[Craic] Nobel Laureate Calls COVID-19 Manmade
Arthur Blomme
art at integralshift.ca
Fri Jul 17 15:44:32 PDT 2020
The following is the opinion of a Nobel Laureate. Can we openly debate
about Covid-19 being Human made.
Nobel Laureate Calls COVID-19 Manmade
luc antoine montagnier coronavirus is manmade
Story at-a-glance
* Nobel Laureate Luc Antoine Montagnier said on French media that
COVID-19 was manmade, contains elements of HIV and a parasite that
causes malaria, and resulted from an industrial accident during HIV
vaccine development
* Montagnier says the COVID-19 virus pandemic will likely end from
"interfering waves" because nature rejects molecular tampering
* In a paper on Center for Open Science, Montagnier and his colleague,
bio-mathematician Jean-Claude Perez, say COVID-19 mutations suggest
the virus is deleting the inserted, manmade elements
* In the Quarterly Review of Biophysics, Norwegian scientist Birger
Sørensen and British oncologist Angus Dalgleish also call COVID-19
manmade
* An investigation by The Times of London reveals many questions about
COVID-19's origins and shocking cover-ups
The explanations of COVID-19's origins by mainstream media simply do not
add up and scientists are increasingly speaking out about this. Many
experts theorize that the virus is manmade and was synthesized in a
laboratory because the peculiarities of the virus' genome that make it
so transmittable could not have occurred in nature.
Experts who suspect COVID-19 has lab origins
<https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2020/06/21/coronavirus-lab-origin.aspx>
have strong evidence on their side. Research between the Wuhan Institute
of Virology in China and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to
increase the infectivity and deadliness of a SARS-like coronavirus has
indeed been conducted.^1
The coronavirus experimental collaborations, called "gain-of-function"
(GOF) research, were curtailed by the U.S. between 2014 and 2018 because
of their obvious risks, but in 2017 the NIH announced the research would
be resumed.^2
Scientists willing to challenge the mainstream explanations of
COVID-19's origin face a backlash from their colleagues and scientific
associations and have even been dismissed as "conspiracy theorists."
However, a new voice has been added to the body of scientific dissenters
that will likely add to the credibility of their COVID-19 viewpoints.
French virologist Luc Antoine Montagnier, who was awarded a Nobel prize
in Physiology in 2008 along with Françoise Barré-Sinoussi and Harald zur
Hausen for discovering of the HIV virus,^3 has now spoken out.
Montagnier was a researcher at the prestigious Pasteur Institute in
Paris.^4
COVID-19 Was Manmade, Says Nobel Laureate
Many in the scientific community were shocked when the acclaimed Luc
Antoine Montagnier appeared on the French cable TV show, CNews, on April
17, 2020^5 to say that the virus that causes COVID-19 is manmade and
that elements of HIV and Plasmodium falciparum, a parasite that causes
malaria, are found in the coronavirus's genome.^6 Montagnier said:^7
/"We were not the first since a group of Indian researchers tried to
publish a study which showed that the complete genome of this
coronavirus [has] sequences of another virus, which is HIV." /
The research that Montagnier refers to was posted on the science website
Biorxiv January 31, 2020, and has since been withdrawn. The researchers
wrote:^8
/"We found 4 insertions in the spike glycoprotein (S) which are
unique to the 2019-nCoV and are not present in other coronaviruses.
