{"id":567184,"date":"2021-06-17T16:21:45","date_gmt":"2021-06-17T20:21:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=567184"},"modified":"2021-06-17T16:21:48","modified_gmt":"2021-06-17T20:21:48","slug":"chinese-propaganda-outlet-trots-out-anonymous-scientists-to-combat-lab-leak-theory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/chinese-propaganda-outlet-trots-out-anonymous-scientists-to-combat-lab-leak-theory\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese Propaganda Outlet Trots Out Anonymous Scientists To Combat Lab-Leak Theory"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><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%2Fchinese-propaganda-outlet-trots-out-anonymous-scientists-to-combat-lab-leak-theory%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=567184&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--><div readability=\"28.753623188406\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"article-category\"><a class href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/national-security\/\">National Security<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">Global Times column bashes lab-leak concerns through unnamed &#8216;China-WHO&#8217; virologists<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-thumbnail-container relative lg:mr-24 w-full my-4 mb-8\">\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"736\" height=\"514\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/rsz_gettyimages-1210143362.jpg\" class=\"w-full lazyload blur-up wp-post-image\" alt srcset=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 736px) 100vw, 736px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/rsz_gettyimages-1210143362.jpg 736w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/rsz_gettyimages-1210143362-300x210.jpg 300w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/rsz_gettyimages-1210143362-703x491.jpg 703w\" data-sizes=\"auto\"  style=\"display:none\"><figcaption class=\"absolute text-white p-4 w-full text-right text-xs bottom-0 bg-black opacity-75\">\n\t\t\t\tThe Wuhan Institute of Virology \/ Getty Images\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\t\t\t<span class=\"text-gray text-xs md:text-lg\"><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/jack-beyrer\/\" title=\"Posts by Jack Beyrer\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Jack Beyrer<\/a> \u2022 June 17, 2021 4:20 pm<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div readability=\"68.998542274052\">\n<p>A Chinese propaganda outlet is using anonymous sources\u2014described as virologists &#8220;close to the China-WHO joint investigative research mission&#8221;\u2014to push back against the growing suspicion that the COVID-19 pandemic started as a result of a lab leak.<\/p>\n<p>An unsigned <a href=\"https:\/\/www.globaltimes.cn\/page\/202106\/1226242.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">piece<\/a> in <em>Global Times<\/em>, one of China&#8217;s leading propaganda outlets, quotes multiple anonymous sources who have &#8220;decided to break their silence&#8221; to deny any possibility that a lab leak caused the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There&#8217;s no way that the virus could have been made in [the Wuhan Institute of Virology],&#8221; one source said. &#8220;I am confident that science will eventually prevail by discovering the progenitor virus in nature one day!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The sources also say Western authorities are &#8220;politicalizing virus-tracing issues&#8221; and &#8220;standing in the way of a \u2018scientific and rational&#8217; investigation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The piece describes investigations into the virus&#8217;s origins as &#8220;China-bashing&#8221; and &#8220;individuals&#8217; tool to gain personal fame.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>By contrast, a growing number of named scientists, reporters, and lawmakers have come out in support of evidence that the origins of the coronavirus may lie in the Wuhan Institute of Virology. Former<span class=\"gmail-Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><em>New York Times<\/em><span class=\"gmail-Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>science reporters Nicholas Wade and Donald McNeil both\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nicholaswade.medium.com\/origin-of-covid-following-the-clues-6f03564c038\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">penned<\/a><span class=\"gmail-Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/donaldgmcneiljr1954.medium.com\/how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-the-lab-leak-theory-f4f88446b04d\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pieces<\/a>\u00a0that cast doubt on conventional wisdom that the coronavirus began naturally at a wet market. Former secretary of state Mike Pompeo<span class=\"gmail-Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2021\/06\/13\/pompeo-covid-chinese-lab-493986\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a>\u00a0Sunday that a &#8220;pile of evidence a hundred feet high&#8221; supports the lab-leak theory.<\/p>\n<p>Congressional Republicans, meanwhile, have moved to punish China for its role in covering up the origins of the virus. Reps. Rob Wittman (Va.) and Ann Wagner (Mo.)<span class=\"gmail-Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/coronavirus\/gop-legislation-aims-to-punish-china-for-covid-lies\/\">introduced<\/a><span class=\"gmail-Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>legislation to sanction Chinese Communist Party members for spreading disinformation and called for increased scrutiny into the virus&#8217;s origins.<\/p>\n<p>An independent Health and Human Services watchdog announced an investigation into the National Institutes of Health&#8217;s use of taxpayer funding for partnership with the Wuhan Institute of Virology.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>National Security Global Times column bashes lab-leak concerns through unnamed &#8216;China-WHO&#8217; virologists  The Wuhan Institute of Virology \/ Getty Images  Jack Beyrer \u2022 June &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":2280623,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/rsz_gettyimages-1210143362.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Chinese Propaganda Outlet Trots Out Anonymous Scientists To Combat Lab-Leak Theory","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-567184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/rsz_gettyimages-1210143362.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Chinese Propaganda Outlet Trots Out Anonymous Scientists To Combat Lab-Leak Theory","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567184","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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=567184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567184\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2280623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=567184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=567184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=567184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}