In this thread on Zerohedge Z Free commented:
In 2005, the DARPA and MITRE hosted a conference in which the intentions of the U.S. Department of Defense was explicit. In a presentation focused on “Synthetic Coronaviruses Biohacking: Biological Warfare Enabling Technologies”, Dr. Baric presented the malleability of CoV as a biological warfare agent.....
I looked for other references to that conference, but so far did not find anything. However, I did find a paper by Dr Baric (save link!).
Synthetic Viral Genomics: Risks and Benefits...
It contains "wonderful" references such as "Retargeting of coronavirus by substitution of the spike glycoprotein ectodomain: crossing the host cell species barrier." Reading this paper one is amazed that we haven't had worse pandemics than the COVID-19 one. One shudders.....
It is still linked by people on purpose because untruth is useful for them and it still has purpose in convincing people of a lie.
I have no doubt there would be a large percentage of people who read those biased articles, see the official looking/sounding journal article, and conclude “Well, there is a study...”
It promotes the big lies told by the authorities during the “crisis”. It is the lie that is going around the world while the truth is putting its pants on.