How many people were canceled for saying something like this in 2020-2022?
The backtracking going on right now from the “experts” who were in charge during the pandemic is just ridiculous.
You may not like it, but the Establishment was able to use the pandemic to take control and they succeeded. However, now that it’s over they are trying to correct the record so history remembers them well.
As many of you know Trump and anyone else was mocked and censored if they brought up the COVID “lab leak theory.”
Four years later, Dr. Anthony Fauci’s former boss, Francis Collins, is conceding that the COVID lab leak theory is not a conspiracy.
It should go without saying, but not only is a lab origin not a “conspiracy theory”, but (@ScienceMagazine I’m looking directly at you) it’s also not a “controversial view”
It is a theory. In fact, it is the most likely theory and it was suppressed for 4 years. https://t.co/jd2WWlGfJJ
— Alex Washburne (@WashburneAlex) January 16, 2024
Great lengths were taken to stop people from making those claims as “experts” tried to point to the wet market in Wuhan.
Whether through legal action or changes in the law, we need to establish a clear precedent that it’s not okay for science funders to use the power of funding + promotion available to them to pick and choose which theories get to go forward.
Science must never have a Pope again https://t.co/r9zvRqDlnE
— Alex Washburne (@WashburneAlex) January 16, 2024
Matter of fact, when a group of internationally recognized physician created the Great Barrington declaration (which called for an end of lockdowns) it was Francis Collins who ordered the “takedown” of those involved.
Well now Collins is doing a “U-turn,” from the Dailymail:
Dr Francis Collins, former head of the National Institutes of Health, testified in a closed-door session with the House coronavirus subcommittee on Friday about his role during America’s pandemic response.
Dr Collins was involved in suppressing the theory that Covid likely escaped from a Chinese biolab, a theory which implicated the sprawling agency he headed up. It was previously revealed that the NIH oversaw grants funding risky ‘gain of function’ research to make viruses more transmissible and/or deadly.
In a significant U-turn, House Republicans who led the hearing revealed that Dr Collins, 73, told them that the lab leak hypothesis was not a conspiracy theory.
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Ohio Republican Brad Wenstrup, who heads the Covid subcommittee in the House, said: ‘Dr. Collins acknowledged that Dr Fauci invited him to attend the infamous February 1, 2020 conference call that prompted the “Proximal Origin” publication.
‘This testimony directly contradicts Dr. Fauci’s previous statements and raises further concerns about the U.S. government’s role in suppressing and vilifying the lab-leak hypothesis.’
He added that Dr Collins said the lab leak hypothesis was not a conspiracy.
There you have it four years later.