Importantly, amino acid residues in all the 4 inserts have identity
or similarity to those in the HIV-1 gp120 or HIV-1 Gag .../
/The finding of 4 unique inserts in the 2019-nCoV, all of which have
identity /similarity to amino acid residues in key structural
proteins of HIV-1 is unlikely to be fortuitous in nature."/
COVID-19 Derives From a Failed HIV Vaccine, Says Montagnier
In a separate appearance on the French podcast Pourquoi Docteur, also
April 17,^9 Montagnier said the coronavirus had escaped in an
"industrial accident" while Chinese scientists at the Wuhan city
laboratory were trying to develop a vaccine against HIV.^10 "In order to
insert an HIV sequence into this genome, molecular tools are needed, and
that can only be done in a laboratory," said Montagnier.^11
Montagnier also said he believes that the pandemic will naturally
extinguish itself because of its synthetic origins:^12
/"Nature does not accept any molecular tinkering, it will eliminate
these unnatural changes and even if nothing is done, things will get
better, but unfortunately after many deaths."/
According to the website Corvelva, Montagnier said on the podcast that
the pandemic would peter out because nature would override the
synthetically inserted sequences that make COVID-19 so deadly:^13
/"With the help of interfering waves, we could eliminate these
sequences ... and consequently stop the pandemic. But it would take
many means available."/
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Montagnier Created His Theory With a Biomathematics Expert
Montagnier says he reached his conclusions, "With my colleague,
biomathematician Jean-Claude Perez," after they "carefully analyzed the
description of the genome of this RNA virus."^14 Montagnier's partner,
Perez, is a French interdisciplinary scientist and biomathematics
expert.^15
According to an online bio, Perez has proved that DNA coding for genes
is structured by proportions related to Fibonacci numbers,^16 which are
formulas in mathematics that are sometimes called "nature's secret
code."^17 In a paper Montagnier and Perez published on the Center for
Open Science in April 2020, they write:^18
/"Using our proprietary bio-mathematic approach we are able to
evaluate the level of cohesion and organization of a genome; ... we
then searched in this genome for possible traces of HIV or even SIV
[related simian immunodeficiency virus]. A first publication reports
the discovery of 6 HIV SIV RNA pieces." /
The HIV and SIV elements that Montagnier and Perez detect, called
Exogenous Informative Elements, or EIEs, provide the basis of their
theory that COVID-19 is not a simple derivative of SARS and bat-related
viruses. They write:^19
/"A major part of these 16 EIE already existed in the first SARS
genomes as early as 2003. However, we demonstrate how and why a new
region including 4 HIV1 HIV2 Exogenous Informative Elements
radically distinguishes all COVID-19 strains from all SARS and Bat
strains .../
/... a contiguous region representing 2.49% of the whole COVID-19
genome is 40.99% made up of 12 diverse EIE originating from various
strains of HIV SIV retroviruses .../
/a novel long region of around 225 nucleotides, appears to us to be
totally new: this region is completely absent in ALL SARS genomes,
whereas it is present and 100% homologous for all COVID-19 genomes
listed in NCBI or GISAID COVID_19 genomic databases."/
More About Montagnier and Perez's Theory
After in-depth sequencing of related genomes from many different
countries, regions of countries and time periods using their proprietary
biomathematic approach, Montagnier and Perez say their research enabled
them to:^20
/"… demonstrate how and why a new region including 4 HIV/SIV EIE
radically distinguishes all COVID- 19 strains from all SARS and Bat
strains."/
They also find the presence of plasmodium yoelii in the COVID-19 genome,
a parasite used in studies of "mice vaccine strategies." This is another
EIE not originally in the SARS and bat-related viruses, say Montagnier
and Perez.^21
/"An analysis of amino acid homologies confirms the very probable
insertion of this EIE [plasmodium yoelii] in COVID-19."/
As they decode the genomes of myriad COIVID-19 "relatives" in their
research paper, Montagnier and Perez detect mutations in which the
viruses seem to be trying to "rid" themselves of the exogenous EIEs,
which the researchers believe were inserted deliberately.^22
The virus mutations seem to verify Montagnier's Pourquoi Docteur podcast
predictions about how nature will eliminate "unnatural changes" — the
reason he is hopeful the pandemic will come to a natural ending.^23
Other Researchers Agree With Montagnier and Perez
Since Montagnier's comments to French media, other researchers have
agreed that COVID-19 appears manmade
<https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2020/04/24/how-did-covid-19-start.aspx>,
with insertions that hint at lab construction. In June 2020, research
published in the Quarterly Review of Biophysics makes similar claims.^24
Norwegian scientist Birger Sørensen and British oncologist Angus
Dalgleish refer to COVID-19 as a "chimeric virus" and write:^25
/"We show the non-receptor dependent phagocytic general method of
action to be specifically related to cumulative charge from inserted
sections placed on the SARS-CoV-2 Spike surface in positions to bind
efficiently by salt bridge formations; and from blasting the Spike
we display the non human-like epitopes from which Biovacc-19 has
been down-selected."/
While conceding the Quarterly Review of Biophysics assertions were
controversial, the scientific website Minerva wrote that the science
should be pursued.^26
/"Minerva has read a draft of the article, and has after an overall
assessment decided that the findings and arguments do deserve public
debate, and that this discussion cannot depend entirely on the
publication process of scientific journals."/
Like Montagnier, Sørensen's background is HIV research work and he
launched a new immunotherapy for HIV in 2008 that was acclaimed.^27 In
an interview with Minerva about his recent contentious research, he
says:^28
/"We have examined which components of the virus are especially well
suited to attach themselves to cells in humans. And we have done
this by comparing the properties of the virus with human genetics.
