The people responsible for uncovering this evidence are not journalists or spies or scientists. They are a group of amateur sleuths, with few resources except curiosity and a willingness to spend days combing the internet for clues. Throughout the pandemic, about two dozen or so correspondents, many anonymous, working independently from many different countries, have uncovered obscure documents, pieced together the information, and explained it all in long threads on Twitter—in a kind of open-source, collective brainstorming session that was part forensic science, part citizen journalism, and entirely new. They call themselves DRASTIC, for Decentralized Radical Autonomous Search Team Investigating COVID-19.
Really long article, mostly about the government’s investigations/analyses. Lots of original stuff, but hard to interpret (many attributions to ‘former State Department official’):
I dont have a theory, but the Biden ordered an investigation now that there are credible sources that it came from a lab. There were likely credible sources 14 months ago to but since Trump and Pompeo suggested there was credible intel it was, it got shot down
I enjoyed the contrast between Vanity Fair describing the lab-leak theory as being “off limits” and then the President of the US putting out the most extreme version of the CHINA VIRUS nonsense.
Gilles Demaneuf is a data scientist with the Bank of New Zealand in Auckland. He was diagnosed with Asperger’s Syndrome ten years ago, and believes it gives him a professional advantage. “I’m very good at finding patterns in data, when other people see nothing,” he says.
I suppose this was always the logical conclusion of this forum once we started citing National Review and Race theory scientists, and once we started attacking the people attacking the racists instead of attacking the racists. Good job everyone.
These Alina Chan types saying stuff like “we’re just asking for a full and transparent investigation” when the cameras are rolling would leave me far less incredulous if their Twitter feeds weren’t entirely comprised of lab leak conspiracy theory connect-the-dots dog shit.
Not the least bit surprising that UP’s shift to the right has resulted in Trumpkins feeling welcome here.
When the actual leftists are marginalised and/or leave and people call for greater diversity, this is what you get. Brutalising leftists is straight out of the far right playbook, so of course it appeals to them.
So the VF article quotes senior state dept officials telling people in meetings not to dig into the WIV theory too deeply because it might draw attention to US funding of GoF research there. It includes a CV from Shi, the lead scientist at WIV, where she mentions 1.2 million in funding from NIH for her GoF studies on bat coronavirus.
Explain to me again how Fauci wasn’t lying to Rand Paul?
