"The Wuhan lab…that conducted risky experiments on bat viruses…and almost certainly caused the pandemic has now revealed…it has done the same…risky experiments on another lot of horseshoe-bat viruses"

spectator.com/article/playin… "If a military team made a mistake during a nuclear…exercise and accidentally obliterated millions…, you would not expect to find…the very same people merrily admitting a couple of years later…they…carried out the very same…exercise...with...fewer safeguards."

"Would you?"

"The construction of the chimera may violate the
Biological Weapons Convention, as a protective purpose is elusive."

[There was no valid protective purpose.]

https://twitter.com/R_H_Ebright/status/1999973680399675439

"[T]he creation of the HKUJ4r-HZAU-2020-MERS(S) chimera may violate Article I of the Biological Weapons
Convention. This is because it is hard to see protective or peaceful purposes arising from its development, a stipulate of Article I."

"The handling of highly dangerous viruses is once again at the forefront of the biosecurity debate. In Spain, an investigation is currently underway to determine whether the outbreak of African swine fever could have originated in a laboratory. Separately, researchers in China recently reported the reappearance of a bird virus long thought to be extinct – a finding that is sparking discussion among virologists."

berliner-zeitung.de/politik-gesell… "Last week, the Spanish Ministry of Agriculture...launched an investigation to determine whether the virus might have escaped from a laboratory. The CReSA laboratory is a particular focus of the investigation. Genetic analyses...show that the virus does not resemble the variants currently circulating in other European countries, but rather a strain discovered in Georgia in 2007 and used in laboratories"

"The laboratory suspected of being the source of the African swine fever outbreak was under construction."

"Construction work can facilitate escapes, as happened with the foot-and-mouth disease virus in the UK"

elpais.com/ciencia/2025-1… "CReSA...has a 4,500-square-meter biocontainment unit with 6 laboratories at biosafety level 3...The CReSA expansion project, awarded to the construction company Rogasa, involves adding 3,000 square meters to the high-security laboratory area."

Virologist Simone Wain-Hobson:

"Yan and colleagues...report the reemergence of historically extinct virulent genotype IV Newcastle disease virus."

"The most parsimonious hypothesis is a lab leak."

biosafetynow.substack.com/p/a-viral-reaw… "In the case of viruses that have become extinct, it is far better to let sleeping viruses lie"

"Don’t resurrect them, don't play with them. Destroy any remaining stocks of virus or infected tissues in the freezer"

Another lab leak in China:

"Here, we report…emergence of…genotype IV NDV isolates…across…China between 2021 and 2023...These isolates exhibit remarkably high genetic similarity to ancestral strains, showing minimal divergence despite…50–90 years"

journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/jv… "Class II genotype IV Newcastle disease virus (NDV), a historically virulent strain responsible for the first Newcastle disease (ND) panzootic from the 1940s to 1960s, was presumed extinct after its last reported isolate in India in 2000."

"Biden preemptively pardoned Fauci...retroactive to Jan. 1, 2014. That date is key…according to...molecular biologist Richard Ebright. He said 2014 'is the start date of NIH grant AI110964—the NIH grant that funded the Wuhan research that caused COVID"

childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/sen-r… Ebright: "Fauci approved...continued funding in 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, and 2019, in violation of a moratorium in 2014-2017 and a mandate for HHS-Secretary review in 2018-."

"US virologist who collaborated with…Wuhan…before…COVID-19 privately informed…US intelligence…in January 2020 that the Chinese lab may be responsible for the outbreak. But…after meeting with…Fauci…the researcher stayed mum about the Wuhan lab"

freebeacon.com/biden-administ… "University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill virologist Dr. Ralph Baric warned the Office of the Director of National Intelligence during a closed-door presentation with the agency’s Biological Sciences Experts Group on or around Jan. 29, 2020, that the Wuhan lab, which was conducting risky gain-of-function experiments on bat viruses similar to the one that causes COVID-19, may have accidentally released the virus into the human population."

"The…freeze in US-Russia relations shows occasional, promising cracks…During the UN General Assembly…Trump announced an initiative to address one of arms control's most intractable problems: verifying compliance with the Biological Weapons Convention."

responsiblestatecraft.org/us-russia-biow… "'[M]y administration will lead an international effort to enforce the biological weapons convention…,' Trump said. He framed this as an urgent priority, claiming 'many countries are continuing extremely risky research into bioweapons and man-made pathogens.'"

"[R]eckless experiments…gave us a devastating global pandemic. Yet despite that…catastrophe, many countries are continuing…risky research into bioweapons and manmade pathogens…[M]y administration will lead an international effort to enforce the Biological Weapons Convention."

https://twitter.com/HansMahncke/status/1970521166952464646

--Research on biological weapons agents, including genetic modification of biological weapons agents to increase their deadliness, is occurring worldwide.

