Wuhan coronavirus outbreak/Lab-leak theory

See also Wuhan coronavirus outbreak#Signs of artificial creation

Wuhan virus lab

• New Study By Dr. Steven Quay Concludes that SARS-CoV-2 Came from a Laboratory - PR Newswire, January 29, 2021
• A Bayesian analysis concludes beyond a reasonable doubt that SARS-CoV-2 is not a natural zoonosis but instead is laboratory derived - Steven Quay, January 21, 2021 (version 3 March 29, 2021)
• Why The U.S. Government Stopped Funding A Research Project On Bats And Coronaviruses - NPR, April 29, 2021
• The Science Suggests a Wuhan Lab Leak - Steven Quay and Richard Muller, Wall Street Journal June 6, 2021 (archive)
• https://www.smh.com.au/world/asia/australian-scientist-the-sole-foreign-researcher-at-the-wuhan-lab-speaks-out-20210628-p584sv.html
• https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-02-22/australian-doctor-on-the-who-covid-19-mission-china-origin-covid/13180078
• https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-03-31/who-inspector-dominic-dwyer-speaks-about-covid-19-report-finding/13283564
• ‘Science, Not Speculation’: Scientists Blast Obsession With ‘Unsubstantiated’ COVID Lab Leak Theory - Sputnik, July 7, 2021
• Wuhan lab report raises further questions about possible COVID-19 lab leak - Fox News, August 1, 2021

  Republicans are set to release their most detailed case yet arguing that researchers in Wuhan could have genetically manipulated the virus

• Exposed! How EcoHealth Alliance and the Wuhan Institute of Virology Collaborated on a Dangerous Bat Coronavirus Project - DRASTIC, September 20, 2021
• Wuhan scientists planned to release coronaviruses into cave bats 18 months before outbreak - The Telegraph, September 21, 2021 (archive, summary)

  Leaked documents reveal [US] researchers applied for $14m to fund controversial project in 2018

• An Analysis of the Origins of the COVID-19 Pandemic - Interim Report - Senate Committee on Health Education, Labor and Pensions, Minority Oversight Staff, October 2022 (PDF)
  • Review: US Senate, lab origin most likely - Dr. John Campbell, October 31, 2022 (video)

Fort Detrick and Ecohealth Alliance

• Project DEFUSE: Defusing the Threat of Bat-borne Coronaviruses - Ecohealth Alliance, March 24, 2018 (Rejection)
• Suspect No.1: Why Fort Detrick lab should be investigated for global COVID-19 origins tracing Global Times, June 28, 2021 (republished by Sputnik)
• Will WHO Inspect Fort Detrick For COVID Origins? - Anna Malindog-Uy, The Asean Post, August 8, 2021
• With records of ‘lab-created coronaviruses’ incidents, supervision loopholes and audacious germ researchers, what really happened in US’ UNC labs? - Global Times, August 9, 2021
• Leaked Grant Proposal Details High-Risk Coronavirus Research - Sharon Lerner, Maia Hibbett, The Intercept, September 23 2021

  The proposal, rejected by U.S. military research agency DARPA, describes the insertion of human-specific cleavage sites into SARS-related bat coronaviruses.

• Covid leaked from an AMERICAN lab and not the notorious Chinese facility at centre of pandemic cover-up, claims top US professor described as ‘Xi propagandist’ - Daily Mail, July 4, 2022
• Why the Chair of the Lancet’s COVID-19 Commission Thinks The US Government Is Preventing a Real Investigation Into the Pandemic - Jeffrey Sachs, Current Affairs, August 2, 2022
• Origins of the Covid Virus with Jeffrey Sachs - Robert F. Kennedy Jr., The Defender, August 20, 2022 (audio)
• Fury as The Lancet sensationally claims Covid may have leaked from an AMERICAN lab – echoing anti-western claims peddled by Beijing A UK medical journal has suggested the US could have created the Covid virus - Daily Mail, September 15, 2022
• Major Covid report suggests virus could have leaked from a US lab - The Daily Telegraph, September 14, 2022

  The Lancet’s paper said it is ‘feasible’ that Sars-Cov-2 emerged from a natural spillover or a lab incident, but elements provoke backlash

• Conspiracy Theories About COVID-19 Help Nobody - Angela Rasmussen and Michael Worobey, Foreign Policy, September 15, 2022

  The continued pushing of a “lab-leak” theory is unsupported and dangerous.

