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Australian researchers see virus design manipulation

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Australian researchers see virus design manipulation


A forthcoming Australian scientific study concludes that the coronavirus causing the global pandemic contains unique properties suggesting it was manipulated in a Chinese laboratory and was not the result of a natural occurrence.

Five scientists who conducted the study discovered an unusual ability of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, as the pathogen behind COVID-19 is called, to easily infect humans.

The scientists said there is no sign so far that the virus can be found in other animals, including bats or the exotic wildlife sold for fresh meat at a market in the Chinese city of Wuhan, where the virus was first identified and where China maintains a major laboratory studying such viruses.
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Australian researchers see virus design manipulation - Washington Times

Hmmmmmm. First a French Nobel winner says Covid is manipulated. Now Australian researchers. Time for a discussion?
 
Waddy said:
Australian researchers see virus design manipulation - Washington Times

Hmmmmmm. First a French Nobel winner says Covid is manipulated. Now Australian researchers. Time for a discussion?
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Probably not. The French researcher had a knee-jerk reaction to a non-peer reviewed study published in India that was subsequently retracted. We’ll have to see if this study out of Australia survives peer review and if it’s ever published in a reputable journal. My reading of the article is that this researcher has no evidence to support his conclusion other than his own surprise that the virus exists.
 
Napoleon said:
Probably not. The French researcher had a knee-jerk reaction to a non-peer reviewed study published in India that was subsequently retracted. We’ll have to see if this study out of Australia survives peer review and if it’s ever published in a reputable journal. My reading of the article is that this researcher has no evidence to support his conclusion other than his own surprise that the virus exists.
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You should also consider that this comes from the Moonie Times, and is clearly political marketing.

Watch for it to be cribbed by other right wing blogs (Breitbart, Gateway Pundit, the usual suspect) and added to Limbaugh’s essential stack of stuff, so it can be promoted to the people who dont read.

Promoting the idea of Corona virus as a Chinese conspiracy theory is a right wing meme, one that the flat earth audience loves.

As for the responsible representation of preliminary scientific research, the editors of the Moonie Times could care less. The paper they cited (but were careful not to link to), was in a shared bulletin board, which bears this very specific caveat, one which the Moonie Times (and all the people who will mischaractarize it) disregarded.

“ Important: e-prints posted on arXiv are not peer-reviewed by arXiv; they should not be relied upon without context to guide clinical practice or health-related behavior and should not be reported in news media as established information without consulting multiple experts in the field.”

Which tells you everything you need to know about the Times motive.
 
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Napoleon said:
Probably not. The French researcher had a knee-jerk reaction to a non-peer reviewed study published in India that was subsequently retracted. We’ll have to see if this study out of Australia survives peer review and if it’s ever published in a reputable journal. My reading of the article is that this researcher has no evidence to support his conclusion other than his own surprise that the virus exists.
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This is the same thing. Injected out of context, review, or professional comment from anyone in the scientific community.
 
Waddy said:
Australian researchers see virus design manipulation - Washington Times

Hmmmmmm. First a French Nobel winner says Covid is manipulated. Now Australian researchers. Time for a discussion?
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Quite a few virologists have made that observation. Indeed, the work done on the Corona virus at Chapel Hill was for "gain of function" for the virus.

Several experts have said that, and Lyin' Mike Pompeo wants it both ways, as long as the blame goes on the Chinese, our Arch Enemy.

One of those making that observation is Judy Mikovits, but she has been censored. She has become the Julian Assange or Edward Snowden of this Covid era. Her book Plague of Corruption is in the mail to me.
 
TomFitz said:
You should also consider that this comes from the Moonie Times, and is clearly political marketing.

Watch for it to be cribbed by other right wing blogs (Breitbart, Gateway Pundit, the usual suspect) and added to Limbaugh’s essential stack of stuff, so it can be promoted to the people who dont read.

Promoting the idea of Corona virus as a Chinese conspiracy theory is a right wing meme, one that the flat earth audience loves.

As for the responsible representation of preliminary scientific research, the editors of the Moonie Times could care less. The paper they cited (but were careful not to link to), was in a shared bulletin board, which bears this very specific caveat, one which the Moonie Times (and all the people who will mischaractarize it) disregarded.

“ Important: e-prints posted on arXiv are not peer-reviewed by arXiv; they should not be relied upon without context to guide clinical practice or health-related behavior and should not be reported in news media as established information without consulting multiple experts in the field.”

Which tells you everything you need to know about the Times motive.
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Basically a reflection of Australian xenophobia.
 
Metric Mouse said:
Basically a reflection of Australian xenophobia.
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I wouldn’t generalize in that matter.

My point is that it was misused and amplified by an unreliable right wing publication with a long history of pandering to American xenophobia.
 
TomFitz said:
I wouldn’t generalize in that matter.

My point is that it was misused and amplified by an unreliable right wing publication with a long history of pandering to American xenophobia.
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I think it's pretty clear that Australia has a history of xenophobia, and it has been well displayed in their response to Covid 19 in particular, as well as their foreign policies in general.
 
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