The e-book of 'Dark Winter: An insider’s guide to pandemics and biosecurity' by Raina MacIntyre dropped today. Here's a clip from the end of Ch1.
“So what we see here is a recurrent pattern of failure to recognise the facts, a denial in the face of facts, or a minimisation of serious unnatural outbreaks. From Operation Sea Spray and the Rajneesh attack to Sverdlovsk, all of the responses to these incidents have had common characteristics. We also see a recurrent pattern of truth being suppressed for a very long time after the incident. In all three cases discussed in this chapter, it took many years for the truth to come to light–up to 27 years in the case of Sea Spray.”
It promises to be excellent, but could have done with more assiduous editing, eg, “Anthrax is a bacterium which has three main forms: inhalational, cutaneous or gastrointestinal.”
More from 'Dark Winter: An insider’s guide to pandemics and biosecurity' by Raina MacIntyre
“Powerful lobby groups and vested interests regularly control the narrative in science. They can gatekeep what is published in journals and who sits on committees, they can influence input into policy and throw everything at researchers whose findings are inconvenient or opposed to a dominant ideology. In 2020, at the start of the pandemic, several top journals published early opinion pieces insisting that the virus has a natural origin and attacking anyone who suggested otherwise as a conspiracy theorist. Every time more evidence emerged that shed light on the lab leak theory, scientific journals published new counter-narratives to peddle the natural origin theory. There is a serious imbalance in scientific journals with barely any published evidence supporting a lab leak, while a huge volume of opinions and inconclusive research supports a natural origin. And yet there are findings that do suggest that the COVID-19 outbreak was not natural. In Australia, for example, Professor Nikolai Petrovsky, discovered quite by accident, while working on developing a vaccine against the virus, a signal that SARS-CoV-2 may be engineered but had difficulty getting it published.”
the nightmare scenario is highly plausible. there are studies that suggest covid 19 was circulating in Italy for example during the summer of 2019. why the issue blew out 6-7 months later is another topic of investigation.
It beggars belief that the overwhelming circumstantial evidence in support of some sort of research related accident has been rejected so vehemently by so many scientists doing work on human pathogens. Do they not see how terrible this looks? How can they ever be trusted to do research on human pathogens if this is their attitude to people who raise legitimate concerns about the possibility that this could be a scientific mishap? Do they think that the total lack of transparent investigation by the CCP is acceptable? What really made me gasp was their attempt to ignore the clear implication of the extensive research on the Wuhan wet food market, which showed beyond reasonable doubt that the virus could not have transferred from animals to humans there in the first instance. There were at least two strains in the market from the outset. Indeed they tried to argue that it was conceivable that there were two separate infection events within a very short period. Given how incredibly rare it is for a pandemic to originate this is such a ridiculous idea that it destroys the credibility of anyone supporting it. They are basically asking us to believe that two pandemics started in the same market at the same time rather than the vastly more plausible scenario that the first infection occurred outside the market and the market acted a superspreader event. Seriously!!!??
Frankly, I think it's been clear for at least a year that it was an accidental lab leak and it was and is being actively suppressed. It's really no surprise that the CCP is behind the coverup. It's exactly what we should expect them to do.
Much of what is in the HELP Interim Report as well as the VF/PP article has been documented and written about by Alina Chan and Matt Ridley in their excellent book: Viral, The Search For The Origin of COVID-19.
I think the story here is the complicity of US scientists and agencies (NIH) in perpetuating/facilitating the coverup. The culpability of our politicized media and many politicians is another part of this sad story.
I will be watching this space with great anticipation.
The VF/PP article describes "political pressure to excel, inadequate resources to safeguard risky work, and an effort to skirt blame once a crisis hit ". The Senate Report refers to WIV researchers under pressure of “leapfrog development” from above.
I suggest that pressure from Xi was along at least two lines (1) develop methods to create vaccines rapidly in the events of new zoonotic epidemics (2) develop methods of testing candidate vaccines. In a totalitarian state, such as PRC, driven by Xi's thoughts, the ability to rapidly immunise the armed forces against emerging diseases would be seen as key to survival of the State.
