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<p>The following is the opinion of a Nobel Laureate. Can we openly
debate about Covid-19 being Human made. <br>
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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</span>
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<span id="bcr_rptStory_cslStory_1">Montagnier says the
COVID-19 virus pandemic will likely end from
"interfering waves" because nature rejects molecular
tampering</span>
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<span id="bcr_rptStory_cslStory_2">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</span>
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<span id="bcr_rptStory_cslStory_3">In the Quarterly
Review of Biophysics, Norwegian scientist Birger
Sørensen and British oncologist Angus Dalgleish also
call COVID-19 manmade</span>
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<span id="bcr_rptStory_cslStory_4">An investigation by
The Times of London reveals many questions about
COVID-19's origins and shocking cover-ups</span>
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<p>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.</p>
<p>Experts who suspect <a
href="https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2020/06/21/coronavirus-lab-origin.aspx">COVID-19
has lab origins</a> 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.<sup style="font-size: 10px;"><span
id="edn1" data-hash="#ednref1">1</span></sup></p>
<p>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.<sup
style="font-size: 10px;"><span id="edn2"
data-hash="#ednref2">2</span></sup></p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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,<sup style="font-size: 10px;"><span id="edn3"
data-hash="#ednref3">3</span></sup> has now spoken out.
Montagnier was a researcher at the prestigious Pasteur
Institute in Paris.<sup style="font-size: 10px;"><span
id="edn4" data-hash="#ednref4">4</span></sup></p>
<h2>COVID-19 Was Manmade, Says Nobel Laureate</h2>
<p>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<sup style="font-size: 10px;"><span
id="edn5" data-hash="#ednref5">5</span></sup> 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.<sup style="font-size:
10px;"><span id="edn6" data-hash="#ednref6">6</span></sup>
Montagnier said:<sup style="font-size: 10px;"><span id="edn7"
data-hash="#ednref7">7</span></sup></p>
<blockquote>
<p><em>"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." </em></p>
</blockquote>
<p>The research that Montagnier refers to was posted on the
science website Biorxiv January 31, 2020, and has since been
withdrawn. The researchers wrote:<sup style="font-size: 10px;"><span
id="edn8" data-hash="#ednref8">8</span></sup></p>
<blockquote>
<p><em>"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 ...</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote>
<p><em>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."</em></p>
</blockquote>
<h2>COVID-19 Derives From a Failed HIV Vaccine, Says Montagnier</h2>
<p>In a separate appearance on the French podcast Pourquoi
Docteur, also April 17,<sup style="font-size: 10px;"><span
id="edn9" data-hash="#ednref9">9</span></sup> 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.<sup style="font-size:
10px;"><span id="edn10" data-hash="#ednref10">10</span></sup>
"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.<sup style="font-size: 10px;"><span
id="edn11" data-hash="#ednref11">11</span></sup></p>
<p>Montagnier also said he believes that the pandemic will
naturally extinguish itself because of its synthetic origins:<sup
style="font-size: 10px;"><span id="edn12"
data-hash="#ednref12">12</span></sup></p>
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<p><em>"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."</em></p>
</blockquote>
<p>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:<sup style="font-size: 10px;"><span
id="edn13" data-hash="#ednref13">13</span></sup></p>
<blockquote>
<p><em>"With the help of interfering waves, we could eliminate
these sequences ... and consequently stop the pandemic.
