{"id":1982214,"date":"2023-07-25T13:26:02","date_gmt":"2023-07-25T17:26:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/how-a-covid-origins-study-went-from-conspiracy-theory-slayer-to-just-a-point-of-view\/"},"modified":"2023-07-25T13:26:45","modified_gmt":"2023-07-25T17:26:45","slug":"how-a-covid-origins-study-went-from-conspiracy-theory-slayer-to-just-a-point-of-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/how-a-covid-origins-study-went-from-conspiracy-theory-slayer-to-just-a-point-of-view\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID Origins Study: From Debunking Conspiracy Theories to Merely a &#8216;Perspective&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fhow-a-covid-origins-study-went-from-conspiracy-theory-slayer-to-just-a-point-of-view%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1982214&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>A Controversial Study on the Origins of COVID Sparks\u200b Debate<\/h2>\n<p>A study that has been \u2064at the center of the debate surrounding the origins of\u2063 COVID-19 is now facing scrutiny. The medical journal Nature Medicine, \u200cwhich published the study, \u2062has recently described it as\u200b a &#8220;point of \u2063view&#8221;\u2064 rather\u2062 than a research project. This new characterization contradicts how the study\u2063 was initially presented \u200bduring\u200c the early stages of the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>The\u200c study, known\u2062 as the &#8220;Proximal Origin&#8221; report, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-four-undecided-supreme-court-rulings-that-could-come-thursday\/\" title=\"Four pending Supreme Court rulings expected Thursday.\">gained renewed attention<\/a> after internal messages between\u2063 the authors were\u2064 released by the GOP-led Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus \u2063Pandemic. These\u2063 messages\u200c revealed a desire\u2064 to downplay the theory\u200b that \u200bCOVID-19 \u200coriginated from a Chinese lab leak. The authors\u2064 expressed concerns about the \u2062<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/how-a-covid-origins-study-went-from-conspiracy-theory-slayer-to-just-a-point-of-view\/\" title=\"COVID Origins Study: From Debunking Conspiracy Theories to Merely a 'Perspective'\">potential international fallout<\/a> and the impact on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fcc-commissioner-blasts-democrats-for-pressuring-providers-to-drop-right-wing-news-orgs-from-cable-chilling-transgression-of-the-free-speech-rights\/\" title=\"FCC Commissioner Blasts Democrats For Pressuring Providers To Drop Right-Wing News Orgs From Cable: \u2018Chilling Transgression Of The Free Speech Rights\u2019\">preferred political narrative<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>One\u2064 of the\u200b authors, Dr. Andrew Rambaut, stated that \u2064they should \u2064attribute the \u2064origins of\u200d COVID-19 to \u200bnatural\u2062 processes, \u2064as there was no evidence of a specifically engineered virus. \u2064Dr. Kristian Andersen\u200d agreed \u2063with this conclusion, acknowledging \u200cthe\u2064 injection \u200bof politics \u2064into science due to the circumstances.<\/p>\n<p>These messages, along \u2062with concerns \u2064about\u200c undue influence from the National Institutes of Health, have led to calls for\u2063 the retraction\u2064 of the study. Richard Ebright, the lab\u200b director for the \u200dWaksman Institute of \u200cMicrobiology at Rutgers University, criticized the journal for allowing a fraudulent paper to pose as \u200bscientific \u2062research for three years.<\/p>\n<p>Data journalist Nate Silver described the messages as a &#8220;huge scandal,&#8221; accusing the authors of deceiving the public about the \u2063plausibility \u200bof a lab leak. However,\u2062 Andersen, a professor\u200b at Scripps Research, argued that \u2063the messages were taken \u2064out of\u200c context and that\u2064 individual scientists were being \u2062targeted and harassed.<\/p>\n<p>In response to \u2062the controversy, Nature Medicine&#8217;s top editor,\u2062 Joao Monteiro,\u200b stated \u2063that retraction was not warranted at this time. He emphasized the authors&#8217; prerogative to express their views based \u2064on the scientific\u200d knowledge available at the time of publication.<\/p>\n<p>While the debate continues, the origins of COVID-19 remain a topic \u200cof\u2063 intense \u200cdiscussion and investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent statement from Nature Medicine clarifies that the &#8220;Proximal Origin&#8221; report, previously believed to support the natural origins of COVID, was merely a subjective viewpoint and not a research endeavor. This revelation, highlighted in The Telegraph, challenges the controversial study&#8217;s influence on the origins debate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1588,"featured_media":1982215,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1982214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1982214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1588"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1982214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1982214\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1982215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1982214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1982214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1982214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}