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Former State Department official: Probe into COVID origins found almost no evidence supporting natural origin
Fox News ^ | 5/27/21 | David Rutz

Posted on 05/27/2021 3:26:41 PM PDT by conservative98

A government probe last year into the origins of the coronavirus found practically no evidence COVID-19 originated from nature, former State Department official David Asher told Fox News on Thursday.

"We were finding that despite the claims of our scientific community, including the National Institutes of Health and Dr. Fauci's NIAID organization, there was almost no evidence that supported a natural, zoonotic evolution or source of COVID-19," he told "America Reports."

The probe was led out of the State Department’s arms control and verification (AVC) bureau and initially launched at the request of former Trump Secretary of State Mike Pompeo before ending this year.

Asher, the lead contractor on the subject, said the team investigated the two chief hypotheses for the virus' origins, the other being the lab-leak theory that has gained credence after widespread media dismissal over the past year.

"The data disproportionately stacked up as we investigated that it was coming out of a lab or some supernatural source," he said.

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"That was the epicenter of synthetic biology in the People's Republic of China, and they were up to some very hairy stuff with synthetic biology and so-called gain-of-function techniques," Asher said, later saying the odds of natural origin were extremely long.

"To say this came out of a zoonotic situation, it's ridiculous," he said.

(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: davidasher; fauci; niaid; nih; wuhan; wuhanlab
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1 posted on 05/27/2021 3:26:41 PM PDT by conservative98
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To: conservative98

But MSN still insists there’s no evidence that it was man made.


2 posted on 05/27/2021 3:30:56 PM PDT by Spok (There are many more things that frighten us than can cause us harm.)
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3 posted on 05/27/2021 3:31:05 PM PDT by conservative98
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To: Spok

We must leave no stone unturned in the search for answers. I will continue to lead the charge in pursuit of the truth. https://t.co/q4uwGBfgQp— Senator Rand Paul (@RandPaul) May 27, 2021


4 posted on 05/27/2021 3:32:02 PM PDT by conservative98
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Everytime I see that ugly evil face I get the sense he would have been perfect working for the Nazis.


5 posted on 05/27/2021 3:34:02 PM PDT by Patriot Babe
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To: conservative98
There is a Liberal Narrative shaping up here.

Look at these headlines, all within the past week, some only hours old:

[New Yorker] The Sudden Rise of the Coronavirus Lab-Leak Theory

[Washington Post] Timeline: How the Wuhan lab-leak theory suddenly became credible

[BBC] Covid: China hits back as US revisits Wuhan lab-leak theory

[Politico] Experts weigh in on the Wuhan lab leak hypothesis

[New York Times] The Lab-Leak Theory

6 posted on 05/27/2021 3:39:27 PM PDT by Yo-Yo (is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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To: conservative98

Why didn’t we know the NIH was funding research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in February of 2020.

Fauci said we were “not funding GOF research on this virus” but admits we funding them for something.

How come NOBODY knew that?

Its like you told your wife you weren’t having sex with that woman, but she was just giving you a massage with a happy ending.


7 posted on 05/27/2021 3:42:07 PM PDT by UNGN
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To: conservative98

David Asher told Fox News That is was a 1 in a billion chance that the CVID-19 virus was the result of natural evolution. He is certain that it was artificially created.


8 posted on 05/27/2021 3:43:03 PM PDT by jonrick46 ( Leftnicks chase illusions of motherships at the end of the pier.)
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To: conservative98
In March/April did research on corona virus and found a huge amount of published data from NIH that documented research on bio engineering many of the unique features of this virus.

Also, seem to recall that the virus was optimized to attack receptors that were predominant in 95-97% of the Taiwanese population.

Perhaps this virus may have been intended as an offensive bio weapon to soften up Taiwan in advance of an invasion.

