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From FACT CHECK: COVID-19 Whistleblower Li-Meng Yan Releases Paper With Other Scientists 'Suggesting Sophisticated Laboratory Modification' | Tech Times which as doing some fact chckcing.
Well, let's look at the preprint, see who else is on it. The other people on the claim are in a group that is associated with Steve Bannon, and are not known to have any kind of infectious disease background.
So, that bring a couple of strikes against it.
What do immunologists say about what the preprint says. We'll discount any chinese response, since there will be a conflict of interest there.
INtro into the section about the paper
and some indivual scientists
Due to the link to Bannon, and the response of various biologists around the world, I would say this paper , which has not found any publisher yet other than a non-peer reviewed 'pre-print' site, is pretty much discredited.
It does, as I have mentioned elsewhere, fit the profile of 'Let's blame China' that was leaked in an RNC memo. It's purpose seems to be to distracts from the absolute failure the current president had in handling this crisis.
Stop watching Fox News before it dissolves what little is left of your brain.
Yes because there isn't a single shred of evidence that supports her claim and frankly even the notion that they would do so is so nonsensical as to be utterly ridiculous.
Like Trump, who openly lied about the seriousness of the virus (and still does) causing thousands of unnecessary deaths.
As an aside... what about this story? More, less, equally credible?
ICE whistleblower: Nurse alleges 'hysterectomies on immigrant women in US' - BBC News
I agree that it seems highly unlikely that this could be true.
I started this thread to see how different people apply "standards" when politics are involved and if/how those standards change when a negative impact to those politics is at stake.
So far it ain't looking good...
How about this one?
ICE whistleblower: Nurse alleges 'hysterectomies on immigrant women in US' - BBC News
Seems pretty similar in regard to evidence and believably. Can we dismiss it out-of-hand, too?
The Chinese woman ALSO claims she was working on site and has first hand knowledge.The allegation has been made. Specifics have been given. There is a path to investigation. One big difference between the covid 19 allegation and the nurses allegation is that the nurse was working at the site, and has first hand knowledge. It also from the complaint seems to center around 1 doctor (so far), so it does not appear to be a claim that it is malicious actions on the part of the government at large.
IMO, if these allegations prove to be true, it is a GOOD piece of evidence about why we should eliminate private detention facilities and prisons in the USA.
The Chinese woman ALSO claims she was working on site and has first hand knowledge.
From the articles I saw, her job was in Hong Kong.
"I work[ed] in the WHO reference lab, which is the top coronavirus lab in the world, in the University of Hong Kong. And the thing is I get deeply into such investigation in secret from the early beginning of this outbreak. I had my intelligence because I also get my own unit network in China, involved [in] the hospital ... also I work with the top corona[virus] virologist in the world," she said.
of course by Trump supporters.. the leftists want nothing to upend their narrative.
Seems pretty on site and first hand to me...
Because people who work in hospitals have access to highly secret government facilities. .. Got you.
Yan, who said she was one of the first scientists in the world to study the novel coronavirus, fled China and currently fears retaliation. She was allegedly asked by her supervisor at the University/WHO reference lab, Dr. Leo Poon, in 2019 to look into the odd cluster of SARS-like cases coming out of mainland China at the end of December 2019.
of course they did, plausible deniability. do you really think the CCP cares about their people?
plus they knew they could contain it with their heavyhanded tactics.
Twitter has shut down her account.
This means that it was absolutely false........or true.
Her claim, not mine...
Whistleblower. Claims first hand knowledge.
Apples/Apples
The Chinese woman ALSO claims she was working on site and has first hand knowledge.
And her claim does not pass basic scrutiny...
If she HAD that type of inside information, she would have defected and revealed it long time ago.
People need to apply common critical thinking skills
She did and it is in the OP link.
In your case I think I'd focus on basic reading comprehension before moving on to the more advanced "critical thinking".
But they released it on their own people first.
They don't want to know what is true or not true. They already have the narrative they think will work...
And her claim does not pass basic scrutiny...
If she HAD that type of inside first hand knowledge information, she would have defected and revealed it long time ago or pass such information to others abroad.
You mean we have the tapes don't you?
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