The VF/PP account hints at environments within WIV that brewed competition between laboratory sections in order to curry favour with the Party and attract more funding on the basis of achievements. So, I am going to suggest a scenario that is iniquitous, but believable. That is, a sure way of proving the efficacy of a vaccine (or treatment for an infection) is to intentionally infect subjects. If that theory holds, we need only to look for evidence of a purpose-built facility equivalent to BSL4+ to contain a small number of subjects and staff.
I don't know where to look for that supposition within the documents from VF/PP and Senate, but I'd be happy to know it has not been dismissed without consideration.
As I recall, a key US scientist who had significant research interests at the Chinese lab was a leader in denying any possible lab links and in promoting the idea that the virus was transmitted from a wild animal to a human being in the nearby market.
Key point to me....”research dollars hang in the balance”. If researchers did not “toe the party line”, they seriously risked future funding. I think in most cases...follow the money...it will lead you to the answer.
In my reading I’ve learned that there are four (4) legs to the stool in which vaccines and drugs are developed: (1) government agencies such as CDC, NIH, NIAID, etc… use taxpayer dollars to fund research, (2) colleges and universities perform research and receive funding, (3) private companies (Big Pharma, bio techs, etc…) partner with colleges and universities to perform research and then manufacture and market approved compounds, and (4) an opaque group seldom discussed, which I’ll refer to as the “bio weapons cabal,” engages in all sorts of bizarre research and testing.
Because of the actions taken by the “media industrial complex” to censor speech raising the question of a lab leak, my money is on #4. And I would not be surprised either, to find out that the funding for this research was the US taxpayer. My only hope is that the election results on 11/8 will motivate those holding the balance of the “interim” report to release it into the sunshine.
I am motivated above by reading Substack author Glenn Greenwald over the past few years. He is an expert on the U.S. government surveillance apparatus and recently published a paper, that I will post here, which discusses what I loosely call the “media industrial complex” (its bigger than just the media, the government is involved too) and it’s censorship.
The e-book of 'Dark Winter: An insider’s guide to pandemics and biosecurity' by Raina MacIntyre dropped today. Here's a clip from the end of Ch1.
“So what we see here is a recurrent pattern of failure to recognise the facts, a denial in the face of facts, or a minimisation of serious unnatural outbreaks. From Operation Sea Spray and the Rajneesh attack to Sverdlovsk, all of the responses to these incidents have had common characteristics. We also see a recurrent pattern of truth being suppressed for a very long time after the incident. In all three cases discussed in this chapter, it took many years for the truth to come to light–up to 27 years in the case of Sea Spray.”
It promises to be excellent, but could have done with more assiduous editing, eg, “Anthrax is a bacterium which has three main forms: inhalational, cutaneous or gastrointestinal.”
More from 'Dark Winter: An insider’s guide to pandemics and biosecurity' by Raina MacIntyre
“Powerful lobby groups and vested interests regularly control the narrative in science. They can gatekeep what is published in journals and who sits on committees, they can influence input into policy and throw everything at researchers whose findings are inconvenient or opposed to a dominant ideology. In 2020, at the start of the pandemic, several top journals published early opinion pieces insisting that the virus has a natural origin and attacking anyone who suggested otherwise as a conspiracy theorist. Every time more evidence emerged that shed light on the lab leak theory, scientific journals published new counter-narratives to peddle the natural origin theory. There is a serious imbalance in scientific journals with barely any published evidence supporting a lab leak, while a huge volume of opinions and inconclusive research supports a natural origin. And yet there are findings that do suggest that the COVID-19 outbreak was not natural. In Australia, for example, Professor Nikolai Petrovsky, discovered quite by accident, while working on developing a vaccine against the virus, a signal that SARS-CoV-2 may be engineered but had difficulty getting it published.”
the nightmare scenario is highly plausible. there are studies that suggest covid 19 was circulating in Italy for example during the summer of 2019. why the issue blew out 6-7 months later is another topic of investigation.
