Slack messages released by Rand Paul appear to show authors of key COVID-19 origin paper held private doubts
Newly released messages among the authors of a widely cited paper regarding the origins of COVID-19 privately raised doubts that the virus originated from bats, as their paper stated.Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., on Tuesday released the internal Slack messages exchanged among the authors of "The Proximal Origin of SARS-CoV-2" — Kristian Andersen, Robert Garry, Eddie Holmes and Andrew Rambaut."The idea that it came from a lab is implausible, and, yet, privately they're saying the opposite.
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Newly released messages among the authors of a widely cited paper regarding the origins of COVID-19 privately raised doubts that the virus originated from bats, as their paper stated.Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., on Tuesday released the internal Slack messages exchanged among the authors of "The Proximal Origin of SARS-CoV-2" — Kristian Andersen, Robert Garry, Eddie Holmes and Andrew Rambaut."The idea that it came from a lab is implausible, and, yet, privately they're saying the opposite. … This level of dishonesty, I think, needs to be exposed," Paul told Fox News. "These are people who get large, multimillion-dollar grants from our country, and we shouldn't be giving money to people who lied to us."The paper was published in Nature Medicine in March 2020 and was widely cited by public health officials and the media as the scientific authority for ruling out a laboratory origin of SARS-CoV-2.
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- Newly released messages among the authors of a widely cited paper regarding the origins of COVID-19 privately raised doubts that the virus originated from bats, as their paper stated.Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., on Tuesday released the internal Slack messages exchanged among the authors of "The Proximal Origin of SARS-CoV-2" — Kristian Andersen, Robert Garry, Eddie Holmes and Andrew Rambaut."The idea that it came from a lab is implausible, and, yet, privately they're saying the opposite.
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