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Excellent as ever Paul. We are, of course, dealing not with conjecture but the certainty that something is being concealed - we even really know exactly what it is. Plenty enough for a non-corrupt crime agency to act on. I have often noted that top of the list of recipients of Fauci’s email in the small hours of February 1, 2020, calling for a conference next day was Sir Patrick Vallance, the British Government’s Chief Scientist - I wonder what he told the Prime Minister.

BBC still farcically trying to cover up last week.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-62307383

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Definitely something is being hidden. What exactly, we don't know yet.

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Perhaps I was wrong to say “exactly”, but a good idea - lots of details about the history of the US involvement with the Wuhan lab…

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Aug 2, 2022Liked by Paul D. Thacker
Aug 4, 2022·edited Aug 4, 2022

Thanks for this link. The lateness of the data wrt the initial outbreak would seem to be reason enough for scientific skepticism, let alone such things as:

'For example, for most of their [ Pekar et al ] suggested sequence artifacts they rely on an unverifiable ‘personal communication’ from a single scientist (L. Chen) in China. '

Moreover: less sexily, but still a matter of critical importance: the trees created by phylogeny building software depend critically on the identification of a common ancestral sequence. Selective choice of parameters and origin change the shape of these trees - and therefore the origin of covid - radically; perhaps to conform to a less-embarrassing, less career-threatening narrative.

The BBC, which I have long supported - needs to start disentangling culture war and science journalism; and to start remembering that is paid by the people, not the Wellcome trust.

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The BBC doesn't deserve your support: there are so many independent news outlets/journalists that are being crushed financially because of censorship. The BBC was one of the founders of the Trusted News Initiative (TNI); the censorship alliance of legacy media, social media orgs, Big Tech and "fact checkers" that immediately alert one another to suppress "non-authorized news." Here's an article about TNI: of course it has a "false information" warning from TNI on it's main page.

https://www.globalresearch.ca/covid-19-shadowy-trusted-news-initiative/5752930

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Thank you for that; I agree mostly with what you say. The TNI is totally pernicious. But - things have changed. It used not to be this way.

Evidence? here:

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-13716127

-- where the BBC basically said: the Blair government 'probably knew' that information included in what is now known as the 'dodgy' dossier was false.

After this: Hutton, whitewasher in chief for mr Blair, excoriated the BBC:

https://www.dw.com/en/hutton-report-clears-blair-criticizes-bbc/a-1099230

and after this:

* David Kelly, government weapons inspector, apparently commits suicide

* BBC chairman Gavyn Davies resigns

* BBC director general Greg Dyke resigns

and the corporation has not recovered it's political independence since. I should note, at the time: there was not a word from Sky news, the BBC's chief rival, to cast any doubt on the dossier.

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Aug 2, 2022Liked by Paul D. Thacker

Don’t forget Eddie Holmes the first to release the genome to the world. Let’s have a Royal Commission in Australia!

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Aug 2, 2022Liked by Paul D. Thacker

Thank you for your work.

This post calls for touching up a draft that I'd had under construction.

Here's a glimpse from the lab perspective: https://medquotes.substack.com/p/how-is-a-brick-like-a-bat

... which is connected with these posts: https://medquotes.substack.com/p/follow-the-science , https://medquotes.substack.com/p/not-new-spike-transferrin-receptor

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Fauci is a crook! So are all of his enablers at the NIH. COVID did not come from "natural origins". As John Cohen says "the virus came into that marketplace before it came out". It leaked from the WIV which houses or housed one of the largest bat coronaviruses in the world. Enter Peter Daszak of EchoHealth who writes a grant proposal in 2018 to DARPA to take bat viruses & make them more likely to infect humans of which Dr. Shi of the WIV will conduct the testing. Fauci funds EchoHealth for GAF research, a leak occurs in a Wuhan lab that had known safety issues and voila, COVID. Scientists are speculating that sequence looks manufactured and all of a sudden secret meetings are held by Fauci of course, the Lancet letter is drafted and signed by scientists who have now changed their position of theory to natural origin (all secretly orchestrated by Daszak), grant $ is doled out to keep scientists quiet, Fauci has email exchange w Zuckerberg to get a handle on "Misinformation", he shuts down all debate, emails are redacted and somehow this guy who is in control of billions of $$ is crowned a f'ng saint????!! Jim Geraghty of NR had a good point "The 2nd great mystery of this pandemic is why so many powerful people don't seem to feel any sense of urgency about solving the 1st great mystery" (How it got started). Just seems like Fauci has been playing COVID Wack a Mole for years now.

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It reads like a column, not a news report. I'm sorry this is considered journalism in Australia.

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