It beggars belief that the overwhelming circumstantial evidence in support of some sort of research related accident has been rejected so vehemently by so many scientists doing work on human pathogens. Do they not see how terrible this looks? How can they ever be trusted to do research on human pathogens if this is their attitude to people who raise legitimate concerns about the possibility that this could be a scientific mishap? Do they think that the total lack of transparent investigation by the CCP is acceptable? What really made me gasp was their attempt to ignore the clear implication of the extensive research on the Wuhan wet food market, which showed beyond reasonable doubt that the virus could not have transferred from animals to humans there in the first instance. There were at least two strains in the market from the outset. Indeed they tried to argue that it was conceivable that there were two separate infection events within a very short period. Given how incredibly rare it is for a pandemic to originate this is such a ridiculous idea that it destroys the credibility of anyone supporting it. They are basically asking us to believe that two pandemics started in the same market at the same time rather than the vastly more plausible scenario that the first infection occurred outside the market and the market acted a superspreader event. Seriously!!!??
Frankly, I think it's been clear for at least a year that it was an accidental lab leak and it was and is being actively suppressed. It's really no surprise that the CCP is behind the coverup. It's exactly what we should expect them to do.
Much of what is in the HELP Interim Report as well as the VF/PP article has been documented and written about by Alina Chan and Matt Ridley in their excellent book: Viral, The Search For The Origin of COVID-19.
I think the story here is the complicity of US scientists and agencies (NIH) in perpetuating/facilitating the coverup. The culpability of our politicized media and many politicians is another part of this sad story.
I will be watching this space with great anticipation.
The VF/PP article describes "political pressure to excel, inadequate resources to safeguard risky work, and an effort to skirt blame once a crisis hit ". The Senate Report refers to WIV researchers under pressure of “leapfrog development” from above.
I suggest that pressure from Xi was along at least two lines (1) develop methods to create vaccines rapidly in the events of new zoonotic epidemics (2) develop methods of testing candidate vaccines. In a totalitarian state, such as PRC, driven by Xi's thoughts, the ability to rapidly immunise the armed forces against emerging diseases would be seen as key to survival of the State.
The VF/PP account hints at environments within WIV that brewed competition between laboratory sections in order to curry favour with the Party and attract more funding on the basis of achievements. So, I am going to suggest a scenario that is iniquitous, but believable. That is, a sure way of proving the efficacy of a vaccine (or treatment for an infection) is to intentionally infect subjects. If that theory holds, we need only to look for evidence of a purpose-built facility equivalent to BSL4+ to contain a small number of subjects and staff.
I don't know where to look for that supposition within the documents from VF/PP and Senate, but I'd be happy to know it has not been dismissed without consideration.
As I recall, a key US scientist who had significant research interests at the Chinese lab was a leader in denying any possible lab links and in promoting the idea that the virus was transmitted from a wild animal to a human being in the nearby market.
The link to the interim report doesn't seem to work. Here is what I found: https://www.help.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/report_an_analysis_of_the_origins_of_covid-19_102722.pdf
Key point to me....”research dollars hang in the balance”. If researchers did not “toe the party line”, they seriously risked future funding. I think in most cases...follow the money...it will lead you to the answer.
Sadly, the same holds true for climate research.
Thank you taking on this topic Roger.
Humanity deserves to know what happened.
In my reading I’ve learned that there are four (4) legs to the stool in which vaccines and drugs are developed: (1) government agencies such as CDC, NIH, NIAID, etc… use taxpayer dollars to fund research, (2) colleges and universities perform research and receive funding, (3) private companies (Big Pharma, bio techs, etc…) partner with colleges and universities to perform research and then manufacture and market approved compounds, and (4) an opaque group seldom discussed, which I’ll refer to as the “bio weapons cabal,” engages in all sorts of bizarre research and testing.
Because of the actions taken by the “media industrial complex” to censor speech raising the question of a lab leak, my money is on #4. And I would not be surprised either, to find out that the funding for this research was the US taxpayer. My only hope is that the election results on 11/8 will motivate those holding the balance of the “interim” report to release it into the sunshine.
I am motivated above by reading Substack author Glenn Greenwald over the past few years. He is an expert on the U.S. government surveillance apparatus and recently published a paper, that I will post here, which discusses what I loosely call the “media industrial complex” (its bigger than just the media, the government is involved too) and it’s censorship.
https://open.substack.com/pub/greenwald/p/the-consortium-imposing-the-growing?r=8t1sx&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
Didn't Trump say it was a lab leak. I remember it was made a political issue.
Yes, he did. And he was slammed by the left as a racist, of course