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BOOK EXCERPT: "Redfield’s Warning: What I Learned (But Couldn’t Tell You) Might Save Your Life"

The DisInformation Chronicle • 325 implied HN points • 04 Feb 26
🏥 Health Politics Pandemic Origins
  1. SARS‑CoV‑2 was likely engineered to infect humans and probably escaped unintentionally from a Wuhan virology lab during gain‑of‑function research.
  2. Gain‑of‑function experiments and publishing their methods are inherently risky because labs have a history of containment failures and such work can enable misuse.
  3. Stronger oversight, stricter limits on risky pathogen research, and greater transparency about funding and lab safety are needed to prevent future lab‑caused pandemics.

The greatest trick Ralph Baric ever played was convincing the world he didn't exist

Unreported Truths • 55 implied HN points • 12 Mar 26
🏥 Health Politics Pandemic Origins
  1. A leading coronavirus researcher conducted gain-of-function experiments creating chimeric viruses that were made more capable of infecting human cells.
  2. That researcher and his collaborators have largely avoided public scrutiny, and their unpublished lab work has been kept hidden or protected by institutions.
  3. There are strong allegations that the pandemic may be linked to laboratory research and that scientists and agencies downplayed or covered up a possible lab origin.

The Office of Research Integrity Should Investigate Nature Medicine’s Corrupt “Proximal Origins” Paper

The DisInformation Chronicle • 365 implied HN points • 13 Jan 26
🏥 Health Politics Pandemic Origins
  1. House investigators and public emails show Jeremy Farrar helped organize and lead drafting of the Proximal Origins paper but was not listed or acknowledged, which the piece frames as ghostwriting that meets federal plagiarism criteria.
  2. Because the paper disclosed NIH funding, the Office of Research Integrity has legal authority to investigate it for fabrication, falsification, or plagiarism.
  3. ORI currently relies on Scripps, Tulane, and other institutions to investigate themselves, and the article argues that if those institutional reports ignore the public evidence, it would indicate the ORI system is broken and needs reform.

Coming at 3 p.m.: I talk live to Jim Haslam, who has investigated Covid's origins for years, about Ralph Baric, Tony Fauci, and the Rocky Mountain National Lab

Unreported Truths • 11 implied HN points • 13 Mar 26
🏥 Health Politics Pandemic Origins
  1. There’s a live interview with investigator Jim Haslam about COVID origins that will discuss Ralph Baric, Tony Fauci, and the Rocky Mountain National Lab.
  2. Haslam is presenting a theory that relies on previously unseen evidence about Baric, and that theory is being aired so it can be examined and scrutinized.
  3. This session is part of an effort to run more live podcasts after a recent successful episode, and viewers are invited to join at 3 p.m. Eastern (2 p.m. Central, noon Pacific).

THE TRUTH COMES OUT: NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya Nukes The ‘Experts,’ Confirms Lab Leak A ‘Near Certainty'

Unmasked • 37 implied HN points • 01 Feb 26
🏥 Health Politics Pandemic Origins
  1. Jay Bhattacharya sharply criticized the pandemic ‘experts’ and declared a COVID-19 lab leak to be a near certainty.
  2. He argued the lab leak theory is closely connected to decisions like lockdowns and mask mandates that followed the outbreak.
  3. The piece claims lockdowns caused massive financial and social harm and urges a clear investigation of the pandemic’s origins and responses to avoid repeating those mistakes.
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Senate Did NOT Just Unanimously Pass a Bill Requiring Declassification of "All of the Information" Regarding the Origins of Covid

husseini • 550 implied HN points • 05 Mar 23
🇺🇸 U.S. Politics Pandemic Origins
  1. The Senate bill only requires the release of information related to the Wuhan Institute of Virology, not all Covid origins information.
  2. Claims by sponsors like Sen. Hawley that the bill mandates declassification of all relevant Covid origins information are inaccurate.
  3. The bill focuses on declassifying information about the Wuhan Institute of Virology, leaving out other institutions and possible pandemic origins.

First People Sickened By COVID-19 Were Chinese Scientists At Wuhan Institute Of Virology, Say US Government Sources

Michael Shellenberger • 685 HN points • 13 Jun 23
📰 News Pandemic Origins
  1. The first people sickened by COVID-19 were Chinese scientists at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
  2. They were engaged in 'gain-of-function' research on SARS-like coronaviruses when they fell ill.
  3. Significant evidence points towards the accidental escape of the SARS-CoV-2 virus from the Wuhan lab.