What we found was that this virus was exceptionally well adjusted to
infect humans ... So well that it was suspicious." /
The Sunday Times of London Weighs In
I previously interviewed virologist Jonathan Latham, and he expanded on
his uncovering of this nondisclosed Wuhan virus. You can see more in the
video below.
Download Interview Transcript
<https://mercola.fileburst.com/PDF/ExpertInterviewTranscripts/Interview-JonathanLatham-SARS-CoV-2.pdf>
There are many unexplained circumstances surrounding the discovery and
spread of COVID-19, which inspired The Times of London to launch an
in-depth investigation that was recently published.^29 For example, the
newspaper notes that a virus similar to COVID-19 appeared on the scene
much earlier than was reported.^30
/"The world's closest known relative to the Covid-19 virus was found
in 2013 by Chinese scientists in an abandoned mine where it was
linked to deaths caused by a coronavirus-type respiratory illness."/
Among the many unanswered questions was why the deaths of six men in
China in 2012, who had been exposed to a bat virus and quickly developed
severe pneumonia, were covered up by Chinese authorities. According to
The Times:^31
/"All the men were linked. They had been given the task of clearing
out piles of bat feces in an abandoned copper mine in the hills
south of the town of Tongguan ... Some had worked for two weeks
before falling ill, and others just a few days ... while none had
tested positive for SARS, all four had antibodies against another,
unknown Sars-like coronavirus."/
A research paper titled "Coexistence of Multiple Coronaviruses in
Several Bat Colonies in an Abandoned Mineshaft," cowritten by Shi
Zhengli, a researcher known in China as the "Bat Woman," makes "no
mention of why the study had been carried out: the miners, their
pneumonia and the deaths," says the Times.^32
The deaths from the apparently new bat-related respiratory virus were
also blacked out by Chinese media, says The Times, and could only be
gleaned from a "master's thesis by a young medic called Li Xu."^33
Adding to the many questions about the virus' origins, wrote The Times,
was the fact that "of the 41 patients who contracted Covid-19 in Wuhan
only 27" had contact with the Huanan seafood market, which was
officially named as the source. Moreover, a longtime bat researcher
exposed to bat blood and urine who subsequently fell ill and might have
been "patient zero" refused to talk to reporters.^34
Thanks to the "gain-of-function
<https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2020/06/03/coronavirus-engineered.aspx>"
research that was conducted at the Wuhan Institute of Virology,
well-founded fears of escaped or leaked viruses preceded the
acknowledgement of COVID-19 and were increased by China's lack of
transparency. For example, wrote The Times, even the fact that COVID-19
could be spread between humans was hidden:^35
/"China would not admit there had been human-to-human transmission
until January 20, despite sitting on evidence the virus had been
passed to medics."/
The True Nature of COVID-19 Remains Hidden
According to The Times, a sample of the virus that killed six in 2012
was housed at the Wuhan Institute of Virology and was described in a
scientific paper cowritten by Shi that states it is a 96.2% match to the
COVID-19 virus.^36 The virus, called RaTG13, says The Times:
/"… was the biggest lead available as to the origin of Covid-19. It
was therefore surprising that the paper gave only scant detail about
the history of the virus sample, stating merely that it was taken
from a Rhinolophus affinis bat in Yunnan province in 2013 — hence
the "Ra" and the 13./
/Inquiries have established, however, that RaTG13 is almost
certainly the coronavirus discovered in the abandoned mine in 2013,
which had been named RaBtCoV/4991 in the institute's earlier
scientific paper. For some reason, Shi and her team appear to have
renamed it."/
According to The Times, the obfuscation about how long the virus has
been known to exist and its origins continues. In an interview with
Scientific American, says The Times, Shi:^37
/"… mentions the discovery of a coronavirus that 96% matches the
Covid-19 virus, and has a reference to the miners dying in a cave
she investigated. However, the two things are not linked and Shi
downplays the significance of the miners' deaths by claiming they
succumbed to a fungus."/
Was COVID-19 Created in a Lab?