The NYT today ran a column by its columnist Lydia Polgreen claiming that "Suggesting a transgender link to Kirk's murder is as awful as it is dangerous."

In other words, the NYT now openly affirms its belief that accurately reporting facts is "as awful as it is dangerous." This affirmation by the NYT that it prefers its readers be misinformed--or at minimum uninformed--about facts unfavorable to its favored views explains much of the last half-decade's reporting in the NYT.

https://x.com/R_H_Ebright/status/1911505795327439092

"[A]ccidental bioaerosol dissemination has triggeredlaboratory-acquired infections…[T]his study elucidated…diffusion of leaked bioaerosols…The [tech at biosafety cabinet]…consistently posed…highest risk, with infection probabilities…up to 19.9 %"

sciencedirect.com/science/articl… "A facility classified as...BSL-2 + can offer a biosafety level that is higher than a BSL-2 but lower than a BSL-3...This study aims to investigate the diffusion characteristics of bioaerosols within a BSL-2 + and assess the infection risks of laboratory technician"

NIH Notice, June 18, 2025:

"Effective immediately, NIH will [t]erminate funding and other support for projects, including unfunded collaborations/projects, meeting the definition of dangerous gain-of-function research conducted by foreign entities in countries of concern" "Effective immediately, NIH will...[s]uspend all other funding and other support for projects, including unfunded collaborations/projects, meeting the definition of dangerous gain-of-function research"

"The UNC-Wuhan collaboration sought to create…genetically modified SARS coronaviruses having…a…'furin cleavage site' associated with enhanced transmissibility and virulence."

"The evidence suggests that UNC midwifed a virus that killed 20 million"

carolinajournal.com/opinion/uncove… "In 2018, UNC-Chapel Hill, in collaboration with the Wuhan Institute of Virology and EcoHealth Alliance...applied for, and were awarded, a five-year $3 million grant from the NIH to construct novel bat SARS-related coronaviruses having enhanced pandemic potential."

"Attorneys inside the Justice Department have launched initial inquiries into...[science fraudster] Kristian Andersen, who is now in the process of fleeing the United States for a position being created for him at the University of Oslo."

disinformationchronicle.substack.com/p/nih-dissolvi… "Senior officials inside the NIH are working to shut down a...Fauci initiative launched in 2020 called the Centers for Research in Emerging Infectious Diseases or 'CREID.'"

NIH Director Bhattacharya: "Two weeks ago...the President of the United States signed an executive order banning dangerous gain of function research...Dangerous NIH-approved research will never be conducted again”

limpertinentmedia.com/post/who-manip… "[B]ringing pathogens...into city centers and laboratories that are not secure, and doing research on them to make them more transmissible among humans [is]...dangerous...I think it's very likely that it was the cause of the pandemic."

"The FBI launched an investigation last week into security violations at the NIH’s [BSL-4] Integrated Research Facility at Fort Detrick following several dangerous incidents in which a contractor cut holes in an employee’s biocontainment suit"

disinformationchronicle.substack.com/p/fbi-investig… "'Many issues have been known for months if not years and previous NIAID leadership did nothing about it,' explained an NIH official, detailing problems at the facility which was described as having a 'poor culture of safety.'"

A striking aspect of the White House statement on the origin of COVID and its cover up is that it--correctly--assigns at least as much blame to US officials and US scientists as it assigns to China.

The White House statement--correctly--does not use the issue to bash China.

https://twitter.com/R_H_Ebright/status/1913253064061878369

Each cited example of policy failure involves a US-government policy, and each cited example of misfeasance or malfeasance involves a current or former US-government official or a current or former US-government-funded scientist.

"The Trump-appointed interim US attorney for the District of Columbia has sent multiple journal editors letters [accurately] asserting their publications are 'partisans in various scientific debates' and asking for responses to various questions."

science.org/content/articl… "[N]ew NIH Director...Bhattacharya...has argued [accurately] that journals (including Science) were biased against certain viewpoints during the COVID-19 pandemic."

"Seven Americans may have contracted COVID-19 in Wuhan in October 2019, several months before the reported start of the pandemic, according to a bombshell military report…that the Biden administration concealed from the public."

freebeacon.com/biden-administ… "The revelation adds to a mounting body of evidence that the virus was circulating in Wuhan for months before China disclosed it to the world in December 2019 and further bolsters the growing consensus that it could have leaked into the human population from a Chinese lab."

"[W]e identify 8 likely laboratory-acquired-infection SARS-CoV-2 infections from June 2020 to January 2021, sequenced at the University of North Carolina Hospital…[T]he LAIs have a high probability of being SARS-CoV-2 variants actively studied at...UNC"

zenodo.org/records/150805… "[V]irologists’ position is that…creating synthetic pathogens…under appropriate Biological Safety Laboratory standards can be performed safely."

"However…laboratory-acquired infections (LAI)…occur, even under the highest BSL-3 and…BSL-4 standards."