9 posted on 05/27/2021 3:45:56 PM PDT by rdcbn1
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To: conservative98
The media rush to insist that the lab-leak hypothesis was baloney was very, very strange, and lots of people just assumed that the media were lying, because they somehow thought that a lab leak might have helped Trump, and a response to spillover event would be easier to paint as a Trump 'failure'.

That's probably true of some of them, but for many, perhaps most, they were just repeating the party line, and actually believed their nonsense. They breathe it with the air, and drink it with their water "the lab leak hypothesis is racist". Of course. Everything with them is racist.

"there's no evidence this was a bioweapon". Well, there's the strawman, using one hard to disprove claim to tarnish a much more easily credible claim. It goes on and on.

Bottom line is the CCP is culpable, and the Democrat party, the MSM, and the entire bureaucratic apparat are complicit, or are in on the deal.

Trump was right about everything.

10 posted on 05/27/2021 3:52:35 PM PDT by absalom01 (You should do your duty in all things. You cannot do more, and you should never wish to do less.)
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Dr Frankenstein funded the commies that unleashed it That’s what mad scientists do.


11 posted on 05/27/2021 3:52:56 PM PDT by NWFree (Somebody has to say it)
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To: conservative98

Well, DUH.


12 posted on 05/27/2021 3:58:15 PM PDT by Shady (Prince Andrew must be dethroned...And who killed Ashli Babbitt? )
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To: conservative98
Well, the "science" of contact tracing indicates 3 otherwise healthy lab workers were in the local hospital with COVID-like symptoms. No bats, no pangolins, nothing natural, no wet market, and nothing indicating animal-to-human exposure.

Science, logic, and math have determined that money went from the US Gubmint to an NGO to the Communist Chinese for "gain of function" lab work in Wuhan.

The science of linguistics has determined that the term "gain of function" is an Orwellian term for weaponizing a virus for intentional widespread infections against political enemies.

Science can be useful to solve this crime.


13 posted on 05/27/2021 4:05:19 PM PDT by SERKIT ("Blazing Saddles" explains it all.......)
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Dr. Fauci, the mercurial doctor. Last year, he was our “go to” savior with regards to COVID 19, a man of Science!

Now, it seems that we seemingly have a reincarnation of Dr. Mengele. Fauci may be involved with and guilty of some of the worst human rights crimes in human history. Amazing how far it is possible to fall nowadays.

The man has to be removed, and the truth needs to be exposed. The coverup is over.


14 posted on 05/27/2021 4:10:30 PM PDT by Richard Axtell ( NO*)
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To: absalom01

NPR story on this either this
morning or yesterday afternoon was that it was Trump’s fault.
As in no reasonable scientists would believe it came from China lab since Trump said it did. Therefore a one year plus delay in actually looking at the facts and evidence


15 posted on 05/27/2021 4:20:37 PM PDT by nomorelurker
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To: rdcbn1; conservative98; Travis McGee

16 posted on 05/27/2021 4:37:27 PM PDT by 4Liberty (Honest GOP can’t use legal options cause Dems use illegal ones (threats). The Robert Creamer Party! )
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But Fauci said his friends in the field know with near certainty that the strain is of bat origins.


17 posted on 05/27/2021 5:05:43 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: conservative98

They knew this in January 2020.


18 posted on 05/27/2021 5:23:11 PM PDT by CatOwner (Don't expect anyone, even conservatives, to have your back when the SHTF in 2021)
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To: jonrick46

Bkmk


19 posted on 05/27/2021 5:50:43 PM PDT by kelly4c
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To: conservative98; All

They sure as fire and brimstone aren’t reporting this
.THAT BIDEN WIN IS AN AWARD TO CHINA FOR INVADING US USING COVID 19

Their Effort praised by this CCP scientist who worked in it

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3960570/posts

Here’s that compliment paid to the CCP by the Biden campaign for bringing in the virus which they admitted really helped fix it to get Biden elected http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3940857/posts


20 posted on 05/27/2021 6:45:58 PM PDT by mosesdapoet (AKA Lee J Keslin posting in the hopes comments get passed around )
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