{"id":1987992,"date":"2023-08-01T16:33:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-01T20:33:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/scientists-demand-full-retraction-of-covid-natural-origins-paper-praised-by-fauci\/"},"modified":"2023-08-01T16:33:40","modified_gmt":"2023-08-01T20:33:40","slug":"scientists-demand-full-retraction-of-covid-natural-origins-paper-praised-by-fauci","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/scientists-demand-full-retraction-of-covid-natural-origins-paper-praised-by-fauci\/","title":{"rendered":"Scientists call for retraction of COVID origins paper praised by Fauci."},"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%2Fscientists-demand-full-retraction-of-covid-natural-origins-paper-praised-by-fauci%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=1987992&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>Prominent Scientists Call for Retraction\u200d of Influential COVID-19 Origin Paper<\/h2>\n<p>Leading scientists are demanding a full retraction of a highly influential paper on the origins of COVID-19 that downplayed the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/tom-cotton-responds-to-ex-cdc-chiefs-belief-that-pandemic-started-in-lab-this-was-never-a-conspiracy-theory\/\" title=\"Tom Cotton Responds To Ex-CDC Chief\u2019s Belief That Pandemic Started In Lab: \u2018This Was Never A Conspiracy Theory\u2019\">lab leak theory<\/a>. This paper, titled &#8220;The Proximal Origin of SARS-CoV-2,&#8221; was published in March\u2062 2020 in the journal Nature Medicine and was praised \u2064by Dr. Anthony Fauci.<\/p>\n<p>The paper claimed that\u200d COVID-19 did not come from a\u200c lab, despite private doubts from the authors themselves. However,\u2064 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/scientists-demand-full-retraction-of-covid-natural-origins-paper-praised-by-fauci\/\" title=\"Scientists call for retraction of COVID origins paper praised by Fauci.\">recently revealed \u200cemails<\/a> from early 2020 show \u2062that both Fauci and the authors suspected a lab leak\u2063 as\u2063 a\u200b possible cause of the \u2063virus.<\/p>\n<p>A total of 47 scientists and STEM professionals have signed\u200b an open letter to Nature Medicine, calling\u2063 for the retraction of the paper. \u2063They argue that the paper is &#8220;scientific fraud&#8221; and should be\u2062 withdrawn or retracted.<\/p>\n<p>Among the signers of the retraction letter are experts\u2062 from prestigious institutions such as MIT, Harvard, Oxford, and\u2062 the \u2064University of California, Irvine.<\/p>\n<p>The authors \u200cof \u2062the COVID-origin paper\u2062 agreed to downplay the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fmr-fda-commissioner-encourages-investigation-into-the-origins-of-covid-19\/\" title=\"Fmr. FDA commissioner encourages investigation into the origins of COVID-19\">lab leak theory due<\/a> to concerns about the potential backlash from \u200daccusing \u2063China. Private messages\u2064 between the authors reveal their awareness\u2063 that the paper&#8217;s conclusions were not supported \u2064by the scientific evidence.<\/p>\n<p>In early \u200d2020, Fauci had a conversation\u2063 with one of the paper&#8217;s authors, Kristian Andersen, \u200bthat alarmed him enough to suggest potentially involving the FBI.\u2064 Andersen expressed concerns about certain features of \u2064the\u200b virus that appeared \u200cengineered.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the authors&#8217; doubts and the lack of conclusive evidence for a\u2064 natural evolution explanation, the paper was published in March. Fauci even commended the\u2064 authors, saying, &#8220;Nice job on the \u2062paper.&#8221; He later cited \u2064the study during a White House briefing as evidence of animal-to-human transmission.<\/p>\n<p>The recent revelation that Andersen had a pending $8.9 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) when \u200bthe study was published has raised further questions about potential conflicts of interest.<\/p>\n<p>The release of \u200dunredacted emails earlier this year,\u200d following a lengthy legal battle, has shed light on the behind-the-scenes discussions and doubts surrounding the origins of COVID-19.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prominent scientists insist on a complete retraction of a significant paper on COVID-19&#8217;s origins. The influential paper, &#8220;The Proximal Origin of SARS-CoV-2,&#8221; published in Nature Medicine, dismissed the lab leak theory and gained praise from Dr. Anthony Fauci. Scientists now demand a reassessment, as it claimed COVID-19 did not originate from a lab.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":1987993,"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-1987992","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\/1987992","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\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1987992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1987992\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1987993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1987992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1987992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1987992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}