With the many cover-ups
<https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2020/06/16/coronavirus-cover-up.aspx>
and misleading information surrounding the coronavirus and resulting
pandemic, is it possible COVID-19 came from a lab and was manmade? On
this point, The Times is agnostic.^38
/"The final and trickiest question for the WHO inspectors [who
investigated the virus in China] is whether the virus might have
escaped from a laboratory in Wuhan. Is it possible, for example,
that RaTG13 or a similar virus turned into Covid-19 and then leaked
into the population after infecting one of the scientists at the
Wuhan institute? /
/This seriously divides the experts. The Australian virologist
Edward Holmes has estimated that RaTG13 would take up to 50 years to
evolve the extra 4% that would make it a 100% match with the
Covid-19 virus."/
Most of the mainstream media as well as the scientific community
continue to dismiss such ideas. But the addition of the voices of a
Nobel Laureate and well-known Norwegian researcher give the theory
greater credibility. There are other questions unexplored by media, too.
Was COVID-19 Intended as a Bioweapon?
If COVID-19 were manmade and leaked from a laboratory, there is another
pressing question. Was the synthesized virus intended as a bioweapon?
<https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2020/05/12/shut-down-bioweapon-labs-prosecute-scientists.aspx>In
a published paper, Dr. Meryl Nass, a board-certified internist and
biological warfare epidemiologist,^39 wrote that such genetic
engineering techniques have "resulted in biological weapons that were
tested, well-described and, in some cases, used."^40
Many are unaware of just how many Biological Safety Levels (BSL) 3 and 4
labs there are in the world. They are found in the U.S., China,
Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, The Czech Republic, France, Gabon,
Germany, Hungary, India, Italy, Russia, South Africa, Sweden,
Switzerland, Taiwan and the United Kingdom.^41 People are also unaware
of how often leaks occur.
For example, in 2017 at the BSL 4 lab on Galveston Island, there were
serious questions about what happened to pathogens housed there after it
was hit by a massive storm and severe flooding.^42 Only two years later,
the BSL 4 lab in Fort Detrick, Maryland, was temporarily shut down after
protocol violations.^43
When Hurricane Katrina struck in 2005, the greater New Orleans area
housed at least five BSL 3 labs that were studying anthrax, HIV, SARS,
West Nile and genetically engineered mouse pox. According to The Daily
Bruin:^44
/"The National Primate Research Center, located at Tulane, housed
nearly 5,000 monkeys in outdoor cages for 'infectious disease,
including biodefense-related work, gene therapy, reproductive
biology and neuroscience,' according to an article in/ /Tulane
University Magazine."/
The CDC Has Had Several BSL Safety Breaches and Accidents
Even the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has had leaks
in its home-based Atlanta facility. In June 2012, the agency made
headline news when an inspector reported that a building housing
anthrax, SARS and monkeypox in one of its bioterror labs had a
noticeable air leak. This was following similar reports in 2007 and
2008. Of the 2012 incident, ABC News said:^45
/"The documents suggest a breach in biosafety regulations, imposed
nationwide by the CDC itself, that dictate labs housing the most
dangerous inhalable infectious agents must be maintained under
'negative pressure.'" /
The CDC just seems to keep having accidents. For example, in June 2014,
the CDC released a public statement^46 stating "… approximately 75
Atlanta-based staff are being monitored after being exposed to live
anthrax when … established safety practices were not followed."
The CDC then pledged to do internal reviews of lab-safety policies and
procedures. Six months later, in December 2014, Reuters^47 reported that
the CDC had created a new, high-level safety position to "identify
problems, establish plans to solve them, and hold programs throughout
CDC accountable for follow-up."
But, in 2016, it happened again: Problems in an Atlanta BSL-4 lab
working "with deadly Ebola and smallpox viruses and other pathogens that
lack vaccines or reliable treatments" developed when safety seals and
backup safety measures on its labs failed.^48
In reporting on this incident, USA Today obtained copies of reports from
a 2009 incident, and learned that certain CDC officials tried to hide
the problems. USA Today asked Richard Ebright, a Rutgers University
biosafety expert who has testified before Congress on these issues, to
look at the reports and to give his opinion on the CDC's actions.
Ebright said:
/"Overall, the incident shows that failures — even cascading,
compounding, catastrophic failures of BSL-4 biocontainment labs
occur … And the attempted cover-up within the CDC makes it clear
that the CDC cannot be relied upon to police its own, much less
other institutions."/
The CDC responded that "there was never any risk posed by the lab's
equipment failures." What other accidents have we yet to hear about? If
we are ever going to get a handle on this, we must listen to the experts
on this topic, many whom I have interviewed. Although there may have
been some valid research taking place at one time, most of these
bioweapon labs are dangerous and should be shut down.
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