Never Trust "Official" Science or the Media

I find I'm right about things because of my hunches, which makes them think I'm crazy (wrong) or a genius (right). The "bat woman" apparently lied about the death of miners in Mojiang, saying it was fungus when it was a SARS-like pneumonia. Shi Zhengli discussed how SARS2, a virus never seen before with no link in nature, was similar to RaTG13...but where did the latter come from? Turns out Shi Zhengli had worked on RaTG13 in the past... Newsweek: How Amateur Sleuths Broke the Wuhan Lab Story and Embarrassed the Media

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In a profile in Scientific American, Shi Zhengli acknowledged working in a mineshaft in Mojiang County where miners had died. But she avoided connecting it to RaTG13 (an omission she had made in her scientific papers as well), claiming that a fungus in the cave had killed the miners.

That explanation didn't sit well with the DRASTIC group. They suspected a SARS-like virus, not a fungus, had killed the miners and that, for whatever reason, the WIV was trying to hide that fact. It was a hunch, and they had no way of proving it.

At this point, The Seeker revealed his research powers to the group. In his online explorations, he'd recently discovered a massive Chinese database of academic journals and theses called CNKI. Now he wondered if somewhere in its vast circuitry might be information on the sickened miners.

Working through the night at his bedside table on phone and laptop, fueled by chai and using Chinese characters with the help of Google Translate, he plugged in "Mojiang"—the county where the mine was located—in combination with every other word he could think of that might be relevant, instantly translating each new flush of results back to English. "Mojiang + pneumonia"; "Mojiang + WIV"; "Mojiang + bats"; "Mojiang + SARS." Each search brought back thousands of results and half a dozen different databases for journals, books, newspapers, master's theses, doctoral dissertations. He combed through these results, night after night, but never found anything useful. When he ran out of energy, he broke for arcade games and more chai.

He was on the verge of calling it quits, he says, when he struck gold: a 60-page master's thesis written by a student at Kunming Medical University in 2013 titled "The Analysis of 6 Patients with Severe Pneumonia Caused by Unknown Viruses." In exhaustive detail, it described the conditions and step-by-step treatment of the miners. It named the suspected culprit: "Caused by SARS-like [coronavirus] from the Chinese horseshoe bat or other bats."

The Seeker dropped the link, without fanfare, on May 18, 2020, then followed up with a second thesis from a PhD student at the Chinese CDC confirming much of the information in the first. Four of the miners had tested positive for antibodies from a SARS-like infection. And the WIV had been looped in to test samples from them all. (Shortly after The Seeker posted the theses, China changed the access controls on CNKI so no one could do such a search again.)

It may be true that we'll never know for certain if SARS2 was man-made as part of experiments in the Wuhan lab, but the growing mountain of evidence says that's the most likely scenario and should be the basis of any policy response. It is up to scientists involved to disprove it now by showing evidence that can be independently replicated by other scientists. While China's CCP deserves some punishment for this disaster, we cannot forget that it was Western scientists funded by the CDC who helped create it. The government and scientists involved would love nothing more than for you to think U.S. government involvement begins and ends with Anthony Fauci. The U.S. government is culpable for the virus and for all the lies it told, it's lockdown policies.

More generally, in the Internet age most of a journalist's job is to collate publicly available information provided by subject-matter experts (expert here meaning someone who knows the subject, not a government or media appointed "expert"). There is still a need for investigative journalism, but many stories write themselves if the journalist is willing to look at source materials. Trouble is, most journalists are retarded by their ideology. They cannot see reality in front of their face because it violates the ideological programming they received in school. To question the virus in 2020 would help Trump, and for 99 percent or more of journalists, defeating Trump was their primary mission at the time. Any reality that violates their carefully constructed fragile narratives cannot be true, and thus will be buried. If you were trusting of science and media, how do you feel about ideas such as climate change? If you want to know the Truth, you have to seek it for yourself on social media or independent media and hope the accounts/outlets you follow aren't banned.