But it would take many means available."</em></p>
</blockquote>
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<h2>Montagnier Created His Theory With a Biomathematics Expert</h2>
<p>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."<sup style="font-size: 10px;"><span id="edn14"
data-hash="#ednref14">14</span></sup> Montagnier's
partner, Perez, is a French interdisciplinary scientist and
biomathematics expert.<sup style="font-size: 10px;"><span
id="edn15" data-hash="#ednref15">15</span></sup></p>
<p>According to an online bio, Perez has proved that DNA coding
for genes is structured by proportions related to Fibonacci
numbers,<sup style="font-size: 10px;"><span id="edn16"
data-hash="#ednref16">16</span></sup> which are formulas
in mathematics that are sometimes called "nature's secret
code."<sup style="font-size: 10px;"><span id="edn17"
data-hash="#ednref17">17</span></sup> In a paper
Montagnier and Perez published on the Center for Open Science
in April 2020, they write:<sup style="font-size: 10px;"><span
id="edn18" data-hash="#ednref18">18</span></sup></p>
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<p><em>"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." </em></p>
</blockquote>
<p>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:<sup
style="font-size: 10px;"><span id="edn19"
data-hash="#ednref19">19</span></sup></p>
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<p><em>"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 ...</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote>
<p><em>... 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
...</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote>
<p><em>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."</em></p>
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<h2>More About Montagnier and Perez's Theory</h2>
<p>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:<sup
style="font-size: 10px;"><span id="edn20"
data-hash="#ednref20">20</span></sup></p>
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<p><em>"… demonstrate how and why a new region including 4
HIV/SIV EIE radically distinguishes all COVID- 19 strains
from all SARS and Bat strains."</em></p>
</blockquote>
<p>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.<sup
style="font-size: 10px;"><span id="edn21"
data-hash="#ednref21">21</span></sup></p>
<blockquote>
<p><em>"An analysis of amino acid homologies confirms the very
probable insertion of this EIE [plasmodium yoelii] in
COVID-19."</em></p>
</blockquote>
<p>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.<sup style="font-size: 10px;"><span id="edn22"
data-hash="#ednref22">22</span></sup></p>
<p>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.<sup style="font-size: 10px;"><span
id="edn23" data-hash="#ednref23">23</span></sup></p>
<h2>Other Researchers Agree With Montagnier and Perez </h2>
<p>Since Montagnier's comments to French media, other
researchers have agreed that <a
href="https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2020/04/24/how-did-covid-19-start.aspx">COVID-19
appears manmade</a>, with insertions that hint at lab
construction. In June 2020, research published in the
Quarterly Review of Biophysics makes similar claims.<sup
style="font-size: 10px;"><span id="edn24"
data-hash="#ednref24">24</span></sup> Norwegian scientist
Birger Sørensen and British oncologist Angus Dalgleish refer
to COVID-19 as a "chimeric virus" and write:<sup
style="font-size: 10px;"><span id="edn25"
data-hash="#ednref25">25</span></sup></p>
<blockquote>
<p><em>"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."</em></p>
</blockquote>
<p>While conceding the Quarterly Review of Biophysics assertions
were controversial, the scientific website Minerva wrote that
the science should be pursued.<sup style="font-size: 10px;"><span
id="edn26" data-hash="#ednref26">26</span></sup></p>
<blockquote>
<p><em>"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."</em></p>
</blockquote>
<p>Like Montagnier, Sørensen's background is HIV research work
and he launched a new immunotherapy for HIV in 2008 that was
acclaimed.<sup style="font-size: 10px;"><span id="edn27"
data-hash="#ednref27">27</span></sup> In an interview with
Minerva about his recent contentious research, he says:<sup
style="font-size: 10px;"><span id="edn28"
data-hash="#ednref28">28</span></sup></p>
<blockquote>
<p><em>"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." </em></p>
</blockquote>
<h2>The Sunday Times of London Weighs In</h2>
<p>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.</p>
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<p>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.<sup style="font-size: 10px;"><span id="edn29"
data-hash="#ednref29">29</span></sup> For example, the
newspaper notes that a virus similar to COVID-19 appeared on
the scene much earlier than was reported.<sup
style="font-size: 10px;"><span id="edn30"
data-hash="#ednref30">30</span></sup></p>
<blockquote>
<p><em>"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."</em></p>
</blockquote>
<p>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:<sup style="font-size:
