Academic Fraud on Origins of SARS-CoV-2
Academic Fraud on Origins of SARS-CoV-2
Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic Hearings “Investigating the Origins of COVID-19” Hit Tip of Iceberg
By Peter A. McCullough, MD, MPH
On November 19, 2020 I testified as the lead witness in the US Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Government Affairs led by Senator Ron Johnson. I used the term “academic fraud” in a series of sharp exchanges with now White House Coronavirus Coordinator Dr. Ashish Jha. I was told by colleagues that the term fraud was too strident and I should tone down my comments for the media. Over two years later the US House of Representatives Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic held hearings on “Investigating the Origins of COVID-19” and has hit the tip of an iceberg of academic fraud with a trail of peer-reviewed manuscripts as evidence for the creation of the SARS-CoV-2 chimeric virus in the Wuhan Institute of Virology Biosecurity Annex Level 4 laboratory (WIV). This lab had been conducting experiments designed by UNC researcher Dr. Ralph Baric for years and publishing their progress on creation of a coronavirus that could invade human respiratory cells via the ACE2 receptor. They were also developing countermeasures including monoclonal antibodies and killed virus vaccines.
The House Committee found through emails that multiple researchers including Dr. Kristian Andersen and Dr. Edward Holmes messaged Dr. Anthony Fauci in January with their conclusions that SARS-CoV-2 could not have arisen from nature. These and other doctors were summoned to a teleconference with Fauci, Dr. Francis Collins, and Welcome Trust Director (now WHO Scientific Director) Jeremy Farrar and four days later the messaging from all the individuals made a 180 degree turn consistently stating the virus did not come from the WIV.
In April, 2020, an opinion paper led by Andersen and coordinated by Farrar appeared in Nature Medicine which completely ignored the work by Baric in the WIV and concluded the virus could not have come from the lab.
In September, 2021, Holmes continues the false narrative in the journal Cell this time citing Baric’s work (Menachery et al) but completely ignoring the chimeric creation in 2015 with homology to the ancestral WIV SARS-CoV-2.
These no doubt are just a few of the individuals and the manuscripts that will memorialize an academic crime that advanced a false worldwide narrative on the origins of SARS-CoV-2. Many have speculated that NIH funding was the motive to get in line with Fauci and Collins. The author list however, tells us this was a global act of fraud.
Why did so many scientists want their names on papers that intentionally misled readers away from WIV? What was the motivation for NIH NIAID UNC WIV to design SARS-CoV-2 as a lethal infection with potential to kill millions? Was this for the advancement of science or were there intentions darker? Did all of these doctors really think it could all be covered up? When I said “fraud” on the Senate record (National Archives) in 2020 I had no idea the extent would be this deep and nefarious. The work of investigative reporters has just begun.
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Thank you for calling out the fraud for what it is and being one of the earliest to do so, Peter. You are an example of someone who is living courageously and not by half-lies:
• “Letter to a Mainstream Straddler: Live Not by Half-Lies” (https://margaretannaalice.substack.com/p/letter-to-a-mainstream-straddler)
The “Origins of SARS-CoV-2” article is a laughably transparent attempt to redirect people’s attention from the most plausible explanation to a preposterous alternative.
Stating that “There is no rational experimental reason” is manipulative framing to suggest anyone considering a lab origin must be a crazy conspiracy theorist—without actually providing any substantive evidence for dismissing this hypothesis.
It also reveals that the authors are either profoundly stupid regarding the development of bioweapons and gain-of-function research or they think we are—very likely the latter because they would have had to know they were writing a spin piece per the PR instructions handed down from Dr. Mengelfauci (https://margaretannaalice.substack.com/p/dr-mengelfauci-pinocchio-puppeteer).
Oh that the entire country could read and understand what has happened to our people and that they've lived under lies for over three years. Not only did this evil start in our own university in Chapel Hill, NC, but the funding and oversight came from our own people including the DoD. Was it all planned? Of course it was. And so many died needlessly.
I cannot urge people enough to purchase and read Dr. McCullough and John Leake's book, THE COURAGE TO FACE COVID-19. It reads like a true crime mystery thanks to Mr. Leake. I bought several copies for Christmas gifts and those who've read it have told me they loved it because it spelled out exactly what the government did.
Are Americans waking up now? It seems a few are, but we need more and more to see what was done and to get those face diapers off forever, to stand their ground and NOT COMPLY to anymore dystopian control.