with this, are the main reasons this ongoing lawsuit exists:

CIA Sued for Hiding Man-Made Origins of COVID-19

Agree with this IMO? 68

Rupert Sheldon

Ooof!

Bombshell cascading events all linked towards now virtually nothing that happens in U.S. research laboratories about which China’s military is not intimately aware. And bottom-line, most likely man-made, lab-leak!

“The spike protein, which extends outward from the body of the virus and modulates the binding and fusion of the virus with the human cells, has components that appear to be unique to SARS-CoV-2 and not a consequence of a normal evolutionary process.”

Dr. Sellin Releases Primer for the House Select Committee on China: PART 1 – The Laboratory Origin of COVID-19

Agree with this IMO? 64

Aria Collins

A RINO and Dem prezs kept on opening the door to them!

I’m going by party, hero GOP (not RINOs) working even harder to fix decades of dem mess! High-risk adventurism (Liberalism) never works on the international front, especially when dealing with totally different ideologies.

A lib prez may be thinking good diplomacy while the foreign prezs are thinking good opportunity. And Liberalism is more open to corruption, imo.

Pres. Reagan and Trump were rationally and cautiously diplomatic (Conservatism-Republicanism-Federalism at work). Pres. Carter, Clinton and Obama seemed to have gone all-out and overboard (Incentive? How much?) with the China-United States Biochemistry Examination and Application ( CUSBEA) program (est.1979 Carter-Deng Xiaoping), got wider and deeper until the ‘scientific chain migration’ grew robust in favor of the see see pee and pee el A.

Can say up until today, all dem prezs from car ter up seem to be exceptionally “soft” on them: “Why is Biden soft on China?”, a recent question by Trump.

“The growth of China’s biotechnology sector and biowarfare program was dependent on accessing knowledge, skills and technologies from outside China, particularly from universities in the United States, which would be eager to collaborate with China and accept Chinese Communist Party (CCP) money.”

” … Clinton expanded the Carter-Deng Xiaoping agreement openly inviting Chinese military scientists into U.S. Department of Defense research centers including the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases at Fort Detrick.”

Agree with this IMO? 74

Luisa Bancroft

Helpful inputs for everyone including the Select Committee on Strategic Competition Between USA and CHN:

“Without any external threat like a ‘Killer Virus’ this massive financial collapse would have immediately caused panic and threatened dollar credibility. Without the Covid-19 smokescreen this widespread Ponzi Scheme and the ongoing historical wealth transfer would be seen for what they are- ongoing theft by the financial aristocracy.”

COVID-19: A Global Financial Operation

CoViD19 Global Financial Operation

Agree with this IMO? 79

Perry Milton

“Dr. Andrew Huff: This was actually a failed intelligence operation. We were actually trading China advanced biotechnology for access to and collect intelligence on their bioweapons laboratory. I believe. I can’t prove that but a number of agencies that I discuss in the book, including Dr. Peter Daszak telling me he worked with the CIA.”

Dr. Andrew Huff: EcoHealth President Dr. Peter Daszak Was Working for the CIA While Funding Lab Work in China (VIDEO)

Agree with this IMO? 71

Aria Collins

Hope this isn’t just a ‘band-aid’ or a fix of image because aside from the infiltration of today, decades of dem prezs’ booboos make us look really politically dumb or just plain dumb (And bribable). Anyway the GOP-led select committee will tell us thoroughly backed up truths, nope, not circus-type, staged up, incompetent, dem-like committees.
Agree with this IMO? 55

Dwight Graham

“Almost no one seems to realize that the head of bioethics at NIH – the person who is supposed to make sure that Fauci behaves ethically – is his wife … Gain-of-function’ in this context is just another way of saying ‘bioweapon.’” Important to note that Fauci authored 2012 paper arguing for gain-of-function research!” – Elon Musk

Elon Musk Ousts Fauci: “Gain-of-Function Is Just Another Way of Saying Bioweapon”

Agree with this IMO? 44

Alexia Alexios

Fouchie ouchie recommendations were somehow trusted and followed by all the administration he worked for, current admin should’ve known better about his lockdowns and jabbs recommendations. Then again, doesn’t know better at all angles than the Trump admin.. (faochie ouchie meme)

Long Lockdowns Bad For Economy

Agree with this IMO? 42

Paris Cunningham

Andrew Huff is a US scientist who worked in the Wuhan lab. In his latest book, ‘The Truth About Wuhan’, Huff has made some shocking revelations about the origin of COVID-19 – That it is man-made and highly U.S.-funded Gain of Function Research for corona viruses via Dr. Fauci’s NIAID in collaboration with Peter Dzsack’s Eco Health Alliance. First infection was either caused by poor safety lab practices or poor and improper GOF disposal facility.
Agree with this IMO? 54

Ty Thompson

Trump-endorsed Republican Senator Dr. Rand Paul: “Fauci funded “research that allowed them to create super viruses, that in all likelihood leaked into the public and caused seven million people to die,”

Rand Paul: ‘Fauci Has the Blood of 7 Million People on His Hands’

Agree with this IMO? 34

Conchita Perez

Faucicide: Irresponsible, reckless, super greedy and zero foresight!