10px;"><span id="edn31" data-hash="#ednref31">31</span></sup></p>
<blockquote>
<p><em>"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."</em></p>
</blockquote>
<p>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.<sup style="font-size: 10px;"><span
id="edn32" data-hash="#ednref32">32</span></sup></p>
<p>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."<sup style="font-size: 10px;"><span
id="edn33" data-hash="#ednref33">33</span></sup></p>
<p>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.<sup
style="font-size: 10px;"><span id="edn34"
data-hash="#ednref34">34</span></sup></p>
<p>Thanks to the "<a
href="https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2020/06/03/coronavirus-engineered.aspx">gain-of-function</a>"
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:<sup style="font-size: 10px;"><span id="edn35"
data-hash="#ednref35">35</span></sup></p>
<blockquote>
<p><em>"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."</em></p>
</blockquote>
<h2>The True Nature of COVID-19 Remains Hidden</h2>
<p>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.<sup
style="font-size: 10px;"><span id="edn36"
data-hash="#ednref36">36</span></sup> The virus, called
RaTG13, says The Times:</p>
<blockquote>
<p><em>"… 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.</em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote>
<p><em>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."</em></p>
</blockquote>
<p>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:<sup
style="font-size: 10px;"><span id="edn37"
data-hash="#ednref37">37</span></sup></p>
<blockquote>
<p><em>"… 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."</em></p>
</blockquote>
<h2>Was COVID-19 Created in a Lab?</h2>
<p>With the many <a
href="https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2020/06/16/coronavirus-cover-up.aspx">cover-ups</a>
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.<sup
style="font-size: 10px;"><span id="edn38"
data-hash="#ednref38">38</span></sup></p>
<blockquote>
<p><em>"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? </em></p>
</blockquote>
<blockquote>
<p><em>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."</em></p>
</blockquote>
<p>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.</p>
<h2>Was COVID-19 Intended as a Bioweapon?</h2>
<p>If COVID-19 were manmade and leaked from a laboratory, there
is another pressing question. <a
href="https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2020/05/12/shut-down-bioweapon-labs-prosecute-scientists.aspx">Was
the synthesized virus intended as a bioweapon? </a>In a
published paper, Dr. Meryl Nass, a board-certified internist
and biological warfare epidemiologist,<sup style="font-size:
10px;"><span id="edn39" data-hash="#ednref39">39</span></sup>
wrote that such genetic engineering techniques have "resulted
in biological weapons that were tested, well-described and, in
some cases, used."<sup style="font-size: 10px;"><span
id="edn40" data-hash="#ednref40">40</span></sup></p>
<p>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.<sup style="font-size: 10px;"><span id="edn41"
data-hash="#ednref41">41</span></sup> People are also
unaware of how often leaks occur.</p>
<p>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.<sup style="font-size: 10px;"><span id="edn42"
data-hash="#ednref42">42</span></sup> Only two years
later, the BSL 4 lab in Fort Detrick, Maryland, was
temporarily shut down after protocol violations.<sup
style="font-size: 10px;"><span id="edn43"
data-hash="#ednref43">43</span></sup></p>
<p>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:<sup
style="font-size: 10px;"><span id="edn44"
data-hash="#ednref44">44</span></sup></p>
<blockquote>
<p><em>"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</em> <em>Tulane University
Magazine."</em></p>
</blockquote>
<h2>The CDC Has Had Several BSL Safety Breaches and Accidents</h2>
<p>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:<sup style="font-size: 10px;"><span id="edn45"
data-hash="#ednref45">45</span></sup></p>
<blockquote>
<p><em>"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.'" </em></p>
</blockquote>
<p>The CDC just seems to keep having accidents. For example, in
June 2014, the CDC released a public statement<sup
style="font-size: 10px;"><span id="edn46"
data-hash="#ednref46">46</span></sup> stating "…
approximately 75 Atlanta-based staff are being monitored after
being exposed to live anthrax when … established safety
practices were not followed." </p>
<p>The CDC then pledged to do internal reviews of lab-safety
policies and procedures. Six months later, in December 2014,
Reuters<sup style="font-size: 10px;"><span id="edn47"
data-hash="#ednref47">47</span></sup> 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."</p>
<p>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.<sup style="font-size: 10px;"><span id="edn48"
data-hash="#ednref48">48</span></sup></p>
<p>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:</p>
<blockquote>
<p><em>"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."</em></p>
</blockquote>
<p>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.</p>
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