Posted on 07/25/2021 8:27:21 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
The Lancet was founded in England in 1823 and was recently considered to be second only to The New England Journal of Medicine when it comes to the magazine’s impact in the medical field. Whether its reputation will survive its conduct relative to COVID remains questionable. In 2020, it led the charge to insist that it was a conspiracy theory to blame the Wuhan lab for COVID. Now, it’s emerged that The Lancet was complicit with China in suppressing early information showing that COVID could be spread by human-to-human transmission and was already moving beyond Wuhan.
In early June, Vanity Fair, of all publications, published a long story exploding the wet market theory that leftists (and, especially, Anthony Fauci) insisted was the COVID-origin story. Those people, like Tom Cotton and Donald Trump, were dismissed as delusional conspiracy theorists for suggesting that it was much more likely that the virus originated in the nearby Wuhan Institute of Virology, an institution affiliated with the Chinese military, that was known to conduct gain-of-function research on bat viruses.
The leader in insisting on the wet market origin story was The Lancet. Thus, the cover-up protecting the Wuhan lab began on February 19, 2020, when The Lancet published a statement that 27 scientists signed, claiming that the Wuhan lab theory was a conspiracy theory. Significantly, the person who organized and signed the statement was Peter Daszak, the one who packaged the U.S. taxpayer funds that Fauci was sending to the Wuhan lab. (If you don’t want to read the whole Vanity Fair report, you can read my summary here.)
It’s now emerged that The Lancet had an even bigger role in covering up China’s (and Fauci’s) role in creating a virus that brought the world to a halt.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
FROM THE DAILY MAIL:
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Sir Jeremy Farrar, a member of the Government’s Sage committee, has disclosed how he was contacted in alarm by Thijs Kuiken, a Dutch professor and government adviser, over a scientific research paper that he was sent by The Lancet to review on January 16, 2020.
In a new book on the pandemic he has written with science journalist Anjana Ahuja, Sir Jeremy describes the paper’s contents as ‘one of the standout moments in the whole epidemic, the reddest in a constellation of red flags’.
For the research reported that a family from the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen who had travelled to Wuhan to stay with relatives over New Year showed that the virus was ‘consistent with person-to-person transmission’.
The family had not been to Wuhan’s infamous seafood market, then being falsely blamed as the source of the outbreak, but two of them had visited a hospital.
Another member, who had not travelled to Wuhan, fell ill when the rest of the group returned home.
Prof Kuiken instantly realised this was crucial information amid an unfolding world health crisis – but his role as a confidential reviewer precluded him from sharing details. So he sent in his review the next day to The Lancet, expecting it to be published immediately.
He told Sir Jeremy that he contacted The Lancet ‘to say the information should be made public because it was the first scientific proof that the virus was spreading human to human. They either would not or could not do it.’
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The Lancet also stonewalled Sir Jeremy. It was only when Sir Jeremy tipped off the World Health Organization that China admitted the disease’s person-to-person transmission, although it lied about COVID’s scope within China.
A lot of reputations have turned to mud.
But, but, but…..
Peer review……
Science…..
Reputable sources…..
Blaming the Chinese would only cause them to “clam up”.
The Lancet also rushed to publication a “study” that found that HCQ was ineffective and likely to kill patients treated with it. It took me about fifteen minutes to determine that the data used to conduct this study was bunk, and it was later revealed that the the data were supplied by an outfit run by a quack, a failed sci-fi writer, and a purveyor of “adult content” on the Internet.
Nevertheless, the WHO canceled its study of HCQ based upon the rushed Lancet article.
The Lancet is a disgrace to medicine and to science.
Back in the day, The Lancet was gold standard of medical journals.
It has fallen so low that it impeded efforts of doctors to treat patients in the most serious pandemic of our life times.
Millions died or suffered needlessly because of The Lancets feckless and politicized, false medical reporting and it's covering up for the Chinese Communist Party
The Lancet has been having repeated scandals over the past two decades where it has been sucked in by prominent hoaxes that agree with its’ political stances.
If Lancet said a study showed that Aspirin was good for treating a headache, I would have to rethink my use of aspirin for treating a headache and at a minimum would need to spend time researching whether it was prudent for me to continue to that this simple drug.
Well, I graduated from medical school in 1976 and spent half my senior year in London.
If Lancet was the gold standard "back in the day", that day was a long, long time ago.
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