"should convene an independent expert committee to review all correspondence, data and evidence related to these papers, theses and pre-prints that are in possession of the relevant academic journals"
Ha! Knock yourselves out.
Dr Chan is actually referring to a new set of theses from July 2019 which described the clade of around 9 virus sequences that Sars CoV-2 belongs to. These 9 sequences (or rather RdRp segments) were published in Nature in August 2020 - but Dr Chan and her "internet sleuths" were too incompetent to check the supplementary materials. They were also named by Dr Shi Zhengli in a talk at Rutgers University in March 2021. Aside from RaTG13, the other 8 viruses I believe are only 90% similar to Sars CoV-2
The fact that there is a paper thesis from July 2019 describing this entire clade WITHOUT Sars CoV-2 would - to any sane person - be powerful evidence supporting the WIV's claim that this virus had not been known to them. But conspiracy theorists are never looking for evidence that tends to discredit their theories, only evidence that supports them.
Anyway, just to say I am all in favor of your committee of Americans or British to snoop through all pre-prints and emails etc.
"should convene an independent expert committee to review all correspondence, data and evidence related to these papers, theses and pre-prints that are in possession of the relevant academic journals"
Ha! Knock yourselves out.
Dr Chan is actually referring to a new set of theses from July 2019 which described the clade of around 9 virus sequences that Sars CoV-2 belongs to. These 9 sequences (or rather RdRp segments) were published in Nature in August 2020 - but Dr Chan and her "internet sleuths" were too incompetent to check the supplementary materials. They were also named by Dr Shi Zhengli in a talk at Rutgers University in March 2021. Aside from RaTG13, the other 8 viruses I believe are only 90% similar to Sars CoV-2
The fact that there is a paper thesis from July 2019 describing this entire clade WITHOUT Sars CoV-2 would - to any sane person - be powerful evidence supporting the WIV's claim that this virus had not been known to them. But conspiracy theorists are never looking for evidence that tends to discredit their theories, only evidence that supports them.
Anyway, just to say I am all in favor of your committee of Americans or British to snoop through all pre-prints and emails etc.