• Fauci was told of NIH ties to Wuhan lab’s novel coronaviruses by January 2020 - Emily Kopp, U.S. Right to Know, September 5, 2023
• Fauci EXPOSED, caught working with the CIA? - Redacted with Natali and Clayton Morris, September 27, 2023

Ukraine

• Briefing on the results of the analysis of documents related to the military biological activities of the United States on the territory of Ukraine - Russian MoD, August 4, 2022

Debunk attempts

• Scientists rule out man-made origin of COVID-19 - People's Daily Online, July 18, 2021

Debunking the debunk

• Donald Trump was CORRECT about origins of Covid-19 all along - James Morrow, Sky News Australia, March 1, 2023
• Lab Leak Liars: How China and authorities deceived us - Sky News Australia, March 2, 2023

Gain-of-function research

See also US bioweapons programme#Gain of function research

• A SARS-like cluster of circulating bat coronaviruses shows potential for human emergence - Vineet D Menachery & al., Nature Medicine, November 9, 2015
• Discovery of a rich gene pool of bat SARS-related coronaviruses provides new insights into the origin of SARS coronavirus - Ben Hu & al., PLOS Pathogens, November 30, 2017
• US Grant To Wuhan Lab To Enhance Bat-Based Coronaviruses Was Never Scrutinized By HHS Review Board, NIH Says - Daily Caller, April 4, 2021
• Fauci Goes Batsh*t After Senator Shows He Backed Funding for Wuhan Animal-to-Human Virus Research - Sputnik, July 21, 2021
• Fauci Accused Of Lying To Congress About Virus Research - The Jimmy Dore Show, July 22, 2021 (video)
• NIH letter on funded gain of function research - Richard Ebright, Twitter, October 20, 2021

Cover-up attempts

• Scientists Doing Dangerous Virus Research Cry Victim To Avoid Public Accountability - Paul Thacker, The Disinformation Chronicles, January 25, 2022

2022

• Boston Researchers Create New COVID Strain - Sabine Hossenfelder, October 26, 2022 (video, @09:14)

2023

• Pfizer Responds to Research Claims - Pfizer, January 27, 2023

  "We have conducted research where the original SARS-CoV-2 virus has been used to express the spike protein from new variants of concern."

• Clayton Morris: This is even WORSE than we imagined - Redacted, January 27, 2023
• Pfizer issue a press statement - Dr. John Campbell, January 27, 2023
• Bombshell revelations expose what really happened in Wuhan - Sky News Australia, June 14, 2023
• "So Friggin' Likely": New Covid Documents Reveal Unparalleled Media Deception - Matt Taibbi et al., Racket News, July 18, 2023

RaTG13

Formerly designated as Bat coronavirus Ra4991

• Comparative Genomic Analyses Reveal a Specific Mutation Pattern Between Human Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 and Bat-CoV RaTG13 - Longxian Lv, & al., Frontiers in Microbiology, November 30, 2020
• The origin of SARS-CoV-2 is a riddle: meet the Twitter detectives who aim to solve it - Moreno Colaiacovo, Medium, Dec 3, 2020
• Virus Similar to SARS-CoV-2 Might Have Existed Since 2013, Swiss Epidemiologist Says - Sputnik, August 1, 2021
• Mapping of Newly Discovered Coronaviruses Pinpoints the Direct Progenitor of SARS-CoV-2 as Originating from Mojiang, China - Jason Latham, Allison Wilson Independent Science News, August 2, 2021

See also Talk:Wuhan_coronavirus_outbreak#Mojiang_Miners_Passage

Omicron

There is evidence that the Omicron variant was developed in a laboratory, possibly to act as an universal vaccine.

• Evidence for a mouse origin of the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant - Changshuo Wei & al., Journal of Genetics and Genomics, December 24, 2021
• Unnaturalness in the evolution process of the SARS-CoV-2 variants and the possibility of deliberate natural selection - Tanaka & al., August 5, 2023 (preprint)

Ebola

• Ebola could have leaked from US biofacility causing 2014 West Africa outbreak, scientists claim - Daily Mail Online, November 3, 2022

Analysis

• The 'Lab-Leak' Theory Is Not Of Equal Value - Promoting It Furthers The China Hawks - Moon of Alabama, May 27, 2021
• Was there a Wuhan lab leak? An inquiry won’t dig out the truth. It will deepen the deception - Jonathan Cook, June 1, 2021
• The Flying Pangolin -Andreas Canetti, Unz Review, June 18, 2021
• A Bristling Array of Implausibility: Reflections on the Unz Bio-Warfare Attack Hypothesis - Sushi, The Saker Blog, June 24, 2021
• https://citizensparty.org.au/covid-lab-leak-science-refuted
• “Unchallenged Orientalism”: Why Liberals Suddenly Love the Lab Leak Theory - Alan Macleod, Mint Press, July 9, 2021
• American Pravda: the Covid Epidemic as Lab-Leak or Biowarfare? - Ron Unz, Unz Review, July 12, 2021
• Lab Leak Theory: New Evidence? (w/ Jeffery Sachs) - Bad Faith, May 30, 2022 (video)
• "The Wicked Flee When No Man Pursueth" - Ron Unz, Unz Review, September 19, 2022
• Lab leak conspiracy theory - Dr. John Campbell, November 24, 2022
• Why the Lab Leak Theory is Almost Certainly False - Will Jones, The Daily Sceptic, January 25, 2023