• CutTheClutter: CIA now revises stance on Covid-19's Wuhan lab origin: abridged 2021 Ep on ‘engineered' virus claims

  • Feb 5 2025
  • Length: 34 mins
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CutTheClutter: CIA now revises stance on Covid-19's Wuhan lab origin: abridged 2021 Ep on ‘engineered' virus claims

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  • Last week, the CIA revised its assessment on the origin of the Covid outbreak, stating that the coronavirus is "more likely" to have emerged from a Chinese lab rather than from animals. However, the agency noted that it had "low confidence" in this conclusion. In Ep 758 of #CutTheClutter, ThePrint editor-in-chief Shekhar Gupta looked at revelations on the theory that the Covid-19 virus was 'engineered’ at the Wuhan Institute of Virology and why top scientists sought a fresh probe. Originally published on May 17, 2021.----more----Read Nicholas Wade's article here: https://thebulletin.org/2021/05/the-origin-of-covid-did-people-or-nature-open-pandoras-box-at-wuhan/----more----Read Zeynep Tufecki's article here: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/07/opinion/coronavirus-airborne-transmission.html----more----Read the letter in Science Mag here: https://science.sciencemag.org/content/372/6543/694.1/tab-pdf----more----Read the letter in Lancet here: https://www.thelancet.com/lancet/article/s0140-6736(20)30418-9----more----Read the letter in Nature here: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-020-0820-9----more----Watch Shekhar Gupta's Walk the Talk with David Baltimore here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8iWMmLOX70

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