Multinational experts on the conspiracy theory of “laboratory leaks” in the US re-hyped new coronavirus: politicization interferes with scientific research
Recently, the US government, some media and a few experts have set off a new round of hype about the “laboratory leak” conspiracy theory of the new crown virus, and also claimed to use intelligence forces to conduct the so-called origin investigation of the virus. Experts from many countries said that the “laboratory leak” of the new crown virus lacks evidence support, and the origin of the virus needs to be found in a positive atmosphere. Adversarial methods will undermine global anti-epidemic efforts.
A recent report in The Wall Street Journal cited so-called “intelligence” that three researchers from Wuhan Institute of Virology were hospitalized in November 2019. According to this report, the report clamored to investigate China. In this regard, Matthias Graublecht, director of the Natural History Center of the University of Hamburg, Germany, said that it is impossible to verify whether the so-called “intelligence” in the relevant report of the “Wall Street Journal” actually exists, what content or evidence it contains. The current discussions are based on “heardsay”.
Dominic Dwyer, a member of the World Health Organization’s International Expert Group on the Traceability of the New Coronavirus and a professor at the University of Sydney in Australia, said that the US intelligence services have so far failed to produce any useful information. Dwyer said that U.S. President Biden said that the reports he received from the intelligence services were contradictory.
The British “Financial Times” quoted a number of current and former US officials to analyze that the information currently held by the US intelligence agencies simply cannot support them in drawing any definitive conclusions.
In addition, some experts pointed out that the politicization of scientific issues will not only help to find out the real effort to find the origin of the new coronavirus, it will also undermine the cooperation of scientists from various countries on traceability research.
Vladimir Zedkov, deputy director of scientific research at the Pasteur Institute of Epidemiology and Microbiology in St. Petersburg, Russia, said that only scientists can clarify the problem and politicize the source of the new crown virus on the basis of international cooperation. It will not help, but will interfere with scientific research.
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