Sooo f disconnected with the safety of The People!

Agree with this IMO? 71

Hans Gienricht

Similar Gain-Of-Function researches are being conducted in some of the 46 U.S. Bio-Weapons lab in UKR (RUS presentation before the UN had forced the Pentagon to admit), and no doubt those in TWN aside from in CHN.

There will be stronger focus on these if SARS CoV2 origin leads to the lab leak or lab made theory. It isn’t far-fetch to think that maybe SARS-CoV2 was ‘transported’ or came from outside of Wuhan or CHN.

The R-781 project is interesting, where bats are considered as carriers of potential biological weapons agents. Other priority studies are the study of bacterial and viral pathogens that can be transmitted from bats to humans: Pathogens of plague, leptospirosis, brucellosis, as well as coronaviruses and filoviruses.

I remember faucicide saying something like, “You put them (bioweapons labs) in or near where the enemies are …” e.g. close proximity to the borders of Russia – in the areas of the Black Sea coast and the Caucasus.

Breaking: Russia Releases Alleged Captured Documents Before UN Special Council Meeting Exposing Evidence of US Military Biolabs in Ukraine (VIDEO)

Revealed: FTX Was Funding Biological Weapons Shelters

Agree with this IMO? 71

Harrison Frye

Of course the Fauci, Deszack, Moderna, Pfizer camp would uphold the ‘from nature’ origin (But can’t find the intermediate host animal), and not the ‘lab leak that points more to possible lab made’ origin.

But we must back-track as there may be that ‘sci research greed’ in Fauci’s push for Gain Of Function researches via his NIAID that funded the Wuhan lab for research on Bat Corona viruses.

Key areas of this US senate hearing (Aug.3 2021) led by Senators Josh Hawley (Republican – MO), Rand Paul (Republican – KY) and Ron Johnson (Republican – TN) help us to know the real reason why Fauci got into Gain Of Function research and funded for bat corona virus research at the Wuhan lab:

“And the thing that really concerns me, is […] research centers […] that are doing this gain-of-function research, for two, I mean very dangerous gain-of-function research for two completely unnecessary reasons: because it’s fundable and it’s publishable. […] So, you got a little greed involved, and you have hubris. Is that what you’re saying?”

“The research is performed because it’s fast, easy, fundable, and publishable,” Dr. Ebright clarified. “In the academic research ecosystem, those are determinants of what research gets pursued.”

https://cnsnews.com/article/washington/micky-wootten/dr-ebright-senate-gain-function-research-popular-because-its-fast

Agree with this IMO? 65

Blake Wolfgang

The lab leak origin is going to open up very punitive moves made and issues like Fauci’s GOF and NIAI, failure in bio-safety (What happened to all the funding?), could lead to that CoV2 was lab made owing to its selectivity to human cells, best affinity with and most infectious to human cells, and it’s novel and totally different spike protein structure that differences are least possibly evolutionary, Peter Dzsack’s guvvy well-funded EcoHealth involvement, there is international involvement – Who and where. ‘From nature’ origin will dismiss everything and set Fauci, Dzsack, Moderna, especially FTX CEO and Huntah and other more ‘still unknown’ key players free.
Agree with this IMO? 62

Dwight Graham

This whole pandemic from CoV2 to vaccination is a crazy circus!🤦🏻

Well the WHO, Dzsack, Fauci camp can stop the pushback against the lab leak origin and say ok it’s a lab leak but still cov2 came from the bats that may have leaked like from the travel from the bat caves or in the handling of the captured bats – But what was the intermediate animal host?

Dr. Bat Woman (Forgot her name) already said they created a chimera (in her Wuhan lab) of SARS-CoV2 – that chimera can actually directly infect humans.

Fast forward, then there’s this explosive mistake of using spike proteins as the antigen/active ingredient in the CoViD19 mRNA vaccination that among other dangerous occurrences, triggers mutation of different variants that directly weakens if not destroys the efficacy of the previous innoculation.

And as most of us know now, the ‘experimental injection compound’ travels through the bloodstream and spike proteins stay-infect our internal organs’ cells and brain (vaxx can pass through the bbb). So toxic, made to kill.

Meanwhile, Troodoo of same ‘camp’ working on euthanizing ‘poor’ Canadians.

What a circus, like ‘leftlib circuses’!

Agree with this IMO? 64